The Sun.
London, England, 1828-05-10 00:00:00

ration is the meet absurd: t eon undaeetand theiee
°n the one side, who have the boldness to speak
out openly and say, let us revive that code of blood
and rapine called the penal laws;-1 can under-
stand those who say, let us spend all the money we can by
any means extract from England in maintainiug armies in
Ireland—I can understand those on the other side who its-
vommentl peace anti conciliation, hut I have nn conception
of the meaning of those who say concession ought to come,
but it must be at a future period. Ile implored the House
not, IT an ill-timed perseverance in the tardy recognition
of these treat claims upon their equity and justice, to render
that matter of compulsion or necessity, which, if conceded
new, , would he a concession of grace and favour. —Let
there remember the fatal blindness which we had shown
GO "r‘,7o- years ago to the demands of America upon our
liberality, The remonstrances of her legislative assemblies
voice of her people—the complaints of her patriots
,atend ratestnen—were answered by the zealots of this king-
••'`'n't in that day, with all those terms of reproach and in-
eteent invective in which the complaints of the petitions of
Ireland Were here met by similar zealots in our own times.
Let the British Parliament then, take into its consideration
11'„i! tw° eases, and the events which had followed, in one
"", upon as obstinate adherence to the narrow
y,-:nr
;'' of an unjust and bigotted policy. All such las-
ge eea he alluded to provoked a foolish Government, and
-,-Ii mrilettel a wise one.—(Hear.)—fly continuing to deny
et
Prayer of the Irish people upon the subject of emanei-
botit°°, the Governments of our day seemed to have been
°Pon reviving that system of terror and disaffection
i„•,",ell reigned in Ireland during the greater part of the
I;4' century. But could any thiug more forcibly illus-
„rate the dangerous influence which the cherishing, of the
134 anti-Catholic feeling, common to those Governments,
'-'saet4erl of necessity to e•enerate, than the circumstance of
1/0-11° of go amiable and so upright a character as his
t riend, the Member for It (Sir Robert Inglis)
been this night betrayed into expressions which it
°eeasioned hint (Sir fames Mackintosh) unfeigned
N.,1:1;°1• to bear, and which were to this effect :—" I
jz,rigt yield these points ; let the people of Ireland
'gem from us by force."—(Hear, hear hear.)—He
th4t°°t pretend to have caught the precise words, but
ho wall their import. Now when he heard such language
tehr'l 4 man like his Hon. Friend, whose intelligence,
Ose benevolence, and kindly feeling, were so univer-
no",Y, acknowledged in that House—(Hear, hear)---he could
but call upon that House to consider of what intensity
,-",,tr't be the mischievous principle which glowed under the
of such a political profession. (Hear, hear.) There
te-Pre too many who, like his respected and Hon. Friend,
'9
Rain to talk of the " vigour and determination" ne-
ras4fY to be manifested by a Government in respect to Ire-
-01:1• For hie own part, be never heard these words with-
7lea;:t heard
how eloquently and how powerfully lie
lehi2ard them dilated upon iu that assembly, by a voice
' °ever was heard within these walls without delight-
'"To, at least ; and which, not more unfortunately for
,vreti than for the country, had now ceased to be beard—for
tain't (Hear, hear.) What, however, must he (Sir J. M.)
tl,l° of the principles of this opposition to the Catholic
'aparns' when he found that it could induce a Member, of
t4lei,'rjrtment so mild, of manners sei gentlemanly, and of a
ta, Zgerateness and equanimity so usually unruffled, as
to t Which were peculiar to the Hon. Member for Ripon
-Athek're in place that he would rather that the Irish
01. his
lion. 'es should extort by force the objects of their peti-
Sie,r then yield them to their entreaties. (Hear, hear.)
in ta` ti 4 year 1812, no man had been so bold as to propose
41 Hoes the formation of an administration founded
" the • e•
' • exclusion. For 16
ye,r, principle of Roman Catholic
forsi,P4st no Ministry had dared to present themselves be-
-4,414 Wien:lent as the avowed champions of that system,
itlg the permanency of which they were now deliberat-
hight When Parliament had heard, about four years ago,the
!Too. Cent. (Mr. Secretary Peel) avowing in his
los that the condition of his remaining in the councils of
I.r.ote°ontry was, the greater antl lesser degree and shade of
es it"taratiarn in the Cabinet, was not that declaration made
t)tere, in the very confession that he stood almost alone
el.
sieve of the Catholic Question among the other Mi
'u--
' his Majesty ? Was not that declaration of itself
lc dent to encourage Ireland to hope that her claims would
granted. (Hear, hear.) When they heard the Right Hon.
Attila! nto, shortly after the formation of the present
aoin4,_""rY, which had, so happily for the country, disap-
ae7ed the hopes and expectations of the exclusives and the
cheers.)—When they had heard him de-
114re that the majority of four of the list years in that
f„°l4e had sufficed to show him that it was impossible to
P t..‘ any future Government on purely exclusive prim-l-
e:7'a_ ; was not that enough eause them to entertain the
sort o f hope and expectation ?—(llear. )—l..et any
ly
look round that House and tell him why the Right
si:l°. Gentleman, whom, he admitted, indeed, to he a
teintlid exception, was the only man of commanding
thatt, Who, for the last 12 years, had risen to vindicate
talents rae of the question ? The reason was this—that
case t
1. hire the Right Hon. Gentleman's which must, in a
the ie'sle °lle, be exerted against the spread, and to check
freed:'nence of, liberal principles, and the dissemination of
fl e m°l. opinion, were operated on by the repulsive in-
aftst ee the spirit and intelligence and feeling of the
es--, upon such an appropriator of such talents.
Wea hOPee and the. good wishes, of the intelligent, as
try ,a 1 the nobly horn, among the youth of the coun-
ere enlisted in the success of this great question ;
that Oee youth was not the age of fear, he did
i trust
6xllknee
might reckon upon their support, who, n be-
Piti,m°: Ruch a cause, had virtue enough to reject and des-
Cv`i
F.
the allurements of ambition, and all the enjoyments
°tdoru., which were usually proffered to young men, in
lit; to win them to that side, 'from whence civil anti nii-
-4104 ,7mPloynnents, for some time past, had been found
taa,,‘o emanate. Shame, and the nobler principle of
cp ti 7, justice, prevented them from abandoning principles
ae)w.'' question which they had always been forward to
The youth, then, of this country, superior to all
Nt'.•ations of emolument or power, were in favour of this
liar!" ; and he, for one, hailed their support with gra-
slit; arid exultation. The Right Hon. Gentleman here
silk in general terms to what he termed a splendid sa-
aetee of all the prospects of power and influence which
tt4 °Petting upon him, as the reward of his talents, his
Aita°°, and his influence, which a distinguished young
tl4 her of that House had recently made to his notions of
Alitltiee and expediency of the concessions demanded at
oa t„rm,,ds of the British Parliament. When it was asked
pd Daniell side the conversions had been, let this disintereet-
le .."4,version (we apprehend Mr. Perceval was alluded to)
tiD::_roetnhered as sacrifice to his patriotic and his
tr-6,41it feelings, worthy to be remembered in assecia•
tits with the patriotic devotion of the late Mr.
v?okiTn• (Hear, hear.) From such examples, Ireland
v4ll' learn that not only talent, but honesty and public
Nal, Were arrayed upon her side ; and that the enligh-
to 'I., Youth of Britain had the courage, in her good cause,
1441;lect Place, patronage, and power. A great deal
'iv 'en said about the Treaty of Limerick. He had no
• ara et th4t
were the construction of that treaty submitted.
Judgment of any number of equitable arbitrators,
veiti.‘vould come, notwithstanding the many difficulties
tlitt surrounded the question, to the seine notion of it
trea-a the universally received understanding of the great
°f the Irish people---to the same conclusion, in short,
444 )ai'4lop Burnett, who considered that it restored the
td ° things in Ireland to the same condition in which
'44 Were in the time of Charles the Second. That such
by
t'er° Ireland, the understanding, might be evidenced
btrfr remarkable fact, that Dr. Browne, then the Mem-
e the Dublin University, who published a pamphlet in
, under set
e strongest -holic feelin out
Piatie
--g that though, up toanti Cat
his time, it had s,
en bethe
+tit g feeling in Ireland, that the provisions of the
lie was about to
Peie Y of Limerick had been violated,
t`iG,tieu idea which had, till his time never been enter-
' i 44, 11, tamely, that these stipulations bad been observed.
Leet„'owever, was just 100 years after the signing of the
17,°Y.af Ile (Sir James Mackintosh) could conceive
no
n 4,•, °ten more deeply interested in the concession of
seta t°olie Question, than the Protestant Clergy of Ire-
bear.)--As to them, the whole question
e•." 'taelf jute this--were they prepared to make
ealtlioi°l3efessions, and to rue the risk of sexing 50 Roman
fi
`oe so Members seated in Parliament, or still to deny
4,f ,Ithir 'WM'S so asked of them, and face the certainty
94i'ista:r7r1 extinction ? Concerning the responsibility of
the t (the most valuable and integral principle perhaps
evi'6ll.l„r4,tjah Constitution, and beyond all doubt the
of t'ist roeturate union between the views
tritkiti;':°4'arch-y and to many
one 'iokt• (frunniunicated health, vigour, and efficiency to
is Priaion. of Great Britain) he had that evening heard
I.lsl/o'Ple advanced, on the high and venerable authority
tia%eeie9rrourable and Learned Friend opposite, which
irue Ciorly startled him. The practice of. moderni
I), ticking (lePrieed the Crown of its brightest jen el— )y.
hr'etseeb from it the power of enercieing Its brightest attn.-
Y withdrawing from the fountein of mercy the roost
r`lerce°,r‘i beneficent of its virtues. The exercise of that
late ,„1" Poeseseion of those qualitiee, had never been until
!rl the a'n's denied to it ; and yet the one and the other,
t.
iroin ''l4.4e of the more modern administration of our
!t Jodica its • - Reght ture, had been, effect, withdrawn from it.
that thi, `e
~,on. and Learned Gentleman went on to argue
sir,\arehat,"teration was very inconsistent with the ex,see.-
arliaelen't° which was shewn by so powerful a party in
"rded to, t° modify the coronation oath. He then prc-
! ncioire into the reasonableness and force of the