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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1792. 
Speech of the Speaker of the House of welfare, has been proved to us by 
Commons of Ireland, on presenting 
the Bills of Supply, April 18, 
1792. 
May it please your Excellency, 
HE Commons of Ireland at- 
tend with the supplies. 
While they may look back with 
a conscious pride to their spirited 
and successful measures for pre- 
venting an increase of national 
debt, as one great cause of the ex- 
tension of trade, agriculture, and 
manufactures, which has with a 
rapid and uninterrupted progress 
raised this kingdom to a state of 
~ prosperity and wealth never before 
experienced in it, they know that 
the continuance of that prosperity 
would soon cease, if it were not 
cherished and maintained by our 
most excellent constitution ; acon- 
stitution in which liberty and order 
are so happily blended, that every 
subject equally enjoys their influ- 
ence, and feels his person, his in- 
dustry, and property, equally and 
effectually protected by it. 
Its preservation therefore must 
ever be the great object of their 
_ care ; and there is no principle on 
which it is founded so essential to 
its preservation, nor more justly 
dear to their patriotic and. loyal 
feelings, than that which has settled 
_the throne of these realms on his 
- Majesty’s illustrious house ; on it, 
_ and on the provisions for securing 
a Protestant parliament, depends 
a Protestant ascendancy ; and with 
it the continuance of the many 
blessings we now enjoy. 
The bills which I hold contain 
the usualgrants; and Ihave themost 
sincere happiness in presenting them 
to your Excellency, whose know- 
ledge of the true interests of Ireland, 
and whose anxiety to promote its 
the firmest vigilance and prudenc 
of your administration. 
These supplies are contained in 
the bills which I have the honour 
of presenting to your Excellency 
for the royal assent. 
Speech of the Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland to both Houses of Parlia- 
ment, April 18th, 1792. 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
fi sec dispatch you have given 
to the national business ena- 
bles me to close the session, and to 
relieve you from further attendance 
in parliament. 
> 
Gentlemen of the House of 
Commons, 
His Majesty commands me to 
thank you for the supplies you have 
voted for the public service: you 
may depend upon their faithful ap- 
plication to the purposes for which 
they were granted. 
My Lords and Gentlemen, 
I have his Majesty’s commands 
to express his approbation of the 
wisdom that has guided your pro- 
ceedings during the present session, 
especially in the liberalindulgences 
you have afforded to your Roman 
Catholic brethren, by establishing 
the legality of inter-marriage, by 
admitting them to the profession of 
the law, and the benefits of educa- 
tion ; and by removing all restric- 
tions upon their industry in trade 
and manufactures. 
Your knowledge of the true inte- 
rests of your country is plainly 
marked in the measure you have 
adopted fer carrying into effect a 
reciprocal preference in the corn- 
trade 
