Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-03-30
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The following is the Speech Of EARL GREY on
introducing into the House of Lords the Irish
Enforcement Bill; added 70 which are the re-
marks made by the luke OF WELLIseToN and
other members
HOUSE OF LonDs, Friday. Feb. Is.
Earl GREY rose amidst the most profound ST.
lence. HIS Lordship requested the clerk to read
that part of his Majesty's speech relating to the
disturbances existing in Ireland. This having
been done, the Noble Earl, evidently much at.
fected. painted 10 glowing colors the iawess out
rages that existed in ireland, and the painful ne
cessity his Majesty's government was under in
Submitting strong measures for REFRESHING them.
We are told that the separation Of Ireland is to
he Effected by agitation, and that the Volunteers
are TO be the agents for bringing about this end.
II is SAID that no matter what remedial mea-
sures are adopted-no matter what abuses are
removed-yau NAV abolish parish cess-yOu may
reform the ehurch-you nav remove the gre-
yaRces Of the grand jury system-but no matter
what you do for the peace and happiness OF Ire
land, nothing will satisfy the volunteers, but the
repeal of the legislative union. But what was
the nature of that society Of volunteers! 1t was
modelled upon the volunteer society OF 1889 -
II was TO consist of district associations, subur
dinate to committee sitting IN Dublin, Ii was
70 undertake the pacifcation OF Iceland to put
down tumuts-to supercede the necessity oil the
po,cs-,o hold meetings simultaneously with the
sessions and assizes-. Hear Ito determine quar-.
rels-and to put an instrument OF pacihcatlOn
into the hands of the Llberator. 1t was not to
be an armed association until the laws should al
low 1T.
Theaccredited agent Of the Learned Gentle.
man-sent under the name OF paclhcasor to or
uanZe the subordinate sOcietes-declared at a
public meeting in the county OF Clare. that II 1t
should be necessary, as It had been in the wear
l79S. to supply the volunteers with pixies. Da-
MEL O'Connell would send the men of Clare in
to his own wood at Lough O'Connell to cut pike
handles Hear, hear. hearl But 1t was the dn
" Of the government to take care that there
should be no pikes-and that associations so or
ganzed. and for such objects, should be put down
Il Hear, hear Was It to be wondered at that,
whist such associations we're in progress, while
such declarations were addressed TO them, that
there should be general resistance to the law
that the payment of tithes should be suspended
that the collectors Of tihes, and even of rent,
should be assaulted, If not murdered! Although
these outrage, did not prevail over all Ireland,
they pervaded considerable portIun OF the coun-
try; aud II was ia the nature oi such disorders to
increase aud extend themselves, il they were not
timely aud vigorously put down Hear, The
whole Of Lelnster was in this state; and in Nuns
ter, the counties of Cork and ripperary were
Similarly situated. as was also the province OF
JESTER, to great extent, especially IN the cOun
ty OF Louth; and their Lord,hips had heard from
Nub,e Lord behind him what was the condition
of many parts of Counaught. Their Lordships
would see that the association Of volunteers were
AZ a.. fact that
they increased as IT was spread, and that they
had the same objects which it avowedly sought
1t was true that The founders of that society dis
claimed the use Of all but peaceable and legal
means; but it was evident from the violence Of
the language that they employed in the work of
excitement and agitation, tina, they avaied them
selves Of this profession of pacih, alton for their
own protection, whilst they well knew that II
would not serve to curb the ignorant people whom
they iuhamed, nor to protect them from the con.
sequence nf their violence.
The Noble Lord then quoted from the public
papers, and from the correspondence OF the Irish
Government. numerous instances OF the persecu-
ton of witnesses and jnrors IN cases OF pIosecu-
ton connected with the outrages of the illegal
soc,ations, and contended for the necessity OF im
mediately employing some means OF putting an
end 10 this system Of intimidation. TIE Noble
Earl stated many cases to show the gross viola
ton of the laws, and that, from the state OF so
eietv, the laws at present IN force could not be
executed. Witnesses dared not give their EVIL
dcnce. nor jurles find verdict of guilty. The
present state Of ireland was in fact. so disturb
ed, property and life SO unprotected, that he
thought their LsrdshIps would not hesitate to
adop, the measures he was about TO propose. -
1t did not appear that these ou,rages were con
fined to any class Of men. Government had been
unwilling to introduce a measure of this descrp
ton; they telt it their duty, however, to Law
it before their Lordships. All the power at pre-.
sent possessed by the executive had been found
in, fectual to preserve order and enforce the due
administration of the laws in Ireland. This bill
which he was about to bring in had for its object
in the first place, to suppress all dangerous and
illegal associations. To suppress, If possible. all
attempts at outrage and whence. The bill
would contain various provisions OF acts passed
at different periods by both the English and Irish
Pariiaments, particularly that passed in the 9th
Of George the Fourth, commonly called the Pro-