confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, that the faid foregoing recited articles, each and every one of them, according to the true import and tenor thereof, be ratified, confirmed and approved, and be, and they are hereby declared to be, the articles of the Union of Great Britain and Ireland, and the fame fhall be in force and have effect for ever, from the first day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord 1801; provided, that before that period an act fhall have been paffed by the parliament of Great Britain for carrying into effect, in the like manner, the faid foregoing recited articles." "And he it enacted, that of the one hundred commoners to fit on the part of Ireland in the united parliament, fixtyfour fhall be chofen for the counties, and thirty-fix for the following cities and boroughs, viz. for each county of Ireland, two; for the city of Dublin, two; for the city of Cork, two; for the college of the holy trinity of Dublin, one; for the city of Waterford, one; for the city of Limerick, one; for the borough of Belfaft, one; for the county and town of Drogheda, one; for the county and town of Carrickfergus, one; for the borough of Newry, one; for the city of Kilkenny, one; for the city of Londonderry, one; for the town of Galway, one; for the bo rough of Clonmel, one; for the town of Wexford, one; for the town of Youghal, one; for the town of Bandon bridge, one; for the borough of Armagh, one; for the borough of Dundalk, one; for the town of Kinfale, one;" for the borough of Lisburne, one; for the borough of Sligo, one; for the borough of Catherlough, one; for the borough of Ennis, one; for the borough of Dungarvan, one; for the borough of Downpatrick, one; for the borough of Coleraine, one; for the town of Mallow, one; for the borough of Athlone, one; for the town of New-Rofs, one; for the borough of Tralee, one; for the city of Cafhel, one; for the borough of Dungannon, one; for the borough of Portarlington, one; for the borough of Enniskillen, one." The measure of Union having been thus adopted, this laft fefsion of the Irish parliament was terminated on 2d. Auguft, 1800, when his Excellency Marquis Cornwallis (then Lord Lieutenant) made the following speech from the Throne. My Lords and Gentlemen, "The whole business of this important feflion being at length happily concluded, it is with the most fincere fatisfaction that I communicate to you, by his Majefty's exprefs command, his warmeft acknowledgments for that ardent zeal and unfhaken perfeverance, which you have fo confpicuously manifefted in maturing and completing the great measure of a legislative Union between this kingdom and Great Britain." "The proofs you have given on this occafion ofy our uniform attachment to the real welfare of your country, infeparably connected with the fecurity and profperity of the empire at large, not only entitle you to the full approbation of your Sovereign, and to the applause of your fellow subjects, but must afford you the fureft claim to the gratitude of pofterity." "You will regret, with his Majefty, the reverfe which his Majefty's allies have experienced on the continent-but his, Majefty is perfuaded that the firmness and public spirit of his fubjects will enable him to perfevere in that line of con duct which will beft provide for the honour and the effential interefts of his dominions, whofe means and refources have now, by your wisdom, been more clofely and inti mately combined." . 20 "Gentlemen of the House of Commons, "I am to thank you, in his Majefty's name, for the liberal fupplies which you have chearfully granted for the various and important branches of the public fervice in the present year." "His Majefty has also witneffed with pleasure that wife liberality which will enable him to make a juft and equal retribution 1 retribution to those bodies and individuals, whose privileges and interests are affected by the Union, and he has allo feen with fatisfaction that attention to the internal profperity of this country, which has been fo confpicuously teftified by the encouragement you have given to the improvement and extenfion of its inland navigation.". "My Lords and Gentlemen, "I have the happinefs to acquaint you, that the country. in general has in a great measure returned to its former state of tranquillity. If in fome diftricts a spirit of plunder and difaffection ftill exifts, thofe diforders, I believe, will prove to be merely local, and will, I doubt not, be foon effectually terminated-" "The preffure of fcarcity on the poorer claffes, though much relieved by private generofity and by the falutary provifions of the legiflature, has been long and unusually fevere; but, I trust, that under the favour of Providence we may draw a pleasing prospect of future plenty from the prefent appearance of the harveft," "I am perfuaded that the great, meafure which is now accomplished, could never have been effected but by a decided conviction on your part, that it would tend to restore and to preferve the tranquillity of this country, to increase its commerce and manufactures, to perpetuate its connexion with Great Britain, and augment the refources of the empire. You will not fail to imprefs thefe fentiments on the minds of your fellow-fubjects-you will encourage and improve that just confidence which they have manifested in the refult of your deliberations on this ardent question. Above all, you will be ftudious to inculcate the full conviction, that, united with the people of Great Britain, into one kingdom, governed by the fame Sovereign, protected by the fame laws, and represented in the fame legislature, nothing will be wanting on their part but a fpiri: of industry and order, to insure to them the full advantages under which the people of Great Britain have enjoyed a greater VOL. III. M m degree degree of prosperity, fecurity and freedom, than has ever yet been experienced by any other nation." "I cannot conclude without offering to you and to the nation at large my perfonal congratulations on the accomplishment of this great work, which has received the fanction and concurrence of our Sovereign on the anniversary of that aufpicious day which placed his illuftrious family on the throne of thefe realms. The empire is now, thro' your exertions, fo complétely united, and by union so strengthened, that it can bid defiance to all the efforts its enemies can make, either to weaken it by divifion, or to overturn it by force. Under the protection of the Divine Providence, the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland will, truft, remain in all future ages the faireft monument of his Majesty's reign, already distinguished by so many and such various bleffings conferred upon every class and description of his fubjects." FINIS. INDEX TO THE THREE VOLUMES. N. B. The great letters indicate the Volume, and the figures the Page. A ABSENTEE tax propofed, I. 114, and rejected.Letter to His anfwer, 1-7. III. 45. -To the volunteers on the fubject of parliamentary reform -Negatived, ib.To the proclaimed purfuant to the in- Afgill Sir Charles, defeats the rebels B Ballimore battle of, III. 243. Ballinamuck decifive battle, and furrender of the French, III. 325 Bank National proceedings refpect- Bill to prevent the buying ings |