1 now one of the Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas. ROSCOMMON COUNTY. Arthur French, Efq; Sir Edward Crofton, Bart. Borough of Boyle. Right Hon. Henry King. Robert Boyd, Etq; in the Room of Pet. Metge, Eiq; who made his Election to ferve for Ratoath. Borough of Rofcommon. Sir Cornwallis Maude, Bart. George Sandford, Efq; Captain 18th Dragoons. Borough of Tulk. William Caulfield, Efq; SLIGO COUNTY. Charles O'Hara, Efq; Barough of Sligo. TIPPERARY COUNTY. Henry Prittie, Efq; Daniel Toler, Efq; City of Cafbell, Richard Pennefather, jun. Efq; William Pennefather, Efq; Borough of Clonmell. Hon. William Moore. Borough of Fethard: Cornelius O'Callaghan, Efq; Thomas Barton, Efq; TYRONE COUNTY. James Stewart, Efq; Nathaniel Montgomery, Efq;' Borough of Augher. William Richardfon, Efq; Henry Vaughan Brooke, Efq; Borough or City of Clogher." Thomas St. George, Efq; Sackville Hamilton, Efq; Borough of Dungannon. Right Hon. Edmund Sexten Pery. Hon. Thomas Knox. Lorenzo Moore, Efq; in the Room of the Right Hon. Edmund Sexten Pery, who made his Election to ferve for the City of Limerick. Borough of Strabane. Henry Pomeroy, Efq; Sir John Stuart Hamilton, Bart. WATERFORD COUNTY. Right Hon. John Beresford. Borough of Dungarvan. Borough of Lifmore. Right Hon. Sir Hen. Cavendish, Bart. Sir Richard Mufgrave, Bart. Borough of Tallagh. Colonel Hugh Cane. Robert Shapland Carew, Efq; WESTMEATH COUNTY. Hon. Robert Rochfort. Richard Malone, Efq; William Smyth, Efq; in the .Room of Richard Malone, Efq; declared not duly elected. Borough of Athlone. Sir Richard St. George, Bart.William Handcock, Efq; Borough of Fore. Hon. George Frederick Nugent, commonly called Lord Delvin. Gervais Parker Bushe, Esq; Borough of Kilbeggan. Manor of Mullingar. Francis Hardy, Efq; John Doyle, Efq; Major 103d Foot. WEXFORD COUNTY. Henry Loftus, Efq; tenham. Borough of Clomines. Charles Tottenham, Efq; of New Rofs, Captain Thomas Loftus, of ift Horse. Borough of Enniscorthy. William Alexander English, Efq; Mountifort Longfield, Efq; Mountifort Longfield, Efq; and Conway Heatly, Efq; in the Room of William Alexander English, Efq; and Mountifort Longfield, Efq; their Election being declared void. Borough of Fethard. Right Hon. Charles Tottenham Loftus. Ponfonby Tottenham, Efq; Ephraim Carrol, Efq; in the Room of the Right Hon. Charles Tottenham Loftus, who made his Election to ferve for the Town of Wexford. Borough of Newborough, alias Gorey. Stephen Ram, Efq; Major Richard Vowell, of the 66th Regiment. Tern of New-Refs. Charles Tottenham, of Ballycurry, Efq; Robert Leigh, Efq; Borough of Taghmon. Dudley Huffey, Efq; Hon. Richard Hely Hutchinson. Town of Wexford. Richard Nevill, Efq; Right Hon. Charles Tottenham Loftus. WICKLOW COUNTY. Borough of Baltinglas. Hon. John Stratford. Warden Flood, Efq; James Somerville, Efq; in the Room of the Hon. John Stratford, who made his Election to ferve for the County of Wicklow. Sir John Allen Johnfton, Bart. || Sir Thomas Ofborne, Bart. in the Room of James Somer-John Proby Osborne, Efq; in ville, Efq; declared not duly the Room of the Right Hon. THE PARLIAMENTARY REGISTER: O R, HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE HOUSE of COMMONS O F IRELAND, The FIRST SESSION of the FOURTH PARLIAMENT in the Reign of his prefent Majesty. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1783. THIS day, being the first day of the meeting of the present parliament, pursuant to proclamation, and alfo to the writs that had iffued for that purpofe, the greater part of the members being met in their Houfe, and Thomas Ellis, Efq; Clerk of the Houfe, attending according to his duty, A meffage was delivered by Sir Willoughby Afton, Gentleman Ufher of the Black Rod: "Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons, "It is his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure, that you attend him immediately in the House of Peers." Accordingly the members went up to attend his Excellency in the House of Peers, where the Lord Chancellor, by his Excellency's directions, faid B "Gentlemen of the Houfe of Commons, "It is his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's pleasure, that you repair to your own Houfe, and there chufe a fit perfon to be "your Speaker, and having fo done, that you prefent him here "forthwith to his Excellency for his approbation." And the members being returned, the Clerk called over the names of the members from a lift delivered to him by the Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper. The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham, (Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant) arofe, and pronounced a very handfome panegyric on the virtuous conduct, on the legal knowledge, on the ferenity of temper, the firmnefs, the judgment, and incorruptible integrity of their late Speaker, fo particularly exemplified during the last two feffions, and recommended to their choice a re-election of the man who filled their Chair with so much dignity. The queftion being then put, the Right Honourable Edmund Sexton Pery was unanimously voted in the Chair as their Speaker. After which they returned to the House of Peers, and their Speaker being approved, they returned, and the members being called over, were feverally fworn in. Lord Charles Fitzgerald bore the moft honourable teftimony of the impreffion he received of their Speaker's excellent qualities, whofe whole conduct, he faid, was his beft panegyric. The Speaker then took the Chair, and having returned his warmeft thanks, faid he hoped for the fame degree of unanimity in the Houfe which he had hitherto experienced. Mr. Speaker reported that the House had attended his Excellency in the Houfe of Peers, where his Excellency was pleased to make a fpeech to both Houfes of Parliament; of which, Mr. Speaker faid (to prevent mistakes) he had obtained a copy, which he read to the Houfe, and the fame was afterwards read by the * Clerk at the table, and is as follows: "It is with more than ordinary fatisfaction that, in obedience to his Majefty's commands, I meet you in the full poffeffion and enjoyment of thofe conftitutional and commercial advantages which have been fo firmly established in your laft parliament. The facred regard, on the part of Great-Britain, to the adjustment made with Ireland at that period, has been abundantly teftified by the moft unequivocal proofs of fincerity and good faith. "It will ever be my wifh, as it is my duty, to promote the mutual confidence of both kingdoms, and the uniting them in fentiments as they are in interest, such an union muit produce the |