of the

upon slips of paper, and drawn from a glass placed 1800.

. upon the table.

On the 31st of December, 1800, his Majesty en- Completion tered the House of Peers, when the usher of the black Union. rod was sent to desire the attendance of the commons. Several members of the House of Commons appeared at the bar, preceded by the speaker, who addressed his Majesty in a dignified and impressive speech, That part of it, which related to Ireland was as follows: " These, Sire, the last proceedings of your parliament previous to the great era now on the point of coinmencing, are the indication and result of that common interest and fellow feeling with the people, by which it has ever been actuated, and which are the best safeguard of all that is most valuable in society. To that era your commons look forward with a confident expectation, that the consolidated wisdom and authority of the legislature of Great Britain and Ireland, under the auspicious government of your

Ma. jesty, and your illustrious house, will diffuse throughout every part of the united kingdom the full benefits of that constitution, which has been proved to be favorable, in an unexampled degree, to the enjoyment of civil liberty and public prosperity ; which cannot therefore fail to animate the zeal and determination of those, who may share its blessings, to cherish and maintain it during their own times, and to transmit it as the best inheritance to their posterity.” His Majesty was then pleased to make a most gracious speech from the throne to both houses of parliament: afterwards the lord-chancellor, by his Majesty's com.

1800. mand, prorogued the parliament to the 22d day of

January, 1801, when the members were summoned by a proclamation read by the clerk at the table, to attend in their places. Immediately after his Majesty had left the house, he held a grand council, in which several arrangements required by that grand event were settled. In honor of the Union many promotions were made, and several new titles created. On the next day, viz. the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and one, the incorporate Union of Great Britain and Ireland was formally announced by proclamation. Thus was accomplished the incorporate Union of Great Britain and Ireland,

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resigns, ib.

-

ii. 34

11. 41

Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, com- America, war with unpopular in
mander in chief, censures the

Ireland, ii. 174
army, ii. 419.

her alliance with France, ii.

178
Absentee-tax, proposed by Lord

peace with, ii. 237
Harcourt, and rejected,'ii. 168 terms of, censured in the
Act to secure the crown in the British parliament, ii. 240
protestant line, ii. 39

Amnesty, act of, passed in 1798,
-of Queen Ann, to prevent the

ii. 501
further growth of popery, i. 35 Ann, her accession to the throne,
Adan, his perfection, i. 27

his knowledge, how trans- led alternately by Whigs and
mitted, i. 28

Tories, il
Address of the Commons to the

persecutes the Catholics, ïi.
throne, upon pensions, negativ- 35
ed, ii. 149

insincerity and duplicity of
ditto, for redress of griev- herself and ministers, ii. 37, 49
ances, ib.

oppresses her catholic sub-
to Lord Lieutenant, for pa- jects with a severe code of laws,
pers about septennial bill, ii.
150

-addressed by the Tories against
on the septennial bill being the Presbyterians, ii. 47
arrested in England, ii. 151

adverse to the whig party in
the King's ungracious an-

Ireland, ii, 54
swer to it, ib.

creates 12 new peers, ii. 56
Adbua's, discovery of Ireland, i. 11 favours and commends chan-
Adrian, Pope, his donation of cellor Phipps, ii. 60-1
Ireland to Henry, i. 149

averse from the Hanover suc-
Pope Alexander's confirma- cession, ii. 61
tion of it, i. 151

irritated at being forced to
feelings of the Irish as to it, proclaim a reward of 50,000l.for
i. 163

apprehending the pretender her
Agistment, vide titbes.

brother, ib.
St. Alban's, battle of, i. 250

hurt at Leslie's failure to
Alexander, vide Adrian.

convert her brother to the pro-,
America, compared with the case testant faith, ib.
of Ireland, ii. 170

mortified at the conduct of
- war with, affects Ireland, ii. her council, ii. 63
171, 174

taken ill and dies within 3
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to the throne on retrenchment, [ Burke, Richard, Agent to the Ca-

ii. 251

Brown, opposed by the attorney-
general (Fitz Gibbon), ii. 252
Bruce, Robert, beats the English
at Bannockburn, i. 204

Edw. lands in Ireland, i. 205
crowned at Dundalk, ib.
falls in battle, i. 209
Buckingham, Marquis of, vide
Temple.
Buckinghamshire, Lord, succeeds
Lord Harcourt, ii. 177

admits the financial difficul-
ties of the kingdom, ii. 178

weak government of, ii. 186
prorogues parliament, ii. 196
unpopular in Ireland and dis- |
approved of in England, ib.

recalled and succeeded by
Lord Carlisle, ib.
Burdett, Sir Francis, seconds Mr.
Fox's motion for an address to
the throne for allaying the dis-
turbances of Ireland, ii. 392
Burgb, Mr. Hussey, proposes an
amendment for free trade, ii. 185

his amiable character, ib.
Burgundy, Duchess of, her in-
trigues against Henry VII. i.
267, 270, 280
Burke, Edmund, his ideas of pub-
lishing Irish annals, i. 182

his opinion of the revolution
of 1688 as to Ireland, ii. 2

his opinion of the penal code
under Ann, ii. 35

his character of Geo. II.ii. 183
his opinion of Mr. Gardiner's
catholic bill, ii. 216

his book on the French Re-
volution and defection from the
Whig party, ii. 302

his letter to Sir Herc. Lang-
rishe on the catholic claims, ii.
308

tholics, ii. 308

imprudently ventures into
the House of Commons, ii.
314

Bursion, Counsellor, his opinion
of the legality of catholic dele-
gation, ii 324.

Butler, Simon, chairman to the
society of united Irishmen of
Dublin, ii. 306

publishes digest of popery
laws, ii. $23

his opinion of legality of ca-
tholic delegation, ii. 324

Rev. Mr., his murder charg-
ed on the catholics, ii. 341
Byrne, Pat. the bookseller, com-
mitted for high-treason, ii. 430

Michael William, executed
contrary to agreement with
government, ii. 498

Cabal, why so called, i. 435

their plans to alter the con-
stitution of Great Brit. i. 437
, encourage plots and plot-
ters, ib.
Cabinet, vide English.
Cabyria, what, i. 867

their antiquity, i. 878.
indecency of, i. 130-1
Camden, his authority in favour
of Ireland, i. 126-7.

Earl of, his speech in the
British Peers in favour of Ire-
land, ii. 186

arrives in Dublin as Lord
Lieutenant, ii. 362.
ill received, ib.

addressed by the Commons,

Camden, ditto on 13th October, Castlehaven, Earl of, imprisoned,
1796, ii. 384

i. 376
sends a
message to the

his testimony of the loyalty,
Commons that he cannot raise of the catholics, i. 377
£3,395,697. ii. 393

Custlereagh, Lord, moves an ad-
sends a message