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lootO4 pill. then it its Mid the Noble Lord at
the head of the Excise takes.uoon himself the re-
of Mr. Hill's 14E.spacitutson ; it was
somethilig new, or would have been couxii,ered Ito
at oilier tense in that House, fur one person to s3v
hr trek the rerponsibility of another upon himself.
It II 11 heen asked wised he have siisiniawd 41i ? To
which I . answered, yes. (in the .inject
of reseime, for the benefit of the public. he would•
rather have had in innocent, inexperienced young
man, than one who was repent:aced in the tricks
and fraud. of office. In a public charai/er, 'dowse.
ty was the drat thing, character the next, awl- *W
itty was not to be considered in the same die.
fhen it had been maid Mr. Hill's abilities had lo fu
his recommendation. Here the Right lion. Bart..
re ferred to his evidence before the Comininsioaers,
where he Lid that the excise laws were so intri-
c rte that he emeld oat anderetend theta, mid thence
necluded him Gnat for his eppoilitineat. As to his
tienwledge of Mr. Hill, he never saw 111.11/Maine till
he env the Report, and lie knew neither bun istouoy•
of his connections; the first notice he received, front
a erivaterosinox washy an nnonyinous letter. Whe-
ther Hull or P ig were guilty he could got pee-
neid to say. Fanning was charged by Coeur:its
with iashosesstioi, of nerjury, and had solicited to he
tried. lost had been refoled. . When Hill received
twenty poilleif a M0.,t11. a regular Sufi; it nos no
fee, it was a brew, but did not become a stetuable
etfletee till liethS. Two mouths after that Act had
received the Loyal /talent, Lill, continued to ft:-
wive that bribe, and where an Art of Parliament
la cl been Newel, it tire-site the particular duty of
that Ilona- :o !solve it enforced.
NV llt iHalt .41141 :het ma iinprtrotoo had One
alit •sit. that a number of Members of that House
II • I • siuroperly obtained their nests ; that u Noble
L••, I had attempted improperly to obtain a seat
Iriery;--4his imernoaoi, the [louse wished to
countersue. Than agesu it is broadly asserted, that
the (env-rnsurrit are corrupt ; this also the House
• .:e..1 to contradict ; hut whet would the country
the when a men, found to have been guilty of
Lathe: a Isr.he, tai d •fent the purpose of his office, is
111), Mil' • tee ;••••(1 'pat hy. appoiatment to a higher
office ja • .tier • flit oar houmt.inaus could vote
in hi» fit ..1 he was at u loss to reconEile with his
idesei of r. ••.•
The qn • I,e;ng loudly called for, the House
divided, whit ten- appeared--
For the e- viols gametal 77
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%mast Sir Join Newport's
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IRISH ?TYRE& . .
Mr. PAR*Ett ..ated. that as a forivier motion.
relative to a Comoiotatimi of Tythea lea Ireland,
had /*l..* rejected. items the ground of the want
of sufficirait information being yet obtained upon
the subject, he hid: iii pursuance of his notice.
another 'notion to suhruit to the consideration and
stritiptien of toe House: Tile Howe were called
upon to woke Jahn- envier to those petitions that
hid heett prewated ;o them ;.*e.l as at preptinstory
one., he coati we its wale] emend for ol j. etiag to
what he slo.nhf LAW tmteerrc, which
That en taunt* A•htr,ss I. postale': to His Majesty,
precirur that he 'fillet be vat-on-soy 'lewd to direct a ave-
✓ edemaosiftri.o so Ice apptihrril, to Infinite into the mode
of eoileeitne the Tetl.es to Irclaail. snit, also such other
matter. CV4.1•Ct.41 therewith, as they ehould tititek lengthy
tb,:or attention, and ...report their .ipius,io thereon "
Mr. ()MIDAS (ticeretary for Ireland), opposed
the '-"ion, epoo the ground, that twfore they went.'
the lete;th of addressing the Kiug to vrewiiiit Coal-
oat,ftennero to isrit.• such inquiries, they should
first he satisfied. that some prachioilile measure
conhl he oropose.l and adopted to remedy the
.eoleeoinpluinell of, *nil acknowledged to exist, In
re...;ard to the buyiiig of tytheis. It would only tend
to raise the exee•et emus of the people, while they
saeild not realm-. titer. The limn Gentleman
must be *wore, that the ft flings mid pa-aions
ladiei•lU.llS were already WO twitch alive
atpou time aishieet, thresigliont every district in
inlaid; beside* the house were not it present
' el,mriteel of info/elution nixes fresh subjects. It
might us well be said. *that they could not le,
gi.late us to the tithes in Scotlaed. without
atiticiotr an Inquiry ; whe.-ecs it *44 well known
that a leas was lately palmed missive thereto,
merely u•dion the state treat of those acquointed
with that country. Hif demisted of the rape-
(henry of the mode of ieitr'ry pro;ersed, and
e 1... of its areeesity, us sta.:seat inforin..tiosi could
.be derive,' from t :endemism 'connected with the
seiter• kin:44mo.
Alr. MACIRICIR Ferx.isatt.D expreesed his sur-
prise et bearine,siscio nU .naisai•i!iun to this rusti,n,
as the fnriuw'r noes had beans opoeveled upset the
groom! of there brio; a want of sidlleent iofoni
'nation. respect to exciting dangerous ex-
pectations in the minds of the fseople of Irelaiid._,
by the messere pmpowd, he could assere the
Right Hon. Gentleman, that they could only be
excited by the coatinnauce of the present system,
and he was persweled the inqiiiry would hove quite
an opposite tendency. There were parts of Ire-
land where the most serious disturbance* had been,
exeittol within these last two years, upon this very
subject; aired he WAS sorry to say, such had been
the case in that very part which he had the ho-
nour to represent. He was convinced the Right
Hon. Gent. when he leteame acquainted with the
actual foam of the tytlies in Ireland, would retrii••t
his opinion nod sentiments in a fiiture sessiou.—
There were many abuses existing there, which did
• tint exist here. From the sentiments generally ex-
* pressed in the Reese upon a former night, lee W3l.
Pure that an inquiry ',mild be the best prellininery
to any toeissore that Puilintnent could adopt to re-
medy those evils. He aimidil touch npou a few of
the griermicies relative to the raising of tythm in
Ireland, its soder that Gentlemen might contrast
them with the mode adopted in Eliglaurl. In
*l-40). 11ete4 the t, this's were collected by the a..tent•
of she. iliceClergymen in the most severe mender.
It was mien a central habit for clergymen to art
them op to eviction, stud sell them to a respectable
ten lot, who einaltivel another to extort the
ntwitiet from pow mid se•llloinnate
If tech practices ijv England.. no 31:-
Puister ivould dare to d Parliamentary in-
• quire.—lii Irele.d. almost all the lower or-
.%••a of the pe .:Plc snhsi trd by cultivating
the soil, and it snit ATRIA them nst particular this
tea operated as 41 grievnite burden.—Even the
tw-
tatrec civilian of the eeisent did not tocapg the most
rizftrir:s exections.—Theis war contrary to the iniu•