Gentleman founds his oppofition. Scotland, and the parts of England most remote from London, fuftain no injury on account of people of rank and property spending a great proportion of their time and income in the Capital. Manufactures, and other confiderable objects of labour, generally flourish moft at a distance from the feat of luxury, and the gay pursuits of genteel life. The want of access to the money circulating in England keeps Ireland comparatively poor and unindustrious. When the British markets are, therefore, laid open, property fent from that kingdom will be returned through the medium of industry, by which an equilibrium will be restored.

THE mind, unaccustomed to embrace objects of immenfe inagnitude, will be affifted by a commercial intercourfe. Suppose two houses in bufinefs, one of which is

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of the first refpectability, with an immenfe capital, and extenfive dealings in every part of the globe; the other in a comparatively low fituation, with but little property, limited credit, and confined connections, and a propofal is made by the former, to take the latter into partnership on equal terms ; such an offer never having been refused, we may cafily fuppofe is eagerly accepted: in this case, each party will lose his diftinct firm, and the two houses become one. It is unneceffary to afk here, on which fide the advantage lies, though both may be benefited.

THE clamours raised against the Union by interested men in Ireland, may for a time mislead the judgment of many people; the delufion however cannot be of long continuance; and a proposition, the most liberal on the part of Great Britain, and on

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the acceptance of which the falvation of Ireland depends, must be received with fentiments of fatisfaction, and gratitude, in the end, when reason shall take the place of paffion; when policy fhall prevail over prejudice, and wisdom fhall govern, where enthusiasm misleads.

THE RESOLUTIONS,

As they were finally amended and fent by the Commons to the Lords.

I. THAT in order to promote and fecure the effential Interests of Great Britain and Ireland, and to confolidate the Strength, Power, and Refources of the British Empire, It will be advifeable to concur in fuch Measures as may best tend to unite the Two Kingdoms of Great Britain

and Ireland into One Kingdom, in fuch Manner, and o fuch Terms and Conditions, as may be eftablished by Aas of the refpective Parliaments of His Majesty's faid King

doms.

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II. That it would be fit to propofe, as the First Article, to ferve as a Basis of the faid Union, That the faid Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland fhall, upon a Day to be agreed upon, be united into One Kingdom, by the Name of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland."

III. That for the fame Purpose it would be fit to propofe, That the Succeffion to the Monarchy and the Imperial Crown of the faid United Kingdom fhall continue limited and fettled in the fame Manner as 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 the Union between England and Scotland.

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IV. That for the fame Purpose it would be fit to propofe, That the faid United Kingdom be represented in One and the fame Parliament, to be filed "The Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ;" and' that fuch a Number of Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and fuch a Number of Members in the House of Commons, as

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hall be hereafter agreed upon by Acts of the respective Parliaments as aforefaid, fhall fit and vote in the faid Parliament

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on the Part of Ireland, as fhall be fummoned, chofen, and returned in fuch Manner as fhall be fixed by an Act of Parliament of Ireland previous to the faid Union; and that every Member hereafter to fit and vote in the faid Parliament of the United Kingdom, fhall, until the faid Parliament fhall otherwife provide, take and fubfcribe the fame Oaths, and make the fame Declarations, as are by Law required to be taken, fubfcribed, and made by the Members of the Parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland.

V. That for the fame Purpofe it would be fit to propofe, That the Churches of that Part of Great Britain, called England, and of that Part of Great Britain, called Scotland, and of Ireland, and the Doctrine, Worship, Difcipline, and Government thereof, fhall be preferved as now by Law established.

VI. That for the fame Purpofe it would be fit to propofe, That His Majefty's Subjects in Ireland fhall at all times hereafter be entitled to the fame Privileges, and be on the fame Footing, in respect of Trade and Navigation, in all Ports and Places belonging to Great Britain, and in

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