184 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1800. 



Address from the British House of 

 Lords to his Majesty, with the 

 Resolutions for the Union with 

 Ireland, as amended by them. 



Resolved, 



THAT it be the first article of 

 the union of the kingdom of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, that the 

 said kingdoms of Great Britain and 

 Ireland shall, upon the 1st day of 

 January which shall be in the year 

 of our Lord 1801, and for ever 

 after, be united into one kingdom, 

 by the name of " The United 

 Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire- 

 land ;" and that the royal style and 

 titles appertaining to the imperial 

 crown of the said united kingdom 

 and its dependencies, and also the 

 ensigns armorial, flags and banners 

 thereof, shall be such as his ma- 

 jesty, by his royal proclamation 

 under the great seal of the united 

 kingdom, shall be pleased to ap- 

 point. 



Resolved, That it be the second 

 article of union, that the succession 

 to the imperial ci'own of the said 

 united kingdom, and of the domi- 

 nions thereunto belonging, shall 

 continue limited and settled in the 

 same manner as the succession to 

 the imperial crown of the said 

 kingdoms of Great Britain and 

 Ireland now stands limited and 

 settled, according to the existing 

 laws and to the terms of union be- 

 tween England and Scotland. 



Resolved, That it be the third 

 article of union, that the said 

 united kingdom be represented in 

 one and the same parliament, to 

 be styled " The Parliament of the 

 United Kingdom of Great Britain 

 and Ireland." 



Resolved, That it be the fourth 

 article of the union, that four lords 



spiritual of Ireland by rotation of 

 sessions, and twenty-eight lords 

 temporal of Ireland, elected for life 

 by the peers of Ireland, shall be the 

 number to sit and vote on the part 

 of Ireland in the house of lords of 

 the parliament of the united king- 

 dom ; and one hundred commoners 

 (two for each county of Ireland, 

 two for the city of Dublin, two 

 for the city of Cork, one for the 

 university of Trinity College, and 

 one for each of the thirty-one most 

 considerable cities, towns, and bo- 

 roughs) be the number to sit and 

 vote on the part of Ireland in the 

 house of commons of the parliament 

 of the united kingdom : that such 

 act as shall be passed in the parlia- 

 ment of Ireland previous to the 

 union " to regulate the mode by 

 which the lords spiritual and tem- 

 poral, and the commons, to serve 

 in the parliament of the united 

 kingdom on the part of Ireland, 

 shall be summoned and returned to 

 the said parliament," shall be con- 

 sidered as forming part of the treaty 

 of union, and shall be incorporated 

 in the acts of the respective parlia- 

 ments, by which the said union 

 shall be ratified and established ; 

 that all questions touching the rota- 

 tion or election of lords spiritual or 

 temporal of Ireland to sit in the 

 parliament of the united kingdom, 

 shall be decided by the house of 

 lords thereof; and whenever by 

 reason of an equality of votes in the 

 election of any such lords tempoi-al, 

 a complete election shall not be 

 made according to the true intent 

 of this article, the names of those 

 peers for whom such equality of 

 votes shall be so given, shall be 

 written on pieces of paper of a simi- 

 lar form, and shall be put into a . 

 glass by the dork of the parliament 



