The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1805-07-27 00:00:00

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IRELAND AND I,OIID DARDIPICKE.
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Friendly as we are to the and leqUltahle
Government of Lord Hardwicket we cannot stiffer
to past unnoticed a most invidious paragraph which
appeared in a Morning Paper of Slturday last,
qooted from Vie Garter. It states the difference
between the Minister an J Mr. Foster to have arisen
solely from the financial reputations of the Litter
Gentleman interfering with the patronage of Lord
Donoughmore and his Excellency the Lord Lieu-
tenant. The truth of this assertion is best known
to the Personages concerned, hut the publie mea-
sures and charaders of all are before us--of thes.2
we may judge, and it is not difficult to see that
the °Ned of the paragraph in question is to in-
duce an idea that measures of public utility were
oirstruCted by narrow and self-interested tenacity of
Pe,ver. Of this, however, the People of Ireland
will not entertain the same opinion. The generous
acknowledgment of the public hear t will not falsify
and adopt itself to the shiltings and turnings of
time-serving cunning and Machiavelian intrigue—
In Lord Dienoughmore his countrynnea have ever
found a faithful friend, and an honourable rot. a-
RANT. uncorrupt. and SINCERE defender of their
rights. In Earl Hardwickc the Irish Nation sees
more than Countryman, more than indigenous vir-
tue and g, odliess. It behoLls an illustrious English-
man, not moving in the false and dark magic of the
old system, open as the day, and benefisent as its
influence --no bigotry—no intrigue—no monopoly
—no discard—just and conciliatory in his principles
—in his feelings and his policy, liberal and impe-
rial—coining not to scatter dissention in his path—
not to keep up the contest between the Wafer and
the trine, nor to try the experiment of the rod And
the bayonet—not coming to appease the cry of irri-
tators, or satisfy the rai,acity of poor relations—nut
surrounded by the putrid halo of ditty job and pur-
chased influence—but advancing, like the Genius of
Health and Truth,
h healing in his wings"

Such is the English Ruler wanted over the Irish
people—,3neh is he who would, had cell here in
the capacity of Viceroy. have—saved the ',t00,: which
was saed in 1798 —la& is he who would now anal
gamate all set% stud condition, in genuine loyalty,
and sorrow the Imperial Ctlwn with the impe-
netrable defence 'of united and aff iaionate op'.
nian—srich is Earl Hardwick. B,: it seems,
because 7... is all this, he is to have no patronage!
—Becan-e he loves the people, and the people love
him, he is not to hay.- the sam, patronage which
his predecessors have had, nor is to preserve for
hi; successors those Lippe,. *AM !sowers which up-
bald the digpity d the Kiorr', Representativel—
:ea b to ovrp- i . : o an office nominally subservi-
vit. Ohs Crown is to stripped of its necessary pa-
image, and the spoils are to be scattered *n partial
distribution !sy t ie daring hand of the ',t.T.V ;Inc, rais-
hg hisosiii, above the authority •if his t., aster, and
for *hat I—Truly because pledges were made
which have not, nor could be redeemed, mid advao-
'sages in revenne pro o:, d, which every hdelligi-iit
mercy ant in Ireland knows to have failed, and only
succeeded by relations regulation, inefficient parad
and empty boast. But let the question of patron-
age be what it may, and let the cutest end as it
will, there is one specie, of patronage which, if
Lord Ilardwicke could be deprived of, his enemies
can never elereise —is the patronage of the Irish
heart—there he rules p.,ramousit, witheut !oh or'
intrigue, and there we trust he will flit a feelrng of
gratitude which shall never be extinguished.—
(Dahlia Ecrainz Post.)