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That influences being so predominant, corruption so formidable, and elections so controlled by the mighty power of those two statesmen, your loyal kingdom of Ireland feels the sad effects of it, and dreads this duumvirate as much as England did that of the Earl of Stafford and Archbishop Laud.

That your other ministers, officers, subjects, and servants, being cut out of dignity and power by this formidable monopoly, can scarce perform the proper functions of their ministry, as all measures are determined by fatal and influenced majorities in , the houses.

That the citizens of Dublin have for a long time laboured under an unprecedented slavery in subjection to the bankers of administration, who act in a despotic manner, raising and disposing the public revenues of the city, just as to them seems fitting.

That your majesty's interest in the hearts of your loyal subjects is likely to be affected by those arbitrary measures, as the landed interest is very much injured thereby, and as few care to represent their country in parliaments where a junto of two or three men disconcert every measure taken for the good of the subject, or the cause of common liberty.

That your memorialist has nothing to ask of your majesty, neither place, civil or military, neither employment or preferment for himself or friends, and that nothing but his duty to your majesty, and his natural hatred to such detestable monopoly, could have induced your memorialist to this presumption,

Who is,

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THE GENTLEMEN WHO VOTED IN SUPPORT OF THE RESOLU-
TIONS....PAGE 53.

[Marked thus, * spoke in the Debate.]
Tellers for the Ayes.

Lord Moore, Lieutenant Colonel of Horse.
*Edmond Sexton Pery, Esq.

Hon. Hugh Skeffington, Lieute- James Smyth, Esq. Collector

nant of Horse

of Dublin

Charles O'Neile, Esq.
William Richardson, Esq.
*William Brownlow, Esq.
Hon. John Caulfield, Esq.
Arthur Upton, Esq.
James Hamilton, Esq.
Sir Richard Wolesley, Bart.
*Lord Newtown
Hon. Barry Maxwell
John Cramer, Esq.
Richard Ponsonby, Esq.
Denham Jephson, Esq.
William Forward, Esq.
Abraham Creichton, Esq.
Bernard Ward, Esq.
Alexander Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Scott, Esq.
Matthew Ford, Esq.
Francis Leigh, Esq.
Sir Charles Burton, Knt.
*Philip Tisdal, Esq. Solicitor
General, and Judge of the
Prerogative

Edward Bolton, Esq.

Sir William Parsons, Bart.
Richard Trench, Esq.
Boleyn Whitney, Esq. Com-
missioner of Appeals
John Pomeroy, Esq. Lieute-

nant Colonel of Foot
Hugh Crofton, Esq.
Charles Smyth, Esq.
Hercules Langford Rowley,
Esq.

Richard Edgworth, Esq.
Right Hon. William Henry
Fortescue, Esq. Privy Coun-
sellor

John Ruxton, Esq.
Thomas Fortescue, Esq.
James Fortescue, Esq.
Thomas Tenison, Esq. Com-
missioner of Appeals
Anthony Forster, Esq.
Townley Bellfore, Esq.
Sir Thomas Taylor, Bart.
Richard Moore, Esq.
Georges Lowther, Esq.

Hon. John Butler, Esq. Clerk Henry Monck, Esq.

of the Pipe

Henry Brooke, Esq.
*Nicholas Arehall, Esq.
*Robert French, Esq.
Robert Fitzgerald, Esq. Judge
Advocate

Sir William Founds, Bart.
Packer, Searcher, and Gau-
ger, in the port of Cork
Maurice Keating, Esq.
John Bourke, Esq. Commis-
sioner of the Revenue
Walter Weldon, Esq.
Richard Dawson, Esq.
James Agar, Esq. senior
Hon. Redmond Morris, Esq.
Hon. Joseph Leeson, Esq.
Edward Herbert, Esq.
Hon. Richard Ponsonby, Esq.
Secretary to the Commis-

sioners

Henry Lyons, Esq.

Thomas Dawson, Esq.

Jonah Barrington, Esq. Pen-
sioner

Robert Cunningham, Esq. Ad-
jutant General
Nehemiah Donellan, Esq.
Right Hon. Sir Thomas Pen-

dergast, Post-Master Gene-
ral and Privy Counsellor
Kinsmill Penefather, Esq.
William Stewart, Esq.
Thomas Knox, Esq.
Nehemiah Donellan, Esq. jun.
Richard Georges, Esq.
John Rochfort, Esq.
Robert Percival, Esq.
Andrew Ram, Esq.
*Thomas Le Hunte, Esq.
John Leigh, Esq.
James Stopfort, Esq.
Charles Tottenham, Esq. Sur,
veyor General of Excise

Hon. Henry Loftus, Esq.

Thomas Loftus, Esq.

Richard Chapel Whaley, Esq.
John Strafford, Esq.

Walter Hore, Esq. Judge Ad- Stephen Trotter, Esq.

vocate

Against the Question, and for Stifling the Resolutions from appearing before His Majesty.

Tellers for Noes.

*Sir Richard Cox, Bart. Pensioner.
Thomas Carter, Esq. junior.

Edward Smyth, Esq.

John Graham, Esq.

Hon. Hungford Skeffington, Robert Standford, Esq. Captain

Pensioner

Sir Richard Butler, Bart.
Right Hon. Richard Rigby,
Principal Secretary
Sir Edward Obrien, Bart.
Murrough Obrien, Esq.
Emanuel Pigot, Esq.
Hon. James Obrien, Esq. Col-
lector of Cork
Bellingham Boyle, Esq. Pen-

sioner

Sir John Freke, Bart.
Lord Limerick, Chief Remem-
brancer

John Magill, Esq.
William Harward, Esq.
Edward Barry, Esq. State Phy-
sician
General Dilkes, Governor of
the Hospital
John Lysaght, Esq. junior
Andrew Knox, Esq.

Sir Ralph Gore St. George,
Bart.

Right Hon. Sir Arthur Gore,
Bart. Privy Counsellor
Michael Clarke, Esq. Exami-
ner of Excise
Francis Pier Burton, Esq.
Thomas Montgomery, Esq.
William Cooper, Esq.

of Horse
John Eyre, Esq.

Henry Bingham, Esq. Pen

sioner

William Crosby, Esq.
Sir Kildare Burrowes, Bart.
Robert Harman
Agmondisham Vesy, Esq. Ac-
comptant General
James Agar, Esq.
Ralph Gore, Esq. Pensioner
*Warden Flood, Esq. Attor-
ney General

John Gore, Esq. Counsel to
the Commissioners
Edmond Malone, Esq. Coun-
sellor at Law

William Scot, Esq. Prime Ser-
jeant

Alexander Nesbit, Esq. Pen

sioner

Anthony Marlay, Esq. Com-
missioner of Appeals, and
Pensioner

Henry Mitchel, Esq.
Hon. Mr. Westely
General Bligh, Colonel of a
Regiment of Horse
Richard Hamilton, Esq.
Nathaniel Clements, Esq. De-
puty Vice Treasurer

Alexander Montgomery, Esq. Lord Boyle
Bartholomew William Gilbert,
Esq.
Marcus Patterson, Esq. Ser-
jeant at Law

William Henry Dawson, Esq.
Henry Sandford, Esq.
Thomas Mahon, Esq.
Frederick Gore, Esq.
Galbraith Lowry, Esq.
Frederick Gore, Esq.
St. George Richardson,
Lieutenant of Horse
Aland Mason, Esq.
Lord Beresford
Shapland Carew, Esq.

Sir Henry Cavendish, Bart.
Teller of the Exchequer
*Right Hon. Anthony Malone,
Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and Privy Counsellor
Gustavus Lambert, Esq. Col-
lector of Excise

Lord Forbes, Colonel of Foot
Richard Malone, Esq. Serjeant
at Law

Esq. Hon. Thomas Southwell, Esq.
Pensioner

Charles Gardiner, Esq. Sur
veyor General of the Cus-
toms in Ireland.

No. LX.

EXHORTATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY OF DUBLIN, READ FROM THEIR ALTARS ON THE SECOND OF OCTOBER, 1757....PAGE 53.

(From the Dublin Journal of October 4th, 1757.)

IT is now time, Christians, that you return your most grateful thanks to Almighty God, who, after visiting you with á scarcity, which approached near unto a famine, has been graciously pleased, like a merciful father, to hear your prayers, and feed you with a plentiful harvest: nor ought you to forget those kind benefactors, who, in the severest times, mindful only of the public good, generously bestowed, without any distinction of persons, those large charities, by which thousands were preserved, who otherwise must have perished the victims of hunger and poverty. We ought especially to be most earnest in our thanks to the chief governors and magistrates of the kingdom, and of this city in particular, who, on this occasion, proved the fathers and saviours of the nation. But as we have not a more effectual method of shewing our acknowledgment to our temporal governors, than by an humble, peaceful, and obedient behaviour; as hitherto, we earnestly exhort you to continue in the same happy and Christian disposition, and thus, by degrees,

you will entirely efface in their minds those evil impressions, which have been conceived so much to our prejudice, and industriously propagated by our enemies. A series of more than sixty years spent, with a pious resignation, under the hardships of very severe penal laws, and with the greatest thankfulness for the lenity and moderation, with which they were executed, ever since the accession of the present royal family, is certainly a fact which must outweigh, in the minds of all unbiassed persons, any misconceived opinions of the doctrine and tenets of our holy church.

You know that it has always been our constant practice, as ministers of Jesus Christ, to inspire you with the greatest horror for thefts, frauds, murders, and the like abominable crimes; as being contrary to the laws of God and nature, destructive of civil society, condemned by our most holy church, which, so far from justifying them on the score of religion, or any other pretext whatsoever, delivers the unrepenting authors of such criminal practices over to Satan.

We are no less zealous than ever in exhorting you to abstain from cursing, swearing, and blaspheming; detestable vices, to which the poorer sort of our people are most unhappily addicted, and which must at one time or other bring down the vengeance of heaven upon you in some visible punishment, unless you absolutely refrain from them.

It is probable, that, from hence, some people have taken occasion to brand us with this infamous calumny, that we need not fear to take false oaths, and consequently to perjure ourselves; as if we believed that any power upon earth could authorize such damnable practices, or grant dispensations for this purpose. How unjust and cruel this charge is, you know by our instructions to you both in public and private, in which we have ever condemned such doctrines, as false and impious. Others, likewise, may easily know it from the constant behaviour of numbers of Roman Catholics, who have given the strongest proofs of their abhorrence of those tenets, by refusing to take oaths, which, however conducive to their temporal interest, appeared to them entirely repugnant to the principles of their religion.

We must now intreat you, dear Christians, to offer up your most fervent prayers to the Almighty God, who holds in his hands the hearts of kings and princes, beseech him to direct the counsels of our rulers, to inspire them with sentiments of moderation and compassion towards us. We ought to be more earnest, at this juncture, in our supplications to heaven; as some very honourable personages have encouraged us to hope for a mitigation of the penal laws. Pray then the Almighty to give a blessing to these their generous designs, and to aid their coun sels, in such a manner, that, whilst they intend to assist us, like

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