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Speech of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons, Thursday, January 31, 1799: On offering to the House the resolutions which he proposed as the basis of an union between Great Britain and Ireland: Fifth Edition.Pitt, William

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Speech of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons, Thursday, January 31, 1799: On offering to the House the resolutions which he proposed as the basis of an union between Great Britain and Ireland: Fifth Edition.

Name: Speech of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons, Thursday, January 31, 1799: On offering to the House the resolutions which he proposed as the basis of an union between Great Britain and Ireland: Fifth Edition.
Author: Pitt, William

Pitt, William

Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820

G. R.



_1st May, 1782._

Mr. Secretary Fox presented to the House, by His Majesty’s command,

Copy of the Message to the Houses of Lords and Commons in Ireland, from
His Grace the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, delivered the 16th April, 1782:
And also,

Copy of a Resolution of the House of Lords in Ireland, Mercurii, 17ᵒ die
Aprilis, 1782: And also,

Copy of a Resolution of the House of Commons in Ireland, Martis, 16ᵒ die
Aprilis, 1782.

And the Titles of the said Copies were read.

The said Copies are as followeth; _viz._

    _Copy of the Message to the Houses of Lords and Commons in
    Ireland, from His Grace the Lord Lieutenant, delivered the 16th
    April, 1782._

    PORTLAND,

    I have it in command from His Majesty, to inform this House,
    that His Majesty being concerned to find that discontents and
    jealousies are prevailing among his loyal Subjects of this
    Country, upon matters of great weight and importance, His
    Majesty recommends to this House to take the same into their
    most serious consideration, in order to such a Final Adjustment
    as may give mutual satisfaction to his Kingdoms of Great
    Britain and Ireland.

                                                             P.


    _Copy of a Resolution of the House of Lords in Ireland,
    Mercurii, 17ᵒ die Aprilis, 1782._

    RESOLVED, By the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament
    assembled _Nemine dissentiente_, That an humble Address be
    presented to His Majesty, to return him our thanks for the most
    gracious Message sent to this House by His Majesty’s command,
    through the medium of His Grace the Lord Lieutenant, and to
    assure him of our most unshaken loyalty and attachment to
    His Majesty’s person and government, and of the lively sense
    we entertain of his paternal care of his people of Ireland,
    in thus inquiring into the discontents and jealousies that
    subsist amongst them, in order to such Final Adjustment as may
    give mutual satisfaction to his Kingdoms of Great Britain and
    Ireland.

    That, thus encouraged by His Royal Interposition, we shall beg
    leave, with all duty and affection, to lay before His Majesty
    the cause of such discontents and jealousies.

    To represent to His Majesty, That his subjects of Ireland are
    entitled to a free constitution; that the Imperial Crown of
    Ireland is inseparably annexed to the Crown of Great Britain,
    on which Connection the happiness of both nations essentially
    depends; but that the Kingdom of Ireland is a distinct
    dominion, having a Parliament of her own, the sole Legislature
    thereof.

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Speech of the Right Honourable William Pitt, in the House of Commons, Thursday, January 31, 1799: On offering to the House the resolutions which he proposed as the basis of an union between Great Britain and Ireland: Fifth Edition.

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