The following grave, temperate, and firm Representation of the Lords Justices of Ireland in 1760, (which may remind the reader, of some of the nervous and weighty papers, supposed to have been drawn up by Mr. Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, in the civil contests of his time,) will afford a good introduction to the ensuing speech, delivered by Mr. Hamilton, in the Irish House of Commons, on the point here discussed. THE REPRESENTATION OF THE LORDS JUSTICES OF IRELAND, Touching the transmission of a Privy-Council MoneyBill, previous to the calling of a new Parliament; IN TWO LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO HIS GRACE, JOHN DUKE OF BEDFORD. [The following very apposite motto was prefixed to this REPEESENTATION, when originally published.] This hath not been done by the King, but by Projectors, who have extended his prerogative beyond its just bounds.-They have introduced a Privy-Council, ravishing at once the spheres of all ancient Government. They have taken from us-what shall I say? indeed, what have they left us? They have taken from us every means of supplying the King, and of ingratiating ourselves by voluntary proofs of our duty and attachment to him. Speech of Sir Tho. Wentworth (afterwards Lord Strafford), in the House of Commons of England, 1628. LETTER I. MY LORD, DUBLIN-CASTLE, WE think ourselves called upon to write our minds fully and without reserve to your Grace, upon a subject of extreme delicacy and importance. The contrary winds having for this week past prevented the arrival of pacquets from England, and as we expected by the first that should arrive to receive your Grace's commands with regard to dissolving the parliament, and the issuing the writs for new elections, yesterday in a Council called for ordinary business, we thought it proper in form to acquaint the Lords with the representation we had laid before. your Grace upon that subject, and with our expectation of receiving your Grace's commands in consequence of it by the first mail; at |