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enraged pßlty istaigittracy, !is* disio4risted ,ana dies
passioqi‘i thin mason required in rats, of the .
efts* of jestice. his miud reamed with dread-
tel• recollection to the events which be had wit.
neesed under a former Insurrection Act. The
dreadful remeeohmece pas feeeh with *Op of the •
fitter howling, of females taking their everlasting
arewell from fathers. husbauds, or brother*, banish-
ed to New South Weirs. or sent to all the cooscript
felon regiments of the King of Press's. He re.
membered op one occasion being depated to offer
trine men condemned to death by court.martial the
option of being transported. They refused, alleg-
iug, with thanks to the Commaudent for the effer.
that they preferred death to a comitant and iguo-
*juicing caste from their country. the sufferliags of
*tacit, with the recollection of their kindred, would
be • constant source of distress to their minds, to
which they prefened even death by military execu-
tion. These laws were but a bad sub.titute for
that constitution which bad beau taken from them
ht the Union. He spoke warmly iu defence of the
Irish people, because he knew that there were Irish.
men who busied themselves io degrading and tr..
during their countrymen, and who would have it
that brute force was the °tidy air atedieutrir fur the
evils caused by the system. He would give the House
one terrible fact in illustrations cud proof of it, which
he had witnessed while he was in 'reload. An tailor-
tousle man, against whom no charge ems brought,
but who was vaguely suspected of being an Uutred
Irishman, was considered by the High Sheriff ea a
proper ['abject for the torture, by way of obtaining
corifesaiou of his supposed guilt sod accomplicett.
He was tied the halberts, and after the lacora.
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ed the severest isjury at his hands--abliongb so actidi wee
coding against got by on old man gist, yews gage, he
father of a family, who having offered ball 10 any essitaisl,
*bleb was refs./4 by tint irdividsol, was prsolshed,
his insorence proved on lir very sight of hie punish-
enest-ositliougle a similar cellos wee pending st this
Suit of Mr. Knight, who had been psaisbed by him
in the most savage meaner, as wee offered to be
proved in the Irish House of Comasone, sad as hi
(Sir Robert Wilson) could himself haver premed, lambi
&ea so eye-witueu of the horrid •ffair, the ear *arse,
being that a French letter was found in his posseireisit, whit\
on exansination turned oat to couture two lion is iltaeloga
front • French Noblemen fir sot krepisg so appoistamml I
Rat individual was released from all the legal coasegussees
Of his crimes, and absolved from all responsibility fee his
outrages by au Act of lodetonity passed Ly she
Irish Parliament, and the highest toms of approba-
tion bestowed on him fur acts which should Imes
called down the heaviest 'Torcasio of the laws 'pea
his head. Nor was that ally for, after that tykes,.
had bees granted him. 'flee she approbation which his mix
duet bad received, the individual ebu had been guilty of
those barbarities, who bed covered himself with those
crimes. was raised to the rank of a Calomel is the British
flomy, had the command of a regiment given to hits, mod
oat sent out to lake • high command is the Mediterraaran,
from whieli be was illearissed with rodignation by the wetter. A
able, amiable, and deoply.lansested Sir Ralph Abercromby.
Every motion that had sueceasively bees made in that Hoses
foe inquiry into those transactions, or into the MINN wed
roosts of the distarbeners wet of which they arose. bad
bees resisted by the Governuierst. sad consetpleatly rejected;
his Majesty's Ministers were determined to refuse all loves.
ligation, and to stale every aitewrot at inquiry. Tile only
answer returner! to the complairos of the unhappy dieter.
trances and troubles that from time to lime managed to
grow out of the prolonged etlaleoce of the same ceuseip
was the periodical renewal %l/the Ineurreetion Act wherever
they recurred. It was to deity the actual operation of
moral causes, to suppose that the perseedence is
such a system of government could teed to any other
result than the continual reproduction of the awl
series of outrage and disturbance, by provoking • yin.;
ditties feeling, and keeping alive.. ',Wit of Ulll'lllllollo
measures an arbitrary and oppressive is their execrably.
And though he could sot aniiropatii any successful ressdllollek
the efforts of the suffering people is this " erred, war," ea*
had bees termed by a Right Hos. and Learned Geutlestaie
opposite (Mr. Plunkett), yet lie could net refrain from wart
lug the Right Hos. and Learned Gentleman and his WSJ
, leagues of the possible danger is the course they were now
porssiog, of asrokeoing the energies of despair, and remind.'
low them ref the advice given to Charles 11. by an bowel sad
faithful Counsellor, that "the way to cure rebellion was to
retrieve the muse." He looked nut, however, to the resist.
dice of the unfortunate people of Ireland as a remedy
for the eni•chiefa with which that country was allbei-
ed, but he looked to the excited feeling of the pimple
of Erigland towards the state of that country, sad to
the couvictios that was awakened its the t abbe mind of
the necessity of probing the evil to the bottom, and ap-
plying some remedy that would go to the root of the dio-
cese. The first thing that airsick the observation of any man
who claimed at the state of Ireland was, the religious dis-
sentious@ which bed so long agitated tint unfortunate cots.
try, and 'Akio bad excited so moth animosity nod heart.
burring NOON the people He eoneidered those dissections
the caste of the present disastrous rooditirm of Ireland, sad
that they most put a end ill those dimentions in or.
der to remove the evil. He knew it would be said
that the English House of Commons had done its
duty on that point, sad that its endeavours had *sly
failed from the opposition la sturdier place to the measure of
Catholic Emancipation. Rut he must say, and he did It
without any reference to party Pella', that be did consider
the conduct of his Majesty's Government the canoe of the
resist* of that measure. He coudentnead those who adhere
to that Government, through all its opposition to that enra-
sore, in- spite of their owe repeated declarations that they
considered Catholic Emsncrpation necessary for die removal
of slue troubles and dimentioos is Leland. He particularly
condemned those gentlemen what bad recently )(aimed that
Government, from which firth avowed opinions on that sub-
jeet had so tang kept them satuider. And he asked'arlse-
thee any man believed that if those members of the pretreat
Administration bad acted up to their declared principles,
the of Catholic Fmnaeseipation would wart have been
carried? The cowered rune scruples of his late Majesty, so
doubt, were a rearms fur is. not bring adopted by Ministers
iu bis life-time ; but the avowed principles sal the Prise, of
Wales were well hood, to have beeu in its favour; and if the
present Krieg had cleansed his opi•roso, yet be never
could place himself in his father's situation, sad there never
bl'eaednbeirsesubae mbupowneer"olfotfloahiCan r
be
ii
igient at which
cwahrircyhtibet wouldes 800.1 hrs.!
other measure which be regarded as most remedial towards
the removal of the trooble• in Ireland, was the abolition of
the tithes, and a new regulation and revision of the revenues
of the church. He was aware of the argument which had
been urged respecting the tenure by which those revenues
were befit, and of their inviolability as property in which the
clergy bad a vested right equal to that by which any other pro.
rely was held; bat that property was Widowed opens eerie!.
comoderatkiss of athrestage expected to be derived to lite
country from it. dhows!, and lie ..meet it became •
mono of d record sad ilistseltagere Is the eamatry, tba tesiore
was so longer valid, sod it became the duty of the GOeeeei.

Meat to pat it nn a ftiotiog more 'emseistent wi ils the citron.
stances of the times, sod the altered state of' the rows'''.
He would call on gentlemen to consider what lied bees dune
by Parliament in former limes respecting that property. lu
the reign of Henry IY. it hod been subjected to certain
regulations; is that of Henry V. it was stubs interfered
with ; .ised mgaie iir she time of Homey YILI. its whole
disparities wits entirely chummed—(ow bear. hear.)_.
He knew that what was dose et the lambs:ems loved period
at.. called sacrilege; bet be bed sewer yet !known say of
these who held say port of the SAWS app.toptiatieis of
'charoh property then wades US was.oitber willies; to Sr.
hsnwledge his intonate he sacrilegious, se me4e to give ,up
what he possessed through that secrikeps. lie would mot
refer so far hack as the Jewish Thermosets, tied the settle-
mitot of Mlles upon the tribe of Levi; tholigh it should
be remembered that tithes were given to 1b.., because
they wee, entirely devoted to she cervices of the priest-
heed and the geordieuship of the ark, amd they hod
me share in the Sande which wevit allotted or the mho.
bribes. Bet he would content himself with termitic to a
Mete seeders period. For the Seat four ceseirries of
Christianity, there were ite tithes paid or thought of, but
the clergy were supported by the volatile ry offering, of
their leeks. It wee mot until Sem le the eighth eirritry, the
year 786, that say thing like she payment of tithes wails-
trodeced iota this country. At shot period the Kier of
Murcia levied a coetribation of pence from the latiosebeildere
in his dominiess, which laid the foundation of Car chines-et
the church in Ibis country. Those claims bed eugmetsertf,
and the property of the church Maimed I. he cookie
if time, until at tenth, in the word* of
Mr • Hamer
the clergy displayed as meth seal sod. (treater in the
arectioe of tithes as it they regarded them as the essence of
practical Christianity; and so far were the claims of the
church carried, the' at length they were !cried os the pelts
of courtesies. In former them she tithes were muddled with
the charge of beildieg sad repairing the cobweb's. tolialbitt-
-1 tag She poor, and contributiag to the support of the Bishops
1 sod poor clergy of the diocese; but those things weer* vastly
I.lllersid in one days. The poor are sow maintained Ity mosey
,41111f11 fee the purpose from the pocket; of the people;
'ohl•rebes were aew built and repaired out of some weed
1 ibp perBameet; the poor clergy were provided for out of the
a,lsmeand the Bishops were in position°, of princely f eatuum
The ird remedy whirls be considered applicable to the ers-
dication of much of the evil of the present state of behld,
was the education of the people. It wu tree that ai1,7•04.
Were wiled annually fur the mainteeme of Pwismeeet.
whools, and 9,8001. fur Catholic schools le Irel sad. But
there was an assoriatios called the Kildare Moo iation, to
which • grant of 11,0001. was &malty give f w the in.
sanction of the children of the lower ostlers in Ireland;
but that waste applied es to defeat its object al ad He ma._
tribute greatly to the sowing of disseetiom map.. petestae
of discord in the country, by of endiag Instead of iterpertiog
the popular prejudices of the Catholics against ibe ere of
an Eogliela Bible wiliest motes, in persisting le ft a the Bi-
ble as a school book, No eoeseetweet of 11131 a was, to drive
the Catholic childree from all the schools •ndirr t le dime-
you of that Society. Under these coosideratious it was that
be felt It to be Widely to poi tato the heeds aloe Speaker
the following R. solution, palmist( lo the metes r Mich he
thought Us bettor calculated so Kelm. tie Sas e of Ire-
land that the comaineed renewed of leeetweeti is Arm
He therefore moved sa en amandeseat, " That Plum no
sweeties, to the Committee to iteesoigate the mew Oaf th.
Preeeet dieleebed Melo of Ireland, wit(' a view to U p sae,.
lion of such estamres as may be calesdated to rest ere and
pentegve teangtollitlyie that country. sod reed& mow rosary
those measures of extraordinary severity which are maw-
911lible via the spiett and practice of the British Cumin-
tut ion.'
Mr. LUCIUS CONCANNON, to a term of voice illloli
wholly ioasadllde in the gallery, dewed dam 111 the 14, 'Mho*
Alt
was one of those measure, which were calculated to has.
lea tie return of tromptillity to belood, and cuetend el !hit
the dissolution of the Uoile, wheels bad nut midi', rd one
salutary effect, would he one of she gnome, national t torfity
shot could be bestowed spin helloed. He clinched id by
giving his rapport to the anteudatest.
Coluael DAVIES mid he was mot prepared to oppo le the
motion of the Iliekt Huo. Gentleman' (Yr. Gunnies l be-
cause, though, he was ready to join In reprobation . 0 the
midget which had hitherto been pursued by the (ii. scrn.
wield towards, that country, aid In all the erarriree •bli I ha
Hon. Friend had bestowed ape* that rouduct, y.t be i told
nut consider that as a reason for leaving the peaciable putt
of the population of !relied • prey to the sow grt,
violence, mad bloodshed to which they .;ere at ere-
mot artoored, sad from which it required ae mar &or-
dinary power in the Government to protect thew.
But sink be made has aseriece, be would ask shy It sum
that his Majesty's Graireratunt had suffered this whole/ses-
sion of Parliament to elapse without that inquiry Mb the
emarsit of the disturbed state admit country which amgru-
b, the Noble Mwq.is as the miesietweemeet of the
m rrogirposaieeddatlebLharuitscawenaosesftculhoeattibecii:sneste:isdortoieeffa, some
onlyremedye
disturbed state of Ireland arm too evident to escape observe-
. It by is is frightfally redundant population, Sc
iteramtly dirproportioaed to its Buenas of solusisterice, and to
Lion
ilheAllegraded and demoralised cordillera of the people, for
'White he coosidered the Irish Gratlesere in oe slight Mew*
emoremsible. He attributed it to the syssoin of rpliiiing free-
bald; and seamier leases for life of small plot. of land to
the poorest class of people, in. order to income their political
billareoce by augmenting the somber of votes.
Mr. S. RICE said that in giving his assent to the renewal
sof the lesurrectioa Act our this occasion, he felt bewail
called epee to perform a such more painful duty thee rams,
1600 • csevietiou of its eecerslty, he minuted to Its frolopUnal
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the cenianeecernent of the Sttei.lll; for en that occatio*

the Noble Allareigis bad impreigni ilia, and, be believ.d,
the House in general, with the idea Mal it was the intention
of Government to istraire into the mot of the evil* with which
Ireland was •Micted, and not to call upon the House to
passe on measures of mereiou alone. Bat what oilier Wi-
llem, bad they brought loftier-ft ? Some species of relief had
bees obtained by the remission of the wiedew tax; bet he
tallid on the Right ties. Gentlessee to show airy use per-
manent measure of cure. Some relief to the mere imam,
Aisle and frightful pressure upon the people would be de-
rived from the fonds remitted from this cooalry for the pur-
pose ; but that could not 1w looked on as a permanent mea-
sure, or as fionsiag a part of the Axed policy of the country.
Would any body say that the Bell of the Right Hun.
Gentleman for empowering the clergy to lease their lithe.,
contained any permanent remedy for the grievances arising
out of the With.; system? Or would it be roeiendrdiher
the constables Wit was soy thing more then a mere mi• %%MVP
of police ? Tlity had • right to Souk for rtio4lat wi-
nless', and ought lint to be satisfied with mire pollee
regulations and a Tithe Leaning Bill. With respect to the
)Iwervisioas of the Insurrection Act, be did not think the
die punishment it inflicted was at all dispropottiui.s.r to the
Atirisee. But he protested. and ever should protest arsine
fiat principle of the Bill whirl* superseded the Trial by
Joey. No Minister wee jostided in asking, no Parliament
Could be justifird in roaresting, that it should be at Janie
.1111161 it bed been foiled an unsafe mode of admisisteriag the
.ibair in the particular eireumsi•ttees. And they bad one the
'llikperience of the proceedings tinder the Specie, 'Cnionils• f.n
at Lienerick to gunk their indgmetits on that heed; and
begs thew proceedings it appeared, that in the ni.dit
of all the most formidable obstacles to the Iwamoto,* of
their ditties, so jury that had ever beam empetirielWl hod errs
discharged shisae duties with more oadsuated Imam and
spirit. The state of the enootry which eel*, for this Art,
bad arisen out of the etaudiNg policy of the Gureramese far
the last 140 or 151/years. A friend bad feratalted him with
copies of sew &coevals is the British Menem, amour
which were several tette,s written in 10411, dese.ibotg s,
the. prevailing distarbaoree of exactly the Irmo chersett•
as theme now existing. If it had bee,t a sew sod use x-
pected case, the Mini of the Crown might kn. c
been justified in saying, " Let Is put out the fire
and talk of isprovrnseat etlerwards." Bea whin they
roared that the same evils were perpetually reempor•
Inquiry into the amuses el these nth become •
pee
-tramoliat obligatioo, as the sid7 effected mesas ei
ie
rising at a cure. Every alteaspi, however,
and town •
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He was tied up to the halberts, and alter the loots
tiou of his whole back, from the shoulders to
calves of his legs with the cat, he was rubbed w
salt, sod hts whole trouts beaklike a Mau of Met
iag fibre too horribkrto thigh He nartita
interfered—but in
_-,:t,1111 etao, told thot he
an Enstiamiti, not thedispositios of I
Irish, who could /*Wed to .the right
stripes and toms ~1141 among them the INOI
admioistrators • g ri: thednemaer sod
Yoh the conduct of I
Castle sod the Gooteosociat rsethis toasts, towards that
divtdual oho bad haatatilbilty of 6o *soy atrocious trim
Although be had Wm Med and etsoakted of wastes
attune'ss show of ids sowers—although several sdi,
Lad bees lostitoied via** hiss by permits .be bad SUM

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each as ingssry woo estformely mimed wed rePOI"
it The How okesisted itself K k &limo dm Oa
hiserreclies Aet, ewes was its fens ma sutyltb