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swore that the state of Ireland had at length
aroused some degree of attention, and that a mes-
, • sure of some kind might be expected; he knew
that it would be said also that the Noble Lout at
the bead of the Irish Government had soot been
there long enough to resolve on any generally effec-
tive measures. He had, however, - been long
enough in office to have founded a very.mund
lectsve epitoion on the necessities of Ireland ; ettil
sided,- the other branches of Administration were
not unacquainted with the condition 'of fretstatf
The.Hurne Sterretary could not be very strung* to;
those afileirtr; he must have discovered Some, or
causes of the evil, and was well enough.
onspeeienced to he able to point out the re.
windy which ought to be applied in the tie or seven.
years which had elapsed since the observation
which be had edverted was made by the Noble Lord.
. In the same 'wet the Noble Lord at the head of the
Treasury had swayed the House that the Guerra.
• moot had the Irish affairs ander conrideration—thet
• site tithes, they had undergone consideration par-.
• tieelsrly, and that although great difficulties attech-:
ed is the subject, the property of tithes being upini
the same fording in groglend and Ireland, yet them
were oirowassiesces which, in the then condiiitn, of
. behinds would justify some interference. and IN
• ••:lisps new modification of them in that country. Ap
o sin years had elapsed, it was to be expected Ask
what was then in coutemulation woo now ready ti.
he plain progreissioa. That which M had to pros
post -was, that the Legislature hiving concede
estremelniary powers to Government three mond),
Una', to ewable them to repress insurrection, te
wet dews outrage and restore tranquillity, thet
- were now no less ready to examine into the state of
.the °awry with a view to the adoption of measures
• of conciliation, to sihnenister consolation, sod re-
medy the evils of a degraded and of people.
14e considered with hie Right Hon. Friend, the
..1111111ber for Dublin University, that exile tend
Adkablefeere never to be coosidered as the ilistru-
sweetest Government, but as implements of es-
•pediessey, which must be resorted to ',coo-
simsally M repress disorders which would other.
eiMe' Owen end to all government. They had
sleesmerlst their acts that they were ready to grant
may 'glower necessary for reducing civil confu-
sion 40 order. But the means grunted' fur such
emeefeacies -sere to be considered sa exception to
widgeons( video, out by any emene Is rules of
themselves. The country was now prepared
,for a
wieder Coarse; the people by this time were con-
trive:eel of the steady determination of the Govern-
ment sod the Legislature to repress insurrection,
anot•lo compel obedience to the laws. They ought
mist to be assured that the House end the
Legislature would set with no low resolution in
-examining and remedying the evils complained of ;
'bet .they were reedy to probe them to the bottom ;
me ford redeem where justice claimed it, and act
in fertare we a systeiss • remedial in ilsell—at system
'of equitable law, without which no good government
could exist. He **old state one thing which he was
vory neer forgetting. It might be thought that the no-
tare of Ins motion was too selfish, but the principle
wee the same in any other ease. He had sheet, that
!hue roe effects bad malted—thin• the comparable
bemuse of eeports must always take place whim
'nuncio° had-gone en so as to diminish coasualptiOn.,
Meals had been acid of the Tiers of the Church.
Pio one was ,ore ready to regard them with date:
reinitiate.; but was there nothing to be said for the.
rights of the laity ? Mid he been a member of the:
Irish Parlwrient at the Union, he would never have
suffered so -teeny chid-gee to have been 'taken Mr
the revenues of the church stylised upon thetillage.,
Were they to has* any power at ell to look to ilMr.
rights of the peeple ? There was infinitely more.
taken from -the people -foe: the church, than ever
the ehureft.reeeietorl. Their dues were colleeted by
es espricerue Ofte of spins, *lto drew the lee totems

from pauper., under the Merril* of
their wicked authority. He most advert, before he.
coactuded, to the groat leantrig crbstroctiina to Irish
prosperity, 'Mich arm the failure of the Government
and Legislature to ideotify every clam of iishabi..
tones with the free rights belittsgmg to every subject,
.and acknowledged in every free State: He did not
my that they could tamootly tresignillise Ireland ;
it mu impeasible that evils of, a century soda
half M growth could btu very soddenly tiepersed.
The eliketewf that system,. the penal code it could
not I. called, it weitoade tap of oppression and
astripidnees, would be tong felt—that system which
sem against all law, end opposed to ail moral enth-
rallment divine and humeri—which net the father
against the offspring, and put sit .1 he relations in hok-
nine toeach ether. They could cot entirely remove
thee( Bets evilest once. bat they must Isegirwsis
on that lay the only hope of sw eget/wand change. fib
knew it S would be said that the evil. were traceable V
ttw wets of the Irish character. But why dill
these vices fail to produce the same effect on °their
chsracters and unties. ether Governments ? Wityl
became the British Government hod oo longer NIII
powerof instigating the evil ; on longer the capes
Why .of setting father against son, and Weft%
&phut brother. The kindly feelings of .AN
bid room to operate, sod they were se strong ii Aitit
bosoms of Irish as any other people. The Right,
Honourable Gentleman concluded his speech
amidst load cheering, which accompanied the end I
d it, and thou propored the following motion
0 Tim ea Malls Address be prorated es his Majesty,
to reptant that the reeteeebeity delude coetaised is his
Majesty's graeines Speedo frees the Throne, and tbe dac►
meals laid before es at the opining of the Session of pm.
lieetest.respeatitig the limos, diatom' of coasiderebk
dis-
trkts of. Intim* ithees es to eassider the stile of that ix-
lapin eseivideeldapsrt -of the Veiled Kingdom se most
diatriming art alSetiog ao the Lreistatare, *edt dangerous
ie an extreme illegoes to the welLbeitig of theentpire.
" That soda cirenetatences of daring insulnothestion to
the has, 'drachmae:ame end insurrection, the Ceristatere
deemed it to be its kW dose to era the Executive Govera-
mpg/ii •WI all:the powers which were esesidered eataisirle to
popish sewage, to suppress Isaarrsetioei, osd to/wore lie
a ... towed sad rairstary eosin to lb. adatisiatretioe of
constitution] hart.
1.• We-treat that the eeogilsite• placed by Parliament is
tie fik•oolloo ,Cleareeattearit et lielept well be forma to have
twee ht p thaeneffeadenaperow, yet* sum exercise if
time ratroordieser p•apaapbaimi;a4amaalall• to Wed's, twee
bleeds's' perseet . ).
That having that provided far this; celainitopeceter.
grimy, with Telefoon urns itaimmetata pressor., wr feel wo-
ollies aine,talivd apoe to latelote,the greasl'otterier object
84 a wretteesaive s.d pernassest enadiersties of the condition
and naval lashiqi of the people.
" Decteredly.itopressed alit a twevicilvo of the alarming
rienereptinikes which woo matt frau a looker coolusevice of
tire ritsergosierdwele 'of Ireaixd; *bath 4aa tamajoaBVl rfe
hapaawootarassase ell. • ppitert aid rarliaastioi fat a sea.

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