YyRHE GURIONICLE. 
the Bank in the manner lately 
adopted. His reply was, that this 
obje& would foon ceafe; their a- 
mount feemed to have impreffed 
his mind with a defign to difconti- 
nue the fervice that occafioned 
them; the troops were about to 
return home. He candidly ac- 
knowledged, that the expence of 
our troops on the Continent had 
been enormous; and intimated, 
that the bent and operation of the 
war, as long as it did ftill continue, 
would be naval, and in the Welt 
Indies. 
The Governor then made his 
acknowledgements to Mr, Pitt for 
the indulgence of fo much time as 
he had given to him and the De- 
puty Governor. The Chancellor 
of the Exchequer faid he was going 
out of town to-morrow, fora week, 
and at his return would be glad to 
fee the Governor again, if any 
thing material fhould occur. 
Summary of the Report of the Secret 
Committee appointed to confider of the 
Papers feized in Belfaft. Prefented in 
the rift Houfe of Commons by Mr. 
Pelham. 
S hoe Committee began by ftat- 
ing, that they confidered it 
to be a proper difcharge of their 
duty to examine into the principles 
and motives of the Society of United 
Irifhmen at its firft formation: they 
affert, that in confequence of this 
examination they find that the So- 
ciety, under the pretext of promot- 
ing a Parliamentary Reform, and 
what they called Emancipation of 
the Catholics, harboured a defign to 
difunite this country from Great 
Britain, to overthrow the prefent 
conftitution, and eftablifh in its 
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145 
ftead a republican form of govern- 
ment. ‘The Committee reft this 
opinion, in a great meafure, ona 
letter written by Theobald Wolfe 
Tone, a very active member of that 
focicty, to his friends in Beifaft; in 
which there appears a number of 
expreffions which feem to indicate 
that Mr.. Tone confidered the Bri- 
tifh conneétion as the bane of Irifh 
profperity. Another ground of the 
opinion of this Committee is, the 
declaration publifhed by the Seciety 
of United Irifhmen in Dublin, in 
the year 1791, when Mr. Rowan 
and Dr. Drenan were Chairman and 
Secretary, in which the prominent 
principle is, that mone but the people 
can {peak the will of the people. The 
Committee then proceed to the 
papers. They ftate the manner in 
which thefe papers had been feized 
in the houfe of a John Alexander, 
at Belfaft, by Captain Barber and 
Mr. Fox; they recite in what rooms 
and in what company they had been 
found, and infer that they were the 
papers of two committees of Unit- 
ed Irifhmen. By one it appears 
that the fociety is organized ina 
very perfect manner; «thé loweft 
conftituent part is the Baronial 
Committee, or the committee of 
the members who live in one ba- 
rony. When this committee be- 
comes numerous, it is fplit into two 
committees. When a certain 
number of thefe committees are 
formed in a county, they elect a 
County Committee; when a cer- 
tain number of county committees 
are formed, they elect a Provincial 
Committee; and again, when two 
or more of thefe committees are 
created, they elect members who 
form the higheft member of the 
fociety, a National Qemmittee.— 
They are, among yther things, 1m- 
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