Taylors (one female) Weavers (fix females) Wheelwrights, 37 69 15 100 220 Tobacco Spinners, giving employment Publicans under licence for fpirits and 167° By the above it appears, the town and fuburbs were encreased in less than 10 years, Houfes As BALLYMACARRET is only feparated from the town of Belfast by the Long Bridge, the following view of its progreffive improvement is given: In 1781. Houfes 96 In 1791. Houfes 279 Refolutions, dated 12 December, by a Club ftyled Jacobins, are omitted. AT A MEETING OF THE FIRST BELFAST VOLUNTEER COMPANY, DECEMBER 18, 1792, WILLIAM TENNENT, IN THE CHAIR. THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS WAS UNANIMOUSLY AGREED TO. TO THE VOlunteers OF IRELAND. FELLOW SOLDIERS, YOUR COUNTRY IS IN DANGER! THE period of a few fleeting months has scarcely elapfed, fince the First Belfast Volunteer Company, impreffed with the interefting fituation of this ifland, and the extraordinary encrease of its armed citizens, did publish to the world, A NEW, their fentiments concerning the volunteer inftitution-a dignified and moft honourable inftitution, in whofe lifts fhould be found enrolled the names of ALL the virtuous inhabitants of Ireland. We, who in the hour of dan ger, and in the face of the enemy, took up arms in defence of our country, when left to its own energy, by an abandoned and imbecile adminiftration ; We, who have received the unanimous thanks of every branch of the legislature, did not imagine, that the arm of power would ever be uplifted in this land, to fupprefs the revival of our laudable affociations. WHEN the right of the people to appear in arms is called in queflion, by a proclamation of the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council of Ireland ; when the exercise of this right is branded with the epithets, illegal and feditious-when menacing preparations by land and fea, indicate the near approach of war; and when falfe and malicious reports are induftrioufly circulated, with a view of spreading jealoufies and difcontents; we call upon you to be firm!— to perfevere!-to unite! THE union of the people now makes defpots tremble in foreign lands. It is to union Ireland muft owe its falvation: the want of union, ten years fince, rendered abortive all your efforts for emancipation. OUR fellow foldiers of Dublin, are charged with affembling to withstand lawful authority, and violently and forcibly to redrefs pretended grievances."-What! are the grievances of which the people complain, only "pretended ones?" Is feeking a restoration of our rights-a reform in the representation of the people in parliament, an attempt to fubvert the conftitution? We fay, no! it is to restore it. UNDER thefe circumftances, we esteem it our duty to make a further declaration of our prin ciples and opinions. WE affociated for the defence of ourselves, this town and country, and for the fupport of the rights of Ireland. We fay, that it is the right of the people to be reprefented in parliament-taxation without representation is oppreffion-that the people are not reprefented-that parliament is not as it ought to be, an emanation from the people— that the grievances under which the people labour are almoft innumerable and intolerable :-But we add, that a real and radical reform in the reprefentative branch of the legislature, would reftore the people to their due weight in the government of the country, and every leffer evil would quickly vanish. THESE are our opinions ;-neither proclamations nor threats fhall deter us from the purfuit of our rights. Our defire is peace; the welfare of our country, of our families, of our friends, require it Let thofe who, by refifting the united voice of a nation, drive the people into extremities, be alone answerable to God and their country, for the confequences. of us. FELLOW SOLDIERS!-Unite!-encreafe your numbers and improve your difcipline!-a people afpiring to be free, fhould be able to protect liberty. An armed nation can never be made slaves. Perfevere and our country must be faved! WILLIAM TENNENT, CHAIRMAN. TOWN MEETING. WE the fubfcribers, inhabitants of the town of Beltaft, earnestly request the attendance of our fellow-citizens, at a general meeting of the town, at the market-houfe, on Wednesday next, the 26th inft. at noon, for the purpofe of expreffing our fentiments on the prefent ftate of public affairs; and to enter into fuch other measures as may be deemed expedient for the accomplishing that great obje&t-an equal reprefentation of the people in parliament. Belfast, December 19, 1792. To the Delegates for Parliamentary Reform, in Scotland, unanimoufly agreed to by the Second Society of United Irifhmen, of Belfaft; and recommended to the other Societies of this town, to be fent as the joint addrefs of the four Societies which was accordingly done, in December, 1792. ; ASSOCIATED for the purpose of promoting union among Irifhmen, reftoring three millions of brethren to the rights of citizenship, and effectuating a radical and complete reform of parliamentary, reprefentation for the people of Ireland, we cannot behold, with indifference, the vivid glow of patriotifm which brightens the face of other nations, and the irresistible elafticity, with which man, long bent down into a beaft of burden, fhakes off the しい yoke of defpotifm and refumes his form erect, in neighbouring kingdoms. We exult in the triumph of humanity which regenerated Gaul exhibits; and the revival of the long-dormant valor, which made the Cæfars tremble, and in earlier times, filled Rome itself with fuppliant mourners. We accompany with raptures, the steps of freemen traverfing the montains of Savoy, erecting the ftandard of liberty on the ftrong holds of defpotifm, and uniting the great family of God in the bonds of fraternity. In the fruitful plains of Belgia we hail profpects equally grateful to the enlightened eye, and flattering to the liberal heart. The arın of defpotifm palfied-her hofts difcomfited-her throne tottering to ruin-and her motley train of flaves and fycophants, with all her proud abettors, plunged in despair, or meditating, with fell reyenge, a laft convulfive ftruggle in her caufe. BUT our raptures and our triumphs might be ranked with the tranfports of children, did we dweil for ever, as with the itare of foolish wonder, on thefe the glories of another land; while even the fainter brightnefs which opens on our own, and fifter kingdoms, fhines unnoticed. Thank God! there too we fee the light of political knowledge widely diffufed; and the feeds of liberality vegetating with vigor in the genial warmth of reftored fraternity, and united patriotifm. With us, that knowledge hath already affumed the form of language, and, in humble refpectful petition, prefented the claims of a profcribed nation at the bar of the legislature. We are forry to fay thefe claims were not treated with deference, or decency. We were not dilcouraged, but reanimated by their rejection. The chaos of Irishmen, as by the voice of Omnipotence, was inftantly moulded into a body, its members arranged, and the frame organized. Nor were vigor and harmony ever characterized in greater perfection, than in the reprefentation of that body now exhibited in the metropolis of the kingdom. |