That influences being so predominant, corruption so formidable, and elections so controlled by the mighty power of those two statesmen, your loyal kingdom of Ireland feels the sad effects of it, and dreads this duumvirate as much as England did that of the Earl of Stafford and Archbishop Laud. That your other ministers, officers, subjects, and servants, being cut out of dignity and power by this formidable monopoly, can scarce perform the proper functions of their ministry, as all measures are determined by fatal and influenced majorities in , the houses. That the citizens of Dublin have for a long time laboured under an unprecedented slavery in subjection to the bankers of administration, who act in a despotic manner, raising and disposing the public revenues of the city, just as to them seems fitting. That your majesty's interest in the hearts of your loyal subjects is likely to be affected by those arbitrary measures, as the landed interest is very much injured thereby, and as few care to represent their country in parliaments where a junto of two or three men disconcert every measure taken for the good of the subject, or the cause of common liberty. That your memorialist has nothing to ask of your majesty, neither place, civil or military, neither employment or preferment for himself or friends, and that nothing but his duty to your majesty, and his natural hatred to such detestable monopoly, could have induced your memorialist to this presumption, Who is, THE GENTLEMEN WHO VOTED IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLU- [Marked thus, * spoke in the Debate.] Lord Moore, Lieutenant Colonel of Horse. Hon. Hugh Skeffington, Lieute- James Smyth, Esq. Collector nant of Horse of Dublin Charles O'Neile, Esq. Edward Bolton, Esq. Sir William Parsons, Bart. nant Colonel of Foot Richard Edgworth, Esq. John Ruxton, Esq. Hon. John Butler, Esq. Clerk Henry Monck, Esq. of the Pipe Henry Brooke, Esq. Sir William Founds, Bart. sioners Henry Lyons, Esq. Thomas Dawson, Esq. Jonah Barrington, Esq. Pen- Robert Cunningham, Esq. Ad- dergast, Post-Master Gene- Hon. Henry Loftus, Esq. Thomas Loftus, Esq. Richard Chapel Whaley, Esq. Walter Hore, Esq. Judge Ad- Stephen Trotter, Esq. vocate Against the Question, and for Stifling the Resolutions from appearing before His Majesty. Tellers for Noes. *Sir Richard Cox, Bart. Pensioner. Edward Smyth, Esq. John Graham, Esq. Hon. Hungford Skeffington, Robert Standford, Esq. Captain Pensioner Sir Richard Butler, Bart. sioner Sir John Freke, Bart. John Magill, Esq. Sir Ralph Gore St. George, Right Hon. Sir Arthur Gore, of Horse Henry Bingham, Esq. Pen sioner William Crosby, Esq. John Gore, Esq. Counsel to William Scot, Esq. Prime Ser- Alexander Nesbit, Esq. Pen sioner Anthony Marlay, Esq. Com- Henry Mitchel, Esq. Alexander Montgomery, Esq. Lord Boyle William Henry Dawson, Esq. Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart. Lord Forbes, Colonel of Foot Esq. Hon. Thomas Southwell, Esq. Charles Gardiner, Esq. Sur No. LX. EXHORTATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY OF DUBLIN, READ FROM THEIR ALTARS ON THE SECOND OF OCTOBER, 1757....PAGE 53. (From the Dublin Journal of October 4th, 1757.) IT is now time, Christians, that you return your most grateful thanks to Almighty God, who, after visiting you with á scarcity, which approached near unto a famine, has been graciously pleased, like a merciful father, to hear your prayers, and feed you with a plentiful harvest: nor ought you to forget those kind benefactors, who, in the severest times, mindful only of the public good, generously bestowed, without any distinction of persons, those large charities, by which thousands were preserved, who otherwise must have perished the victims of hunger and poverty. We ought especially to be most earnest in our thanks to the chief governors and magistrates of the kingdom, and of this city in particular, who, on this occasion, proved the fathers and saviours of the nation. But as we have not a more effectual method of shewing our acknowledgment to our temporal governors, than by an humble, peaceful, and obedient behaviour; as hitherto, we earnestly exhort you to continue in the same happy and Christian disposition, and thus, by degrees, you will entirely efface in their minds those evil impressions, which have been conceived so much to our prejudice, and industriously propagated by our enemies. A series of more than sixty years spent, with a pious resignation, under the hardships of very severe penal laws, and with the greatest thankfulness for the lenity and moderation, with which they were executed, ever since the accession of the present royal family, is certainly a fact which must outweigh, in the minds of all unbiassed persons, any misconceived opinions of the doctrine and tenets of our holy church. You know that it has always been our constant practice, as ministers of Jesus Christ, to inspire you with the greatest horror for thefts, frauds, murders, and the like abominable crimes; as being contrary to the laws of God and nature, destructive of civil society, condemned by our most holy church, which, so far from justifying them on the score of religion, or any other pretext whatsoever, delivers the unrepenting authors of such criminal practices over to Satan. We are no less zealous than ever in exhorting you to abstain from cursing, swearing, and blaspheming; detestable vices, to which the poorer sort of our people are most unhappily addicted, and which must at one time or other bring down the vengeance of heaven upon you in some visible punishment, unless you absolutely refrain from them. It is probable, that, from hence, some people have taken occasion to brand us with this infamous calumny, that we need not fear to take false oaths, and consequently to perjure ourselves; as if we believed that any power upon earth could authorize such damnable practices, or grant dispensations for this purpose. How unjust and cruel this charge is, you know by our instructions to you both in public and private, in which we have ever condemned such doctrines, as false and impious. Others, likewise, may easily know it from the constant behaviour of numbers of Roman Catholics, who have given the strongest proofs of their abhorrence of those tenets, by refusing to take oaths, which, however conducive to their temporal interest, appeared to them entirely repugnant to the principles of their religion. We must now intreat you, dear Christians, to offer up your most fervent prayers to the Almighty God, who holds in his hands the hearts of kings and princes, beseech him to direct the counsels of our rulers, to inspire them with sentiments of moderation and compassion towards us. We ought to be more earnest, at this juncture, in our supplications to heaven; as some very honourable personages have encouraged us to hope for a mitigation of the penal laws. Pray then the Almighty to give a blessing to these their generous designs, and to aid their coun sels, in such a manner, that, whilst they intend to assist us, like |