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DUBLIN, March i.
TheSpeech delivered by Lord Mohntmorres, the 2d. inst.
in the House of Lords, in the debate of Lord Carys
fort's motion for expunging the lift paragraph of the
Ad Irefa.
My Lords,
TH AVE on a former occarfon tre(puffed so long up^n
the patience of this\ House, on the great commercial
quellion which was then before your Lordfllips, that I
mail take up tout very little of your time on the present
eccafio^
Had the Mdrefs moved by the noble Bake been fpeci
fr had it apfied fairly to the extension of our trade,
end the corfufociai advantages we have obtained, no
man would | ave been more pleased to return his grateful
r, inks t te Father of his people, for giving the royal
: i> it . , th,hberal participation of trade with the Colo
nie, hi pto us by the British Parliament; but the
t drd 11 igraph I obje& to , nor do I fee how any man
hat will for any improvement in our constitution,
wig either .>?.s, or wishes to agitate cohflitutional ques
tion„ can agree to that, without signing his own condem
nation
'M : Lords, I will not anticipate what the withes of the
people ,y be; but the present confederation, and the
success of our addr fs for a free trade, leads me to remark
a (olecfm and absurdity in our confiitution.
Addresses from either House of Parliament are com
municated to his Majefiy ; but the most solemn and im
portant communications with the crown, heads of bills,
or petitions for laws, are, by an usurped power, muti
lated and flopped in the council; thus, what the mean
est man in England, or the gre test ma!efa&or enjoys, of
free access to petition their Sovereign for redress of grei
vances, is denied to the Parliament of Ireland, in the im
portant right of legislation.
That there are many wild and whimsical projects, and
may be forme unreasonable desires, expressed in the pub
lic prints, as the with of the people, I agree with the no
ble Duke; but the way to put a flop to them, is to gra
tify and meet the withes of the people in just, reasonable,
and moderate measures.
Ido not with to enter now jnto a great question that
is not before you, but I with it well r aut miltre aut du
ce, as a leader or a follower. I shall ever lend my assis
tance to promote one great obje& of this country which I
have alluded to. But the times are not seasonable; it is
said, for the agitation of constitutional queftion#. Why'
Are we in (Irength, power, and consideration, or are
we not ! If we are, the time to press it is, when we are
possessed of those advantages; and now, will the House
forgive me, my Lords, for a concluding word, on the
complexion of the times, and the fituatton of this coun
try 1
I lament the recess from public bofinefs in Parliament
since Christmas ; for whether they do not meet all, or
meet todo nothing, is one and the fame thing in my limi
ted apprehension : To the other House of Parliament
it would be preemption in me to advert ; I am rather
to foppofe that their condud is guided by the moderati
on and propriety which has influenced the proceedings
hitherto of that Assembly. ' If there should be a vis in
ertia here, I may advert to it with more colour of rea
son, because though the last and the lead of your Lord
ships, of that fault, if there be any, I (hould have my
(hare and my participation.
While Parliament, my Lords, takes the lead, while
they appear in earned, active to reflore, and vigilant to
pref rve the public rights, they (hall be looked up to
with rtfpea and reverence; honour (hall be an attendant
on their Reps; power and influence in their country shall
Crown the virtuous efforts of the patrons of their fellow
citizens ; but if they Ihould flop short and go no further,
every man out of doors, who either is or thinks himfelf
competent to give relief, will be considered as a patron and
prote&or.
Government may flatter themselves that by gratifying
leading men, the people will be fatisfied, individuals
may irded Ue quieted by that mode of proceeding,
but the public never! And these great patriots, who
warmed and (corcked their country in their afeendant,
shall lose their influence, they will fink unperceived, and
be scarcely felt in their decline. I fay, my Lords, and
I repeat it emphatically, I with parliament to tike the
lead, and to gratify the people in what is just and mo de
rate. I confider an assent to the third paragraph as an
interdict to the eg tation of constitutional qutftons, and
I can never agree to it. While parliament takes the lead,
things most go well : if not, other men will avail them
selves of that omission ; the old story of Cromwell's Ari
tutors will be afted over again, and the firft and most lead
ing man in this country, may be the most active and en
terprizing, or perhaps, the most ambitious, and the most
violent.
My Lords, a most reverend prelate asks, Is there a
man who has the interest of this country at heart, who
will give his negative to this address ? My Lords, I am
that man; I have the iotereft of my country at heart,
and I will give my negative. I admire the spirit and dif
cernmeat of the noble Lord who proposed the amendment;
I ihall divide with him upon it ; possibly my conduct may
not please the majority cf your Lordships ;I shall be sorry
for it; if so, I th 1 avail myfeif of the privilege of this
House, anl appeal from your determination to the fuf
frage of posterity
LORDSPROTEST.
Die ,ovis, jecundo Martti, 1780.
And Hie question being put, that the third paragraph
in the address to h ; s M ijefty, beginning with the words,
" And we further beg leave to assure, &c. be expunged
thereout.
It passed in t'e negative.
Against which vote.
DISSENTIENT.
rft. Because we conceive ?hat every rank and descrip
tion of men in the nation are penetrated with the warm
est fei timents of affection to Greit Britain ; that it is
the universal wilh to continue and increase mutual con
fidence and harmony between his Majesty's fubjeffs of
both kingdoms ; and that the whole people have received
with becoming gratitude, those commercial advantages for
which they own themselves indebted to the wifdon of his
Majesty's Councils, and the liberal sentiments and gener
ous concurrence of the British Nation : But the paragraph
we have objected to, supported by many Lords avowedly
in the confidence of Administration, fends so check those
fentimen's of gratitude and affection, and to interrupt
that harmony, by manifesting to the people that their le
gal and temporate proceedings are beheld by Government
with a jealous eye, and may tend to create a suspicion
that such extensive commercial advantages have been held
out to them with an intention to seduce them into a dere
liction of their con ftitutional claims.
idly. Because if the insinuation that groundless jea
lousies have been raffed in the minds of the people, is
founded, as it was thrown cut in the debate, upon the
resolutions which have been entered into in different parts
of the kingdom, we conceive that it is the undoubted
right of the electors to indraft their Reprefentativea,
and that this House cannot, without violating the Law of
Parliament , and the fundamental principles of the con
fiitution, to interfere between the people and the House
of Commons.
gdly, Becaofc we think the uniform behaviour of the
people, and their refpeftful confidence and entire reliance
upon the wisdom and integrity of Parliament, deserve our
warmest approbation, and because no evidence has been
adduced of the insinuation that groundless jealoufiea may
be raised in their mind£
CARYSFORT, IRNHAM, by Proxy,
ARRAN, CHARLEMONT,
MOTRA, by Proxy, EYRE, by Proxy.
MOUNTMORRES,
LONDON, March a.
TH E troops going out to America this year, are all to
be in readiness to embark the 29th inst. at fartheft.
Major General Cunningham is arrived express from
Ireland, his departure from thence is said to have been
sudden and his business here, to condole with Ministry
on the impracticability of managing fixty-five thousand
men in arms.
Mar h 6. One of Sir Henry Clinton's transports has
just put into Cornwall, with a number of Hessians on
board. She was separated from the fleet on their way to
Georgia.
Admiral Graves is said to be going out with the Weft-
India fleet, in order to succeed Sir Peter Parker, on the
Jamaica Ration, who has wrote home to be recalled.
We hear the following ships are appointed to convoy
the Weft-India fleet, viz. London, 90 guns ; Berwick,
74 ; Egmont, 74 ; and Shrewibury, 74.
Extra& of a letter from a gentleman in Ireland, to & gen
tleman in London, February 29.
“ What I hinted at in my former letters is n,w begun.
An al^oß universal declaration of the freedom and inde
pendency of this kingdom. Three counties and two cities
have already declared it in the most pointed language, and
five counties more have advertised meetings. This day
the Sheriffs of the city of Dublin, attended by 300 citi
zens 240 of the volunteers, with their fide arms, waited
upon their representatives with an address and inftrudions
to repeal Poyning's law, and pals a counter declaratory
aft • so considerable a meeting for number and property
wa/never seen in Dublin. They are mere firm and de
termined in having a free confiitution than they were in
having a free trade ; some resolutions fay, that no power
on earth has, ought, or Ihall have a right to bind Ireland.
In short, the people are determined to revive the consti
tution of there ancestors."
Extras of a letter from Plymouth, March 7.
“ Yesterday the gzd and 94th regiments of foot, em
barked from Catwater on board the transports lying there
to receive them, but their destination is not known,
" One hundred American prisoners embarked this day
in Stone-house Pool, from Stone-hcufe prison, on board
a cartel for Mprlaix in France."
April 4- A comit will be visible some time next month
and for several succeeding months. It is the fame pheno
menon which was observed in the year 1680, by that
great luminary, St Isaac Newton, and by him particu
larly described to be the fame which appeared 43 years
before the birth of our Saviour, and afterwards in the year
in which Julies Cesar was ffaffinated. Astronomers as
sert, that the track of this immense ball of fire, since its
last appearance in our hemisphere, is immeafurabla by any
ideas of space or numbers.
The following may be depended on as a faithful narrative
cfwhat passed in Hyde-Park, when Lord Shelburne
and Col. Fullarton met and fought on Wednesday mor
ring.
Lord Shelburne, with Lord Frederick Cavendish for his
second, and Mr. Fullarton with Lord Balcarras for his
fecciid, met at half past five, in Hy^e Park, March iz,
1780. Lord Balcarras and Lord Frederick Cavendish,
proposed, both parties should obey their seconds. Lord
Shelburne and Col. Fullarton walked together, while Lord
Balcarras and I.ord Frederick Cavendifli adjusted all ce
remonials, and fixed on pistols as the proper weapons.
P A R I S, Feb. i 9.
TH E Y work at Bred with the utmeft diligence; in
arming and (heathing with copper, the (hip H'Evril
le, 1' Jason and I'Ardent, which, with the following, are
to compose the squadron to be commanded by the Cheva
lier de Ternay, viz. Ie due de Bouegogne of So guns,
Ie Languedoc of 90, le Cesar of 74, la Provence 2nd la
Fantefqueof 64, I'Eville and l'Ardent also of 64. They
will be accompanied with the frigates la Bellonne of 40,
and la Renomme of 30. The Count d'Acbe, Vice Ad
miral, died here the 11th of this month. Some hours be
fore he expired, he received from the hands of Mr. Hec
tor, the blue ribbon and the ftaff ° Marshal of France.
These honors had been sent off to Brest three days before,
by a Courier extraordinary.
Feb. 18. It is riffured, four ships are to join the fix
that compose the division, that is to be commanded by
M. de Ternay. Its destination is generally thought to
be for North Amerce .
Feb. 20. A formidable expedition that rs preparing
with the greatest activity, is much talked of; it is in
tended to aft on the Continent of North America.
That squadron will tike on board 3 little army of 12,000
men.
Feb. 23. It is said that M. John Jay, late President of
the American Congress, is going to take the title of Mini
ster Plenipotentiary from the United Statesto this Court ;
and that Dr. Franklin is to go to the Court of Madrid
with the fame charader.
Whed they came to the ground, Lord Shelburne told them,
th|this pistols were already loaded, and offered to draw
them, which was rejected by Lord Balcarras and Col.
Fullarton ; upon which Lord Balcarras loaded Col. Ful
larton's pistols ; the seconds having agreed that twelve
paces was a proper di fiance, the parties took their ground;
Col. Fullarton desired Lord Shelburne to fire, which his
Lordihip declined, and Col Fullarton was defined by the
seconds to fire ; he fired and miffed, Lord Shelburne re
turned it, and miffed ; Mr Fullarton then fired his second
piflol, and hit Lord Shelburne in the right groin, which
his Lerdfhip fignified, upon which every body ran up ;
the seconds interposed. Lord Frederick Cavendish offir
to take the pistol from Lord Shelburne, but his Lordship
refuted to deliver it up, faying, '' I have not fired that
pistol." Mr. Fullarton returned immediately to his
ground, which he had left wi h a view of .Rifting his
Lordfhrp, and repeatedly Retired his Lerdfhip to fireat
him. Lord Shelburne said, " Sure, Sir, you don't think
I would fire my pistol at you," and tired it in the air. The
parties and their seconds got together. Lord Balcarras
asked Lord Shelburne if he had any difficulty in declaring,
he meant nothing personal to Col. Fullarton; his Lord
ship replied, you know it has taken another course, this
is no time for explana ion. His Lordship then fa dto
Col. Fullarton, altho' I am wounded, lam able to go on,
if you feel any resentment $ Colonel Fullarton said, he ho
ped he was incapable of harbouring such a sentiment.
Lord Frederick Cavendish declared, that from the cha
ra&er he had beared of Col. Fullarton, he believed so;
Col. Fullarton said, as your Lordship is wounded, and
has fired in the air, it is impossible for me to go on.
Lord Balcarras and Lord Frederick Cavendish immedi- :
ately declared, that th? parties had ended the affair, by
behaving as men of the ftriaeft honor.
NEW HAVF N, June 8.
Saturday last, a brig with 300 pipes of wine, was sent
into New London, captured by the Hancock, Capt. Ri
chards. She was from Madeira, bound to New-York.
PHILA DELPHI A, f 024.
Last T^urfday the ship Friendfnip, Capt. Coldftream,&
cartel from Charleftown, arrived at Chester with Gene
ral Lincoln and his suit, who came to town last night. Ira
the fame vessel were Commodore Whipple of Rhode I
sland, and all the Subaltern Marine Officers belonging to
the Continental fleet taken there ; also James Seagrove
and Stacey Hepburne of this city, merchants, Mr. Fos
ter of Boston, and Mr. Burrows and Mr. Macall of
CharleftowQ.
Extract from the Log-book of the sloop Comet, Capt.
Kemp.
" The 7th of June, being in company with the sloop
Hawk, Capt. Humpitead, was chafed by the Iris and
escaped. On the 9th making the east end cf Long Island,
saw a wreck ashore; out boat with an armed party ; went
ashore—took possession of a battery of 10 guns, from
which the men had fled on feeing the boat going ashore $
found the wreck to be the Hawk, which the Iris had
drove on shore, her materials being partly carried off by
the inhabitants of Long Island, who had ere&ed the bat
tery ; took off two of her guns, spiked up the<e£, took
one anchor and cable, with several other articles.* Qn the
12th, at half past four, A. M. about two miles off Sandy-
Hook, got in shore of 15 fail, out of which number we
captured and manned eight, viz. schooners Free Mason,
Lilly, and Sally, Hoops Polly, Driver, Dove, Eliza
beth,and Elizabeth all of which Captain Hemp brought
to fafe port on the 16th, with twenty-eight prisoners."
Since our last have arrived here eleven prizes, viz.
eight taken by the Comet, as abovementioned, and a
brig, schooner and Roop, retaken from the Picaroons,
that have been sometime past cruizing in the bay of De
laware and Chefapeak.
By the last accounts from the Jerseys, we tern, that
the enemy Hill lay at Elizabeth-town Point, that thera
was frequent (kirmilhing,in which the Jersey militia gain
ed great honor, by beating teh enemy's parties, and ta
king prisoners.
NEW-LOND O N, June 2.
Yesterday returned into port the Silly privateer, Capt.
Warner, and brought in the brig Cornelia, William A
darcs, late commander, in 17 weeks from Dublin, captu
red b, the Sally and Bunker Hill privateers. Her car
go consists of 585 terces mtfs beef, 198 barrels ditto, 97
puncheons rum, 980 0 yards oznabrigs, 9% barrels pork,
20 boxes candles, &c. Her fterhng invoice is said to be
7800!.
B OS T O N, May 29.
Last Wednesday a prize schooner from St John's to
Quebec, ladened with wine, was sent into Marblehead by
the privateer Rover of that port.
Another embarkation, consisting of about 2^oo Hessi
an troops, took place at New-York last Wednesday fen
night; and failed, it wab there said for the eastward, sup
posed by some to be bound for Quebec, and by others for
England, as it was said the Prince of Hesse had made a
demand of the troops be furmfhed the British Tyrant with,
whose time of service had been up near a twelvemonth.
June 8. Monday last arrived at Dartmouth, a brig
bound from Cork to New-York, taken by His Most
Chrrthan Majesty's frigate La Hermoine, commanded
by toe Chevalier de la Touche; her cargo confifls of
1760 firkins of butter, 150 boxes' of candles, 150 boxes of
soap ; the prize is now commanded by Mons. Louis Da
niel Charier, volunteer of the frigate.
Thursday last airi ed here a prize brig, laden with a
bout x„o hogfluads of tobacco, and sundry ot er ar i les,
taken by the letter of marque brig Fame, of this port,
Capt , about ten days after (he failed fromlence,
She was bound from Bermuda for Great-Britain.
Same day arrived here a cartel (hip from New-York,
with about 165 prisoners, among whom were a number
with the small p.x, thrown promiscuously on board, fix
of which died on the passage ; amongst the whole were
only about 30 well.,
In order Rill further to harrafs the poor prifonerr, these
who are so unhappy as to fall into their handa belonging
to toe southward, are sent as far to the eastward a> flags
generally come, and those belonging to the eastward are
feat south.