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unvaried rule of his actions, has given it to me in particular charge, to affure his faithful fubjects of Ireland, of the continuance of his paternal regard and affection for them; and I am perfuaded, that in all your proceedings, you will continue to manifeft that uniform attention to the public good, of which his Majefty's own conduc affords the belt and moft illuftrious example.

As every addition to his Majesty's royal family adds ftrength to that happy fucceffion, which is the great fecurity to all that is valuable to us, I have a particular pleasure in communicating to you the birth of another prince fince your last feflion of parliament.

Gentlemen of the Houfe of
Commons,

I have ordered the proper officers to lay before you the public accounts and eftimates, from which you will be fully acquainted with the circumstances of this country, and may be enabled to form a true judgment of the provifions neceffary to be made for the honourable fupport of his Majelty's government. I have his Majelly's commands to afk the fupplies neceffary for this purpofe; and I am confident you will grant them in fuch a manner, as will be leait burthenfome to his Majesty's fubje&s of this kingdom: on my part, you may reft fecure that they shall be faithfully applied, and frugally adminiftered.

My Lords and Gentlemen, The laws of your country will naturally prefent themselves as the frit and most important objects of your confideration. It is my duty to call your particular attention to fuch as refpect the religion and morals, the fecurity and good order

of the prople. It is in vain that laws are made for the punishment of offenders, unless their morals can be reformed, and their minds impreffed with principles of virtue.

Your Proteftant charter-schools, the feminaries of true religion and induftry, deferve your particular confideration; and your linen manufacture, the great fource of wealth to the nation, is an object of the highest importance. You will confider whether any new laws may be wanting to improve, regulate, and extend this most beneficial trade ; or to fupport its reputation at foreign markets.

I am firmly perfuaded that we are met together animated with the fam: intentions of maintaining the honour and dignity of his Majesty's good of this kingdom. Your congovernment, and of promoting the duct has convinced me, that I shall receive from you the fulleft proois of your loyalty and attachment to the King, and of your zeal in the public fervice: mine, I tratt, will fhew that I have nothing more fincerely at heart than the welfare and profperity of Ireland.

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the mild, juft, and aufpicious government of your Majefty, 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 exprefs our most unfeigned acknowledgments for the continuance of your Majesty's paternal regard and affection for your faithful fubjects of this kingdom; and your Majefly 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 beft and moft illuftrious example.

Truly fenfible of the many and great bleffings we enjoy under fo excellent a Sovereign, confidering every addition to your Majef ty's royal family as ftrengthening that happy fucceffion, which is the great fecurity of all that is valuable to us, and feeling the moft 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 ftronger 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 Majefty, from your earliest years, hath had uniform experi

ence.

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 wisdom, juftice, and moderation.

Fully perfuaded that the best and most effectual method to recommend ourfelves to your Majesty's favour

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

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

Your Majesty 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 Majefty's government, fo effentially neceffary to the intereft of Ireland.

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

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

Moft gracious Sovereign,

E, your Majefty's moft du

Wtiful and loyal fubjects, the

Commons

Commons of Ireland in parliament of another prince, thoroughly fen

affembled, beg leave to approach your facred perfon, with the warmest profeffions of our juft fenfe of the many bleffings 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 rale of his actions; and. with the most grateful acknowledgments for the continuance of your Majefty's paternal regard and affections for your faithful subjects 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 purpofes for the happiness of your people, and to have derived from that great fource

thofe virtues and talents which are peculiarly adapted to diffufe and fecure the bleffings of good government, and of conftitutional liberty.

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

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

fible 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 fubje&s of Ireland, from the united motives of gratitude and intereft, have at all times shewn the moft fleady and inviolate attachment.

Confcious of the happiness which we have enjoyed under the heft of princes, we thall chearfully grant, as far as the prefent ftate and circumitances of our country will admit, and in the manner leat burthenfome to your Majesty's fubjects, the fapplies 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 insufficient, unlefs 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-fchools fhall receive from us the confideration due to feminaries of true religion and induftry; and we fhail, 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

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To the King's most excellent Majefty.

The bumble Addrefs of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgefes in Parliament affembled.

Moft gracious Sovereign,

W E, your Majefty's moft dutiful and loyal fubjects, the Commons of Ireland in parliament affembled, return your Majefy our warmeft thanks for your Majefty's molt gracious Anfwer to the Addrefs of this Houfe.

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 af furances given us of your Majefty's concurrence in fuch measures as may beft contribute to the welfare and profperity of Ireland, and from

our

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

ment.

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

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

The humble Addrefs of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parlia. ment affembled.

May it please your Excellency, WE, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in parliament affembled, return your Excellency our mok 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 pleafed to express 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 repofed in you, give us the most lively hopes of every benefit which can refult from a fteady, prudent, and benigu adminiftra

tion

The affurances which your Ex. cellency 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 his Majefty's goodness towards us, in committing the government of this kingdom to a nobleman, whose name has stood unsullied through the many high offices he has filled.

We are most thankful to your Excellency for the joyful information you have been pleased to give us of the increase of the domestic happiness of our amiable Sovereign, and the ftability added to his illuftrious houfe by the birth of another priuce, 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 purpofe as alfo for the extending and improving our linen manufacture, that great fource of wealth to this nation.

The favourable fentiments that your Excellency is pleased to conceive of us, gives us the moft fincere pleafure, and we can have no doubt, that the proofs we shall 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 Majefty, fo as to preferve to us his favourable opinion and royal protection. And we Aatter ourselves, that there will be that unanimity in all our delibera

tions,

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