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London, England, 1804-03-08 00:00:00

easy degree of retniffilefs or negligence am fie.ilrota%
ed h.—trie more efpeciaUy when we collidal. dear.
their unjudifeabk negligence may have been :tillt
cask of that great add illutirious man, the Lain.
ed - Judge. Lord Kilwarden, having been oddly
and wantonly dragged from the arms of his dough-
ter, and matfacred by thofe concerned in this rebel•
lion, to the great lofs of the Country. In the Re-
bellion of t 798, a fimilar investigation was found
utceffary, and did take place, to thE advantage
of thofe who were placed at the head of affairs
in Ireland under timilar circumnances. Ido not
proceed.in this affair from any pErilmal Motives
againtt any individual whatev et; and full now pro.
tad, as fbortly as polfible; to Rate the einem.
i fiances attending this Rebellion, which haw* created
doubts in my mind as to the propriety of condutt
, in thole wbofe duty it was to employ all the means
abd efforts in their power for its prevention and fop-
preffirm. As early as the December preceding thin
Rebellion. Mr. Emmett. one of the principal leaden,
arrived from the continent for the purpofe of join-
ing the confpiracy. By the account obtained trom
the Rebels, aothin very material tranfaired at their
general depot, till his Majedy's Metrage was freed
over Ireland. In the nitulth of July fame indiVil
deals of the lab Government underttood that certain
rebels were accultomed to atfemble its .Patrick-nreet
and Dirty-lane, where they had ailleded a deem of
blanderbuffes, pinch, piker, &c, and various ankles
of climbing. Notwithliteding this know/edges
fuels prances were allowed to go on without way
istenspeioa, on the part of Governing's, .a she
great explolion took place on th
e
itath not
t olUhe lone
mead's *ben, betides pikes add pike bandiesltata
preparations ware dikoverad for makhig gonpow.
der. This circutraaase* fo alarmed M.
their leader, that be changed his stridence, rill:
paired very *dive in making. farther prepiratimis
for fame defperate emerprife- Oa .the sad of July
be (allied forth fee the proof, of tattrikief the
Calk, and large bodies of the itelsela vim teens&
femling from various diredions. Iffeoterenstat bad
taken nu notice of this denit, wheel Inediliert that
accidentally difcovered, and, whiciaala I be-
lieve, about now pikes, and between a nod aaaoo
bali-eartridgee, ahhoogh they bad been repeat:
ally warned of their danger by perfons of reptltas
lAty. whofe *deka were very stogracioully received
in many inflames. At three old** the Commaader
in Chief received his orders, nod I lime maim to,
believe, that fade prearotioas Were taken Its to the I
Buie and Odle. The °Scent of the Bank were
called on, but, in order not to give slants it was
agreed that no meeting fhould take place till it was
dark. No kalinitation was given us the Lord Mayor
of Dahlia. The fuperintending aldermanwas hu.
Alexander. who, I am informed, &dually Cape out
of Dahlia that verynight. In the obkoce of the
Lord Limitment,wbo was at his lodge in the courtesy.
the Gentleman who had the authority neat to hits
Was Mr. Madden, who wrote to the Lord Lieute-
nant, that the guard at the Bank ought to be rein-
forced for further fecurity ; when the Lord Limns-
pant recommended him to reinforce anyr of the
guards according to his diferetion. No information
was given which was net accompanied with doubts 1
and inch was the want of elation on the part of
Government. to procure accurate informatics on
the labia% that two hours previous to the rebellion,
breaking out, their Secretary laid, he could neither
doubt nor credit the intelligence. Some have at-
tempted to throw blame upon the maitary ; at this
period Ireland was tamed to be in a daft of tran-
quillity, in Co mach that the Government thought
proper to fbfpend the Habeas Corpus Ad aid
tial Law.. It was at this time entirely a civil Go-
vernment. anehthe blame canont wholly be attached
to the Military, who were in fads* way refponfible.
I believe this to be the cafe, and that, on the otea-
lion alluded to one Magittrate, who attended the
Military, refufed' to allow them to five beeaufe he
was not in his proper jurifdidion ; In that the com-
mand was adnally gtve by 2 military officer. who
had rot prover authorinty to ad as effedually and
fpeedily as might otherwik have been done, had
the affifiance of the proper Civil Magiftraie been pro-
cured. Indeed the military were ,dually obliged
to fall back to the barracks in Jamerfireet ; use or
ders were always to endeavour not to create alarm.
and indeed the letter from the Lord-Lieutenant,
which I hold in my hand, Ihrws that he thought too
much hail alrtatly been done that might have fuch
tendency. If any blame can be attached to that
Gentleman's conduit, let it alfii be brought forward.
The public have a claim upon this Houk to have
the a hole r. uth of the nanlattion fet forth. I, who
lrrc intenigated all the fads minutely. could, I
thir.k, difplay Lath a reeve of weaknefs and indeci-
tion, as would tatted any thing of the kind ever laid
bcfote the Houk. The kith Secretary, in writing
his letters, was, on this anfortonate occafion. ran
laconic. In one of them he merely lays. ' our at-
' counts grow more ferlous ; our line march along the
canals ; and appestats:es are but uncomfortable-1—
Such was the title of writing on the eve almon of
an infurredicr, which was commenced with the
avowed intention of overturning the Irith Govern-
ment, end wh'eh attually threatened to do fo. I will
rave for lettas s eceived from the Lord-Lints: mat,
written with a degree of apathy and unconcern, of
ankh nothing bet the letters thanfelves can afford 1
an adequate idea. Is there a man here, who on ete-1
ruling thai letters, and confideting the whole ar-1
transacts of this atrocious rebellion, and is poffeffed
of any warmth of leeltno sti.hio his break who will
net be convinced of tht....-: y little anxiety manifeflcd
for time public lafety ? At dace o'clock. the Lord-
Lieutenant conceived lomied fairly guarded by a
lit itant and ten Into i at ides o'clock, he bad an
°slicer and thirty men i : i .1 at eleven o'clock, he
?ignited an addition of ti:tr dragoon', with a pro.,
p •iti.l,...tic number of i dart: y. In Item it sill ap-
pear that, at el :Ten o'clock at night, Government
became nneeh mare 3 ppte.cr.five of their danger
t!...tn at th: se o'clock. lo ctaideti.,g all there'
tads. I would with to trace lours principles on
a hie, C einitterd t• i.ls: he kid to have sided ;
hot the ,nly rirtiple • h rh I hive been able to
r' ire a‘ Cr ' •t. t!!C t:t!it.: • : not e ri.v.ng alarm.—Thi‘,
6 ,n a moderate Jcnie,. ma'., no d.t.ht, he deemed eon-
; o.te- rig' c. and pr. -,cr ; 1,4 it is tinily mkt aloe to et,.
: .. -vow: to forwent cr.nyt from briny; committed
. ,ti to-ponsitt them %.1i.:11 att...,11f pripettited.—
I ' ils a cAndull. on the pin Id (l.,vitnrr.int. may
jban tit.liimitca front a ashy to dstiover the authors

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• out proetede ; het to in
niptZgrever, the impropriety oft: a ma-
. t be more periperly ealettlidifiede *at by:
Or on the unfortunate smitten' whit% was she
nce of loch proceedingp—l listen the death
of tbemuch_lamented Lard rd warden. It ha* been
kid, that the murder of this Learned Judge was a
circomilmos which wasratnely accidental.; and that
the whole was merely a contemptible riot. lam
alloniffied that any individual can think of affixing
firth a denomination to a Rebellion which, from all
appearances, was ftcretly tarried on by our molt in-
veterate enemy, for the ezprelli purpe* of overturn-
ing the Government of beheld, end the Conflketion
of this country! I would link to ark what It was
which lied induced this Houk to pall the Dills for
the Sufpenfion of the Habeas Corpus AA, and to
pet Ireland under martial law ?- Did seat Govern-
Ment then find theMfklves fonstwitat embartaffed to
hire& reafims to jnalfy the adoption of Catch Riong
Meafures. What watformatly denominated in this
Houk a awing eonfpiraet againa the church and
(tate, had, now wonderfully dwindled into a eon-
temptible tint. If the threatened danger was IV cx
tenfive and fo important as was formerly *fledged by
Government dismfelves, during the lalt feline, they
ought to have tram better prepared for the (upped-
lion of [Mr Pinto Let at. however. not reft tank-
ed with any trivial invelligadon of this bufineff, but
judge from the fags is they !hall he proved by evi-
&tact at the bar. 'limn. therefore, gentled. with
asmiingt, " that this Hoek do rekive Well into a
Committee of the whole Hoeft, in ordkr to enquire
into the modua of the.Croverismeat of kelaads
tim to the inferreano of the seti of Joles mitithe
rimiest coedit& of that Goemstnestio ne-fter as tte
Imes to that important event." -
Lord CASTLEREAGH.—" Sr; W under-
Rand the Hon. Baronet, he has founded his motion
for this enquiry ma nveligation. onnething elk
than fame waplied mikentiot% in the Government of
Ireland, in regard to the infuntOitio of the atd of
July kik. He has vat, I think. adhered, io the ma-
ret of his infestations, to ail that enemy and int-
partiality which he feemed, on fern oecalions. to
etprefs towards this fide of the Hoek If there
really vine any degree of blame attached' Co any ,
quarter. I have toe well confide red the importance
of the event. and the high refpoofibility of Goyim-
ment. to think of flatting any reafun in efn
motion for enimirt into the tonduft ef thefelfbitl
have been incarnated in this unfortunate affair-, bill* I
however, that the Hun. Baronet will recolleasanst
beg the Houle to recoiled alto, that from the very_
first mciment this rUbjett was broached in this place,
his Pdajelty's bbniflers Rated it to be their opinion;
that no blame whatever attached to may individoaf
entrulled with the management of his Majelty's Go.
ternment in Ireland, either civil or military. Had
the Hon. Baronet thought proper to bring forward
his motion net tentatively, bat (pacifically, it might
have been entitled to more regard, and attended wuji
more fitted's. Without entering into any minute
enquiry. the farts connefted with that tranfaSion
mug undoubtedly be of fufficient notoriety to difcofs
the guano, whether or not there be ground of se-
cufation againa any particular perfon, were the quef-
ties to be put to iffue on that particular point ? Ac
far as his Majefty's blinillers arc concerned, they
have uniformly denied that any blame attaches en
the part of his Majelly's GOVeIIIMCIIt in Ireland;
end they have always (aid. that thofe who are .in-
tlined to make that matter a fubjeat of enquiry. may I
Make it a matter of diftinft enquiry, and tux cake- I
live and general. as in the prefent intlance. At, to
the matter of expediency. if I fball be ablelofatisfj.,
the Houk, that there is no fair ground to _impute
blame to any quarter, I Sall go this fir, that it is
not the duty of blinillers to inflitute any 'squirt,
I Merely for the purport of caabharing, to the fatif-
&Simi of the public, that no blame is imputable to
any perfon whatever. There may be fame Indivi-
deals who have a cleft canneltion with the tranfae-
non, who mar with that fame, invelligation lhould
tyke place. own, tint If gliityfelf were an a fintilar
Puratton, I Should .rifh. for my own juftification,
that enquiries Should be made. Private feelings,
I however, are totally inconfißent with Parliamentary
I confider itions, nr what it is our duty in this place
Ito indulge. hueh wifhes. in individuals, conllitute,
I mull own. but an uncertain criterion of the real
fart ; but, fu.ely, to an unprejudiced mind, tbofc
feelings muff b • the litongelt, where the molt ccm.
petent innocence .. rids ; where this is the cafe, it is
certainly unneceffai y to coniume the those of Parlia-
ment in filch inve;ligrainus. A. to the policy of this
enquiry, if there be not Krung grounds to ellithlith
neglea and incapacity, it would go to affeft Lord
Hardwicke's Adminillration, which w, old be afting
totally inconfiflent with real 'plaice, as it would be
utterly impogilde for the Noble Lord to attend at
the bar of this lioufe, in order to juttlify himfelf
from any accufations which might thus b.: laid again a
him, his time bring wholly taken up in the admint
Citation of attain in Ireland (a /Gad cry of hoar! h:ar!)
Before filch A Rep can be taken, they mull fall be
convinced, that they can make out fuch a degree of
blame, to the fatisfaaion of Pa:liar:tent, as would
make it expedient to wilidraw I.ord Hardwicke
from the Government of Ireland, in order that he
might be prefent at an enquiry which would f.. ma-
terially affell his interefl. But it is no. the Lord
Lieutenant alone which fuch an enquiry would ne•
ceffarily touch upon, but all the other Officer. who
were in Dublin at the time; and the affairs of Govern.
ment in that emir try moil be chnspleatly frifprnded
br the nectlEary abEnee of every individthrl conneacri
with it. Ido not mate theft circumitances as gmunds
for not entering into this enquiry, hut for the puipnce
of Ihewing,that it no I.:itisfaftory cafe of criminll ne-
glea Ire made out,the Houk ear.not, in ittllise either to
the individuals themfelees, or to she ithab.tants nf Ire-
land, grant fuck an enquit y upon the groundswhich the
Hon. Baronet bad Rated. 1 rola. my ~it at pr-lint
fully prepared to enter into a refutci• tr of VAIIWJ'•
pAttlClliar‘ of the charges. The flit I`, li.;ot o,e
load Lieutenant and his Goseinmeiti %%tie ti..allv
ignorant of the real fituation I aff.tirs cluot r y ;
that they were &O .: ; and totally inc. if
tinguiflong 'he riattoe • f any informei n given to
them ; and further, that they Lad the !...bi;
.4 itirii•g ItAterni•nts tot.illy incontinent s. fill I.e rt..!
fittiatirm tit ; diJ not truly apott:l.:te ti cis ie.
degree tfJsug.r which thteatcned them; and con•
fecuteraly that • hry did not tak aslerrate and ,atif-
factory mr,alures is; order to ward of confequeoces.

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There are, I think, the meaning and fenpe of the
Hon. Baronet's charges. As to the general manner
in which the charge has been doted. imoll certainly
deprecate filch a mode of accufation, while I can lay
that no part of the condo& or language of Govern-
ment in refpeit to Ireland, can rage any prefump-
dun that they were fiery: either to be inattentive or
earelefs about the fafety of that country. I can con-
fidently Clete. that all the tranfadions which &Row-
ed, have Uniformly tended to corroborate the fad,
that the view which Government took of the fitua-
non of Ireland was corred and proper. They Rated,.
that Ireland, when compared with its former thus-
non, was eminently loyal and tronquil • and that the
fituation of the country was filch, that ;he laws could
elfily be adminlfiered in the ufualniannet : in fliort,
that no extraordinary meafures were thought necefa
Cary to be adopted on the part of Government, fob
the welfare or ftwority of the country. I would site
any man in this Houfe, if furl espreffiona as thefe,,
on the part of Government; could be confirmed to.
imply, that fuch a miracle had been wrought upon
that country, as that all the feeds of rebellion and
difcord had been fuddenly. and at once, rooted out
°from the minds doll its inhabitants ? I can venture
to fay, that no wonderer dropped from any indivi-
dual which could jellify fuch an interpretation. No;
it is impolfible that fuch a eonlitudion can be put
'upon any thing that pared on any oceafion. 'There
were no fuchArivlers in the Government of that
country. It is but justice to the Noble Lord who
prefidea at the had of that Government to Rate
to Parliament, that he did, on one oecafioo, fubmit
to his Majeay's hfutiften, that on gavial
he had fome proofs of a annals degree of dirsT g
adoo
lion prevag it as a iling INN in that column whhout at all
peein court of atarin. tbat any harfh
ontafores ought to be taken. Upon the renewal of
war, Ahem Noble Lord called to the attention of
Manglers, whether, ender the, tabard meellion of
expediency, it foie* not be a sneafure of preeinstion.
previous to the reparation of. Parliament,Bli to revive
aie forpenfion of the Halmos Corpus t ? Lord
Hardwiche'saniad was is no relped milindomso the
real fitvatfei of then • reentry, and hi, Kajolites
Governinent, is my niainidas•adalawd a wife thci-
fion in not exereifing •any extinnedfiaarY meatdren
at the time when every ma* in Itt agnotr, was •
united in loyalty, along with out' Ares ha Its.
land, .asainft the common enemy... We laded upon
pionces which tended to remove all jealoufy or
tufpioiaa, swill we firould fensideat more eigisroon•
Reps oftwilly amid •beconse iter.offary. Chn
whole, therefore, I belle it will thus appear. that
Lord Hardivicke did not take fuels an unwire viewer
the function of Ireland, as to late that it was a
country merely inhabited by thole who were
andthat it was impoflible that any meafttres could be
taken by any of the people, to ad againft the State.
I beg to put in my plea in bar of the charge, as to
the want either of rigour or ability, or of exertion
on the part of Government. I know that is the be-
ginning of the first rebellion in Ireland, it was found
to be alma impoilible to obtain information as to
what was going forward, beeaufe the [yam of ter
ror had been fo faceefsfully efiablithed in that coun-
try, that the dread of afragination prevented every
perfon from venturing to divulge any ferret mediae
of the rebels. Now, what was the fituationof things
in the prefect instance? The explofion in Patrick-
area Rift brought the confpiracy to light, and was
indeed the eaufe which induced the rebels to put
their fehemes into execution precious to their own
plot being matured. The &ergo was finitely con-
fined to the perrons who had prifreffion of that depot.
and the numbernf thefe was not mope than eight in
all, fo that it is net wonderful that the eonfpiracy did
not find its way to Government Corner than it did.
When this ferret had patted the confines of the depots
it induced others to ad upon it, and the determine-
don of the rebels was only taken on the 23d of July.
An application was made by thofe rebels to tilde
friends io the North, upon the ath. and our Go-
vernment were in pofieffinn of fome of their Inn-
tiGns on the 2111, 22d, and 33c1, from various chan-
nels of communicationin Dublin. There is no pre-
fumption whatever which can jollity the Recutation
of want of ability, exertions. or energy en the part
of Government, in developing that melon, and fol.
lnwino it up in all its ramifications. In examining
the amount of any danger we mug look at it in tome I
point which will enable us to confider whether the
quantum of rerr.cdy is adequate to the danger. As
to the prefamplive danger on this occafion. I have
already laid the plot was not determined on by Mr.
Emmet and his affociates till after the eeplofion
and, after the failure of all other means, they were
refolred to try Come other method of procuring arms.
Govonment knew that the people in the North itsd
been applied to. and that the application had been
coldly rectived, fa that the report as to the N atit
ono that the people had refuted to eo•operate with
the iebel.c. 'rite Counties of Kildare and Wicklow.
and only one barony in the former rebdlirus county
01 WestOrd, alone countenanced die rebels. It was
than th: fiat and moll natural conflagration of o-
G
veramtnt, that there was an armed body within
Dublin futlicient to all appearance to execute their
poirpole of defence, and to cenbarrats fuch rebel-
linos emerprifes. Mr. Emmet was a young Maar
as appeared on his trial, or a moll heated and tin:la-
dy torn of mind. and laid rucceciled to about three
thoufand pounds, on the death of his father. Th''
ruin he thought proper wholly to embark In en&r•
'outing to overturn-the frith Govermment. and er
tainly enjoyed peat ads antagas over all the at:
confpirators, who were always under die necedio •
horrooing to acoompigh their vies... He mod to
ailocittesehen proceeded to the fabrication of Fitt •
and the numb:: of thefe weapons, according to doe
bca di,' not esceed ;coo. This is pc-
coming to Eruniet's own account. th.ugh the Han•
lart,n,t has calf.:) the niarther 8000. t centaiely
Iv.‘cr Jid enter int.. Fn ntves'rlertl mind that the
mvof milk n; f tt cf.! tato, and putting them iota
many bloc Icgitards, was to .IC the
ol.row of the Govan:tient. knowing that thin
eto a.t agatrat replier troops. Mr. En*
et flotd. that 1., vas much ,darned. at one
eta Le found boutell at the head if only eightf
n • a ; AL?, at anothcr titre. -here were only meaty:
".re General (rticets. who all retort,.
oam:). (.1 iskl Even fuppofing tirt
.11r•e had hce-t c.ght ti.. 941.1141 rebels, the gam( -
ssh•.h was tn Dotlin was amply fufficirnt t.
dttvc dim out of the town ; Co that the danger *a