ritual and temporal, and the commons of Ireland, which you have presented to me, demand my warmest and earliest thanks. If any thing could add to the esteem and affection I have for the people of Ireland, it would be the loyal and dutiful attachment to the person and government of the King, my father, manifested in the address of the two houses.

"What they have done, and their manner of doing it, is a new proof of their undiminished duty to his majesty, of their uniform attachment to the house of Brunswick, and their constant attention to maintain inviolate the concord and connexion between the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, so indispensably necessary to the prosperity, the happiness, and the liberties of both.

"If in conveying my grateful sentiments on their conduct, in relation to

the King, my father, and to the inseparable interests of the two kingdoms, I find it impossible to express adequately my feelings on what relates to myself, I trust you will not be the less disposed to believe, that I have the understanding to comprehend the value of what they have done, a heart that must remember, and principles that will not suffer me to abuse their confidence.

"But the fortunate change which has taken place in the circumstance which gave occasion to the address. agreed to by the lords and commons of Ireland, induces me to delay, for a few days, giving a final answer, trusting, that the joyful event of his majesty's resuming the personal exercise of his royal authority, may then render it only necessary for me to repeat those sentiments of gratitude and affection, to the loyal and generous people of

Ireland, which I feel indelibly impressed on my heart."

The King at this period was daily advancing towards a state of convalescence; but the Irish delegates continued some time longer in town, to wait the issue of this extraordinary conjuncture, and oftener than once were honoured by the prince with invitations, to partake of the hospitalities of Carlton-house. At length, the king's perfect recovery being no longer a matter of doubt, the Prince of Wales on the 12th of March delivered his final answer, to the deputation from both houses of the parliament of Ireland, in the following terms.

"MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

"The happy event of the King's recovery, and the consequent re-assumption of the exercise of his auspicious

government, announced by his royal commission for declaring the further causes of holding the parliament of Great Britain, has done away the melancholy necessity which gave rise to the arrangement proposed by the parliament of Ireland; but nothing can obliterate from my memory, and my gratitude, the principles upon which that arrangement was made, and the circumstances by which it was attended.

"I consider your generous kindness to his majesty's royal family, and the provision you made for preserving the authority of the crown in its constitutional energy, as the most unequivocal proof which could be given of your affectionate loyalty to the King, at the time when, by an afflicting dispensation of providence, his government had suffered an intermission, and his house was deprived of its natural protector.

"I shall not pay so ill a compliment

to the lords and commons of Ireland, as to suppose that they were mistaken in their reliance on the moderation of my views, and the purity of my intentions. A manly confidence, directing the manner of proceeding towards those who entertain sentiments becoming the high situation to which they are born, furnishes the most powerful motives to the performance of their duty; at the same time, that the liberality of sentiment, which, in conveying a trust confers an honour, can have no tendency to relax that provident vigilance, and that public jealousy, which ought to watch over the exercise of power.

"MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, "Though full of joy for the event which enables me to take leave of you in this manner, personally, I cannot but regret your departure. I have had the opportunity of acquiring a know