To His Grace LIONEL, Duke of DORSET, Lord LieutenantGeneral, and General Governor of Ireland.

The Humble Addrefs of the KNIGHTS, CITIZENS, and BURGESSES in Parliament affembled, presented in the fame Seffions, and referred to in the fame Memorial.

May it please your Grace,

WE His Majefty's most dutiful and loyal

Subjects, the Commons of Ireland, in Parliament affembled, beg Leave to return Your Grace the Thanks of this House, for Your wife and prudent Administration, and for Your conftant Care for the Welfare and Prosperity of this Kingdom.

The Chearfulness and Unanimity with which the Supplies demanded from the Throne, have been granted this Seffion of Parliament, not only demonftrate the Duty and Loyalty of the House of Commons to His Majefty, and their firm Attachment to His Government, and the true Intereft of their Country, but clearly fhew their Respect to Your Grace's Perfon, and their Inclination to make Your Administration Easy and Honourable. ཊྛཱ་

Your Grace, is, from long Experience, so well acquainted with the truly Loyal Sentiments of His Majefty's faithful Commons, that when we confider Your Grace's Candour, and the high -Truft vested in You, we cannot entertain the leaft Doubt, but that Your Grace will, upon Your Return into the Royal Prefence, reprefent His Majesty's Proteftant Subjects of this Kingdom, as inviolably

inviolably and unalterably attached to His facred Perfon, and the Interefts of His Moft Illuftrious House, and that Your Grace will affure His Majefty, as we are fully fenfible of the Happiness we enjoy under His Moft aufpicious Reign, that we shall upon all Occafions endeavour to deferve the Continuance of His Royal Favour and Protection.

Thank the House of Commons for this Mark

I Thanet Eteeme for Oe. My.

of their Efteem for Me. My Endeavours fhall never be wanting to promote the Profperity of this Kingdom, and you may depend upon my REPRESENTING to his Majesty YOUR DUTY and LOYALTY in the TRUEST Light.

A LETTER from the Right Hon. the E---1 of Hs, one of his M-y's principal Ses of State, to his Excellency the Lord Cr of Ireland.

My Lord,

Whitehall, June 29th, 1753. yy Eton di

Have the K-g's Command to transmit to your Lordship the inclofed Copy of a Paper, which has been prefented to his My by the E of Ke, containing an Account of fuppofed Discontents and Divifions amongst his My's faithful Subjects in Ireland; and afcribing the Caufes thereof to the Conduct of

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the Lord Lt, and of thofe in whom his Grace, for the better carrying on of his My's Affairs, places a Confidence: And all this is reprefented as the Sentiments of a great Majority of the H-e of Cs of Ireland; and of many others of the most zealous of the K-g's Proteftant Subjects there.

On the Perufal of fo uncommon and extraordinary an Application, his M-y expreffed a great Surprize; and has directed me to acquaint your Lordship, that his My has the firmeft Reliance on the Duty and inviolable Attachment of his Proteftant Subjects of Ireland to his facred Perfon, royal Family, and Government, being thoroughly perfuaded that their Loyalty and Zeal, for his Service, are not to be shaken by any Infinuations or Mifconftructions whatsoever.

The K-g has had fo great Experience of the Abilities and Fidelity of the Duke of Dt in the several important Trufts which have been repofed in him, and particularly by the great Satisfaction which a feven Years Administration in Ireland had formerly given, not only to his My, but also to his faithful Subjects there, that his My judged, that, by appointing his Grace a fecond Time to that important Station sof Lord Lt, he gave no fmall Proof of his Attention and Regard to their Intereft-and Welfare, which his M- -y has had, and ever will have, intirely at Heart. In this Light his M-y looks upon his Grace as deferving his Support, without which his Service cannot be carried on.

The K-g's Ear will always be open to receive any juft Complaints of any of his Subjects; but his My thinks it does not belong to any particular Perfon (how refpectable foever) to fpeak in the Name of a great Body of his People, much lefs of one of his H-s of Pt there and to put an Interpretation upon their Proceedings

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and Refolutions, which they have not thought fit to exprefs. The K-g is determined to continue his royal Protection and Countenance to all his faithful Servants and Subjects in Ireland; but his M- -y, and under him the chief G

of that Kingdom, are, and ought to be, the propereft Judges by what Perfons, and through what Channels, his royal Favours are to be difperfed.

It is his My's Pleasure that your Lordship fhould communicate this Letter to the E-1 of K- -e, and to fuch other Perfons as you shall think proper and expedient.

Your Lordship will obferve how little Impreffion Representations of this Nature make on the K-g's Greatness of Mind, against daily Proofs of Fidelity and Zeal in his Service; and the Duty, Attachment, and good Affection of his My's faithful Cs of Ireland, and the rest of his loyal Proteftant Subjects there, have been fo truly and amply laid before the K-g by the Duke of D-t, that they did not ftand in need of any further Enforcements.

Upon the whole, his My depends on the chearful Concurrence of all his good Subjects of that Kingdom to fupport his Government, and to render it easy and happy in the Hands in which his My has, for the jufteft Reasons, been pleased to intruft it.

I am,

(with great Truth and Regard,)
Your Lordship's moft obedient

bumble Servant,

A LETTER

A LETTER from his Grace the D---e of D----t, L---d L------t of Ireland, to his Excellency the Lord C------r of that Kingdom.

My Lord,

You

OUR Lordship will receive a Letter from my Lord H-fs, with a Copy of a very extraordinary Paper, delivered by the Earl of Ke to the K-g.

His My was furprized at fo unprecedented an Attack upon Government, and was unresolved, for fome Time, in what Manner he fhould express his Difapprobation of fuch Proceedings; directing the Secretary of State to write to my Lord Ke, was fhewing too great Attention to his Lordship; directing the Lords Juftices to declare his M-y's Intentions was liable to obvious Objections, as two in the Commiffion were exprefly named; fo that no Method was thought fo proper, as to fignify to your Lordship (as the chief Officer of the State) his M-y's Pleasure upon this Event, that you might communicate it to my Lord Ke, and to every other Perfon you should think expedient.

His My thought it not confiftent with his Dignity to enter into farther Particulars, either with regard to the Facts fo ftrangely ftated, or with regard to my Lord Pe, or Lord G-e Se. It was fufficient for his My to declare the Confidence he is pleased to repofe in me, the Support he will give his Representative, and that he leaves me the Judge who beft deserves my Confidence, and through what Channel his Favours are to be difperfed. I hope, at C

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