The Yorkshire Association, so celebrated for their spirit and numbers, meet about the close of the present month, in order previously to receive the decisions of this province.

The Society for Constitutional Knowledge, in London, in which are enrolled the names of the first characters in England, (strenuous laborers in the glorious business of reform in our sister kingdom)-have ordered the addresses of the Ulster regiment, and of the forty-five corps, convening the provincial meeting of Ulster, to be entered in their books, published in the prints, and circulated gratis through the kingdom, in order that the exertions of Ireland may give a spur to the spirit of the British nation.

The Committee is rejoiced to observe, that the English letters are full of expressions of a high sense of the wisdom, spirit, and unanimity that have characterized the volunteer army of Ireland; and that they all concur in conceiving the present to be the very moment in which a radical parliamentary reform can best be effected. They universally agree in the idea, that the delegates at Dungannon should enter into a very comprehensive view of the matter; so as the principles of reform may be strongly marked in their resolves:-receiving the sanction and concurrence of a general convention of delegates from the four provinces-coincidence of sentiment in which, they hold to be certainty of success.

Founded on much deliberation, assisted by the best information they could procure, the Committee have ventured to prepare resolutions, comprehending a general system of ideas on the subject, which they will take the liberty, through their chairman, Lieut. Col. Sharman, with much humility, to move in the august body of representatives of the volunteer army of Ulster.

The Committee of Correspondence have now only to apologize for their inability to so weighty a charge :-Happy if their Jabors shall meet the approbation of their fellow-citizens; or

tend in the most remote degree to any valuable purpose. They trust that the spirit of firmness and integrity which has alrea dy restored this ancient kingdom to her rank in the nations, will crown the 8th Sept. 1783, as a day which is to form the ground-work of internal emancipation, on a basis as great as that on which our rights as an independent nation, have been with such rapid success already established.

ULSTER VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION.

At a meeting of two hundred and seventy-two companies of the volunteer army of the province of Ulster, by their delegates, held at Dungannon, on Monday the 8th of September, 1763;

COL. JAMES STEWART, TYRONE REGT. IN THE CHAIR, The following resolutions were unanimously entered into:

I. RESOLVED unanimously, That freedom is the indefeasible birth-right of Irishmen and Britons, derived from the author of their being; and of which no power on earth, much less a delegated power, hath a right to deprive them.

II. Resolved unanimously, That they only are free, who are governed by no laws but those to which they assent, either by themselves in person; or by their representatives freely chosen; subject to the control; and frequently returning into the common mass of constituents.

III. Resolved unanimously, That the majority of our house of commons is not chosen by the people; but returned by THE MANDATE OF PEERS OR COMMONERS; either for indigent boroughs, where scarcely any inhabitants exist; or consider able cities and towns, where the elective franchise is vested in

a few; who are thus suffered to place the highest trusts of society, against the interest and will of the many, in the hands of men, who seldom act as if they considered themselves accountable for their conduct to the people.

IV. Resolved unanimously, That by the ancient constitution of parliaments, elections of representatives were for centuries annual, and in many instances more frequent; and the exercise of suffrage, among freemen, universal.

V. Resolved unanimously, That every approach to those fundamental principles, tends to a renovation of, not an innovation in, the constitution.

VI. Resolved unanimously, That the elective franchise ought, of right, to extend to all those, and those only, who are likely to exercise it, for the public good.

VII. Resolved unanimously, That the present inadequate representation, and the long duration of parliaments, destroy that balance which, by our constitution, should subsist between the three estates of the legislature; render the commons' house independent of the people; procure certain majorities in favor of every administration; and threaten either an absolute monarchy, or that still more odious government, a tyrannical aristocracy.

VIII. RESOLVED, THEREFORE,

That the present imperfect representation, and the long daration of parliaments, are UNCONSTITUTIONAL and INTOLERA

BLE GRIEVANCES.

IX. Resolved unanimously, that as the voice of the commons of Ireland is no less necessary for every legislative purpose than that of either the king or lords, the people have a just and inherent right to correct the abuses of representation, whenever such abuses shall have so increased, as to rob them of their constitutional share in their own government.

X. Resolved unanimously, That it is the interest of parliament itself to effect a substantial reform; as the very exis

tence of that assembly must become precarious, when it shall lose the confidence of the people, to whom originally it owed its creation—and from whom alone its powers were derived.

XI. Resolved unanimously, That we solemnly pledge ourselves to each other and to our country, to seek a speedy and effectual redress of these our grievances, and to co-operate with our fellow-subjects, in every exertion necessary to obtain it.

We call for the aid of every upright senator; of every man, whether in Ireland or Great-Britain, who bears or wishes to acquire the title of a freeman!

XII. Resolved unanimously, That we have attended with admiration to the noble, though hitherto ineffectual efforts, of those illustrious characters and virtuous citizens, who, in England and Scotland, strenuously labour to procure redress of similar grievances. May the examples of the sister nations, mutually animate the inhabitants of each to persevere with unremitting ardor, until the glorious labor be finally comple ted.

XIII. Resolved unanimously, That a committee (of five persons from each county) be now chosen, by ballot, to represent this province in a grand national convention, to be held at noon in the Royal Exchange of Dublin, on the tenth day of November next; to which we trust each of the other provinces will send delegates, to digest and publish a plan of parlia mentary reform-to pursue such measures as may appear to them most likely to render it effectual; to adjourn from time to time, and convene provincial meetings, if found necessary.

The following gentlemen were accordingly chosen by ballot, viz.

ANTRIM.

Col. O'Neill,

Lieut. Col. Sharman,

Col. Rowley,

DELEGATES.

DOWN.

Col. Robert Stewart,

Capt. Matt. Forde, junior,
Major Crawford,

XIV. Resolved unanimously, That it be an instruction to said committee, that the delegates from each county do prepare, and carry with them to the national convention an account of all the cities, towns, and boroughs in this province; the mode of election in such as at present return members to parliament; as near as may be the proportionate number of Protestant and Roman Catholic inhabitants in each; and a conjecture of their comparative properties.