1806.) 
claim for reparation on the moderation of his 
conduét, on the juftice of his reprefentations, 
and on the common intereft which Pruffia 
herfeif mutt ultimately feel to refift a fy ftem 
deftructive of the fecurity of al) legitimate 
poflefiion: but when, inftead of receiving af- 
furances conformable to this juft expe€tation, 
his Majefty was informed, that the determin- 
ation had been taken, of excluding by force 
the veficls and the commodities of this king- 
dom {from ports and countries under the lawful 
dominion or forcible controul of Pruffia, his 
Majeity could no longer delay to aét, without 
negleéting the firft duty which he owes to his 
people. The dignity of his crown, and the 
interefts of his fubjects, equally forbid his 
acquiefcing in this open and unprovoked ag- 
greilion; he has no doubt of the full fupport 
of his Parliament in vindicating the honour 
of the Britith flag, and the freedom of the 
Britith navigation ; and he will look with 
anxious expectation to that moment, when a 
more dignified and enlightened policy on the 
part of Pruffia, thall ‘remove.every impedi- 
ment to the renewal of peace and friendthip 
with a power with whom his Majefty has no 
other caufe of difference, than that now cre- 
ated by thefe hoftile aé&s.”’ 
The total number of men raifed in 
Great Britain and Ireland for unlimited 
fervice; from the 1ft of January, 1801, to 
the 28th of February 1806, were— 
18or 1802 1303 1804 «805 1806 
175433 7,403 11,253 9,430 11,677 1,706 
The Cafualties in the Britith Army, 
abroad and at home, from the year 1801, 
inclufive, to the lateft periods in the year 
1805, for which returns have been re- 
ceived, were— 
Deaths. Difcharges. Defertions. Total. 
1Bor 8,175 9,229 3,196 20,6c0 
1802 4,417 27,131 32313 34,932 
1803 2,940 10,32r 4,296 = 17,557 
1804 75239 45782 «$5427 -:17,448 
1805 4,814 3,658 6,752 15,234 
The total number of thips now in com- 
miffion is 7203 of which 126 are of the 
line; 14 trom 50 to 44 guns; 157 fri- 
gaics; 178 floops, &c.; 235 gun-brigs, &c. 
IRELAND. 
The frith Catholics continue to agitate 
the queftion of Catholig E:mancipation. 
State of Public Affairs in April, 1806. 357 
A meeting of Catholic Gentlemen was 
held in Dublin on the 3d inft. when a fe- 
ries of Refolutions were agreed to, of 
which the following conftitute a part: 
*¢ That as the Parochial Meetings in Dub- 
lin have, within thefe few days, appointed 
Agents for the purpofe of preparing an Ad- 
drefs to his Grace the Duke of Bedford, on 
the part of the Catholics of the City of Dub- 
lin, exelufively, and of further fuperintending, 
on their part only, the concerns of the Ca- 
tholic Body, we conceive it to be of muchime 
portance to that Body, that its Nobility, Cler~ 
gy, and Gentry ; its landed intereft ; its learned 
profeffions 3 its merchants, traders, and other 
inhabitants refident in the country parts of 
Ireland, fhould be likewife provided with a 
medium near the feat of Government, 
through which equally to exprefs their fen- 
timents, feelings, and wifhes, and by means 
of which to promote their refpective interefts. 
«*'Vhe expediency of fucha meafure at this 
prefent time is obvious. We do indulge 
in a well-founded hope, tha: the Jaws which 
ftill affe& us, will, torough the wife and be- 
nignant fuggeftion of our Gracious Sovereign, 
be taken into early contemplation by thofe 
virtuous and jlluftrious men, whom he has 
been lately pleafed to call to his Councils.» 
Experience has, moreover, proved to us, 
that the fuperintendence of our interefts can~ 
not, witha view totheir final fuccefs, and 
with a due confideration of the good order, 
welfare, and profperity.of the empire at large, 
be, with fafety, entrufted to any others 
among us, than thofe who fhall include with- 
in them the moft attainable weight, talent, 
and property of the Catholics of freland. 
‘*Tofluenced by thefe confiderations, .we 
have formed ourfe!ves into an Affociatian, in 
which we hope fhall be comprized the full 
re{pe€tability of the Catholic Body. Its ob- 
jeét fhall be earneftly, but temperately, to 
embrace every favourable occafion that may 
ofier, to accomplifh the removal of thofe legal 
reftri@tions under which we still labour—a ’ 
meafure of policy to which we fondly look, 
not only to produce the amelioration of our 
own particular condition, but as the moft 
direét means of concentrating the refources, 
perfecting the flrength, and wiciding againtt 
the enemies of the Britith Empire, its une 
reftrained and undivided energies.” 
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