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.
Pitt, William
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1760-1820
ORDERED, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for repealing 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;” and that Mr.
Secretary Fox, Mr. Thomas Pitt, Mr. Powys, and Lord John Cavendish, do
prepare and bring in the same.
RESOLVED, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, That His
Majesty will be graciously pleased to take such measures as His Majesty
in His Royal Wisdom shall think most conducive to the establishing, by
mutual consent, the Connection between this Kingdom and the Kingdom of
Ireland upon a solid and permanent basis.
ORDERED, That the said Address be presented to His Majesty, by such
Members of this House as are of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy
Council.
_22nd May, 1782._
Mr. Secretary Fox reported to the House, That His Majesty had been
attended with the Address of this House, of Friday last, which His
Majesty had been pleased to receive very graciously; and that His Majesty
had commanded him to acquaint this House, that he will immediately take
such measures as may be most likely to conduce to the establishment of a
Connection between this Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ireland upon a solid
and permanent basis.
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