William Difney, efq. vice Benfley, who refigns; and James-William Lukin, eiq. vice Laton, who refigns.

Dec. 4. Brevet. Capt. Thomas Oldfield, of the marines, to be major in the army.

Staff. Captain John Balcomb, of ift dragoon-guards, to be major of brigade to the forces.

5. Appointment of Harry Grant, efq. to be conful from the United States of America at the port of Leith, approved by his majefty.

5. Right hon. Thomas Grenville, fworn of his majesty's most hon. privy-council.

8. Captain Richard Neate, of 57th foot, to be major in the army. 12. Edward Berry, efq. captain in the royal navy, knighted.

25. Rev. Samuel Ryder Wefton, B. D. recommended by the king to be elected a canon-refidentiary of St. Paul's, vice Jeffreys, deceafed.Reverend Charles Morris, M. A. appointed a prebendary of Canterbury, vice Wefton, refigned.

19. Robert, vifc. Caftlereagh, fworn of his majefty's moft hon. privy-council.

20. Right Rev. Thomas Lewis O'Beirne, bishop of Otory, promoted to the fee of Meath, vice Maxwell, deceased.

29. Brevet. Capt. William Gifford, of the 26th foot, to be major in the army. To be colonels in the army, and to take rank as fuch fo long only as their refpective regiments of militia fhall remain embodied for actual fervice: honourable colonel Thomas Onflow, of the 2d regiment of Surrey militia; and colonel John Crewe, of the 2d regiment of Cheshire militia.

SHERIFFS appointed by his Majelly in Council for the Year 1798. Berks, Richard Palmer, of Hurft, efq.

Bedfordshire, John Fox, of Dean,

efq.

Bucks, John Penn, of Stoke Park, efq.

Cumberland, Sir Rich. Hodfon of Carlisle, knight.

Chefhire, Robert Hibbert, of Bertie, efq.

Cambridge and Hunt'fh. John Tharpe, of Chippenham, efq. Devonshire, Arthur Tremaine, of Sydenham, efq.

Dorfetfhire, Edw. Berkely Portman, of Brianftone, efq. Derbyshire, Joba Leaper Newton, of Derby, efq.

Effex, John Perry, of Moorhall, efq.

Gloucestershire, Thomas Vernon Delphin, of Eyford, efq.

Hertfordshire, Felix Calvert, of Hunfdon-house, esq.

Herefordshire, John Stedman, of Bofbury, efq.

Kent, John Plumtree, of Fredville, efq.

Leicestershire, Renue Payne, of Dunton Baffet, efq.

Lincolnshire, poftponed. Monmouthshire, Joshua Morgan, of Llanwenarth, fq.

Northumberland, Adam Afkew, of Ellington, esq.

Northamptonth. Thomas Reeve Thornton, of Brock-ha 1, efq. Norfolk, George Stone, of Bedenham, efq.

Nottingham. Nath. Stubbins, of Holme Pierrepoint, efq.

Oxfordfh. John Atkins Wright, of Oxford, cfq.

Rutlandshire, William Sharrard, of Langham, efq.

Shopfire, Andrew Corbett, of Shawbeirv-park, efq.

Somerfe thire, Samuel Rodbard, of Ever Creech, efq. Staffordshire, Richard Dyot, of Freeford, efq.

Suffolk, John Sheppard, of Campfey Afh, efq.

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South

Brecon, John Lloyd, of Dincis,

efq.

Radnor, John Benn Walsh, of Kevenllece, efq.

NORTH WALES.

Caernarvon, fir Thomas Moftyn, of Gloddeath, bart.

Anglefea, William Evans, of Glen Claw, efq.

Merioneth, Rob. Watkin Wynne, of Cwinmeer, efq.

Montgomery, Ralph Leake, of Criggion, efq.

Denbighshire, John Jones, of Penybrin, efq.

Flintshire, John Jones, of St. Afaph, efq.

SHERIFF appointed by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in Council, for the Year 1798.

Cornwall, James Buller, of Shillingham, efq.

PUBLIC

His Majefty's most gracious Speech on proroguing the Parliament, June 29, 1798.

My lords and gentlemen,

B the you
BY

Y the meafures adopted during the prefent feffion, you have amply fulfilled the folemn and unanimous affurances which I received from you at its commencement.

The example of your firmnefs and conftancy has been applauded and followed by my fubjects in every rank and condition in life: a fpirit of voluntary and ardent exertion, diffufed through every part of the kingdom, has ftrengthened and confirmed our internal fecurity; the fame fentiments have continued to animate my troops of every defcription; and my fects have met the menaces of invafion by blocking up all our enemies in their principal ports.

Gentlemen of the houfe of

commons,

The extenfive and equitable fcheme of contribution, by which fo large a fhare of our expenfes will be defrayed within the year, has defeated the expectations of thofe who had vainly hoped to exhauft our means, and to deftroy our public credit. You have been enabled to avail yourselves of farther refources

from a commerce increased in extent and vigour, notwithstanding the difficulties of war; and have had the fingular fatisfaction of deriving, at the fame moment, large additional aid from individual exertions of unexampled zeal, liberality, and patriotifm.

The provifion which has been made for the redemption of the land tax, has alfo eftablished a fyftem which, in its progreflive operation, may produce the happiest confequences, by the increafe of our refources, the diminution of our debt, and the fupport of public credit.

My lords and gentlemen,

The defigns of the difaffected, carried on in concert with our inveterate enemies, have been unremittingly purfued; but have been happily and effectually counteracted in this kingdom by the general zeal and loyalty of my fubjects.

In Ireland they have broken out into the most criminal acts of open rebellion. Every effort has been employed on my part to fubdue this dangerous fpirit, which is equally hoftile to the interefts and fafety of every part of the British empire. I cannot too ftrongly com. mend the unfbaken fidelity and valour of my regular, fencible, and (M 4)

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militia forces in Ireland; and that determined fpirit with which my yeomanry and volunteer forces of that kingdom have ftood forward in defence of the lives and properties of their fellow-fubjects, and in fupport of the lawful government. The ftriking and honourable proof of alacrity and public fpirit, which fo many of my fencible and militia regiments in this kingdom have manifefted on this occafion, has already received the fulleft teftimony of the approbation of parlia

ment.

This conduct, perfonally fo honourable to the individuals, affords the ftrongest pledge, both of the military ardour which actuates this valuable part of our national defence, and of their affectionate concern for the fafety and happinefs of Ireland, which are effentially connected with the general interefts of the British empire.

With the advantage of this fupport, and after the diftinguished and important fuccefs which has recently attended the operations of my arms against the principal force of the rebels, I trust the time is faft approaching, when thofe now feduced from their allegiance will be brought to a juft fenfe of the guilt they have incurred, and will entitle themselves to forgivenefs, and to that protection which it is my conftant wifh to afford to every clafs and condition of my fubjects, who manifeft their defire to pay a due obedience to the laws.

This temporary interruption of tranquillity, and all its attendant calamities, must be attributed to thofe pernicious principles which have been induftrioufly propagated in that country, and which, whereever they have prevailed, have, never failed to produce the most difaftrous eff:ts.

With fuch warnings before us, fenfibie of the danger which we are called upon to repel, and of the bleffings we have to preferve, let us continue firmly united in a determined refiftance to the defigns of our enemies, and in the defence of that conftitution which has been found by experience to infure to us, in fo eminent a degree, public liberty, national strength, and the fecurity and comfort of all claffes of the community.

It is only by perfeverance in this line of conduct, that we can hope, under the continuance of that Divine protection which we have fo abundantly experienced, to conduct this arduous conteft to a happy iffue, and to maintain, undimi nifhed, the fecurity, honour, and lafting profperity of the country.

The lord chancellor then, by his majesty's command, prorogued the parliament to the 8th of Auguft.

Proteft on the Duke of Leinster's Motion in the House of Lords, June 27th, 1798.

DISSENTIENT,

Becaufe, the houfe having thought fit to reject the various motions refpecting the calamitous fituation of Ireland, which have been fubmitted to their confideration, in the firit inftance for inquiry-in the fecond, for lenity and conciliation -and in the laft, for putting an immediate ftop at leaft to the rigorous proceedings of the army in Ireland, where, under the name of a fyftem of coercion, we have reason to fear that atrocious cruelties have been practifed-we think it our duty to record the nature of the evidence on which we have proceeded, and on which our conviction of the

truth

truth of the facts is founded; and on that evidence to appeal in our own juftification to our country, to the world, and to pofterity. We affirm, that the facts are undifputed, that the evidence of them is irrefiftible, and that the effects produced by this barbarous fyftem convict the authors and advifers of fuch a total want of wisdom, even for their own pretended purpofts, as can only be exceeded by the fhocking cruelty of the principles avowed, and of the practice recommended by them. We fhall ftate fome of the documents we refer to, in the order of time in which they have appeared, in order to fhew that this fyftem of coercion has not been haftily resorted to on the fpur of an inftant neceffity, but that it was deliberately efolved on long before it could be juftified or palliated by any of the pretences or caufes which have fince been af figned in defence of it.

Dublin Caftle, March 3, 1798. "His excellency further authorifes you to employ force against any any perfons affembled in arms, not legally authorifed fo to be, and to difperfe all tumultuous affemblies of perfons, though they may not be in arms, without waiting for the fanction and affiftance of the civil authority, if, in your opinion, the peace of the realm, and the fafety of his majesty's faithful fubjects, may be endangered by waiting for fuch authority.

(Signed) THOMAS PELHAM.' On the 26th of February, 1798, fir Ralph Abercromby declared in public orders, that the very difgraceful frequency of courts mar-, rial, and the many complaints of irregularities in the conduct of the troops in that kingdom, had too unfortunately proved the army to be in a fate of licentioufnefs,

which muft render it formidable to every one but the enemy.'

On the 18th of April, 1798, the following order was iffued by major-general Duff:

The commander in chief gives this public notice, that the lordlieutenant and council have issued orders to him to quarter troops, to prefs horfes and carriages, to demand forage and provifions, and to hold courts-martial for the trial of offences of all defcriptions, civil and military, with the power of confirming and carrying into execution the fentences of fuch courtsmartial, and to iffue proclamations.

The commander in chief calls on all the general officers to procure of the magiftrates the best accounts they can give of the number of arms taken from the yeomanry and the wel-affected, of arms that have been concealed, and of pikes that have been made, which are to be recovered and taken poffeffion of by the military.

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They are alfo to communicate to the people through the priests, and by one or two men felected. from each town-land, the purport of the following notice :

"That the order, if complied with, will be a fign of their general repentance; and not only forgiveness will follow, but protection.

• That they must be sensible that it is infinitely better for them to remain at home, quietly minding their own affairs, than committing acts which moft bring on the ruin of themselves and their families,

As it will be impoffible in Come degree to prevent the inuocent from fuit ring with the guilty, the unocent have means of redrefs, by informing against those who have engaged in unlawful affociations, and robbing houtes of arms and money.

The people must be very igno

rant