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faid he did not feel himfelf called upon to 
_difeufs the queitionof an union. That 
rmeafure was not before the houle. As to 
what had been infinuated relative to the 
minifter endeavouring to induence the 
members, he paffed it, he faid, with the 
contempt it deferved. 
Mr. Ponfonby made @ long and able 
{peech in favour of the motion. The 
Right Hon. D. Browne, Sir H. Caven- 
dith, Mr. J. Beresford, and Mr. Dobbs, 
took the fame fide of the queftion. Mr. 
P. Holmes and Sir J. Cotton were in fa- 
vour of the paragraph. Mr. Moore 
O'Donnel made a {peech of an hour and a 
half againft the union. At fix o’clock 
in the morning the queftion was put, 
«© ‘That the paragraph do fiand part of 
the addrefs:’? upon which the houfe 
divided, 
Ayes for the paragr ep 105 
Noes - Ili 
Majority againft the para- 
graph, and confequently 
againft the union, 
The queition on the addrefs, as. amend- 
ed, was then put, and carried without a 
divifion. 
The houfe affembled again on the 28th 
of January, when the Right Hon. [aac 
Corry, was announced as chancellor of the 
exchequer, vice Sir John Parnel; and 
Mr. St. George Daly, as prime ferjeant, 
vice the Right Hon. James Fitzgerald. 
‘Adjourned to the 7th ot February. 
On the 8th of February, after the ufual 
for malities, Mr. O’Donne!}} called the at- 
tention of the houfe to what he conceived 
materially affected its dignity and privi- 
leges. Hethen proceeded to remark with 
much afperity on the language held out by 
the Britifh minifter refpecting the conduct 
of the Irifh parliament, as it appeared in a 
London news-paper, called the Sun, the 
proprietor of which, he faid, was in the 
confidence of the minifter. Having read 
fome paragraphs from that paper, he 
moved, that they were a talfe, malicious, 
and feandalous libel on the Irith houfe of 
commons. Lord Caftlereagh faid a few 
words in reply. ‘The motion pafled zzm, 
caz. Mr. O’Donnel then moved a fecond 
refolution, that the paper containing the 
pe detaph he had read be burnt in,College- 
green, at twelve o’clock, on the fueceed- 
ing Monday, by the common hangman ; 
which was agreed to. A vote of thanks 
was then moved to the fpeaker ; which 
pafled unanimoully. 
Lord Corry, in the houfe of commons, 
on the 15th of February, rofe to make his 
promifed motion on the ftate.of the na- 
State of Public Affairs. 
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tion. After making feverat obfervations. 
of the magnitude of the object he had in 
view, the quieting the agitations which 
now aa. the public mind, he moved, 
<¢ That the houfe fhould inlye itfelf inte 
a comunittee, to take into confideration 
the itate of the nation.”” He was fe- 
conded by Lord Clements. 
Lord Caittlereagh faid the noble lord 
had not even fugeefted any ground for the 
motion he had made. I his lordfhip 
called for this committee, with reference 
to the meafure lately difcufled in that 
house, it muft be untimely, becdufe that 
meafure did not call for any further con- 
fideration at prefent. No pubiic object 
could be anfwered by any declaration of 
the houfe on the fubject of an union ; the 
houfe had already given its opinion, the 
mea{fure was at prefent afleep, and all the 
power could effect no more. Mr. G. 
Knox faid, that he, as an enemy to the 
union, would oppofe the motion, as no- 
thing cculd tend more to weaken the op- 
poftion to that meafure than Suffering, 
Wee matter to mingle with it. Mr. 
Tighe exprefled his alton ifhament that 
any y objee ion could be made to the mo- 
tion, when the exigency ot public affairs. 
called fo loudly fort. Colonel Vereker, 
Mr. Dobbs, and Mr. Handcock fup- 
ported the motion. Mr. Vandeleur op- 
poled it. 
Lord Corry replied to his opponents, by 
reading a reiolution to the houfe, for an 
addres: to. his majelty, to a tollowing 
effect: §* Reiolyed, that an humble ad— 
drefs be*prelented to his majefty, afluring 
him of our attachment to his royal per- 
fon and government. ‘That we jook upon 
our conneétion with Great Britain as the 
boalt and happinefs er this country. Chat 
the competency of an independent legif-, 
Jature, to the wants and regulations of 
this County has been fully evinced in 
the profperity which has refulted from. 
the. free conititution eftablifhed in.1782, 
and that we confider its continuance as 
eflential to the welfare and happine(s of 
Trek: and, and to her connection with Grear 
Britain, with whom we are determined to 

ftand or fall.” Atter along debate, the 
houie divided. 
POD the MOLOM*\\s.4)\2) <2 
Ac amiir irae yah) ae ene 
Majority - - - 20 
. GREAT BRITAIN. 
The introduétion of the great queftion 
of the union between Great Britain and 
Treland into parliament, by a meflage 
from his majefty, was naticed in our lait, 
On 
