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\ - %t up; but he begged to be t stAnd pledged to give it loved, that the said Peti mmittee, to consider the ?cot the same, with that )riered. E kS CORMS IN IRELAND. r, in consequence of the I make his promised Mo e spoke in so low a tone, idly hear him, but, from sh, he said. there were at r, and an Irish Committer every means of carrying disaffeded person, in Ire necesswcy for the Gove rn . earOr t Ninst their united at put i .ose. no means were a continuance of the Sus orpus A.t. lie requeste.i, the. King, with it, be viad pro lus %%!, moved, mg in a Bill to c./.lt Cr said, he thought th , asion of :IA MI, in whici !arest privileges of the sub. Lnd deeply concerned, some. uspicious should be laid he. on for its adopting so ,:rung ,et of an Irish Committee, or lees such, being sitting in andation for such a proc e ed. y matter for His Majesty's , either in war or peace, to hat country of one of the lwarks of the British Con. such a measure is coup. he thought it was highly in. trought forward the measure e information whether there totally exist any grounds fur .ocedure? It was, he said, ice to the harmony and hap- Empire, that the Hou,e se minds of the people of II be as guarded and eau. best parts of the Constitu. ey would in Great Britain. re which might so ike the r, that it was pregnant *itri eatest abuse might be made ity, to which the flume' , were of necessity employed, When he recollected the man ion was introduced. he could 'as deemed, even by those who unnecessary. First of all, a ringing it forward, which, two s withdrawn without a single t is again brought forward on !ice. Why such a measure ht on, without one single Tee n it, he was at a loss to goes;. night say, with a respectable a great and leading majority Ulster were as lap!, and as he Government of this Cons England is; and therefore, Le and give his consent that such aken against that part of the thout any reason whatever be. Din. He cid not think it ne. ! House any farther at present; e, propose, as an Amendment, le Motion alter 4 , That," be left ing substituted in their stead. 'as then read from the Chair As twenty one Members of thi4 Hey* to examine such Documents as ,H:7 report their opinion to the Ho ax, tient measure. E agreed with the Hon. Bart. the people of the Province 0 s to the loyalty of a majority of tole of that part of the United ras, nevertheless, confident that was a most salutary one, and solute necessity for adopting it. that there was not only an Irish Paris, and aftually employed in ans of sowing dicontent and dii• ncl • hut, that over the whole and French emissaries are sot. •eady to seize all opportuniti.s es conveyed to Ireland, for the up the disaffedled, and workin..; be weak and ignorant. 11::!. reason to believe that mini tries had already made tlieit or..y 'ere at this moment concealed interior of the country ; and, in vernment could not be ton eigi• necessary they should be armdd wins Parliament could put into to combat an enemy at once so ing, and so secret in his attempts this measure was absolutely ne• irity and safety of that pa:t of tl:c and therefore the Motion had SON expressed his concern, an gree of surprise, that a nannos neasure of so impot tam a natere, brought forward, without d on so short a notice. Till 1,4 [louse, he did not know that the bet intended to brine it on. A' sever, he folthimselt called typo ntiments on the subjefl, and he so momentous a ctisis as the I wish to make the Executive reland as strong as possible. He deeply concerned, that, in the pee 'as not thought adviseshle to state rendered the measure neccsary ; weeding to the Motion, he coal ig his hopes, that it is in the sr. en of 1 lie Majesty's Ministers to Ireland into immediate considers. er they did so, they might t dep ° n.! ▪ him retry lappet and cetY set and assistance, which his toov• le sad of the cowry might eyble very mach the arguausts ust. 1••• • aye Honourable Baronet against the Motion, anti able Gentleman wit* has jolt sat down; Mick I must agre ed with him as to the loyalty and attachment of confess, Sir, that I cannot bap being surprised at 2 great majority of the people of Ireland ; but it the arguments just advanced by bins against theme gave mi n pain to my, that he could not agree with sent motion. His proposition on the present oecasion, the Amendment he had moved. if I do not materially misunderstand' h, is thit the sir JOHN STF:W ART said, that from a long flialreas Capes Aa CaMillt.ot ought unt,to b*susOnd and intimate o cquointonce and connection with Ire- ed without due examination, and full proof. If sea' l a nd, he heartily concurred in the present motion, be the proposition maimaiued by the Right Non. which lie deemed absolutely necessary at the present Gentleman, I most own, Sir, it is altogether eon moment. He had the honeur, he said , to be the teary to what was the pradice during the course of Representative of a County in the North, which I the last war ; and that Moodice most ably and mai was well known to be as loyal as atty in the whole of I formly supported by the Right Hon. Gentleman Ireland ; but still he could not take upon him to say himself. lamat a loss, Sir, to conceive main what that there were not any disaffected persons in it. He grounds the Right Hon. Gentleman has taken upon hoped, and believed, there were not many ; but himself to advance, through the whole of his ar theiioli that was the ease, and they were still fewer Foment, that no reason has been given in support or g oo , t hey are, he should warmly support the present justification of the Motion brought fortkord by my measure as an encouragement to the loyal to persist Right Hon. Friend. If the speech with which he in their conduct, and as a reward for having always introduced it was a short one, it by no means fol done so. The artifices and machinations which lows, therefore, that no reason was adduced in sup hod been used to seduce the people from their port of it. My Right Hon. Friend informed the a llegiance had been numerous, and deeply contritt- House that an Irish Committee was sitting in Paris, tol, and the threats to intimidate the weak and and that they were using the most alive exertions timid had been violent and terrible, and not spa- to correspond with, and stir up the disaffelted and ugly used ; and he was convinced, that the protec- discontented in Ireland, which, taken together with ton and security derived from the salutary effects thecircumstanceof our being at this moment engaged of this Bill, had been the means of holding the pen- in a war with a most enterprising and inveterate ene :ple together, and by that had been procludive of my, who has longevinced, beyond the possibility of a the best effects in promoting the tranquillity of the 1 doubt, the most hostile designs ag tinst the happi comitry. He was perfectly well acquainted with ness and prosperity of this country ; to destroy i!)r humane and honourable feelings of the Noble- which, he is most anxiously watchful to give a roan who is at present at the head of the Irish mortal wound to Ireland ; I think there can be but Government, and was convinced that he inherited few individuals in this House that will not think from his illustrious ancestor a high value for the Brit- there is a sufficient reason for adopting the present ish Constitution. He was certain that he never lost measure. Is it possible, Sir, that any Member of any opportunity of tempering justice with mercy, and this House should forget for a moment that the that there never could be any danger of hismoking threat of invasion was thrown out by this deadly an ill use or abase of any extraordinary power that enemy to this country, even before the commence the peculiar circumstances of the times might induce ment of the war, and, that the roost gigantic efforts the Legislature to put into his hands. At this too- have since been made to carry those threats into ment, the number confined in Ireland were few in- execution ? Is it not known to every one, that the deed; but it was necessary a power should he vested most material part of the armaments and prepara in the Government there to seize such persons as tions for this invasion are destined to proceed may be fairly suspeded, and to keep them in safe against Ireland, and, that we have had to rely on confinement. When he was in office himself, he the vigilance and aftivity of our fleets to frustrate had frequent opportunities of observing that if it his intended attempt? Has not this enemy alsd had not been for such a power, every source of in- been, during the whole war, embodying shoe* men formation of the designs unit attempts of the dis- from Ireland who have left their own country, from affeaed would have been cut off; for, if it had being actively and deeply engaged in schemes of once been known who were their accusers, they sedition and treason ? If the existence of an Irish would have paid for their attachment to the Go- committee in Paris cannot be doubted, and, that vernment, and their love for their country, with the there are even a few disaffeded persons in Ire loio of their lives, and have perished by the hands land, surely both these circumstances, coupled of the assassin. Fully convinced, therefore, as he with the war and the well known intention of in was of the necessity of the present measure, it should vadieg that country, if possible, form the strongest have his warmest support. reason why this measure should be adopted by Mr. WINDHAM said, he could not but be sur. the House; and, as to what has been said as prised that the Hon. Bart. should bring forward a to the continuance nt it, lam certainly not so un- Motion on a sullied of such magnitude and im- manly as not to avow, tha: it may probably happen, portance, without adducing one single ,season why unless circumstances should very materially change he did so. Such a mode of proceeding seemed to indeed, that this suspension will continue as long as him to carry on the face of it an opinion, that to • foreign war continues. lam certain the Right suspend the Hake. Corpus Ado in Ireland; was a Hon. Gentleman cannot say, that citcumstances step that might he taken with as little ceremony as are already altered ; and am there fore confident Cie the passing a common Turnpike Road Bill. If House will see the necessity of our aging with all such is allowed to be the case, it is in the power of that watchfulness and caution, the nature and im- Ministers, as was well observed by the Hon. Bart. portance of the case so imperiously and loudly call who moved the amendment, to suspend the Consti- for. I ant still more astonished to hear that clumsy union whenever they please : they may in felt stop and common place argument resorted to; that a • the Constitution, and set it a-going, according to large proportion of the people are loyal, and there. their own particular wish : they may bandy it about fore, in adopting such a measure, you libel a whole like a feather in the air, and that without asoiguiag country. I remember very well, and -I have no any further cause, than that they deem it needful. doubt the House will also recoiled, that this In the present case, they have not told us that any argument was used against myself in the course one county is in a state of insurredion ; that a to- of the last war, and was most ably and forcibly reign enemy has landed in Ireland ; or that there is repelled by that Right Hon. Gentleman, when I any solid cause to suppose the country in any had the advantage of his assistance and support, actual danger of revolt ; but only that there are in bringing forward those prompt and vigorous persons ready to produce mischief in Ireland— measures which, lam confident, saved this country Ready to produce mischief ! why so there are in from the rein and destruCtion with which it was England ; and yet no such measure is thought to then threatened, and which, if not so timely intro be necessary here. There never was, he said, so duced, nothing could have averted. I call upon monstrous a proposition, nor one executed in so the Right Hon. Gentleman to say, whether he did monstrous a way. What, he exclaimed, are we to not then see the most imminent danger, from the pass such important alts as these, and countenance active exertions of a faftious few, bent upon the an introdution of arbitrary power, for such it ae- most mischievous designs, under the mistaken and tually is, merely on the sense of the mild assurance delusive idea, that those measures were unconsti. or prudent disposition of the person who happens tutional ? If, however, more is still wanting to to be at the head of the Government of Ireland ? prove the innumerable evils which may follow the He was astonished that such an argument could be turbulent and unruly efforts, even of a small mino endured, or that any one should seriously give way rity, let us cast our eyes to the French revolution, to it for a moment. An argument has been ad- and there we shall repeatedly see melancholy in vanced in support of this motion, that part of the stances, where a small minority, by ghee exer people of a county wish for, and are desirous that tions and loud clamour, overturned the long esta a continuance of the suspension of this important blishe i government of that country, and introduced Bill should take place, because they think their se- a succ ssive series of the most horrible and bloody curity is increased by it :so that one part of the scenes of murder, devastation, and desolation, that county are to judge what is best for the other, and ever blackened and disgraced the annals of the thus deprive them of one of the dearest privileges worlds" It is true, Sir, we may hope, that these te flon attaches to a British subject. The Hon. 80. peated scenes of horror, which have long been so ronet, who moved the Anse:id:vent, does not at well known to the people of Ireland, as well as to soacni similar pi inciples—he does not wish that one the whole civilised world, may have their proper p o rt ot a counts ii.,uld ditaate to, or injure the other, effed on the majority of the once deluded people of either in their privileges or in their property; he only that country ; but are we to indulge ourselves with desires you to inquire before you proceed, and, the hope, that them may not be a minority still in surely, there can be no harm in inquiry before the existence, who cherish the delusion on all occasions, House gives its sanction to so strong and harsh a mea- fomented and kept up by those of that country, sure. As the matter stands, it may be only a tri- who have taken up their abode in France, and who, fling and timid minority in a county that wish for an by means of French emissaries sem into Ireland, adoption of the measure; and it would be extreme- are still tempted to continue in their old paths, from ly hard upon the majority, that they should be made repeated assurances that that country is the point liable to operations of such an Act, on the sugges- particularly seleded and relied on by the enemy, Lion and wishes of a few, who have either no proper through whi hto strike the nest deadly blow at knowledge of the blessings of the Constitution, or the vital iattrests of Great Britain. We may hope whose f e ars le a d them to l ose s i g h t o f t h e ir value. that the true Catholic will look with a discerning An Hon. Gentleman, he said, had told the House, and impoi nal, but indigoont e ) e, on the various in gm the first day of the Sessions, that Ireland was in sults aroi mockeries which this inveterate and im a state of the most perfect tranquillity ;if that were placable enemy of this country has heaped on his really the case, he could not conceive why, in so religion, under the pretence of restoring it ; yet we short an interval of time, the - House was to agree to cannot tinter ourselves so fir as not to suppose suspend the Constitution, with regard melte' part there are odors who neither see his late mocke of the United Empire, without an case made out, ries, and in their proper colours, nor ransom ot one si n gle reason being given to justify the House ber those reiterated exertions which, for so ma in such a proceeding, except an " Irish Committee ny years, he so actively employed to overturn being sitting in Pans, and that there are persons in, asset annihllote it altogether. I am astonished, Ireland ready to pioduee mischief," without saying Sir, to hew!. the Right Honourable Gentlemen who these persons arc, or in what part of Ireland argue. that His Majesty's Ministers justify this inta they aro to be met with. For these reasons, be sure in. she grouod of the prudent, respedable, and thought the present strong measure altogether woe, bousooe ilaspontiou of the Lord Lieutenant. Such cessoryo and should, therefore, vote for the Amend-, an moment mid such a foundation would in the ment moved by the Hon. Baronet. - first iiill3fat be absurd had ridiculous ; but, as s Ihe CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER cundary mmive, Ido say s that where a measure of spoke to the foll o wi ng purport s—ss I shouldear- this notore.s fousol absolutely necessary for the pub tainly, Sir, be desirous of giving way to those Fla. lie wellitse, it is a very strong argument, and a Gentlemen who come from that part of the United greet ecomoistion, to be able to sayo that that such Empire, but, that I deem it necessary to enterer extroomiteary powameotild not be placed in nary. immedia t ely the greater t the obseliva., hands less ha i le, and likely to pervert or abuse theta. lions widt h have fallen fro m the Riglatlionoor- As to the question of inquiry, Sir, I thiuk it entirely t sarefamOKlrberethrrosids for the insiesre ire to phis and obvious, and Mast deckle*, that I think it could not fail to be attended with many, and great inconveniences. The necessity of the contimagace tv , this Suspension is obvious, and castor be ohs ponsed with, without cutting off alt the worms of information,. and leaving all those who would serve them country by giving it, liable to the dark and malignant attacks of the assassin's dagger.— With respott to the shortness of the notice, Sir, it has been owing entirely to circumstances un foreseen. When it was first given, it was *tended to be brought forward immediately ; hut there were so many matters of importance stood before it, wh'ch it was then imagined would have come on diredtly, that it was withdrawn. These various motions have, riod is the Habeas Corp's Aet likely to bereeeskerwill Are the supporters of this measure so ignorant dr Mikarciless of history, as not to consider, that, frsnl.o time of the Revolution, and particularly Jun* Ai reigns of William 121. and Anne, this country, ' as well as Ireland. was eternally menaced with in vasion by a foreign enemy, co-operating with a • strong and numerous party of Jacobite's at horre ? "Ile faet is indisputable, and every event, and every page of the accounts of thew epochs,, attest it • yet never was that circumstarnik made the groan; for suspending the I labeas Corpus Aft upon simple iu.- • torwry; nor, during the whole period I Speak of, was the A6t at all suspended above once or twice, when it was done on very critical occasions, and after a due and minute enquiry. Let us look A little Co ther into the pretext We all remember notoriously, s said to be dis_ with our enemies verntnent seemed the• Monarchy - the prevalent , is now said to in Ireland. r , such measure sorted to ' venture then a suspension presume to long and laborious mittees of both ' pension was, Iv Session; and i on what was 7 the measure towards the surance of . teltigeoce of Sad of Ji. : .. however, been postponed from time to time, and as, in consequence thereof, this came to be an open day, the notice was given yesterday w in order that irmight be brought on to-day, as an omission to do so might have precluded us from bringing it forward before the last Ad expired. These are the reasons, Sir, on which I ground my support of it ; and which will, of course, determine me to vote against the amend ment." Mr. WINDHAM complained, that the Right Hon. Gentleman had, though, he made no doubt unintentionally, misrepresented him. Through the whole scope of his argument, he principally con tended, that whatever information may be in the possession of the Government, respeCting the neces. sity of this measure, they I ad laid none whatever, upon new grounds, before the I louse. He wished also to observe, that when he argued strenuously in favour of a• 911114ATIVNIM1111, ea a former occasion, 1 the case was widely different from the present; as there were then the reports of aCommitree, :read am• pk materials to phew the necessity of it, laid tipon the table. • Mr. FOX—" Much as I have been alatmecl for the safety of this Constitution, by the measures often adopted by the Right Hon. Gent. who spoke last bet one, I confess that. I never felt ms,re serious grounds of apprehension, nor any thing so truly alarming to every lever of liberty; is the principles laid down by him, its a speech inculcating notions, of far greater magnitude, if ailed upon, than any other which a Minister has ever ventured to promul gate within these walls ; and, should that Right Hon. Gentleman continue long to maintain ally considerable degree of power in this country, I fear, considering the alarming extent to which he has this day carried his principles, that the Constitution of this Empire is in greater linger than ever it has been at any former period of even his administration. He has very far outstripped the opinions at any time, or under any circumstances, delivered by my Right Hon. Friend (Mr. %Villais/19 ; and, when he com plains of the clumsy argument, as he called it, that, though the minority of the Irish people were disal feded, the majority, whom he owns to he loyal, and which I have beard no man attempt to contro vert, should suffer by this oppressive measure, I consider myself entitled to arraign the clumsy pre cautions which he recommeuds fur ptotetting this great majority against the contemptible minority. The very statement of such a majority of good and well-affeded inhabitants is, indeed, a very clumsy kind of reasoning in favour of this bill, which goes merely upon the ground, that, notwithstanding that superiority of ntunkers, same discontent prevailed in some patient' the country. How can thisbe com sistent with the assertion this day made by an Hon. BArt. (Sir John Stewart), and several other Irish Members, that, tbcugh some disloyalty might exist in the minds of individuals, the people, in g eneral, are as loyal throughout Ireland, as they are here in the several counties of England; that they felt as great an attachment to the Constitution and the Go vernment ; anl that they were equally ready to op pose any hostile attempts of a foreign enemy ? The solution of this dilemma will be found a matter of no small difficulty to the promoters and authors of this Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Aa in Ire land, which appeared to me always unnecessary, however it might have been APr r med of by others, and particularly by an tion. r Head of mine ( Mr. Sheridan) who now sits near me. But, what I con tend for most is, that this country, and this Consti tution, I mean all the sound parts that remain of it, can never be considered as safe, if, in a country now united with us, we establish the principle, that the existence of any disloyal principles, in any particular counties, or scattered amongst a number of indivi duals, should be a justification for suspending tl:e dearest and most invaluable security that remains for British liberty. Such a principle, carried to the extent we now heard, would be more fatal to the em pire than any thing that could be effected by the at tempts of a foreign enemy. An invasion fi om the enemy, in any quarter, would not be so much aimed at the destru . dion of our liberty or Constitution, as at our independence The Right Hon. Gent. (Mr. Pitt) has told us that there were Committees of disloyal Irishmen, stationed on those parts of the enemy's shore, from whence an attack was medi tated ; and that only for the vigilance and activity of our hlockadiag squadron, the Brest fleet would, before this, have sailed on its destination for the in vasion of Ireland. I admit it to be now more than pro bable, that the French may attempt to carry their designs into execution ; but is Ireland the only point from which this danger may threaten us ? Does the Right Hon. Gentleman (.Vlr. Pitt) forget, that, during the list session of Parliament, his constant tone was to express his lively sense of the imminent and immediate danger to which England was ex posed ? Does he not recoiled his having frequently darned us in the most emphatic terms, that we had tot an hour to lose, and that we did not know the imminent when the enemy would be at our door ? If so, then the danger was and is as great to England is to Ireland ; and let us now consider what o a tion this fatal principle will hays upon otlrtel Contemplating this precedent, I must risaittiliin; that, if domestic discontent, or a disposition to dis loyalty, coupled with the threats of a foreign ene ' my, is to be made a ground mid precedent for sus pending the palladium of the Habeas Corpus Ail, we must, in time of war, either in Great Britain or Ireland, bid a long adieu to that bulwark of British liberty, for which our ancestors so gloriously and so successfrily contended. Such a presence has never before been set up, without inquiry, or upon the ground of simple notoriety. The people of Eng land never admitted its and shall we deal a different .treasure to those of the thnNed Kingdom l Let .me ask, if this principle is to prevail, at what pe. cottrse to was only of the occasion, which was " ourselves. men, w!.' than can fall tame, represented such a measure. hefore adopted riety of the called for, w adopted upon cc,. it was understood to further invest; ingly instituted. pears to me, tha barrenness of it sent, it would at once an ' leave the b subjeas enti cutive Gotiernmem. the subject o' of any set of to consent s•lf happy basing any of mania, nourable Baronet -sin"; and which, will drop for made upon' Motion had but I consider foon&d. 1a• measure WAS postponed important _ these important and that, a clauses was, after the meeting . discover, in any description the present state of Ireland, any pressure . should inspire Gentlemen opposite me with con fidence to call upon us fur the renewal of this Ad, at one day's notice, and within three weeks after the assembling of ti.e Parliament. What are the fads upon which they can justify such precip . tation f Could they not, in the interval which has intervened in the discinsion of other matters, to which I attac! , as much importance as any other man can do, have instituted an en quiry which might enable us to judge of the necessity of so material a rerridion on the liberties of our fellow subjects ? I now come to another point of this subject, in which some stress has been laid on the mild character of the Nob:: Lord now at head of the Irish Government, and Inost candidly confess, that I am unable to comprehend the strange distinction made by the Rt. Hon Cent. Cvir. Ile admitted, that the character of the s oble Lord in question, and his equitable demeanor and for bearance in Ireland, would not of itself be a sum dent ground for justifying such a measure as this ; but most perversely argues. that when the necessity notorious, as he calls it, exists. it is a sufficient foundation for its continuarre, that we may be cer tain, the extraordinary - oower givea him will not be absurd. this kind is to me a 4 - able. Ido not press any opinion ation of the Lor. perhaps, deserve ed upon him ; but _ sion of the principle founded, as being s am acquainted with know it has often l• vernment that et would be that of a, be ensured that the Prince - seised of all the virtues which would make un limited power instrumental to the happiness his people ; that his Government, being unconstrained, would be more prompt and vigorous; and that the influence of his virtues and talents would dirks* themselves throughout the extent of hi. dominions. I have beard peop l e press this argument. but always with the condition, that the absolute monarch should possess all the qualities necessarg. to his suq". Bur" though I have heard ass know that tbeY can find no . of the British Constitution. k with a view of prereadng nute enquiry. IACL US WOE a I.IIIIC ia.- he pretext of what they call notoriety. onemher the time when there were, , several associations in this country, disaffected, and ading in co-operation nemies abroad. At that time the Go- eemed to be is the utmost alarm, and :by represented as in more danger froth nt disloyalty of the people here, than it to be from the iiispositinns of the people Notwithstanding all tl.is, howtve-, 110 are as the present was immediately re- The Right Hon. . .gentleman did not en to propose to ns, in the first instance, in of the Habeas Corpus At ; nor did he o submit such a measure, until after a aborious enquiry, reported to us by cots. both Horses of Parliament. The. sun- is, undoohtedly, continued in tie ensuing ,nd though, at the time it was called for, ras represented as the spur of themonsent, ire was adopted ; yet this was never done he people of England, without the as- h ulterior enquiry. On the first iota,- of the insurreCtion in Ireland, on the July, 1 tfr, the Ministers had re- this precautionary measure; but that assented to fram the appareer presume canon, with a view to further etsquilt, s instituted in a Committee, chosen ky I amAware , that several Irish Gentfit- must haN. had more local informatiop Sall to the share of us, stationed at a dis- resented at thc time, the strong necessity of easure. But I must allow, that it was spted upon confidence, or upon bar.! notes- tie insurreetion. The Aet was passed, as • wilhont delay; but, instead of being ; pon confidence, or as a matter of course, lerstood that the fads should be submitted • .;,•• • investigation, which the House accord- . kilted. Upon the whole, indeed, it ap- se, that if, upon stich grounds, and s of information as the Hou'ue has et peek , could be more fair and explicit to psis an MI which, in time of war, wruid ' liberties of ourselves and our Cello* entirely at the discretim of the Exe- ivernment. Having said so much upon :t of public notoriety, or the assurances of genr lernen,as the grourd for this Houie t to In alarming a precedent ; I feel my- y in being relieved from the necwsity of iy thmw-to add 'respeding the c• nt :dance a law to Ireland, which the Riaht Ho- Baronet has dropped on the presets' caws- • which, I cannot bat indulge the hope, he for ever. Some observations bave beets os the ground of objedion taken, Celt this A ad not been produced by a sufficient notice; isider that copiplalnt as having been justly I am now told that the reason why the WAS not brought forward was, that it was d from the press of other more urgent t business ; but when I relied eta )(stunt topics have not yet been discus , at the time the Ad was passed, one of the •as, that the Ad should expire in five weeks meeting of Parliament, I am at a loss to , in any description which has been given of ent state rf Ireland, any pressure which dinary and dangerous power given absurd. Now, Sir, a dv.tmc[r:n of ie at novel as it is certainly unjustifi- think proper on this occasion to es- on respecting the virtues and moder- ki Lieutenant of Ireland, whu may, : all the encomiums that were bestow. tut I must provide against the admit- inciple upon which the distinCtion is n o - quite anomalous to any thing I within the British Constitution. I en been argued, that the best Go- could be formed for any nation, of an absolute monarch, if it could the Prince should be always pop- e virtues which would snake his an- instrumental to the happiness of his. LUXinrca tin...—. , e head and read these opinions, yi can find no analogy in the principles !onstitutioa, which has been framed of preventing the abu.• ti p.m