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tions are, by adoption, ours; fupport them, it will be honour able to you, justice to us, and effential to the freedom and profperity of Ireland.

WILLIAM RICHARDSON.

William Richardson, Efq; having left the chair, and Thomas Townly Dawfon, Efq; taken it,

Refolved unanimoufly, That the thanks of this meeting be prefented to William Richardson, Esq; for his proper conduct in the chair.

Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be prefented to Francis Dobbs, Efq; and that we highly approve of his patriotic zeal and fpirited conduct at this meeting.

Refolved unanimously, That these refolutions and addrefs, together with the answer of our representatives be published in the Dublin Evening Poft, the Belfast News-Letter, and the Newry Chronicle. THO. TOWNLY DAWSON.

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To the Freeholders of the County of Armagh.
Gentlemen,

I AM happy in your approbation, as it adds ftrength to our efforts for the public fervice. Your fentiments were well known to me, and I have anticipated your commands. The united voice of the people coincides with yours, and calls loudly from all parts of the kingdom, for a vindication of their conftitutional rights. Such union and firmnefs must prevail, and the happy æra cannot be remote. I confider the refolutions of Dungannon as the cement of that union, and I applaud them. Your confidence in me is not misplaced I ne ver will betray you. Yours, faithfully,

W. BROWNLOW.

At a Meeting of the Cumber Battalion, April 4, 1782.
Colonel DAVID ROSS in the Chair.

1ft. RESOLVED unanimoufly, That an equal distribution of juftice is both the glory and strength of every empire.

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2d. Refolved unanimously, That to affert or maintain, that this kingdom is to be governed by any other power except the King, Lords, and Commons of Ireland, is an unequal diftribution of justice, a fubverfion of the rights of this kingdom, and detrimental to the real happiness of the whole empire.

3d. We unanimously approve of the refolutions entered into by the Delegates of the Ulfter Volunteers, who met at Dungannon the 15th of February; and do pledge ourselves, as foldiers, and men of fpirit, that we will, with our lives and fortunes, fupport our brethren, the Volunteers of Ireland, in every constitutional effort to effect the fame.

Laftly, Refolved, That these refolutions be published in the Londonderry Journal, and Dublin and Belfast papers, and tranfmitted to the Secretary, Capt. Dawson.

D. ROSS, Colonel, Chairman.

At a full Meeting of the Ormond Independents, assembled the 5th Day of April, 1782.

ACTUATED as we are by loyalty to our Sovereign, and

impreffed with a juft fenfe of thofe rights which we hold as citizens and Volunteers, the prefent critical fituation of affairs feems to us a proper occafion, for thus publicly declaring our fentiments; fully determined to affert our rights, yet anxious to preferve that unanimity and cordial friendship, which we fincerely hope may always fubfift between Great Britain and Ireland.

Refolved, That by learning the ufe of arms, we are not the lefs intitled to make a declaration of our rights.

Refolved, That the resolutions of the Uller Volunteers, affembled at Dungannon on the 15th day of February laft, and of the Connaught Volunteers, affembled at Ballinafloe on the 15th day of March laft, are fo fully expreffive of those rights, as to render any declaration on our part unnecessary, further than that they meet our hearty and unanimous approbation, and that we are determined to co-operate with the Volunteer corps of Ireland, in every conftitutional mode of redrefs.

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Refolved, That the thanks of this meeting be presented to Colonel Toler, our worthy Chairman, for his zeal in fupport of the public good, and his upright conduct as Chairman. Refolved, That thefe refolutions be printed in the Dublin Evening Poft, and the Clonmel Gazette.

Signed by order,

WM. GREENSHIELDS, Lieut. and Sec.

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At a full Meeting of the First and Independent Killinchy Volunteer Company, April 6, 1782.

Captain GAWIN HAMILTON in the Chair.

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ESOLVED unanimoufly, That the fpirited, manly, and moderate refolutions of the Ulfter Volunteers met at Dungannon, have our warmeft approbation, and that we do moft chearfully accede to them; with pleasure we accept of their invitation, and think ourselves honoured by being admitted members of fo refpectable a body.

At a Time when Refolutions and Addresses of the most ferious ConSequences are daily multiplying from all Quarters of the Kingdom, where either Volunteer Corps, or other fpirited Friends to the true Interefts of Ireland exift, the Lemavady Battalion, confifting chiefly of Freeholders in this County (Londonderry) on Parade affembled, April 6, 1782,

Came to the following refolutions:

THAT it is our opinion, that the right hon. Edward Cary,

is entitled to the warmest returns of gratitude from every friend to this country, whether we confider him as a Volunteer, for his generous treatment to Volunteers, or, as a reprefentative of this county, for his parliamentary conduct, a conduct, we hereby declare we will, to our utmost, support on every future occafiour,

An entire change of men and measures having taken place. in our fifter kingdom, the county of Derry reprefentatives will, we trust, stand foremost on the lift of friends to Ireland, as we will, on every fuch occafion, give them public testimo nies of our gratitude and affection.

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That the warmest thanks of this battalion be returned to General Cary, and the inhabitants of Dungiven, for their hofpitality on Friday the 5th inft. to the officers and privates of thefe corps.

That thefe refolutions be published.

Signed by order,

RICH. GRAY, Adjt. Gen.

CLARE MEETING.

At a general Meeting of the Gentlemen, Clergy, and. Freeholders of the County of Clare, convened by the High Sheriff at Ennis, April 6, 1782, pursuant to public Notice,

POOLE HICKMAN, Efq; High Sheriff, in the Chair. The following Refolutions were unanimously agreed to: RESOLVED, That it appears to us to be obfolutely neseffary to declare, That no power on earth has any right to make laws to bind this kingdom, fave the King, Lords, and Commons of Ireland.

Refolved, That a claim of any body of men, other than the King, 'Lords, and Commons of Ireland, to make laws to bind this kingdom, is unconftitutional, illegal, and a grie

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Refolved, That it is at this time abfolutely neceffary, that the Irish parliament fhould enact a law declaratory of their fole and exclufive right to make laws to bind Ireland.

Refolved, That the powers exercised by the Privy Council of both kingdoms under, or under colour of the law of Poyning's, are unconftitutional, illegal, and a grievance.

Refolved, That we are determined to render the English claim of legiflation in Ireland ineffectual, by every conftitutional refiftance.

Refolved, That a mutiny bill, not limited in point of duration, is unconftitutional and a grievance.

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Refolved, That the ports of this country are by right open to all foreign countries, not at war with our Sovereign, and that any restriction on our trade, or obftruction thereto, fave only by the parliament of Ireland, is illegal, unconftitutional, and a grievance

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Refolved, That the independence of Judges is effential to the impartial adminiftration of juftice in Ireland, and that the refufal or delay of this right, may excite jealousy and difcontent, and is a grievance.

Refolved, That the thanks of this meeting are due to those wife and virtuous men, who fo firmly demanded, and fo ftrenuously contended for declarations of our rights, and redrefs of our grievances.

Refolved, That to poftpone or delay fuch declarations of our rights, and compleat and fatisfactory redrefs of our grievances, is in effect to deny the rights, and to deny them, is bafely to betray them.

Refolved, That it is our unalterable determination to seek a redress of thefe grievances; and we pledge ourselves to each other, and to our country, as freeholders, fellow-citizens, and men of honour, that we will at every enfuing election for our county, fupport thofe only, who will fupport us therein; and that we will ufe all conftitutional means to make such our pursuit of redress, fpeedy and effectual.

Rofolved, That our reprefentatives in parliament, Sir Lucius O'Brien, Bart. and Edward Fitzgerald, Efq; haye fulfilled the truft repofed in them, and deferve the warmest approbation of their conduct, which is peculiarly praife-wor thy and disinterested, at a time when venality and corruption influence fo many members of parliament, and constitutes the minifterial fyftem of government in this country.

Refolved, That the thanks of this meeting be given to our worthy High Sheriff, for his ready compliance with the requeft made to him for convening the county, and for his im partial conduct in the chair.

Refolved, That thefe refolutions be figned by the Chairman, and printed in the Dublin Evening Poft, and in the Clare and Munfter Journal.

POOLE HICKMAN, High Sheriff, and Chairman.

CITY of COR K.

Council Chamber, April 6, 1782.

WE, the Grand Jury of the county of the city of Cork,

at Spring affizes affembled, firmly convinced, that an explicit and timely avowal of the decided fentiments of the Irish nation, will be the most effectual means of preventing all future jealousy between us and our fifter kingdom, and, that it will

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