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228] ANNUAL REGISTER [[2 Columns]] and particularly in some places of the North; which, if not duly attended to, must be productive of the most fatal consequences, and which we are truly sensible are disgraceful to a country of liberty, and ruinous to a country of commerce; it is our firm purpose to use the most effectual methods to stop their progress, and prevent them for the future. We shall give particular attention to those great national objects, our linen manufacture, and the protestant charter-schools; and we beg leave to assure your majesty, that, in all our deliberations, we shall support to the best of our power, the honour of the crown, and the true interest of our country. ————————————————————————————————————— The Addresses of both Houses of Parliament to his Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant. To his Excellency George Lord Viscount Townshend, Lord Lieutenant-General and General-Governor of Ireland, This humble Address of the Lord's Spiritual and Temporal in parliament assembled. May it please your Excellency, WE his majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in parliament assembled, return your excellency our most sincere thanks for your excellent speech to both houses of parliament. We are thankful and most sensible of his majesty's paternal regard for our welfare, in the continuance of your excellency in the administration of this kingdom, fully experiencing your excellency's attention to the security and happiness of it. We return your excellency our thanks for the notice you have taken of those illegal and audacious outrages, that have disturbed so much the peace and quiet of the different parts of this kingdom, particularly the North, to the disgrace of liberty, and the detriment of the linen manufacture of this kingdom; and we do assure your excellency, that we shall readily do all in our power, to co-operate with your excellency in every wise provision that may remedy so great an evil. We rejoice with your excellency, on the increase of his majesty's royal family by the birth of another prince, full and daily experiencing the blessings we enjoy under his majesty's auspicious reign. We beg leave to thank your excellency, for your attention in recommending to us the support of our charter-schools, and the improvement of our linen manufacture, as the surest support of the protestant interest, and of the commerce of this kingdom, to both of which we shall have the utmost regard. The experience which we have had of your excellency's attachment and affection, during your residence amongst us, leaves us no room to doubt of your endeavours to promote the true interests of this country. His Excellency's Answer. My Lords, I return you my sincere thanks, for your kind and most obliging address, and I am very happy in receiving this public mark of your attention For the YEAR 1772 [229 [[2 Columns]] attention and respect. Nothing can afford me truer satisfaction than that which I now feel, upon finding that my conduct, since I have been amongst you, has been such as meets with your approbation. To his Excellency George Lord Viscount Townshend, Lord Lieutenant-General, and General-Governor of Ireland, The humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and burgesses, in parliament assembled. May it please your Excellency, WE his majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Ireland in parliament assembled, return your excellency our sincerest thanks for your most gracious speech from the throne: we beg leave to express our most entire satisfaction, in being again assembled under your just and prudent government, and to assure your excellency, that we shall most heartily co-operate with your excellency in every thing that may tend to promote the welfare and happiness of this kingdom. We have observed with pleasure the reduction of the staff, in consequence of his majesty's gracious declaration, signified to us by your excellency; and we have no doubt of your excellency's constant regard to public ceconomy. We shall give our utmost attention to the important objects recommended to us by your excellency, and chearfully grant such supplies as shall be necessary for the support of his majesty's government, the maintenance of public credit, and the security and welfare of this kingdom, as far as shall be consistent with the ability and the essential interest of this country: we are sensible that the great sums of money, granted of late years, for premiums, bounties, and public works, are a subject of the highest importance, and require our most serious consideration. The illegal associations entered into, and audacious outrages committed in different counties of this kingdom, and particularly in some places in the North, give us the utmost concern; and nothing shall be wanting on our parts, to prevent, for the future, those atrocious violations of the public peace and tranquillity. Animated as we are, with the strongest sense of loyalty to the best of kings; possessed with the fullest confidence in your future, from our happy experience of your past conduct; and fully convinced of your excellency's affectionate regards to this kingdom, by the many proofs of your attachment to our interests, during your residence amongst us; we shall not fail to contribute every thing in our power, to make your administration as easy and honourable to your excellency, as we are assured it will prove happy and advantageous to the public. His Excellency's Answer. I return the House of Commons my most sincere thanks for this very kind and affectionate address, which gives me the greatest satisfaction, as it follows your experience of my conduct during a residence of almost four years in this kingdom.—Nothing shall be wanting, on my part, to merit the continuance of your approbation and confidence; and it will be a most pleasing part of my duty, in this high station, most [["[2] 3" listed below the second column]]
