The Kentucky Gazette

Ireland.

DUBLIN, February 27.

UNION OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND.

IRISH PARLIAMENT, February 5.

Sketch of the Plan of Union between England and Ireland,

The first article states that on the 1st day of January, which shall be in the year 1801, and forever after, the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland shall be united into one kingdom, by the name of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and that the royal style and titles appertaining to the Imperial Crown, and also the ensigns armorial shall be such as his majesty shall be pleased to appoint.

The 2d article, that the succession to the Imperial Crown of the said United Kingdoms, &c. shall continue limited and settled as it now stands.

Article 3. that the United Kingdoms be represented by the same parliament.

Art. 4. Proposes, that of the Peers of Ireland at the time of the Union, four Spiritual Lords by rotation of sessions, and twenty-eight Temporal Peers for life, be the number to sit and vote in the House of Lords; and one hundred commissioners, viz. two for each county of Ireland, two for the city of Dublin, two for the city of Cork, and one for each of the thirty two most considerable towns and boroughs, be the number of representatives of Ireland in the House of Commons. That it shall be lawful for his Majesty to create Peers of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland and to make promotions in the Peerage thereof after the Union, provided the number of Peers shall not by such creation at any time be increased beyond the number existing on the said 1st day of January 1801.

The 5th article states, that the Churches of England and Ireland shall be united into one Church, subject to the same regulations as is at present by law established.

The 6th article states, that after the 1st day of January, 1801, his majesty's subjects of Great Britain and Ireland shall be entitled to the same privileges, and be on the same footing, in regard to encouragements, bounties &c. That after the said first day of January, all prohibitions and bounties, on articles the growth of either country and that the said articles be thenceforth exported from one country to another without duty or bounty on such export.

Art. 7. that for the space of 20 years after the Union shall take place, the contribution of Great Britain and Ireland respectively towards the expenditure of the United Kingdoms in each year, shall be defrayed in the proportion of fifteen parts for Great Britain and two for Ireland; and, that at the expiration of the said 20 years, the future expenditure of the United Kingdoms, other than the interest and charges of the debt incurred before the Union, shall be defrayed in such proportion as the United Parliament shall deem just and reasonable, upon a comparison of the real value of the exports and imports of the respective countries &c.

Art. 8, states, that all laws in force at the time of the Union, and all the Courts of Civil and Ecclesiastical jurisdiction within the respective Kingdoms, shall remain as now by law established, subject only to such alterations, as may appear to the Parliament of the United Kingdoms to be required.

Schedule, No. I. Of the articles to be charged with countervailing duties upon importation into Great Britain and Ireland respectively according to the 9th article of Union, to which this schedule is annexed.

Articles to be charged with countervailing duties in Great Britain—Beer, Bricks and Tiles, Candles, Soap, Cordage Printed Cottons, Cider, Glass, Leather, Paper stained, Silk, Spirits, Starch, Sugar refined, Sweets; Tobacco.

Articles to be charged with countervailing duties in Ireland—Beer, Glass, Leather, Paper stained, Silk, Spirits, Sugar refined, Sweets, Tobacco.

Schedule No. 2. Of the articles to be charged with the duties specified upon importation into Great Britain and Ireland respectively, according to the sixth article of the Union to which this schedule is annexed—Apparel, Brass wrought, Cabinet Ware, Coaches, Copper wrought, Cotton, Glass Haberdashery, Hats, Hardware, Lace gold and silver, Millinery, Paper stained, Pottery, Saddlery, and other manufactured leather, Silk manufactures Steel, Stockings, ten per cent on the true value.