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not taken pains to blazon out arts which tend to magnify the profperity of this country?

Now as to conftitution, an idea totally new and unfolicited, was introduced into our admiralty bill, that is, to cut off any appeal to the British admiralty, by which all that foolish suppofition of any power of external legiflation for Ireland remaining n Great Britain is for ever done away.

A charge has been made by the reprefentative of the feat of learning, that juftice is delayed! I lament that it is, I agree with him that it is an evil, but whoever confiders the fituation of the Lord Lieutenant will fee that it cannot be attributed to him; for the adjournments together make juft the time that his Majefty has commanded his Excellency to demand. I lament the fituation of England, that makes thofe adjournments neceffary and unavoidable; for it is plain, if there be no minifter in England, there can be none here. Was I to indulge my private regards, they are much in his Excellency's favour; his adminiftration in general I have fupported, and I think this addrefs juftly due to his merit.

Mr. George Ponfenby approved of the noble and difinterested manner in which his Excellency had refused the additional 4000'. a year. But as his Excellency did not employ news-papers, their puffers did not blazon it forth with half the afliduity they are known to use on much more trifling occafionis.

General Luttrell rejoiced an adjournment would take place, if there had been no other reafon but that there might be time to examine into a fcandalous table of fees he had feen exhibited in the Houfe of Lords, a table four times as high as in England. He hoped that the Commons would never acquiefce in fuch extortion. They ought, at leaft, to have as great a fhare in granting the money of the public as the Houfe of Lords, and if they acted up to their proper dignity, fhould demand a conference. The people were not to be taxed without their concurrence, and this was taxing them with a vengeance; the stamp-act was but a flea-bite to it.

Sir John Parnel felt it his duty to fupport the motion of the addrefs, from his knowledge of the economic difpofition of his Excellency, more particularly in that department in which he was connected.

The question being then put, there appeared,

For the amendment,

Againft it,

It paffed in the affirmative.

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The queftion being then put upon the addrefs, it was carried in the affirmative; and the queftion being put that the faid

addrefs be prefented to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant by fuch members of this Houfe as are of his Majefty's most honourable Privy Council.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1783.

Alderman Nathaniel Warren, reprefentative of the city of Dublin, took the ufual oaths and his feat.

The House being informed, that the petitioners against the election and return for the borough of Kilmallock did not intend to profecute their petition on the motion of Sir Henry Hartfonge, it was ordered that the petition be difcharged.

The Attorney General said, that to him or his Hon. Colleague, the cofts incurred by the groundlefs petition juft mentioned was an object of little confequence, yet, to difcourage fuch illjudged attacks in future, he would move that the petitioners fhould pay the cofts, though perhaps he fhould never think it worth his while to demand them.-Ordered accordingly.

The Attorney General informed the Houfe that his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant had been attended with the addrefs of thanks of this Houfe to his Excellency, and that thereupon his Excellency was pleased to return the anfwer following:

"To promote the profperity and happinefs of this kingdom has been the firft and conftant object of my administration.

"This very obliging addrefs is the moft honourable teftimony that my zealous endeavours have not been wholly unfuccefsful. It confers upon me the higheft gratification, and juftly claims my warmest thanks.

"The true interefts and happiness of this free nation are fo involved in the fteady fupport of her happy conftitution, that I must have weakly facrificed the former, if I had not on all occafions firmly fupported the latter.

"I thall rejoice in reprefenting to his Majefty, in the strongest and trueft light, your unfhaken loyalty to his perfon and government, your unalterable refolution to maintain the conftitution inviolate, and to fupport your just rights and privileges against all encroachments whatfoever."

Ordered, That his Excellency's anfwer be entered upon the journals of the Houfe.

The Right Hon, Mr. Attorney General alfo informed the House that the addrefs of this Houfe, "That his Majesty would be pleased to give directions that a fum of 3,000l. be iffued from his Majefty's treafury, to be diftributed for the relief of the poor of the city of Dublin," had been prefented to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant; that his Excellency will tranfmit the fame

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accordingly, and that he had in the mean time ordered that a fum of 1,000!. fhould be iffued from the treasury, to relieve the preffing neceflities of the poor.

The order that the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of the city of Dublin do attend this Houfe on Monday morning next, being upon motion read,

Mr. Uniacke said, that as a great mob attended the introduction of Alderman Warren, it would be extremely indelicate to have the Lord Mayor, who had been his competitor, ftanding at the bar at such a time; it was a fituation in which he did not with to have him ftand. He had alfo fome other reafons which he would not mention, as he hoped the first would be thought fatisfactory, and as he intended, when the order fhould be difcharged, to move, That the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor do attend at the bar on Saturday next.”

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The order was difcharged, and Mr. Uniacke moved to renew it for Saturday.

The Recorder. As there is a committee appointed to examine the police of this city, I fuppofe the Hon. Gentleman intends, that the Lord Mayor fhall be in readiness to give that committee any information or affiftance that may be in his power; if fo, it will be proper to requeft his lordship may attend, but that hould be at the fitting of the committee.

The Provoft.-The committee having power to call upon all perfons that may be fuppofed capable of giving them information, may call upon the Lord Mayor for that purpose, therefore this motion is not neceffary. Indeed the late order feemed to imply that the Lord Mayor had not done his duty, a circumftance that can only be known through the committee, and as they have not yet had time to enquire into it, or to report, it ought not to be affumed as granted.

Mr. Uniacke agreed with the Recorder, that it would be right for the committee to examine the Lord Mayor, and, though he confented to withdraw his motion, yet expreffed a fear that there would at laft appear an abfolute neceflity to pass a cenfure upon his Lordship.

Mr. Molyneux would not confent to have the motion withdrawn, he felt, he said, for the honour and dignity of the House, and as he had heard that the Lord Mayor refuted to attend, he would infift on the Houfe exerting its authority; and he trusted no man in this kingdom was beyond the reach of that authority.

Mr. Chatterton.--Though I never exchanged a word with the gentleman that fills the office of Lord Mayor, I have fuch an high refpect for the dignity of the office itfelf, that I cannot think of fporting with it, upon light or unimportant occafions; and had attended when the order, which is now discharged, was propofed, I would have refifted it to the utmost; what, Sir, to call to your bar, like a criminal, the first magistrate in the kingdom, and figmatize him with a reproach that years will

not wear off-It is unfeemly, it is a procedure not warranted by law, by juftice, or by decency.

Sir Henry Cavendish was of opinion that the Lord Mayor had neglected his duty and would, therefore, have him called to the bar. He never would admit, he faid, that the House had not a right to call him before them; and, therefore, to manifest that right, he was for proceeding to the exercise of it; especially as common fame, which in this cafe was good evidence, faid that the Lord Mayor difputed the authority of the House.

Mr. Hartley. The Lord Mayor never did difpute the authority of this House, but abfented himself to day, upon the affurance of feveral members, that the order for his attendance would be difcharged.-Had I been in the Houfe when the Hon. Knight of the Bath (Sir John Blaquiere) introduced this fubject, I could have informed him that the city magiftrates are not fo culpable as he fuppofes; for confcious of the defects in our police, and of their want of authority to regulate the city in the manner we all wish, they are actually preparing a bill to be fubmitted to his honourable Houfe for the improvement of the police of the city of Dublin. If the committee appointed by this Houfe fhall think proper to take this bill into confideration, there can be no objection to the Lord Mayor's attending to give every affiftance and information. From the abominable state of our freets, I own gentlemen may have formed ftrong prejudices against the Lord Mayor, but the dignity of the office should be confidered, fecond to none but that of the Viceroy; and I hope the House will reflect that by debafing magiftracy, and making it contemptible to the people, they level all diftinctions, and encourage difobedience, tumult and diforder.

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The motion was withdrawn.

The names of the defaulters of Wednesday laft were called over, and every perfon not offering fufficient apology, ordered into the cuftody of the Serjeant at Arms.

On motion of the Attorney General, it was ordered that all members now in cuftody of the Serjeant at Arms be forthwith discharged, firft paying their fees.

Attorney General-Without having any meffage from his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, I now rife to fubmit to the House the propriety of adjourning on our next rifing, to Thursday the 26th. I hope gentlemen will think, that as well from delicacy to the Duke of Rutland, who is expected every tide, as from the regard we have fo juftly expreffed to Lord Northington, we ought not, for the fhort space of two days, to embarrass either of them with bufinefs, especially as an adjournment to Thurfday cannot be attended with any poffible inconvenience.

Mr. Toler hoped it would not be deemed unbecoming of him to oppofe the motion, which he did, feeling as strongly as any

man the delicate fituation of the Lord Lieutenant, and entertaining as high a refpect for his character: But other confiderations had alfo their due weight with him; a committee to try the merits of an election was to be drawn to-morrow, the petitioners and fitting members were keeping witneffes in town at a vast expence; and why the Houfe fhould not truft itself to fit one day, he could not fee; nay, he thought it would be doing fervice to the Duke of Rutland's miniflry, by difembarrafling the firft day of every troublesome bufinefs.

Mr. Brownley.-I think it extremely wrong that all the affairs of Ireland muft ftand ftill, becaufe two great men in England are ftruggling for power; and it is tenfold wrong at this particular time when the victims of famine crowd every treet, the Houfe ought to fit at léaft to endeavour fome relief for the people in this time of fcarcity. I will not fay that we should proceed upon any important concern of politics, any thing that could involve party; but when we only defire to attend the diftreffes of our country, fuch repeated interruption demands the refentment of the Houfe.

Secretary Hamilton affured the Right Hon. Gentleman that nothing could be farther from Lord Northington's mind, than to give the fmalleft caufe for refentment, or to retard any meafure for the benefit of the country; this he had manifefted in every act of his adminiftration, and the Houfe had fhewn the juft fenfe they entertained of his Excellency. But he entreated the Right Hon. Gentleman to confider the very delicate fituation of Lord Northington, and to reflect on the fhortness of the adjournment propofed.

Attorney General could not guefs who was the object of the Right Hon. Gentleman's refentment; was it Lord Northington? Certainly not-he had acted in the moft handfome mannerfirf, by command of the King, and now from defire to fmooth the way of his fucceffor, and leave the kingdom in a state of peace, and harmony; this he believed every gentleman in the Houfe would acknowledge; he could not therefore fee the flighteft ground for refentment against him, but trufted that gentlemen would pay due regard to the delicate fituation of a nobleman, who had fo much confulted the honour and advantage of this kingdom, particularly as the adjournment now defired, was, in fact, but for one day, for it was not cuftomary for the House to fit on Ash Wednesday.

He profeffed himself fenfible of the inconveniences which 'flowed from the diftracted ftate of British councils; but this, he faid, was an evil rather to be lamented than remedied-it was now over, and he hoped the country would fuffer no more from it.

Sir Henry Cavendish faid, the gentlemen on the other fide of the Houfe were convinced the Duke of Rutland would be pleaf

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