= 
396 
’ From all this be inferre 
tration ar 
ber of refolutions, founded upon the cor- 
refpondence between the Direttors of the 
Bank and Mr. Pitt (fee an abftraét cf 
that corre{pondence in our iaft Nuusber) 
from which his grace inferred the igno- 
rance and guilt of minifters in that affair. 
The firtt relolution was to refolve “ that 
the fending of moncy to the Continent 
was the real caufe of the Order of Coun- 
cil.” The prexious queftion was carried 
againft it. 
Mr. Alderman ComMsE, on the roth of 
May, moved, in the Houfe of Commons, 
«¢ That an humble Addrefs be prefented 
to his Majefty, praying that he would be 
pleafed to difmifs from his Councils his 
prefent Minifiers, as the bift means of 
obtaining a {peedy and honourable Peace.” 
He prefaced his motion, by taking a re- 
view of the whole ccnduét of minifters, 
fance fecret influence introduced them into 
efice in1784. Their armaments againft 
Spain and Ruffia, contrary to the voice cf 
the nation; their war with France; the 
various reafons they had given fucceflively 
for its continuance ; and their weak and 
equivocal attempt to treat for peace. 
A that their in- 
Gncerity was eyident ; and he contended 
their abufive language agamft France, 
and their frequent declarations, that the 
War was a war againft French principles, 
made it. manifef that they seed never 
concluce an honourable, or advantageous 
peace. Sir Wilham Miiner feconded the 
motion. _Mefirs. Curwen, favior, Hob- 
houie, Jeilerys, and Sturt, were for ihe 
motion, but if was negatived by 242 
againit 59. 
TRELAND. 
it aoe a that the pretent Adminif- 
about to exhibit, the fam 
re Tpecting the Advo 
cates for Reform, as they performed in 
England in the’ 1794, refpecting 
Mefirs. Hardy, Tooke, and others. 
Gn the roth of ayy Mr, Secretary 
PELHAM read to the Houfy of Commons 
a Meflace from his Excellency the Lord 
Lieutenant, purporting, that a treafon- 
able Confpiracy had-been recently dif. 
covered at Be) [fatt, and forty of the con- 
fpirators apprehended § in the very act of 
difcufiion, and that their papers were 
at the fame time feized; and as they con- 
tained matter moft materially interelling 
tu the peace of Ireiand, his Excellency 
had fubmitted them to the confideration 
of pariament. 
Nir. Pelham followed up this commu- 
nication by 2 motion, ‘¢ ‘That a Secret 
Comimittce of fifteen members be ap- 
{cenes in Freks ‘ad, 
year 
Public Lffairs.—Great Britain..Ireland. 
[ May, 
pointed to examine the faid papers, and 
ih evidence as fhould be adduced touch- 
g the fame.’’ 
“Nr. GRATTAN warmly oppofed a Secret 
Committee as 2 mode cf enquiry highly 
unconftituticnal, more efpecially at a 
time ** when Be, Majeliy’s Minifiers were 
become the ances of public deteftation.” 
He was for a Committee of the whole 
Houfe. 
The Attorney-General faid, if the en- 
quiry was public, it would be impoilible 
to come to the truth, in-as much as the 
evidence, in many cafes, would be-affatii- 
nated, or afraid to tell the truth. Cn the 
queftion being put, the Secret Committee 
was agreed to, and ordered to be chofen 
on the 24th of April. 
Mr. Peipam, on the 11th-of May, 
brought 1 up the report of the fecret com- 
mittee, appointed to cenfider of the pa- 
pers feized in Belfaft, and to report their 
opinion thereon ; this report, confiiting of 
fixty-nine folio pages, was read, at full 
length, by the clerk. The fextet com - 
mittee affert, in this report, that, in ex- 
amining into the principles and motives 
of the United Irifhmen, they difcovered, 
that the feciety under that name, under 
the pretext ones a parlimentary 
reform, and what they call emancipation 
of the catholics, harboured a defign to 
difunite Ireland from Great Britain, to 
overthrow the prefent conftitution,-and 
te eftablifh, in its ftead, a republican form 
“of government. 
The committee refted this opinion, in 
@ great meafure, cn a letter, written a 
confiderabie time ago, by Theobald 
Wrelf Jones, a very active member of 
that fociety, to his friends, in Belfaft. 
The ar ce aifo fiate, that by exa- 
mining the papers feized m the houfe of 
a John ieee at Belfaft, they had 
difcovered the conftitution of the fociety . 
which appeared to be organized in & 
very perfeét manner: that committees 
were eee to raife money, to pro- 
vide arms and ammunition, and to elett 
moilitary. officers. ‘That there were 
72,000 United [rifhmen in -the province 
of Ulfter, and that the fociety, within a 
fhort time, had nifen to a number truly 
formidable : not fefs, at this moment, 
than Ove bunared thexfand men! ‘That, 
in one county, they had eighteen thou- 
fand mufkets. Phat it was remarkable, 
a 11 one return of money colleéted, 
the officer who remitted it fatd, ** This 
money had been paid fomewhat before 
the ufual time, becaufe it is expeéted that 
our friends will foon arrive at Bantry,” 
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