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claim as their birth-right, and which we cannot yield but with our lives: To assure his Majesty, that we have seen with concern, certain claims advanced by the Parliament of Great Britain, in an act intituled "An Act for the better securing the Dependancy of Ireland," an act containing matter entirely irreconcileable to the fundamental rights of this nation: That we conceive this act, and the claims it advances, to be the great and principal causes of the discontents and jealousies in this kingdom: To assure his Majesty, that his Majesty's Commons of Ireland do most sincerely wish that all bills which become law in Ireland, should receive the approbation of his Majesty under the seal of Great Britain; but that yet we do consider the practice of suppressing our bills in the council of Ireland, or altering the same any where, to be another just cause of discontent and jealousy: To assure his Majesty, that an act, intituled "An Act for the better Accommodation of his Majesty's Forces," being unlimited in duration, and defective in other instances, but passed in that shape from the particular circumstances of the times, is another just cause of discontent and jealousy in this kingdom: That we have submitted these and the principal causes of the present discontent and jealousy of Ireland, and remain in humble expectation of redress: That we have the greatest reliance on his Majesty's wisdom, the most sanguine expectations from his virtuous choice of a chief governor, and great confidence in the wise, auspicious, and constitutional councils, which we see, with satisfaction, his Majesty has adopted: That we have, moreover, a high sense and veneration for the British character, and do therefore conceive that the proceedings of this country, founded as they were in right, and tempered by duty, must have excited the approbation and esteem, instead of wounding the pride of

the British nation; and we beg leave to assure his Majesty, that we are the more confirmed in this hope, inasmuch as the people of this kingdom have never expressed a desire to share the freedom of England, without declaring a determination to share her fate likewise, standing and falling with the British nation.

Another of the Lords, of the same nature.

IRISH.-22nd April, 1782.

The Right Hon. the Secretary of State reported to the House, that his Grace the Lord Lieutenant had been attended with the Address of this House to his Majesty, and that thereupon his Grace was pleased to return the following answer :

"I shall immediately transmit this dutiful and loyal Address to be laid before his Majesty."

Ordered to be entered on the Journals.

ENGLISH.-1st May.

Mr. Secretary Fox presented to the House, by his Majesty's command,

Copy of the Message to the Houses of Lords and Commons in Ireland, from his Grace the Lord Lieutenant, delivered the 16th of April, 1782; and also Copy of a Resolution of the House of Lords in Ireland, Mercurii, 17 die Aprilis, 1782; and also Copy of a Resolution of the House of Commons in Ireland, Martis, 16° die Aprilis, 1782; and the titles of the said copies were read.

The said copies were as followeth, viz.

Copy of the Message to the Houses of Lords and Commons in Ireland, from his Grace the Lord Lieutenant; delivered 16th April, 1782:

PORTLAND.

I have it in command from his Majesty to inform this House, that his Majesty being concerned to find that discontents and jealousies are prevailing among his loyal subjects of this country, upon matters of great weight and importance, his Majesty recommends to this House to take the same into their most serious consideration, in order to such a final adjustment as may give mutual satisfaction to his kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

ENGLISH.-17th May, 1782.

Resolved, That this House will immediately resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration his Majesty's most gracious Message of the 9th day of April last, relative to the state of Ireland.— Ordered, that the several papers which were presented to the House by Mr. Secretary Fox upon the 1st day of this instant May, be referred to the said Committee. Then the House résolved itself into the said Committee.

Mr. Powys reported from the Committee, that they had come to several resolutions, which they had directed him to report, when the House will please to receive the

same.

Ordered that the report be now received.

Mr. Powys accordingly reported from the said Committee the resolutions which the Committee had directed him to report to the House.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that an act made in the 6th year of the reign of king George the 1st, intituled, "An Act for better securing

the Dependency of the Kingdom of Ireland upon the Crown of Great Britain," ought to be repealed.

Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Committee, that it is indispensable to the interests and happiness of both kingdoms, that the connexion between them should be established by mutual consent upon a solid, permanent basis.

The said resolutions being severally read a second time, were, upon the question several put thereupon, agreed to by the House nem, con.

Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill for repealing an act, made in the 6th year of the reign of his late Majesty George 1st, intituled "An Act for the better securing the Dependency of the Kingdom of IreIand upon the Crown of Great Britain ;" and that Mr. Secretary Fox, Mr. Thomas Pitt, Mr. Powys, and Lord John Cavendish, do prepare and bring in the same.

Resolved, That an humble Address be presented to his Majesty, that his Majesty will be graciously pleased to take such measures as his Majesty, in his royal wisdom, shall think most conducive to the establishing, by mutual consent, the connexion between this kingdom and the kingdom of Ireland, upon a solid and permanent basis.

Ordered, That the said Address be presented to his Majesty, by such members of this House as are of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council.

IRISH.-27th May, 1782.

Mr. Speaker reported, that the House had attended his Grace, the Lord Lieutenant, in the House of Peers, where his Grace was pleased to make a speech to both

Houses of Parliament, of which Mr. Speaker said, to prevent mistakes, he had obtained a copy, which he read to the House; and the same was afterwards read by the Clerk at the Table, and is as follows:

My Lords and Gentlemen ;-It gives me the utmost satisfaction, that the first time I have occasion to address you, I find myself enabled, by the magnanimity of the King, and the wisdom of the Parliament of Great Britain, to assure you, that immediate attention has been paid to your representations; and that the British legislature have concurred in a resolution, to remove the causes of your discontents and jealousies, and are united in a desire to gratify every wish expressed in your late Address to the Throne.

"If any thing could add to the pleasure I feel in giving you these assurances, it is, that I can accompany them with my congratulations on the important and decisive victory gained by the fleets of his Majesty, over those of our common enemy in the West Indies, and on the signal advantage obtained by his Majesty's arms in the island of Ceylon, and on the coast of Coromandel. By the papers which, in obedience to his Majesty's commands, I have directed to be laid before you, you will receive the most convincing testimony of the cordial reception which your representations have met with from the legislature of Great Britain, but his Majesty, whose first and most anxious wish is, to exercise his royal prerogative insuch a manner as may be most conducive to the welfare of all his faithful subjects, has further given it me in command, to assure you of his gracious disposition to give his royal assent to Acts, to prevent the suppression of Bills in the Privy Council of this kingdom, and the alteration of them any where; and to limit the duration of the Act for the better Regulation and Accommodation

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