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will give us no time to confider of our political ones,
and fcems fearful that we should enter upon them
and rcdrefs them. Do they confider the spirit of the
times, when every man is called upon, if he regards
his country, to serve her to his utmost abilities, or
spill his blood in its defence ? The time for lukewarm
nets is no more; address cannot extinguish public
spirit. A free trade without conititutional freedom,
is an abuse of words. Great constitutional matters
require discussion: The repeal of Poyning's Law, and
other great questions ; and therefore it is absolutely
necessary for the present to postpone entering into
this Committee.
Mr. Forlter again contended that it was the duty of
Parliament to give operations to our trade. The du
ty, he laid, on woollens for example, which now exit
ed, would prevent their exportation : and was (add
ed he) the business of assizes the only business of the
nation, that all mutt flop for them?
Mr. Grattan said, that if the money bills were to be
discussed during assizes, it would be, only by part of
the House, who were not the lente of the Commons.
Aad was the passing of the money-bills for 18 months
a matter of such haste, that it could not be delayed
one?
Mr. Dennis Daly declared he agreed, in part, with
both the gentlemen who had spoken op the occation;
he thought they could not, too soon, give the new
extension oftrade operation, but, as to the including
the general money-bills in the prelent motion, it was
unprecedented and inexpedient to go into the supply
during the assizes, when it must be deliberated in a
thin House.
Mr. Connoly seconded Mr. Forster's motion, in
doing which, he only spoke on the expediency of go
ing into the supply as a commercial regulation ; but
he, Sir Lucius O'Brien, and Mr. Mason, who all
spoke on the fame fide, seemed to have forgot, that
a general money-bill was included in the motion.
Sir Henry Cavendish declared against the motion,
as it went farther than commercial regulations.
Mr. Dennis Daly asked the gentlemen on the other
fide ofthe House, if they meant that this Committee
should fit during the assizes, or adjourn?
Mr. Forster answered, that by a diligent attendance
of the Members, the business might be over before
the assizes should commence.
The Attorney-General said, shall we, while the
Parliament of England are expediting the Irilh business
as faft as decency will permit, protract our part of
it here ?
Mr. Forbes asked, if they intended to afeertam the
quantum of the supplies to be raised? and obferved^
that it would found oddly to the people of England, if
we, who, a few days or weeks ago, declared our dis
tresses, should now be in such haste to grant supplies,
without ever considering our abilities to furnifh them.
Mr. Metge said he had no objection to the Com
mittee of Supply opening in part, that is to lay, for
the commercial regulations.
Mr. George Ogle declared against the motion.
Mr. Bufhe, after asking if the Committee would stop
during the assizes, declared allo against it.
Mr. Dennis Daly said, he felt himfelf in a strange
situation ; he was really much disappointed ; for, it
was his intention to support an Administration, the
Members of which he refpeded ; but now, he feared,
it was impossible for him to do it, as what had fallen
out this day had just given grounds for strong suspicion.
Mr. Forster then withdrew a short while with Mr.
Daly, and, on returning, waved his motion in part,
by confining it to a Committee of Supply on commer
cial regulations only.
The motion was then put, and passed unanimously.
Sir William Osborne asked the gentleman in the
confidence of government, Had every reftri&ion on
the trade of this kingdom been taken off? No answer
being made, he said there still existed some very ma
terial ones ; the Glass Ad, particularly, had been but
partially repealed, and what had been done in refped
to it, was an insidious imposition on this nation; he
therefore gave notice to the House, that he should,
on the day appointed for the call, deliver his senti
ments on this fubjed.
The House adjourned until to-morrow.
IRISH OPINIONS.
THAT a Revolution when necessary, ought to be
effected.
That resistance to evil Kings and Governors, but
truly constitutional, is the indispensable duty of free
fubjeds.
That the executive powers of government ought
ever to be under the controul of legiflativc suprema
cy ;}and triennial Parliaments restored.
That all Volunteers ought to be free and indepen
dent in their principles.
That, in the present crisis, committees of corre
fpondency should be every where established, for the
regulation of the different corps, and the more effec
tually to obtain the great national objects now in view.
That the future addresses of Irishmen [in spite of
his Excellency and company] ought to express the
fulleft determination, " to support constitutional
rights, and the freedom and independency of Ireland."
That his Majesty, being King of Great-Britain and
Ireland, should, with his whole court and household,
wear Engiilh,lrilh arid Scotsmanufadures weekabout.
That he ought to visit his Irilh before his German
dominions.
That if his right political eye be still fliut, America
will probably open it.
That Whiggifm is unfafhionable at Court. That
reformation and improvements in church and Rate
are greatly wanting.
That tythes ought to be properly regulated, and
the mode of collecting them altered.
That a free press is the palladium of liberty.
That a faft-day, without a good cause, is solemn
mockery, and a religious farce, aded by parsons.
That Sinecure Officers are public nuisances, and
enemies to Irilh profperrty.
That we have several time-serving scoundrels in
both Houses, who would fell their country for a mess
of pottage.
That his Excellency made just and friendly repre
sentations refpedting the Rate of Ireland ; but that
we would have had a free trade without them.
That virtuous confederacies and resolutions ought
to take place at the ensuing assizes.
That Lord Shannon is not fit to command True
Blue and Ennifkjllen corps.
That liberty is the birth-right of all mankind ; and
that all tyrants ought to be deposed and puniihed.
That Lord Clanricard's answer to the volunteers
under his command, is the law and the prophets,
in Irilh politics.
The belt cure for the King's evil, is the people.
That certain parts, of a late prelatical From of
Prayer, ought to be burned by the hands of the
common hangman.
Present, the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses of
Pimlico.
RESOLVED, nem. con. that a certain Pamphlet
publilhed in Great-Britain, intitled, an act made
in the 6th year of George the firft, asserting a right
to bind Ireland in all cases whatsoever (that of taxa
tion not even excepted) is a falfc and seditious libel,
highly reflecting on the independence of the King,
Lords and Commons of Ireland.
Resolved, nem. con. that the said seditious libel be
ignominiously burned by the hands of the common
hangman, who is hereby ordered to make use of the
fame ceremony that was observed in London, with
refpeC t to Mr. Molyneaux's case of Ireland.
Resolved, that Saturday, 12th February, be the
day appointed for said execution, at 12 o'clock in the
forenoon, 111 College Green.
Resolved, that circular letters be written by the
Speaker to the Magistrates of the several cities, towns
and boroughs of this kingdom, to have some cere
mony observed.
Paddy Ireland, Cler. Dom. Com.
TH E States General publilhed an ordinance the
I 31st of last month, by which their High Migh
tinesses forbid and prohibit all the fubjefts ahd inha
bitants of this Republic from failing towards Gibral
tar, or to carry, or cause to be carried, any ammu
nition or provihons into that tortrefs, 011 any pretence
whatever, during the liege of that place, or to keep
up any correspondence with the beiieged, 011 pain of
incurring the displeasure of their High Mightinches,
and a forfeiture of 10,000 florins, to be paid by the
Captain of any veiiel who, after having knowledge of
this ordinance, shall be known to have entered the
port of Gibraltar during the liege, or by his own con
sent to permit his veflel to be taken by any men of
war or privateers, with an intention by that means,
under pretence of being taken, to carry his cargo in
to that place, and the vessels who may be in this pre
dicament'are to be answerable for the payment of the
above forfeiture, and as such are liable to be fold for
that purpose.
London, Jan. 18. A report was yesterday propa
gated, that their High Mightinesses had caused it to
be lignified to Sir Joseph Yorke, his Britannic Majes
ty's Ambassador, that his absence could very well be
dispensed with, and that he has actually set off from
the Hague on his return to England.
Friday night some dispatches were brought from
Newfoundland, which were immediately sent up to
Lord George Germain's office, by which we learn
that the American privateers have made much more
havock amongst the shipping in that trade, than they
have any year before since the war began.
A letter from Paris fays, " Orders have been sent
to Toulon to stop the departure of a fquadion at that
port, and now ready and under failing orders, till the
return of a courier from the Court of Madrid, who
is gone thither with some very lingular and intercit
ing dispatches."
It is confidently reported that Paul Jones is cruiz
ing with his squadron about the Land's End.
Yesterday orders were font from the admiralty to
Plymouth for several frigates to put to tea immedi
ately. It is said they are going in quell of the above
adventurer.
By the Brig Fame, arrived lafl week at Philadelphia
from St. EuJlatius, a number of EngliJb and Irijb
Prints were received, containing thefollowing advices:
HAG U E, January 11.
A letter from Amsterdam fays, that the Dutch had
laid an embargo on their own trade, until a squadron
now fitting out was manned.
Jan. 19. So entirely have French intrigues got pof
feflion of the Court of Peterfburgh, that we cannot
now procure the very fame affiftaucC the Ruffian Mi
nistry offered us some years ago, though we now of
fer much higher terms than they were willing to
take then.
Certain advice is received, that the Dutch have, for
In a Parliament held the sth of February, 1780.
some time past, been engaged in a certain enterprize
on the coast of Africa, where several vessels from Eu
rope, supposed on a trading system, have lately ar
rived under convoy of an armed force ; from which
it was apprehended some settlement on the main con
tinent, south of the line, was in agitation.
Dublin, Dec. 19. At a very numerous and refped
able meeting of the citizens of Dublin, held at the
New-Exchange coffee-houfe this day, (James Napper
Tandy, Esq. being voted to the chair) resolved unani
moully, that any mark of public rejoicings, on ac
count of the information lent to this house by the
Lord Mayor, relating to the passing of resolutions re
fpeding Ireland in the Britilh Parliament, would b^
premature and improper. Resolved, that the forego#
mg resolution be inserted in the Hibernia Journal and
Saunders's News-Letter of to-morrows
LAWYERS CORPS.
Dec. 19. (Arthur Pedder, Esq. Capt. Command#
ant, in the chair) Whereas a report has been in#
duftrioufly spread abroad that the volunteer corps of
this city intend to exhibit some public marks of ap
probation, in consequence of accounts said to be re
ceived, that proportions refpecling Ireland had pas
sed in a Committee of the House of Commons of
Great-Britain. Resolved unanimously, That such
a proceeding would at this time be highly unbecom
ing the dignity of a volunteer corps, and injurious to
the purpoles of its institution, because it does not yet
appear that these proportions, although they should
be passed into laws, are adequate to thejull demands
and a full redress of the grievances of this country ;
and it is clear, that while they are yet imperfect, they
cannot in any degree merit the flighted mark of pub
lic approbation. Resolved unanimously, that our sen
timents on this occation be on this day communicated
to our fellow volunteers ofthe other corp f this city,
which we think proper to be done, under an impres
sion of the expediency of a general and confidential
communication among the several corps of this king
dom. Resolved unanimously, that these resoluti
ons be inserted in the public papers to-morrow.
Signed by order, Townley Lawder, Sec.
MERCHANTS CORPS, at the Royal Exchange.
Dec. 19. (Henry Gudgeon, Esq. Capt. Command
ant, in the chair.) It having been this day confi
dently circulated, that the volunteer corps of this city
had resolved publicly to express their approbation of
the propositions in favour of the trade of Ireland, of
fered to confederation of the Britilh Parliament by
Lord North. Resolved unanimously, that in the in
fant state of this business, when we are in a measure
unacquainted how far the relief proposed may answer
the expectation or exigencies of this country, it would
be highly inexpedient to adopt such a measure.
Signed by order, Richard Dobson.
Jan. 26. Orders and a route are arrived for 5 regi
ments of foot in this kingdom to march to Corke, in
order to embark on a secret expedition. Five regi
ments from England are to join them at Cove.
A letter to a merchant of this city from Rotterdam,
arrived in Sunday's packet, mentions, that advice had
been just received from Berlin, that his Prussian Ma
jesty had ordered 72 battalions of infantry and some
cavalry, to assemble at Cleves early in March. The
letter adds, that so extraordinary a movement had
very much alarmed the people in Holland, such a
formidable force in the neighbourhood of the Dutch
frontier carrying a molt hostile appearance to them.
" Let these who have prayed, now pray NO MORE."
The form of prayer defgned this day to call the people
to church, and induce them to faft, will, like every 0-
tber effort of government, cause its opposite effect —may
every person who goes to fay Amen to the following mi
niJierial ejaculation, find it flick in his throat : " And
" grant unto them (the people 0, this land) 0 Lord,
" th, powerful aid in oppofng the violence of their RE
"BELLIQUs fellow-fabjects, who openly renounce their
" obedience to our Sovereign, and to the lawful autho
" rity of the Legislature of Great-Britain." Will
IriJbmen join in this prayer ? What ! IriJbmen commit
an Irifhcifm in tbeir devotion, and pray a heavenly aid
to oppose WHAT THEY THEMSELVES CONTEND FOR !
Are we sober ? or rather, was the piety drunk in which
the Right Rev. Prelate frocked bimjelf when be com
posed this special form of prayer.
We hear that all the copies of the form of prayer
have been purchased by the several volunteer corps,
the paper whereon it is printed being found very fit
for cartridges.
Feb. 2. It is said an account arrived here yesterday,
by express from Newry, advising that the Black Prince
and Princess privateers were cruizing off that place.
BASSETERR E, March 23.
A Dutch convoy arrived lately at 'Statia with pro
vilions for their good friends the French ; they spoke
with a French fleet of 60 fail in the lat. of Madeira,
twenty of which were of force.
St. John's, in Antigua, March 29. By his Majes
ty's frigate the Aicrt, dispatched exprels from Eng
land the 15th of Feb. we learn, that a French licet
of tour thips of the line and about 6o transports, fail
ed from Brest the middle of Feb. for the Welt-Indies ;
that the dogged them as far as the Western Isles, and
then bore away to give Admiral Parker intelligence
of them.
The ten regiments Rationed in these islands have
received orders from home to recruit in his Majesty's
dominions in North-America.
All the troops that lately embarked here to go on
an expedition arc returned without attempting any