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lemen had interested themselves in this case, and an endea- 1 The Irish Member endeavoured to benefit Ireland in many
your was made to induce the people to give up their arms. I ways, but they had been prevented in many ways. He would
The Lord-Lieutenant—the Marquis of Anglesey—had been support their Bill as cordially as any Member in that House, if
applied to, to give permission for the reception of the arms, be thought it would effect the object it had in view, or was
accompanied by any other measure, but as it was, he felt it to
but he declined. The insurrectionists then stated that they
would deliver their arms if the party who had not been ex- be his painful duty to oppose it.
pressly engaged in the offence were allowed to go free. This The AI ORNEY-GENERAL said, that although the
in
was_ agreed to, and whet was the consequence? Why, not present subject must be nearly worn out, yet. in the position
less than 500 stand of arms was delivered up in one night to which he stood, he was expected to make a few observations
the Hon. Member for Cork, who went d iwn to receive them, it. He had to regret the very unusual course wlihi.
And how many people did they think these arms were taken adopted in opposing the first reading of the
fßri
tbebiruct,..asnrtrhye.
Members who opposed it, were interested
from? Not more than forty-five individuals, after whnm, during
those three years, not less thsn between 5,000 and 6,000 military, he did not blame them for their opposition,nl bauntnihaujopreidrythdaetnitahree
and between 2000 and 3.000 police had been in constant pursuit. future stages of the Bill, if the House shokeddbiy)
apposition.
He
itself in its favour, would be less
Some of these men stated, that if the gentry had resisted
thattnarhad bey en adopted by one
them, the disturbances would never be at an end, and he be- deeply regretted the langua
Leered in the present instance that had the gentry of the dis- Hon. Member, and hoped th
turbed districts shown front against those who were organ- guage conveyed was not general
icing the disturbances, instead of calling for Coercion Hills, that House. The Heil.
their counties would have been resettsd to peace. Thanking he felt it to be the daetymil among his countrymen in
power, and by all
t oppose
ed he t
the House for the indulgence they had shown him, he concluded the fi-st reading ofth
means which Parliamentary
by declaring his intention of continuing his moat decided op-o f theug usages
Membershe feeling
afforded.for lreland
H etr
ut
so
with
position to this measure.
the Hon Members to whom
it was addressed would not
Mr COLQUHOUN wished to state in a few words the that •
on it, and give any unusual opposition to the
such an expression was inadvertent, arid if it were not, he hoped
l‘lember
listen to (Sr act grounds for his vote on the present occasion. He thought the
re at the commencement of the debate on this
description given by the Hon. Member for Meath, of the state of present m
Ireland was, if there were no other, a sufficient question,
to the present discussion. The Hon. Member
questiitonhe whichea
seemed so remote, that he could hardly believe
their passing this measure. The Han. Memberjudaeteificreiabveindn ther _that
tor the city of London had found fault with his state of the country in a remarkably emphatic word. He de-
(le A t ney-General's) Right Hon. Friend Sir J. Graham,
t e t or
scribed certain counties as being in a state of insurrection.
for having, in the very temperate speech in which he opened
Mr. MORRIS O'CONNELL—Agrarian insurrection. for
rl
Limericktlee their
hadstated
t hat itabna-t
this case to the House, omitted one very important point in
Mr. COLQUHOUN—WeII, in astute l the measure. He complained that in a former measure, which
lion ; and how had the Hon. Member described a
condition?particular of agrarian insttrrec-
had been passed it eat accompanied by remedial measures,
cnunty while on a former occasion it was in this
_pass-but in the present measure no such remedial measures were
adopted, and that formed a grand point of objection to the
Why, he told them that houses had to be barricaded, and
present measure. Was not the House aware that in Ireland,
words given before a gentleman's bout be approached,
where a sympathy existed in favour of the criminals, that they
and then he went on to tell them, thateinn
certaino
n l could
l d dthis,,triGctosythereitie.
existed this agrarian insurrection. Now,
were emboldened and encouraged by that • h d '
synpat y, an was ii
Hon. Gentlemen
anent urge a stronger reason thin thhinsewf:urlenthe House passing
not for the Government at once to adopt such measures as
the Bill ?—(Loud cries of "
world remove such a state of things? His Hon. Friend,
might say that threatening lettiteerasr'weraenothing ; but when
the *ember for Newcastle-under-Line, - d -I.'
eun er ine, gave the House
those letters were followed by actual deeds some notice should
lon list of outrages '
be taken of them. Let them look to a recent case, in which, a g committedi in the open day,
immediately on the arrival of Lord Orkney at his estate, his and stated that not one single person would come
steward, a man of es,i sable character, was shot at in open day, forward to give evidence against them. Under those circum-
This case was not solitary. A landlord could not attempt to stances he (the Attorney-General) would like to know how
remove a tenant, even from one farm to another, without fear of his Hon. Friend would carry into execution his plan of seizing
attack. The case of Lord Orkney's steward was a must flagrant these men and imprisoning them, when he admitted the
one. The murderous act waseommitted is front of the steward's existence of an evil which would prevent such a course. The
house in the broad daylight. They took out the unfortunate Hon. Member had also asked whether the resent measure
man and placed him upon his knees in the presence of twenty would drive people from combination by night and combi-
persons, and they told him he must say his prayers as his days nation by day—he hoped that by an extended police, and an
were numbered; and when the non-resident landlord, after increased amount of vigilance, this evil would be prevented.
visiting his Irish, estates returned from his morning excursions
among his tenantry, He was rather surprised to hear the Noble Lord the Member
for the city of London, complain of the indiscriminate nature
whom he wished to serve he found the
front of the house stained with the blond of the ,
murdered. f man. He found not a single individual
\ would give evidence e the
ir of this law, and still more surprised to hear h4n recommend
the Act called the Black Act, which was framed to punish a
ferocious crime, and yet Hon. Members had told him (1 . series of outrages committed in Waltham Forest by persons in
Colquhonn) that that was the state of the country which the disguise. The Noble Lord did not remember that the Black
Act was a measure of punishment and not of prevention, and
people of England and the Legislature ought to tolerate.—
t( Cries of " Oh, oh.. sthat in the majority of these outrages in Ire-
land, the disguise which was necessary for a admission, that thatwass
intolerable, 1 Well,
hthen. he glad to here that
and
state of eocounstirjonwa cheers.)viction under that Act was totally wanting. In
con-
which they ought to redress.— Yes, the
first step whichh( PP'lreland at the present moment there were families
they ouget to take was to introduce
powerful
who were living in every sense of security, and were not con..'
measures, but he did not mean to say that they should be coer-
scious of having offended any one, exposeyd to the sentence of
cive as the:R.-4 Opposition cheers.) At all events Hon.
death,i which was only conveyed to them by a written message.
Members opposite admitted that the ordinary law was power-
t was natural that endeavours should be made to prevent this
less----( Cries of " No, no.' ) At all events it. was a con-
state of things, and that a restraint upon liberty should be the
ditioe of things intolerable, and which they ought not to
c
overlook, and he earnestly asked for their support to someeonsequence of measures taken for that purpose. In the dis•
effective measures which would put down this state of things. tracts in which these outrages prevailed there was hardly any
'Well, new, had there been any exaggeration with regard to thing like liberty, for all security and all freedom of action
the statements made in support of the Bill. They had the were gone. Although the measure might have the effect of
cases of Westmeath and Clare. He had read the papers, producing 30MC inconvenience in the proclaimed district, yet
and the statement to which he would refer had been credited he could not believe that the orderly, peaceable, and well cis-
- posed could' have any real objection to it.—( Hear,
hear ) He
by the name of a most respectable individual ; and the gentle
man to whom it related, he believed it would be admitted could, without unnecessarily carrying back the House to dis-
was a most worthy individual ; indeed his worth was proved by
means
of the
but
tent periods, show the House that the principle of this Bill was
the address he had recently received from his tenants, thank-
ley n
statuteolaw
cowunastrya.cknowlnledgetdhe by
rtehigenearolyf
log him for the exertion he.had made on their behalf ; and yet
this, resident landlord, in the county of Westmeath, had been de- Edward the Third, the inhabitants
of particular parts cf the
flounced, whilst in the discharge of his duty to his tenants, country were made liable for lawless acts and robberies corn-
and his life was threatened, and it was in anseer to that de- mitred in their districts; and in the subsequent reign of Eliz e-
nunciation that his tenantry had addressed him. He had bath the same principle was carried out in the Hue end Cry
stated one case in Westmeath, the case of Sir Francis Hop. Act. This was, he thought, sufficient to refute the statement
kins. But would the House allow him io dispense with these of the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork, that they were p-
individual illustrations, becaus it might be said that they were plying a new law to Ireland which had never been tried in athis
calculated to mislead the Heu,e. He would take the ease of country. It was
objected
by some Hon. Members that the
the county of Wes-rneeth, as a friend of his had sent a return Bill was intendee as a '
stigma upon certain classes in Ireland,
of the police inspectors of that county, for the last six week,, but he need only refer them, in answer to this objection, to
These returns made a full statement of the various outrages for the statement of his Right Hon. Friend, that it was in no way
that period ; their total number amounted to 197 cases. It was directed against any class or party, but really and truly intended
stated that many of these outrages were owing to the severity to suppress that dreaded thirst for murder and bloodshed which
of the landlord upon the tenant, but he had consulted unfortunately prevailed to so alarming an extent in the sister
these returns, and found that only 13 of these outrages were kingdom. This being the object, then, of the measure, those
on gentlemen ;38 of them were connected with the rights of "ho urged this obi •etion against it ought rather to join with
property ; 38 were connected with land, but were directed the Government in attempting to put down this terrible spirit.
against farmers, and the gentlemen and stewards who usually —(Hear, hear.) It would have heen impossible for them
exercised the more severe rights of property did not interfere to sit quietly looking on with their arms folded
at all ; and 38 of those outrages were on labourers without without taking some steps to put down this thirst
any reference at all tr. land. He would not enter into all these for murder, but nevertheless this measure was net introduced
eases, but he would only state, that an atta-k was made on
till Ater it had undergone the most careful and attentive con-
One man, because he was generally disliked, on another be- sideration.—( Hear, hear.) With every good and kindly feel-
eauie the aggressor wished to drive him from the country ; a ing for Ireland, then, he did hope most sincerely that it would
third was because the man told stories to his employer ; and have the effect of restoring tranquillity and p ace. wi hout
the .
r. remainder were various prosecntions for debt, theft, &c. which it was impossible the country could prosper, end at tne
.onsiderable cause of these grave acts was the wi-h of the 1 same time prepare the people and soil for those seeds of im-
farmers to tyrannise in their own districts, and to have their provement which Government were prepared to scatter
swill executed implicitly—the law of • amongst them with a free and bountifel hand —( Cheers )
wrong being...' '
placed in defiance of the law of rig
eht.—( Hear rah Mi. H. GRATTAN admitted that all outrages of a law-
they wished to
en se their law. If the law of the land was not suffittientto in Ireland but wherever they happened to be perpet 'aced, but
put down those crimes, the law of the land must oe he questioned whether the Government were taking the proper
strengtheneda so as to overpower and prevent those crimes, steps for effecting this prupose. The Elonourable and Learned
AVh t could prevent the coneocters of these crimes fram meeting Gentleman who had just sat down was wrong when he said
-"'clurinb^4 g the eay, and committing those crimes they had can- Government could not sit looking quietly on with their arms
cocted during the day ? In this Bill increased rewards were folded during - six months, while these outrages were
offered for evidence, but these rewards were a perfect delusion, being perpetrated. They did not stir a step
—( Hear, hear.) Why, the police stations were covered with to suppress them. And what he complained of was,
rfrrwarairld s,from 10/. to 11101., fey any person who would come not so much of their endeavouring to restore peace
and give evidence. The only provision that could be and tranquillity in Ireland, as of the delay they had allowed
made to ensure the attendance of witnesses was to provii,e for to take place before making the effort to effect that object.—
their safety. The remedy proposed by the Bill would, to some (Hear, hear.) Many of the evils complained ot he could
extent, do good ; but he doubted whether it would be attend d trace to the landlords themselves, and the landlord and tenant
with those results which were anticipated. Here was a con- system, which had so long disgraced and convulsed Ireland ;
filet delaying their
•discussions and retarding the progress of and Government might depend upon it, an improvement di-
the C irn Bill. —( Hear.) Now that curifliet might be well rected that way would produce more peace and tranquillity
worthy of being carried on if the remedy were equal than a thousand Coercion Bills,— ( Hear, hear. ) He denied
to the evil. The measure had been limited to three years;
i that the Irish party had formed a compact with the protec•
now was there a man of sane mind in that House who would l tionists ; arid true-ed, after this denial, they would not lose a
tell him that in three years the peace of Ireland would be re-f sinele vote of any Hon. Member on their own side of the
stored. He thought the measure defective, because it was not i House, in resisting what they considered an unjust and tyran-
sufficiently stringent. It did not interfere with those men nical measure.—( Hear, hear.) Would the House beiieve it
who in a district were known by the police and others as dis- that in one of the parts of the country, that was, in not more
turbers of the districts. Nothing was so bad as giving a blow than three baronies, there were, he believed, 174 magistrates,
which provoked those desperate characters, and yet making 32 deputy-lieutenants, and 4 of' the heads of the Government,
that blow 30 feebly it only gave an advantage to the criminal. making an army of upwards ot 220 men, and, watt the assist-
It would be proved in this case, as in the Arms Bill, that the ante of the police, that army was increased to 600 men. A
remedy was not equal to the evil. ' Noble Lord, whom Le did not then see in his place, had gone
Mr. HAWES explained that all his statistical statements back to the history of Ireland, to show the state of that country
were exclusively derived from the documents which had been in the year 1737. Now he would not go so far back as
'aid on the table,
that, he would refer to the year 1807, in which year two
Mr. J. O'BRIEN objected to the measure, because he was coercive Acts were passed against that country. Those Acts he
El onvinced that it would fail in the object fur which it was in- remembered well. He believed that Lord Monteagle had said '
tended. He felt sure the result of the measure would in his speech in the House of Lords that those- Acts were
cause life to be much more precarious than it more stringent than the present measure, but he did not
was at present. ( Hear, hear ) He asked what agree with his Lordship. Cases occurred in the county of
Tip-
impunity could he expected when whole families were turned perary in the year 18013. when those Acts were passed, which
out ot their holdings on to the high road, and were left to seek were very similar to those that were now enacted in 1846,
shelter in the bogs or churchyards, and to die in ditches. Can Shepherds were abruptly discharged from their employ, and
peace or tranquillity be expected while that state of things was the labouring classes combined together for the purpose of pre-
allowed to exist. Coercion Bills were of no use, and would venting the intrusier of labourers from distaat places ; and to
only tend to increase crime in the country. He would tell the destroy the effect of that and similar combinations those coer-
House an anecdote that would tend to illustrate the effects of a cive measures were passed. He would ask, had the Ministers
measure similar to the present. He recollected the time which followed the advice that had been given by the witnesses at
was when the country was under what wet called Algerine Lord t)evon's Commi,sion for the removal of the evils with
law. A farmer held a large quantity of laid, and was careful which Ireland was at present afflicted ?—( Hear, hear.) 'Their
to avoid the least opportunity of giving offence to the law. A system only tended to produce police spies and informers, and
neighbouring clergyman, however, had a great antipathy to the the lowest characters. Instead of attending to the wants of
man, because he was a Roman Catholic, and sought every the people, they had created an army of 10,090 police.
means to ruin him. What did he do e Why, he brought a The Noble Lord Donoughmore was not afraid of doing his
sergeant's guard down to his house, under the pretence of duty to his Irish tenants, and he had not asked for any such
searching it for arms, and while there, he concealed some lilt as the pre-ent, because he knew it would n-a eft% et its aim.
powder and balls. The sergeant was then ordered to take the That Noble Lord was a popular character, and he believed that
Farmer into custody fi- the ',,posed Whitebey act. On the he had not a shutter to his house. Himself and hi, family
. trial, the sergeant, who was a Scotchman, in reply to the went about the country without the slightest fear, and they
crvstion whether he found any ammunition in the house, re- were never molested by the tenantry. And why was that so .?
plied that he did not know, but his Honour who was on the Because he did not let his land at eight guineas per acre.
Bench knew all about it, as he saw him put the powder there, Because he gave eimethirsg more to the poor fellow that toiled
The magistraee, when asked, admitted the charge, and said on his estates.—( Hear. hear.) Let other landlords pursue a
that the man was a desperate character, and he knew no otter similar conduct. He flung back in the teeth of the utterers
Means of causing: him to be removed from the neighbourhood. the libel that Ireland was nothing hut a land of asiesdnation.—
That map was a reverend, an honourable, and a magi.trate ; ( Hear, hear.) If he read but a portion of the calendar of crime
he was a priest of the Established Church, and a Lord's that had been committed in this country within the last Sew
brother, He would not, however, me-tints his name, as two years he should completely astound them. But he would do
sears after the occurrence he (Mr. J. O'Brien) men- no such thing. He would grapple with the Bill and with
tinned had occurred, he was compelled to leave the the Right Honourable Baronet opposite until the House
country, and he believ A Oat he was n.w dead, decided whose case was the strongest. He would ask the
many countries were at present
Such was the way the people of Ireland had bee treated If Right Hon. this—howßaronet
in the deplorable state descr:be.d by him in introducing this
this system of clearance went on the whole country would be
Bill Bill? It would appear that there were only five out of thirty.
in a blaze. He was also certain that if this Coercion
two. And did the Right Hon. Baronet mention the number
insteadof h •
was passed, before twelvemonths, eying five noun-
in those five counties that were in a disturbed
ties in a state of disturOance, they would have fifteen.—( Hear, of baronies
. Why, there were twelve baronies in Limerick, and yet
these It was a dangerous and most, impolitic measure. For state 2
these reasons he would vote against the first reading of the Bill. it. would /appear from the reports that only three out of those
Mr . BELLEW said he was as anxious about the progress of were
the Coercion Bill as Hon.it
irk
view that
the _
..hany Member. But must be ,eel '
Westmeath there were but three of the baronies ie
laying
tnteaslre. Members had not been to blame in de-
regard to it, _unre, having been acting on the defensive in that condition ; in the county of Cavan one ; and
English
measure,
doubte the Corn Bill was an Irish as well as in Meath three, which me le a total of fifteen.
Hon. Member for StotkpeTt •
satisfied that after this night the And would they feel themselves justified in depriving the
of the progress on that , would base no reason to complai people of Ireland of their liberties because fifteen baronies
Irish Members the 61:Vett...tr. Sill, he must ciairn for the out of fi counties happened to be in a disturbed state ? If
faring with its progress tot
theuniter the eireurn.tattees of inter ti, d'dve what
sidering the character of the extent
teern .
they had done. He,
non:
inedynyirie,uto
eeinhsducement would they give to the honest and
on two grounds. First. because Tt4wnoußlitlll' opposed the Bill adopt just measb.reersveand hang those that talked of fear that
putting down agrarian outrage • and,
.e, not he effective in the peasantea es na
Baronet not obey the
not accompanied with remedial nieasures°.n' inbecause, it was Right Hon. aronet how
many
ofrhea laws, He wool, ask the
who had
Bill, he attachtd little importance to the c.omiinapiZninttgf the
ee
teaedn
recommended
to in Ireland for they opilor asutlteomer!
amount of crime in Ireland and England, as the great point —namei —namely, Gen.
Johnson,
snaadnonption ? A few of this., this measure,ebtleb
was not the amount of crime, but the sympathy with which it
Warburton, his or Wile,:x.G.e.nd..E, gerton, Col. Burke, Major
was regarder', and the efficiency of the present Bid to repress with. These g..ntlemen, includinghers, he was well acquainted
Me. Illatbu unanimous) a 1-1
that sympathy and put an end to that crime.—(Hear, hear.) 1 ley, the Clerks of the Peace and othershad. —"-
That the Bill would not effect this object, he must refer them 1 that they were not in favour ot this' Bill Onty stated
to the fact that the other day a gentlemen in the town of Kil- had expressed themselves as decidedly opposed toe to.ntrsakrnydtfibey '
rush had been sloe at in the middle of the day, and no one in- of all he would quote the opinion of Mr. Sergeant Howlryt terfered with the assassin. No)urfew loss could affect such an individual who was beyond all cavil.—( Hear, hear.) se- '
fluid the Ku be grant Howley said, whilst • er-
crimes as these.—( Hear, beer. Neither w he was in the very county of Tip-
effective
in protecting witnesses and securing proper evidence
violenYc'e and mitre believe
that
a large amount of the present
' f •hich so much had been said. n act, . ge is traceable to the low physical condition
in courts of justice, ii is
present state of the people."—t Hear, h
no measure of this kind could be effective in the . , • , ear.) That was the opinion of
that, Sergeant Howley, when he was
of the population of Ireland. They must consider
individuals
for the trying a number of unfortu-
unlikeof the inhabitants of Ireland nate
one about by the harsh conduct of
lived on the soil. In England those on the land were but
hear,
_ also . their landlorde......
hear.) He said
half. In Ireland, also, the proprietors were much smaller, and ( ear,that. they were deprived
of the necessary amount of emplotment—that the lied
tenants occupied much hos portions of land. One-half of
y lived
on a f.od that was t. lowest in the scale ot human all the farms were under live acres each, and it had been
even of which they had not sufficient—that con-
shown that the crest body of these tenants were without skill sumption,. at they
lived in houses I were ill clad—they that scarcely deserved the
bar capital, and lived in miserable cabins. (The Hon. M.—.m-c ,
name.—( Hear, hear.) Such being the condition of the l ge
ber here read an ex tact from the
miserableevidencestofeaofltoman • -
amount of the population of Ireland, he asked how could it he
tholic clergyman, showing the
Ireland.)
_. the great ,
I that that people could be either orderly or tranquil e .
Such ( con •
body of the agricultural population in
,inhabitants expec.ea
Sergeant Howley had further delivered himself of words, the
the gate of the I
tinned the Hon. Member) was
had neveryet been e ualled Now, with respect to the 1 seditious character of which i by
with regard to their Condit on. .. ,
thin _
that had yet appeared un behalf of Ire-
Not less 1 00,000 notices ! the greatest agitators
evictions that had taken plan ..
last fire yeas. The I land, nit excepting even the Hon. and Learned Member for
e
of evictions had been served during the
Hon. Member here read an extract from the report
of Lord Cork, and the Hon. Member for Limerick, whose " pale and
ineffectual tire " had been tar outshone by the language of that
system of ev ctinn thet had been certied out. This was
nstheee
learned individual. And it was yet the language that had been
.
uttered by one of her Majesty's judges, who had said that the
condition of Ireland—a degrace to England for allowing it to ,
. Is would not endure to be starved, and mueh less
continue as it was. Tne .itver and influence of England was lowest anima
that man could suffer to be starved to
known througheut the world,and ,- is'ent with it rv.is the could it be expected
the Right Hon. Baro-
. co, • x
It might be death. Major Wilcox, in his reply to
knowledge of the
, . degradation of Ireland.
saiu there were great oil:B.:re in ithe eve, but he net's inquiries, had said
would tell the Right Hen. its meeting
was Isentry of Ireland coin(' never he peaceable whilst they were in
Baronet no rear achievement was I
" He had stated too that
ever yet accornelished withoutencounteringgdifficulty,Let ' state of starvation and oppression.
him set manfully and ~,,g,,,,..til
• a
sever all connexion between land-
be"the present measure would
l.
certain. —( Hear, hear.) TheY niiiiwork. and success would '
own lane
Blackwi 11 had said that recent y, in
bound to do something to meet the atati,,:hnt,
_Hein. Baronet was lor
n upieltbourhood, one landlord had ejected 40
ing the Devon Commission, vie i, what 1
hateand. In appoint- hied. ow
another 50, another 20, another 20, another
been done in the families,
Landlord and Tenant 4 .ommission, he had given a 1 I i 3,another 6t), another 19, another 55, and another
steps would be taken to relieve the di•tres ie(gethat
'
some
sof Ireland, 31. In Tipperary also
In this respect the present
said
differed with their 'families had been severally ejected. No less than 230
hail said they could e pre- • several
decessors, for they () nothing...._( Hear, .including
1 ',OO individuals, had been turned out, and
hear.) The
Right Hon. Baronet, then, was the lag( man i families, ,-
who ' those poor creatures were wandering about the country ; and
he I fiords of I
reland
should get up and say that t an, .
might to to put the climax to all this, he was sorry to see that two indi-
- He 0.1... Butle) mi
meet the ca-e (themselves. . tied the duals who lived in his teen county. Mr. and Mrs. Gerar I, had
1 land had not done theft du sell. after thts se, tt the larals, to tartan bid-
lanelores tot _re
irom , n y sleeted 27 individuals .
d Tenants Commnue.ima, ihe ltight Ihe tolerated in
lan of the Lendlords an
of the "'" upon it. Would flue a stare of things
Hon. Baronet was bound to bring forward some
which. the members of that Commission eal recommended. net bronght forward this Bill, which had been called for by
He maintained that it was perfectly coueisteat to oppose this moderate men, nobod-
y could doubt that the Noble Lord had
IllaqatsUres because no beneficial measure was connected with it, committed a ;
grievous mistake, because, Then the Noble