Defence of their Patriot Proceedings, WE fhall conclude with our ear- CONTENTS. An ACCOUNT of REASONS of the Discontent and Divifions that, at present, fubfift among your M-y's most dutiful, loyal H--- of Cs, and offered to your M Humbly M-y's Confide ration, by the E▬▬▬▬▬1 of K—————e. W HEN the Duke of Dt, Lord Lt of Ireland, opened the Seffion there in 1751, in that Part of his Speech to the H-e of C- -s, he told them, That he had ordered a particular Account of the Money expended in repairing, rebuilding, and building of Barracks, pursuant to their Addrefs in a former Seffion of Parliament, to be laid before them; upon which a Committee was appointed to examine into the Eftimates and Accounts of the Barracks that were repaired, &c. and alfo into the Reasons of the univerfal Complaints of the Officers, and the general Outcry of the neighbouring Gentlemen, to almost every Barrack, as to the Materials and Workmanship. This Clamour, upon a strict Examination and Oath, was proved to be well founded, as will appear to your My by the Refolutions B of of that Committee, which I beg leave to lay My. before your But Mr. Arthur Jones Nevill, then your M-y's Surveyor and Engineer-General, who was juft come into the H-e of C—s, being a Friend to the Lord Pe of Ireland, and by that Means alfo to Lord Ge Se, the Lord Lt's Secretary, he was to be fupported as much as their Weight and Intereft could fupport him, although the Lord Lt told Mr. B-le, the Sp-r of the H-e of Cs, at the Beginning of the Enquiry, that he had no Intentions to fcreen him; and, as it was a Business meerly relative to the Country, he muft ftand or fall by his own Works. But when the Facts began to appear against him in a ftrong Light, the Lord L-t faid to the Spr," That as he was an Officer of the "Crown, he could wish he were not to be expel"led the H-e of C-s, and that there fhould "be no Address prefented to remove him from his Employments," which the Spundertook and prevented, though with Difficulty, upon the Lord L -t's affuring him, that he should be punished, if, upon Enquiry, it should appear that he deserved it. -r I affure your My, that it was upon this Engagement, and for no other Reasons, that the Spr, and your M- -y's loyal Cs of Ireland, thought proper to proceed no farther than thofe Refolutions, which, though very ftrong, are not carried to Expulfion, nor was there any Addrefs to remove him from his Employment. But the H-e of Cs addreffed the Lord It to lay thofe Refolutions before your M- -y, and out of refpect to your My (as the Surveyor-General was one of your M-y's Servants) they fubmitted the remainder of his Punishment |