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Affairs of Freldids—Papulation. Ee Spsjattical Divihion? of 
proving his Conduft.—Various Addresses to his Eopa 
Parties of the disaffeded.—Extreme versatility of the “Trish Parliament.— 
The Motions carried but a few Days before, almost unanimously negatived 
now by great Majoritics.—The unsteadiness and tergiversation of the Irish 
Parliament-men.—Sow the Seeds of Mistrust and Fealausy in their Consti- 
tuents.—Altercations in the British House of Peers, respecting the Instruce 
tions given to Lord Fitzwilliam, previously to his assuming the Government 
of Ireland.—Mbotion by the Duke of Norfalk, for a Parliamentary Inquiry. 
into the Condu& of Ministry in this Matter, and the Grounds for their Dis~ 
missal of the Earl Fitzwilliam from the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ire- 
land.— Rejeéted.—Debates in the House of Commons on a similar Motion. 
—And which met with a similar Fate.—Speech fram the Throne.—And 
Prorogation of Parliament. 
HE most important subject 
Britain to permit the whole Irish 
brought into parliament, during 
nation to take up arms, in order to 
the present session, was the situation 
of Ireland. This large, fertile, and 
populousisland, justly entitled the 
sister of Great Britain, was, at this 
period, in a fermentation, that had 
subsisted, in a greater or less degree, 
ever since the dangers threatening 
the British empire during the Ame- 
rican war. ‘hese had induced, or 
rather compelled, the ministry of 
preserve the country from the inva~ 
sion of the Spaniards and the French, 
whose intention it certainly was, 
at that critical period, tohave made 
the attempt; if they had not been 
deterred by the numerous force that 
was prepared to resist them, Em- 
boldened by their numbers, and by 
the consciousness of their importance 
on this trying occasion, the people 
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