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REGISTER OF ECX^ESIASTICAI* DOCUMENTS.
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Address of the Presbyterian Synod of Munster , to the Marquis fPeflesley . On Thursday , the 11 th in St ., the Presbyterian Synod of Munster , coasisting of their Moderator , the Rev . Philip Taylor , their Clerk , the Rev . James
Armstrong , and their Agent , the Rev . Joseph Hutton , waited upon his Excellency the Marquis Wellesley , at Dublin Castle , with the following Address , which had been unanimously adopted by that Body , at their late Meeting in Clonrnel : —
To his Excellency Marquis JVellesley , Lord Lieutenant-General ^ and General Governor of Ireland . May it please your Excellency , We , the Ministers and Elders of the Presbyterian Synod of Munster , assembled at Clonmel , gladly avail ourselves of the earliest occasion afforded us by our
Annual Meeting , to offer to your Excellency our sincere congratulations on your appointment fo the Chief Government of Ireland ; and to lay before your Excellency our assurance of affectionate loyalty to our Gracious Sovereign , and unalterable attachment to the principles of our unrivalled Constitution .
We consider the appointment of your Excellency , at such a critical conjuncture , as a proof of his Majesty ' s paternal regards towards his people of Ireland . We rely with confidence on the wisdom and energy of your Excellency ' s Administration , that under it the disorders of our
country , which we deeply deplore , will meet their effectual and permanent correction—that its unemployed and suffering population will be excited to useful industry—and that all the inhabitants of this island , of every denomination , will be united together in loyalty to their King , obedience to the laws , and love to another
une , bhoula your patriotic exertions effect these most desirable objects , your Excellency ' s Administration will be recorded with imperishable gratitude in the annals of your native land ; and you will have accomplished a work not less eminent than those illustrious
achievements by which the name of Wellesley is already so highly distinguished . We beg leave to assure your Excellency , that it is the earnest wish of the Members of our Communion to conduct themselves in such a manner as to deserve the
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continued favour and protectio n of our beloved Sovereign , an « to justify that good opinion which your Excellency many years since ( on an occasion ? that deeply affected the honour and interests of the Presbyterian Church ) so eloquently expressed in the Irish Senate—a circumstance which will ever live in our grateful recollection .
Signed , ( by order of the Syaod of Munster , ) PHILIP TAYLOR , Moderator . JAMES ARMSTRONG , Clerk . To which his Excellency was pleased to make the following reply : —
WELLESLEY . Your cordial assurances of loyalty to our gracious Sovereign , and of attachment to the principles of the Constitution , are received by me with the
confidence due to so respectable a body ; and I entertain no doubt that you will continue to merit and to enjoy the countenance , favour and protection of our beloved King .
Your kind expressions respecting nay conduct and public services demand my gratitude , and cannot fail to animate and encourage me in the discharge of the arduous duties of my station . # The occasion alluded to was the debate ia the Jrish House of Lords , ob the
Presbyterian Marriage Act , on the 3 d of May , 1782 . By this Act , marriages cefe » brated by ministers of the Irish Presbyterian Church were declared to have equal validity with those celebrated by Episcopal Ministers * This Bill being opposed by some of the Irish Bishops , found
a warm and strenuous advocate in the Marquis Wellesley , then Earl of Mornington . His Lordship observed on this occasion , that he considered the Presbyterians entitled , aDove all do nominations , to the protection and encouragement of the Legislature and Government , because
it is chiefly to them that the British empire owes her civil and religions liberties , and her consequent prosperity . He called them " the life-blood of the country ; " and gave his hearty assent to a BUI which might tend to preserve that blood Uttcon-Laminated .
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Register Of Ecx^Esiasticai* Documents.
REGISTER OF ECX ^ ESIASTICAI * DOCUMENTS .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 515, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/59/
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