Fletcher, Sir H. Cumberland Lee, John, Clitheroe Flemyng, Sir Michael Le, Legh, T. Peter, Newton, Lan- Foley, Hon. Andrew, Droit- Lemon, Sir William, Cornwall minster shire Francis, Philip, Yarmouth, Isle land of Wight Frederick, Sir John, Christ- Lowther, James, Westmorland church Lowther, Sir William, Cumber- Lowther, John, Haslemere Loveden, Edward L. Abington &c.Ludlow, Earl, Huntingdonshire Fullerton, William, Lauder, Mackworth, Sir Herbert, Cardff Hamilton, Right Hon. W. Ger. Marsham, Hon. Charles, Kent Wilton Hanay, Sir S. Camelford lade Malden, Viscount, Oakhampton Middleton, Sir W. Northum- Miller, Sir John, Newport, Middleton, Lord, Whitchurch Honeywood, Filmer, Kent ry Ladbroke, Robert, Warwick Laurence, Williäm, Ripon Monckton, Hon. Edward, Staf- Montagu, Right Hon. Frede- Mundy, Edward, M. Derbyshire Newhaven, Lord, Gatton St. Aubin, Sir John, Penryn Newnham, Nathaniel, London St. John, Hon. St. Andrew, Forth, Lord, Banbury North, Hon. G. A. Wotton Salt, Samuel, Aldborough Basset Norton, Hon. Chapple, Guil ford Ord, John, Wendover Owen, Hugh, Pembroke Satterthwaithe, J. C. Cocker- mouth Saville, Hon. R. Lumley, Lin- Scarbo-Sawbridge, John, London Owen, William Mostyn, Mont- Senhouse, H. Cockermouth, Sheridan, Richard B. Stafford gomeryshire roughbridge Payne, John Willet, Hunting- Pelham, Right Hon. Thomas, Pelham, Hon. Henry, Lewes Penrhyn, Lord, Liverpool Port Powys, Thomas, Northamp- Rawlinson, Abram, Lancaster Sloper, William Charles, St. Smyth, Sir Robert, Colchester Spencer, Lord Robert, Oxford Stanley, Thomas, Lancashire Strachey, Henry, Bishop's Stuart, Hon. James, Buteshire shire Stuart, Charles, Bridport ston Taylor, Clem. Maidstone Vanneck, Sir Gerard William, Rushworth, Edward, Newport, Vaughan, Hon. John, Berwick Hants on i weed Russel, Lord John, Tavistock Vyner, Robert, Thirsk Upper Ossory, Earl of, Bed- Wilbraham, Roger, Helston fordshire Windham, Right Hon. Wil- Walpole, Hon. Horatio, Lynn- liam, Norwich Winnington, Edward, Drast- Wrightson, William, Ayles- Wynn, Glynn, Carnarvon List of those Members who have not voted on the Question Adeane, J. W. Cambridge Clavering, Sir Thomas, Dur- ham County Mitford, William, Newport, Montgomerie, Hugh, Airshire Palk, Lawrence, Ashburton Pitt, Hon. George, Dorsetshire Russel, Lord William, Surrey Trottman, F. Northampton Watherstone, Dalhousie, Bos- ton Wilks, John, Middlesex Mansell, Sir William, Carmar- Wycombe, Lord, Chip. Wy- thenshire Milford, Lord, Pembrokeshire combe No. LXXX. PROTESTS UPON THE REGENCY....P. 228. Dissentient. BECAUSE the undoubted right and indispensable duty declared in the said resolution to have been exercised and discharged by the lords and commons of Ireland, and to which it is alleged they are alone competent, do not in any legal or sound sense appear to us to have any existence. And because the assuming a right in the lords and commons alone to confer upon his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales the government of this kingdom, under the style and title of Prince Regent of Ireland, in the name and on the behalf of his majesty, to exercise and administer according to the laws and constitution of this kingdom, all regal powers and prerogatives to the crown and government thereof belonging, or the addressing his royal highness to take upon himself such government in manner aforesaid, before he be enabled by law so to do, seems to us altogether unwarrantable, and to be highly dangerous in its tendency to disturb and break the constitutional union, whereby this realm of Ireland is for ever knit and united to the imperial crown of England, on which connection the happiness of both kingdoms essentially depends; and we are the more apprehensive of danger, lest the so doing should be considered as tending to the prejudice, disturbance or derogation of the king's majesty in, of, or for the crown of this realm of Ireland. Lifford, C. Mountmorris, by proxy Chetwynd George Lewis, Kilmore Valentia William Leighlin and Ferns Longford Powerscourt Glandore Hillsborough Ranelagh Carhampton Harberton Lanesborough Bellamont William Ossory Dissentient. BECAUSE when his excellency the lord lieutenant, his majesty's representative here, hath told us that under the impressions of his official duty and of the oath that he hath as chief governor of this kingdom, he is obliged to decline transmitting to Great Britain the address of both houses of parliament to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, it doth not consist with that decorum, with that justice, and that grave proceeding, in which this house, the great and dernier court of justice, will ever act, to proceed to a condemnation and censure of his excellency without being allowed to enquire and look into the constitution of his office or into his oath. And besides, we cannot consider it as a want of respect to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the not transmitting the said address to him, as it would expose his royal highness to difficulty and embarrassment, by laying him under the disagreeable necessity of deciding upon great legal and constitutional principles, in which his royal highness's future interest, and the rights of that imperial crown, which he is born to inherit, may be very deeply concerned and moreover, we conceive this house ought ever to be mindful of the station, in which the constitution hath placed it, and ought to resist every thing, which partakes of intemperance and excess. Mountmorris, by proxy Courtown, by proxy Mornington, by proxy Powerscourt Hillsborough Carhampton Bellamont Dissentient. BECAUSE although desirous to express our humble thanks to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, for his gracious answer to the addresses of both houses of parliament, and that to a degree, which might induce us to pass over the departure, which there seems to be in the mode and form of this address from the usual course and proceedings of parlia inent, yet we cannot agree to this address, which doth not consist, as we conceive, with those constitutional principles, which are maintained in our protests of February last, and to which we adhere. |