greatest fatisfa&tion, if by a temper. his majefly to recommend it to you, ate and firm conduct the bleflings to apply yourselves to the confiderof peace can be continued; but he ation of such measures as inay be feels affured of your zealous con- molt likely to strengthen and cecurrence in his determination to

ment a general union of sentiment provide for the security and in, among all classes and descriptions terests of his dowinions, and to ful- of his majetty's subjects, in fupport fil those positive engagements to' of the establilled conftitution. With which lie is equally bound by the this view his majelly trusts that the

honour of his crown, and the gene- lituation of his majetty's catholic stal interests of the empire.

fubjects will engage your serious Gentlemen of the house of

attention ; and in the confideration

of this subject he relies on the wilcommons,

dom and liberality of his parliaI have ordered the national ac.

ment. connts to be laid before you ; and I

I am truly sensible of the re. E have no doubt of your readiness to erant such fupplies for the public ceived of your approbation; and I

peated testimonies which I have reazz fervice, as the honour and security will endeavour to merit a continu

of his majesty's crown and govern: ance of your good opinion, by ftreEcole ment, and the exigencies of the

nuously exerting the power with times, may require.

which I am entrusted, for the My lords, and gentlemen, inaintenance of our excellent conThe agriculture, the manufac- ftitution in church and tate, as the fures

, and particularly the linen beit fecurity for the liberty of the ta er manufacture, the protettant charter- subject, and prosperity of Ireland. schools

, and other public instituThi, ta'lions, which have to repeatedly

been the objects of your care, will,

di4 doubt not, engage your accustom Protest in the House of Lords of Irealread regard and liberality,

land against the Bill for preventing - hates may I am to recommend to you, in unladuful Asemblies, July 10. tek bere bis majesty's name, to adopt such sa measures as may be moli advisable Disfentient,

de for the maintenance of internad B Popinion that the laws as they

y di na tranquillity, and for this purpose to

entender more effectual the law for now stand, are amply sufficient to Startulablihing a militia in this king. curb licentiousness of every fort, to telom.

and to prevent or punish all such Dane telo His majesty has the fullest confi- crimes as may be injurious to the promo dence that you will, on all occa- state, or subversive of public trana

tidl trgons, shew your firm determination quillity. It īsto enforce due obedience to the Because, Even though it were de aws, and to maintain the authority true that any evil existed, fuch as

Liity government, in which you may might seem to require a new law de depend upon his majesty's cordial to countera& its effects, we conindez bo-operation and support: and I ceive that laws made on particular CLETE have it in particular command from emergencies, and enacted on the

spur

to

spur of the occafion, are at all times Speech of the Lord Lieutenant of Ir dangerous to conftitutional liberty,

land to both Houses of Parliament

, inalimuch as they are usually fram August 16. ed in hatte, and perhaps under the influence of passion or of arbitrary

My lords and gentlemen, principle, and are apt therefore to

NHÉ wisdom and firmness that is bei entail upon the state a real and per have distinguished your con manent evil, instead of the evanes- duct during the present session, and cent and temporary inconvenience the attention you have afforded they assume to obviate.

the many important objects of your Because, That as this bill af- deliberations, demand my fincera: 132 sumes to itself the style and charac- acknowledgments, and enable me ter of a declaratory, as well as of to relieve you from further attend. an enacting law, we cannot enough ance in Parliament. testify our disapprobation of the Gentlemen of the house of dangerous practice of grounding a commons, declaration of law upon the foun I have his majesty's commands a life! dation of old and obsolete statutes to thank you for the liberal supe enacted in arbitrary times, fallen plies you have voted for the publicerings into difute from the increasing wif- lervice, and for the honourable.com dom and spirit of the age, yet fuf- support of his majesty's government 14.2 fered to lie unrepealed, and ef- You may rely upon their faithful teemed by all found and conttitu- application. tional lawyers the lumber and dis My lords and gentlemen, grace of the statute books.

general union of sentiment among of riot and infurre&tion ; and I all classes of his majesty's subjects have been under the painful neces. in support of the established consti- fity of employing his majefty's tution.

forces, whose iteadiness and good His majesty has seen with real conduct have on all occasions been satisfaction that friendly disposition manifested, and by whose exertions which bas been manifested by the the civil magistrates have been en. parliaments of Great Britain and abled in a great measure to restore Ireland, for strengthening the con- the general tranquillity. nexion of the two kingdoms by Under all the circumftances of mutual acts of conceflion. I am the country, I thought it proper to authorised to acquaint you that an call forth a very considerable poract bas passed the British parlia- tion of the militia of this kingdom. ment, to permit goods of Asia, Af. I am to express his majesty's approrica, and America, legally import- bation of a measure which affords a ed into Ireland, to be imported present material assistance, and lays from thence into Great Britain. the foundation of a permanent conThis is a signal proof of her atten- ftitutional force, that has been tion to your interests, whilft the found by experience in Great confirmation of the charter of the Britain of great resource in public East-India company by the parlia. emergencies. ment of Ireland displays on your His majetty feels, with the great. part a cordial zeal for the support est concern, the expence brought of Great Britain, and a judicious upon his people by domestic dif.

consideration of the great and es- turbance, added to the consequence and

fential interests of the empire. of a foreign war, into which we

I am to make my acknowledg- have been forced by the wanton ments for the many falutary laws and unprovoked aggression of you have enacted to strengthen the France; but you will refle& that executive government, which will you are contending for the preser

materially tend to defeat the de- vation of your property, and for the O CHE Signs of the enemies to the freedom security of your happy conftitution.

and happiness of this kingdom. The successes with which it hath

The apprehensions of embarrass- pleased the Divine Providence to ment, which for a time hung over bless the arms of his majesty and his commercial transactions, were to allies afford the best prospect of a me a subje& of the utmost anxiety; happy issue to this important con

and I am to return you my thanks teft; and it is his majesty's earnest od e for sanctioning those measures hope, that a continuance of vigor. 105. which I took in support of credit, ous exertions will finally obtain a

and which I trust have had the secure and lasting peace. 25 happiest effect in preventing the I have entire confidence, that in

ill-consequences of such apprehen- your respe@ive counties you will fons.

exert your utmost influence in The spirit of discontent which maintaining the public tranquillity, prevailed amongst the lower classes and in carrying the laws into full of the people at the beginning of execution. You may be aflored, the feffion has since burst into acts that I shall, on all occalions, take Vol. XXXV.

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the most fpeedy and effe&tual mea a great number of good and worthy
sures, in the exercise of those Frenchmen whom he thould wil
powers with which I am invested, to save by restoring them to the
for the repression of outrage and quiet enjoyment of their property
tumult, and the proteâion of his and houses.
majefty's faithful and loyal subjects. The ties of consanguinity

, a
friendship uninterrupted for almost

a whole century, the intimate conManifesto or Public Declaration of nexions and correspondence be

the Court of Spain, explanatory of tween two neighbouring powers its Sentiments towards the French closely united, are as many motives nation.

which will make his majefty more

and more sensible at being com. TIS Catholic majesty, pene- pelled to make war upon France

, trated with grief at the in which he knows there exists a death of his auguft cousin Louis number of families, towns, and XVI. king of France, which he even whole provinces, which abo. suffered on a scaffold, on the part minate the detestable principles of of a number of his subjects, the de- Other Frenchmen. teftation of mankind seized with Unfortunately there has been a just indignation on account of so great deal of derangement of ideas dreadful a crime ; constrained to among fome, as much fear among defend himself against those self- others, and as much anxiety relame Frenchmen, who, ufurping speding the fate which awaited themselves the royal authority, and them. Violence forced a confidertyrannizing over the rest of the able number of them to take up fubjects, declared war against him; arms, to enforce, against their owo has found it necessary to resolve will, the execution of the decrees upon it on his own part, and to of those very men whose governo overcome the natural and decided ment they detested and abhorred. repugnance which be felt for a rup But the vigour and constancy

o fun thi ture.

with which others found means to Notwithstanding the vigorous shake off the yoke of their oppres. measures which the king took in sors, and to defend themselves the beginning, and which he will against their efforts, have evinced continue to take, as the dignity of how juft and worthy it is of the his crown and the safety of his do- magnanimous heart of the king, 10 minions may require, his majesty use all poflible means, not only to knew well, and still knows it, that support the French faithful to their

zr ils while he exposed the life of so great sovereign, but also to bring back to a portion of bis faithful subjects, reason and reconciliation all those and facrificed enormous sums to whom his majesty only confiders as support that war, and to punish its milled by the brilliant appearance authors, it would be imposible to of liberty, which in reality does not avoid the effects and the ills which exist; by hopes which, far from would result from it, for the augutt being realized, dig their precipice; persons of the royal family of or by threats, or by the conítant sa por Krance, thut up in prisons, and for exertion of rigours which they are

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obliged to suffer, and which be- course, which those who have veftreaves them of the courage of tak- ed themselves with supreme power ing the part of justice, loyalty, and contributed to banish with so much their own preservation.

violence! Then the civilized na. His majesty believes, that one of tions may treat with her, and rethose means would be that of unit new the bonds of friendship and ing together the whole sound part commerce which subsisted till now: of the French nation, in the same and then, the horrors of war having manner as the city of Toulon has entirely vanished, Spain may afford done ; to establish from the present to France all those good offices

moment a form of government, which become a good neighbour, a 2 under an hereditary monarchy, re- generous nation, and a king of the

serving, till the cessation of the same family.
prefent troubles, the modifications
which might be deemed conve-
nient for its most solid establish- Proclamation by the Prefident of the
ment.

United States of America.
His majesty is persuaded that this
is likewise the mode of thinking of HEREAS it appears that a
his Britannic majesty, bis ally; and state of war exists between
he doubts not but the other powers Austria, Pruflia, Sardinia, Great
who have taken up arms to make Britain, and the United Nether-

one common cause against France, lands, on the one part; and e fools will contribute towards the same France on the other; and the the end, by receiving and protecting duty and interest of the United

those Frenchmen who shall be States require that they should with lico be ready to profit by these beneficial fincerity and good faith adopt and dispositions.

pursue a conduct friendly and imThe Catholic king, for his part, patial towards the belligerent

announces those dispositions to powers ; eis from them from the present moment in I have therefore thought fit, by

the most Gincere manner, and pro- these presents, to declare the difpo.

mises to hear peaceably every idea fition of the United States to ob{TIS tx: :

which may conciliate itself with serve the conduct aforesaid towards the dignity of his resolutions, with- these powers respectively; and to ing as soon as posible to see the exhort and warn the citizens of the moment when, after the destruc- United States carefully to avoid all tion of that anarchy which causes acts and proceedings whatsoever jo

many ills to France, there may which may in any manner tend to be in that kingdom a body or class controvert such disposition. of men whom he may consider as And I do hereby also make having fufficient power and autho- known, that whosoever of the citi. rity to deliberate upon an object so zens of the United States shall ren. important to France herself. der himself liable to punishment or

Then will his majesty consider forfeiture under the law of nations, her as a power which has recalled by committing, aiding or abetting into her borom the principles of re- hostilities against any of the said ligion, morality, and civil inter- powers, or by carrying to any of

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