60. 
ah 
b: fent to Ireland, would not amount to 
more than 20,000. 
force to be muftered in this country at 
this moment, there were not mare than 
37,000 men who had carried arms for 
more than one ‘year. The military force 
in Ireland, including the yeomairy and 
other corps, ‘confilled of 80,00c men and 
30 general officers; yet the peafantry 
alone were able to make head againft 
them. What then would the fmall addi- 
tion of 12,000 be able to efeé&t? The 
expedition to Oftend, which was a mere 
chimera of the right honourable gentle- 
man’s, had fwailowed up 1500 men, 
whoie fervices would have been much 
more effectual in deiending the country at 
this moment, than in executing the che- 
merical enterprife in which they were em- 
ployed. 
Mr. Secretary DuNDAs replied, that 
General “‘TarLETON was wrong in his 
ftatement. Upivards of 40,000 men had 
been under arms in this country for 
three years pai. The honourable ge- 
neral, when he faid that an army of 
$0,000. men- in Jreland could net make 
head againft the peaiantry, fhould have 
recolleétéed, that in America the peafantry 
had made head againft a well difciplined 
army, commanded by abie oficers. With 
réeard to the expedition to Offend, it 
fhould be recollected, that it was not only 
undertaken by the advice, ‘but by the 
earneit intreaty, of Sir CHALRES GREY. 
_, Mr. JEKYLL itrongly defended the ar- 
guments of.General TARLETON, and 
contended, that the meafure was unconiti- 
tutional. .. The ptefent was the frf time 
that he, as a member of that houfe, had 
received any intimation from the executive 
government, concerning the rebellion in 
Ireland. And how canI know,” faid 
Mr jJExkyLi;°* but, that: this is-a%re- 
fittance which the people of Ireland have 
aright to make.” 
Mr. DuNDAs, upon hearing this laft 
expreffion, ftood up, and moved to put 
in force the ftanding order for clearing the 
houfe of ftrangers ; which was done ~ac- 
cordingly,-and none were admitted during 
the remainder of the evening—but the 
debate, we underftand, continued for fome 
time; after which-the houfe divided on 
the queftion for the fecond reading of the 
bill. Ayes.43—Noes1zr. The bill was 
then read a third time and paffed. 
On the 22d of June, Lord GEorcE 
CAVENDISH introduced into the houle of 
commons a feries of refoluticns relative 
to Ireland, but the order of the houfe re- 
lative to the excluiton of ftrangers, being 
>. 
Of the whcle of the. 
State of Public Affairs. 
enforced, the public were again deprived 
of the opportunity of knowing the fenti- 
ments of their reprefentatives.. The re- 
folutions propoféd by his lordfhip, were 
fimilar to others which had been pro- 
pofed upon the fame fubje&t, and they ex- 
perienced the fame reception from the mi- 
nifterial fide of the houte. 
The Earl of BesporouGs, on the 
25th of June, moved, in the houfe of lords, 
an addreis to his Majefty on the affairs of 
Ireland, which was feconded by the Earl 
of Suffolk, and was negatived by 51 votes. 
and proxies, againft 21. 
The Duke of BepForD alfo, on the 
fame day, after a very able fpeech, moved 
a refolution upon the fame fubjeét, which 
was negatived by 63 to 20. 
Nothing further of importance occurred 
in either houfe of parliament, till the z9th 
of June, when his Majefty prorogued 
thera until the 8th day of Auguft. The 
fpeech trom the throne, on this cecafron, 
affured the two houfes that they had, 
during the prefent felficn, amply fulfilled 
the jfolemn and unanimous affurances 
which his Majefiy had recerved from them 
at its commencement. That a fpirit of ar- 
dent and voluntary exertion diftufed itfelf 
through every part of the kingdom, had 
ftrengthened and confirmed our internal 
fecurity—that his fleets and armies hed 
met the menaces of invafion, by blocking 
up our enemies in their principal ports— 
that the extenfive and equitable fcheme of 
contribution, by which fo large a portion 
of our expence will be defrayed within 
the year, had defeated the expectation of 
thofe who had vainly hoped to exhauit 
our means and deftroy our public credit— 
that the provifion which had been made 
for the redemption of the land-tax, had 
eitablifhed a fyftem, which, in its opera- 
tion, might produce the happielt conie- 
quences in the diminution of our debt, 
and the-fupport of public credit. His 
Majefty next announced to his parliament, 
that the defigns of the difaffected, carried 
on in concert with our inveterate enemies, 
had been unremittingly purfued, but had 
been happily and effeCtually counteracted 
in this kingdom, by the zeal and loyalty 
of his fubje&ts. In Ireland, they had 
broken out in aéts of the moft criminal 
rebellion. That every effort had been 
made on his Majefty’s part to iibdue this 
dangerous fpirit. The honourable con- 
duét of fo many of his regiments of mi- 
litia in this kingdom, in cfering their 
fervices to fubdue the rebellion in Ire- 
forded the firengeit pledge of. the 
land, afferd 
military ardour whieh actuated this va- 
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