mand, prorogued the parliament to the 22d day of January, 1801, when the members were summoned by a proclamation read by the clerk at the table, to attend in their places. Immediately after his Majesty had left the house, he held a grand council, in which several arrangements required by that grand event were settled. In honor of the Union many promotions were made, and several new titles created. On the next day, viz. the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and one, the incorporate Union of Great Britain and Ireland was formally announced by proclamation.* Thus was accomplished the incorporate Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
* On the same day was published another proclamation, declaring what ensigns and colours should be borne at sea, in merchant ships or vessels belonging to his Majesty's subjects of the united kingdom, for which see Appendix, No. CXXIV. His Majesty's speech and the several proclamations here referred to are to be seen, Hist. Rev. vol. III. 1071 to 1076.
ABERCROMBIE, Sir Ralph, com- America, war with unpopular in
mander in chief, censures the army, ii. 419.
resigns, ib. Absentee-tax, proposed by Lord Harcourt, and rejected, ii. 168 Act to secure the crown in the protestant line, ii. 32
-of Queen Ann, to prevent the further growth of popery, ii. 35 Adam, his perfection, i. 27
his knowledge, how trans- mitted, i. 28
Address of the Commons to the throne, upon pensions, negativ- ed, ii. 149
ditto, for redress of griev- ances, ib.
to Lord Lieutenant, for pa- pers about septennial bill, ii.
her alliance with France, ii:
peace with, ii. 237
terms of, censured in the British parliament, ii. 240 Amnesty, act of, passed in 1798, ii. 501
Ann, her accession to the throne,
led alternately by Whigs and Tories, ib.
persecutes the Catholics, ii.
insincerity and duplicity of herself and ministers, ii. 37, 49
oppresses her catholic sub- jects with a severe code of laws, ii. 41
addressed by the Tories against the Presbyterians, ii. 47.
adverse to the whig party in Ireland, ii. 54
creates 12 new peers, ii. 56 favours and commends chan- cellor Phipps, ii. 60-1
averse from the Hanover suc- cession, ii. 61
irritated at being forced to proclaim a reward of 50,000l. for apprehending the pretender her brother, ib.
hurt at Leslie's failure to convert her brother to the pro- testant faith, ib.
mortified at the conduct of her council, ii. 63
taken ill and dies within 3
months of the disorder she then | Bagpipe, antiquity of, i. 99
used in Ireland, ib. Stanyhurst's description of,
Bagnal, Mr. proposes a patriotic donation to Mr. Grattan, ii. 227 Bank of Ireland established, fi. 217, 231
Bar, meeting of, and resolutions against union, ii. 520-1 Bards, estimation of, i. 51, 59 Beauchamp, Lord (now Marquis of Hertford,) favourable to the catholics, ii. 179
against simple repeal, ii. 239 Bective, Earl Bective, Earl of, reprobates the system of coercion, ii. 412 Bede, his silence about St. Patrick, i. 112
account of his works, i. 113-
his honourable testimony of Ireland, i. 124-5
confirms the Irish annals,i.126 Bedford, Duke of, favourable to the catholics, ii. 125
forms an association for sup- port of public credit, ii. 128
graciously receives the Ca- tholic address, ii. 129 Belfast, inhabitants of, petition Mr. Pitt for reform, ii. 260
celebrate the French Revolu- tion, ii. 307
petition for the repeal of pe- nal laws against catholics, ii.315 rejected, ii. 318
Bellamont, Lord, against union, ii. 523
Beresford, Mr. his intrigues with the British Cabinet, against Lord Fitzwilliam, ii. 348
dismissed by Lord Fitzwil- liam, and why, ii. 351
his dismissal the cause of Lord Fitzwilliam's recal, ii. 355
Beresford, Mark, produces a warrant for superseding the commission of jail delivery at Antrim, ii. 406
John Claudius, opposes the recompense to proprietors of boroughs, ii. 563 Bishops, Catholic,address the King, ii.341
address the Lord Lieutenant for a Catholic seminary, ii. 342 differences between them and the laity, ib. Blaquiere, Sir John, paving bill, unpopularity of, ii. 257
opposes the bill for catholic relief, ii. 353
opposes Mr. Graydon's mo- tion for the reform of abuses, ii. 355
Bloody Friday, why socalled, ii. 482 Blore Heath, battle of, i. 250 Bogs, catholics enabled by statute to take leases for 51 years for re- claiming them, ii. 166 Bolingbroke, Lord, his ideas of his- tory, i. 2
Bollandists, who, i. 114 Bolton, Duke of, purposely mis-
quotes the words of the statute, granting ease to the dissenters, ii. 76
Bond, Oliver, taken into custody, ii. 424
his death, ii. 498 Boroughs, recompense to proprie- tors of, opposed by Messrs. Sau- rin, J. C. Beresford, and Daw- son, ii. 563 Boulter, Primate, his caution of Swift to the Duke of Newcastle, ii. 80
Boulter, his jealousy of any Irish influence, ii. 94
opposes the restoration of Lord Clanricarde to his estates, ii 95
opposes toleration in favour of the dissenters, ii 99
supports the English ascend- ancy in Ireland, ii. 100
yields to the loss of the clergy rather than hazard the English interest, ii. 101
his death, ii. 104 Boyd, Captain, seizes Messrs. Har- vey, Colclough, and Fitzgerald, and sends them on an embassy to the rebels, at Enniscorthy, and effects thereof, ii. 456 7
his house plundered by the rebels, ii. 461 Boyle, Mr. (Speaker of the house of commons) created Earl of Shannon by George II. ii. 123 his death, ii. 148
Walsingham, his motion in the British house of commons, about Lord Townshend's proro gation of the Irish parliament, negatived, ii. 162 Broghull, Lord, sells himself to Cromwell, i. 398
his testimony of the perse- verance of the catholics in the royal cause, i. 406
his duplicity before the resto- ration, i. 414
inclines to the royal party; i. 416
reconciled to Sir C. Coote, in order to forward the royal 'cause, i. 417
their insidious conduct to each other, ib.
created Earl of Orrery by Charles II, i. 419
Brown, Denis, moves an address
to the throne on retrenchment, ii. 251
Brown, opposed by the attorney- general (Fitz Gibbon), ii. 252 Bruce, Robert, beats the English at Bannockburn, i. 204
Edw. lands in Ireland, i. 205 crowned at Dundalk, ib. falls in battle, i. 209 Buckingham, Marquis of, vide Temple. Buckinghamshire, Lord, succeeds Lord Harcourt, ii. 177
admits the financial difficul- ties of the kingdom, ii. 178
weak government of, ii. 186 pro gues parliament, ii. 196 unpopular in Ireland and dis- approved of in England, ib.
recalled and succeeded by Lord Carlisle, ib. Burdett, Sir Francis, seconds Mr. Fox's motion for an address to the throne for allaying the dis- turbances of Ireland, ii. 392 Burgb, Mr. Hussey, proposes an amendment for free trade, ii. 185
his amiable character, ib. Burgundy, Duchess of, her in- trigues against Henry VII. i. 267, 270, 280 Burke, Edmund, his ideas of pub- -lishing Irish annals, i. 182
his opinion of the revolution of 1688 as to Ireland, ii 2
his opinion of the penal code under Ann, ii. 35
his character of Geo. II.ii. 133 his opinion of Mr. Gardiner's catholic bill, ii. 216
his book on the French Re- volution and defection from the Whig party, ii. 302
his letter to Sir Herc. Lang- rishe on the catholic claims, ii. 308
Burke, Richard, Agent to the Ca- tholics, ii. 308
imprudently ventures into the House of Commons, ii.
Burston, Counsellor, his opinion of the legality of catholic dele- gation, ii 324.
Butler, Simon, chairman to the society of united Irishmen of Dublin, ii. 306
publishes digest of popery laws, ii. 323
his opinion of legality of ca- tholic delegation, ii. 324 —Rev. Mr., his murder charg- ed on the catholics, ii. 341 Byrne, Pat. the bookseller, com- mitted for high-treason, ii. 430
Michael William, executed contrary to agreement with government, ii. 498
Cabal, why so called, i. 435
their plans to alter the con- stitution of Great Brit. i. 437 , encourage plots and plot- ters, ib. Cabinet, vide English. Cabyria, what, i. 867
, their antiquity, i. 878 indecency of, i. 130-1 Camden, his authority in favour of Ireland, i. 126-7.
Earl of, his speech in the British Peers in favour of Ire- land, ii. 186
arrives in Dublin as Lord Lieutenant, ii. 362. ill received, ib.
addressed by the Commons, ii. 364
his speech on prorogueing the parliament, ii. 367
ditto on meeting of Parlia- ment, 21st Jan. ii. 373
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