The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-04 00:00:00

cip'es, had the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite known his
own strength and value as a Protestant, he might have
carried on the Government for many a long ye tr yet to
come. (Hear.) If the Noman Catholics would only be
satisfied by receiving the concessions for which they how
clamoured, no one wouldbe more ieady than he should be
to grant their drmanTr;,. (Hear, hear.) But we have the
mods of their greatest leaders to prove to us, that they
iVotthl not be satisfied with such concessona, and those
%voids delivered not more than two or three days ago: He
would not allude further to the individuals who had said
so, because there was an accumulation of evidence Upon
evidence that the Roman Catholics only iean.ted admission
into the two Houses of Parllameut, to tear down the Pro-
testant Church of P.-eland in the first instance, and when
that ;bas accomplished, to tear down the Protestant
Church of England in the next. What, he Vro.uid ask, had
one of the most influential Mt.lmps of the Roman Catholic
Church said upon t!'.7i very topic? (Hear.) He had writ-
ten th.:.4,-‘"lhe church of Ireland must fall ;—and I like
emancipation, because that measure will accelerate its fall,"
(Loud cries of Hear, hear.)—lt had be=at Mid, however,
that he coull know nothir7 of the present state of Ireland,
because it had freer: tl:3 lot to live for so many years in India.
To this at...tertian he would reply, that the present question
was not a mere Irish question : it affected the constitution
not only of Ireland, but of the whole British empire. He
was himself an Irishman---his family, hi, connexions, his
property were all Irish. He had attended the recent
triumphal entry of his Noble Friend at Limerick, sod
therefore was not altogether a stranger to the feelings of
his countrymen. He wished that he could get for them all
that they wished (hear, and a laegh), lint it was perhaps'
as well for their own sakes that he could not.—(Hear.)

A short speech was then delivered by an Hon. Member
uin!er the gallery. of which nwt a single syllable reached us.
Colonel It OCHFORT was surprised at the unwarrantable
attack made by some of the preceding speakers on the con-
duct of his gallant friend (General Archdall), who was not
present to def'nd himself. He would tell the Hon. Mem-
ber, to whom he alluded, that there was not a day in the
week in which his gallant friend did not, by his active bene-
volence, do more good in Ireland than these gentlemen would
ever do by all the speeches which they might ever make
during the continuance of their lives.

Mr. BROUGHAM wished the Gallant Officer to in-
fcrm him whether, in the remarks which he had just made,
he was alluding to the Right lion. Member for Liverpool
or to himself ?

Colonel ROCIIFORT—To both.—(Hear, and a laugh.)

Mr. BROUGHAM—I only asked the question, be-
c Luse I was anxious to know how far I was to consider
myself entitled to a share in the compliment which the
Gallant Officer paid to the preceding speakers.—(Hear.)
—He then proceeded to observe, that at the time when he
was addressing the House, he was not aware that the Gal-
lant General was not in the House. He really thought
that he had seen the Gallant General in his place. Ile
should have avoided speaking so decidedly as he had done,
if he had known that the Gallant General was absent.
Ha begged, however, that it might be distinctly under-
/I:, ad that he was not to idame for the allusion which he had
made to the Gallant General. He had made the Gallant
General his witness as to the feelings which existed out of
do..rs in some quarters on this subject ; and a more un-
questionable witness it was impossible to find. It was
nveless to suppose t'il%t he had applied his remarks to the
Gallant General himself. At the same he must say, that
when he heard the Gallant General stating that the Pro-
testants of Ireland were ready to fight the Catholics, and
when lie recollected that the Protestants of Ireland looked
up to the Gallant General as the leader of their body and
the representative of their feelings, he felt that the state-
ment of Gallant Ganeral as to the feelings of the Pro-
testants of Ireland was too important to be passtd over
without consideration by Parliament.
Mr. HUSKISSON admitted that while he was speak-
ing, he had looked to that part of House in which the
gallant General usually sat, and fancied that he saw the
gallant General in his place. 17e did nut mean his re-
marks i.. apply to the gallant General himself.

The petition was then Drought up, and ordered to he
printed.
Mr. BROWNLOW prcxented four petition=, with a
mimilar prayer, from thrte parish::s in the county of Antrim.