fo very fenfibly felt, and so very difficult to be retrieved; no Means can ferve more effectually to prevent these Disorders for the future, than the Encouragement of fuch Institutions as tend to imprefs on the Minds of the lower Order of People, early Habits of Industry, and true Principles of Religion: For this Purpose, your Proteftant Charter Schools were established, to which I therefore recommend the Continuance of your Care, Encouragement, and Support: Your Linen Manufacture demands, and will reward every Inftance of Public Attention; there is nothing which can more properly excite your future Endeavours, and nothing has more fully answered your former Expectations: This Manufacture has been, at all Times, the favourite Object of Parliamentary Encouragement; and I fhould be concerned that any National Advantage which has been cultivated under the Administration of my Predeceffors, should be neglected under mine; Be affured you cannot take Measures which will be more grateany ful to his Majefty; or, which I shall be more follicitous to forward, than those which may in any Refpect, advance the growing Profperity of this very improveable Country: If, therefore, any of Manufactures may be

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further extended; if any Thing can be done towards exciting the Spirit, or, providing the Means of Industry: If any Improvements in Agriculture can be produced, upon wife and practicable Principles; and in every Thing that tends to the Encouragement of Virtue, or the promoting of true Religion, you will have, towards the Attainment of those Ends, not only my zealous Co-operation, but his Majesty's steady and willing Protection. I come to this Government with the King's exprefs Commands, and my own very warm Inclination to recommend and fupport fuch Measures: His Majefty has the firmest Reliance on your experienced Duty and Loyalty; on your unbiafs'd Regard to the Public; and he doubts not that this Seffion of Parliament will be carried on in a Manner fuitable to your own Dignity, and to the Unanimity of your paft Proceedings.

If the most inviolable Attachment to his Majefty, and Zeal for his Service; if a firm Adherence to thofe Principles by which the Proteftants of Ireland have ever been diftinguished, were Qualifications fufficient for the Discharge of the high and arduous Truft committed to my Hands, I might insure to myself

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an Administration not unacceptable to Parliament: And I ftill flatter myself, that, as the only Ends I have in Pursuit are the King's Service and the Public Welfare, I may obtain the only Rewards I have in View, his Majefty's favourable Acceptance of my Services, and your entire Approbation of my Conduct.

Mr WB-moved, that an humble Addrefs fhould be prefented to his Majesty to affure his Majefty that we shall be always ready to give him the most convincing Proofs of our Loyalty and Zeal for the Support of his Crown and Dignity. To express our warmeft Gratitude for the gracious Approbation with which his Majefty is pleased to honour our paft Conduct; and to affure his Majesty that we shall in the Course of our future Proceedings, by our Perfeverance in the fame Principles of Duty and Loyalty, endeavour to deserve the Continuance of his Majesty's royal Favour and Protection. To return our most dutiful and moft grateful Thanks to his Majesty for his paternal Care, in being graciously pleased, upon the Re-establishment of a general Peace, immediately to relieve his loyal and faithful Subjects of this Kingdom from those heavy Burdens which they chearfully bore,

during the late fuccessful War.

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the Happiness we muft feel from every new Acceffion to his Majefty's Dominions, and Extenfion of the Commerce of his Subjects. To express our most unfeigned Joy, upon the aufpicious Birth of a Prince of Wales, and of the further Addition to his Majesty's Royal House, by the Birth of a fecond Prince; Events, which, as they promise so great an Addition to his Majefty's domestic Felicity, and fuch a lasting Security to our happy Conftitution, muft give the highest Pleasure to a People deeply interested in the Happiness of fo excellent a Sovereign, and fo fully fenfible of the ineftimable public Bleffings which they have, without Interruption, enjoyed under his Majefty's illuftrious House. To acknowledge it as a particular Inftance of his Majefty's tender Concern for the Welfare of this Kingdom, that he has been graciously pleased to appoint a chief Governor to prefide over us, of whofe approved Fidelity to his Majesty, and steady Attachment to his royal House, we are fully perfuaded, and of whofe Honour, Justice, Integrity, and other eminent Qualities, we have conceived the highest Opinion. To express our just Sense of his Ma→ jefty's great Goodness in having made use of

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the Credit given to his Government in the last Seffion of Parliament, in no other Proportion than as the Neceffity of his Service exactly required; and to affure his Majefty that we shall, with the greatest Chearfulness, continue the neceffary Supplies for the Support of the ordinary Establishment, with a proper Attention to the Reduction of the public Debt. To affure his Majefty that we have seen, with the greatest Concern, the tumultuous Rifings of the lower People, in Contempt of Laws, of Magistracy, and of every conftitutional Subordination, which, if not duly attended to, must be productive of the moft fatal Confequences, and which, we are fully fenfible, are difgraceful to a Country of Liberty, and ruinous to a Country of Commerce. That we

are convinced that no Means can ferve more effectually to prevent the like Disorders for the future, than the Encouragement of such Institutions as tend to imprefs on the Minds of the lower Order of People early Habits of Industry, and true Principles of Religion; and for this defirable Purpose we fhall continue our Care, Encouragement, and Support of the Proteftant Charter Schools, and shall have the strictest Attention to every Method by which our Linen Manufacture may be improved and extended.

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