Historical & descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray : comprising a political and humorous history of the latter part of the reign of George the Third / Thomas Wright and R.H. Evans.

  • Thomas Wright
Date:
1851
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Credit: Historical & descriptive account of the caricatures of James Gillray : comprising a political and humorous history of the latter part of the reign of George the Third / Thomas Wright and R.H. Evans. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with a speech from the Throne. The first paragraph will long be remembered in the history of Great Britain and Ireland. It gives me the utmost satisfaction that the first time I have occasion to address you, I find myself enabled by the magnanimity of the King, and the wisdom of the Par- hament of Great Britain to assure you that immediate attention has been paid to your representation, and that the British Legislature has concurred in a resolution to remove the causes of your discontents and jealousies, and are united in a desire to gratify every wish expressed in your late addresses to the throne.* On the return of the Commons to their own House, a tumult of joy was displayed and the utmost delight was expressed by every section of the Assembly. Mr. Grattan rose to move the address. In the course of his speech, he observed, The great magnanimity m the conduct of Britain is that every thing is given up nn- conditionally. This must for evermore remove suspicion. We have now recovered a Constitution, and our business is not to advance, hut maintain it.' Mr. Flood said, Nothing appeared to him, at present, that could disturb the general harmony. The Address was carried, with only two dissentient voices. . No sooner was the Address declared to be carried than Mr. Bagenal, without the slightest communication with any party, rose, and testifying his great joy at the trium- phant estabhshment of the Legislative Independence of Ireland, asked, - But to whom does the Empire owe all this> To a man who has resolved to take no rewai^d from Government. Shall every body have what they ought except him alone, to whom every individual is so much indebted, and by whose example every mdividual m the universe may be so much benefited ? He has saved the • See Parliamentary Register of the Commons of Ireland, Vol. I. p. 334. IhiWin, 1784.
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