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To the king's most excellent majesty, Addrefs of the univerfity of Cambridge on the peace." May it please your majefty, WE your majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the chancellor,mafters, and scholars, of your univerfity of Cambridge, beg leave to approach your majefty's throne, and to express the warmeft fentiments of our duty and gratitude to your majefty for your tender regard to the true happiness of your people, in concluding an expenfive, though fuccefsful war, by a safe and honourable peace. An event which, we truft, will be attended with the greatest bleffings and advantages to us, and our latest posterity,

We have had frequent occafions, in the continuance of the late juft and neceflary war, to admire the fortitude and greatnefs of mind, with which your majefly pursued every measure that could contribute either to the glory, or the fecurity of your kingdoms. Permit us to declare our most affectionate fenfe of that goodness of heart, which has difpofed your majelty, even in the midit of your triumphs, to put a happy period to the manifold cala

mities of war, and to complete your amiable character, the friend of mankind, and the father of your people.

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It is with a peculiar fatisfaction that your univerfity of Cambridge embraces every opportunity of prefenting themselves before your majefty, the heir and descendent of princes, who ftand enrolled with our most munificent patrons and benefactors. And we fhall always gratefully acknowledge that our invariable attachment to your majefty's illuftrious house has been diftinguished by many eminent and repeated marks of royal favour. We thall humbly hope, that our perfeverance in the fame good principles and practices will always recommend us to the fame gracious favour and protection.

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It fhall be our particular attention, as it is our most bounden duty, to inftil into thofe, who are committed to our care, the highest regard for our holy religion, every fentiment of loyalty and affection to their king, and every principle of obedience to the laws and conftitution of their country.

May your majefty, who are formed to be the delight and happinefs of any people, be ever poffeffed of the hearts of all your fubjects! May that purity of manners, that undiffembled piety, of which your majefty is for illuftrious an example, effectually promote and recommend the cause of virtue and true religion! May it check the progrefs of all open vice and profanenefs! And may that God, whom you fa faithfully ferve, long, very long, preferve your majefty the moft beloved fovereign of an united, a dutiful, and an affectionate people !

His majesty's most gracious answer. THE juft fentiments which you exprefs, in this dutiful addrefs, of the peace, which the Providence of God has enabled me to conclude, give me particular fatisfaction. By continuing to educate the youth committed to you, in the principles of loyalty, virtue, and piety, you will perform a moft acceptable fervice to me: And as it is my earnest defire to contribute to the advancement of true religion, and ufeful learning, the univerfity of Cambridge cannot doubt of my conftant favour and protection.

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Received here yesterday the favour of your letter of the 4th, tranfmitting to me the addrefs, which the univerfity have thought proper to make to his majesty, on occafion of the peace.

I am extremely forry, that any thing should prevent my attending the univerfity with their addrefs to the king. Nobody can be more ready, and defirous, to fhew his duty, and loyalty, to his majefty, upon all occafions, than myself; or, as far as in me lies, to promote and encourage, in the university, thofe principles of fteadiness and affection to the proteftant fucceffion, happily established in his majefty, and his royal family, which now, for many years, I have had the pleasure to fee fo uniformly pur fued, and fo warmly exerted there.

I apprehend, from feveral expreffions in the addrefs, which I

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own I cannot approve, and which I should have objected to, if I had

been previously confulted, that my attendance, upon this occafion, will not be confiftent with the part, which I, and other lords, thought ourselves obliged to take, when the confideration of the preliminaries was before the parliament. I therefore hope, that it will not be thought want of duty to the king, or of refpect to the university (in neither of which will ever be guilty of the leaft failure) if I defire you, Sir, (as has been very frequently done in our late chancellor's time) to acquaint the fe cretary of state, that the university had agreed upon an address to his majefty; and that you defire to know from his lordship, when you, and the univerfity, may attend his majefty with it. This, I believe, has been the method most frequently followed by the univerfity of Oxford, and in feveral inftances, as I mentioned before, in the duke of Somerfet's time.

If you write to the fecretary of ftate, as foon as you receive this, you may have his lordship's anfwer, time enough for you to come to town on the Monday, if his majefty fhould think proper to ap point (as you fuppofe) Wednesday, this day fe'nnight, for receiving the university..

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don, defire to be permitted to pay their humble duty to your majesty, and to express their grateful fenfe of your majefty's gracious and benevolent attention to the welfare of

your people, in relieving them from the increasing burthens of a long and expenfive, though glo

rious and fuccessful war.

to the continuance of your majefty's protection and favour.

They enter not into a particular confideration of the national advantages refulting from the treaty of peace, which your majefty has been pleafed to conclude ;--- thefe have been fubmitted to a conftitutional examination; but they beg leave thus publicly to declare to your majesty their entire acquiefcence in a meafure which your majesty's councils, and the great council of the nation, have feen reason to approve. And this they have thought it their duty to do at this time when they have with concern obferved a fpirit of faction unhappily arifing, and are apprehenfive their filence might be in terpreted as an encouragement of practices which their dutiful attachment to your majesty's perfon and government leads them to de

teft and abhor.

They further beg leave to affure your majefty, that as magiftrates to whom the executive power of the government of the city of London is intrufted, it fhall be their con ftant endeavour to maintain and preferve their domeftic tranquility, order, and good government, and that true and perfect liberty which has its foundation in obedience to the laws, and of which licentiouf. nefs, though it often affumes the name, is, in this country, the only enemy.

By a conduct fo conformable to your royal example, they prefume to hope they fhall entitle themfelves

His majesty's most gracious answer.

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Return you my fincere thanks for this addrefs, and for the fatisfaction you exprefs in the fuc-. cefs of my endeavours to reitore. the public peace.

affurances you give me, I receive with great pleasure the of your abhorrence and deteftation of thofe factious and licentious practices, which, alone, can endanger our prefent happy fettlement, after the. conclufion of peace with all our foreign enemies.

Your refolution to fupport, in oppofition thereto, the true conftitutional liberty of these kingdoms, is highly acceptable to me.

The city of London may depend on my conftant favour and pro

tection.

Address of the proteftant diffenting

minifters in and about the cities of London and Westminster, on the peace,

Most gracious fovereign, YOUR majesty's ever loyal and

faithful fubjects, the proteftant diffenting minifters in and about the cities of London and Weft: minfter, humbly beg leave to congratulate your majefty on the reitoration of peace to your own dominions, and to the world in geheral an event truly interefting to all who are influenced by fentiments of humanity, and peculiarly pleafing to the minifters of the gospel of peace.

The unparalleled fuccefs and glory, which crowned your majefty's arms, whilft they excited our gratitude to the Almighty,

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could not fupprefs our concern for We have only to add, our fer. the numberlefs calamities and. dif- vent fupplications to the Moft High, orders infeparable from war. As that your majefty may reign long, thefe are happily brought to a pe- the father of a free, and the deriod, we can now indulge the de- light of an happy people; and lightful expectation, that the ad- that the imperial crown of thefe vancement of piety and virtue, of realms may defcend, in your ilcivil and religious liberty, and of thofe arts which improve and embellifh human life, will be the refult of public tranquility, and the juft praife of your majelty's reign.

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The large acceffions made to your majesty's empire in America, not only promife an increafe of commerce, with its attendants, wealth, and power, but likewife opens a way for diffufing freedom and fcience, political order and chriftian knowledge, through thofe extenfive regions, which are now funk in fuperftition and barbarifm, and for imparting even to the most uncultivated of our fpecies, the happiness of Britons.

GREAT SIR,

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The proteftant diffenters have been ever ftrongly attached to thofe excellent princes your royal progenitors; having always confidered the revolution as the glorious æra of liberty in thefe kingdoms, and the fucceflion in your auguft houfe, as, under God, its firmeit eftablishment and the goodnefs of your majefty's heart, your high fenfe of domeftic virtue, and your avowed regard to religion, concur to heighten our zeal for the dig nity of your crown, and the prof perity of your government, I hall be our conftant care to To ap prove our loyalty and fidelity to yeur majefty, by promoting concord, and by recommending to thofe with whom we are connected, fuch principles, as are calculated to render them, at once, good fubjects, and good men,

luftrious line, to the latest gene. rations.

His majesty's most gracious anfwer.

Thank you for this affectionate and dutiful addrefs. You judge rightly of my defire and intention to improve the bleffing of the peace, which God has granted us, to the univerfal benefit of my fubjects, and to the advancement of religion and virtue. Your refoJution to inculcate the principles of piety and loyalty, is very agreeable to me; and you may rely on my protection, and my care to maintain the toleration.

The humble addrefs of the merchants
and traders of the city of London,
on the peace.

Moft gracious fovereign,
WE your majefty's faithful fub-

jects, the merchants and traders of the city of London, inviolably attached by every tie of duty and gratitude to your majefty's perfon and government, beg leave to return your majesty our humble thanks for the conftant and effectual fupport and protection we enjoyed during the late war; and, at the fame time, moft fincerely to congratulate your majefty on the fuccefs of your truly paternal and humane endeavours to restore to your people, and to Europe in general, the bleffings of peace.

Through the care and attention of government, the national com

merce,

merce, amidst the tumults and dangers of the most extended war this country was ever engaged in, has been carried on with a degree of fecurity and fuccefs beyond example: this, however, did not lead us to forget the adverfe accidents to which the nature of war continually expofed us, nor to ceafe wishing for that ftability and permanency, which peace alone could give.

We have now the fatisfaction to fee a war, founded in justice and neceffity, profecuted with vigour and glory, at length concluded on terms of real and folid advantage, by a treaty of peace, every where marked with that moderation and equity which afford the fairest profpect of its continuance.

With hearts, therefore, full of the highest fenfe of your majefty's attention to the general welfare of your fubjects, as well as to their commercial interefts, and animated with equal zeal for your perfon, and abhorrence of all difrefpect to your dignity, we affure your majefty, that nothing in our power thall ever be wanting, that may, in any degree, contribute to render your majefty's reign cafy and happy over a loyal and grateful people.

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Signed by 922 merchants and traders.

His majesty's most gracious answer.

Receive, with very particular fatisfaction, from fo numerous and deferving a body of my fubjects, thefe dutiful affurances of their zeal for my perfon and go vernment; thefe cordial expreffions of their abhorrence of all difrefpect to my crown and dignity.

The welfare of my people, and

the fecurity of the flourishing and extenfive commerce of my kingdoms, have ever been, and ever will be, the invariable objects of my care and attention: these invaluable bleffings, I trust, will be rendered ftable and permanent by the peace which I have concluded whereby vaft countries are added to the British empire, the improvement of which muft produce folid and lafting advantages to all my subjects.,

The merchants, and traders, of the city of London may firmly rely on my conftant protection and favour; and on my fteady refolution ever to fupport them, in the full and free enjoyment of their rights, liberties, and privileges.

To George the Third, king of Great Britain, and the dominions thereunto belonging.

The humble addrefs of his proteftant fubjects, the people called Quakers.

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May it please the king, BEING met in this our annual

affembly, from various parts of Great Britain and Ireland, for the worship of Almighty God, and the promotion of piety and virtue, we embrace the opportunity which the restoration of peace affords us, to testify our affection to thy royal perfon, and family; and our dutiful fubmiffion to thy government.

To a people profefling that the ufe of arms is to them unlawful; a people who reverence the glorious gofpel declaration of good will to men, and fervently with for the univerfal eftablishment of peace, its return must be highly acceptable.

To ftop the effufion of blood, to eafe the burthens of the people,

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