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PRICt cIXPENCE.

peace of Ireland, and increasing the defence of the
empire, he must protest egainst a system of d re 3
hostility ; he must pronounce, as one of the •nost
unwise, impolitic, dargerous, and reprehensibie
tempts, that which hlintsteis had lately made a-
which they were anxious to propegst ne—er. •
that the people of this iiihntry had ti ' ,lly end de-
terminedly decided agai• t the fort ex ension of
constitutional rights to th Catheives What ! was
it even politic to tell a great proportion of the peoss
pie ot the sister island, at tie voice of Parliament,
the voice of the country, was not only adverse to
any present measure of relief, but had declared
their decided and irre.dcable intention to refuse .and
oppose :uch a mots I f, by chosen and weenever •
proposed ? He would ask the House. •V SOUS a
system of Governm nor coati emit wit :he hopes
held our, and the promees which, At • .e period of
thelhaion, were understood by the people of Ireland;
With respel to that measure, ha had eves asserted,
that the Catholic Qumran wet not distinttly- cow.
ended ; his opinioa was, that upon that head no
piedgeeme (waded s hi. tessimetay- was, that none .
was offered. Yet. could any men. without ear of
contradidion, get up and assert, that it was not the
general feeling et that tierind ; that it was not the
enmnion and uniform exwaation. that the cause, of
Is eh discentent. serf the means of insuring Irish
tranquil, v, would be c t mly and liberally dice
cussed e. she United Parliament. I hat in that sober,
enlightened, and unprejudiced assembly, the damns
of the Irish Catholics would be investigated by men
evertor to all those unhappy prejudices, sad abevg
the reach of those local animosities, •Arhieh have so
iong and so de2ply distraseed t.: it u..happy country.
Could it then be imagined that in that very United
Pal liament. men would be heard, within so short an
interval, argteng even against the discussion of the
Catholic eleimi, Jecla•ing that no change of cir-
ms• ince, no suggeotio sof policy, DO arguments
4‘,4 wisdom and improvement of time,
ceuia mitre • t'.ern to vote tnr that relief, wince. ale
tnough not deep pre-nised, was generally expeae
ed ? WAS it to let pre owed, that even those who
were aetwe in supporting toe measure of Union, en
the ground of brier ging the taiscussion of Irish
grievances before the impartial consideration ot
the Unite/ Kingdom would, when those mai-
sures were *dually et..meted to One considera-
tion of the Legislature, be the most he'd in
decl tries th it decided hostility to tie din- •
cotton, in describing the penal statutes as the
fundamental land-mark,. of the connitotion, which
it wa• toilet! with danger to overthrow. and
et terse r finally declaring their unalterabie decision,
and that of tne country, never to grant their relaaa-
girth to the Cathode subjea, at any time, or undo/
any circumstances ? This was neith r proper or cm-
ic language to gold to any subject of any free
state. Ic ad free Governments there should
at least he Allowed to every description of sub-
jea. the right of repeated contideretion of disa-
-04,0„, to which he might he subjected. And
la a country mob fv outs. where muses operate
MOTT StT • :FIT to peieduce a eueconion of systems
and a ,u.tioo of Coesesels, this right should
is* in its fullest and most undiminished exercise.
lie had only to appeal tit s Noble Earl ( Wesunoiree
land), for a striking exenarliticatiow of this posi-
t on, . hen measures for Cattiolic relief were, io the
same Sersion of Parliament. troth refused end care
tied. daring hie gove:Ament in Ireland. Grant for
a monism • let to releeis the Cheholltr from their
&tab.-heel was at uses moment in •eteedirests was it
prudes in their adversaries to say, one refusal has
anise not from any tempo/ay objection. not from
any seezoedie cy. either of policy or rewire cite
curns:ances, it has been founded, and well anr.ti-
, nue. onfixed, irrevoeahle and immutable principhs
Warther such declarations were under any circunsa
stances to bs justified, he weuld not then contend ;
I hut of this he was certain, that they neither suited
the age iii which they lived, nor corresponded with
the events which they witnessed. To refuse a
b ten, might at some periods h • attended with little
difficulty, but to obsenetely oppose concession
might in tae end prove destructive. The present
was a subject of which he found it impossible to
divest himself, as every day's experience convinced
I him of its necessity. He therefore seriously called
upon their leerdslaps to ri sect. From the Appear-
ance of that day hr prinumed it would be the
last time of his addressing them for the Ses.
sion. They had only to appleciate the value
of national unanimity, to cnntemplete the state of
the world. and the relation it bate to their coeutry.
They were now called upon to legislate as met in
the crisis of the Ernejia's destiay. It was yet in
their power to recover the good winds had been
los, or perverted. although it would be no longer
the te,o:: of spontaneous eiTectioe, yet by t rang
now promptly . • they wt.ii:d he considered as
sincere beetle :tors, amid eisteled ro national grati-
tude. But although it appeared to him, th.tt this
was the fitter tituta•Nlt Co: use Yarliamet.t to prac-
tise braefieence, jet he cnii.idered it as the most
improper period for the Catholics to demand it :
Still let that be no a-guniret for legislative (Asti-
asecy. nor b t their landahie fro beerance impede
tee Parliament from the liberal extension of pole-
:ft nts and tights to our fellow subjeas. Were
to, Catholics of Ireland even subjected so
these cruel, sangeinary, and disgraceful statutes,
uu 'or which they torrehey suffered, their couditien
would he prefer able et an alliance with the enemy
,;t the won!). I.tt them, therefore, listen not to the
promises of France ; and promises have and will
be held out, Such condua was the charalleristic of
that policy m. hick has degraded and enslaved so
many kingdoms, or. the Continent ot Dump.% it
was not the military weakness of his eriesnicc that
the Despot of France wished to ascertain ; is was
riot to the extent of their fortincations or the strength
of their walls, his vigilant observation was direted ;
his first question was, in what consisted their prin-
ciple of disunion t And the prisaicel answer he
nefortusetely found is every Government of the