The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-09 00:00:00

IRISHINSCRRECTION ♦CT.-

The Order of the Day for the Home resolving itself
into a Committee on this Act having been read,
Mr. GOULBURN said that the bense was too well
aware of the circumstances under which the application
of the Insurrection Acts to Ireland bad originated to
need that be should recapitulate them. In making this
application for the continuance of it, be should not
tempt to offer any arguments to induce the beau to
look at it with a more favourable eye than it had hither.
to been regarded with. For though he bad voted for
that Act, be essursid the housethat no Hon, hleinlser who
bad most strenuously opposed it, was more sensible than
be was, of the general objections to it. It would have
been most gratifying to his feelings, and to those of the
Noble Lord at the head of the Government of Ireland,
could they have thought it possible to dispense with it
on the present occasion; for they felt that it was net •
measure of that nature, which ought to characterise the
acts of a free Government, and that it could only be jos-
tillable io a case where all milder means would not avail.
He thought be should be sure of thee concurrence of the
Noose if he could satisfy them that the state of Irelabd
wee such as to render time resort to extraordinary roem
sures sec „the ordinary laws being at present ina-
dequate. and that this particular law was applicable.—
It be were able to do this, he thought be should remove
all objection from the minds of those who admitted that
extraordinary tip.. dentandedextraordinary
So abort a period bad elapsed since Parliament bail
grantedrhis Act, that it was unnecessary fur him to go
into a detail of the history of Ireland fur the last eight
or nine months. It was merely necessary fur him tore-
call to the recollection of the house the state of things
which then existed, and comparing that with the pre-
test moment, ilei!tice ,the oecessity be was anxious to
establish. He requested the house to remember that at
that period there was age I system of insubordina-
tion in 0-- emintry. existing. to a greater-extent in some
districts than in others, but infecting more or less almost
every one. she house would remember, that ibis sys-
tem had been in progreeshve open/ties for six or seven ,
months, up to the meeting of Partiament, when open in-
sorreetion woe ogifested with open warfare against the.
King'. troops. !Re rebellion and iheurrection had an
evident, distinctive, and alarming character—that of W-
hig directed against the rights of property and the ad-
sniiiistration of the law, and, principally to an alarm-
ing extent infecting the lower orders. If was Wilde*
carried on by secret association, which rendered it ditli•
cult to (idiom the source of the ilaucer ; and its mode
of operation was to retort oaths fur the nun p 4; own; of
tithes, taxes, aml rent. The rillivet of the pre/ coiccrt at
nightly meetings. was a general attack upon tbe pro-
perty of the loyal and peaceable. The o,ore particular
object of the rebellion was, to obtain arnmaritil inahe
promlytes. that the actors in it might be enabled to re-
tired to other panto( the country their destructive ari-
ltisirs. lie caratif pot Pate( iniy a.drtail of the atrionvys
outrages perpetrated oisder thlesysteui, as they must be
present to the minds of all contweted with Ireland; at
the sane time, that he abstained from principle, in the
imation in which he stood with regard to the HUII4