On the twelfth day of June, the queen, having given the royal assent to several public and private bills, made an affectionate speech to both houses.

She thanked the commons, in the warmest expressions, for having complied with all her desires; for having baffled the expectations of her enemies in finding supplies for the service of the ensuing year; in having granted greater sums than were ever given to any prince in one session; and in having settled funds for the payment of the public debts, so that the credit of the nation was restored.

She expressed her earnest concern for the succession of the house of Hanover; and her fixed resolution to support and encourage the church of England as by law established.

Then the parliament was prorogued.
PROCEEDINGS IN THE CONVOCATION.
Of the convocation which was assembled with the new parliament, the lower house chose Dr.Atterbury their prolocutor.

He was an enterprising ecclesiastic, of extensive learning, acute talents, violently attached to tory principles, and intimately connected with the prime minister Oxford; so that he directed all the proceedings in the lower house of convocation in concert with that minister.