pofed in us, and be wanting in every duty which we owe to your majesty and to our fellow-fubjects, if we failed to give our most zealous fupport to thofe great conftitutional principles, which govern your ma bufinefs, and which are fo effential to the dignity, fafety, and welfare of the British empire. We learn with great fatisfaction, that a treaty of peace is concluded betw en Ruffia and the Porte; and that, by this happy event, the general tranquillity is rendered complete and we entertain a wellgrounded hope, that your majefty's conftant endeavours to prevent the breaking out of fresh disturbances will be attended with fuccefs; as your majefly continues to receive the strongest affurances from other powers, of their being equally difpofed to preferve the peace. We affure your majefty, that we will, with the utmost chearfulness, grant to your majefty every neceffary fupply; and that we confider ourfelves bound by gratitude, as well as duty, to give every proof of our most affectionate attachment to a prince, who, during the whole courfe of his reign, has made the happiness of his people the object of all his views, and the rule of all his actions. Dublin-Caftle, May 4. This day the houfes of lords and commons waited upon the lord lieutenant with the following addrefs to his majesty. To the King's most excellent Ma. jefty. The humble Addrefs of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,in Parliament affembled. Moft gracious Sovereign, W Lauraietty herds and ritual and temporal. in parliament affembled, beg leave to approach your majesty, with hearts full of gratitude, for your paternal regard to your faithful and loving fubjects of the kingdom of Ireland, efficiently manifefted by your majesty's gracious compliance with the pray er of your faithful fubjects of this kingdom, in returning a bill for the encouragement of tillage. The improvement of agriculture is a benefit fo universal, diffusive, and permanent in its nature, that it has ever been held a grand object in the eye of the greatest princes: It is therefore peculiarly becoming the protection of a fovereign, whofe paternal attention extends to every part of his dominions. Permit us, fir, to add, that as it is at once the great fource of popu lation, civilization, and morality, it cannot fail of being the strongest reinforcement against all his enemies to a monarch. who, making the spirit of the conftitution his rule of conduct, and the interest of his people the end of all his actions, reigns all powerful in the breast of every truly loyal subject. His Majesty's Answer to the House of Lords. ing great fatisfaction to his majefty, and is agreeable to their conftant zeal and loyalty for his perfon and government, upon the continuance of which his majefty has the firmeft dependence. The improvement of agriculture, promote the interefts and happiness of his fubjects, cannot fail of giv-. the extenfion of commerce, and the increase of population, are objects worthy the attention of the bett of fovereigns, and cannot fail to be the confequence of this most excellent law. And we flatter ourselves that it will be a pleafing reflection in your royal breaft, that the increase, of population in this country will add to the numbers of the moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, at all times moft zealously and affectionately devoted to your majesty, and to your iiluftrious house. R G. R. Die Martis 24° die Maii, 1774. ESOLVED by the lords fpiritual and temporal, in parliament affembled, that the humble thanks of this houfe fhall be returned to his majefty, for his majefty's most gracious anfwer to the addrefs of this houfe of the fecond inftant. Ordered, That the Lord Chancellor do attend his excellency the lord lieutenant with the faid refolution, and defire his excellency will please to lay the fame before his Majesty. To the King's most excellent Ma jefty. The bumble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgefes, in Parliament affembled. Moft gracious Sovereign, WE jesty. G. R. The humble Addrefs of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, in Parliament affembled. 'E, your majefty's moft duti- To the King's most excellent Maful and loyal fubjects the commons of Ireland, in parliament affembled, beg leave to prefent our unfeigned and grateful acknowledgements for the gracious condefcenfion which your majefty has manifested to the wishes of your fubjects of this kingdom, in returning the bill for the improvement of the agriculture of Ireland: which we confider as a fignal inftance of your majesty's paternal regard for your people. Moft gracious Sovereign, WE, your majefty's moft duti ful and loyal fubjects, the commons of Ireland, in parliament affembled, beg leave to return your majefty our most humble thanks for your majefty's moft gra WR May it pleafe your Excellency, E the lords fpiritual and temporal, in parliament affembled, beg leave to congratulate your excellency on the approaching conclufion of a feffion of parliament, diftinguished by fo many beneficial laws, effential to the profperity and happiness of this kingdom. We are truly fenfible of your excellency's concern for the welfare of this nation, manifested by thofe wife and prudent meafures which have already fo effectually established the declining credit of this kingdom, and for thofe neceffary and ufeful regulations effected by your provident care in the revenue and other departments of the ftate, which must be productive of the moft permanent and substantial benefits. Among the falutary laws in this feffion obtained, we cannot avoid diftinguishing that for granting a bounty on the exportation of corn, which we deem as an earnest and pledge of your excellency's folicitude for the interests of this country,' and is an event which must fix in the minds of a grateful people the lafting remembrance of this glorious æra, and of the advantages derived to them under your govern ment. Animated with a lively and grateful sense of the happiness we enjoy, we cannot forbear expreffing our moft earnest wishes that his majefty, out of his paternal regard for his loyal fubjects of this country, may be graciously pleased to continue your excellency in the government of this kingdom, where your prudence, abilities, and experience have gained you the confidence of the people, who confider their affection for your excellency as the beit teft of their regard to their country, and who wish to make your administration as easy to yourself as it is honourable to the crown, and fatisfactory and advantageous to the publick. His Excellency's Answer. exertion of my beft efforts for the welfare and true interefts of this kingdom. To his Excellency Simon Earl Harcourt, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland. 1 The humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeffes, in Parliament affembled. May it please your Excellency, thofe we reprefent; and we have the utmost fatisfaction to find, that the scheme for discharging the arrears upon the establishment has been, at the fame time, one principal caufe of raifing the publick credit of the nation. We feel, in the perfect enjoyment of every bleffing of liberty, good order, and tranquillity, the peculiar obligations we owe to his majefty's goodnefs and paternal care, in placing over us a chief governor, whofe administration, Wful and loyal fubjects, the like his own great character, has commons of Ireland, in parliament affembled, impreffed with the trueft fense of gratitude, and impelled alike by our inclination and our duty, moft fincerely and chear fully offer to your excellency our warmeft congratulations upon the approaching conclufion of this feffion of parliament. Your excellency's uniform attention to every important object of government, and the peculiar wifdom which your excellency has manifefted in thofe regulations in our finances, which have fo effectually re-established the declining credit of the nation, muft, we are perfuaded, have laid the best foundation for that fuccefsful interpofition with our moft gracious fovereign, to which we attribute fo many useful and falutary laws obtained for us this feffion of parliament, among which the act for the improvement of tillage, fo long the object of our warmest wishes, will leave the moft lafting impreffion on the minds of a grateful and loyal people. We have endeavoured to emulate your excellency's example, in fupporting government, by means the moft conducive to the intereft of been eminently diftinguished by juftice, moderation, firmnefs, and wifdom; whofe unwearied endeavours to promote the profperity of this kingdom, and whofe virtues and exemplary conduct, which have fecured him the juft confidence of 'his majefty's loyal fubjects of Ireland, fill our minds with the warmeft hopes that his majefty, as the highest mark of his royal favour unto us, will be graciously pleased long to continue your excellencythe chief governor of this kingdom. His Excellency's Answer. felf. To have stated it moft favourably to his majefty, was to have reprefented it truly; it is thoroughly understood, and moft graciously accepted: your dutiful behaviour and difpofitions are impreffed upon the mind of the belt of princes; and I' fhall take every other poffible method to deferve the efteem of the commons, and to promote the profperity of this kingdom. His Excellency Simon Earl Harcourt, Lord Lieutenant General and Ge neral Governor of Ireland, his HE great and uncommon Tvariety of publick bufinefs in which you have been engaged, and your conftant attention to the performance of your duty, must make you wish for the conclufion of. a feffion, in which the many difficult and important fubjects under your confideration could only have been relieved by that fingular good temper and wifdom in your deliberations, which have thrown a peculiar luftre upon all your proceedings, and crown your labours for your country with merited fuc. cefs. mands to thank you, in his name, for the extraordinary and feasonable fupplies which you have granted, and which his majefty justly confiders as a confpicuous inftance of your attachment to his royal perfon and government; and I am to alfure you, that they are as graci. oufly and favourably accepted, as they have been liberally and chearfully given. It is a ftriking proof of your wisdom and fagacity, that the means which you have used for raifiug the fupplies have not only fupported his majesty's government, but have, at the fame time, raised and established public and private credit, and promoted the commerce, manufactures, and induftry of the kingdom. My Lords and Gentlemen, miniftration with little fatisfaction attention of the most beneficent fovereign, to the welfare and profperity of his dutiful and affectionate fubjects of this kingdom; and has formed the most complete fyftem of laws for the encouragement of tillage, that exifts in any country, This reciprocal intercourfe of duty and protection, which vailed, and from which fo many has for fo many years happily prefalutary confequences have been derived, during his majesty's aufpicious reign, holds out, to every part of his majefty's empire, an example reflecting the highest ho nour |