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vantage, because his leagues in the House of
Commons have as little genius as himself, and
less knowledge. I concede to him the merit of
industry. He call sometimes furnish a respea-
able compilation, but can he ever Produce a se-
rious effect, except when he is delivered of a

joke ? At the same time that we have Ireland
delivered over to this profound legislator, we
have Goulburn as Chancellor of the Exche-
quer..
I admit that, beside him, even Peel• must
shine ; for he has effected a miracle,—he has
caused the gentle Bexley to be regrettedas a
relief to his vulgar flippancy, we have the irri-
table incapacity of Vesey Fitzgerald. , May I ask
your Grace if this is a time when the trading and
shipping interests of the country are to be in-
trusted to a provincial squire, who does not even
affect to be a man of business ? To -prevent his
genius from being fettered by any vulgar siigges-
mils of experience, you give him, as Vice-Presi-
dent, a gentleman who innocently confesses, that
on the questions of free trade and protectin, du-
ties his mind "is a sheet of blank paper." The
eolonies are intrusted
.to the command of an able
and gallant officer, possessing liberal feelings and
principles, but who has had no experience in the
department over which he is to preside ; and
'therefore I presume 'is selected for it. Your
Grace is the only man in England who could
have made Sir George Murray ridiculous. But
sentiments, you must now be mad, and 'therefore
I beg pardon : according to your own recorded
blameless The Navy is again consigned to
Lord Melville ; perhaps the only man in-Eng-
land who could effectually degrade it. Dur-
ing a century the British navy was untar-
nished by diAonour,—an utter stranger to dis-
grace ; scarcely a mistake occurred to detract
from its glory ; it was reserved for the reign
of a Melville that it should sustain defeat and
ignominy. The second American war should
not have closed without an impeachment and an
example : but. the anxiety which your Grace has
evinced to preserve a-beautiful uniformity in
your cabinet, made it necessary to insult, and.
remove -the Duke of Clarence. You are in pug-
suit of knowledge, and you have, doubtless, in-
troduced Lord Aberdeen into the cabinet for

the purpose of instructing you in the rudiments,
of Latin and Greek : perhaps also in the prin-
ciples of architecture. As an amiable school=
master the Scottish Earl may be useful and
efficient ; but as the successor of Canning in the
Foreign-office, the noble architect lays the foun-
dation of his own disgrace. A year since, -Eng-
land stood triumphant on the pedestal o£ glory :
she now shivers on the pillory of her shame.
Portugal ii sacrificed to the tender attachment
of Lord Beresford ; it cannot he expected that
he should feel any attachment to legitimacy, and
usurpation has attractions for you, because it is
linked with ignorance and oppression. Russia
insults us, and breaks a solemn engagement :
our naval pre-eminence is risked, and our com-
merce is fettered. When are we to be com-
pensated for these misfortunes by your military
Cabinet ?. Is Ireland to be selected as the field
of your military exploits, and Constantinople as
the stage ()flour peaceful diplomacy ? Are we
to crouch to Russia and France, and make
'atonement to the offended genius of the Consti-
tution by an Irish sacrifice ? I fear that your
military ardour must yield to financial prudence:
if you attempt to " reconquer Ireland," some
trifling delay may .take place in the payment of
dividends : during the primeval simplicity of
your. Government, you may arrive at " barter "
sooner than even Cobbett apprehends. If Ido
not interrupt your labours, if you have already
mastered the first rudiments of finance, may I

ask, is Ireland to be governed by Green tend
Orange clubs ?—if Catholic delegates spout se-
dition, is there not some treason to be found in
the Orange meetings ?—are clergymen possessed
of large benefices to act as itinerant mounte-
banks ? If they are without a congregation to
digest their sermoas, must they hunt out mobs
to applaud their sanguinary- exhalations ? Is
the solitude of the parish church to be compen-
sated by the drunken gang of the county grand
jury-room ? We hear constantly of the violence,
and bigotry, and ignorance of the priests ; but
the Fellows of Dublin University commence a
career of rivalry, and are, of course, triumphant.
The Silent Sistert speaks at last, not with the voice
ofreason, but with the yell of insanity. The speeches
delivered at the meetings of the Brunswick Clubs in
' Tyrone and Donegal demand your serious atten-
tion. Lay aside your horn-hook for one hour,
and read the Irish newspapers. If you are pacific,
the Irish parsons are warlike ; the subdued
Field-marshal must bend to the Church-militant.
It appears that you do not possess the ungli.rimoesiiltseeestidt
confidence of the Irish clergy, and this circum-
tt:lirt'fiaasalitockeesteiliii.3ol::tpn.
eo)etrirffl:iititeeis,:ctitikl?lreis(nsiotle:i lttitirr:eig):?lytp(errxiafiustesheohffaolcrf-oasbit'lbylu,etartlrtlaenidlcteiiie;
furnishes
honourably a-
guarantee
Spain the abuse of thisbman, it was to be pre-
sumed that you must subsequently
ididelvielotteil:diennldile(i)rili(-iey
your
lit-iiieer
torture of his praise. But can the adulation of
this treble traitor indemnify you for tile disgrace
of Enghimd and the convulsions of Ireland ? Is
your character so exalted, that you. may now
commit any blunder with impunity ? Does the
victory of Waterloo authorize you to make Eng-
landf
riiiiiiriel' il‘iil3ittirreori: O
,d havingliri:aial)
tel
dirßlieotdt' siDls(ei)
alic.'doaCill
ile,e.liielee,-:
a Russian province ? France .had to en-
it.latintei
her
rlipe
violated a compact with us, or his Majesty has
subser-
lizi:viency is at hand : our Cabinet
,iconsistsourrrfeotilille_
menial servants of Nichgonsl,e,sassp:
eeeictlillaßisiiiaanchi
viic,aa,,,te
ntiLsir,
~,a,a,,feil ihsice:ruri)gdhtt
so
als'aar Ili
laetini
jegrei t...
apprehended assert that
ur honour unsullied, and
isr,Gosimar,lei,teil,iiaisiiiieeniiirisla:rete,:eicetivtibreilosrl.ilielaalliili,oisa,),:i.
j,E,ctii.,,geeikle,,llsoesoieititblitoritNyieyg,il.;.,aeis,eliiieleit::tiiiilllirfi,es,tetglailei,aetlicr.s,h,aKteit:oatiaiaNelliNiltarai,
that no danger can be •
Russian fleet were in the
4:llll:iityilenliiiPtei Niddlesex. The
these scribes, and “ the opinion of ,
Government," will have equal
weight,- I doubt not, with the Russian autocrat.
You have achieved more than Marlborough : he
only conquered France,—you have vanquished
England. Ireland has her revenge at last,--you
are the avenger. A year since the most san-
guine of the Catholic agitators could scarcely an-
ticipate that England would sink, and suffer de-
gradation, through the exertions of one Irishman.
You do not advance a single step in your maich
without disgrace. Sound a retreat in time,—
return to the Horse Ciruards,—relinquish Down-
. musting-s hate wa
trle:rt. Irfne/6Otoyoi.
vearls have not instructed, they

CASSIUS.

See the speech made by the Duke in the House of
Lorth, on his resignation in 1827, in which he says, that
" he must be mad or worse, if besought the place of pre-
mier." Nine months later, insanity appeared ! !
The name given to the University of Dublin by the
men of Cambridge and Oxford.

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