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EPSUCI SIXPENCE..

their i.ordthips'aPprehenfions by ejaborate clamp
lieu, of the Rate of that part of the country ; but
what confidence Could their Lordfhips rarely place
on Noble Loads who, however ;epee:table their
charaiflers, Cotild not. but be influenced- in fame
degree by their local prejudices.?
..As little, could
their Lordfhips ?lice .their confidence. on . the ftep
port of a Committee. whicl was a fetret one, and
drew their conclufionsfneet fies..of which thkit
Lordfhips had no knowledge whatever. Anothe;
reafon that had induced their Lordliipsto.fifs the
laft Bill, was the confideratiou that the applica-
' tion and exercife of the powers given by the Bill,
were to be vetted in the hands of a Lord Lieutenant
—acknowledged on all hands to be not lefs dillin7
guifhed for his moderation. lenity, and humanity,
as a Magillrate, than for his firmnefs, fhill, and
bravvy, as a Commander. The Noble Lord in
quefton (Marquis Cornwallis) had, the Earl ob-
ferved, been recalled from his I ayation, and though
he had never heard any thing of the Noble Earl
appointed his fucceffor, that did not redound to hi*
honour, Rill it was to be remembered that hewat
a perfect &anger to the country, and to the ha-
bits, cufloms, opinions, and prejudices, of its inhtt-
bitants. Ittihad of continuing a meafure In revere',
fo oppreffive, and fo arbitrary, which had. been
conferred to have failed altogether, and which to,
all appearance rather incrrafed and confirmed the
difaffeetion of the Irifh to the Government, than,
climinifhed it, his Lordfhip thought it would be,
better policy to ufe meafures of conciliation and
kindnefs—He not only denied that the country it.
felt called for a renewal of the Bill; his Lordfhip
read an extraft from the opinion of a Migifirate
annexed to one of the Reports, who Paid, if Go-
vernment thought it necelfary to continue Martial
Lase, he would continue to aft under that fyllem.
This, his Lordfhip conceived, to amount to a de-
claration, that the magiftrate pinned his faith op
Government, and adopted Martial ,Law merely,
becaufe they chore to enforce it. He-complained
in pointed terms of the oppreffion and injua ice that
had been praelifed under the operation of the pill.
The Judge Advocate, fo far from being a lawyer,
and a per qualified to take care that line jullice
was done to the unfortunate individuals who came•
to be tried before the Tribunal of a Court-martial,
' it appeared that frequently the Judge Advocate
had been a Lieutenant, and in feveral inflances an
Enfign. He appealed to their Lordihips whether.
it was proper that an Enfign. perhaps .a boy of
fifteen years of age or under, incapable by law to
fell twenty fhillings worth of land, iliould be the.
perfon to decide upon the nature of ev;cientehi
which the life of -.t man was to depend? His Lord•
fhip added many other Rrong obfervations. ana
concluded with declaring, that he would ' vote
I. againft -the Bill. .
' Vifconnt Lnexerca in reply faid, if,ihe bleible
• Earl refuted to place his confidence in thet relations.
of thofe Noble Lords who had refided chiefly in.
Ireland, whofe property was there lituateds and
whole ref able charaeters and familiar acquain-
i tance with the cuttoms, conduet and prejudices of
the Irith, rendered them the moll competent to
bear teftimony to the urgent neceffity that called
for continuing the Bill ; and if the Noble Earl.
went fill further, and denied his confidence tG
their Lordfhips' own Committee, con fill ing of many
of the moll enlightened Members of that Houfe,
and feveral of the beg informed Peets from Ire-
land, where were they to conceive the Noble Earl
expected Each information to be colleaed and ob- ,
tained, that he could place confidence in as to the
' fate of Ireland ? Was it from traitors in Ireland ?
' From the murderers, affallins and robbers of that
country? -Or was it from the cold blooded and
lukewarm neutrals, men who without being attua.;
ted by any one principle of loyalty or attachment
to the Government, merely held back from avow.
ing themfelves the partifans of rebellion, till they
taw which fide proved firongeft ? Was it from any
of thefe defcriptions that the Noble Earl derived
the information on which he grounded the opinions
he entertained, that there was s. neoefaty for
continuing Martial Law in Ireland I With refpeet
to what the Noble Earl hadlaid about an Enfign
' having aCted at Judge Advocate on the trial of
come of the Repels before Courts Martial, and fog-
gelled that fueh lEnfigns were boys of, fifteen, he
would not, his Lordlltip raid, take upon him to
affert that in no inhances °Ricers had not, from
neceffity, ailed as Judge Advocates ; he would
neverthelefs confidently afl'ure the Houfe, that no
Enfign of immature age, nor any under thirty 'or.
forty years old, had ever alted in that capacity,
and he would def.), the Noble Earl to prove the
contrary. In the county of Limerick, a county-
with which he had for many years been connefted,
as his property lay in it, their Lordihips would'
fee. from the Appendix to the Report of their on*
Committee, that Mr. Ormlby, a man of known
refpeaability and high reputation, had seed .0
Judge Advocate upon moll of the trials before the
Courts Martial, and to far in fad were the rebels
from Wng deprived of the benefit of legal advice
and affiftanee, that there had fcarcely been i fingle'
trial on which they had not had the enhance of
Counfel of the fire eminence in Ireland. as they:
had always plenty of money, and were fo well pro-
vided with the means of feting Lawyers, that there
was nor a legal trick, quirk, or quibble. that had
not been fined repeatedly in their behalf. His
Lordflsip Paid, the Bill was abfulutely indicts-Alia.
bly neceffa forthe proteetion of the loyal pan of
his Maieft s Cubjeas, whore lines and properrie.,
Couldnot premed without fuch a meafure he.
ing continued. He conchrded with expretling his.
thanks to the Houfe for the indulgence they flit
on this, as well as on a former occa‘on, flsewn hint.;
and faid he would detain the Houfe no long* than
to declare he tbould vote for the tai.—Lrxrn MT., •