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the Prinie Minister relative to the condition of this
country, and the claims of the majority of its people,
I am sure I do not pretend to know what he means, -
unless he wishes to punish us in the shape of a riddle,
in the way that some ancient nation was punished
by the riddle of the sphynx. (Hear, hear, and
laughter.) To the Duke of Wellington I would
say, in the words of Laertes—" Stand off the earth,
my Lord "--this question cannot be buried. -
(Cheers.) His Grace professes his anxiety for the
establishment of religious peace in Ireland—and the
interest he takes in the settlement of the great ques- -
lion which agitates this country. Before we give •
him credit for that anxiety, let him shew by his acts
that he is sincere—let him use that influence which, '
from his station, he possesses in a greater degree
than any other man, to disabuse many honest men
of the unfounded prejudices which they now enter- • ,
tain, and which cause them to be hostile to the
granting of justice to the Catholics of Ireland.
(Cheers.) Mr. Brownlow concluded by moving the
resolution.
Sir CHARLES STYLES, Bait seconded the mo-
tion, which was put and carried.
The Earl of Howmn moved the next resolution,
relative to a petition to Parliament.
Mr. LLOYD, M.P. seconded it.
The motion was put and carried.
The Earl of GLENGALL—It is my duty to pro-
pose an Address to the King, which I now hold in
my hand. It implores his Majesty to take into his
most gracious consideration the state of this unhappy
land; and, by avoiding the abolition of civil distinc-
tions on account of religion, to remove the primary
causes of our evils. If the wholesome remedy sug-
gested
be adopted, the King and his Ministers iillj
soon find that there will.be no. Associations in exist- .'•'
ence in Ireland but those which may be formed for
the purpose of advancing the prosperity of the coun-
try, and securing the throne and the safety of the . • ,
empire. (Cheers.)
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lend (Mr. Wyse), who read it as follows :

"TO THE KING'S'MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
'8 THE HUMBLE PETITION OF THIL DTOBLUME'N AXI)

" TLEMBN UNDERSIGNED
" MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
" We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal *objects of
the kingdom of Ireland, beg leave to approach .our throne,
with assurances of, our unalterable fidelity and attachment
to your:Majesty's Royal person and government.
" Reigning by the free voice of a proud'and brave peo-
ple, your Majesty holds the crown. of these realms by the ,
highest of all titles—the clearest of all legitimacies ;we '-
venerate you as the guardian of just laws, and the lass
perfection of a noble Constitution. You rule in the inte-
rests of your people—your throne has the best security fur
any throne, the enlightened confidence of your subjects.
" No portion of your Majesty's loyal people are more
truly devoted than we are to the principles which placed
the illustrious House of Brunswick on'the throne.

‘. We conceive these principles to be founded on the

basis of civil and religious freedom.
" It is to the diffusion of these great gifts tre• attribute
the gradual union, the industry, the wealth, the intel-
ligence, the consequent prosperity, and the only perma-
nent security of every state. In proportion as the eititeo
derives advantage from the Constitution under which be
lives, he will naturally give back to the preservation of
that Constitution his zealous and persevering support.
" Your Majesty was graciously pleased, on the memo-
rable !`
occasion on which you honoured these shores with
your royal presence, to impress upon the mind of pit-
faithful Irish subjects these important truths—and it is not
without a deep recognition of their value we still hold in
our recollection the conciliatory terms of your Majesty's
parting advice
" But with profound regret, we venture to represent to
your Majesty, that little benefit has yet accrued to this dis-
tracted nation from your Majesty's paternal councils. In-
stead of the cordiality and union which your Majesty had
so emphatically recommended, the whole land is divided
into two adverse parties; measuring'each other's strength A
iu silence, or menacing open and undisguised hostilities
abroad—corrupting to evil all the sources of national good
—disturbing in their course the beneficial influences of the
Constitution-=lending to justice the character of fiction--
initiating, by a succession of dangeretts stimulants; "the en- ,*
tire national temperament.—embittering every variety of
social intercouse, anti shaking to the foundation tharnltts.
tual confidence, without which all government is difficult;
and the entire franie of civil society must be ultimately
dissolved.'
" Industry, deprived of its natural nourishment, lan• •
guisbes; commerce, uninvited by Proportional security, t
flies our shores';, manufactures, unsupported by capital,
have almost disappeared ; employment, exclusively agricul-
tural;- is not adequate to the wants of our population ; the
surplus emigrates, in every shape of wretchedness, to the
more prosperous parts of your Majesty's dominions, or •
passing on through a rapid succession of disasters at
home, from idleness to want, from want to ;milady, perish,
at last, in almost animal visitations of pestilence or famine.
" The consequences of these evils are'obvious and uni-
versal ; they are commensurate with our entire system.--
The Protestant is not mere exempt than the' Catholic;
baton the contrary, in proportion to his superior wealth
and station in the community, is, if possible, more ex-
posed to their injurious effects. They embrace every, indi-
vidual in their influence, and they affect all the relations of '
every individual whom they embrace. ' •
" And your faithful and loyal subjects presume farther' ,1
to represent to your gracious Majesty, that the influence of
these calamities is not restricted to Ireland alone ; that such,
a state of things must require a large military establish-
meet for its support; that this establishment necessitates a
corresponding taxation of the country; that the countqs • •
by the repression of its natural energies and resources, is
unequal to this supply, and that thus this kingdom, in-
stead of being a source of strength, becomes, by a singular
anomaly in government, a source of weakness to the United
Empire.
" Your petitioners would willingly believe that theta'
evils were of a temporary nature, removable by temporary
expedients, but they have reason to apprehend that, instead
of diminishing, they will gradually increase, unless prevent-
ed, ere it be too late, by a patient and impartial inquiry into
their causes, and the generous application of a full and final •
remedy. Their continuance will prepare for the first rap
gression of foreign foes, a long accumulating spirit of dial-
satisfaction in the country—it will invite the insult and in•
jury of surrounding nations—it will paralyze the national
force of the state—it will detract from the moral strength
and character which enabled her so long to hold the -first •••
rank in European civilization,- and Materially endanger,
and perhaps ultimately compromise, the safety of the en
tire British empire.
" Your petitioners cannot ascribe these evils to any de- •
fect in the moral or physical condition of the country it-
self; they are compelled to seek elsewhere for the fertile
source of these calamities. They see in the partial distrie
hutiOrt of the'burthens and reiVitidilt the state, the exeltt...
sion of one part of the people from the franchises and riebli
enjoyed by the other, a just and enduring principle of diss
content, further exasperated by religious animosity, the pas
rent of that national disunion, from which every other na-
tional
evil must necessarily proceed.
"It does not, however, escape the attention of your
humble petitioners that this exclusion may originally have
been intended for the better maintenance of the Cunstitu-
tion and religion of the State; but they respectfully sub-
mit to the consideration of your Majesty, whether, on the
extinction of the causes which required such guarantee,
these restrictions on the liberty of the subject should not
also be repealed.
" And it is the further conviction of your Majesty's
humble petitioners, that these causes have long since dis-
appeared, and this opinion is grounded on the policy of
other states, in reference to this country ; the cessation of
all external menace or attack ; the suppression of all pre-
tension to the throne of these realms, and the encreasing
liberality and enlightened feeling of every class and persua-
sion
in the present times.
" Your petitioners are therefore satisfied, that the re-
moval of the disabilities under which their Catholic fellow
subjects still labour, so far from being attended with any
peril to the institutions of these realms, would, on the con-
trary, by a removal of all just ground of complaint, most
eminently tend to coalesce all sects and orders in the coun-
try, in united exertions fur their common support, and
thus, by ' benejitting the state, would confer a benefit
upon every individual belonging to it.'
" And in this belief, your petitioners are more fully con-
firmed, by the gracious message of your Majesty's royal
father to his Irish Parliament, in 1'793, in which he was
pleased to recornmend such measures as might be most
likely to strengthen the general union and sentiment amongst
all descriptions of his Majesty's subjects, in support of the
established Constitution ; and that his Majesty was further •
pleased to point out the relief of his Catholic subjects of
Ireland, from the disqualifications by which they were af-
I fected, as the means best calculated to ensure this desirable
result,

" And your petitioners gratefully remember, that your
Aiajesty has professed, op pa9rt than prie occasion, towArci#

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