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Petition front being brought up; but he begged to be
understood that he did not stand pledged to give it
anv support whatever
any
J. ANDERSON moved, that the said Peti-
tion be referred to a Committee, to consider the
matter thereof, and to, repent the same, with their
opinion, to the !louse. Ordered.
SUhrENSION OF \s CORPUS IN IRELAND.
Sir E. NEPIt-AN die
rose, in consequence of d
notice given yesterday, to make his promised Mo-
tion on this subjeCt. He spoke in so low a tune,
that *e could with difficulty hear him, but, from
what we could distinguish, he said, there were at
present an Irish DireCtory, and an Irish Committee
in Paris, who weie using, every means of carryiOg
on a correspondence with disaffeCted person, in Ire-
land, which rendered it necessaey for the Govern.
meta there to he on their gearidaNinst their united
machinations, and for that pui rose. no means wet,:
so likely to be efficient as a continuance of the Sus-
pension of the Habeas Corpus Mt. lie requested,
that the A& of the 431 of the. King, with it, e•sc•
gal continuances, might be vied pro f 001,.,, %%!.
Karig entered as read, he moved,
•• Plat leave be given to luring in a am •
Acc, tot a tone to be honied "
Sir JOHN NEWPORT said, he thought Us
a motion for the suspension of an Aft, in wlttei:
the most valuable and dearest privileges of the sub-
js.& are so immediately and deeply concerned, some.
thing more than light suspicious should be laid be.
fore the House, as a reason for its adopting so string
a measure. If the Report of an Irish Committee, or
persons calling themselves such, being sitting in
Paris, was a sufficientfoundation for such a proceed.
ing, it would be an easy matter for His Majesty's
Ministers, at any time, either in war or peace, to
deprive the people of that country of one of the
fence' and strongest bulwarks of the British Con-
stitution ; and, before such a measure is coun-
tenanced by the House, he thought it was highly in-
cumbent on those who brought forward the measure
to give the House some information whether there
do at this moment adlually exist any grounds for
adopting so harsh a procedure? It was, he said,
of the utmost importance to the harmony and hap-
piness of the United Empire, that the Howe
'shoad impress on the minds of the people of
Ireland, that they will be as guarded and cau-
tious in suspending the best parts of the Constitu.
•tlon in Irelatad as they would in Great Britain.
—lt was a measure which might strike the
. mind of every Member, that it was pregnant ai:n
vases in which the- greatest abuse might be made
of delegated authority, to which the numer-
ous petty officers, that were of necessity employed,
were but too prone. When he recollected the mari-
ner in which this Motion was introduced. he could
set hst dislikes it was deemed, even by those who
brat& It iscoeir unnecessary. First of all, a
notice errs Pinging it forward, which, taii
days after ward% anis withdrawn without a singe
comment; anettow it is again brought forward on
twenty-five hosts notice. Why such a measure
should be thus brought on, without one single rea-
son being assigned for it, he was at a loss to guess.
He was certain he might say, with a respectable
Cam Member, that a great and leading majority
01;e Province of Ulster were as Isyal, and as
warady attached to the Government of this Conn:
try as any County in England is; and therefore, he
never could sit silent, and give his conses* that such
harsh measures be taken against that part of the
United Kingdom, without any reason whatever be-
ing assigned for so doing. He rid not think it ne-
cessary to trouble the House any farther at present;
and would, therefore, propose, as an Amendment,
that every word in the Motion after 4' That," be kit
out, and the following substituted in their stead.
The Amendment was then read from the Chair as
follows
That a Committee of twenty one Members of this Horn
be appointed by ballot, to examine such Documents as
be laid before them, and report their opinion to the Howe,
to the necessity at the present measure.
Mr. D. BROWNE agreed with the Hon. Bart.
as to the loyalty of the people of the Province o:
Ulster, and indeed as to the loyalty of a majority of
the people of the whole of that part of the United
Kingdom ; hut he was, nevertheless, confident that
the present Motion was a most salutary one, and
that there was an absolute necessity for adopting it-
He very well knew that there 'was not only an friar
Committee sitting at Paris, and aftually employed in
devising the best means of sowing dicontent and die
satisfaCtion in Ireland • hut, that over the whole
coast of Spain, Irish and French emissaries are scg•
tered every where ready to seize all opportunir'.s
of getting themselves conveyed to Ireland, for th:
purposes of stirring up the disaffeCled, and work'':
on the minds of the weak and ignorant. 11...
was but too much reason to believe that min/
these French emissaries had already made thoit
sviy
into Ireland, and were at this moment concealed Ca
various parts of the interior of the country ; audio
his opinion, the Government could not be ton eigi.
la it, and it was necessary they should be armed
with every legal means Parliament could put into
their heads, in order to combat **enemy at once so
subtile, so enterprising, and so secret in his attempts
He was convinced this measure was absolutely. ne-
cessary for the security and safety of that past of t'.r
United Kingdom, and therefore the Motion had
warmest support.
Mr. HU I'CHINSON expressed his concern, IC'
a considerable degree of surprise, that a m
of this kind, for a measure of so impose tent a natt;r,,
should have been brought forward, without A°
reasons given, and on so short a notice. 'nil
came down to the House, he did net know that the
Honourable Baronet intended to bring it on. Ai
it now stood, however, he felt himself called upo
to deliver his sentiments oft the subject, and Sr
must say, that in so momentous a citsis as the
present, he would wish to make the Ezettinve
Government in Ireland as strong as possible. Be
expressed himself deeply concerned, diet, in the pre-
sent instance, it was not thought adviseable to i;2tl
the causes which rendered the measure necessity,
and therefore, in acceding to the Motion, he could
not help expressing his hopes, that it is in the le, •
sinus contemplation of I lis Majesty's Ministers o
.
take the affairs of Ireland into immediate considers.
tinn, and whenever they did so. they might deP',:un'r
on receiving irons kith every nspport and every
gierdegeeofainthfcter
people
end
dd
ofassis threcouair, wyhimch;gbhts kAlle:
him to do. He felt very mock the arguments to

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