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high honour t * behold your Majesty's re * presentative ; and through him to receive your Majesty ^ most ; gracious assurances of maintaining hi violate our rights and privileges ^« By law established . But we cannot ; exbteas whatuwe feel , when , within
the precincts of ychir ancient kingdom of Scotland , we behold your Majesty in person— -a K $ ng distinguished by every splendid endowment ^ and graced by every elegant aecondplls | imerit—at once the safeguard of tnxr country , and tfhe bulwark of out CJhurch .
" From -the first moment that your Majesty undertook the charge of public affairs , the Provfdetice of < 5 od has beamed upon you why a blight effulgence . By the wisdom of your Majesty's counsels and the vigour of your arms , your
Majesty was enabled , by the blessing of Al * mignty God , to frustrate the formidable attempts of a gigantic power , which , grasping at universal empire , threatened to destroy the independence of Europe *; and that same Providence , we trust , will
still continue to encompass your Majesty as with a shield , and over ali your glory to create a defenee . "As a portion of your Majesty ' s subjects , we express dur warmest gratitude for the honour your Majesty has done to our country by most graciously condescending to visit it ; and we trust that ,
when your Majesty returns from your Scottish dominions , yon wiH be enabled to say that , in this part of the United Kingdom , you have seen a people who love their God their country atrd their King . " As the constituted representatives of the Church of Scotland , we present your
Majesty our heartfelt thanks for the many signal favours which your Majesty has been pleased to confer upon us ; and , as the best return which we can make for your Majesty ' s gpodness , we beg leave to assure your Majesty , that it shall be our
study , in our respective districts , to discharge with fideifty and zeal the d&ty committed to our trust , and to encourage loyalty and submission to the laws , as equally vindispensable to both public and private prosperity . *
We will labour to impress upon the people committed to our care a high sense of the invaluable blessings of our glorious and happy constitution . We , will teach them to fear God , to honour their King , and to connect the principles of religion with a dutiful obedience to the laws of their country .
* ' That your Majesty may long sway the regal sceptre over a great , a free , a loyal , a happy and a united people—that your Majesty ^ may long * enjoy the blessing vut
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0 i health * and every comfort which th * worta can afford—aad that at length yoiuf ' Majesty may inherit a kingdom which cannot be moved , and a crowa of glory which fadeth not away , are gar most sincere and fervent prayers . " ( Signed ) « ' DAVID LAMONT , Moderator . " To this Address his Majesty returned the following most gracious answer i—
" I thank you for these expressions of loyal attachment , in the sincerity of which 1 place implicit confidence . It is with the utmost satisfaction that I avail myself of this opportunity of confirming in person the assurances I have given through my representative , that I will maintain inviolate those rights and privileges to which the Church of Scotland is entitled
by the most solemn compacts . In your continued exertions to promote true religion , and to inculcate loyalty and obedience to the laws , you may rely on m ^ constant support and protection . I cordially unite with you in grateful
acknowledgments to Almighty Gody for his } signal protection of my people iu the thne of general peril and calamity , and in an , earnest prayer that , through his divine assistance , I may be enabled to protect their liberties , and to advance their prosperity and happiness . "
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Address of the Scottish * Episcopal Clerctt . [ This Address was presented by a Depu * tation consisting of Bishops — Oleig ^
Joll y > Sarutfordy Tprry ^ Skinner , Lowe * - *—PrbsbyterSt—Rev , Mr . sUison , Mr # Walker 9 Dr . RusseU , Mr . Horsley , tylr * Cruickshanks > Mr . Morehead * The Address was read by Mr . HorsleyA
" To the King's moat excellent ? Majesty " . it please your Majesty ,- ^ We , your Majesty ' s dutiful and loyal subjects , the Bishops and Clergy of the Scottish
Episcopal ehnrch , beg leave humbly to approach your Koyal presence with ex ^ presstons of our most heartfelt attachment and loyaky to ybur Majesty's sacred person and government .
** So ratony years have passed away since Scotland was honoured by the presence of its Sovereign , that to behold your Majesty in the palace of the long line of our ancient Monarchs—your Majesty ' s Royal ance&tora—is , to us , as it must be to every true Scotsman , a matter of pride and exultation ; and in this house , more especially , do we feel our-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 641, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/57/
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