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 420 CAULFIELD free. We seek for our rights, and no more than our rights: and in so just a pursuit, we should doubt the being of a Providence, if we doubted of success." The moderate temper but manly firmness of this address, greatly disappointed the hopes of the enemies of the country; and the proceedings of the convention seemed to attach the applause even of foes, as well as friends. In little more than a month the British ministry gave way; and Lord Carlisle having sent in his resignation to London, through his secretary, Mr. Eden,-his lordship was suc- ceeded in the viceroyalty by the Duke of Portland, attended by Colonel Fitzpatrick, (brother to Lord Ossory,) as his secretary. His grace, on his arrival, was hailed by all ranks as the harbinger of liberty, conciliation, and peace. A whig ministry in England, at the head of which was the Marquis of Rockingham, and a whig viceroy in Ireland, who had zealously co-operated with that ministry, were omens highly auspicious to the hopes of Lord Charle- mont, for the completion of those objects for which he had laboured throughout his political life, and so highly were his character, his integrity, and his weight in the political scale of his country estimated, that the change of men and measures were announced to him by a most cordial and congratulatory letter from his old friend, the Marquis of Buckingham; and his confidence and support earnestly solicited by the new viceroy and his secretary immediately on their arrival. He received at the same time, another letter from Mr. Fox, couched in a similar spirit of confidence, and giving the strongest assurances of the cordial wishes of the new administration to promote in every way the prosperity, the freedom, and the attachment of Ireland; to which suitable answers were returned by his lordship. In the proceedings of the 16th April, 1782, the reso- lutions moved by Mr. Grattan, in the house of commons, and carried, were objected to at the castle, not so much for their substance (for the British ministry meant fairly) as because they were thought to require some modifications, which, in the opinion of Lord Charlemont and his friends,