expectations from his virtuous choice of a Chief Governor, and great confidence in the wise, auspicious, and constitutional councils which we see with satisfaction His Majesty has adopted; that we have moreover a high sense and veneration for the British character, and do therefore conceive, that the proceedings of this country, founded as they are in right, and tempered by duty, must have excited the approbation and esteem, instead of wounding the pride, of the British Nation; and we beg leave to assure His Majesty, that we are the more confirmed in this hope, in as much as the people of this Kingdom have never expressed a desire to share the freedom of England, without declaring a determination to share her fate likewise, standing and falling with the British nation. THO. ELLIS, _Cler. Parl. Dom. Com._ ORDERED, That the said Copies do lie upon the Table, to be perused by the Members of the House. _17th May, 1782._ RESOLVED, That this House will, immediately, resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration His Majesty’s most gracious Message, of the 9th Day of April last, relative to the State of Ireland. ORDERED, That the several Papers which were presented to the House, by Mr. Secretary Fox, upon the 1st Day of this instant May, be referred to the said Committee. Then the House resolved itself into the said Committee. Mr. Speaker left the Chair. Mr. Powys took the Chair of the Committee. Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair. Mr. Powys reported from the Committee, That they had come to several Resolutions; which they had directed him to report, when the House will please to receive the same. ORDERED, That the Report be now received. Mr. Powys accordingly reported, from the said Committee, the Resolutions which the Committee had directed him to report to the House, which he read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk’s table; where the same were read; and are as follows: _viz._ RESOLVED, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That an Act, made in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, “An Act for the better securing the Dependency of the Kingdom of Ireland upon the Crown of Great Britain,” ought to be repealed. RESOLVED, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That it is indispensible to the interests and happiness of both Kingdoms, that the Connection between them should be established, by mutual consent, upon a solid and permanent Basis. The said Resolutions, being severally read a second time, were, upon the Question severally put thereupon, agreed to by the House, _Nemini Contradicenti_.