feigned attachment to your royal perfon and government, and to of fer 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 best founded expectations of national happiness and profperity under his administration. The fincerity and good faith of Great Britain, fo abundantly teftified by the facred regard flown on her part to the adjustment of cur conftitution and commerce, demand our warmest acknowledgments, while we enjoy the full poffeffion of tho conftitutional and commercial advantages which were fo firmly efablified in the laft parliament. We fall earnestly concur in any meature that may confirm and ftrengthen the mutual confidence of beth kingdoms, and their union, in fentiment as well as, in intereft. From thence the moft folid advantages muft arife to both kingd, ms, and vigou will be added to the trength of the empire. Already do we feel the bleffings of peace; we intreat your majef ty to accept our humble thanks for the happy completion of your anxious endeavours to restore that ineftimable bleffing to your faithful people. We hope now to reap the fruits of our extended commerce, and in our deliberat. we fhall look upon the increasing perity of Great Britain with that regard, which must be the efcct of reciprocal affection. As affectionate fubjects, deeply interested in the happinefs 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, hap py in your majefty's juft reliance upon our loyalty, we will make fuch provifions as fhall be fitting for the honourable tupport 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 cheerfully concur in a parliamentary fanétion of those wife and faluta measures, which government puid by the advice of the privy council. We fhall lofe no time in the necefiary manner for egulating the judicature of the court of admiralty, and for making a new eft.blithment to the poft-office. We shall induftriously perfevere in the improvement of our linen manufacture; nor fall we omit an attention to the fishery, that promifing fource of industry and wealth; and we fhall endeavour to regulate the encouragements granted to it, fo as to produce the belt effects, and to prevent fraud and impofition. We fhall likewife extend our care to the Proteftant charter-fchools. We fhall 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 lefs entitled to that care which it is our duty to exert in avoiding unneceffary expence, and fecuring the utmost advantages from the fettlement of the emigrants. We trust that the wildom and temper of this parliament will be manifefted in all its proceedings, and we shall endeavour to profit by every opportunity which circumstances have afforded us of oblerving the internal state of the country, and judging what regulations may bett encourage and extend its induftry, manufactures, and commerce. (1) Having Having constantly experienced the beneficence of our gracious our gracious fovereign in contributing to the welfare and happinefs of his faith ul fubject, we lay at your majefty's feet the tribute of grateful hearts, earneftly befeeching the livine Goodness long to continue the bleffings of your majefly's aufpicious reign over a happy, united, and loyal people. THO. ELLIS, Cl. Par. Dom. Com. His Excellency the Lord Lieute nant's Anfwer.. I WILL take the first opportunity of tranfmitting this dutiful and 1 yal addrefs to be laid before his majesty. To his excellency Robert, Earl of To his excellency Robert, Earl of Northington, Lord lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland. The humble Addrefs of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parfiament aflembled. May it pleafe your Exellency, WE the lords fpiritual and temporal in parliament aflembled, prefent to your excellency our warmest thanks for your moft excellent fpeech from the throne. We beg leave to congratulate your excellency and ourfelves upon your appointment to the government of this kingdom, at a period peculiarly aufpicious to Ireland. In the fulleft reliance upon your excellencies wifdom, juftice, and integrity, we anticipate the advantages this kingdom muft derive from your excellency's adminiftration; and confider your excellency's appointement to prefide in it as a fresh inftance of his majesty's paternal regard for the happiness of his faithful people. We are highly grateful for the warmth with which your excellency fignifies your fatisfaction at meeting us in the full poffeffion and enjoy. ment of thofe conftitutional and commercial rights, which were fo firmly established in the laft parliament. We trust that the unequivocal proofs given by Great Britain. of her facred regard to the adjustment then made with Ireland, cannot fail to cement the union, and ftrengthen the mutual confidence between the two kingdoms, the true interests of which are and muft ever be infeparable. We beg leave to fhare with your excellency in the fatisfaction you exprefs, at the fucces of his majefty's endeavours to restore the bleffings of peace to his faithful people. We hall, in purfuance of your excellency's wife and feasonable advice, fhew our readiness to deliberate upon the meatures pointed out by your excellency, as well for regulating the judicature of the court of admiralty, and the new eftablishment of the poft- office, as for promoting our commercial purfuits, and reaping the advantages to be derived from the reftoration of public tranquillity. Permit us to add, that the recommendation of thofe meafures by your excellency affords the most convincing evidence of your refpect for the rights, and your capacity to difcern and defire to promote the interefts of Ireland. The measures purfued by government, by the advice of the privy council, to avert the miferies of impending famine, if not strictly conformable to law, will appear, we doubt not, to have been urged by neceflity, and fo effential to the public good as to merit parliamen tary indemnification. We enjoy the highest pleasure in. every addition to the domeftic happinefs of our gracious fovereign, and participate in your excellency's fatisfaction at the birth of another princess. We trust our well known and most fincere loyalty to his majesty, our confidence in the fincerity and good faith of our fifter country, and the ample means we have lately acquired of becoming a great and commercial people, will difpofe us to carry on our confultations for his majesty's honour and the good of our country, with that duty, temper, and unanimity, which can alone render them fuccefsful, and perpe tuate the harmony between the two kingdoms and with the firmeft reliance on your excellency's pure and difinterested intentions towards us, we shall, to the utmost of our power, support the honour of his majesty's government, and the eafe of your excellency's administration. H.M. WATTS GAYER, Cl.Par. EDW. His Excellency's Answer. I return your lordships my fincere thanks for this very honourable teftimony of your good opinion, which it fhall be my conftant endeavour to improve. Be affured that my inclinations, as well as my duty, will ever intereft me deeply in the profperity and happinefs of Ireland. To his Excellency Robert Henley Earl of Northington, Lord Lieutenant General and General vernor of Ireland.. The humble Addrefs of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeffes, in Par liament affembled. fincere thanks for your excellent fpeech from the throne. We confider it as a strong proof of his majefty's gracious attention to the hap pinefs and profperity of Ireland, that he has been pleafed to commit the government of this kingdom to your excellency, in whofe firmnefs, juftice, and integrity, we place the highest confidence that the powers of government will be directed to the true interfts of the people. We trust that your excellency will lay before his majesty the faith ful and affectionate duty of his loyal fubjects of Ireland, and reprefent their cordial regard to Great Britain in its full light, thereby strengthening the mutual confidence of both kingdoms, and uniting them infeparably in fentiment, as they are in interest. We will affiduoufly apply ourfelves to the confideration of the many important objects which your excellency has recommended to our attention. And we cannot refrain from acknowledging with gratitude the interest which your excellency takes in the profperity of this kingdom, when in the very nature of thofe objects we trace the just and generous fpirit which points them out to us. We will chearfully grant fuch fupplies, as after a proper inveftigation of the national accounts, fhall appear to be fitting for the honourable fupport of his majefty's goGovernment, confidering the abilities of the country. May it pleafe your Excellency, WE his Majesty's most dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Commons of Ireland, in parliament affembled, beg leave to return your excellency our difpofition to promote the welfare Convinced of your excellency's and happinefs of this kingdom, we fhall prove ourselves not unworthy the confidence you are pleafed to repofe in us, by contributing our best endeavours to the eafe and honour of your excellency's administration. T. ELLIS, Cl. Par. Dom. Com. (I z) His His Excellency's Anfwer. I return you my cordial thanks for this very affectionate and oblig. ing addrefs. It is my earnest defire to merit your confidence, and I fhall anxiously endeavour to justify the favourable opinion you entertain of me by an unremitting attention to the welfare and happiness of this kingdom. By the Lord Lieutenant Gener General Governor of Ireland. (L. S.) and (Signed) NUGENT TEMP E. WHER 7HEREAS the fieur D'Ivernois did, by his memorial of the 27th of September laft, reprefent unto us, that, in confequence of certain alterations which had taken place in the political conftitution and government of the state of Geneva, a confiderable number of the citizens and inhabitants, attached to the bleffings of a free government, where difpofed, under af furances of the enjoyment of certain privileges and protection, to fettle themfelves in this kingdom, to bring with them their property, and to eftablish here thofe manufactures which had rendered the citizens of that ftate fo wealthy; and that the fum of fifty thoufand pounds fterling, British money, would be neceffary to enable the first thousand emigrants to effect their purpose, of which a fum, not exceeding one half, to be applied to defray the expence of their journey, and the carriage of their effects; and the remainder to be applied in the building or providing houfes for their reception: and whereas we did lay the faid memorial before the lords of his majesty's privy council, who, by their refolution of the 27th day of September laft, expreffive of the importance of the object, and the advantages to be fecured to this kingdom by the acceffion of a body of refpectable citizens, and to its commerce by the introduction of a manufacture fo extenfive and beneficial, and by the immediate acquifition of a very material addition to the national wealth, did unanimoufly request, that his majefty would be gracioufly pleafed to take the fame into his royal confideration, and to adopt fuch measures in this cafe as to his majesty's great wisdom fhould feem meet: and we having tranfmitted the faid memorial and refolution to be laid before the king, his majefty hath been gracioufly pleafed to fignify his royal approbation of the defign aforefaid, founded upon principles fo truly interesting to justice and humanity; and of his royal difpofition to induce the faid merchants, artists, and manufacturers, citizens, or inhabitants of Geneva, to fettle in Ireland, under the conviction, that by their civil and religious principles, their induftry, and their loyalty, they would materially contribute to the advantage of this kingdom: Thefe are, therefore, to pray and to empower you to confult together and to report unto us what agree ments, ments, regulations, warrants, and authorities will, in your opinion, be neceffary and proper for carrying his majefty's gracious intentions into execution, under the heads following, viz. ift. For the grant of a fum of fifty thousand pounds to certain ftate-officers, and to certain of the nobility and gentry of this realm, together with the fix commiflioners now in this kingdom from the Genevans-The faid fum to be granted 'to them in truft for the ufe of the Genevans fettling in this countrywhereof a fum, not exceeding one half, is to be applied to the charges of their journey, and the carriage of their effects; to be diftributed by the faid commiffioners, in fuch proportion as they fhall think equitable, upon the confideration of the circumftances, the character, and the talents of each emigrant; and the remainder to be expended in the building a town, and fettling them therein. 2dly. To confider the rights, privileges, franchifes, and immunities to be granted to the inhabitants of the faid new intended town; and fo foon as the faid general fyftem fhall have been submitted to, and approved of by us, then to prepare a draught of a charter, which will be referred to the confideration of his majesty's law fervants for their opinion, and afterwards fubmitted to his majefty for his roval approbation, granting to the faid citizens of the New Geneva, the establishment of magiftrates, councils, or affemblies, with powers for regulating their internal concerns in fuch manner as fhall be most agreeable to the laws under which they lived happily in their own country, and as thall be agreeable to the customs and difpofitions of the people; obferving, nevertheless that, in no in ftance whatfoever, fuch municipal laws, or regulations, be repugnant to the laws of this kingdom; and, in cafe that it fhould be neceffary to apply to parliament for further powers for carrying fuch charters, or purposes, into execution, then to prepare a draught, or fcheme, of fuch bill, or bills, as may be neceffary to be fubmitted to the legiflature. 3dly. To confider in what manner a fufficient portion of land fhall be fecured to the faid citizens of Geneva; to examine and recommend, with all expedition, a fitua tion for their new town, and to confider and prepare every arrange. ment which may expedite the conftruction of it; and to report in what mode the perfons arriving in this kingdom fhall, from time to time, be accommodated until the new town, or a fufficient portion thereof, fhall be erected for their reception; as alfo, in what manner the faid houfes fhall be diftributed to individuals, or a fufficient ground to thofe who may wish to build at their own expence; and in what manner the freedom of the new town fhall be fecured to fuch perfons (having been citizens or inha bitants of Geneva, and poffeffed of thofe qualifications of conduct and of morals upon which the fuccefs of this establishment muft depend) as are not yet arrived or naturalized; fo that, upon their arrival and naturalization, they fhall be entitled to the benefits of the body corporate aforefaid. And whereas young perfens of rank and fortune, from all parts of Europe, reforted to the city of Geneva, to profit from the fyftem of education established there, under profeffors of eminence in ufetul and liberal ftudies and accomplishments; and whereas a fchool or academy formed upon (I 3) the |