STATE PAPERS. 
been but partial, and as circum. 
stances have made other considera- 
tions, conne¢ted with this important 
subjett, highly necessary, it is hoped 
that your wisdom will order every 
thing relating to it, in the manner 
most beneficial,'end the best adapt- 
ed to the occasions of the several 
descriptions of men, which com- 
pose his majesty’s faithful subjects 
of Ireland. 
We are engaged in an arduous 
contest. ‘The time calls not only 
for great fortitude, and an unusual 
share of public spirit, but for much 
constancy and perseverance. You 
are engaged with a power which, 
under the ancient forms of its in- 
ternal arrangement, was always 
highly formidable to the neigh- 
bouring nations. Lately this power 
has assumed a new shape; but 
with the same ambition, with 
much more extensive and systema- 
tic designs, far more effective, 
and without comparison, more 
dreadful in the certain consequences 
of its eventual success, it threatens 
nothing less than the entire sub- 
version of the liberty and inde, 
pendence of every state in Europe. 
An enemy to them all, it is a¢tu- 
ated with a peculiar animosity 
against these kingdoms, not only 
as the natural prote¢tion of the ba- 
lance of power in Europe, but 
also, because, by the profession of 
a legal, humane, and rational free. 
dom, we seem to reproach that 
false and-spurious liberty, which, 
in reality, is anignominious ser- 
vitude, tending to extinguish all 
od arts, to generate nothing but 
dmpiety, crime, disorder, and fe- 
‘rocious manners, and to end in 
wretchedness, and general .deso- 
Jation. 
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. To guard his people from the 
enterprises of this dangerous and 
malignant power, and for the pro- 
tection of all civilized society 
against the inroad of anarchy, his 
majesty has availed himself of 
every rational aid foreign and do- 
mestic: he has called upon the 
skill, courage, and experience of 
all his subjects, wheresoever dis. 
persed, and you must be duly sen. 
sible in such acrifis as the pre. 
sent, which rarely occurs in the 
course of human affairs, of the ad- 
vantage of his majesty’s thus en- 
deavouring to profit of the united 
strength and zeal of every descrip. 
tion of his subjects. 
J have to assure you of his ma. 
jesty’s most cheerful concurrence in 
every measure, which your wisdom 
and comprehensive patriotism shall 
point out for this salutary pur. 
pose. 
On my part, you shall find me, 
from principle and’ from inelina. 
tion, thoroughly disposed to con. 
cur with “his miajesty’s paternal 
wishes, and with the wise measures 
of his parliament. On a cordial 
affection to the whole of Ireland, 
and 6n“4 condu& suitable to that 
-sentialénty I wish to found my own 
persénalestimation, and my repu. 
tation in the execution of the great 
trust committed, by the most bene- 
ficent of sovereigns, to my care. 
SRE TE RE 
Earl Camden’s Speech on proroguing 
the Trish Parliament, 5th June. 
My lords and gentlemen, 
I AM direéted by his majesty to 
convey to you his ful! approbation 
of your services in the present sés- 
sion, and to relieve you from ‘fur. 
ther 
