go8] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
doubtedly encourage you to perfe- 
vere in the maintenance of good 
government, and to adhere to that 
wife fyftem of policy which has 
eftablithed the credit, the induftry, 
and the profperity of your country 
upon a firm and fteady foundation. 
Gentlemen of the Houfe of 
Commons, 
T have ordered the national ac~ 
€ounts to be laid before you, and I 
truft you will make fuch provifions 
as fhall be neceflary for the exigen- 
cies of the ftate, and the honourable 
fupport of his majefty’s govern~ 
ment. 
_ My. Lords and Gentlemen, 
Your zeal for the interefts of this 
éountry will naturally direét your 
attention to whatever can increafe 
the wealth and’ extend the induftry 
of Ireland; her agriculture and 
linen manufacture will claim your 
efpecial care; dnd the inftitutions 
of the charter and other proteftant 
fchools, will, I am perfuaded, re- 
¢eive from you that confideration 
which the interefts of religion and 
the good education of youth pecu- 
liarly demand. I earneftly recom- 
mend to your attention the improv- 
ing and eontinuing fuch laws as éx- 
perience hath fhewn to be of na- 
tional benefit, and I have the king’s 
commands to affure you that fuch 
meafures as may contribute to that 
end will meet with his majeity’s 
moft gracious concurrence. 
_Impreffed with the deep fenfe of 
the diftinguifhed honour which his 
majefty has conferred upon me by 
my appointment to this arduous fi- 
guation, I fhall endeavour with the 
utmoft zeal and attention to pro- 
mote the happinefs and welfare of 
Ireland; fully fenfible that I can- 
mot otherwife hope, either to ren-: 
der my fervices acceptable to my 
fovereign, or to enfure your favour- 
able opinion and confidence. 
On the Addrefs to bis Majefty being 
prefented to the Lords, Lord Port= 
atlington moved the following 
Amendment: © To lay before his 
“< Majefty the apprehenfions this Houfe 
“¢ entertains of Minifterial Influence 
« and its hope, that his Majefty will 
« remove them, by abolifbing Efta~ 
« blifhments fo unneceffary, burthen= 
“ fame, and alarming, 8c.” ——<which 
being rejected, the following Pre- 
te? was entered? 
DISSENTIENT. 
ECAUSE we conceive it to 
be the peculiar duty of the 
peers of this realm, as hereditary 
guardians of the conftitution, and 
counfellors of the crown, diligently 
and unremittingly to watch over the 
proceedings of adminiftration, and 
to feize on'the earlieft opportunity of 
informing their fovereign, by hum- 
ble addrefs, of every attempt which 
fhall appear to them of a tendency 
to injure his fubjects of Ireland in 
their liberties, privileges, or proper~ 
ties, either by acts of ftate, danger- 
ous to freedom, or by an imordi- 
nate expenditure of the public tréea~ 
fure, efpecially when fuch profo 
fion is manifeftly meant for the’ 
attainment of the worft of purpofes, 
an undue and unconftitutional in- 
fluence in parliament ; a duty which 
is rendered in us ftill more indif- 
penfable, inafmuch as we are, from 
our fituation, denied the honour, 
happinefs, and high advantage of 
his majefty’s royal prefence, and 
confequent paternal infpection. 
Becaufe we conceive that the pre- 
fent eccafion peculiarly and indif- 
penfably » 
