fervation of the peace, and fupport of the laws. It remains for your prudence and wifdom to devife fuch measures as, together with a continuance of thofe exertions, and the additional powers, which, by the advice of the privy council, I have thought it neceffary to eftablith in different counties, will prevent the return of fimilar exceffes, and reftore a proper reverence for the laws of the country.

The fuperior and increafing im portance of the agriculture and manufactures, and particularly of the linen manufacture of the kingdom, will command your utmoft fupport. Under the prefent fituation of Europe you cannot fail to attend with peculiar vigilance to the general itate of provifions; and if circumitances hall at any time render your interpofition advifable, I have no doubt of your adopting fuch meafares as fhall beft apply to the exiting neceffity of the times.

I am defirous of pointing your attention to the proteftant charter fchools, and other inftitutions of public charity and improvement.

Your unanimity and zeal can never be of more importance than at the prefent crifis, in order to imprefs the enemy with a thorough Conviction of the refources of his Majefty's kingdoms, and to procure a favourable termination to your honourable efforts. His Majefty has the fulleft reliance on your firmnefs and attachment, and on the fortitude, fpirit, and perfeverance of his people.

It will be my ambition, as it is my duty, to reprefent your zeal to his Majetty's fervice; and it will be my perignal and moft anxious with to co-operate with your efforts in the common caufe in which we

are all equally engaged and inte refted, and my utmoft endeavours fhall be used to fecure the happinefs and profperity of this kingdom, and to protect and maintain its moft excellent constitution.

Speech of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to both Houses of Parliament, April 15, 1796.

My Lords and Gentlemen, IN releafing you from farther attendance in parliament, I am peculiarly commanded by his majefty to thank you for that confpicuous zeal and unanimity, fo honourable to yourselves and fo impreffive on our enemies, which have marked your conduct through the whole feffion, in promoting by your energy and temper the interests of your country, and in fupporting by your fpirit and liberality the common 'caufe of the empire.

His majefty has taken the fteps which appeared most proper for fetting on foot a negotiation for general peace, if the enemy fhould be difpofed to enter into fuch negotiation on grounds confiftent with the fafety, honour and interest of his majefty's kingdoms and of his allies.

If his majesty's views in this refpe&t thould fail, he has no doubt that the valour of his fubjects, the refources of his kingdoms, and the exertions of the powers engaged with him, will ultimately produce this defirable end.

Gentlemen of the Houfe of
Cornnons,

I am to thank you, in his majefty's name, for the cheerfulness and liberality with which you have provided for the current fervices of

the year, and it affords me the highest fatisfaction to reflect that thefe objects have been attained by burthens, fo judicioufly impofed, that they can scarcely affect the lower orders of the people. It is equally fatisfactory to obferve that your ftrength and profperity remain undiminished, notwithstanding the preffure of the war, and it will be my endeavour to cherish your resources, and apply your liberality with economy and prúdence.

My Lords and Gentlemen, The inquiries I had ordered to be made with regard to the produce of the laft harveft, and the measures taken by you to prevent the export of grain, muft relieve the public mind from an apprehenfion of fcarcity. If any illicit means fhould be attempted, to evade the provifions of the laws, which have been enacted upon this important fubject, I fhall not be inattentive in exercifing thofe powers with which I am entrusted.

The vigorous measures you have adopted for the fuppreflion of infurrection and outrage, and the wife provifions you have made for preventing the extenfion of fimilar offences, must have the moft falutary effects.

The new regulation of licences under the fuperintendence of magiftrates, will tend to promote tranquillity and fobriety. The eftablifhment of more frequent feflions of the peace will afford an eafy and expeditious adminiftration of juftice in the different diftris throughout the kingdom. The liberal increase of the falaries of the judges, and the alteration of the civil bill jurifdiction, for the convenience of the lower ranks of the people, will enfure the conftant

and regular attention of his majef ty's judges to the civil and criminal bufinefs that will remain to be done on the circuits.

Thefe measures cannot but demonftrate to the people at large the firmnefs and the temper of parliament, which, whilft it is de termined to reprefs the exceffes of licentioufnefs and outrage, is at the fame time anxious to ensure to the country thofe permanent advantages of fecurity, peace and good order, which are to be derived from a prompt and upright adminiftration of justice.

I cannot too strongly recommend it to you to give effect to thefe bepefits by your example and prefence, and I am confident, that when you are relieved from your duty in parliament, all ranks and deferiptions of his majefty's faithful fubjects will feel themfelves protected by your exertions and autho rity in your different counties.

Your kind declarations in favour of my adminißration make the deepcft impreflions upon my feelings. If I have any claim to your confidence and good opinion, it arifes from the fidelity with which I have reprefented to his majefty your loyalty and zeal, and from the fincere defire I feel to conform my conduct to your fentiments.-Great Britain and Ireland form one empire; they are infeparably connected; they muft ftand or fall together; and we are all equally engaged, becaufe we are all equally interefted in the common caufe of defending and upholding our religion, our laws, and our conftitution.

Speech of Earl Camden Lord Lieut. of Ireland to both Houfs of Parliament, October 13, 1796.

My

My Lords and Gentlemen, I have his majefty's commands to acquaint you, that he has thought it neceflary to require your attendance in parliament at this early period, and to refort to your deliberative wifdom at a time when the ambitious projects of our enemies have threatened to interrupt the happiness and profperity of his people, by making a defcent on this kingdom and Great Britain And although his majefty looks forward with the utmost confidence to the fpirit, loyalty, and ability of his faithful people of Ireland to repel fuch an attack, it will yet become your wifdom to neglect no precautions which may preclude the attempt, or fecure the speedieft means of turning it to the confufion of the enemy.

His majefty has been graciously pleafed to direct an addition to be made to the regular forces in this kingdom, by troops fent from Great Britain, the greater part of which is already arrived; and in purfuance of his majefty's commands, I have alfo encouraged the loyalty and zealous difpofition, which has generally difplayed itfelf, to affociate in arms, under his majesty's authority, for the better fecurity of property, and the prefervation of tranquillity and good order.

In confequence of the fteps which his majefty has taken to restore peace to Europe, and fecure its future tranquillity, a way has at length been opened for an immediate and direct negotiation; and I am commanded to acquaint you, that it is his majefty's intention to fend a perfon to Paris, with full powers to treat for the restoration of general peace.

The apparently hoftile difpofi tions and conduct of the court of Spain has led to difcuffions, of which I am not able to acquaint you with the final refult; but, whatever may be their iffue, they cannot but afford to Europe a further proof of his majetty's moderation and forbearance, and cannot fail to animate your utmost exertions in defending the dignity, rights, and intereft of the empire against every aggreflion.

In reviewing the events of this" year, it must afford you the greatest fatisfaction to obferve, that by the fpirit and exertions of his majesty's navy, the commerce of this kingdom has been protected in a degree almoft beyond example; and in no part more completely, than by the ikill, activity, and bravery of the fquadron ftationed on the coafts of this kingdom.

The fuccefs of his majesty's arms in the Eaft and Weft Indies, has been highly honourable and advantageous to the empire; and evinces, in the ftrongest manner, the valour and good conduct of his forces both by fea and land.

The fteady and dignified conduct of the emperor, and the intrepidity of the Auftrian forces under the command of the archduke Charles, have given fo effential a change to the alpect of affairs on the continent, as to infpire a well-grounded confidence that the final refult of the campaign will be fuch as materially to promote his majefty's endeavours to obtain a fafe and honourable peace for himself and his allies.

My Lords and Gentlemen, The expediency of the vigorous meatures which you have adopted

in the last feffion of parliament, has been amply proved by the outrages, which they were intended to fupprefs having in a great meafure fubfided. I am, however, to lament, that in one part of the country good order has not yet been entirely restored, and that in other districts a treasonable system of fecret confederation, by the adminiftering of illegal oaths, ftill continues, although no means within the reach of government have been left untried to counteract it.

Gentlemen of the House of

Commons,

I have ordered to be laid before you an account of fuch articles of expence as are not included in the eftimate of the current year, and which the prefent circumftances have rendered neceffary; and when you confider the great interefts for which we are engaged, and the objects for which we are contending, I doubt not that you will grant the fupplies which may be requifite for them with your accustomed chearfulness and liberality; and when the ordinary accounts and estimates for the enfuing year fhall be laid before you, I truft you will then proceed with the zeal you have always manifefted in providing for the exigencies of the ftate, and the honourable fupport of his majefty's government.

You will not fail at a proper time to continue your attention to the manufactures, the agriculture, and the commerce of the country, and to extend your accustomed benevolence to the proteftant charterfchools, and the other inftitutions of education and charity which have been fo long foftered by your liberal encouragement.

The profperity and refources of the kingdom, fo highly improved by your meritorious care, fill remain unimpaired by the preffure of war; and I trust to your unremit ting attention for the further advancement of your national prof perity.

You have learnt the steps which his majefty has taken to procure the bleflings of general peace upon a folid and permanent basis. Should thefe gracious endeavours of his majefty not be followed by the fuccefs which he has every reafon to expect, he is satisfied that the affections, courage, and prefervance, of his people, will enable him to fruftrate the defigns of our enemies, and to maintain the honour and dignity of his crown.

It will afford me the highest fatisfaction to be aided at this important crifis by your advice, and I rely with a confidence you have taught me to indulge, upon your liberal interpretation of my conduct, and upon that fupport I have fo amply experienced fince I received his majesty's commands to repair to this country; and it will be peculiarly gratifying to me, if I fhould have the good fortune, in the adminiftration of the king's government, to imprefs upon your minds the full extent of his majef ty's paternal care of this kingdom, and of my own anxiety to promote, by every means, its interefis, its fafety, and its profperity.

A Proclamation by the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland.