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Irish Parliament.
IRISH PARLIAMENT .
HOUSE OF LORDS . SATURDAY , MARCH 24 . HIS Excellency the Lord Lieutenant came down to the House in the usual state , and being seated on the throne , the Commons were sent for , anil shortly afterwards attended , with their Speaker at the bar , who addiessed his Excellency in the following speech :
' May it please your Excellency , ' Large as the supplies of the last seesion were beyond all former grants , these which the Commons now oiler to . his Majesty are not inferior ; they go to the fullest'extent ot every service proposed by Government , and are given with an unanimity and zeal which marks the unalterable determination of this kingdom to stand or fall with Great Britain , and shews that our vigour rises as the vaunting menaces of the enemy increase .
' With the same unanimity we have voted the maintenance of an army far greater than wasever kept up by this kingdom during any preceding war ; and we have continued to them the augmentation of pay which was grunted by the last Parliament , and which your Excellency did justly state to that Parliament to be a seasonable and honourable acknowledgment on their part of the steadiness and loyalty of the army ; the present Parliament feels the same sentiments towards them . Repeated experience of the order and alacrity which they have shewn on every occasion that has offered , confirms his Majesty ' s faithful Commons in those sentiments , and we join most cordially
with his Majesty in his him reliance on the valour of his regular and militia forces in this kingdom , which his Majesty has been pleased to express in his gracious answer to our Address this session . ' ' While the courage , the vigour , and the discipline of those forces must render them formidable to the enemy , and ensure his defeat , should he be desperate enough to attempt invasion , their zeal , and that of the yeomen , to put down rebellion , to crush insurrection , and to assist the executive power in
protecting the loyal and innocent , and well-disposed , affords the most convincing proof of their ardent and unshaken attachment to the best Sovereign and best constitution that ever blessed a free and happy people . We are free—and we will not tamel y give up our happiness . The loyal spirit of the nation is able to crush rebellion to atoms wherever it shall dare to shew itself ; and with the firmness which so strongly marks your Excellency ' s character , with the constant success which has attended ' every vigorous
measure that the necessity has called on your Excellency to adopt , we have nothing to fear . We have , indeed , to lament that traitorous conspiracies can still con ' tinue , _ and that any men can be found in the land so lost to every sense of patriotism , of humanity , of duty to themselves , their country , and their God , as to degrade the nation and the name of Irishman , by afis of ingratitude , barbarity , and assassination , which would debase a savage—afts which call for the heavy hand of justice , and which the ordinary power of the laws has proved inadequate to prevent the melancholy and frequent repetition of .
' But while we lament such a mortif ying calamity , we have the satisfaction of seeing how little its malignant influence , or the efforts of an exasperated and revengeful enemy , have affefted our commercial prosperity . 'Notwithstanding the largeness of the supplies , we have continued the usual bounties and encouragements to the trade , the agricultuie , and the inaiHifaftures of the kingdom ; and we see with sincere gratification the desirable eflefts of those encouragements , in the great increase of trade during
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Irish Parliament.
IRISH PARLIAMENT .
HOUSE OF LORDS . SATURDAY , MARCH 24 . HIS Excellency the Lord Lieutenant came down to the House in the usual state , and being seated on the throne , the Commons were sent for , anil shortly afterwards attended , with their Speaker at the bar , who addiessed his Excellency in the following speech :
' May it please your Excellency , ' Large as the supplies of the last seesion were beyond all former grants , these which the Commons now oiler to . his Majesty are not inferior ; they go to the fullest'extent ot every service proposed by Government , and are given with an unanimity and zeal which marks the unalterable determination of this kingdom to stand or fall with Great Britain , and shews that our vigour rises as the vaunting menaces of the enemy increase .
' With the same unanimity we have voted the maintenance of an army far greater than wasever kept up by this kingdom during any preceding war ; and we have continued to them the augmentation of pay which was grunted by the last Parliament , and which your Excellency did justly state to that Parliament to be a seasonable and honourable acknowledgment on their part of the steadiness and loyalty of the army ; the present Parliament feels the same sentiments towards them . Repeated experience of the order and alacrity which they have shewn on every occasion that has offered , confirms his Majesty ' s faithful Commons in those sentiments , and we join most cordially
with his Majesty in his him reliance on the valour of his regular and militia forces in this kingdom , which his Majesty has been pleased to express in his gracious answer to our Address this session . ' ' While the courage , the vigour , and the discipline of those forces must render them formidable to the enemy , and ensure his defeat , should he be desperate enough to attempt invasion , their zeal , and that of the yeomen , to put down rebellion , to crush insurrection , and to assist the executive power in
protecting the loyal and innocent , and well-disposed , affords the most convincing proof of their ardent and unshaken attachment to the best Sovereign and best constitution that ever blessed a free and happy people . We are free—and we will not tamel y give up our happiness . The loyal spirit of the nation is able to crush rebellion to atoms wherever it shall dare to shew itself ; and with the firmness which so strongly marks your Excellency ' s character , with the constant success which has attended ' every vigorous
measure that the necessity has called on your Excellency to adopt , we have nothing to fear . We have , indeed , to lament that traitorous conspiracies can still con ' tinue , _ and that any men can be found in the land so lost to every sense of patriotism , of humanity , of duty to themselves , their country , and their God , as to degrade the nation and the name of Irishman , by afis of ingratitude , barbarity , and assassination , which would debase a savage—afts which call for the heavy hand of justice , and which the ordinary power of the laws has proved inadequate to prevent the melancholy and frequent repetition of .
' But while we lament such a mortif ying calamity , we have the satisfaction of seeing how little its malignant influence , or the efforts of an exasperated and revengeful enemy , have affefted our commercial prosperity . 'Notwithstanding the largeness of the supplies , we have continued the usual bounties and encouragements to the trade , the agricultuie , and the inaiHifaftures of the kingdom ; and we see with sincere gratification the desirable eflefts of those encouragements , in the great increase of trade during