of the upon slips of paper, and drawn from a glass placed 1800. . upon the table. On the 31st of December, 1800, his Majesty en- Completion tered the House of Peers, when the usher of the black Union. rod was sent to desire the attendance of the commons. Several members of the House of Commons appeared at the bar, preceded by the speaker, who addressed his Majesty in a dignified and impressive speech, That part of it, which related to Ireland was as follows: " These, Sire, the last proceedings of your parliament previous to the great era now on the point of coinmencing, are the indication and result of that common interest and fellow feeling with the people, by which it has ever been actuated, and which are the best safeguard of all that is most valuable in society. To that era your commons look forward with a confident expectation, that the consolidated wisdom and authority of the legislature of Great Britain and Ireland, under the auspicious government of your Ma. jesty, and your illustrious house, will diffuse throughout every part of the united kingdom the full benefits of that constitution, which has been proved to be favorable, in an unexampled degree, to the enjoyment of civil liberty and public prosperity ; which cannot therefore fail to animate the zeal and determination of those, who may share its blessings, to cherish and maintain it during their own times, and to transmit it as the best inheritance to their posterity.” His Majesty was then pleased to make a most gracious speech from the throne to both houses of parliament: afterwards the lord-chancellor, by his Majesty's com. 1800. 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 sarne 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 scen, Hist. Rev. vol. III. 1071 to 1076. THE END. INDEX ! resigns, ib. - ii. 34 11. 41 Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, com- America, war with unpopular in Ireland, ii. 174 her alliance with France, ii. 178 peace with, ii. 237 Amnesty, act of, passed in 1798, ii. 501 his knowledge, how trans- led alternately by Whigs and Tories, il persecutes the Catholics, ïi. insincerity and duplicity of oppresses her catholic sub- -addressed by the Tories against adverse to the whig party in Ireland, ii, 54 creates 12 new peers, ii. 56 averse from the Hanover suc- irritated at being forced to apprehending the pretender her brother, ib. hurt at Leslie's failure to convert her brother to the pro-, mortified at the conduct of taken ill and dies within 3 2 P 572 to the throne on retrenchment, [ Burke, Richard, Agent to the Ca- ii. 251 Brown, opposed by the attorney- Edw. lands in Ireland, i. 205 admits the financial difficul- weak government of, ii. 186 recalled and succeeded by his amiable character, ib. his opinion of the revolution his opinion of the penal code his character of Geo. II.ii. 183 his book on the French Re- his letter to Sir Herc. Lang- tholics, ii. 308 imprudently ventures into Bursion, Counsellor, his opinion Butler, Simon, chairman to the publishes digest of popery his opinion of legality of ca- Rev. Mr., his murder charg- Michael William, executed Cabal, why so called, i. 435 their plans to alter the con- their antiquity, i. 878. Earl of, his speech in the arrives in Dublin as Lord addressed by the Commons, Camden, ditto on 13th October, Castlehaven, Earl of, imprisoned, i. 376 his testimony of the loyalty, Custlereagh, Lord, moves an ad- about papers dress io the throne, and the adoption of coercive measures, ii. 396 succeeds Mr. Pelham, ii. 421 Dublin upon the breaking out communicates the same to the House of Commons, ii. 493 opposes Colonel Maxwell's motion for executing the pri- soners, ii. 435 loyalists, &c. ii. 500 posed by Sir John Parnell, ij. interest and convenes a new commends the union, and assures the house that he will his partiality in granting and Munster for corrupt purposes, ii. 548 proposes and carries the plan proposes compensation to Cathal, the bloody handed, asserts mily, i. 173 stored, i. 305 the exercise of their religion opposed by Mountjoy, i. 334 tolerated by Charles, i. 352 infantry, and 500 cavalry, for |