The Parliamentary Register: or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons of Ireland of 1781–2, 2nd edn (Dubln: Printed for James Porter, Pat Byrne and William Porter, 1784).

Mr. Yelverton¹ arose and said – I had determined this day to bring on a motion which I think it my indispensable duty, at a proper time, to pursue; a motion of which I will never lose sight, until a mode of legislation, utterly repugnant to the British constitution, shall be done away; but the melancholy intelligence received from America² has, for the present, diverted my attention from that object, and turned my thoughts into another train; and I think it but decent to defer the consideration of Poynings law, and for the present devote my whole faculties to the momentous situation of the public affairs of the British empire.