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to &ins aliont an attsehmeut tattle Goyernment,J
and a general spirit of obedience to the laws. But
sufficient difficulty remilised fur to Make it *ttwpo-
title to deprive the Irieh Geverament of the powers
which hid been committed to it in the early part of
the Session. He could prove that the ordinary .
enures of law was inadequate to the niaititenenCe
Wad preservation of tranquillity. It was impossible to
read the dippetchesof the Lord Lientenaot and [retitle
that the outrages recited were of a character peculiarly
airecionse. He could asters the Haim that the latest
*alums were not freer fiomsimilainartativea. Stake
the 10th of May, the date of th 4 last dispatches 'pills-
&lied, there had heals wee district of Tipperary
erten houses %mimed tad eine others attacked, with
asimidenitile Irma of lives spos the whole, end
Ypeet destructioa of He thought less
of the. ninStree de the offeucea, whit fi might
tie ' reasonably accounted for, than the dis-
tlnctive charactm of them. They seemed to be the
result of some settled purpom, sod generally were
iellieled in puniihineut of the neglect 'sheen) by
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the sufferers to some order Weird by the hidden
emabinstion. They 'slimy. referred to some notice
previously giveu and neglected, es to not letting
land at above a certain rate, or some other ioterfe-
ramie with the administration of property or of the
laws. The cocepirettre generally sacrificed those
whci wet* privy to llie conviction of offeudets, iu-
aoctuch that the Ise could only he executed et the
painful hazard or cost of the lives of witnesses t
the Government were compelled to have rectum,*
to the habit of committing them to prison us the
only adequate merles 'of proseCting them. The
papers already before the Home would sufficiently
indicate the spirit of the evil doers. He might re*.
useably appeid to the Howse, and ask if, under such
cireumitstices, they would withdraw powers so ne-
cessary to the preservatioo of the government and
the well-being of society ? lie might leave it to
the House to say if recurrence to the ordinary coarse
Ole* Weald be enough to meet the difficulty when
tkettosurgents were not to be kept down by extra.
ordinary powers and measures of government. He
thooght the Insurrection Bill must be admitted to
be peculiarly fitted to meet the evil of secret con-
splreeies, bound 'by dreadful oaths, and gathering
io nightly meetings. Every other means of sub-
duing them' had failed, nor could the common
Aims of justice reach them übtil the meetings had
taken *de. The beneficial effects of this measure
fay To eneblieg the Government to anticipate the
!orlt contequeocee of conspiracy, by securing the
cost clitegerowe and suspicious individuals. If it
were deemed bard to deal thus with men ou suspi-
elori let the House reflect on the cruelties to be
todbred on the other side by these who suffered
frinis.the disaffected in life or property, or both, iu
their *Open of the lows—peaceable end orderly
peewits consigued with their families to the horrors
' tif sudden conflagration, and excesses committed
e which it was really too painful fur him to recite.
r Iffie confidently invoked the House, as they wished to
extend relief to the suffering, and bring certaiu
punishment en the guilty, to pass the Bull. He
*ought that they had a sufficient security in the
ehsracter and opinions of the Nobleman at the
I. head of the Irish Government that the Bill was
neeemerys and that no abuse of its powers need
Ibe dreaded, hut that the utmost confidence might
be placed in his prudent, wise, moderate, and firm
tit ercise of them. Ti,ere were those in the House
who knew how trust-worthy he was, that there was
sip one more friendly to liberty, though he woe coo.
winced that the constitution could only be saved in
times of great exigeney by extraordinary measures
to be enforced by extraordinary powers. He anti-
. ciliated the greatest advaatages to Ireland Prom the
I Bill, which would restore tranquillity and leave the
'Government at leisure to exsunite into the affair* of
the country, with a view to a general alteration of
its internal administration, which he admitted to be
very necessary. He moved that the Speaker leave
the Chair.
Sir H. WILSON thought that the conduct of the
Hun. Secretary in ope ' g the *hole question to
them, had left them no reason to regret having post-
poned the debate to that stage. He gave the Hon.
Secretary ample credit for believing that this Bull
was the only effectual measure for restoring tran-
quillity to Ireland. He admitted that there ass
ruore than ever of a conciliutory tone in the ma-
nagement of the public affairs by the Government
of that country, but he claimed as much credit
for sincerity in opposing the Bull, because he thought
it not in the least calculated to achieve the avow-
ed object, on the contrary, it would but increase
the difficulties of the Government; it was oaten-
listed only to give continuance to a system of abuite
which had uniformly eluded investigation. nod to
concur in tendering the present irregular and coer-
cive system of governing perpetual. It was to the
neglect of proper remedies for the sufferings of the
Irish people that they ought to attribute the con-
ffagratiniss and horrors so justly lamented, nod not
to any defect in the ordinary course of the laws.
The House ought to proceed no further in the old
way, without taking more securities for the speedy
application of more remedial measures. lie re-
rpected the Noble Marquis at the head of the Irish
Government, as a Statesman of eminence, and con-
spicuous fur his amiable disposition and private vir-
tura; but lie would not lose sight of the proceedings
in the beginning of the Session, and the promises of
investigation into the sufferings of Ireland, by which
the I loose had granted the Insurrection Act, and the
Habeas ( sorpers Suspension. Ile conceived that one of
these measures made the other necessary ; that the
Ashen' Corpus Suspension could therefore be look-
ed upon only as a measure yoked for in the lust of
power, and granted in the wantonness of confidence.
They were t.nw called on to continue travelling in
the same vicious circle of coercive expedients, which
could mile continue the old habits of lieglect on the
port of Government, with violence on the part of
the people. As • man not devoid of humanity—as
a soldier who had witnessed the generous valour of
her people, he objected to the cootuturtice of this
treatment of Ireland. Hr called on the House
to do something to eradicate these pernicious
principles sod ineusurrs of Government. Was
there in the world such u apectsee as Ireland?
lie spoke tint of the present famine mod disease.
but of the general dimarganizstion—the wreck of all
the elements of civilization. The policy of Peeking
a remedy for ouch a disease in refusing the trial by
jury and the appeal to the magistrates hurl been well
renisrked on by the Hon. end Learned Member for
Nottingham, as also the great power Oen to the

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