Star.
London, England, 1823-04-23 00:00:00

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN IRELAND.

Mr. C. GRANT said, he understood that his Right
Hon. Friend, the President of the Board of Trade,
had been represented to have said, in the .debate of
Thursday last, that all the Governments preceding
Lord Wellesley's. in Ireland, had been partial in the
administration of justice. He was himself fully per-
suaded his Right Hon. Friend had not intended to
make any such statement; but as an impression to
that effect had gone abroad, he was persuaded his
Right P.onourable Friend wouli now feel no objec-
tion to contradict it.

Mr. C. WYNN was most ready to do that which
his Right Hon. Friend requested, namely, to correct
the error which had gone abroad on this subject. He
certainly never did say what had been imputed to
him: what he did say was, that in the appointment
of the Marquis Wellesley to. the Government of Le-
land, he thought he saw a prospect of the unhappy
differences being put an end to by the system of con-
ciliation which would, by his Government, be adopted
towards all parties.
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Mr. PEEL said,•this was a most important sub-
ject, and one on which the Public ought to have the
fullest inforthation.. He felt it his duty to say for
himself, and on behalf of those who had acted with
him for six years, that in no instance during the
whole of that period had it ever occurred that any
partiality had been shewn to the Protestants. The
Government was always careful to inform itself, as
far as possible, of the merits of every case; and never,
in any one circumstance, had he known an instance
in which a Protestant had been preferred to a Ca-
tholic, in any case, from religious prejudices. Such
had been. the system adopted by himself—such had
been the feelings of his lamented friend the Marquis
of Londonderry—and such had been the practice of
his noble and estimable friend who was at the head
of the Irish Government during that period, he meant
Lord Whitworth, and never did a greater man exist
on the face of the earth. He felt it also his duty to
extend the same sentiments, as regarded Ireland, to
the late Attorney and Solicitor-General of Leland.
Mr. C. GRANT said, whilst he was in office, the
Lord Lieutenant never asked whether any party re-
commended to him was Catholic or Protestant.

Mr. V. FITZGERALD rose, and was about to
address the House, when
Mr. CALCRAFT rose to order.—Unless this con-
versation became general, it ought not to proceed
further. The Right Honourable Gentlemen opposite
had proceeded eulogising each other and ,their• re-
spective .Governments; and one Right Honourable
Es-Secretary had declared that his sentiments towards
the Catholics were precisely the same as those enter-
tained by his successor. Then, if that was the case,
that Right Honourable Gentleman was turned out
because his sentiments were approved of—
Mr. V. FITZGERALD rose to order.--:The Ho-
nourable Gentleman had interrupted him by rising
to order, and had himself fallen into er&'br by enter-
ing into the subject—(Hear, hear).—No; he had the
same wish as that Honourable Member had expressed,
namely, 'that this irregular conversation should pro-
ceed no furrier—(Hear, hear).
Mr. CALCRAFT acknowledged that he had been
properly interrupted by his Right Honourable Friend.
He hoped, however, if the Right Honourable Gentle-
men opposite did not again bring this subject forward
themselves, that some one on his side of the House
would, by motion, bring the subject fully before them.