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to-night, had he imderstood, been tentweed. The MI Vie en-
grossed, and nAght•be passed to-night If the Moose thought SO
He must be allowed to say, that he thOogli, the delay which
Ministers hod-used cm the subject, was the ststriesst pledge they
could have given of their milieus desire to make Ole existing law
answer the pu of restoring tranquillity to Ireland. As to
passing the BillZwitrthout giving the House 'time to deliberate,
the measures proposed were so well known to every one, and
had been so repeatedly adopted, that every Heideman was well
acquainted with them. There had been measures equally im-
portant, passed with equal rapidity; and if the Bla now pro-
posed was at all necessary, it was desirable to pass it with as little
delay as possible. The Noble Marquis again adverted to the
Catholic Claims. He should be ready to discuss all Irish Wain.'
during the present -Session ; and this, amongst others, if it was
brought forward. But as a sincere well-wisher to that measure,
he hoped it would not be brought forward, whilst the country
was in its present state of ferment. As to leaving the discre-
tionary power hi the hands of the Marquis Wellesley, how-
ever highly be might think of the talents of his Noble Friend, he
could net consent to raise him to the dignity of a Dictator. And
although the modern Greeks might be ready to erect Dictators
whenever it suited their purposes. he would never consent to
committing such an unconstitutional power to any individual.
—Much bad been said of the powers of the Insurrection Act,
and it bad been said the powers it vested in the Magistrates ought
to be restricted. He could not understand suck an argument.—
This was an unconstitutional law, and if the Statute-hook was
to be disgraced by such an Act, for Heaven's sake, let it be an
Act equal to the purpose it professed, and not so model it as to
render it an insult and a mockery on the people. The Noble
Lord then proceeded to answer the arguments of Mr. Brougham
against the Insurrection Act.. It was not. as the Learned Gen-
tleman had described it, an 'Act which gave to the Magistrates
a power of immediately transporting any man whom they might
choose to Botany Bay. The fact was, that it was necessary that
three Magistrates should agree ; and that they should be aided
by the Assistant Barrister of the county, controuled by a King's
Serjeant : and surely, although the Hon. Gentleman had de-
scribed the Magistrates as corrupt, be would not think so badly
of his own profession as to suppose the Assistant Barrister
would be so? But, even supposing that Gentleman should be
affected by his intercourse with this corrupt Magistracy, what
would be said of the King's Serjeant ? The Hon. and Learned
Gentleman had said, that in the papers on the table, he found
no trace whatever of that distressing state of things which, it was
contended, called for the measures in agitation • and undoubt-
edly he did not; and his Majesty's Ministers felt that they should
have betrayed their duty to the country, and their duty to the
Marquis Wellesley, if they had suffered publicly to transpire
those views of the existing state of things, upon which he had
felt it proper to refer to the Crown the propriety of originating
the measures now in question. Ministers could not have
brought those views under the notice of the House, without
exposing the views entertained by his Lordship, It a more
naked shape to the Public than was advisable—{hear, hear).—
" But," continued the Noble Lord, " I here, as a Minister of
the Crown, acting in that capacity upon my own responsibility,
in Parliament, do declare that I have not taken any step, except
at the desire and at the earnest request of that person who is
more immediately to be considered as the head of the Govern-
ment of Ireland. And Ido here deliver the solemn reqtu st of
Marquis Wellesley to this House, that if you would wish him to
perform those high duties which he is called upon to discharge,
you will give him those high and extensive powers which have
been given to his prLdecessers in former instances." Ile had
the satisfaction, it, conclusion, of stating that thew Bala had
come over to England, not only approved of by the Marquis
Wellesley himself, but after having been prepared by the present
Attorney-General of Ireland.
Mr. BROUG II A M explained.
Mr. BROWNE then addre.sed the House ; but th;.• reiterated
cries of " Question, question" and" Spoke," rendered him to-1
Itally inaudible in the gallery.
The House was th.n cleared for a division ; whirh took place:
For bringing in the Bill, 93—Agaii.st it. 63—Majority, ltl7.
During the exclusion of str.mg, is, another division took pl:.ee
on the question that the Bill be read a brat time. The numbers
were understood to be,
For the first reading, 202—Against it, 44—Majority, 152.

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Tha second reatlin wof the Bill was then agreed to itli,,ut a
division. But on the question for printing the Bill, the I loase
again divided. The numher• were stated to be,
For the printing, 14::—Against it, 25—Majority, 117.
Dlr. SPRING 11 ICE intimated that he should feel bound to
take the sense of the House upon the Bill's now going into a
Committee.

The :Marquis of LONDONDERRY expressed a wish, that
the Ilcut. and Learned Gentleman would not persist in his mo-
tion, but aih:w the 11111 to pass its several stages to night, so that
it might be seta up to the other liaise to-morrow, receive the
Royal Sanction on Ssturday, and be transmitted to Ireland this
The Mon. and Learned Gentleman could nut gravely
persist in his motion.
- dlr. DENMAN said, that he would use his privilege as a
Member of the hawse,- and oppose the passing of the bill to-
night. if the Noble Lord pet gated in his determinatiou of pressing
it. Such a measure as this, involvieg the lihetties and tights of
a great country, ought not to pass like a formal Indemnity 13111,
to which DO objections could be made, and on which no informa-
tion was required. Powers like those gru..ted by this Bill ought
not to be granted without the fullest deliberation, and he was
surprised at the tone of levity which the Noble Lord employed
on a question so grave and momentous. lie concluded by giving
notice, that if the Noble Lord persisted in bis motion, he would
employ the forms of the House to prevent such a precipitae vote.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, as the Lion. and
Learned Gentleman intended to employ those forms m Lich nii,lit
.top the passing of the Insurrection Pill to-right, he would not
press it, but would only beg that the other Bill (the Ilaheas
Corpus Suspension) might be allowed without opposition to pass
through the same stres, that both might proceed together.
This motion was agreed to.
The Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill was introduced, read a
first and second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow.
The llouae adjourned at a Quarter past One o'Clock. 1