and privileges of this your Parliament and People.

And here we beg leave to lay before your Majefty fome of the many evil confequences which we apprehend must neceffarily follow from fuch exorbitant practices as thefe, if a timely and effectual ftop be not put to them.

It is the right and happiness of the fubjects of this kingdom, as well as thofe of Great Britain, that by their respective conftitutions, the administration of justice is near at hand, and within the kingdom whereunto they belong. So that if any of your Majefly's licge people, are at any time wronged or opprefled in any of the courts of law or equity, they may with out any great trouble or expence, have recourte to your Majefty, in your High Court of Parliament, where they may affure themfelves of speedy redres. But if this your Majesty's Highest Court within this kingdom is deprived of the power of finally determining the caufes which come before them, all fuch of your fubjects as do not abound in wealth, and thereby are not able to follow their caufes, or bear the expence of them in Great Britain, will be under a perpetual neceffity of litting down with the greatest wrong or oppreffion which at any time, under the colour of justice, or by the management of rich and potent adverfaries may be laid upon them, which (confidering the poverty that every where prevails throughout this kingdom) mult, if not prevented in a short time, become a molt grievous and intolerable evil. And your Majefty's Royal Predeceffor, Edward III. was fo fenfible of the hardships that his loyal fubjects of this kingdom fuffered for want of having a means of reverfing erroneous judgments within this kingdom, that by his Charter, dated Auguft 30th, in the 29th year of his reign, on the complaint of his fubjects of Ireland, he commanded all his judges and minifters before whom any proceffes fhould be held at the profecution of the parties aggrieved, to return the rolls of the records, and proeeffes into the Parliaments to be held in the kingdom of Ireland, and that the records and proceffes fhould be recited and examined, and the errors (if any fhould be found in them) duly corrected,”

It is, under God, the great fecurity of this your Mjelly's kingdom of Ireland, that by the laws and ftatutes thereof, the fame is annexed and united to the Imperial Crown of England, and ́declared to be depending upon, and for ever belonging to the fame: but if all judgments, decrees, and determinations made in this your Majesty's highest court, within this

your kingdom, are fubject to be nulled and reveried by the lords in Great Britain, the liberties and properties of all your fubjects of Ireland muft thereby become finally dependant on the British Peers, to the great diminution of that dependeuce which by law we always ought to have immediately upon the Crown itfelf.

That your Majefly has, by the conftitution of this your realm of Ireland, the full power of judging and determining all causes that belong to it alone in Pieno Parliamento, is what no man hitherto has ventured openly to deny or doubt of.

But if in all cafes that relate to this kingdom, the dernier refort, (as fome of late have affected to speak) ought to be to the House of Lords in Great Britain, however this your Majesty's power may fill in words be acknowledged, the force and effect of it is in reality taken away and wholly vefted in the British Peers.

And we cannot but obferve, with the utmost concern, that by this practice of the Peers of Great Britain, jul and unjuft caufes will meet with equal encourage. ment. For however rightly such caules may be determined in Parliament here, the decrees will be annulled and reverfd by the Peers of Great Britain without hearing or entering into the merits of the cause, upon pretence that the proceed. ings were coram non judice.

The writs for fummoning the lords spiritual and temporal, and electing the Commons to affemble in parliament here, being the very fame with thofe in England or Great Britain, as has been before obferved, either the refpective powers in each kingdom muft till be the fame, or elfe the Peerage of this your Majefty's kingdom must remain little more than an empty title, and the Commons thereof ftand for ever deprived of that most valuable privilege of impeaching in parlia ment, which cannot poffibly be maintained if there be no fuch thing as a parlia mentary judicature within this realm; and if the power of the judicature may, by a vote of the British Lords, be taken away from the parliament of Ireland, no reston can be given why the fame may not, in like manner, deprive us of the benefit of our whole conftitution.

It is notorious, that the Lords of Creat Britain have not, in themfelves, either by law or cuftom, any way of putting their decrees in execution within this kingdom, of which they have given most undoubted evidence by their late applica tion to your Majcity, to caufe fuch their decrees to be executed by an extraordinary interpofition of your royal power.

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And fhould your Majefty think fit to yield to this their defire, we humbly preTume to think it would highly affect the liberty of your Majesty's loyal subjects of this kingdom.

In order to prevent the appellant, Hefter Sherlock, above mentioned, from making any farther application to your parliament here, your Majefty's Deputy receiver, John Pratt, Efq; thought fit to pay above 18ool to the faid Hefter Sher. lock, which, on examination, he alledged to be his own money; and that he made an agreement with the faid Hefter, of himfelf, without any order from any perfon whatfoever. But that from fome converfation which he had with perfons of judgment, he thought he had reafon to hope and expect that fince what he had done was for the public good, the government would not permit him to be a fufferer. What particular grounds the said John Pratt had thus to hope and expe&t, has not as yet been made known to us. But if fuch hopes and expectations as thefe are from time to time to be fatisfied, we leave your Majefty, in your royal wifdom, to judge what the evil confequences there. of may be.

And we farther humbly reprefent to your Majefty, that thefe proceedings of the Lords of England have greatly em. baraffed your parliament, and difquieted the generality of your moft loyal protef tant fubjects of this your kingdom, and muft, of neceffity, bring all theriffs and officers of Juftice under great hardships, by reafon of the clafhing of different juriidictions. Nor can we but with grief obferve, that whilft many of the Peers and Commons who fat in Parliament were Papifts, their judicature was never queftioned; but of late, fince only Proteftants are qualified to have a fhare in the legiflature, their power, and the right of bearing cafes in Parliament, hath been denied, to the great difcouragement and weakening of the Proteftant intereft in Ireland.

And having thus, with all humility, laid before your Majefty your undoubted power and prerogative within this your kingdom of Ireland, the immediate dependance of the fame upon your Majefty's crown, the right your Majefly has to hold Parliaments here, as in Great Britain, and of finally determining therein all matters that wholly relate to this realm, together with the great incroachments that of late have been made upon your Majefty's prerogative, and the rights of this your parliament, and the illegal unprecedented proceedings of the Lord Chief Baron and the other Barons of your Ma

jefty's Court of Exchequer, whereby they have endeavoured to support thofe encroachments with the evil confequences of such proceedings, in cafe that a fpeedy and effectual flop be not thereunto put. We most humbly hope, that all thel things being duly confidered and weighed with your Majetty's ufual wifdom, will abundantly juftify us in the methods we have taken, as well for the fupporting of your Majefty's royal prerogative, as the prefervation of the juft rights and liberties of ourselves and our fellow,fubjects, as the fame are fet forth in the feveral refolutions we have come to,--with all humility affuring your Majetty, that no difficulties which we may be laid under fhall hinder us from giving the utmost dispatch to all your Majetty's affairs, or from moft chearfully demonftrating that loyalty and affection to your Majefty's perfon, and attachment to your intereft, which becomes your Majefty's dutiful and obedient fubjects, whereof we again, from our hearts, make an humble tender to your most facred Majefty.

The antwer given to this Addrefs and Reprefentation was the infamous declaratory act of the 6th of George the First, declaring that "the King, with the confent of the Lords and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament affembled, had power to make laws of fufficient force to bind the kingdom and people of Ireland, and that the Houfe of Lords of Ireland had not, nor ought of right to have, any jurifdiction to judge of, affirm, or reverie, any judgment or decree, made in any court within this kingdom; and that all proceedings before the faid Houfe of Lords, upon any fuch judgment or decree were void."

The Unanimous Voice of the People, and their determined Refolution to oppofe its operation, is a temporary vindication of their rights; but it reits with the two Houfes of Parliament to emulate the virtue of their ancestors, and rescue their peculiar privileges from the hand of Violence.

and stuff!

Like a flipper a mistress I deem, You may shake her off juft when you pleafe;

But a wife's a tight fhoe buckled on, Which you cannot get rid of with cafe,

Now, my friend Numps, if you have played the fool, and married, I pity you from the bottom of my heart.

Humphrey. Will you not pity me, if I have loft my mistress?

David. Not I indeed; I fhall not feel a grain of compaflion for you. How fhould we poor fellows think of finding our miftreffes faithful, when the greatest men in the kingdom cannot keep their wives faithful to them.

Humphrey. Ah! you make yourself merry with my lofs, but if you were in my ftate, you would feel as I do.

AIR III.

With my Fanny I richly was bleft.

And I thought I was truly belov'd; But what anguifh now racks my fond breaft,

As the fickle and faithlefs has prov'd! David. Fickle and faithlefs indeed! What a whining is here about a girl, who did not care a pin for you in her heart, and was only true to you, till fhe could meet with another fimpleton who could afford to give her more money.

Humphrey. You have no feeling, David, you do not know what it is to be in love.

David. No feeling! feeling enough, my boy; and I can be in love too-in my way and I'll tell you what that way is in a trice

Fresh and fresh for me that is my way.

Like the eyes in my head I dear liberty love,

On the fex no embargo I lay; From this lover to that let them ramble and rove,

I fhall never be out of my way.

Humphrey. 'Tis a fad thing though, that we cannot keep the girls who pretend to love us from running away to other people.

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Have been-fool'd-to their ruin be tray'd.

David. Poor Nuinps! What a difinal ditty haft thou been warbling out in the molt mournful tones! Whou wouldst make a special figure in a pastoral, in the character of a defpairing fwain ! a more fad fhepherd never blew his pipe, or ballanced bis crook. But prythee behave` like a man, and look out for another miftrefs; all our betters do the fame about us, don't they?

Humphrey. 'Tis a fad thing, as I faid before, that we cannot keep the girls who pretend to love us from running to other people--All my comfort is that I am not married Fanny, indeed, has proved false; but then I am as free as air-- Yet I did love her-aye, that I did.

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(lighing.

David. Phaw! never figh about the matter, man: come along with me, and mind what I fay; you will then never fuffer any woman in the creation to give you a moment's uneafiness-come alongcome along: while you keep your neck out of the noofe of matrimony, you may be as happy as a prince, if you pleafe-aye and happier too.

[Exeunt-the one fighing, the other finging. BRITISH