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were prefent, to enktfs their fentiments rcrpeeting
its necetlity or expediency. He had, in another
cage of die Bill, given it his concurrence ; but he
had fince received information from his conftituents
which induced him to believe that there did not
es& that neceffity for the meafure which he at firfl
was taught to believe, pr at kaftthat it was not
neceffary that it fhould be generally applied to every
part of Ireland. He had lately received docu
=cuts from the county (Monaghan) which he had
the honour to repretent, theft documents he beg-
ged leave to read to the Houfe. They confined
of letters from the Lord Lieutenant to the Fore-
owl of the Grand Jury of that county, and of the
.Foreman's anfwers to thole letters, flitting that the
county of Monaghan was in a flue of as perfell
tranquility as could well be expelled, and that
ab .-e exidcd in it no necelfity for the coercive mea-
fore now pmpofed. Such alto he believed to be
the opinion of the Judges in, Ireland, or fuch at
Deaf he farmifed was their opinion—that opinion
tc:lld at lea!! be confulted, and the abfolute ne-
cetfity of the meafure fhould be fully and fatisfac.
torily made out before he could affent to any pre-
cipitate furtherance of the Bill, efpecially in the ab-
fence of the Members for Ireland ; though in this,
as in molt other meafures propofed by hisMajefty'a
Islinifiers, he had hitherto uniformly given them
his fupport.
Mr. Las infifted on the immediate necaty of
the meafure, and declared it as his opinion, that
at no future period of the Seflion there would be a
fuller attendance of Irith Members than at the pre-.
fcm moment.
Mr. Aaiunr obferved, that thole who intended
to obiell to the principle of the Bill, would, have
feveral opportunities of fo doing ; for example, on
the report and upon the third reading. His re-
gard to his public duty required that the Bill fhould
meet with no unnecetfary delay ; his with therefore
was to pars it through the Committee as foon as
priffible, that k might nand before the Houle with
all its amendments for farther confederation.
Dr. LA WAENCE deprecated any precipitancy in
the ditcuffion of fo important a meafure.
Mr. At EX A N DEI. was for the Bill being now com-
mitted.
The Hon. C. W. STUART expelled a fuller at-
tendance of the Members for Ireland, to-morrow,
and anxiouily withed that the farther difcuffion of
the Bill be deferred till then.
Mr. BAGWELL raw no reafon for fuch an expec-
tation.
The quetlion was then put, that the Speaker do
now leave the Chair, and carried without adivifion.
, The Hoare having refolved itfelf aceardingly
into the Committee upon the BiU, Mr. Bragge in
the Chair, ✓
Mr. A ssovr propnfed that the Bill be continued
in force during the prefent war, and for one month
After the ratificatiou of peace.
~ Mr. W. B7Pos som av upon hearing this amend-
-meat immediately rote and moved,That the Chair-
Alan do now leave the Chair.
. Mr. Dawson repeated his wifh• and his argu-
punts for the deferring the further difcuifion of
the Bill. •
Mr. G coact Pore sowsr raid that, from a variety
of motives, he had hitherto forborne to rnanifeft
any oppofition to the Bill : its neceffity Teemed to
be felt and acknowledged by the lenient and hu-
mane Nobleman who had jug withdrawn from
the Government of Ireland. Such alfo appeared
to be the fixed and general opinion of the Mem-
bers for Ireland and of the majority of the Houle ;
and an opinion fo fupported he was not much in-
clined to oppofe, though in his own mind he wholly
difapproved of the meafure. Bnt his helitation to
oppole it was now completely done away, by hear-
ing the monflrous claufe which was jut propofed
to be introduced ioto the Bill.
Mr. BRAGGa reminded the Hon. Gentleman,
that the Motion before the Honk was, That the
Chairman do now leave the Chair.
Mr. Poe/1011SY conceived himfelf to he pedal!),
in Order, in making die obfervations he was juft
offering to the Committee. He would therefore
repeat, that the Claufe now propofed was a moll
monftrons Claufe from its unconftitutional nature,
and moll fatal from its political conlequences.—
Without any proof of its neceflity. it aimed at de-
priving Ireland, for an indefinite time, of the be-
nefit of the Whiffs Conftitution, while it expofed
a whole nation io the horrors of Martial Law., It
alfo informs the enemy, that as long as the war
confined, fo long Mould they find in a great por-
tion of the people of Ireland, fixed, determined,
and seat us allies, and-that during the protrac'ted li
continuance of the contra, the enemy might find
'an opportunity of throwing in troops to refcue
them from the (nips-a-lion that was to be heaped
upon them. The enaehrent of loch a meafure alfo
ful pored, that the Trill, people continued fo
nntwithftanding all the boalled advantages
of the Uniott, that. they would fill continue the
fired friends and warm advocates of France. Such •
was the unconftitutional nature and fatal policy
of the meafure, while nothing appeared to.jullify
the monftrousClanfe that was to (lamp it with
this charader. Had not Parliament the power to
renew it every year, if its renewal was found to be
neceffary ? Might not a Secret Committee be ap-
pointed next Salon, and the Bill be renewed, if
the Report of that Committee recommended its
renewal? Were there the mild, impartial meafures
that the People of Ireland were taught to expea
from an Imperial Parliament, not warped by local
prejudices or religious aniznofities, loch as their
Own Parliament was Cuppofed to he influenced by?
Can the People of Ireland expel a kind parental
Legiflature from a Parliament that fubjells them
animal °deity to military law, and to the moil
revere and oppreffive treatment that the molt re-
fentful Government can infliel on the moll rebel-
lions ?
':arc CH A%CtLLOR of the Exc 14 t(),V TR raid that if
he l,ad ben called upon, when he flat endeavour.
ed to catch the Chairman's eye, Ile would have
raved the Honourable Gentleman the trouble of
makit,g the animated fpeech v.Lich he had juft de-
livered The people of Ireland. he trufted, &mild
always find in the prefent Adminifiratiost a kind
and. parental Government. such were the fenti I
menu which aauated Lia Majcfty's Minifters when