Excerpt from The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1812, Vol. 5: Part First When these gentlemen had finish ed, Lord Jocelyn rose to move the. Usual address to the throne, in the' shape Of an amendment to that which had been proposed by Sir F. Bur dett. There was no disposition in the house to support Sir Francis no member, with the exception Of Lord Cochrane, had thought fit to counte nance him in his proceedings and even Messrs Ponsonby and W itbread, the champions of the opposition, eit pressed their disapprobation of his con duct. Yet, did Sir Francis divide the house upon the question, when there appeared one solitary member to vote for the address proposed by him. The amendment of Lord Jocelyn was then, put, and carried without a division. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.