The Virginia Gazette

LONDON, September 28.

To the KING's most Excellent Majesty,

The address of the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, Commons, and
Citizens, of the city of Dublin, in common council
assembled.

"Gracious Sovereign,

The citizens of your ancient city of Dublin, thus
dutifully approach the throne, roused with honest
indignation at the insidious designs of your Majesty's
enemies of the House of Bourbon, and warm with the
most ardent zeal to maintain the safety and honour of
your government; influenced by these sentiments, we
for a while forget the unjust and unpolitic restrictions
on our commerce, continued at the desire of your
Majesty's subjects of Britain, and eager to press for-
ward in their defence, we lay far behind us the remem-
brance of the many wrongs we have borne, yet we
trust your Majesty's wisdom and clemency will accept
the tender we now make of our lives and fortunes in
support of any just or necessary war; not as the offer of
a people insensible to the accumulated distresses heaped
upon them, by false policy and ignorant Ministers;
nor as a mere formal address, procured by ministerial
influence from pensioned hirelings, who in the day of
trial would shrink from you, but as the free will of-
fering of men zealous to manifest the unspotted loyalty
of their country to the august house of Brunswick; as
the first determination of subjects confiding in the be-
nevolent intentions of their Sovereign, and who enter-
tain an humble hope, that by the favour of Divine
Providence, the united efforts of all your subjects,
and the assistance of wiser councils than have lately
been adopted, the British empire may not only defeat
her numerous enemies, but rise once more to that
strength and glory, from which at present that em-
pire has so miserably fallen."