We declare our readiness to grant the supplies necessary for the ordinary expenses of your Majesty’s establishments, as far as the state and circumstances of this Country will permit, and to provide for the arrear unavoidably incurred thereon.

We acknowledge your Majesty’s tender concern for the welfare of this Kingdom, in the several laws recently passed in Great Britain, highly advantageous to our commerce, manufactures, and agriculture, and profess our resolution to improve advantages, so obviously beneficial to our navigation and trade, as those which must arise from an act which extends the great benefits of British fisheries to Ireland, which has been the source of industry and wealth to other nations.

We thankfully express our satisfaction for that particular mark of your Majesty’s royal favour, the act allowing the clothing and accoutrements for your Majesty’s forces, paid from the revenues of this Kingdom, to be exported from Ireland; and are confident that the act which allows the importation of rape-seed to Great Britain, from this Kingdom, under certain regulations, will, connected with those salutary laws passed in this Kingdom during the last session of Parliament, form such a system of agriculture and improvement, as we hope may secure riches and plenty to the people of Ireland.

We assure your Majesty of our being deeply impressed with the expediency of persevering application to the staple of this Country, so strongly recommended by a bounty from Great Britain upon the importation of flax-seed into Ireland; and that the Protestant Charter Schools are eminently entitled to our consideration and care, as a wise and humane institution, peculiarly adapted to the state and circumstances of this Country.

In terms of the most unbounded loyalty and allegiance, we lay before your Majesty the hearts of your ever faithful Commons of Ireland, labouring to pour forth the just and grateful sense which they feel of your Majesty’s great goodness, indulgence, and favour, and wishing to proclaim to the world, at this critical conjuncture, their steady determination to approve themselves not unworthy the protection of so wise, so just, and so amiable a Sovereign.

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.

To His Excellency SIMON, Earl HARCOURT, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governour of IRELAND.

The humble Address of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled.

May it please your Excellency:

We, His Majesty’s dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Parliament assembled, return your Excellency our unfeigned thanks for your speech from the throne to both Houses of Parliament, and we beg leave to assure your Excellency that we feel ourselves exceedingly happy in the favourable opinion which your Excellency hath conceived of us, and in that satisfaction with which your Excellency is pleased to declare you meet us again in Parliament.

We flatter ourselves that your Excellency’s residence amongst us for three years, which hath formed an impression upon your mind so favourable to us, and hath afforded your Excellency such a competent knowledge of the circumstances of this Country, will be propitious to the interests of it; and that, impressed, as we are with a grateful sense of your Excellency’s successful endeavours to promote the prosperity of this Kingdom, which have been manifested by the advantages which our commerce, manufactures, and agriculture, have received, we cannot but think ourselves most happy under your Excellency’s administration.

The late acts passed in the British Parliament, so highly beneficial to this Kingdom, which your Excellency is pleased to take notice of in a manner expressive of your good wishes and kind concern for us, fill our minds with gratitude; and the reflection that they have passed during your Excellency’s government yields us the best grounded assurances that your Excellency’s just and favourable representations of us, together with your good offices and kind interpositions, have not been wanting in our favour.

On our part, we beg your Excellency to accept of our grateful acknowledgments; and we think it but just to assure your Excellency, as we now do, that as it is our duty, so it will be our inclination, to co-operate with you in promoting those great objects recommended to us by your Excellency from the throne, and that we will cordially concur with your Excellency in such measures as may conduce to the happiness of this Kingdom, and the honour and ease of your Excellency’s administration.

His Excellency’s Answer.

I return the House of Lords my sincerest thanks for this kind and obliging Address. I consider it not only as the most honourable proof of their regard and esteem, but it is a very distinguished instance of their approbation of my conduct during a residence of near three years in this Kingdom; and that I may not be undeserving of the continuance of it, I shall take every opportunity of representing to His Majesty the unshaken loyalty and affection of the House of Lords, and do every thing in my power to promote the happiness and prosperity of Ireland.

To His Excellency SIMON, Earl HARCOURT, Lord Lieutenant General, and General Governour of IRELAND.

The humble Address of the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, in Parliament assembled.

May it please your Excellency:

We, His Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of Ireland, in Parliament assembled, return your Excellency our sincere thanks for your most excellent speech from the throne.

We beg leave to express our highest satisfaction in being again assembled under so just and prudent a Chief Governour, our happiness at the favourable impression which our past conduct hath made upon your Excellency’s mind, and our gratitude to His Majesty for his paternal care of this Kingdom, in permitting to remain among us a Nobleman, distinguished by the many eminent virtues which have invariably adorned his publick character and private life.

Encouraged by an assurance of your Excellency’s cooperation and support, we cannot fail to give the strictest attention to the several great and important advantages that are the objects of your Excellency’s earnest recommendation; those benefits to our commerce, manufactures, and agriculture, solicited and obtained during your Excellency’s administration, deserve our warmest and sincerest gratitude and acknowledgments.

We shall cheerfully make provision for the necessary expenses of His Majesty’s establishments, as far as the circumstances of this Country will admit; sensible of the numberless blessings we enjoy under the best of Kings, and confident that your Excellency will continue faithfully to represent our loyalty and zeal to his sacred person and Government, your Excellency may be assured of our endeavours to contribute to the ease and honour of your administration, as we have, from experience, the strongest reason to rely upon your Excellency’s disposition uniformly to promote the welfare and happiness of the people of Ireland.

His Excellency’s Answer.

I return the House of Commons my most sincere thanks for this very kind and affectionate Address, which, after a residence of near three years in this Kingdom, is the most honourable testimony of their approbation and esteem; the continuance of which I shall ever be ambitious of deserving, by faithfully representing to His Majesty the unshaken loyalty of the Commons of Ireland, and by a constant attention, on my part, to every thing that can tend to promote the welfare and prosperity of this Kingdom.