A View of Irish Affairs Since the Revolution of 1688: To the Close of the Parlimentary Session of 1795; with Introductory Remarks, and a Preliminary Sketch of the Revolution, Volume 2T. Henshall, 1795 - Ireland |
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Page 35 - In the month of October the Irish Parliament met and unanimously resolved to address the throne, and represent to His Majesty that it was not by temporary expedients but by a free trade alone that Ireland could be saved from impending ruin.
Page 48 - That a claim of any body of men, other than the king, lords, and commons of Ireland to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconstitutional, illegal, and a grievance.
Page 31 - For this, rectriction and commercial bondage had been her reward. The fmallnefs of the Irifh taxes had been often pleaded againft, allowing the benefits propofed. — But if the internal opulence...
Page 55 - ... any number of lives not exceeding five. They were now enabled to purchafe or take by grant, limitation, defcent or devife, any lands, tenements or hereditaments in this kingdom...
Page 32 - Irifh taxes had, he faid, been pleaded agairtft allowing them the benefits propofed. But, he obferved, that if the internal opulence and external advantages of both countries were compared, it would be found that Ireland paid taxes, in a quadruple proportion more than England. She was taxed beyond her ability, and had not the means of payment. With...
Page 54 - BILL to empower the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor or governors and council of this kingdom, for the time being, to certify all fuch bills and none other as both...
Page 15 - Thefe things create a, dependence on the court, and are faid to ftrengthen the hands of government ; but if they do fo ia one refpect, they weaken it much more in another. THEY give two juft caufes for complaint ; the beft friends of the prefent eftablifhment, are grieved to behold meafures which they cannot vindicate. Repeated murmurs, where there is a real foundation for them, naturally tend to alienate the...
Page 29 - ... nor was Government able to make grants, either to promote industry or to relieve the national calamities. Every branch of the revenue failed, and such was the poverty of the nation, that the militia law could not be carried into effect. Ireland could not pay her forces abroad, and was obliged to borrow money from England to pay those at home. The Parliament was...
Page 308 - Duke of Norfolk in the Englifh houfe of peers, agreeable to a former notice, made the following motion ; "That an humble addrefs be prefented to his majefly, praying that his majefty...
Page 55 - ... the lord lieutenant, or other chief governor, or governors, fhall and may grant warrants for fealing writs of error returnable into parliament. AN habeas corpus law, and one for rendering the judges independent of the crown were alfo enacted.