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rated out of the house than within its walls. Blame meat
much as you may for endeavouring to restore to Ireland that
legislature of which she was so basely swindled and so cri-
minally deprived. I thank you.for giving me this other op-
portunity of informing the youth of Ireland how it was that
their national independence was annihilated. - I confidently
hope that the lesson will not be thrown away • and whilst I
keep the boiling of their young
blood within legal and con-
stitutional channels, I have no fear but that in due time they
will remember that Ireland was a nation, and must be a na-
tion again—either by being embodied upon equal terms by
the British community, or by obtaining equal rights and li-

berties for themselves.
If this were the place for it, I could prove by historical
documents that the Irish parliament was, beyond any com-
parison, more independent, anti evinced more instances of
disinterested patriotism, in the course of a few years, than did
the parliament of England from the accession of the House
of Brunswick to the death of George the Fourth.
If Iliad flour talent for calling scoundretv what -shortirfl
say of the British parliament that passed a vote of approba-
tion of the \Valcheren expedition ?---that voted as a matter
of fact that a pound note and a shilling were equal in value
to a golden guinea, at the very time that every member in
the holise, who happened to have a guinea in gold, could at
once obtain for it a thirty shilling note of the bank of Eng-
land ?—and, above all, that passed a vote of approval of the
sanguinary massacre of men, women, and children—aye, of
English men, English women, and English children, by the
yeomanry and army at Manchester!
Scoundrels, indeed !—why, the Irish parliament rise in the
comparison, almost beyond the powers of calculation!
Look, however, to modern times. Since 1829, the Irish
people at large have participated in the representation of
their own country. Compare the conduct of the majority of
the Irish representatives since that period with that of the
English members, and you will find we have voted for every
extension of public franchise or privilege, and for-the dimi-
nution of every public burthen, whilst the majority of th•
English' members, in most instances, have voted directly the
other way. _ _ .

There is no reason in the world why I should not be con-
vinced that if the union were revealed to-morrow, the mem-
bers of the Irish parliament would not (to say the least of
them) be as honest, as intelligent, as independent, and as
patriotic, as any men who have ever sat in the British House
of Commons. _

You are next pleased to propose your remedial mrasures
for Ireland. In the first place, after twining through all
possible mazes of culinary metaphors, you gravely suggest
that I should apply to parliament to confileate to the profit
of the poor of Ireland the tithes of the Irish Union peers,
and the pay and pensions al:d other br:bes, of the majority
who carried the Union. _ .

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This would, indeed, be a wretched provision for the Irish
people. Ido not know what value could be set upon the
titles which were obtained in exchange for they Union votes.
We consider them little better than nicknames, and so far
from desiring to participate in them, the Irish poor are con-
tent that the Union lords should not only bear these nick-
names, hut should, in addition, take the more appropriate
title of " scoundrels," which you have bestowed upon them.
Let them enjoy both; and let us say no more of the matter.
As to the bribery, indeed, and the pensions—that is quite
another business. These are materials of a different value.
The bribery was extended not only to the Union members of
parliament, but to every man who could in any way influence
a vote, write a pamphlet, make a speech, or procure an ad-
dress in favour of that measure—not only to every man who
had any influence to support it but who affected to have such
interest. Here would he a lot of prizes indeed; there would
be something to feed the poor—if we could get at it. Aye—
there lies the rub: that is the difficulty of difficulties. The
money bas been expended, eaten, drank, gambled ; squan-
dered in every vice and in every profligacy. The individuals
who received it have sunk into oblivion, and are- as person-
ally rotten as they were politically so. They lived detested,
and they died despised. He, the leader of them all—Castle-
reagh—avenged his betrayed country by cutting his own
throat, to avoid the false imputation of another horrible crime
of which he was guiltless! Oh! how his country was re-
venged ! Almost all the rest of them are dead and forgot-
ten. There are few indeed alive. Of the pensioners I know
but one who survives. There are, indeed, but few living, and
it would be trifling to strip these wrethces They are almost
all gone :
Honrare they bled from the things that be !
How few—all weak and withered of their force,
Stand on the verge of dark eternity,
Like stranded rocks ! the tide returning hoarse,