most solid advantages to both, and will add vigor and strength to the empire.

"I fincerely congratulate you on the happy completion of his Majefty's anxious endeavours to reftore the bleffings of peace to his faithful people. The establishment of the public tranquillity is peculiarly favourable at this period, and will naturally give spirit and effect to your commercial purfuits. Both kindoms are now enabled to deliberate with undivided attention on the fureft means of increafing their profperity, and reaping the certain fruits of reciprocal affection.

"I have the higheft fatisfaction in acquainting you of the increafe of his Majesty's domestic happiness, by the birth of another prin

cefs.

"Gentlemen of the House of Commons,

"I have ordered the proper officers to lay the national accounts before you. From them you will be enabled to judge of the circumftances of the kingdom; and I rely upon your wisdom and loyalty to make fuch provifion as fhall be fitting for the honourable fupport of his Majesty's government.

"My Lords and Gentlemen,

"The miferies of an approaching famine have been averted by the bleffing of Divine Providence upon the measures which the Privy Council advised; the good effects of which were foon vifible in the immediate reduction of the price of grain, and the influx of a valuable and neceffary fupply to the market. Any temporary infringement of the laws to effect fuch falutary ends, will, I doubt not, receive a parliamentary fanction.

"Among the many important objects which demand your attention, I recommend to your confideration laws for regulating the judicature of the Court of Admiralty, and for making a new eftablishment of the Poft Office.

"The Linen Manufacture being the ftaple of your country, it is needlefs for me to recommend perfeverance in the improvement of that most important article.

"The fifhery on your coafts will claim your attention as a promifing fource of wealth to this kingdom, and the encouragements granted to it will, no doubt, be regulated by you in the manner moft likely to produce the best effect, and leaft fubject to fraud and impofition.

"The Proteftant Charter Schools, an inftitution founded in wisdom and humanity, are alfo moft eminently intitled to your

care.

'I recommend likewife to your attention the proposals adopted by government for providing an afylum for the distressed Gene

vans. It well becomes the generofity of the people of Ireland to extend their protection to ingenious and induftrious men, who may prove valuable acquifition to this country, which they have preferred to their own. But in forming this establishment, you will doubtless confider it as a part of your duty to avoid unneceffary expence, and ultimately to fecure the utmoft advantages to your country.

I anticipate the greatest national benefits from the wisdom and temper of parliament, when I confider that the general election has afforded you an opportunity of obferving the internal circumftances of the country, and of judging by what regulations you may beft increase its induftry, encourage its manufactures, and extend its commerce.

"In the furtherance of objects fo very defirable to yourselves, I affure you of every good difpofition on my part; fenfible that in no manner I can better fulfil the wifhes and commands of our gracious fovereign, than by contributing to the welfare and happinefs of his loyal fubjects. With an honest ambition of meriting your good opinion, and with the warmest hope of obtaining it, I have ventured upon my prefent arduous fituation, and with fentiments pure and difinterefted towards you, I claim your advice and firmly rely upon your fupport."

Lord Sudley then rofe, and moved an addrefs of thanks to his Majefty for the speech that day delivered from the throne. When he recollected that the ports of the kingdom were now open, and took a comparative view of our former fituation with that of the prefent day, he could not reftrain his congratulations of looking up with gratitude to that fovereign whofe benign influence had tended to accomplish fo great a purpose. He then read the addrefs.

The humble ADDRESS of the KNIGHTS, CITIZENS and BURGESSES, in Parliament affembled, to the KING's most excellent MAJESTY.

"Moft gracious Sovereign,

"WE, your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyalfubjects, the Commons of Ireland, in parliament affembled, beg leave to approach your Majefty with fentiments of the most unfeigned attachment to your royal perfon and government, and to offer to your Majefty our grateful thanks for the appointment of a nobleman to the government of this kingdom, whofe juftice, integrity and abilities afford the beft-founded expectations of national happiness and profperity under his adminiftration.

"The fincerity and good faith of Great-Britain, fo abundantly teftified by the facred regard fhewn on her part to the adjustment of our conftitution and commerce, demand our warmest acknow

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ledgments; while we enjoy the full poffeffion of thofe conftitution al and commercial advantages which were fo firmly established in the laft parliament.

"We fhall earnestly concur in measure that may any

confirm

and strengthen the mutual confidence of both kingdoms, and their union in fentiments as well as in intereft. From thence the most folid advantages muft arise to both kingdoms, and vigour will be added to the ftrength of the empire.

"Already do we feel the bleffings of peace; and we intreat your Majefty to accept our humble thanks for the happy completion of your anxious endeavours to reftore that ineftimable bleffing to your faithful people. We hope now to reap the fruits of our extended commerce, and in our deliberations we shall look upon the increafing profperity of Great-Britain with that regard which must be the effect of reciprocal affection.

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As affectionate fubjects, deeply interested in the happiness of our beloved fovereign, we learn with the highest fatisfaction the increase of that happiness in the birth of another princefs.

"We will immediately infpect the national accounts and happy in your Majefty's juft reliance upon our loyalty, we will make fuch provifion as fhall be fitting for the honourable support of your Majesty's government, confiftently with the abilities of the

nation.

"We adore the mercy of divine providence in averting from this people the miferies of impending famine; and we will chearfully concur in a parliamentary fančtion of thofe wife and falutary measures which government pursued by the advice of the Privy Council.

"We fhall lofe no time in the neceffary manner for regulating the judicature of the Court of Admiralty, and for making a new eftablishment of the Poft Office.

"We shall induftriously perfevere in the improvement of our Linen Manufacture; nor fhall we omit an attention to the Fishery, that promifing fource of induftry and wealth; and we shall endeavour to regulate the encouragements granted to it, fo as to produce the best effects, and to prevent frauds and impofition.

"We fhall likewife extend our care to the Proteftant CharterSchools.

"We shall readily forward the liberal intentions of government to provide an afylum for the diftreffed Genevans: ingenious men have a claim to the protection of a generous nation; but our own country is no less intitled to that care, which it is our duty to exert, in avoiding unneceffary expence, and fecuring the utmost advantage from the fettlement of the emigrants.

"We trust that the wisdom and temper of this parliament will be manifefted in all its proceedings; and we fhall endeavour to profit by every opportunity which circumftances have afforded us of

obferving the internal ftate of the country, and judging what regulations may be encourage and extend its induftry, manufactures and commerce.

"Having conftantly experienced the beneficence of our gracious fovereign, in contributing to the welfare and happiness of his faithful fubjects, we lay at your Majefty's feet the tribute of grateful hearts, earnely befecching the divine goodnefs long to continue the bleffings of your ajefty's aufpicious reign over a happy, united and loyal people."

Mr. Tottenham Loftus feconded the addrefs, accompanied with the ufual panegyric on the fovereign and his government.

After the Speaker read the addrefs, (Mr. Corry of Newry,) after taking great pains to fhew that what he was about to propofe, was not to be confidered as an oppofition motion, or in the leaft degree tending to difturb that harmony and unanimity which the House then happily enjoyed, but rather to call to their recollection a circumftance that had moft unaccountably been omitted, obferved, that though his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales had happily and aufpiciously arrived at his age of twenty-one years, no notice had been taken thereof, notwithstanding that, as the ufual compliment was paid to his Majefty by congratulating him on the birth of a princefs, he thought a proper opportunity offered of paying not only a respect of the highest quality to his Majefty, but one to the heir apparent of this kingdom, by congratulating his Majesty on his Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales attaining the completion of his twenty-firft year, which happened on the twelfth of Auguft laft that an event fo important to the nation, upon which the people's happinets fo much depended, and which added fuch ftrength and fecurity to the ftate, and fo much to his Majefty's domeftic happiness, fhould not be paffed over in filence, efpecially at this time, when the happy effects of royal favour and attention extended to this country, demanded every return of gratitude and affection; and the circumftance of the heir apparent attaining his years of majority, muft fo nearly concern both the crown and the people, that it ought to be a fubject of mutual congratulation-therefore, that he would by way of amendment, move these words :

"And to congratulate with his Majefty, and to affure him of "the joy of this country, at his Royal Highnefs the Prince of "Wales having happily and aufpiciously attained the age of twenty-one years.

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After a fhort paufe or filence in the Houfe, and fome little whif pering of the Secretary, the Attorney-General (Mr. Yelverton) rofe up and faid the amendment propofed was without precedent; for no Prince of Wales had ever been complimented on such an occa

fion-that the addrefs was generally an echo of the fpeech, that no mention had been made therein of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and to introduce it in the address would be highly improper, for had it been neceffary, it would certainly have taken its rife at the framing of the speech; but if the Hon. Member thought proper to withdraw his present motion for an amendment to the address, and introduce in future a compliment of the kind to his Royal Highness, it fhould meet his hearty concurrence.

Mr. Corry confeffed he would have been much better pleased had the circumftance been originally attended to in framing both the fpeech and the addrefs, or if any gentleman (applying to the Treasury Bench) would fhew a mode more refpectful to his Majefty, in which it could be introduced, he was ready to comply.

Mr. Yelverton.-As the Hon. Gentleman feems to defire the aid of this Bench, I must take the liberty of faying, that if he will confider his amendment, he will find it totally inapplicable to the address of this day. This nation, celebrated for loyalty, does not now want to fhew proofs of her attachment to our gracious fovereign; we all rejoice in the happiness of the crown, and feel the highest respect and love for the heir apparent; but, having faid this, give me leave to add, that were we to agree to this motion, unprecedented on the journals of England or Ireland, it might be fuppofed that the Houfe reproved his Majefty for not having directed the Viceroy in his fpeech to both Houses to announce fuch a joyful event; an event, however, which Majesty never notifies but when he defires aid for the establishment of the heir apparent; but if the Hon. Gentleman will withdraw his amendment, and offer it to the House as a substantive motion, there can be no doubt of its meeting general approbation.

Mr. Corry faid, that at this time, when the nation, raised to confequence and power under his Majefty's happy aufpices, feels her own dignity, it would be a wife measure by every mark of refpect, to attach the Royal House; and it would be wife to confirm this attachment even by a new procedure. The prefent motion goes to convey a compliment to his Majefty, nor is it altogether a new procedure; there are many precedents of fimilar conduct on the part of parliament. Upon the arrival of the late Prince of Wales in England, parliament congratulated his Majefty, as they did alfo on his marriage, though neither event was mentioned in the speech from the throne. Parliament condoled with his late Majesty on the death of the Prince of Wales, and with his present on that of the Princess; none of thefe circumftances had been notified in the fpeech, nor were they of more importance than the Prince having paffed his minority; I therefore think the present a fair parliamentary measure, well warranted by precedent, and hope the King's Attorney-General will not be the person to stand out against it,