Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-08-06
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Wednesday, jane 10.
IRISH MARTIAL LAW BILL.

IRISH MARTIAL LAW BILL.
Mi. Asbort moved the order Of the day
or sloiving into a committee on the Iriiil
sartial law bill.
MIR. Dawfon, tmemhsr for the county
Of Monaghan, Mr.. Stewart, Of Killy.
aeon, (member for Tyrone), and Mr..
8agwcn, tmembcrso for Tipperary), earnef-
y expreR.d their hopes and entressies, that
TIE right hon. gentleman would not, at
this late hour, (ten o'clock in 70 thin an
saclnbIy, and, more eipecially, in the al
mot utter abience of thofe gentlemen who
repreieus. that part of the United Kingdom
called Ireland, pre6 r,e bin inso a con-
mittse. MANY gentlemen, fappoiing, from
the extent of other boGneis in the courfe
of the evening, that the preiert would be
po&poned, had gone away, and they requet-
ted, that the committee might at lealt be
deferred till tomorrow.
Mr.. Lee (member for Dungarvan) OBJ
leryed, that there WIS at this moment a
fuller attendance Of Iriih members than
here probably would be for the remain
der Of the seGon, as much the greater part
were gone to Ireland, and mott of the few
who now remained would let out for that
country TO- morrow or next day. Almoft
all the msmbrrs of that country had, in a
diGcu4ion not very remote, fpoken in favor
of th,bill, upon the fulleR conviction of
its urgent necefity, and therefore he was
convinced, if they were prefent now, they
would iopport it.
Mr.. Abbott could not agree to defer
the bill, as the tranquility Of ireland 70
materially depended upon it, and as the
prefent bill would expire 70 foon as the
z4th of June.
The queiion for the committee being
put, was carried in the affirmative; and the
houle refolved into committee, MIR. Bragge
in the chair.
Mr.. Abbott itated, that the preient bill
was tranfcript of the former one, which
the houte had paaed alb. ut three months
fiuce. The only blank that remained to
be filled up, was that for the period which
the bill ihould be agreed en- to continue in
force; and he concludes by moving, that
this blank be filled up with the words
during the continuance of the war, and for
one month after the 6gning of de6nitive
treaty ofpeaee.
MIR. W. B. Ponionby iaid, the nature of
the motion juit made rendered any apollo
gy upnecefary for moving" that the chair
man do leave the CHAIR
Mr.. Dawton made very long fpeech in
fupport of his previous argument.
MIR. George Ponfonby (member for the
county Of Wicklow Immediately rofe
aid oblerved, that hitherto, and in the
earlier part Of the FELTON,, he had foreborne
TO give any reiifarce to this bill for vari-
Gus reafons: one was, that the powers it
we:t to invef were placed in the hands of
an luxurious mobIeman 1.-THE marquis Of
Cornwallis) who, by his mild and lenient ufe
ofthofe powers, had proved that in his admi-
niitrarion it would be uied merely for the
pacihcation Of tie county, without any
thing like abufe, or wanton ieverity.-
Another reaioa was, that in the county
which he had the honor to repreisnt, and
which was one of thoie in which the re-
bellion principally ragged, and the l'ounsa-
NOUS parts of which Gil! continued to be
Injected with a rebellious bandi,:i, who,
notwithstanding every, exer,ion Of govern
n,eH, and the highett rewards offered for
their apprehension, had till continued IN
apprehcnded and unubdued from which
circumstances it was pretty clear that thefe
band;tti were aided, eomfo,te and abet-
ted by the farmers inhabising ,hofe mo, j.
tains ), bat though he had forSorne to re-
GO the bill in its former OF, preient pro-
grefs through the hoeGe, he could not for
bear to reit the xsoxfroas and obammable
he had jua heard moved