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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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LONDON: Article 1
TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 2
MEMOIR OF THE COUNTESS OF DERBY, Article 3
DESCRIPTION OF THE SOURCE OF THE RHINE, Article 4
WISDOM AND FOLLY. Article 7
HAWKESWORTH'S NOTES on ROBERTSON'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND. Article 10
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THE LIFE OF XIMENES, ARCHBISHOP OF TOLEDO. Article 23
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SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 33
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 38
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 41
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 45
POETRY. Article 47
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 49
IRISH PARLIAMENT. Article 55
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 56
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 57
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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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