ts of that crown. He told
them, that in Germany his majesty's good brother the king of Prussia,
and prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, had found full employment for
the enemies of France and her confederates, from which the English
operations, both by sea and in America, had derived the most evident
advantage: their successes owing, under God, to their able conduct, and
the bravery of his majesty's troops, and those of his allies, having
been signal and glorious. The king, moreover, commanded them to declare,
that the common cause of liberty and independency was still making noble
and glorious efforts against the unnatural union formed to oppress it:
that the commerce of his subjects, the source of national riches, had,
by the vigilant protection received from his majesty's fleet, flourished
in a manner not to be paralleled during such troubles. In this state of
things, he said, the king in his wisdom thought it unnecessary to
use many words to persuade them to bear up against all difficulties,
effectually to stand by and defend his majesty, vigorously to support
the king of Prussia and the rest of his majesty's allies, and to exert
themselves to reduce their enemies to equitable terms of accommodation.
He observed to the house of commons, that the uncommon extent of this
war, in different parts, occasioned it to be uncommonly expensive: that
the king had ordered them to declare to the commons, that he sincerely
lamented, and deeply felt, for the burdens of his people: that the
several estimates were ordered to be laid before them: and that he
desired only such supplies as should be requisite to push the war with
advantage, and be adequate to the necessary services. In the last place,
he assured them the king took so much satisfaction in that good harmony
which subsisted among his faithful subjects, that it was more proper for
him now to thank them for it, than to repeat his exhortation to it:
that this union, necessary at all times, was more especially so in such
critical conjunctures; and his majesty doubted not but the good effects
the nation had found from it would be the strongest motives to them
to pursue it.--The reader will, no doubt, be surprised to find this
harangue abound with harshness of period and inelegancy of expression;
he will wonder that, in particularizing the successes of the year in
America, no mention is made of the reduction of fort Du Quesne on the
river Ohio; a place of great importance, both from i