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London, England, 1805-02-09 00:00:00

epoch ;o the present ;,:bot he: did not thi:l the te.
sedulance to fitful% as. the Hon. Gentleman seemed
to imagine. At that time the Jacobites were con.
rending for the restoration of the &tewarts to the
Throncs both of Great Britain and Ireland. They
had no common objea in view, Now, the exer.
. lions of the Irish malcontents are diretied to sepa.
rate Ireland from Great Britain, and to establish,
it the former Country, a aistinel and Independent
Democracy. The part of Ireland which he had
the honour, to represent was in a quiescent state ;
hut he was satis6ed that. his Constituents, although
they laboured under no necessity of availing them.
selves of the Suspension, would heartily rejoice at
the security that it would afford to such of their
neighbours as were not in such an enviable situation.
It was a circumstance too well authenticated to ad.,
mit ,tf ihe least doubt, that to every point of France,
that is easily accessible from Ireland, 'numbers are
continuallY.passing, whose objeft was surely ques.
tionable.
S;r 30/IN NEWPORT explained. lie had
never, in the most distant mann'er, 'intimated that
be should ultimately oppose the Suspension. What
be contended for vas, that by appointing a Com-
mime, the House might be enabled to ascertain,
with precision, whether such a measure was eligible

or not.
Mr. "B. MARTIN wapiti trouble the lions* with
art obseriation or. two which would be aomprised,
in a few words. If it had been proposed to him
to give a decided affirmative or a decided negative
to the Motion for the 'Suspension of the Habeas
Corpus, he should certainly, with the knowledge
of the. circumstances of Ireland that he possessed.,
have preferred the former; but as a middle course
had been offered to the House lay the Motion of the
Honourable Batonet, which went to
.give them
full itiformation on the • subject, he should most
assuredly vote fur the Amendment. He differed
materially from the Hon,,Gentleman who thought
the situation of Ireland now the same as when the
Suspension of the HabeasCoiptishad been voted by
a Parliament sitting in Ireland.' -To suppose this,
would be, to belie every argument that he had heard
in favour of the Union. No man was more disposed
to pronounce aneulogy-on that measure than he was;
he had urged to his Constituents, in the strongest
terms, the full benefit which they would receive
from a participation in the English Constitution;
but if a Suspension were thus to take place on light
grounds, or at any rate witpout serious inquiry;
they would be apt to imagine that the benefits they
derived from their close connexion , with England.
and English Laws were not so great as he had re.
presented them to be. There was another. argu-
ment which appeared to him of some importance,
and that was, that the Suspension was confined to
Ireland. If it were proposed to be extended over
the whole kingdom, he, for one, would'snake no
opposition to (A loud laugh.) It had been
330, but without a shadow of truth, that the Irish
Gentry loved Martial Law better than Magna
Charta. With regard to France, the situation of
Ireland was essentially different from what it was at
the time of the Suspension that he had last alluded
to. When that SuspenSion took place, there was
an organised Republic 'existing in Inland, and
ready to fraternize with the then Detnocratical
Government France. ; but from ,the late change
in the. Legislature and Government of that Country,
all hopes of co.operation .and assistance in their po.
lir ical views, that .the Republicans•of Ireland might
trice have indulged, must long have ~yartiiihrd,
soy living charatters were • more detestcd by the
Irish than others, they were the individuabr com.
piing the- self.denominated Irish Direetoty in
reis. .On a review of all the cit:utnstences of
the case, hr certainly thought she Honourable
Latane.to, Amendment should be adopted... lie •by
no mean., refused the Suspension, he only uskeil for
the TAiliry.
Me, DAWSON could not puffer this gileStioo to
come to a deciion without declaring his hostility to
l M and his reasons for supporting
the origina
the Atnentim,:ot in the lion. flarunef. I-ic was con.
talent the Hon. aironet who had. brought forward
the original Motion' had sufficient grounds in his
own twit to justify the adoption of such a mea.
sure; ;seal h,f believed too, that if he were himself
aagoliateol with these grounds, he would be of • the
same opininn, Yn order to justify him in voting
for such a m,,tion, something more was necessary
than the impressions of his own mind. If the Hon.
Baronet circ, hors cortmomicated to him satisladory
reasons for the .adoption of the measure, in his
closet, yet,. as a Representative of the Irish People,
he should respire futther information--Public and
Official Documents, sufficient to establish Parlia—
mentary gruno l for the necessity of the measure.—
Until such Documents' should be produced he could
not reconcile it to himself to vote for a measure that
was to deprive so- guar a proportion of His Majestyfs
Subjects of the most ins/doable benefits of the 'Com,
atifution. As, to what had been said respeding the
charatlet of the Nable Loritat thfefhead of the Irish
Government, he .readily subscribed to it all, and he
was happy in the opportunity 'of bearing testimony
.the opinion he entertained of his virtues
and talents ; but he was far from thinking that any
• circumstances' of personal kharaaer, however fa.
vourable, could constitute art argutnent in support
of inch a measure.
The Question was then loudly called for, and the
Gallery being cleared, a division took place : For
the Original Motion x t z--For the Amendment 33--
Majority 79.
'alive, of course, was given to bring in the 11111,
ant a Committee appointed to prepare
The Ciallety was not opened afterwards for the
reoktaosti,of of strangers, an adjournment having
taken Offer immediately alter the division.