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not help quoting a passage in their address, as the praise it contains was perfectly merited by this great Monarch.—"Assembled in this edifice, which is one of the many marks of your Majesty's magnificence, and princely encouragement of the arts and sciences, we cannot omit congratulating your Majesty on the completion of so noble a monument of your grandeur and the nation's glory. And we return your Majesty our most dutiful acknowledgements, for so splendid a mark of your esteem for your parliament, which led you to erect so magnificent a senate house out of your private revenue. We join with the rest of your Majesty's subjects in expressing our admiration of your royal and princely virtues; your noble encouragement of the arts and sciences, adds a fresh lustre to the title of hero, which your Majesty's great actions had before most justly conferred."—This