ORDERED, That the said Copies do lie upon the Table, to be perused by the
Members of the House.
_17th May, 1782._
RESOLVED, That this House will, immediately, resolve itself into a
Committee of the whole House, to take into consideration His Majesty’s
most gracious Message, of the 9th Day of April last, relative to the
State of Ireland.
ORDERED, That the several Papers which were presented to the House, by
Mr. Secretary Fox, upon the 1st Day of this instant May, be referred to
the said Committee.
Then the House resolved itself into the said Committee.
Mr. Speaker left the Chair.
Mr. Powys took the Chair of the Committee.
Mr. Speaker resumed the Chair.
Mr. Powys reported from the Committee, That they had come to several
Resolutions; which they had directed him to report, when the House will
please to receive the same.
ORDERED, That the Report be now received.
Mr. Powys accordingly reported, from the said Committee, the Resolutions
which the Committee had directed him to report to the House, which he
read in his place, and afterwards delivered in at the Clerk’s table;
where the same were read; and are as follows: _viz._
RESOLVED, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That an Act, made in
the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the First,
intituled, “An Act for the better securing the Dependency of the Kingdom
of Ireland upon the Crown of Great Britain,” ought to be repealed.
RESOLVED, That it is the Opinion of this Committee, That it is
indispensible to the interests and happiness of both Kingdoms, that the
Connection between them should be established, by mutual consent, upon a
solid and permanent Basis.
The said Resolutions, being severally read a second time, were, upon
the Question severally put thereupon, agreed to by the House, _Nemini
Contradicenti_.
ORDERED, That leave be given to bring in a Bill for repealing an Act
made in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, King George
the First, intituled “An Act for the better securing the Dependency of
the Kingdom of Ireland upon the Crown of Great Britain;” and that Mr.
Secretary Fox, Mr. Thomas Pitt, Mr. Powys, and Lord John Cavendish, do
prepare and bring in the same.
RESOLVED, That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, That His
Majesty will be graciously pleased to take such measures as His Majesty
in His Royal Wisdom shall think most conducive to the establishing, by
mutual consent, the Connection between this Kingdom and the Kingdom of
Ireland upon a solid and permanent basis.
ORDERED, That the said Address be presented to His Majesty, by such
Members of this House as are of His Majesty’s most honourable Privy
Council.
_22nd May, 1782._
Mr. Secretary Fox reported to the House, That His Majesty had been
attended with the Address of this House, of Friday last, which His
Majesty had been pleased to receive very graciously; and that His Majesty
had commanded him to acquaint this House, that he will immediately take
such measures as may be most likely to conduce to the establishment of a
Connection between this Kingdom and the Kingdom of Ireland upon a solid
and permanent basis.