13l6.][ Mr. Phillips' & Speech at Liverpool. 



Conndations deep in Uic human licai t, and 



tlicir success was proportionals to tlieiv 



policy. You complain of the violence of 



tiie Irish Catholic — can you wonder he is 



violent? It is the lonserjntncc of your 



own infliction — 



" The Htsli will quiver where the pincers 



fii). tear, 



-Tiie blood will follow where the knife is 



driven." 

 Yojir friendship has been to him woi'se 

 than hostility— he feels its embrace but by 

 tljc pressure of its fetters! I am only 

 ainazed he is not mncii more violent. He 

 fills your Exchequer, he tit:hts your battles, 

 lie iVeds your clergy, from whom he de- 

 rives 110 bcni'lif, he shares your burdens, 

 he sliares your perils, he shares every thin;;, 

 except your privileges — can ijnu wmider he 

 is oioientt He sees every pretended olwta- 

 cle to his emancipation vanish — Catholic 

 Europe your ally, the Bourbon on tlie 

 throne, the Emprror a captive, the Pope a 

 friend; the aspersions on his faith disproved 

 by his allegiance to yon atrainst, alterna- 

 liyely, every Catholic Potentate in Chiis- 

 t«odom, and he feels himself branded with 

 hereditary degradation — can yuu woniler, 

 then^ ihat liv is violmt? He petitioned 

 liunibly — his tamoness was consirued into 

 a proof of apathy. He petitioned boldly — 

 Ins remonstrance was considered as an im- 

 pudent audacity. He petitioned in peace 

 rrhe was told it was not tke lime. He pe- 

 ^oned in war — he was tuld it was not tke 

 time. A stMnue interval — a prodigy in 

 politics, a pwiise between peace and war, 

 which appealed to be ju<t made for him, 

 ^VOse—l allude to the period between the 

 i;^tieat.uf Luiiis and the restoration nf lio- 

 &'4parte — he petitioned ilien, and he was 

 told it vas not the timt. Oh, shame ! 

 »hai)ie! shame! I hope he will p(^:titionno 

 more a Pailiaineiit so equivocal ing. How- 

 ever, I am not sony they did so equivocate, 

 because I think they have sugu'Csted one 

 comnioni'craedy for the grievances of both 

 countries, and tliat remedy is, a Rkfoum 

 OF THAT Pakliament. VVithoiit that, I 

 plainly see, there is no hope for Ireland — 

 there is no salvation for F^ngland ; they will 

 act toward* yon us they have done toward 

 Us — tliey wili admit your reasoning — they 

 will admire jour eioq'vuce, and they will 

 prove their sincerity by a strict perseve- 

 rance in the inipoiicv yon have exposed, 

 and the prolliga< v you have deprecated. 

 Look to t*ii!j[i:iol at this moment. To 

 vlii.f a ^fate have ih( . not rcdiicfd her! 

 <)ver tin*, vu ■( island , tor whose wcallh the 

 winds of heaven heenied to bluw, covered 

 OH she once was with the gorgeous mantle 

 #f jucee^tful ai^.iculiiire, all studded over 

 >vith jL;eiii« of art ami manuraetiire, there is 

 »ow xarce .ui ol.ject bul Indiiilry in rags, 

 luid Pdliurice in <iesi)air — ilie nierrJiant 

 'Without a ledger — tiie fields without a hav- 

 treat — the shopii wHbout ^ ciutoiaer-~tbe 



4K$ 



Exdiange deserted, and the Gazette 

 crowded, form the heart-fending com- 

 ments on that nefarious system, Insujiport 

 of which, peers and contractors, stock-job- 

 bers and sinecnrists, in short, the wiiole 

 trained, collared, painpoied,aml raparions 

 park of ministerial bea^fes, have been, for 

 half a century, in the most elaniorous and 

 discordant uproar ! During all iliis misery, 

 how are the pilots of the State cin))h)yed? 

 Why, in feeflin;: the bloated mammoth of 

 sinecure — in weighing thefurthin^'Sofsomc 

 nnilerling's salary — in pieparing Ireland 

 for a garrison, and Ensilaiul for ai poor- 

 house — ill tlieKirnctore of Chinese palaces, 

 the ilccoraiion of drjigoons, and the erec- 

 tion of piddic liiiildin'js. Oli ! its easily 

 seen we have a siiintin the Exchequer — lie 

 has studied .Scripture to some piirpose-*- 

 the famishing peii|de cry out for bread, and 

 the scriptural Minister uives tliem «frm«;.?/ 

 .Such has been the re-ult of the blessed Pitt 

 System, which, amidst oceans of blood, and 

 80(1 millions of expenditure, has left you, 

 after all your victories, a tri'iniphant dupe 

 — a tropliicd bankrupt. I have heard be- 

 foi'c of .St.ites riiintil by the visitations of 

 Providence, de«astated by famine, wasted 

 by ttc, overcome by enemies, but nevtr 

 until now did I see a State, like KiiglaiKl, 

 iinpnverishcrl by her spoils, and conquered 

 by her successes ! She has finu'ht the figlit 

 ofEuro|)e — she has purchased all its cnm- 

 alile binud—A\c has subsidized ail its depen- 

 dencii's in their own cause — she has ctMi- 

 qiieied by sea — she has conquered by laird 

 — she has got peace, and, of course (or the 

 Pitt apostles would not liarc made peace), 

 she has got her " indemnity for die past, 

 and security for the future ;" and here all* 

 is, after all Jier vaiiilv and all her victories, 

 surrounded by desolation, lilsC one <A' the 

 pyramids of Egypt, amid the grandeur of 

 the desert, full o( magnificence and death 

 • — at once a trophy and a tomb! The 

 heart of any rciiecting man must burn 

 witiiin him when he thinks that the war, 

 thus sanguinary in its operations, thus coiK 

 fessedly ruinous in its expenditure, was 

 even still move odious in its principle. It 

 was a war avowedly undertaken Un- the 

 purpose of forcing l-'iance out of her iin* 

 doulitMl right of ehoosiug her own Mo- 

 narch— a war which uprooted the very 

 fouraiations of the English Constitution' — 

 which libelled the most gloiious era in onr 

 national annul'* — which declared tyranny 

 eternal, and aiUKi-iuced to the people, amid 

 the ihun ler ot'i;r illery.tliat, no matter hitvr 

 aggiiievi'd, ilieir only allowable attitude 

 was that of siipplicatioti — which, when it 

 told the French reformer of \T9A that hi» 

 defeat wa<jiist, told the Ikilish reformer of 

 1688 fliis triumph was treason, 'and e\hi« 

 bited to history the teriifre farce- of- a 

 Prince of thehgnsc of Brnu'iwick, tlie crea- 

 ture oi the Hevolntion, offi:jiing aihu- 



JA.MES 



