burgh,
&c...... Resolution for the Regulation of private
Committees..... Motion to disjoin the Presidency of the
Board of Trade from the Treasurership of the Navy......
Motion to hold Parliament occasionally in Dublin and
Edinburgh..... Restoration of forfeited Scotch Peerages.....
Catholic Emancipation, &c..... India Jury Bill, &e......
Naturalization Act, &c...... Prorogation and Dissolution of
Parliament..... General Election..... The Burmese War.....
Meeting of the New Parliament..... Motion for a select
Committee on Joint Stock Companies, &c..... King's Message
respecting the Conduct of Spain, &e...... Resolutions
against Bribery at Elections.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.

{A.D. 1826}

Parliament reassembled on the 2nd of February, when the speech was
again delivered by commission. Its principal topic was the depression
of manufactures and commerce which still existed. The commissioners
remarked:--"We are commanded by his majesty to inform you that his
majesty has seen with regret the embarrassment which has occurred in
the pecuniary transactions of the country since the close of the
last session of parliament. This embarrassment did not arise from any
political events, either at home or abroad. It was not produced by any
unexpected demand upon the public resources, nor by the apprehension
of any interruption to the general tranquillity. Some of the causes
to which this evil must be attributed lie without the reach of direct
parliamentary interposition; nor can security against the recurrence
of them be found, unless in the experience of the sufferings which they
have occasioned. But to a certain portion of this evil, correctives, at
least, if not actual remedies, may be applied; and his majesty relies
upon your wisdom to devise such measures as may tend to protect both
private and public interests against the like sudden and violent
fluctuations, by placing on a more firm foundation the currency and
circulating credit of the country." The commissioners further stated
that they had his majesty's commands to lay before parliament copies of
conventions, founded on the acts relative to trade and commerce passed
last session, which had been concluded with France, and the Hanseatic
towns of Lubeck, Bremen, and Hamburg. They concluded by stating that his
majesty's attention had been directed to certain measures recommended in
the last session of parliame