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All subjects of contest being thus removed

An amicable explanation took place between me and the Most Christian King, and declarations have been exchanged by our respective ministers, by which we have agreed mutually to disarm, and to place our naval establishments on the same footing as in the beginning of the present year.  It gives me the greatest satisfaction that the important events, which I have communicated to you, have taken place without disturbing my subjects in the enjoyment of the blessings of peace; and I have great pleasure in acquainting you, that I continue to receive from all foreign powers the fullest assurances of their pacific and friendly disposition towards this country. I must, at the same time, regret that the tranquillity of one part of Europe is unhappily interrupted by the war which has broken out between Russia and the Porte. A convention has been agreed upon between me and the Most Christian King, explanatory of the thirteenth article of die last treaty of peace, and calculated to prevent jealousies and disputes between our respective subjects in the East Indies. I have ordered copies of the several treaties to which I have referred, and of the declaration and counterdeclaration exchanged at Versailles, to be laid before you.Gentlemen of the House of Commons; I have ordered the estimates for the ensuing year to be laid before you, together with an account of the extraordinary expences which the situation of tfiairs rendered necessary. I have the fullest reliance in your peal and public spirit, that you will make due provision fbr the several branches of the public service.