Addrefs from the British Houfe of Lords to his Majefly, with the Refolutions for the Union with Ireland, as amended by them. Refolved, THA HAT it be the first article of the union of the kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, that the faid kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland fhall, upon the 1ft day of January which thall be in the year of our Lord 1801, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom, by the name of " The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland" and that the royal ftyle and and titles appertaining to the imperial crown of the faid united kingdom and its dependencies, and allo the enfigns armorial, flags and banners thereof, fhall be fuch as his majefty, by his royal proclamation under the great feal of the united kingdom, fhall be pleased to appoint. Refolved, That it be the fecond article of union, that the fucceffion to the imperial crown of the faid united kingdom, and of the dominions thereunto belonging, fhall continue limited and fettled in the fame manner as the fucceffion to the imperial crown of the faid kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland now ftands limited and fettled, according to the exifting laws and to the terms of union between Eng land and Scotland. Refolved, That it be the third article of union, that the faid united kingdom be repre'ented in one and the fame parliament, to be tyled "The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland." Refolved, That it be the fourth article of the union, that four lords fpiritual of Ireland by rotation of at 1 at the table of the houfe of lords whilst the house is fitting; and the peer or peers whose name or names fhall be first drawn out by the clerk of the parliament, shall be deemed the peer or peers elected, as the cale may be that any person holding any peerage of Ireland now fubfifting, or hereafter to be created, hall not thereby be difqualified from being elected to ferve if he fall think fit, or from ferving, or Continuing to ferve if he fhall think fit, for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain in the houfe of commons of the united king dom, unless he fhall have been pre vioufly elected as above to fit in the houfe of lords of the united kingdom; but that, fo long as fuch peer of Ireland fhall fo continue to be a member of the houfe of commons, he fhall not be entitled to the privilege of peerage, nor be capable of being elected to ferve as a peer on the part of Ireland, or of voting at any fuch election; and that he fhall be liable to be fued, indicted, proceeded against, and tried as a commoner for any offence with which he may be charged: that it fhall be lawful for his majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, to create peers of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, and to make promotions in the peerage thereof after the union; provided that no new creation of any fuch peers fhall take place after the union, until three of the peerages of Ireland, which fhall have been exifting at the time of the union, shall have become extinct; and upon fuch extinction of three peerages, that it fhall be lawful for his majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, to create one peer of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland; and in like manner fo often as three peerages of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland fhall become extinct, it shall be lawful for his majesty, his heirs and fucceffors, to create one other peer of the faid part of the united kingdom; and if it fhall happen that the peers of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, fhall, by extinction of peerages or otherwife, be reduced to the number of one hundred, exclufive of all such peers of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland as fhall hold any peerage of Great Britain fubfifting at the time of the union, or of the united kingdom created fince the union, by which fuch peers fhall be entitled to an hereditary feat in the house of lords of the united kingdom, then and in that cafe it fhall and may be lawful for his majesty, his heirs, and fucceffors, to create one peer of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, as often as any one of fuch one hundred peerages fhall fail by extinction, or as often as any one peer of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland fhall become entitled by defcent or creaation to an hereditary feat in the houfe of lords of the united kingdom; it being the true intent and meaning of this article, that at all times after the union it fhall and may be lawful for his majesty, his heirs, and fucceffors, to keep up the peerage of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland, to the number of one hundred, over and above the number of fuch of the faid peers as fhall be entitled by descent or creation to an hereditary feat in the houfe of lords of the united kingdom: that if any peerage fhall at any time be in abeyance, fuch peerage fall be deemed and taken as an exifting peerage; and o peerage peerage fhall be deemed extinct unlefs on default of claimants to the inheritancy of fuch peerage for the fpace of one year from the death of the perfon who fhall have been laft poflefied thereof; and if no claim thall be made to the inheritance of fuch peerage, in fuch form and manmer as may from time to time be preferibed by the houfe of lords of the united kingdom before the expiration of the faid period of a year, then and in that cafe fuch peerage fhall be deemed extinct; provided that nothing herein fhall exclude any perfon from afterwards putting in a claim to the peerage fo deemed extinct, and if fuch claim fhall be allowed as valid by judgement of the houfe of lords of the united kingdom, reported to his majefty, fuch peerage fhall be confidered as revived; and in cafe any new creation of a peerage of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland fhall have taken place in the interval in confequence of the fuppofed extination of fuch peerage, then no new right of creation fhall accrue to his majefty, his heirs, or fucceffors, in confequence of the next extinction which fhall take place of any peerage of that part of the united kingdom called Ireland: that all queftions touching the election of members to fit on the part of Ireland in the houfe of commons of the united kingdom, fhall be heard and decided in the fame manner as queftions touching fuch elections in Great Britain now are, or at any time hereafter fhall by law be heard and decided, fubject neverthelefs to fuch particular regulations in respect of Ireland as from local circumftances the parliament of the united kingdom may from time to time deem expedient: that the qua of lifications in refpect of property the members elected on the part of Ireland to fit in the houfe of com-' mons of the united kingdom fhall be refpectively the fame as are now provided by law in the cales of elections for counties and cities and boroughs respectively in that part of Great Britain called England, unlefs any other provifion fall hereafter be made in that refpect by act of parliament of the united kingdom: that when his majefty, his heirs, or fucceflors, fall declare his, her, or their pleafure, for holding the firft or any fublequent parliament of the united kingdom, a proclamation shall iffue under the great feal of the united king dom, to caufe the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons who are to ferve in the parliament thereof on the part of Ireland, to be returned in uch manner as by any act of this prefent feflion of the parliament of Ireland fhall be provided; and that the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons of Great Britain fhall, together with the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons fo returned as aforefaid on the part of Ireland, conftitute the two honfes of the parliament of the united kingdom: that if his majesty, on or before the 1ft day of January, 1801, on which day the union is to take place, fall declare, under the great feal of Great Britain, that it is expedient that the lords and commons of the prefent parliament of Great Britain fhould be the members of the refpective houtes of the firft parlia ment of the united kingdom on the part of Great Britain, then the faid lords and commons of the prefent parliament of Great Britain fhall accordingly be the members of the refpective houfes of the firft parlia ment ment of the united kingdom on the part of Great Britain; and they, together with the lords fpiritual and temporal and commons fo fummoned and returned as above on the part of Ireland, fhall be the lords, fpiritual and temporal and commons of the firft parliament of the united kingdom; and fuch firft parliament may (in that cafe) if not fooner diffolved, continue to fit fo long as the prefent parliament of Great Britain may by hw pow continue to fit, if not fooner diffolved: provided always, that until an act fhall have pafled in the parliament of the united kingdom, providing in what cafes perfons holding offices or places of profit under the crown in Ireland thall be incapable of being members of the houfe of commons of the parliament of the united kingdom, no greater number of members than twenty holding fuch offices or places as aforefaid fhall be capable of fitting in the faid houfe of commons of the parliament of the united kingdom; and if fuch a number of members fhall be returned to ferve in the faid houfe as to make the whole number of members of the faid houfe, holding fuch offices or places as aforefaid more than twenty, then, and in such case, the feats or places of fuch members as fhall have laft accepted fuch offices or places thall be vacated, at the option of fuch members, fo as to reduce the number of members holding fuch offices or places to the number of twenty; and no perfon holding any fuch office or place thall be capable of being elected, or of fitting in the faid houfe, while there are twenty perlons holding fuch of fices or places fitting in the faid houfe; and that every one of the jords of parliament of the united kingdom, and every member of the houfe of commons of the united kingdom, in the firft and all fucceeding parliaments, fhall, until the parliament of the united kingdom hall otherwife provide, take the oaths, and make and fubfcribe the declaration, and take and subscribe the oath now by law enjoined to be taken, made, and fubfcribed by the lords and commons of the parliament of Great Britain: that the lords of parliament, on the part of Ireland, in the houfe of lords of the united kingdom, fhall at alf times have the fame privileges of parliament which fhall belong to lords of parliament on the part of Great Britain; and the lords fpiritual and temporal refpectively on the part of Ireland, fhall at all times have the fame rights, in respect of their fitting and voting upon the trial of peers, as the lords fpiritual and temporal refpectively on the part of Great Britain; and that all lords fpiritual of Ireland fhall have rank and precedency next and immediately after the lords fpiritual of the fame rank and degree of Great Britain, and shall enjoy all privileges as fully as the lords fpiritual of Great Britain do now or may hereafter enjoy the fame; the right and privilege of fitting in the houfe of lords, and the privileges depending thereon, and particularly the right of fitting on the trial of peers, excepted; and that the perfons holding any temporal peerages of Ireland exifting at the time of the union, fhall, from and after the union, have rank and precedency next and immediately after all the perfons, holding peerages of the like orders and degrees in Great Britain fubfitting at the time of the union; and that all peerages of Ireland, created, created after the union, fhall have rank and precedency with the peerages of the united kingdom fo created, according to the dates of their creations; and that all peerages, both of Great Britain and Ireland, now fubfifting, or hereafter to be created, fhall, in all other refpects, from the date of the union, he confidered as peerages of the united kingdom; and that the peers of Ireland fhall, as peers of the united kingdom, be fued and tried as peers, except as aforefaid, and fhall enjoy all privileges of peers as fully as the peers of Great Britain; the right and privilege of fitting in the houfe of lords, and the privileges depending thereon, and the right of fitting on the trial of peers, only excepted. Refolved, that it be the fifth article of union, that the churches of England and Ireland, as now by law established, be united into one proteftant episcopal church, to be called "The United Church of England and Ireland;" and that the doctrine, worship, difcipline and government of the faid united church fhall be, and fhall remain in full force for ever, as the fame are now by law eftablifhed for the church of England; and that the continuance and prefervation of the faid united church, as the establifhed church of England and Ireland, fhall be deemed and taken to be an effential and fundamental part of the union; and that in like manner the doctrine, worship, difcipline and government of the church of Scotland fhall remain and be preferved as the fame are now established by law, and by the acts for the union of the two kingdoms of England and Scotland. Refolved, that it be the fixth article of union, that his majesty's fubjects of Great Britain and Ireland fhall, from and after the Ift day of January, 1801, be entitled to the fame privileges, and be on the fame footing, as to encourage. ments and bounties on the like articles, being the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country refpectively, and, generally, in refpect of trade and navigation, in all ports and places in the united kingdom and its dependencies; and that, in all treaties made by his ma jefty, his heirs and facceffors, with any foreign power, his majesty's fabjects of Ireland fhall have the fame privileges, and be on the fame footing, as his majesty's fubjects of Great Britain: that, from the 1ft day of January, 1801, all prohibitions and bounties on the export of articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, to the other, fhall ceafe and determine; and that the faid articles fhall henceforth be exported from one country to the other without duty or bounty on fuch export: that all articles, the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, (not herein-after enumerated as fubject to fpecific duties,) fhall from thenceforth be imparted into each country from the ather, free from duty, other than fuch countervailing duties on the feveral articles enumerated in the schedule, No.1. A. and B. hereunto annexed, as therein (pecified, or to fuch other countervailing duties as fhall hereafter be impofed by the parliament of the united kingdom in the manner hereinafter provided; and that, for the period of twenty years from the union, the articles enumerated in the fchedule, No. 2, hereunto annexed, thall be fubject, on impor |