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January 22, 1778
The Newport Gazette
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island
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On October 16 at Dublin Castle, the Earl of Buckinghamshire delivered his speech as Lord Lieutenant to the Irish Parliament, highlighting his appointment, the King's instructions for cooperation, the royal family's growth by a princess's birth, progress in agriculture and linen manufacture, and recommending Protestant charter schools. Parliament responded with addresses of thanks to the Lord Lieutenant and to the King, expressing loyalty and commitments.
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The LONDON GAZETTE.
Dublin Castle,
October 16.
The Speech of the Earl of Buckinghamshire,
Lord Lieutenant, to the Parliament of
Ireland.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
His Majesty has been graciously pleased
to honour me with a mark of his confidence, in appointing
me to a government of Ireland. With
that he might have found an abler minister;
but his justice no more anxiously solicitous
for justifying his choice in meriting your appro-
bation.
Influenced by that benevolent spirit which
justly commands the affections of all
his subjects, his instructions to me are to
co-operate with your Parliament in every
measure which can promote the improve-
ment, insure the happiness, and cherish the
business, of this kingdom.
The increase of his Majesty's Royal family—
both at a fortunate and auspicious
period—may be adored as a most pleasing and interesting
news.
With very particular satisfaction I hear of
the considerable progress which agriculture
is daily making; and that the great source
to the prosperity of this country, the linen
manufacture, continues to flourish.
No
objects can more justly claim your consider-
ation.
The educating the distressed children of
the nation in sound principles, and the early
training them to habits of useful labour, is
of such importance, that I must not omit re-
commending the Protestant charter schools
your protections.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
That you may be perfectly satisfied of
the true state of finance, I have directed the
proper officers to lay the national accounts
before you; thoroughly confident, that
your wisdom, your zeal, for the honour of
his Majesty's government, and your attach-
ments to the essential welfare of this king-
dom, will induce you to make such a provi-
sion as may be suitable to the present cir-
cumstances of your country, and the exigen-
cies of the public service.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I decline making any professions relative
to my future conduct, it is by the tenor of
my actions that the character of my adminis-
tration must be determined.
Ordered that his Excellency's speech be
entered in the journals.
Lord Jocelyn moved that an address be
presented to his Majesty in answer to his
Excellency's speech.
Which motion was
seconded by Lord Westport.
Mr. Gardner moved for an address of
thanks to his Excellency for his excellent
speech from the throne.
A committee was appointed to prepare
said address to the Lord Lieutenant, and
meet to-morrow for that purpose.
To his Excellency John Earl of Buck-
IngHamshire, Lord Lieutenant General
and General Governor of Ireland, the
humble Address of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, Parliament assembled.
May it please your Excellency,
His Majesty's faithful and
loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, in par-
liament assembled, return your excellency
our most sincere thanks for your speech from
the throne to both houses of parliament.
We beg leave to congratulate your Ex-
cellency upon your appointment to the go-
vernment of this kingdom. His Majesty,
ever influenced by that benevolent spirit
which most justly commands the affections
of all his people, could have given us
a more distinguished mark of his regard,
than by placing at the head of this king-
dom a nobleman eminent for his abilities
and experience in public affairs, and de-
scended from ancestors solicitous for their
country's good, their laws, and their attach-
ment to the constitution. And we shall
most cheerfully co-operate with your Ex-
cellency in every measure which can pro-
mote the improvement, insure the happiness,
and cherish the true interest of the king-
dom, and feel that the prosperity of his
people is the great object of his Majesty's
wisdom, and of your Excellency's administra-
tion.
We rejoice with your Excellency, on the
increase of his Majesty's royal family, by the
birth of another princess, as every such event
gives us an additional security to our reli-
gion, laws and liberty.
We cannot sufficiently acknowledge our
gratitude to your Excellency, for the kind
satisfaction you express on the improving
state of agriculture, and of the linen manu-
facture, in this country, objects of the high-
est consideration to us, and of which we shall
exert our utmost efforts to promote and ex-
tend the progress.
The charter schools, so strongly recom-
mended to us by your Excellency, will ever
be a principal object of our care, fully sensi-
ble of the importance of educating the dis-
tressed children of this nation in sound pria-
ciples, and the early training them to habits
of industry.
Thoroughly convinced of your Excellency's good wishes and intentions for the ser-
vice and prosperity of this country, we en-
tertain the fullest and most pleasing confi-
dence, that your Excellency will have the
satisfaction of finding your administration
equally beneficial to us, and easy and ho-
nourable to yourself.
To which Address his Excellency has been
pleased to give this most gracious Answer.
My Lords,
Your Lordships will accept of my
best thanks for this most obliging ad-
dress. It will ever be my ambition to culti-
vate the favourable sentiments which you
have conceived of me, by an invariable at-
tention to the welfare of this kingdom.
Dublin Castle, Oct. 16. The Houses of
Lords and Commons having resolved upon
humble suit to his Majesty, the same,
together with an address from both houses to
the Lord Lieutenant, were this day presented
to his Excellency: and with his Excel-
lency's answers are as follows:
To the King's most excellent Majesty, the
humble address of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal in parliament assembled.
Most gracious Sovereign.
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal
subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
in Parliament assembled, beg leave to ap-
proach your Majesty with the most dutiful
and unfeigned expressions of our zeal, our loy-
alty and firm attachment to your Majesty's
person, family and government.
We cannot but acknowledge the many
and great blessings which we have enjoyed
under your Majesty's most auspicious reign;
humbly to assure your Majesty, that, animated
as we are with the warmest sentiments of du-
ty and gratitude we shall ever be ready to
renew our hearty allegiance to your Majesty, by
our zealous endeavours to support the honour
and dignity of your Crown, and to render
your Majesty's government happy and pros-
perous to yourself and to your people.
We cannot but express to your Majesty
the just sense we have of your Majesty's ten-
der and paternal regard, in having been
graciously pleased to commit the government
of this kingdom to his Excellency John Earl
of Buckinghamshire, who, in addition to his
descent from ancestors eminent for their
knowledge of, and attachment to the laws
and constitution of this country, has those
tried and approved abilities which afford us
the pleasing prospect that his administration
will be productive of the most solid advan-
tages to this kingdom.
We beg leave to assure your Majesty, that
your having been
graciously pleased to give instructions to his
Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to co-operate with your Parlia-
ment in
every measure
which can promote the improvement, insure
the happiness, and cherish the true interests.
of this kingdom.
The addition made to your Majesty's do-
mestic happiness by the birth of another
Princess, affords us the highest pleasure and
satisfaction, as it adds strength to our hopes
that there never will be wanting some de-
scended from your Majesty to transmit the
blessings we enjoy to the latest posterity.
We have the strongest sense of the impor-
tance of those great objects, recommended to
us from the Throne: the increase of agri-
culture, the prosperity of the linen manufac-
ture, and the education of the distressed chil-
dren of the nation in sound principles and
their training to habits of industry: And
we beg leave to assure your Majesty, that, in
the consideration of those great objects, and
All others that may come before us, we will proceed with that attention and diligence of this kingdom, and evince our ardent desire to preserve and obtain your Majesty's favourable acquiescence and approbation.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's Answer.
I will forthwith transmit this dutiful and loyal Address to be laid before his Majesty.
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament assembled.
Your subjects the Commons of Ireland in Parliament assembled,
Most Gracious Sovereign,
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Ireland in Parliament assembled, humbly beg leave to assure your Majesty, that we have, from the fullest experience, the most grateful sense of that benevolent spirit which constantly governs your Royal breast, and ought to command the affections of all your subjects.
Your Majesty's gracious instructions to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, to co-operate with the Parliament in every measure that can promote the improvement, secure the happiness, and cherish the true interests of this kingdom, are fresh instances of your Majesty's paternal care of your people, and claim our warmest acknowledgements.
With the utmost sincerity we present our humble congratulations to your Majesty on the happy increase of your Royal Family by the birth of a Princess; not only rejoicing in that most pleasing event as interesting to your Majesty's domestic happiness, but justly considering it as adding further strength on which the security of our Religion and Liberties so essentially depends.
We are deeply sensible of your Majesty's goodness, in the protection you have been graciously pleased to give to the agriculture of this kingdom, which cannot but engage the attention of all who wish to see their country flourish in the great articles of population, industry, and plenty.
Imbued with the warmest sense of the goodness, with which those great objects of national prosperity; the linen manufacture, and the protestant charter schools, have been recommended to us from the Throne, we will not omit to take them into our most serious consideration; the one being justly to be regarded as the most certain source of wealth, and the other the most effectual means of reclaiming numbers of the people from the depths of ignorance, and vice.
Animated no less by our attachment to the essential welfare of this kingdom, than by our zeal for the honour of your Majesty's government, we will most cheerfully make such a provision for the exigencies of the public service, as may be suitable to the present circumstances of our country.
We cannot do justice to the hope we entertain of public satisfaction and happiness in the administration of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, without most thankfully acknowledging your Majesty's goodness in placing us under the government of a nobleman, whose abilities and integrity have been already amply proved in a station of distinguished confidence and importance, and who, we are fully assured, will not fail upon every occasion, to exert himself to the utmost, in fulfilling your Majesty's most gracious intentions for the benefit and prosperity of the people committed to his care.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's Answer.
I will take the first opportunity of transmitting this dutiful and loyal Address to be laid before his Majesty.
Dublin Castle,
October 16.
The Speech of the Earl of Buckinghamshire,
Lord Lieutenant, to the Parliament of
Ireland.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
His Majesty has been graciously pleased
to honour me with a mark of his confidence, in appointing
me to a government of Ireland. With
that he might have found an abler minister;
but his justice no more anxiously solicitous
for justifying his choice in meriting your appro-
bation.
Influenced by that benevolent spirit which
justly commands the affections of all
his subjects, his instructions to me are to
co-operate with your Parliament in every
measure which can promote the improve-
ment, insure the happiness, and cherish the
business, of this kingdom.
The increase of his Majesty's Royal family—
both at a fortunate and auspicious
period—may be adored as a most pleasing and interesting
news.
With very particular satisfaction I hear of
the considerable progress which agriculture
is daily making; and that the great source
to the prosperity of this country, the linen
manufacture, continues to flourish.
No
objects can more justly claim your consider-
ation.
The educating the distressed children of
the nation in sound principles, and the early
training them to habits of useful labour, is
of such importance, that I must not omit re-
commending the Protestant charter schools
your protections.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
That you may be perfectly satisfied of
the true state of finance, I have directed the
proper officers to lay the national accounts
before you; thoroughly confident, that
your wisdom, your zeal, for the honour of
his Majesty's government, and your attach-
ments to the essential welfare of this king-
dom, will induce you to make such a provi-
sion as may be suitable to the present cir-
cumstances of your country, and the exigen-
cies of the public service.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I decline making any professions relative
to my future conduct, it is by the tenor of
my actions that the character of my adminis-
tration must be determined.
Ordered that his Excellency's speech be
entered in the journals.
Lord Jocelyn moved that an address be
presented to his Majesty in answer to his
Excellency's speech.
Which motion was
seconded by Lord Westport.
Mr. Gardner moved for an address of
thanks to his Excellency for his excellent
speech from the throne.
A committee was appointed to prepare
said address to the Lord Lieutenant, and
meet to-morrow for that purpose.
To his Excellency John Earl of Buck-
IngHamshire, Lord Lieutenant General
and General Governor of Ireland, the
humble Address of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, Parliament assembled.
May it please your Excellency,
His Majesty's faithful and
loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal, in par-
liament assembled, return your excellency
our most sincere thanks for your speech from
the throne to both houses of parliament.
We beg leave to congratulate your Ex-
cellency upon your appointment to the go-
vernment of this kingdom. His Majesty,
ever influenced by that benevolent spirit
which most justly commands the affections
of all his people, could have given us
a more distinguished mark of his regard,
than by placing at the head of this king-
dom a nobleman eminent for his abilities
and experience in public affairs, and de-
scended from ancestors solicitous for their
country's good, their laws, and their attach-
ment to the constitution. And we shall
most cheerfully co-operate with your Ex-
cellency in every measure which can pro-
mote the improvement, insure the happiness,
and cherish the true interest of the king-
dom, and feel that the prosperity of his
people is the great object of his Majesty's
wisdom, and of your Excellency's administra-
tion.
We rejoice with your Excellency, on the
increase of his Majesty's royal family, by the
birth of another princess, as every such event
gives us an additional security to our reli-
gion, laws and liberty.
We cannot sufficiently acknowledge our
gratitude to your Excellency, for the kind
satisfaction you express on the improving
state of agriculture, and of the linen manu-
facture, in this country, objects of the high-
est consideration to us, and of which we shall
exert our utmost efforts to promote and ex-
tend the progress.
The charter schools, so strongly recom-
mended to us by your Excellency, will ever
be a principal object of our care, fully sensi-
ble of the importance of educating the dis-
tressed children of this nation in sound pria-
ciples, and the early training them to habits
of industry.
Thoroughly convinced of your Excellency's good wishes and intentions for the ser-
vice and prosperity of this country, we en-
tertain the fullest and most pleasing confi-
dence, that your Excellency will have the
satisfaction of finding your administration
equally beneficial to us, and easy and ho-
nourable to yourself.
To which Address his Excellency has been
pleased to give this most gracious Answer.
My Lords,
Your Lordships will accept of my
best thanks for this most obliging ad-
dress. It will ever be my ambition to culti-
vate the favourable sentiments which you
have conceived of me, by an invariable at-
tention to the welfare of this kingdom.
Dublin Castle, Oct. 16. The Houses of
Lords and Commons having resolved upon
humble suit to his Majesty, the same,
together with an address from both houses to
the Lord Lieutenant, were this day presented
to his Excellency: and with his Excel-
lency's answers are as follows:
To the King's most excellent Majesty, the
humble address of the Lords Spiritual and
Temporal in parliament assembled.
Most gracious Sovereign.
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal
subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal
in Parliament assembled, beg leave to ap-
proach your Majesty with the most dutiful
and unfeigned expressions of our zeal, our loy-
alty and firm attachment to your Majesty's
person, family and government.
We cannot but acknowledge the many
and great blessings which we have enjoyed
under your Majesty's most auspicious reign;
humbly to assure your Majesty, that, animated
as we are with the warmest sentiments of du-
ty and gratitude we shall ever be ready to
renew our hearty allegiance to your Majesty, by
our zealous endeavours to support the honour
and dignity of your Crown, and to render
your Majesty's government happy and pros-
perous to yourself and to your people.
We cannot but express to your Majesty
the just sense we have of your Majesty's ten-
der and paternal regard, in having been
graciously pleased to commit the government
of this kingdom to his Excellency John Earl
of Buckinghamshire, who, in addition to his
descent from ancestors eminent for their
knowledge of, and attachment to the laws
and constitution of this country, has those
tried and approved abilities which afford us
the pleasing prospect that his administration
will be productive of the most solid advan-
tages to this kingdom.
We beg leave to assure your Majesty, that
your having been
graciously pleased to give instructions to his
Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to co-operate with your Parlia-
ment in
every measure
which can promote the improvement, insure
the happiness, and cherish the true interests.
of this kingdom.
The addition made to your Majesty's do-
mestic happiness by the birth of another
Princess, affords us the highest pleasure and
satisfaction, as it adds strength to our hopes
that there never will be wanting some de-
scended from your Majesty to transmit the
blessings we enjoy to the latest posterity.
We have the strongest sense of the impor-
tance of those great objects, recommended to
us from the Throne: the increase of agri-
culture, the prosperity of the linen manufac-
ture, and the education of the distressed chil-
dren of the nation in sound principles and
their training to habits of industry: And
we beg leave to assure your Majesty, that, in
the consideration of those great objects, and
All others that may come before us, we will proceed with that attention and diligence of this kingdom, and evince our ardent desire to preserve and obtain your Majesty's favourable acquiescence and approbation.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's Answer.
I will forthwith transmit this dutiful and loyal Address to be laid before his Majesty.
To the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses in Parliament assembled.
Your subjects the Commons of Ireland in Parliament assembled,
Most Gracious Sovereign,
We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Ireland in Parliament assembled, humbly beg leave to assure your Majesty, that we have, from the fullest experience, the most grateful sense of that benevolent spirit which constantly governs your Royal breast, and ought to command the affections of all your subjects.
Your Majesty's gracious instructions to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, to co-operate with the Parliament in every measure that can promote the improvement, secure the happiness, and cherish the true interests of this kingdom, are fresh instances of your Majesty's paternal care of your people, and claim our warmest acknowledgements.
With the utmost sincerity we present our humble congratulations to your Majesty on the happy increase of your Royal Family by the birth of a Princess; not only rejoicing in that most pleasing event as interesting to your Majesty's domestic happiness, but justly considering it as adding further strength on which the security of our Religion and Liberties so essentially depends.
We are deeply sensible of your Majesty's goodness, in the protection you have been graciously pleased to give to the agriculture of this kingdom, which cannot but engage the attention of all who wish to see their country flourish in the great articles of population, industry, and plenty.
Imbued with the warmest sense of the goodness, with which those great objects of national prosperity; the linen manufacture, and the protestant charter schools, have been recommended to us from the Throne, we will not omit to take them into our most serious consideration; the one being justly to be regarded as the most certain source of wealth, and the other the most effectual means of reclaiming numbers of the people from the depths of ignorance, and vice.
Animated no less by our attachment to the essential welfare of this kingdom, than by our zeal for the honour of your Majesty's government, we will most cheerfully make such a provision for the exigencies of the public service, as may be suitable to the present circumstances of our country.
We cannot do justice to the hope we entertain of public satisfaction and happiness in the administration of the Earl of Buckinghamshire, without most thankfully acknowledging your Majesty's goodness in placing us under the government of a nobleman, whose abilities and integrity have been already amply proved in a station of distinguished confidence and importance, and who, we are fully assured, will not fail upon every occasion, to exert himself to the utmost, in fulfilling your Majesty's most gracious intentions for the benefit and prosperity of the people committed to his care.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant's Answer.
I will take the first opportunity of transmitting this dutiful and loyal Address to be laid before his Majesty.
What sub-type of article is it?
Political
Royal Event
What keywords are associated?
Ireland Parliament
Lord Lieutenant Speech
Royal Family Birth
Agriculture Progress
Linen Manufacture
Charter Schools
Addresses To King
What entities or persons were involved?
Earl Of Buckinghamshire
Lord Jocelyn
Lord Westport
Mr. Gardner
His Majesty
Where did it happen?
Dublin Castle, Ireland
Foreign News Details
Primary Location
Dublin Castle, Ireland
Event Date
October 16
Key Persons
Earl Of Buckinghamshire
Lord Jocelyn
Lord Westport
Mr. Gardner
His Majesty
Outcome
parliament presented addresses of thanks and loyalty to the lord lieutenant and the king, committing to cooperation on improvements, finances, agriculture, linen manufacture, and charter schools.
Event Details
The Earl of Buckinghamshire, as Lord Lieutenant, addressed the Irish Parliament on his appointment, the King's instructions for cooperation, the birth of a princess in the royal family, progress in agriculture and linen manufacture, recommendation of Protestant charter schools, and presentation of national accounts. Motions were made for addresses, and the Houses of Lords and Commons presented addresses to the Lord Lieutenant and to the King expressing thanks, congratulations, and commitments.