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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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On June 1 in Dublin, the Yeomanry corps were removed from permanent pay and duty, seen as a positive sign for peace. The Lord Lieutenant prorogued the Irish Parliament to July 16, conveying the British Parliament's proposal for a complete union between Great Britain and Ireland based on mutual interests and to counter enemies.
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Yesterday the whole of the Yeomanry corps were put off permanent pay and duty. This circumstance augurs well for the peace of the country.
Extract from the Lord Lieutenant's Speech, on the prorogation of the Irish Parliament, to July 16.
"I have his Majesty's particular commands to acquaint you that a joint Address of the two Houses of Parliament of Great Britain has been laid before his Majesty, accompanied by resolutions proposing and recommending a compleat and entire Union between Great Britain and Ireland, to be established by the mutual consent of the Parliament, founded on equal and liberal principles, on the similarity of Laws, Constitution, and Government, and on a sense of mutual interests and affections. His Majesty will receive the greatest satisfaction in witnessing the accomplishment of a System, which by allaying the unhappy distractions too long prevalent in Ireland, and by promoting the security, wealth and commerce of his respective Kingdoms, must afford them at all times, and especially in the present moment, the best means of jointly opposing an effectual resistance to the destructive projects of foreign and domestic enemies: and his Majesty, as the common father of his People, must look forward with earnest anxiety to the moment, when in conformity to the sentiments, wishes, and real interests of his subjects in Great Britain and Ireland, they may all be inseparably united in the full enjoyment of the blessings of a free Constitution, in the support of the honor and dignity of his Majesty's Crown, and in the preservation and advancement of the welfare and prosperity of the whole British Empire."
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Dublin
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June 1
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yeomanry corps off permanent pay and duty, auguring peace; proposal for complete union between great britain and ireland to promote security, wealth, and resistance to enemies.
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The whole of the Yeomanry corps were put off permanent pay and duty on the day before June 1, indicating well for the country's peace. The Irish Parliament was prorogued to July 16, with the Lord Lieutenant relaying his Majesty's commands regarding a joint Address from the British Parliament proposing a complete and entire Union between Great Britain and Ireland, founded on equal principles, similarity of laws, and mutual interests, to unite against foreign and domestic enemies and advance the British Empire.