also prevailed with the sovereign princes, bishops, nobles, clergy, and gentry, to acknowledge him right and lawful sovereign of Ireland, and of the seas, sea-ports, and other domains of the kingdom.

That on this presumption, your memorialist has, in the most humble manner, at the request of the natives of Ireland, your majesty's true liege subjects, not only the aborigines thereof, but the English colonies, sent over by Henry the Second, Richard the Second, Elizabeth, Charles, Cromwell the Usurper, William the Third of glorious memory, and other kings, your majesty's predecessors, and the conquerors of Ireland, made bold to lay before your majesty the true state of their several and respective grievances, a burden now become almost too heavy to bear.

And your memorialist was rather induced to lay this memorial at your august majesty's feet, as it was on good presumption surmised, that all access to your royal ear was shut up, and your liege subjects debarred the liberty of complaining, a right ever allowed to your majesty's liege subjects of what degree or condition soever.

That no notice being taken of several remonstrances heretofore made by your majesty's liege subjects, it was humbly presumed, that such remonstrances had been stopped, and debarred in their progress to your royal ear.

That your memorialist, at the request of several thousands of your liege subjects, as well the nobles as the clergy, the gentry, and commonalty of the kingdom, has ventured on this bold step, for which he humbly craves your majesty's pardon, as nothing but the distress of his countrymen, your most loyal subjects, could have drawn him to this presumption.

That in general the face of your loyal kingdom of Ireland wears discontent, a discontent not coloured from caprice or faction, but purely founded on ministerial misapplication.

That though several persons, particularly N. G. was called to account for the public money, which he had drawn out of the treasury, and deposited in the banks, yet this inquisition came to nothing by the mediation of party, and the interposition of power.

That the Duke of Dorset's son Lord George, though in high and lucrative employments already, not satisfied therewith, has restlessly grasped at power, insatiable in his acquisitions.

That the primate, who is now on the pinnacle of honour, connected with the said noble lord, has made use of his influence to invest himself of temporal power, and like a greedy churchman, - affects to be a second Wolsey in the senate.

That influences being so predominant, corruption so formida ble, 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,

In all respects,

Your most loyal
And dutiful subject,

J. FITZGERALD.

No. LIX.

THE GENTLEMEN WHO VOTED IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLU-
TIONS....PAGE 53.

[Marked thus, * spoke in the Debate.]
Tellers for the Ayes.

Lord Moore, Lieutenant Colonel of Horse.
*Edmond Sexton Pery, Esq.

Hon. Hugh Skeffington, Lieute- James Smyth, Esq. Collector.

nant of Horse

of Dublin

Charles O'Neile, Esq.
William Richardson, Esq.
*William Brownlow, Esq.
Hon. John Caulfield, Esq.
Arthur Upton, Esq.
James Hamilton, Esq.
Sir Richard Wolesley, Bart.
*Lord Newtown
Hon. Barry Maxwell
John Cramer, Esq.
Richard Ponsonby, Esq.
Denham Jephson, Esq.
William Forward, Esq.
Abraham Creichton, Esq.
Bernard Ward, Esq.
Alexander Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Scott, Esq.
Matthew Ford, Esq.
Francis Leigh, Esq.
Sir Charles Burton, Knt.
*Philip Tisdal, Esq. Solicitor
General, and Judge of the
Prerogative

Edward Bolton, Esq.

Sir William Parsons, Bart.
Richard Trench, Esq.
Boleyn Whitney, Esq. Com-
missioner of Appeals
John Pomeroy, Esq. Lieute-
nant Colonel of Foot
Hugh Crofton, Esq.
Charles Smyth, Esq.
Hercules Langford Rowley,
Esq.

Richard Edgworth, Esq.
Right Hon. William Henry
Fortescue, Esq. Privy Coun-
sellor

John Ruxton, Esq.
Thomas Fortescue, Esq.
James Fortescue, Esq.
Thomas Tenison, Esq. Com-
missioner of Appeals
Anthony Forster, Esq.
Townley Bellfore, Esq.
Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart.
Richard Moore, Esq.
Georges Lowther, Esq.

Hon. John Butler, Esq. Clerk Henry Monck, Esq.

of the Pipe

Henry Brooke, Esq.

*Nicholas Arehall, Esq.
*Robert French, Esq.

Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. Judge
Advocate

Sir William Founds, Bart.
Packer, Searcher, and Gau-
ger, in the port of Cork
Maurice Keating, Esq.
John Bourke, Esq. Commis-
sioner of the Revenue
Walter Weldon, Esq.
Richard Dawson, Esq.
James Agar, Esq. senior
Hon. Redmond Morris, Esq.
Hon. Joseph Leeson, Esq.
Edward Herbert, Esq.
Hon. Richard Ponsonby, Esq.
Secretary to the Commis-

sioners

Henry Lyons, Esq.

Thomas Dawson, Esq.

Jonah Barrington, Esq. Pen-
sioner

Robert Cunningham, Esq. Ad-
jutant General
Nehemiah Donellan, Esq.
Right Hon. Sir Thomas Pen-

dergast, Post-Master Gene-
ral and Privy Counsellor
Kinsmill Penefather, Esq.
William Stewart, Esq.
Thomas Knox, Esq.
Nehemiah Donellan, Esq. jun.
Richard Georges, Esq.
John Rochfort, Esq.
Robert Percival, Esq.
Andrew Ram, Esq.
*Thomas Le Hunte, Esq.
John Leigh, Esq.
James Stopfort, Esq.
Charles Tottenham, Esq. Sur-
veyor General of Excise

Walter Hore, Esq. Judge Ad- Stephen Trotter, Esq.

Against the Question, and for Stifling the Resolutions from appearing before His Majesty.

Tellers for Noes.

*Sir Richard Cox, Bart. Pensioner.
Thomas Carter, Esq. junior.

Hon. Hungford Skeffington, Robert Standford, Esq. Captain

Anthony Marlay, Esq. Com-
missioner of Appeals, and
Pensioner

Henry Mitchel, Esq.
Hon. Mr. Westely
General Bligh, Colonel of a
Regiment of Horse
Richard Hamilton, Esq.
Nathaniel Clements, Esq. De-
puty Vice Treasurer

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 a 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,