CollectionGeorge IV Calendar as Prince, Regent and King
ReferenceGEO/MAIN/38446-38447
Record TypeWritings (documents)
TitleAddress of the Irish Parliament to George, Prince of Wales, on offering him the Regency of Ireland, and on the disrespect shown to the Prince
Date12 February 1789
WriterThe Irish Parliament
AddresseeGeorge, Prince of Wales (1762-1830)
DescriptionThe Address requests the Prince to accept the Regency of Ireland 'to exercise & administer according to the laws & Constitution of this Kingdom all regal powers, jurisdictions & prerogatives to the Crown & Government thereof belonging'. It states that as the Lord Lieutenant [the Marquess of Buckingham] declined the request of the Irish Parliament to transmit this message, they nominated the Duke of Leinster, Lord Charlemont, Mr Thomas Conolly, Mr William Ponsonby, Mr John O'Neil, and Mr James Stewart, as messengers. Includes a list of those who 'declared their determination to sacrifice their offices rather than continue to support the Admn of Mr Pitt & the Marqs of Buckingham' as the Earl of Shannon, Mr William Ponsonby, Mr Lodge Morres, Mr George Ponsonby. Mr William Burton, Mr John Townsend, Sir Joseph. Hoare, Mr John Uniacke and Mr Bowes Daly.
LanguageEnglish
Extent1 document (2 pages)
Physical DescriptionLoose manuscript papers; mounted
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GEO_MAIN_38446-38447.pdf

PublicationsPublished in A. Aspinall "The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales 1770-1812" (London, 1963) Vol. 1; no 410
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