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(Londonderry), et) injuriously o• the Noble Lord who
bail lately addressed the House (Lord Folkestone); and
here he could not but lament the lose of those &mitt-
gnished ornaments of the Mum; who wriulithase tlefeuded
his Noble Friend with so much more ability than he could
boast of; but II was not the Noble Lord alone who had held
such opillioit4 respecting the character of the Marquis Wel-
lesley. Hr must be permitted so recal to the recollection of
I he Nol.le Marquis that the 'amen led Sir S. Ronittly bad ended
a speech as strongly inatked by talrni,feehug, and eloquence,
as any perhaps be had ever delivered, is a strain of moldy
and energetic erasure on the condor, of the Marquis IVel-
leaky iit Judie; msd.of the atone opinion bad been Mr. Sheri.
dan, Mr. Whitbread, and Mr. Windham; and if the Noble
Lord was in error, be wits in error with some of the grealle.t
lights which bad ever appeared •in that Hume. The
Honourable and Learned Gentlenrast then described a

eimversation he had bad with Mr. Sheridan on this eulujeet
during the Grenville Administration, in which Mr. Sheri-
dan slated, that Is. hued forboroe to proceed in the investi..
guidon of the Noble Mospin's eondiret, because he would
not Full the risk of dopeolvlng the Administration. He (Dr.
Lusiiiiigion) believed that this cowrie was porsted in cause-
ginner of a special eorsapsci. He would still retain his uses
opinion, nod uotwithstandiag that the Noble Marquis had •
*hewed the most consummate military skill, valour, rangy, •
cud political wisdom, yet in hii opinion the Noble Marquis had
disregotded those ties which were of the most solemn nature—
bad forgotten, possibly is, the carterof ronqueet, mid ',scanting'.
of extending our dominions in India, the sacred obligittious
of treaties with the native rooms. And therefore he could Ulle
consent to commit 1 powers into the hands of the
Noble MAUSOIS merely on his own ipso diril. It was not
question of personal tbseretioss. whether they slionlit iatrust
to soy man the power of committing soy of his Majeaty's
subjects hr prison, sad detaining hen there as long as he
pleased, with a more certainty .4 obtaining • Bull of la.
demity—(Hear)—mt the end. Ile gave the Noble Marston
reedit fur the desire of doing his duty honestly; km it was
impossible for a rasa who hail so many duties to perform as
a Lord Lieutenout, to inform himself of the justice of early
individval case. Injustice and headship naught funeently ha
practised without his Ithowledse, and hr was ewble l to state
so instauce of this iodine to the Haase. It was the ease of
a gentleman egoist whom • warrant for high treason had
been issuod, intil Stewed by the Noble Muuquis (Loudon-
deny) himself, without lin knowing whit he had done. This
a country geotletnan of large futteue, a Komar
mid his son, from whom he derived his information, aas now
in the enjoyment of an estate of 5,000 f. • year. His sum hav-
ing heard of the warrant went to town instantly, mid applied
at Dublin Castle, hut was told that oo warrant had been
issued, that the thing was Impossible; he returned to the
country, gut more certain thfoimatiou that the fart was
as he had at tint thought, hastened to town organs, ob-
tained at the Castle a remedial writ to arreat the execu-
tion of the former, and reached home just in time to prevent
the first being pot in execution —(Hear, hear, hear!)—
Here was a see where an innocent individual bail very oar-
rawly escaped beng visited with the tenors of tke law, and
this while the Noble Marcuis opposite was totally free from
blame, or any intention of doing wrong. The Hoe. and
Learned Gentlemen then observed on the impoliey of nos-
ing the execution of the new "(weeny laws In the resident
Gentlemen of Ireland—on the hardship of taking sway the
trial by Jury Eros all those parts of Lenin' where it might
seem good to the Lon] Lieutenant. With respect to King's
Berjeants, lie would rather trust the iii • I of bill life to soy
Jury of Englishmen than to any of these Lesord Gentlemen.
When he saw Lawyers promoted is this country for their
political versatility, could he suppose that Ministers would
be more alissinent in Ireland! He concurred with the
Noble Alarquis in thinking it world be impolitic to unlit
with the present any measure of couribation. But he
trusted t bet stow, after 30 years of suffering, Parliameut
would set itself sincerely to do something effectual fur the
permanent prosperity of Ireland.
Mr. LOCKHART believed dint the f the disco's-
tents in Ireland was careasively bigh rent on very smell
farms. If the people there haul not ilwouselves laboured to
take away the edviontag., of jou ies, he wroth' be the last man
to support these measure.; but as they had done is, he felt
humor If boomd to support them.
Mr. S. RICE hail sin-arty shewn hostility to one of these
Rills; with the other be war yet to deal. Though the other
(the losisnectior. Art), was out exactiy what lie wanted, yet
it was amortising Ilk.' it, sad he thnisolat it capable of smelt
modification■ es would render it properly applicable in the
evil. His first objertims to the Bill was that It took away
the benefit of the trial by jury wherever it extended, and
facts had proved that jot. ies hail by on means shrunk from,
hut fearlessly ilischateed their functions ht the disturbed
counties. Vs hen the Report should he brought up, he natant
to propose certain ameridnieuts (for which see the Its port
lower down). If the benefit of juries was to be
he should pocks that the whole of the jerootietioll sub.
stitnted for it shusli be committed to the fierjrauts,
as they would be divested of local animosities and resent-
ments.

Mr. CA LCRA FT said, the question was, did he know
that thee w■s a rein Mon in Ireland ? If he did, bq was
obliged either hr support strong sod repressive , we
to suffer the cusitinnatice of robb.ry, outrage, murder,
assassination, and a dissolation of sociely..—(Cheers.)—He
thought that the measures in question were the best that
could he selected for the iihjeci In •iew. He thought mar.
tint law far arire cruel sad arbitrary than the provisions of
these Arts. Compared to inertial tow, the Insurrection Act
was mild, and it would have the advantage of being admi-
nistered under a Lied Lieutenant, in whose wistful!, and
humanity hr reposed the must perfect m.nfillence.—(Hear )
The Hon. Gewileman the,. depreest.d the idea that the rcsi-
deut Gentlemen and Magistrates of Ireland were not the
fittest persons to be intrusted with t►e execution of the pro-
mised laws, and d• (eroded with much warmth and eulogy
their firm sud courageous exertions to preserve the p.thhe
peace, HMI enforce obedience to the existiog laws nod con-
stituted authorities. He slid out speak without mi jolt
• iiii knowledge of the country. Hr by uu mesas concur...ll
io the ream its which had leen insole on the Maiqms %'el•
Ir►ley ; Its would confer these great poweis on him, because
be ovver thought i hat distinguished nisi., with the lofty cha-
racter he possessed, would now, at the dose of his long 111111
honourable career, sad in hts native country, ark for powers
which he thought unnecessary merely to be shawl, and In
taraish the laurels which he had so justly trained to distant
climes —(llear, hear )

Mr. W. LAMB and Mr. C. HUTCHINSON rose ■1 the
some time, but the cries for the forme► being more mime-
rows, he told d She 111.11Ve. He said that lie abutild ewe
fur the mestere* recommended on the groused of confidence
reposed in his Majesty'. Ministeis, and nut only iii them,
but into in the Minima W. Ilerley.—(ltear.)—He completely
dist/wed (rim She obsrrvations which had been made ou
the character of that Noble Marquis. Hr was out more die-
tiocuislird for 'elitism., tetra's, 16 pul, and aigear in the teW,
and wiselors to the calmer, thou by his ardour in the cause
of public liberty, osiedwn auvtrty and solicitude woe die wet.
fare of the people .roanniticd to his governing rare.—
(Great chteriag.)--He should Nether give his vote in COhi.
deuce to Site gentlemen Gum Ireland, most of shine de.
Glared that vigorous, efficient, and prompt measure■ were
neerssary. So fir as the state of Ireland arose from the
customs, habit.. stud modes of proceeding of the inbsbitaiits
theenselv. se so far were the Administrations of this country
exempt from censure on that Mead. the Hon. Gentleman
then poitned out the system of letting laud througb middle.
men, and the practice of gentlemen splitting their estates
into forty ahilliug freeholds fur electiosetring purposes, as
evils peculiar to lieland.
Mr. C. HUTCHINSON tad, that the Gentlemen of
Ireland were by no mealiest) insensible to the state of tteir
country at they bad been represented to be. He totally
dillered from the policy of tinier who recommended the In-
surrection Act sod tbe suspension of the Art of Habeas
Corpus. The Government had not. in his °piglets, made
out a sufficient ease. All that they rested ow was the aulho-
rlly of the Noble Marquis toutaiireil is the paper., but soy
thiag comprised it. Arm did situ justly lead to such as in-
ference. Here She HUM. Gemteoussi read va►ious extracts
hoes the dispatches is support of hie opinion,. He would
give hay support that woe torressary fur p►uteetiug the life
and property of the promble. winch be ►eliased were is
great peril ; hut be woe persuaded that us addition of soillf-
lair force stone was peatoetty adequate to the secomplisis•
meat of that end.