may enable you to raise the fums
which may be wanted for the cur-
rent fervices, without any diftrefs-
ing addition to the burdens of the
people.

military force of his own dominions. His majefty therefore has been highly gratified in accepting the fervices fo generously offered by his English militia; and I am to exprefs to you the entire confidence which his majefty feels, that the zeal and loyalty of his militia of this kingdom, in forwarding, at this important crits, the active operations of the empire, will not be lefs prompt and confpicuous. The apprehenfions of general fcarcity which fome time fince took place, called for my early attention to this most important fubject; and I was induced, with the advice of the council, to offer premiums for the early importation of grain. This measure will, I flatter myfelf, meet your approbation; and I have full confidence in your wifdom, if it fhall be neceffary to refort to any farther extraordinary means for procuring a fupply.

be for

My lords and gentlemen,
I recommend to your ufual atten-
tion the agriculture, the manufac
tures, and particularly the linen
manufacture of Ireland; and I
ter-schools, and those public inftitu-
doubt not, that the proteftant char-
tions, whether of charity or of edu
cation, which have been protected,
by your liberality, will fill receive
wildom to confider how
your
a judicious encouragement. It will
far it will be neceflary to continue
any of thofe extraordinary powers,
with which you have firengthened
vernment, for the more effectual
the authority of his majesty's ga
fuppreflion and punishment of re-
bellious confpiracy and outrage.-
His majefty places the most entire
reliance upon your firmnefs and wif-
dom; and he has no doubt that you
will anxiously purfue fuch measures
as fhall be beft calculated for bring-
ing the prefent war to an honoura-

Gentlemen of the house of
commons,

The evident neceffity of fecuring
this kingdom from every danger,
whether foreign or domeftic, and

fion, if attempted, impracticable, will demonfirate to you the wif dom of continuing that enlarged fyftem of defence you have fo wifely adopted. I have therefore ordered the public accounts and estimates for the enfuing year to be laid before you; and have the fulleft confidence, that, in the fupply which Such a fituation fhall appear to you to require, you will equally confult the fafety of the kingdom, and the Honour of his majefty's government. I am induced to hope, that the great increase of the revenue which as taken place in the prefent year,.

of rendering the fuccefs of invable termination, and for restoring the country to permanent tranquil lity. It will be my conftant object to attend to your fuggeftions and advice, that I may by this means commands I have received from his molt beneficially accomplish the ward the interefts and happiness of majefty, and most effectually forthis kingdom.

Message from the Lord-Lieutenant to, the Irish House of Commons. Cornwallis,

I

AM commanded by his majefty
to return to this houfe the refo-
Jutions
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branches of the public fervice in the prefent year. His majefty has alfo witneffed with pleasure, that wife liberality which will enable him 'to make a juft and equitable retribution to thofe bodies and individuals, whofe privileges and interefts are affected by the union; and he has alfo feen with fatisfaction that attention to the internal profperity of this country, which has been fo confpicuoufly teftified by the encouragement you have given to the improvement and extenfion of its inland naviga

tion.

Britain, and to augment the re-
fources of the empire. You will
not fail to imprefs thefe fentiments
on the minds of your fellow-fubjects;
you will encourage and improve
that juft confidence which they
have manifefted in the refult of
your deliberations on this arduous
queftion; above all, you will be
ftudious to inculcate the full con-
viction, that, united with the peo-
ple of Great Britain into one king-
dom, governed by the fame fove
reign, protected by the fame laws,
and reprefented in the fame legifla
ture, nothing will be wanting on
their part but a fpirit of industry
and order, to enfure to them the full
advantages under which the people
of Great Britain have enjoyed a
greater degree of profperity, feeu-
rity, and freedom, than has ever
yet been experienced by any other
nation. I cannot conclude without
offering to you, and to the nation
at large, my perfonal congratula-
tions on the accomplishment of this
great work, which has received the
fanction and concurrence of our fo-
vereign-on that aufpicious day which
placed his illuftrious family on the
throne of thefe realms. The em
pite is now, through your exertions,
to completely united, and by union
fo ftrengthened, that it can bid de-
fiance to all the efforts its enemies
can make, either to weaken it by
divifion, or overturn it by force.-
Under the protection of Divine Pro-
vidence, the united kingdoms of
Great Britain and Ireland will, I
truft, remain in all future ages, the
fairest monument of his majefty's
reign, already diftinguifhed by fo
many and fuch various bleflings con-
ferred upon every clafs and defcrip.
tion of his fubjects.

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My lords and gentlemen,

I have the happiness to acquaint you, that the country in general has, in a great meafure, returned to its former state of tranquillity. If in fome diftrias a fpirit of plunder and difaffection ftill exifts, thefe diforders, I believe, will prove to be merely local, and will, I doubt not, be foon effectually terminated. The preffure of fcarcity on the poorer claffes, much relieved by private generofity, and by the falu tary provifions of the legislature, has been long and unufually fevere; but I trust that, under the favour of Providence, we may draw a pleafing profpect of fature plenty from the prefent appearance of the harveft. I am perfuaded that the great measure which is now accomplifhed, could never have been effected but by a decided conviction on your part, that it would tend to reftore and preferve the tranquillity of this country, to increase its commerce and manufactures, to perpetuate its connection with Great

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Refolved,

THAT

ever

HAT it be the first article of the union of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that the faid kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland hall, upon the 1ft day of January which thall be in the year of our Lord 1801, and for after, be united into one kingdom, by the name of " The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" and that the royal ftyle and and titles appertaining to the imperial crown of the faid united kingdom and its dependencies, and alfo the enfigns armorial, flags and ban ners thereof, fhall be fuch as his majefty, by his royal proclamation under the great feal of the united kingdom, fhall be pleafed to appoint.

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fpiritual of Ireland by rotation of feffions, and twenty-eight lords tempotal of Ireland, elected for life by the peers of Ireland, fhall be the number to fit and vote on the part of Ireland in the house of lords of the parliament of the united kingdom; and one hundred commoners (two for each county of Ireland, two for the city of Dublin, two for the city of Cork, one for the univerfity of Trinity College, and one for each of the thirty-one moft confiderable cities, towns, and bo roughs) be the number to fit and vote on the part of Ireland in the houfe of commons of the parliament of the united kingdom: that fuch act as thall be passed in the parlia ment of Ireland previous to the union to regulate the mode by which the lords fpiritual and tearporal, and the commons, to ferve in the parliament of the united kingdom on the part of Ireland, fhall be fuminoned and returned to the faid parliament," shall be confidered as forming part of the treaty of union, and fhall be incorporated in the acts of the relpective parliaments, by which the faid union fhall be ratified and established: that all queftions, touching the rotation or election of lords fpiritual or temporal of Ireland to fit in the parliament of the united kingdom, fhall be decided by the houfe of lords thereof; and whenever by reafon of an equality of votes in the election of any fuch lords temporal, a complete election fhall not be made according to the true intent of this article, the names of thofe peers for whom fuch equality of votes fhall be fo given, fhall be written on picces of paper of a fini lar form, and fhall be put into a glafs by the clerk of the parliament

Refolved, That it be the fecond article of union, that the fucceffion to the imperial crown of the faid united kingdom, and of the dominions thereunto belonging, hall continue limited and fettled in the fame manner as the fucceffion to the imperial crown of the faid kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland now ftands limited and fettled, according to the exifting laws and to, the terms of union between England and Scotland.

Refolved, That it be the third article of union, that the faid united kingdon be reprefented in one and the fame parliament, to be ftyled

The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire

land."

Refolved, That it be the fourth article of the union, that four lords

fo often as three peerages of that
part of the united kingdom called
Ireland thall become extinct, it fhall
be lawful for his majefty, his heirs
and fucceffors, to create one other
peer of the faid part of the united
kingdom; and if it fhall happen that
the peers of that part of the united
kingdom called Ireland, fhall, by
extinction of peerages or otherwife.
be reduced to the number of one
hundred, exclufive of all fuch peers of
that part of the united kingdom called
Ireland as fhall hold any peerage of
Great Britain fubfifting at the time
of the union, or of the united king-
dom created fince the union, by
which fuch peers fhall be entitled to
an hereditary feat in the houfe of
lords of the united kingdom, then
and in that cafe it fhall and may be
lawful for his majefty, his heirs, and
fucceffors, to create one peer of
that part of the united kingdom
called Ireland, as often as any one
of fuch one hundred peerages fhall
fail by extinction, or as often as
any one peer of that part of the
united kingdom called Ireland fall
become entitled by defcent or crea-
ation to an hereditary feat in the
houfe of lords of the united king-
dom; it being the true intent and
meaning of this article, that at all
times after the union it fhall and
may be lawful for his majefty, his
heirs, and fucceflors, to keep up the
peerage of that part of the united
kingdom called Ireland, to the num-
ber of one hundred, over and above
the number of fuch of the faid
peers as fhall be entitled by defcent
or creation to an hereditary feat in
the houfe of lords of the united
kingdom: that if any peerage thall
at any time be in abeyance, fuch
peerage fhall be deemed and taken
as an exifting peerage; and 10
peerag

at the table of the houfe of lords whilft the houfe is fitting; and the peer or peers whole name or names hall be first drawn out by the clerk of the parliament, fhall be deemed

the

peer or peers elected, as the cafe may be that any perfon holding any peerage of Ireland now fubfifting, or hereafter to be created, fhall not thereby be difqualified from being elected to ferve if he fhall think fit, or from ferving, or continuing to ferve if he fhall think fit, for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain in the houfe of commons of the united king dom, unlefs he fhall have been previoully elected as above to fit in the houfe of lords of the united kingdom; but that, to long as fuch peer of Ireland hall fo continue to be a member of the houfe of commons, he fhall not be entitled to the privi lege of peerage, nor be capable of being elected to ferve as a peer on the part of Ireland, or of voting at any fuch election; and that he fhall be liable to be fued, indicted, proceeded againft, and tried as a commoner for any offence with which he may be charged: that it fhall be Tawful for his majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, to create peers of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, and to make promotions in the peerage thereof after the union; provided that no new creation of any fuch peers fhall take place after the union, until three of the peerages of Ireland, which shall have been exifting at the time of the union, fhall have become extinet; and upon fuch extinction of three peerages, that it fhall be lawful for his majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, to create one peer of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland; and in like manner