demand, to the amount of such rent or sum so due, either alone of together with a sufficient sum of lawful money, to the person on whose behalf such distress or poinding is made, or to the officer or person making such distress or poinding on his behalf; and in case such tender shall be accepted, or in case such tender shall be made and refused, the goods taken in such distress or poinding shall be forthwith returned to the party distrained upon, or against whom such poinding shall have been used, unless the party distraining or poinding and refusing to accept such tender shall insist that a greater sum is due than the sum so tendered, and in such case the parties shall proceed as usual in such cases; but if it shall appear that no more was due than the

sum so tendered, then the party who tendered such sum shall be entitled to the costs of all subsequent proceedings: Provided always, that the person to whom such rent or sum of money is due shall have and be entitled to all such other remedies for the recovery thereof, exclusive of distress or poinding, as such person had or was entitled to at the time of making such distress or poinding, if such person shall not think proper to accept such tender so made as aforesaid: Provided also, that nothing herein contained shall affect the right of any tenant, or other such person as aforesaid, having right to replevy or recover the goods so taken in distress or poinding, in case, without making such tender as aforesaid, he shall so think fit.

Speech of the Prince Regent by Commission on proroguing Parliament, July 24.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, has commanded us to signify to you the satisfaction with which he finds himself enabled to relieve you from your attendance in parliament, after the long and laborious duties of the session. We are particularly directed to express his approbation of the wisdom and firmness which you have manifested in enabling His Royal Highness to continue the exertions of this country in the cause of our allies, and to prosecute the war with increased activity and vigour.

Your determined perseverance

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in a system of liberal aid to the brave and loyal nations of the Peninsula has progressively augmented their means and spirit of resistance; while the humane attention which you have paid to the sufferings of the inhabitants of Portugal, under the unexampled cruelty of the enemy, has confirmed the alliance by new ties of affection, and cannot fail to inspire additional zeal and animation in the maintenance of the common cause.

His Royal Highness especially commands us to declare his cordial concurrence in the measure which you have adopted for improving the internal security and military resources of the United Kingdom.

For these important purposes you have wisely provided, by establishing a system for the annual supply of the regular army, and for the interchange of the militias of Great Britain and Ireland; and His Royal Highness has the satisfaction of informing you, that the voluntary zeal which has already been manifested upon this occasion has enabled him to give immediate operation to an arrangement by which the union and mutual interests of Great Britain and Ireland may be more effectually cemented and improved.

Gentlemen of the House of

Commons,

His Royal Highness commands us to thank you, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty, for the liberal supplies which you have furnished for every branch of the public service:

His Royal Highness has seen with pleasure the readiness with which you have applied the separate means of Great Britain to the

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financial relief of Ireland at the present moment, and dérives much satisfaction from perceiving that you have been able to accomplish this object with so little additional burthen upon the resources of this part of the United Kingdom. The manner in which you have taken into consideration the condition of the Irish revenue has met with his Royal Highness's approbation; and his Royal Highness commands us to add, that he looks with confidence to the advantage which may be derived from the attention of parliament having been given, to this important subject.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

His Royal Highness commands us to congratulate you upon the reduction of the island of Mau-. ritius. This last and most important colony of France has been obtained with inconsiderable loss, and its acquisition must materially' contribute to the security of the British commerce and possessions in that quarter of the world.

The successes which have, crowned his Majesty's arms during the present campaign, under the distinguished command of Lieutenant General Lord Viscount Wellington, are most important to the interests, and glorious to the character, of the country. His Royal Highness warmly participates in all the sentiments which have been excited by those successes, and concurs in the just applause which you have bestowed upon the skill, prudence, and intrepidity so conspicuously displayed in obtaining them.

It affords the greatest satisfaction to his Royal Highness to reflect, that, should it please Divine Providence to restore his Majesty

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this kingdom, at any such assembly; or if any person shall attend and vote at such election or appointment of such representatives or delegates, or other persons to act as such, every person who shall be guilty of any of the said offences, respectively being thereof convicted by due course of law, shall be deemed guilty of an high misdemeanour.

And whereas at a meeting or assembly of persons held in the city of Dublin on the 9th day of July instant, and stiling themselves "A Meeting of the Catholics of Ireland," certain resolutions, amongst others, were entered into, and have since been published, of the tenour following:

"Resolved,-That a committee of catholics be therefore appointed, and requested to cause proper petitions to be forthwith framed for the repeal of the penal laws, and to procure signatures thereto in all parts of Ireland, and to take measures for bringing such petitions under the serious consideration of the legislature within the first month of the ensuing sessions of parliament.

"Resolved, That said committee do consist of the catholic peers and their eldest sons, the catholic baronets, the prelates of the catholic church in Ireland, and also ten persons to be appointed by the catholics in each county of Ireland, the survivors of the delegates of 1793 to constitute an integral part of that number, and also of five persons to be appointed by the catholic inhabitants of each parish in Dublin.

"Resolved, That the appointment of the said persons be made forthwith,

"Resolved, That it be recommended to such committee to resort to all legal and constitutional means of maintaining a cordial communication of sentiment and co-operation of conduct amongst the catholics of Ireland, and generally of promoting the favourable reception of their petition.

"Resolved, That until the new committee shall be appointed, the management of catholic affairs shall be confided to the catholic peers, baronets, and survivors of the delegates of 1793."

And whereas there is reason to apprehend, that some of his Majesty's subjects may have already acted, and that others may be misled to act in furtherance of those resolutions. by taking a part in the election or appointment of delegates or representatives for such proposed assembly or committee; and that the persons so elected or delegated, or to be so elected or delegated, may be disposed to meet and form such assembly or committee, as aforesaid.

And whereas such an assembly as is by these resolutions proposed to be convened, is not only in direct violation of the provisions of the statute aforesaid, and an unlawful assembly, but tends directly to endanger the peace and tranquillity of the state.

Now we, the Lord-lieutenant, by and with the advice of the pri vy-council of Ireland, being determined, as far as in us lies, to enforce the due observance of the laws of this realm, and being anxious to prevent the mischiefs which the violation of those laws, and particularly of the statute herein-before mentioned, must occasion, do, by this our proclama

tion, command all his Majesty's loving subjects of this part of the United Kingdom, that they do abstain from all acts and proceedings whatsoever contrary to the provisions of the aforesaid statute.

"And we do further hereby call upon and require all justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffs, bailiffs, and other peace officers in this part of the United Kingdom, that they do proceed in due course of law to apprehend and hold to bail all persons against whom information on oath shall have been obtained of having given or published, or caused to be given or published, any written or other notice of elections to be holden, 01 of any manner of appointment of any representative or delegates for any such assembly as is herein before-mentioned, or of having voted, or in any other manner acted, or who shall be found actually voting, or in any other manner acting, in the election or ap. pointment of such delegates or representatives, that the person or persons so offending may be prosecuted according to law; and in case an assembly of such delegates or representatives shall hereafter attempt to meet in defiance of the law, and notwithstanding this our proclamation, that they shall proceed to disperse the same as an unlawful assembly, pursuant to 'the directions of the aforesaid statute."

Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 30th day of July,

1811.

MANNERS, E. WESTMEATH.

MAYO.

ERNE.

CHARLES KILDARE.

CASTLE COOTE, De BlaQUIERE. FRANKFORT.

W. W. POLE. D. LATOUCHE. S. HAMILTON. WM, SAURIN. P. DUIGENAN,

Petition to Parliament of the Roman Catholics of Ireland,

Sheweth," That, for a long series of years, the petitioners and their ancestors suffered under the most cruel system of legalised persecution that ever afflicted a Christian people and that, although they do with gratitude acknowledge that several of the enact ments of that oppressive code have been repealed since the accession of his present Majesty to the throne of these realms, nevertheless the petitioners still continue objects of a most degrading exclusion, not less injurious to the interests of the empire than offensive to the feelings of the petitioners; and that, for the last seventeen years, no relief whatsoever has been extended to the petitioners, though they have three several times within that period submitted their griesances and their claims to the cons sideration of the united parliament; on the contrary, their humble representations were disregarded,→→→ their just statements were contradicted, without affording an opportunity of supporting them,→ every prayer for investigation was rejected, and men distinguished from their fellow citizens.only.by their inveterate and offensive opposition to the claims of the petitioners, were raised to situations

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