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Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freemen, Freeholders, Merchants, Traders, Manufacturers, and other Citizens of Dublin, transmitted to the Right Honourable
The humble Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freemen, Freeholders, Merchants, Traders, Manufacturers, and other Citizens of DUBLIN.
May it please your Majesty:
We, the Gentlemen, Clergy, Freemen, Freeholders, Merchants, Traders, Manufacturers, and other Citizens of Dublin, the metropolis of your Majesty' s kingdom of Ireland, feeling ourselves at this time particularly called upon, embrace with pleasure the opportunity of testifying to your Majesty our steadfast loyalty and zealous attachment to your sacred person, crown, and dignity; for the preservation and honour of which we are, and ever shall be ready, to devote our lives and fortunes; truly sensible of the happiness we enjoy under your Majesty' s mild and auspicious Government.
We hear, with equal sorrow and astonishment, that many of your misguided subjects in America have withdrawn themselves from their allegiance to your Majesty. We lament that, influenced by the counsels of wicked and designing men, they have even dared to adopt a system tending to render themselves independent of the parent country; yet, deeply affected by the troubles subsisting in the Colonies, we have the fullest reliance on your Majesty' s wisdom and justice, that you will pursue with firmness such measures as may tend effectually to restore the violated rights of the British Empire.
We feel ourselves bound at so important and critical a conjuncture, most humbly and zealously to lay our hearts
Alarmed with apprehensions for what we have heard, and grateful for the blessings we feel and enjoy, we cannot avoid fervently to offer our prayers to the Almighty for the preservation of your Majesty' s royal person and family; that your reign over us may be long and happy, and that you may ever triumph over the enemies of our glorious Constitution.
Address of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and of Dublin, to the King
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Lord Viscount Weymouth, one of His Majesty' s principal Secretaries of State, and presented to His Majesty.
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at the foot of the Throne, and to express our warmest gratitude for your Majesty' s paternal goodness to this your Kingdom of Ireland, so recently and so amply shown by several acts of the British Parliament for the encouragement of our commerce, manufactures, and agriculture. And our duty also leads us to acknowledge the grateful sense we entertain of your Majesty' s peculiar indulgence, in sending to preside over us so excellent a Chief Governour; to whose faithful representation of our loyalty and attachment we attribute those important advantages which have flowed to us from your royal protection and favour.