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in the last session of parliament, 
has been amply proved by the out- 
rages, which they were intended 
to suppress. having ina great mea- 
sure subsided. lam, however, to 
jament, that in one part of the 
country good order has not yet 
been entirely restored, and that in 
other districts a treasonable system 
of secret confederation, by the ad- 
ministering of illegal oaths, stil] 
continucs, although no means with- 
in the reach of government have 
been left untried to counteract it. 
Gentlemen of the House of 
Commons, 
I have ordered to be laid before 
you an account of such articles of 
expence as are not included in the 
estimate of the current year, and 
which the present circumstances 
have rendered necessary ; and when 
you consider the great interest for 
which we are engaged, and the ob- 
jects for which we are contending, 
I doubt not that you will grant the 
supplies which may be requisite for 
them with your accustomed cheer- 
fulness and liberality ; and when 
the ordinary accounts and estimates 
for the ensuing year shall be laid 
before you, I trust you will then 
proceed with the zeal you have 
always manifested in proyiding for 
the exigencies of the state, and the 
honourable support of his majesty’s 
government. 
You will not fail at a proper 
time to continue your attention to 
the manufactures, the agriculture, 
and the commerce of the country, 
and to extend your accustomed be- 
nevolence to the protestant charter- 
schools, and the other institutions 
of education and charity which 
have been so long fostered by your 
liberal encouragement. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1796. 
The prosperity and resources of | 
the kingdom, so highly improved 
by your meritorious care, still re- 
main unimpaired by the pressure of 
war ; and | trust to your unremit- 
ting attention for the further ad- 
vancement of your national pros™ 
perity. 
You have learnt the steps which 
his majesty has taken to procure 
the blessings of general peace upon 
a solid and permanent basis. Should 
these gracious endeavours of his 
majesty not be followed by the suc- 
cess which he has every reason to 
expect, he is satisfied that the af- 
fections, courage, and perseverance 
of his people, will enable him to 
frustrate the designs of our enemies, 
and to maintain the honour and 
dignity of his crown. 
It will afford me the highest sa- 
tisfaction to be aided at this im. 
portant crisis by your advice, and 
I rely with a confidence you have 
taught me to indulge, upon your 
liberal interpretation of my con- 
duct, and upon that support I have 
so amply experienced since I re- 
ceived his majesty’s commands to 
repair to this country; and it will 
be peculiarly gratifying to me, if 
I should have the good fortune; in 
the administration of the king’s 
government, to impress upon your 
minds the full extent of his majes- 
ty’s paternal care of this kingdom, 
and of my own anxiety to promote, 
by every means, its interests its 
safety, and its prosperity. 
A Proclamation by the Lord Lieu- 
tenant and Council of Ireland. 
Camden, ~ 
WHEREAS by an act of parlia- 
ment passed in this kingdom, in 
the 56th year of his majesty’s reign, 
entitled 
