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tiered etUl more dangerous by beiug reconimeuded by a Protestant King tp a Protestant Parliament . Lord Rboesdale , among other remarks , observed , that fee was certain that neither tranquillity nor satisfaction would result from the proposed change , unless all classes of Protestauts werp cotiviuced that the object of it was not to force upon them the Roman Catholic religion as the religion of the state .
The Duke of Wellington said , that in the inteudtfd measure it would be the especial eare of his Majesty ' s Servants to provide for the safety of those institutions which must ever be helc } saered in this Protestant kingdom , aud which it was the duty and determination of his Majesty to preserve inviolate . 4 s to tn £ accusation brought against him of a want of faith in bringing forward this measure at present , he begged to remind their
Lordships , that on various occasions h # bad expressed his anxiety for a settlement , of the question , aud that a time of tranquillity was necessary for such sefotlenifiut . The measure he intended should precede those which he should afterwards purpose , was calculated to produce that iwomeut of tranquillity so necessary to conciliate the public to tiie plan intended for the pacification of Ireland . His noble friend had stated that the measure was
inconsistent with the constitution , if he had been goiug to propose a measure which would have introduced a predominant Catholic power into Parliament , he should then have been doing that which was inconsistent with the constitution . But he was not goiug to do any such thing . There were degrees of power ; and , he would ask , had not some noble Lords exerted their influence to produce that very power vwhich has rendered a measure like that which he had announced
to Parliament absolutely necessary ? As such was the case , he implored uoble Lords to look at the situation of the country a « 4 the state of society which it had luroduced . Whether it had beeu brought about \> y tUe existence of these disabilities , or by the Cathoiic Association , he would not pretend to aay ; but this he would say , that no man who
looked at the state x > f things for the last two years could proceed longer upou the old system iu « he existing condition -of Ireland , and of men's opiuions on the subject , both in that country and in this . His opinion was , that it was the wish of the majority of the people that ( this . question should be settled some way or other . It was in conformity with that widfc ( kM . He bud . ^ Hideitak-en to bring the adiust-
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ment of it under tbe consideration . of , Parliament ; a « d he Uooed that their Lordships would give them such time ** s would enable them to bring it forward in that complete manner in which bis Majesty had declared fri $ willingness to give it hU royal asseut . Jle hoped that they would not take it into consideration by piecemeal , but would wait with patience tiM it was placed as a whole deliberately before them . ( Hear . )
Lord Lansdown said , he was most glad to find that a question so indispensable to the welfare of iFelaud was at length to be brought forward in . a way that promised a happy issue , and he would not be so ungenerous as to pry into the motives In which tije determination fcad originated . The question could end io one w # y ouly , and an act of grace
aud favour always came best from the Crown , Ip respect to the Catholic Association , how were they to proceed to pi event the people of Ireland from exr plaiuiwg their grievances ? Whether the measure intended by the noble 3 uke should be by a suspensioa of the liberty , of the subject , or whether it should be fry sepding all the members of tb&t body
to the Castle of Dublin , as long as t&e grievances rernajiied untouched , t ^ t > se remedies would be inefifeciual . ( He # rf ) As w ^ ell wight they attempt to remove the danger pi a voleaijo by sweeping into it the cinders which it sometimes easts up : the inflammatory ina ^ ss wo ^ ld still remain , and the attempt to check its yepjt would probably only cause it to explode
ia a quarter where it would foe least expected ia « 4 3 B 9 , ost injurious . He , b ^^ yever , fully admitted tl ) e ganger to any state of having an irresponsible Wdy exercA $ iiAg fiuch powers as { those po ^ se s ^ ed by the Association . IVtit would it iwt be heater to give that . expression . of feeling a prmyep
direction , by bringing \ t thew , where the collision of p » bitfc discussion yvas always found the safest manner m whK'h the public feeing could explore ? Wh $ t their Lordships wer ^ e then doing would ibe the must effectuaL and tfce only ^^ ctual , mea . 118 of putting down the Association . ( Hear , hear )
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Thursday , Feb . hth . Tte Speaker Vaviwg read ^* e Royal Couunj ^ si ©*! j ust deUvere 4 in the Hoube of jLv ; i' 4 « , — jl ^ ortl Cliv& , af ^ er wa , rroly approving ^ the pronosed proceedingp in regard ty te latid , vm $ 4 ^ A <^ s « M > * £ <* Ww
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HOU 8 * J OF COMWOJ 48 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 215, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/63/
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