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few—here, consequently, we have the acrimonious
and rancorous inveteracy, the servile insincerity, the
phrenzied fanaticism, the unchristian separableness;
with all the full and uncontrolled plavof those malignant
anti-social and fiendish passions, which are naturally
and necessarily engendered by a system of monopoly
and as naturally nurtured by unequal laws—blast►ng
the very elements of manufacturing, agricultural, co►n-
me►'eial opulence ; obstructing, the profitable appli-
cation of capital to the vast and unrivalled phys►cal
capabilities of our country ; depriving toilsome in-
dustry of its best, and most legit►mate incentive, the
11 antic►pation of a fair and adequate remuneration ;
I consequently the soul ces of national revenue;
adding fresh power to those repulsive forces, which
are already rending asunder the foundations of our
social edifice ; and lighting up the baleful fires of
discord through a fainting, a devoted land ! Is this
p►cture overcharged ! Let those who are in the
habit of traversing our provinces furnish the reply.
Merciful God ! is it not heart-rending to reflect
that the issues of the destinies and interests of Eng-

land's empire, should at this day remain depending
upon minds of such pigmy stature, as those which
have doomed our country, not merely to national
nothingness, but even to provincial insignificance.
But I would fain whisper in the ear of England,
and would to God that an admonitory voice, so

feeble as mine, might for one moment make itself
heard in its counsels ! I would fain say to her—

Oh ! read once again, previously to the reassembling
of your senate—before Leland a prostrate, it is true,
but still a gigantic supplicant, again knocks and
kneeli at its doors—before she again send up in the
face of heaven the expostulatory cry of her millions,
as it were the try of one man, while the nations
agltast and awe-struk *Wait in listening breathless-
ness the result of the tremendous unison. Read, I
would say, once again, the disastrous, the tragic an-
nals of your own novercal mal-administration of the
affairs of a powerful people. Turn over once again
the revolting pages of the statute hook of Ireland--
that devilish digest of moral torture and persecution ;
that spawn, may I not with all propriety call it, of a
profligate and privileged sectarism —that book which
stands out in bold and conspicuous relief among the
• mostap palling records of national pros: i t uti on, unparal-
leled, unimitated, an/ in the present advancing state
of mental culture, thank God, uninimitable—that
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book, in a word, of which the whole world fnr,
-nishes us with no second volume. Rend it, I say,

once again, while yet it is time, and before you in•
cur the formidable, the ruinous liabilities which ano-
ther refusal to effect its purgation must necessarily
expose you ; but read also, and above all, the in-
structive—the practical commentary on the text of
that iniquitous book, which the existing condition of
this land of beauty affords. Read these things,
England—self-styled cradle of liberty ! paragon!
archetype, Quixote of public virtue and political
chivalry ! champion of justice I envy of the nations I
refuge of the slave ! classic land of free institutions!
read these things (for alas! they are written)—oh'!

read and expiate, blush and emancipate.
The resolution way then put and adopted num. con.
The Earl of BECTIVE rose amid great applause
and said,' my Lord Duke and Gentlemen, I feel I
am called upon to express my conviction that the
Catholic question should be speedily decided, and I
owe it to my constituency to declare my firm opinion
that they ought to pursue that course which must
soon lead to that desirable event. (Loud 'cheers.)

That ohjert cannot he obtained unless by steaUY
persevering in search of it. It is a just, a wor-
thy, a generous, and a constitutional object.
The present moment is one of great and peculiar
anxiety. The recall of Lord Angl,sea is in my
mind a most unfortunate and uncalled for measure.
(Item., and cheers.) The Noble Marquis has, in the
midst of all the heat and turmoil of party feeling in
this country, succeeded in becoming a general fa-
vourite, and he has carried away withhini from this
country the warm affections of seven millions of
grateful people. (Cheers.) It is possible that their
prayers may one day or other place him in that situa-
tion where he shall hate the power of putting into
execution the feelings of his heart. How melancholy
it is, that the moment a Lord Lieutenant becomes
acquainted %vith the country, or becomes popular, or
ventures to express a political opinion, he is dis-
placed, and replaced by some 'person who knows
nothing of the country. (Hear, hear.) This is a
settled and indisputable fact. No Chief Governor
of Ireland can express a political opinion, although
from his knowledge of the country, and the state of
party in it, he can give to Governmegt the hest and
most candid advice. (Hear, hear.) Every hour I
lived in Ireland, and for the last six years I have
been a constant resident, confirms me in the opinion
that until justice
.is done to Ireland--until all penal
restrictions are obliterated from the statute book,
until Catholics and Protestants are placed upon an
equality; until those penal laws, originally founded
in prejudice, and now devoid of justice and com-
mon sense, are repealed, there cannot exist peace,
union, or consequent prosperity in this country.
Sir Jon iNglyPoßT—lt is now forty-six years
since I commenced my public career as-an Irish vo-
lunteer. (Loud cheers.) lam come now, even in
the eleventh hour, to offer to you that advice which
is the result of much experience during a long poli-
tical I now say, and I ant fortified in the opi-
nion, that on no basis can the happiness of a nation
be lastingly founded, unless upon the broad and firm
basis of civil and religious liberty. If, in 1783, the
Irish volunteers had formed their plans pn this prin-
ciple-=if, instead of making their cause a sectarian
one, they had comprised in it the manumission of
the Catholics, we would not have witnessed the
many sinister occurrences have since that pe-
riod taken place. (Hear, hear.) Unfortunately
this principle was not universal ; it was not grounded
on the general good; it was based upon exclusive
principles, and it crumbled into ruin. (Loud
cheers.) In that great body (the volunteers) very
few claimed even the form of representation for the
great mass of the population. The march of intel-
lect had not then taught mep to consider that no po..
!icy is permanent unless it be founded upon the ge-
neral welfare. (Cheers.) It is the opinion of many
enlightened Statesmen that the penal laws were
originally unnecessary ; but since the period of 1783
every illustrious senator, . every great statesman,
every liberst essiostiad 111101 has been convinced of the
inutility and iejustine of continuing those baneful
statutes. (Hear, hem, hear.) The consequence of
the dissensions that pervade this unfortunate country
is that Gt eat Britain is unable to maintain her sta-
tion axons foreign nations, and it is to remove this ob-
stacle to our eonetry'e glory, that ve claim, upon' the
broad principle• of fissaajOm, and justice, and sound
policy, the restoration of their long and unjustly
withheld rights to the Catholics of treleed. (Cheers.)
My reason for coming forward this day is ec show
that I am still as alive to the interests of my country,
still as warm in my affection for her, still as anxious
to promote her prosperity and happiness, as I was
in 1782. (Loud and long continued cheering.)
The resolution was unanimously adopted.
The FAO of 1111 rows.—My Lord Duke, that
the most extracrtlitsary political discord reigns
throughout this counti'i, noire will for a moment
deny, but can we discover that state pf society na-
turally to arise from thceireumstanee of our !.-oir,ff, 4
.(3fliv,tered country ? certainly not; herense, if it
were so, we should in her advancement in the arts,
find a proportionate decrease of anti-social feelings,
but unfortunately we ereinnt see it. We must look
tiers)! in the state of the law avlii.elegave to a whole
community ;he power of being dangirous, but deny-
ing to them the power of being useful. (hear.)
In the law we find the dizeage, and to the revision
of the law we must look for a reroedy. (Cheers.)
Mr. TrTre., ILP.—It has fallen to my Lot to pro-
pose the next resnititint (Cheers.) I stall only
say that I fully concur its the sentiments it coetaies.
Mr. NAPPER.-- I heg leave to eesotal the reso-
lution of my noble friend, the language of which
eppears too fairly to potletray the situation of this
nnhapu island.
Count I.Viaows.sl proposed•the next resolution.
Mr. E. Bertwtex.---My Lord Duke and Gentle-
men.—ln an answer of Mr. Grattan to an address of
the volunteer, of. Ireland, I find the following ,en,