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that this important transaction was not deserving the character his Noble Friend had given it. Had he (Lord Liverpool) been the Minister of Austria, he should, for the interest of that Empite, have advised the payment :Apart .ss‘alie debt; and he wasyersuaded that nothing bad operated more in.fAvour of the credit of Austria than the measure she had taken for liquidating the loan.l The proceeding was highly ham:ix:able to the character of thelMpetor of Austria, and had placed him upon a fair footing with the most illustrious of his - predecessors upon .the Imperial Throne. While saying this, he equallYielt that the Minister of the .Emperor in this af fair was entitled to distinguished credit for his advice ; and he.(Lord Liverpool) should do unhandsomely, and be unworthy of the situation he himself held, Were he not - distinctly to assert what he really felt upon this sub le' With respec tto the application of the money pail!' an account of 'the Loan by Austria to this country, it bad beenintended, as he before said, to have carried (Ile Whole to the Consolidated Fund ; but in opening the FinainCial Statement, it remained to be seen in what qtioner relief could be afforded to the country. Whe ther the measures which had been taken were Tight, it ks:iitildb r e premature to say ; but they certainly haa been taken with a view to the benefit of the Public. It re sulted from the increasing prosperity of the country that there remained a surplus fund available for some .spe cial purpose ; and it was fronsthis very fund that money had been allotted for the furtherance of the Church.— With respect to the repairing, or rather the restora t ion orkVindsor Castle, the expense mug otherwise have, been taken out of the Civil List or defrayed in theordi nary way; and therefore there Was nothing so unnatural in this particular. It was not proposed to build, it should be observed, a- new Palace, but to rePair an ob ject peculiarly interesting to the country. He really could not see any ambiguity in the proposed Act. He thought that the Noble Lord had taken an unfair view of the conduct of the Emperor of -AuStria, from whose good faith, political firmness, and most honourable feel logs this country had derived such benefits. Lord KING endeavoured to ridicule the whole trans action, by observing, that the Emperor of Austria ,bad been literally sued, as promised, it: his own Court, and that the law expenses had consumed the principal. In such an action, where it was /14 a. horralor, and which bad lasted for twenty years, we had two. he, thought, fortunate in getting • two millions and a bar' out of six millions and a quarter. It -probably so hap pened that this kingly cause had been heard, re-heard, considered, and re-considered ; that thereupon the Court took the impels home to invect them, but lust them ; that the Court had a r efresher; thatjudgmeot was appoint ed at I rst,,bttt deferred, and again deferred, till at, length came the decision. The wonder was, after such a pro cess, that anything was left for the petitioning creditor in the bankrupt's case. The Earl of ABERDEEN begged their Lordship, to reflect that the first Loan that was granted was of pa ramount importance, to enab7e Austria to move an army to clear the Netherlands of a breech ermy then occupying. So desirable end British an objett was it considered, that he shiold. have pieferred the subsidy to the Loan. Whets the war :ass renewed, and Austria received a fresh subsidy in '1866 and another in 10Q9, tho.c later trassactiows virtually, though not pora)lYa freed Au>nia from her obligations as to this loan, so strongly was she urged to enter into the war. Austria had since been twice a bankrupt—(d Lough from Lord Holland). The Noble Lord might laugh, but the coun try had been twice ravaged by a hostile army, and her resources w ere destroyed for the time. In 1816, Aus tria adopted a more solid pian of finance than she had previous! v done, and published a list of her debts; but she did -tot in that list allow the English debt, and if it had been meant to have been claimed, that was the rime to have dime it. Much had beetl said-of the Emperor of Austria being seed in his own Court ; if he had, he mighthave'given a dechion against himself, but if the cause bast been tried here, he doubted whether the coun try. Ould recover the debt, having virtually given it up. With regard to thp . amotint to be paid, ( G overnment was 0 look to the ability of Austria, not to her Will, and if ;more had been demapded she could. not have paidlt.— flesiges, Austria did not receive abave three millions of . the original sum granted by England, •in consequeucc of the course of exchange and other cause:. This loan; so entirely advanced for 13:itish interests, was expended under the inspettion and superintendence of British Officers, and every shifting of it was expended in this object of the v ar. Noble Earll coocludvd by hoping that the public mbellishMersts of the country would . be superintended differently to what they bAbeen, as thkre never was a greater• portido of architesturattalept thaq at pre',..ent. After a few words from Viscount Cprii•xx, Lord Et.t.nparruotr, and the Earlof DA It N Lroc, thei)lll was read a third time and pissed.—Adj. at SeVen o'Clock. HOUSE OF COAIIQNS. Leave was granted for bringing ia a Bill to Improve the Nail, gation of the River Aledway. Lord LOWTHER presented a Petition from the inhabitant* of Kend.4l, praying for the abillition of Slavery in our Colonies. Sir %V. INGILBY presented similar Petitions from Halbeach and Louth in Lincolnshire. Sir W. LEMAN presented a similar Petition. • Petitions for a similar purpose were presented from Mildenhall.,' 'Woodbridge. and Devizes. Mr. B. COOPER presented a similar Petition from the Inha bitants of Gloucester. Mr. N. CALVERT presented a similar Petition from certain. Inhabitants of Hertford. Mr. ROBARTS presented a Petition for a similar object from Maidstone. Petitions to the same effect were presented from the Inhabitants of Carlton, Bagwell, and Sutton. Dlr. BUTTERWORTH presented a Petition from the Inhabi tants of the town of Dover, wilk a like prayer. Sir M. W. ItIDLEY presented a Petition from Wallsend, in Northumberland, for the same purpose. All these Petitidits were ordered to lie on the table, and be Printed. Dlr. MANSFIELD presented a Petition from the Merchants, ' Wool-dealc rs, and others;of Leice!ter, praying a Repeal of the Laws against the Importation of Foreign Xl'ool.—Ordered to be printed. The same Honourable Gentleman presented a Petition from the Journeymen Shoemakers of laiughborouglt against the Combina tion Laws. Mr. B. COOPER presented a similar Petition from the Jour neymen Shoemakers of Gloucester. Mr. PELHAM presented a similar Petition from Newport. Mr. MONDAY presented a similar Petition from the Journey. men Shoemakers of Derby.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. WA It RE presented a Petition from Taunton against the importation of Foreign Silk.—Ordered to lie on the table. Sir W. GUISE presented a similar Petition from Gloucester. Lord ALTHORP, in presenting a aiosibir Petition front the inhabitants of Burton, said that he did so merely in convlisner with the wishes of the Petitioners • for he entirely agreed to the, measures proposed by the Chancel lor of the Exchequer on thai.sutt jeet.--Ordered to be printed. ay T. LETHBRIDGE presented a rsOtion from T akato p o *Oka the regulations with regard to Foreign Sob ..-Ordered to lie on the table. Mt. th e presented a Petition front the Licensed Vic-. tuallers of the West Division of Brixton, against the Excise Duties. Mr. DAVENPORT presented a similar Petition from Mac clesfield. p asks! SO,TinntON presented s similar ;Petition Eton tits *amid Viagnidlets of Mansfield: Mr. Alderman WOOD presented a Petition for a similar purpose from the Licensed Vktualkrs or the Wardi of CaudieWick,Vintry, Dow ate, and Quientithe. A Petition to die same effect was .presented from the Licensed Victuallers of Rockester.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. BARRON presented a Petition from • Kingston-upon-Hull '' against the Hull Poor Employment on the table. Mr. S RICK presented a Petition from the Limerick Ancient Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, praying to be placed on an equal footing with the Freemasons of England. Sir I. COFFIN said that he had been far thirty years among the Masons of Ireland, and he had found thein an honourable and religious sect. He entirely concurred with the object of tbe Pe tition.—Laid on the table. Sir IL FERGUSON, in the absence of his Honourable Friend the Member for . Vurisam, presented a l'etitien from the Carpet Manufacturers of Durham, against the regulations regarding the Wool Trade.—Ordered to be printed. Lord A LT HORP moved the 13111 for amending that part of the Act 56 of George 111. to prevent the prevent the hsvying dis tress for rent. The Noble Lord stated, that as he wished the measure to have the fullest consideration, he would fix the second reading of the Bill for the first of May. Mr. DENNISON presented a Petition from the Brewers cf Small Beer in the neighbourhood of the Metropolis, expressing their satisfaction with the recent measures against the restrictions in trade.—Laid on the table. _ Colonel TRENCH presented a Petition from certain Inhabitants of Cambaidge, in favour of the Small Debts MlL—Ordered to be printed.—Tke same Honourable Member presented a Pctitinat from the same place, against the Duty on Coals carried 'Coastwise. Laid on the table. _ _ . l he blatine Mutiny Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-morrow. On the motion of Mr. Brarscr, an Account was ordered of the number of Convicts who bad been transported to the British Co.. lonics in the years 181.2 and ISM; RHO an. Account of the Vessels which had been cleated out from New Smolt %Voles and Van Die men'; Land, from the first of January to the 51st of December, 182 o; with the number of passengers in each; together with the quantity exported to these places during the same period. On the Motion of Mr. MatitiaNc, an Account was ordered of the amount of the Bounties and Drawbacks allowed on the Exporta tion of manufactured Goods from Great Biitain and Ireland during the last six years. Mr. w. presented a Petition from the Foreign Wine Merchants of Norwich, praying for an alteration of the Duties on Foreign Wines Mr. DERR IFS moved that the Petition be referred to the Fo 'visit Trade Committee ; which was agreed to. (hi the Motion of Mr. Ilitoctniai, the Weights and Measures Bill was read a second time.—Ordered for a third reading on Monday. Mr. KENNEDY presented a Petition from the Borough & Aye, regarding the Tay Salmon Fishery. The_ Honourable :Mem ber eapresoed an earnest dv.ire that the subject should be taken into' sonaiderctiou by the Board of Trade. After a few words from Lord A. Ilaratvox in support of the Padtittot • Mr ! PUIM3IER *aid that the object of the Bill now in pro gress was intended merely as a sort of police regulation of ;be River. 1' r.III,IME said, that the ttunierous Corporate Bodies who had petitioned on the subject were convinced tlaat_the Nil was fraught l with mischief. fie hoped that it would be suspended till the fullest inquiries had been made. The LORD ADVOCATE said that he had lobked at the Bill,• ' and was of opinion that it was a mere police regulation for the River Tay. The Petitioners must be aware that, by the law of Scotland, all the sithiton in the Scotch rivers belonged to his Majesty. An account was ordered of the number of persons who had been sent out of the country under the Alien Act, since January, 1816. Mr, MA wriN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to prevent unne- cessary expenses in the prosecution of actions at law in Ireland. Mr. 514BERLY postponed his Motion on the Beer and Malt Laws to Monday next. a 111080NtilEN-IRELAND. Lord ALTHORP rose to propose his motion for the production of certain papers relative to the conduct of the Irish Government. It would be in the recollection of the House that in the year 1820, there were, consi derable disturbances in the County of - Galway ; and that they rose to. such an extent • that military sepia. tion s w ere found necessary. From these disturbances several trials took place, and many persons neie con vieted. A. Proclamation was issued by the principal .Police Magistrates offet ing an amnesty to All who would' Come under obedience to the Government and lay down, their arms. The consequence of this measure w as, that the agitation ceased, and during a period of unparal leled distress that _country was perfectly quiet. . He (Lord AlthorP) iisted to have a copy of this Procla mation; and also Copies of the correspondence which had taken place between the Irish Government and the Magistrates of the Counties of Mayo and Galway re specting that amnesty. He would now state - to the House, that in February, 1820, a person of the name of Thomas Hughes, one of the leaders of the Ribbon Lo.lges, was convicted. Mr. Newton Bennett, nho was Counsel for the prisoner, communicated to the Lord Lieutenant that Hughes was ready to make all the closures in his poorer, and that the other leaders of the Ribbon Lodges in Meath and the Queen's County wet e prepared tolay down their arms. 'ro this application an answer was returned by Mr. Gregory, that the com munication hid been laid before the Lord Lieutenant. A Memorial was also presented on the same subject horn two Catholics of the names of Lubre and Yore; hut no ittinition . was'paist .to it, and Hughes was trans ported. On the 16th of Jody, Mr. Bennet again ad dressed a letter to Mr. Gregory, requesting to know the decision nl the Irish Government upon Isis applica tion ; and an answer was returned from that Gentleman, stating, that he had received no orders from the Lord Lieutenant on the subject. It seemed to him (Lord Al thorp) extraordinary, that when so fair.an opportunity occurred of putting down this Association, %Otitis. had been the cause of so much anischief, no advantage had been taken of it. It was eendoct so extraordinary that ho Should think the GovernMent mast be able to give some reason fin it. Btit he must own that the impres sion AO his mind was not favourable to the Government. 'The House would see tharwhen the first communica tion was made by Mr. Bennet to Mt% Gregory, it was not intended to make use of the strong arm of the law in Ireland, but to try the system of conciliation; yet no answer was returned. From that system it was knowtj no evils had arisen. He thought it desirable, however, that . the papers he wished should be laid before the lloose, in order that it might judge whether Ireland could have been amended by conciliation. The Noble Lord concluded by moving, " That there be laid before the Muse the correspondence be tween Richard Newton Bennet, N,q. and Mr. Gregory, respecting the suppression of an amnesty is the Billiton ',edam is Ireland; ago, a Memorial kern News. latm b and Yore to the Lord Lieu tenant of Ireland, in th e case o f Thomas llughes; also, the Procla mation which had beta issued in the counties of Mayo and Gatveal, together with any correspondence between the bath Government and thel‘lagistcatro of these countiee reyfrecting• an amnesty to the Ribbinun c n in 1820,"-- -Toe nustimn ha:4l3)K been sessuntail,, Mr. GO.UI,I3IJRN inst.—He said that let stood in a peculiar situation in. opposing• the notion, as lse had not seen the particular papers to which, the Noble Lord al luded. He would, however, avail himself of that op portuaity of -stating why be thot4he it would he ince : . laedient to furnish such papers. bona, all the, inquiry l'&1- had wade he was not aware whether an amnesty.had !basin gettotect or not, but he would speak. to the quest. Nino, whether Government was justified in. pardoning *convicted rebelts who had been. guilty of imposing ille- gal oaths. It would he plainly seen that the real gisC of• the motion. was to cast blame upon the Irish Gewern orient for not pursuing that line of conduct which the , Noble Lord wished to have been followed. It was - , - 0 'known to the House that an association of persons ha beeo.established in Ireland, who c4edthernielviet Rib• bonmen, the object of whose combination :was to sub vert the established Constitution of the country. From the very constitution of such a society, and the secresy which was imposed upon its members, it became a mat ter of diffieulty to bring home the crime to any indivi-e dual ; and it had 'always been necessary to have recourse to the parties actually connected with it. It happened, however, that in the beginning of 1820, the Govern. ment was furnished with the means of bringing one member to trial. He was not a person who held a su bordinate situation, and who might have been drawn inconsiderately into the society, hut it was proved upon his trial that he was one of the leaders• of that society, end had been the moving conductor of the whole trans actions. He was tried and convicted; and a question arose after conviction, whether it would be proper to .extend the mercy of the Crown to • him ? A Petition 'was presented from two individuals to the Lord Lieute nant, and they founded the -claim to mercy on two grounds ; one of whictrwas, that the society to which the convicted person belonged was an innocent one; and the other, that if he were pardoned, the Ribbonmen in general would be contented to give up their arms and return to their allegiance. The Petition was also ac companied. by a statement that the Ribbonmen Were about 13,000 in number, and that they were possessed °farms. Would it be said that any Government ought Ito listen to such a ptoposition?—(lienr.) Any plea as to ;the innocence of the societrcould not be listened to for a .moment. Its objects wete most mischievous and illegal. In the Petition it was admitted that the individual was the leader of the society; and he (Mr. Goolburn) con .ceived that if there were any person who was more fit than another for punishment, it was certainly that indi vidsal —(Hear, hear). Every one knew that the Lord Lieutenant was lenient and merciful in his government; hit had he been guilty of such imbecility as to grant the prayer of the Petition, his poster of administering justice hereafter would have been destroyed. Mr. ABERCROMBY agreed with the Right Hon. Gentleman, that if the propositions made to Govern ment were such as he had .represented them, no atten tion should have been given to them ; but he (Mr. Abercromby) wished to know what the propositions really were, as be had nothing but the assertion of the Right Honourable Gentleman that they were so and so? He never saw a stronger prima facie case made out than that which stood recorded on the evidence of wino passed between the person who made the applica tion and the King's Government. His Noble Friend who had seen the correspondence, stated that theie was no condition or qualification annexed to the offer, and therelote it behoved the Right Honourable Gentleman to disprove this fact. Why was not the House supplied with the means of jueging of the truth? What mis chief could arise from the information ?—(ilear, hear) : would net say that the truth was important; but where there was :u. It a distinct opposition o( statement, it was the duty of the King'sGovrnment, for the satis faction of themselves and the Country, to supply the papers that were called for. Government was, there fore, put on their defence, to spew why they bad not taken measures for securing the peace of the Cpuntry. Tbe)e Associations 411 - Orange and Ribbonmen were dangerous in their purposes; lie wished to GOD that they had never existed ; and it ss as the duty of wise and rational !Ministers, when a fair opening occurred. for putting, them down, to take immediate advantage of it, and not to treat it in thew ay which had been done. Mr. PLUNKETT stud he much doubled whether the pioduciion of these papers were not matter of couttesy; acrd to call for a coriespoedeece in order to see whether there might not be sohiedting on which to found a charge, was certainly rather an unusual pro= cee4ing. He believed, that befac papers could * called tor, there must be spa's* prima - facie case against the Government; but lie put it to thl House, whether. from anything which had fallen from the Noble Lord, there cupid be any ground for such an idea? Tice pera son alluded to had been, with the advice of all the stead 'persons, arraigned as out of the principal movers is a conspiracy. It was scarcely possible to suppose the ex tent of mischief that a person in the humble station of this Hughes was capable of. He was employed io swearing in the loner orders of Dublin to a secret asso. ciation, the purpose of which must be to - undermine the Government of the country. The schemes of these peetwits were wild, impracticable, and chimerical, btle it was not the less necessary to check them. This per son war convicted ; and .after this opportunity had oc curred of making an example which was due to jitstice s an application was made to the, Lord Lieutenant, rest ing on. no other authority than, that of the Gentleman who had been.concerned as Counsel for the prisoner on his trial. It would have been cep tainly rather extraor ,dinat y, if the Lotd Lietrenatst bad entered into a treaty with this band of conspirators through the medium of this Gentleman, but he had fortunately failed in estab. 'fishing his ctedentials ; or, instead of an amnesty, the procArediot would have led, to a very different result. it ithout rneauing to speak with any disrespect of member oldie profession to which he himself belonged, he must say, that great inconvenience had been felt by the Government from having before listened to propo sitions of so vague a nature. The House Iseult' ob• serve, that the documents called for were not sojely in the.'possession. of the Government. The -Noble Lord (Althorp) seemed perfectly well acquainted with them, and he (Mr. Phinkett) wished that he bad stated them mot c in detail, when they would have appeared not to 'contain that unobjectionable proposition which the Noble Lord had been led to believe. But arguing it on the Noble Lord's. own statement,' here were persons combined in an illegal association. If they had chosen to abandon it, what was to prevent them doing so with ,out any stipulations with the Government? But sup posing the paraionpf Hughes was not to be the con dition, it must then have been put thus :—Here are a certain number of this body who are willing to give up their arms and abandon these associations, on condition of belying an amnesty ; but if the amnesty be not granted, 'then, say they, we will not,give up our arms, and will continue to associate. Were they to be allowed thus to beard the Government? Would they not, if they had listened to such a proposition, .have disrobed them selves,af their authority, and deprived themselves of the support of every respectable man in the country ? Soaae condition therefore must have been annexed, either that Hughes should .not be punished, or that there shnurd be an amnesty to the body. There was another circumstance to drew this. A part of the system of these persons was to get arms, And to a certain extent they had effected their object, but not so as to rendet 'them •formidable ; however, soma . arms they had, but 'no, proposition .waS made in. the first instance to.giveu; their arma: Would it nor appear in the correspondence, that if they ever made such an offer, it was tetracted i for no arms had been given up, and no persnLad come in to take the oath of allegiance. He !Me Plunkett) quite agreed with the Noble Lord, tha t nn }tiniest lawyer could make any distinction betwe en illegal associations. It was no defence to say that th objects were defensive. He could not listen to the au e . gation that it was necessary to have Orangemen to pe t down Ribbonmen. They must be put down by dither. and not by lawlessness. Fre thought no - case had be en " made out to justify the-motion. Lord A ertionP and Mr. A:hairnet rose together, bra . Mr. MARTI,' having caught theaSeamota s eye, the .Noble Lord sat down. Mr. R. MARTIN thought, that even taking the tuts. anent of the Noble Lord for granted, there was no grouiA for putting the correspondence oulhe table. Lord ALTHORP, •in a lOW tune Of voice, said i. e should, in compliance with the appeal niade to hi m I v • the Right Honourable Gentleman, the Attorney-Genet :a for Ireland, read the document WhiCh he held in his hand. The Noble Lord then .read reenacts, which la contended justified his statement; and called upon the Rouse to support his motion. Re agreed withalre Right Honourable Gen:leman that the sentence of :Hughes ought to hare been carried. into execution , . t(llcar, hear). But he thought whe n an oppoitunity et' this kind presented itself, that die experiment ought ta :have been tried; and that the Government, in not hat. • kg made such an experiment, had been guilty of a de reliction .of duty. Mr. G. BEgNET said it appeared to him, from the opposition made to the motiou by the Honourable Gei, • tleriren opposite, tha: the Ir ish Government possesse,t some papers which they were afraid to produce, or th at . his Noble Friend did no possess all the documents t i r4 had passed upon the occasi o n. From What wa s re 4 d • by his Noble Friend, aro gran cotild conclude that rt e offer to deliver up arm: had been retracted. It statement of the Weak lionattrable 'Gentleman (fir. Plunkett) was correct, be Musehare got his idioms - Mao ' from a different source to that whence his Ilo t tiletitierat had derived his information. From ) 1 4 ereeteki at the conduct of the Flouse tenon such - occaileio, i!id not entertain any strong expectation that tire m 'tire; would be accededto; but he \Vac not wiltoorsoine hope that the difference-between die. ,tir :talent's of the Right Honourable Gentleman and his Noble Friend would justify the House in calling for the production "of the papers in the possesSion of the Irish Government. Mt. C. H. HUTCHINSON falt that he never had a more painful duty to perform than be now had, when hefelt himself bound to vote against the motion made by the Noble Lord, who, he was satisfied, in bringing it forward had nothing in view but the interests of the Irish people. He, as an Irishman, istil no reason to be satisfied with' the Government of the Noble Marquis (Wellesley), because those expectations which he had formed on the appointment of that Noble Person to the head of the Irish Government were to this moment not realised. Ile gage credit,to the Noble Marquis for the best intentions towards Ireland, and he felt grateful to him for the benefits whioh he had conferred upon he land, and which were in progress for that country; but he must still confess that Ire had expec:cJ more from the administration of that Noble Fermin. iI. did riot rise as-the athrocateof the Irish Government, hut he felt that the Noble Lord had not made out his case, and he should therefore vote against the motion—(Hear ). Mr. Secretary PEEL said he had thought the speec i a of the Noble .Moser would have been the concltehria speech of.the debate, and he had, therefore, intended not to trouble the House with any observations; but the: speech of the lion. Member for Shrewsbury had mit,:e a material alteration in the question. The argument of that Hon: -Member was, becau:e there was not in the letters read by the Noble Lord any mention if ti:e offer of giving up arms having been retracted,•thcie fiwe the statement of his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. P:en kett) was without foundation; but the kion. Member should have remembered that. it was the duty of the Noble Lord at the head of the Isi.lr Government to form his judgment upon he whole easel and he (Mr. Peel) looking at the whole ca , e, was satisfeJ that it' justified the Nable Marquis refusing to interpose the prerogative of mercy, and in refusing to accede to conditions* to which if he had acceded he (Mr. Peel, would say the Irish Government had been guilty of a gross dereliction of luty. He was satisfied that if upon a case like this the House called for the state ment made in the prisoner's behalf by his Counsel, nut a single man would in future he convicted without being prepared with a statement by his Counsel, and a state ment, for the productiossof which, acceding to this Trio. don would furnish a precedent; so that upon all cases of convictions by Juries in Ireland, the House might be called upon to try the parties again upon docum e nts which necessarily mast be partial. There wasAone do cument which the Noble Lord had overlooked; he meant the document furnished by a Catholic Barrister. Perhaps the Noble Lord had never seen this document. ,Lord ALTIIORP—P I have never seen Then that document furnished a complete justification of the Nobie Marquis's proceeding. That document was dated the 24th of February ; and the writer stated,,that in a con versation which he had with Hughes, he (Hughes) had held out hopes that he could have arms delivered up, and make many of the conspirators come, in an:l take the oath of allegiance, provided a general amnesty were previously granted: To such conditions what but refuse his consent could the Noble Marquis do? — (Hear, hear). The writer then went on to say that he should wish Hughes to be delayed until - April, when he could sail by a convict ship from Cork; but that the request was refused, and that Hughes was sent off by the first convict ship. How did the Noble Marquis know that the immediate executionsof the sentence of this ringleader would do more good than by acceding to his request? How could he have known that the prompt punishment of this man according to the of fended laws of his country would not have the imme diate effect of preventing those misguided men front organising any more bodies ? These were questions en tirely for the judgment of the Noble Marquis; and his judgment was discreetly exercised by acting as he had done. With respect to giving up arms, even if such an offer was made, he would ask those who were conver sant with the meaning of that phrase in Ireland what it amounted to? There might be given up perhaps about ten stocks without bairi_is, and_eleven barrels witbeut stocks-'-(.1 laugh)—aid perhaps a few side arms, %%Inch had been Concealed for a long time in a bog or in an out-house, hut arms of value would not be given up — (Hear, hear) But it was stated that Mr. Luke Hughes had eo objection to accompany Mr. Plunkett to itul part of the coubti ar, provided his sentence were con rowel Now Only see, or imagine to yourselves, Al-. Luke Iluelitsaraeelliogas a negotiator with Mr. 1/irin keit, eva,, , ,,terizing the country and preaching against -'a auu iuLui lection—( A lank ).. 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