Parliamentary Register; o R, HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS; CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF The most interesting SPEECHES, MOTIONS, BILLS, DURING THE FIRST SESSION of the FOURTEENTH PARLIAMENT O F GREAT BRITAIN: WITH SUCH PETITIONS to the KING, as relate to the Proceedings AND A LIST O F The ACTS paffed in this SESSION. VOL. II. LONDON: Printed for J. ALMON, oppofite BURLINGTON-HOUSE, M,DCC,LXXV. HIST O R OF THE DEBATES and PROCEEDINGS OF THE Y HOUSE of During the FIRST SESSION of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great-Britain. HIS feffion was opened by the King, with a fpeech from the throne. The fpeech being already printed in the debates of the House of Commons of this feffion, it is unnèceffary to repeat it November 30, 1774. The Earl of Hillsborough moved, That an humble addrefs Earl of be presented to his Majefty, to return his Majefty the thanks Hillsborough of this House for his moft gracious fpeech from the throne. To declare our abhorrence and deteftation of the daring fpirit of refiftance and difobedience to the laws, which fo ftrongly prevails in the province of the Maffachufets Bay, and of the unwarrantable attempts in that and other provinces of America, to obftruct, by unlawful combinations, the trade of this kingdom.. To return his Majefty our humble thanks for having been pleased to communicate to us, that he has taken fuch meafures, and given fuch orders as his Majefty hath judged moft proper and effectual for the protection and fecurity of the commerce of his Majefty's fubjects, and for carrying into execution the laws, which were paffed in the laft feffion of the late parliament, relative to the province of the Maffachufets Bay. To express our entire fatisfaction in his Majefty's firm and fteadfast resolution to continue to fupport the fupreme authority of the legiflature over all the dominions of his crown, and to give his Majefty the strongest affurances that we will VOL. II. chearfully B |