the mild, juft, and aufpicious government of your Majesty, who have made the happiness of your people the conftant object of your wishes; the unvaried rule of your actions. Permit us, with the greatest gratitude, to express our moft unfeigned acknowledgments for the continuance of your Majefty's paternal regard and affection for your faithful fubjects of this kingdom; and your Majefty may reft affured, that in all our proceedings we will continue to manifeft that uniform attention to the public good, of which your Majefty's conduct affords the best and moft illuftrious example.

Truly fenfible of the many and great bleffings we enjoy under fo excellent a Sovereign, confidering every addition to your Majesty's royal family as ftrengthening that happy fucceffion, which is the great fecurity of all that is valuable to us, and feeling the most fincere pleasure from each new fource of your domeftic felicity, we humbly offer our warmest congratulations, upon the birth of another prince.

We cannot have a stronger affurance of your Majefty's attention to the happiness and profperity of this kingdom, than by your gracious appointment of Earl Harcourt to be our chief governor, of whofe diftinguished virtues and abilities, your Majelly, from your earlieft years, hath had uniform expe

rience.

We shall prove by our conduct, that we do not differ from your Majefty, and the world, in a full and cordial reliance upon his Excellency's wifdom, juftice, and moderation.

Fully perfuaded that the best and mon effectual method to recommend surfelyes to your Majelly's favour

is, and ever will be, to promote the true intereft of your people, we fhall not neglect to pay due attention to the laws of our country, particularly to thofe which respect the religion and morals, the fecurity and good order of the people; convinced that unless their morals be reformed, and their minds impreffed with principles of virtue, laws for the punishment of offenders are made in vain.

The proteftant charter fchools, thofe feminaries of true religion and induftry, fhall receive our particular confideration; the linen manufacture, that great fource of our national wealth, is an object of the highest importance; we fhall give our utmost attention to the forming of any laws that may be wanting to improve, regulate, or extend this molt beneficial trade, or to fupport its reputation at foreign markets.

Your Majefty may be affured, that we will manifeft a true and unbiaffed regard to the public welfare, by that unanimity in all our proceedings which conduces to the eafe of your Majesty's government, fo effentially neceffary to the intereft of Ireland.

May the Divine Goodness long preferve to your people the bleffings of your Majefty's aufpicious reign, and long may we give your Majesty the fatisfaction of governing the hearts of a generous and loyal peo ple.

To the King's most excellent Majefty. The humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeffes, in Parliament affembled.

Moft gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majefty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Commons

Commons of Ireland in parliament affembled, beg leave to approach your facred perfon, with the warmest profeffions of our juft fenfe of the many bleflings we enjoy under the mild, juft, and aufpicious government of fo gracious a fovereign, who has made the happiness of his people the conftant object of his wishes, and the unvaried rule of his actions; and with the most grateful acknowledgments for the continuance of your Majefty's paternal regard and affection for your faithful fubjects of this kingdom.

Your Majefty has given us a confpicuous inftance of your gracious attention to the happiness and profperity of Ireland, by fparing from your councils, and fending to prefide over us, a chief governor, who, having long had the honour to be placed near your facred perfon, and under the influence of your royal example, must be particularly acquainted with your Majefty's benign purposes for the happiness of your people, and to have derived from that great fource, thofe virtues and talents which are peculiarly adapted to diffuse and secure the bleflings of good government, and of conftitutional liberty.

Under the conduct and adminiftration of a nobleman of the most diftinguished character, whofe public and private virtues give a luftre to his high ftation, we shall be peculiarly happy in continuing to manifest that uniform attention to the public good, of which your Majelty's conduct has fet the moit illuftrious example.

We humbly offer our warmeft congratulations to your Majefty upon the happy event of the birth

of another prince, thoroughly senfible that every addition to your Majefty's royal family, adds ftrength to that happy fucceffion, which is the great fecurity of all that is valuable to us, and to which your Majefty's loyal subjects of Ireland, from the united motives of gratitude and intereft, have at all times fhewn the most steady and inviolate attachment.

Confcious of the happiness which we have enjoyed under the best of princes, we fhall chearfully grant, as far as the prefent ftate and circumftances of our country will admit, and in the manner leaft burthenfome to your Majefty's fubjects, the fupplies neceffary for the honourable fupport of your Majesty's government; convinced, that in properly maintaining the honour' and dignity of government, we effectually promote the good of our country.

Satisfied that penal laws for the reformation of the people are infufficient, unless their morals can be reformed, and their minds impreffed with principles of virtue, we fhall direct our particular attention to fuch laws as will extend the influence of religion, improve the morals, and promote the fecurity and good order of the people.

Our proteftant charter-schools fhall receive from us the confideration due to feminaries of true religion and induftry; and we fhall, without delay, prepare any new laws that may be wanting to improve, regulate, or extend our linen manufacture.

Your Majefty may be thoroughly perfuaded, that your faithful Commons, as reprefentatives of your Majefty's dutiful and affectionate fubjects of Ireland, are animated

"ment with honour; and they "may be affured of his Majefty' concurrence in fuch measures as

may best contribute to the wel"fare and profperity of the king"dom of Ireland." G. R.

Die Martis 2° Die Novembris, 1773, Refolved by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in parliament affembled, That the humble thanks of this Houfe fhall be returned to his Majefty, for his Majesty's most gra

cious Anfwer to the Addrefs of this House of the 13th day of October laft.

Ordered, That the Lord Chancellor do attend his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant with the said reso

lution, and defire his Excellency will pleafe to lay the fame before his Majefty.

To the King's most excellent Majefty.

The bumble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeffes, in Parliament affembled.

Moft gracious Sovereign, WE, your Majefty's molt dutiful

and loyal fubjects, the Commons of Ireland in parliament affembled, return your Majefty our warmeft thanks for your Majefty's moft gracious Anfwer to the Addrefs of this House.

We will chearfully grant the neceffary fupplies for the fupport of government with honour, as far as the prefent ftate and circumstances of the country will admit, being truly fenfible of your Majefty's paternal regard for us, from the affurances given us of your Majesty's concurrence in fuch measures as may best contribute to the welfare and profperity of Ireland, and from

our happy experience of your Majefty's mild and gracious govern

ment.

The Addreffes of both Houses of Parliament in Ireland, to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant.

To bis Excellency Simon Earl Harcourt, Lord Lieutenant-General, and General-Governor of Ireland.

The bumble Addrefs of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament affembled.

May it please your Excellency,

E, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in parliament affembled, return your Excellency our moft fincere thanks for your fpeech from the throne to both houfes of parliament.

We efteem ourselves particularly happy in the fatisfaction which your Excellency has been pleased to exprefs at the meeting us in parliament, and doubt not of your concurring with us in every meafure that may promote the real intereft of this kingdom; and we beg leave to affure your Excellency, that the fatisfaction is fincerely mutual on our part.

Your Excellency's great abilities, which have received the highest marks of approbation from the many important trufts which in fucceffive reigns, and various adminiftrations, have been reposed in you, give us the most lively hopes of every benefit which can refult from a fteady, prudent, and benign administration.

The affurances which your Excellency has given us of the continuance of his Majesty's paternal

regard for his faithful fubjects of Ireland, fills us with the warmest fentiments of duty and gratitude; and we cannot too much acknowledge the gracious manifeftation of in committing the government of his Majefty's goodness towards us, this kingdom to a nobleman whose name has ftood unsullied through the many high offices he has filled.

We are moft thankful to your Excellency for the joyful information you have been pleafed to give us of the increafe of the domeftic happiness of our amiable Sovereign, and the ftability added to his illuftrious houfe by the birth of another prince, defcended from him with whom the welfare of these kingdoms is fo neceffarily connected.

Your Excellency's wife and feafonable advice in directing our attention towards fuch laws as refpect the religion and morals, the fecurity and good order, of the people, cannot fail to animate our endeavours to do every thing on our part to procure fo defirable an end, and to take into confideration what new laws may be neceffary, as well for that purpose, as alfo for the extending and improving our liner manufacture, that great fource of wealth to this nation.

The favourable fentiments that your Excellency is pleafed to conceive of us, gives us the most fincere pleasure, and we can have no doubt, that the proofs we fall afford of our loyalty and attachment to the King, and of our zeal for the public fervice, will be faithfully and impartially reprefented by your Excellency to his Majesty, fo as to preferve to us his favourable opinion and royal protection. And we flatter ourselves, that there will be that unanimity in all our delibera

our chief governor a nobleman of approved experience, wifdom and abilities, and to whofe great virtues and diftinguished character we juftly look up with the fulleft confidence and the highest respect.

His Majefty's conduct, in making the public good the conftant rule of his actions, will be our fureft guide in the difcharge of our duty, which we fhall effectually accomplish, by fhewing the fame uniform attention to the good of our country, that his Majefty has invariably exerted in promoting the general happinefs of all his people; and we are fully convinced, that your excellency will fteadily and uniformly purfue that illuftrious example of attention to the public good, which you have fo powerfully recommended to our imitation.

We shall carefully confider the public accounts, and will cheerfully grant the fupplies neceffary to fupport his Majesty's government with honour, as far as the ftate and circumstances of our country will permit, and in the manner that will be moft eafy to our fellow-fabjects of this kingdom, who are deeply interested in the fupport of that mild and just government, neceffary for carrying into execution thofe laws upon which the prefervation and fecurity of liberty and property, and the maintenance of the peace and good order of the publick muft entirely depend: and we confide in your excellency's wifdom and juftice, that thofe fupplies will be faithfully applied, and frugally administered.

We thankfully acknowledge your excellency's goodness, in pointing out the laws of our country as the first and most important objects of our confideration, and in

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