U6 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1812. 



tions should serve only to hold us 

 out as the objects of harsh suspicion 

 «t home, or of daring attempts 

 upon our allegiance from abroad. 



May we, then, with hearts deeply 

 kiterested in the fate, of this our 

 humble supplication, presume to 

 appeal to the wisdom and benig- 

 nity of your Royal Highness on 

 behalf of a very numerous, indus- 

 trious, affectionate, and faithful 

 body of people, the Roman Catho- 

 lics of Ireland. 



And to pray, that your Royal 

 Highness may be pleased to take 

 into your valuable consideration 

 the whole of our condition; our 

 numbers, our services, our merits, 

 and our sufferings. 



And, as we are conscious of the 

 purity of our motives and the in- 

 tegrity of our principles, we there- 

 fore humbly pray to be restored to 

 the rights and privileges of the Con- 

 stitution of our country; to be 

 freed from all penal and disabling 

 laws in force against us on account 

 of our religious faith ; and that we 

 may thereby become more worthy, 

 as well as more capable, of pro- 

 moting the service of the Crown, 

 and the substantial interests of this 

 great empire, now committed to 

 the unrestricted wisdom of your 

 Royal Highness. 



Message respecting Mr. Perceval's 

 Family, 



The Prince Regent, deeply im- 

 pressed with the severe loss his 

 Royal Highness and the country 

 have sustained in consequence of 

 the murder of the Right Honour- 

 able Spencer Perceval, and being 

 desirous of marking his sense of 

 the public and private virtues of 



Mr. Perceval, and of affording re- 

 lief and assistance to his numerous 

 and afflicted family, recommends 

 to the House of Commons to en- 

 able his Royal Highness, in the 

 name and on the behalf of his Ma- 

 jesty, to make such provision for 

 the widow and family of the Right 

 Hon. Spencer Perceval as to the 

 justice and liberality of Parliament 

 may seem proper. 



G. P. R. 



Papers relative to Lord Liverpool's 

 Proposal toLord fVellesley, Mav 

 17, 1812. 



No. 1. 

 Minute of Conversation between 

 Mr. Canning and Lord Liver- 

 pool, dated 17th May, 1812. 



Gloucester Lodge, Sundai/, 

 May 17, 1812. 



Lord Liverpool stated to me, that 

 he was commanded by his Royal 

 Highness the Prince Regent to 

 make me the following communi- 

 cation : 



That upon the melancholy event 

 of Mr. Perceval's death, his Royal 

 Highness being desirous of conti- 

 nuing his administration upon its 

 present basis, was desirous also of 

 strengthening it as much as possi- 

 ble, by associating to it such per- 

 sons in public life as agreed most 

 nearly and generally in the princi- 

 ples upon which public affairs had 

 been conducted. 



That with this view his Royal 

 Highness naturally looked to Lord 

 Wellesley and to me. 



That he (Lord Liverpool) was 



authorised to express the-disposition 



of all his col leagues to act with 



Lord Wellesley and me, under an 



arrangement 



