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hazard the system upon which the 
peace of Europe hadbeen restored, 
we could not but join with the 
confederated powers to give France 
encouragement to declare herself, 
and to enable the royal party to 
struggle for the liberty of their 
country before its present chief 
should be in possession of its 
whole resources. How far the 
enterprisemight succeed, he could 
not say. But hearing as he did, 
in many parts of France, mur- 
murs half suppressed, and seeing 
in others open hostilities against 
the ruling power, he could not 
but cherish a belief that the real 
supporters of Buonaparte were 
very few indeed, beyond the li- 
mits of the army, which had been 
accustomed to live under his ban- 
ners. But supposing, for the 
misery of mankind, and most of 
all for that of France, that, car- 
ried away by her lust for military 
triumphs, she should prefer a war- 
like chief to lead her armies to 
the conquest of Europe, and that 
for such a character, she had de- 
liberately rejected a mild and mo- 
derate government, terrible as it 
might be to combat the whole 
strength of France embodied un- 
der such a leader, such a consi- 
deration would make little differ- 
ence with respect to the measures 
that ought to be pursued. Greater 
means ought, in fact, to be put 
forth, and more intense energy 
exerted to crush a government, in 
its nature inimical to all other 
governments. He was unwilling 
to believe that France had acted 
such a part ; that she had rejected 
the sway of a moderate and legal 
Prince, for one who ruled without 
law, and who even now trampled 
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on the constitution he so recently 
pretended to establish. Such a 
power must be combated. It must 
find its end in internal discord or 
by external force, or it would ne- 
ver rest satisfied till its military 
domination extended over the 
whole of Europe. He would not 
however suffer himself to be led 
into the discussion of topics, how- 
ever interesting and important, 
which were not immediately un- 
der the consideration of the com- 
mittee, and was not aware that he 
had omitted to state any thing 
necessarily connected with the bu- 
siness of this evening; but he 
should hold himself ready to offer 
any further explanation which 
might be required by the com- 
mittee. He then moved his first 
resolution, which was, ‘* That, 
towards raising the Supply grant- 
ed to his majesty, the sum of 36 
millions be raised by Annuities, 
whereof the charges of 27 millions 
are to be defrayed on the part of 
Great Britain, and 9 millions on 
the part of Ireland.” 
After some remarks by Mr. 
Tierncy, the resolutions proposed 
by the chancellor of the Exche- 
quer were put, and carried. 
Trish Budget.—On June 16th, 
the House being in a Committee 
of Ways and Means, 
Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald (the Chan- 
cellorof the Irish Exchequer ) rose 
and spoke to the following effect : 
It is to-night, Sir, my duty to 
submit to this committee the 
amount of the supply which Ire- 
land is required to provide for the 
service of this year, and the ways 
and means by which I propose to 
make the provision which is ne-. 
cessary ; and I cannot lament that 
