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August 21, 1746
The Virginia Gazette
Richmond, Williamsburg, Richmond County, Virginia
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On April 10 in Dublin, the Irish Parliament's Lords and Commons presented addresses to Lord Lieutenant Philip Earl of Chesterfield, congratulating his administration amid European unrest and Scottish rebellion, expressing loyalty to the King, and requesting favorable reports. Chesterfield responded appreciatively. Royal assent was given to 22 bills, including those on flax manufacturing, preventing foreign service, Popery prevention, militia, marriage annulments, and Quaker affirmations.
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DUBLIN, April 10.
To his Excellency Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland,
The Humble Address of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled,
May it please your Excellency,
We, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, attend your Excellency this Day, to congratulate you on the approaching happy Conclusion of the Session, and to express our entire Satisfaction in your Conduct in every Part of it, as well as in the Course of your whole Administration.
We esteem it a very signal Instance of his Majesty's Care and Concern for his most dutiful and loyal Subjects, that he was pleased to send your Excellency to preside over us, at a Time which required a Person of the most distinguished Talents to hold the Reins of Government, and which has given your Excellency so frequent Occasions of exerting those Talents for the Service of his Majesty, by providing effectually for the Peace and Security of this Kingdom.
The happy Effects we have seen and feel; while almost every other Part of Europe has been fill'd with Arms, and our neighbouring Kingdom has been vexed and harass'd by an impious and obstinate Rebellion, we have enjoyed undisturbed Tranquility: Your Excellency's Prudence and steady Conduct guarding us with unwearied Care from all real Danger, and the absolute Confidence of all Orders and Degrees of Men in your Vigilance, Wisdom, and calm Firmness, banishing or moderating all anxious Fears and Apprehensions.
It is scarce possible for a People to be so bless'd, without being moved on every Occasion to the Strongest Professions of dutiful Affection to his Majesty, who under God has been the Cause, and of Gratitude to your Excellency, the glorious Instrument, of so great publick Happiness.
But we choose not to indulge ourselves in such Professions; we desire your Excellency may judge of us, as you have directed us to judge of you, by our Actions; should they at any Time fall short of what the warmest Sentiments of Loyalty and Veneration are apt to inspire, your Excellency, whom with the utmost Pleasure we have observed ever attentive, even to the most minute Concerns of this Kingdom, and therefore know to be thoroughly acquainted with the State of it in all its Parts, will, we humbly hope, impute this to the true Cause: Permit us with all Humility just to intimate, that if by your Excellency's free and candid Report to his Majesty, of our Condition and Circumstances, we should in more quiet Times receive any Accession of Strength, Wealth, or Power, we shall consider such Accession as valuable, chiefly on this Account, that it will enable us on all future Occasions, to exert ourselves more vigorously and effectually in Defence of his Majesty's sacred Person and Government, the only sure Support of our religious and civil Rights, against foreign and domestick Violence, against the ambitious Attempts of the great Disturbers of Mankind Abroad, and the Madness of rebellious deluded Subjects at Home.
These, my Lord, are our Sentiments, and not ours only, but those of all his Majesty's Protestant Subjects of Ireland; may your Excellency return to cultivate and improve them in us, and continue long an Ornament to your own Country, and a Blessing to this Nation.
To which Address his Excellency was pleased to give this Answer.
To His Excellency Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland,
The Humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, in Parliament assembled
May it please your Excellency,
We, the Commons of Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg Leave to express our sincere and unanimous Sense of the Benefits which we have received from your Excellency's mild and prudent Administration.
His Majesty's gracious Acceptance of the Duty and Loyalty of his Subjects in this Kingdom, has been particularly manifested by his committing them to your Excellency's Care, in so critical a Juncture, when your Zeal for the present happy Establishment was of more immediate Importance to our Security, and your eminent Abilities could be the most effectually exerted for our Service.
Those uncommon Talents, by which your Excellency has been most justly distinguished, and which did in all Times excite our Admiration, must now more sensibly affect us, when we have seen them, through your whole Administration, so invariably directed, and employ'd with so unwearied an Application, to support the Dignity of his Majesty's Crown, and to promote the true Interest of his People.
As upon the first Appearance of the Rebellion in Scotland, our Zeal for his Majesty animated us with a just Resentment and Indignation; and as our Concern for the Preservation of our Rights and Liberties, so dear to the Protestants of this Kingdom, could not but raise in our Minds some unquiet Apprehensions; we were ready, as we shall ever be, cheerfully to concur in all proper Measures, and to exert our utmost Strength for the Defence of the King's Government, and the Support of your Excellency's Authority under him. And we do now, with equal Cheerfulness and with the utmost Gratitude, acknowledge, that the profound Tranquility, which, without any extraordinary Increase of publick Expence, we of this Nation have hitherto enjoy'd, has been the Result of a wise and vigilant Administration over us: An Administration formed upon the Principles, and carried on by the uniform Exercise, of Lenity without Remissness, and of Firmness without Severity.
We receive it as a peculiar Mark of your Excellency's Regard, that when your Assistance at his Majesty's Councils, in this Time of the most arduous and extensive Deliberations there, must have been so necessary, you have seemed to consider the Business of this Kingdom, as the principal Object of your Attention.
Upon this Account we might think it almost superfluous to add to our Request, that your Excellency would, on your Return, represent us in the most favourable Manner to his Majesty, since our Experience of your past Conduct must sufficiently assure us of the Continuance of the same good Dispositions towards us. And as we are most firmly persuaded, that your Presence has not been more conducive to our Safety now, than your Influence will hereafter be to our Prosperity.
To which Address his Excellency was pleased to return the Answer following.
I think myself happy, that my Endeavours to do my Duty, have met with your Approbation.
Had I as effectually promoted, as I have sincerely desired, the Interest and Prosperity of this Kingdom, I could not have a kinder Return, nor a more honourable Testimony than this which you have given me. I give you my hearty Thanks for it, and assure you of the Effect it ought to have upon my Mind.
and gave the Royal Assent to 22 Bills, among which were the following.
An Act for repealing the several Acts of Parliament made in this Kingdom, for the Encouragement and Improvement of the Flaxen and Hempen Manufactures; and for the better Regulating, Improving and Encouraging the said Manufactures.
An Act for the more effectual Preventing his Majesty's Subjects from entering into Foreign Service, and for publishing an Act of the seventh Year of King William the Third, intituled, An Act to prevent Foreign Education.
An Act for allowing further Time to Persons in Offices or Employments to qualify themselves, pursuant to an Act, intituled, An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery.
An Act to continue and amend an Act passed in the second Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act to make the Militia of this Kingdom more useful.
An Act for annulling all Marriages to be celebrated by any Popish Priest between Protestant and Protestant, or between Protestant and Papist; and to amend and make more effectual an Act passed in this Kingdom in the sixth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing the taking away and marrying Children against the Wills of their Parents or Guardians.
And An Act for accepting the solemn Affirmation or Declaration of the People called Quakers, instead of an Oath in the usual Form.
To his Excellency Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland,
The Humble Address of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled,
May it please your Excellency,
We, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, attend your Excellency this Day, to congratulate you on the approaching happy Conclusion of the Session, and to express our entire Satisfaction in your Conduct in every Part of it, as well as in the Course of your whole Administration.
We esteem it a very signal Instance of his Majesty's Care and Concern for his most dutiful and loyal Subjects, that he was pleased to send your Excellency to preside over us, at a Time which required a Person of the most distinguished Talents to hold the Reins of Government, and which has given your Excellency so frequent Occasions of exerting those Talents for the Service of his Majesty, by providing effectually for the Peace and Security of this Kingdom.
The happy Effects we have seen and feel; while almost every other Part of Europe has been fill'd with Arms, and our neighbouring Kingdom has been vexed and harass'd by an impious and obstinate Rebellion, we have enjoyed undisturbed Tranquility: Your Excellency's Prudence and steady Conduct guarding us with unwearied Care from all real Danger, and the absolute Confidence of all Orders and Degrees of Men in your Vigilance, Wisdom, and calm Firmness, banishing or moderating all anxious Fears and Apprehensions.
It is scarce possible for a People to be so bless'd, without being moved on every Occasion to the Strongest Professions of dutiful Affection to his Majesty, who under God has been the Cause, and of Gratitude to your Excellency, the glorious Instrument, of so great publick Happiness.
But we choose not to indulge ourselves in such Professions; we desire your Excellency may judge of us, as you have directed us to judge of you, by our Actions; should they at any Time fall short of what the warmest Sentiments of Loyalty and Veneration are apt to inspire, your Excellency, whom with the utmost Pleasure we have observed ever attentive, even to the most minute Concerns of this Kingdom, and therefore know to be thoroughly acquainted with the State of it in all its Parts, will, we humbly hope, impute this to the true Cause: Permit us with all Humility just to intimate, that if by your Excellency's free and candid Report to his Majesty, of our Condition and Circumstances, we should in more quiet Times receive any Accession of Strength, Wealth, or Power, we shall consider such Accession as valuable, chiefly on this Account, that it will enable us on all future Occasions, to exert ourselves more vigorously and effectually in Defence of his Majesty's sacred Person and Government, the only sure Support of our religious and civil Rights, against foreign and domestick Violence, against the ambitious Attempts of the great Disturbers of Mankind Abroad, and the Madness of rebellious deluded Subjects at Home.
These, my Lord, are our Sentiments, and not ours only, but those of all his Majesty's Protestant Subjects of Ireland; may your Excellency return to cultivate and improve them in us, and continue long an Ornament to your own Country, and a Blessing to this Nation.
To which Address his Excellency was pleased to give this Answer.
To His Excellency Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governor of Ireland,
The Humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, in Parliament assembled
May it please your Excellency,
We, the Commons of Ireland, in Parliament assembled, beg Leave to express our sincere and unanimous Sense of the Benefits which we have received from your Excellency's mild and prudent Administration.
His Majesty's gracious Acceptance of the Duty and Loyalty of his Subjects in this Kingdom, has been particularly manifested by his committing them to your Excellency's Care, in so critical a Juncture, when your Zeal for the present happy Establishment was of more immediate Importance to our Security, and your eminent Abilities could be the most effectually exerted for our Service.
Those uncommon Talents, by which your Excellency has been most justly distinguished, and which did in all Times excite our Admiration, must now more sensibly affect us, when we have seen them, through your whole Administration, so invariably directed, and employ'd with so unwearied an Application, to support the Dignity of his Majesty's Crown, and to promote the true Interest of his People.
As upon the first Appearance of the Rebellion in Scotland, our Zeal for his Majesty animated us with a just Resentment and Indignation; and as our Concern for the Preservation of our Rights and Liberties, so dear to the Protestants of this Kingdom, could not but raise in our Minds some unquiet Apprehensions; we were ready, as we shall ever be, cheerfully to concur in all proper Measures, and to exert our utmost Strength for the Defence of the King's Government, and the Support of your Excellency's Authority under him. And we do now, with equal Cheerfulness and with the utmost Gratitude, acknowledge, that the profound Tranquility, which, without any extraordinary Increase of publick Expence, we of this Nation have hitherto enjoy'd, has been the Result of a wise and vigilant Administration over us: An Administration formed upon the Principles, and carried on by the uniform Exercise, of Lenity without Remissness, and of Firmness without Severity.
We receive it as a peculiar Mark of your Excellency's Regard, that when your Assistance at his Majesty's Councils, in this Time of the most arduous and extensive Deliberations there, must have been so necessary, you have seemed to consider the Business of this Kingdom, as the principal Object of your Attention.
Upon this Account we might think it almost superfluous to add to our Request, that your Excellency would, on your Return, represent us in the most favourable Manner to his Majesty, since our Experience of your past Conduct must sufficiently assure us of the Continuance of the same good Dispositions towards us. And as we are most firmly persuaded, that your Presence has not been more conducive to our Safety now, than your Influence will hereafter be to our Prosperity.
To which Address his Excellency was pleased to return the Answer following.
I think myself happy, that my Endeavours to do my Duty, have met with your Approbation.
Had I as effectually promoted, as I have sincerely desired, the Interest and Prosperity of this Kingdom, I could not have a kinder Return, nor a more honourable Testimony than this which you have given me. I give you my hearty Thanks for it, and assure you of the Effect it ought to have upon my Mind.
and gave the Royal Assent to 22 Bills, among which were the following.
An Act for repealing the several Acts of Parliament made in this Kingdom, for the Encouragement and Improvement of the Flaxen and Hempen Manufactures; and for the better Regulating, Improving and Encouraging the said Manufactures.
An Act for the more effectual Preventing his Majesty's Subjects from entering into Foreign Service, and for publishing an Act of the seventh Year of King William the Third, intituled, An Act to prevent Foreign Education.
An Act for allowing further Time to Persons in Offices or Employments to qualify themselves, pursuant to an Act, intituled, An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery.
An Act to continue and amend an Act passed in the second Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act to make the Militia of this Kingdom more useful.
An Act for annulling all Marriages to be celebrated by any Popish Priest between Protestant and Protestant, or between Protestant and Papist; and to amend and make more effectual an Act passed in this Kingdom in the sixth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for the more effectual preventing the taking away and marrying Children against the Wills of their Parents or Guardians.
And An Act for accepting the solemn Affirmation or Declaration of the People called Quakers, instead of an Oath in the usual Form.
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
Colonial Affairs
Religious Affairs
What keywords are associated?
Irish Parliament
Lord Lieutenant
Chesterfield
Royal Assent
Anti Popery Acts
Militia Amendment
Scottish Rebellion
European Tranquility
What entities or persons were involved?
Philip Earl Of Chesterfield
Where did it happen?
Dublin, Ireland
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Dublin, Ireland
Event Date
April 10
Key Persons
Philip Earl Of Chesterfield
Outcome
royal assent given to 22 bills, including those regulating flax and hemp manufactures, preventing foreign service and education, allowing time for qualification against popery, amending militia act, annulling popish marriages, and accepting quaker affirmations. ireland enjoyed tranquility amid european arms and scottish rebellion.
Event Details
The Lords Spiritual and Temporal and the Commons of Ireland in Parliament assembled presented humble addresses to Lord Lieutenant Philip Earl of Chesterfield, congratulating the session's conclusion, praising his administration for maintaining peace and security, expressing loyalty to the King, and requesting favorable representation to the monarch for Ireland's strength and prosperity. Chesterfield responded with thanks and appreciation for their approval.