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180 . The second reading was moved by Mr . Peel . The speakers in support of the motion were—Mr . Benson , Mr . Goulburn , Lord Castlereagh , Mr . Wilmot Horton , Sir Henry Parnell , Mr . Robert Grant , Mr . Horace Twiss ,
Lord Mountcharles , Lord Palmerstom , Lord Milton . Against the second reading—Sir Edward Knatchbull , Mr . G . Bankes , Mr . Sadler , Mr . Bankes , Lord Tullamore , Mr . Trant , Sir C . Wetherell , the Attorney-General . Mr . Peel replied .
Of the speeches , two on each side were more remarkable thau the rest : on Tuesday , Mr . Sadler's— -a maiden oration , that was highly praised ; on Wednesday , Lord Palmerston ' s , Sir Charles Wetherell's , and Mr . Peel's . We insert the peroration of Mr . Peel ' s :
" One parting word , and I have done . I have received in the speech of my noble friend the member for Donegal , testimonies of approbation which are grateful to my soul ; and they have beeu liberally awarded to me by gentlemen on the other side of the House in a manner
which does honour to the forbearance of party among us . They have , however , one and all , awarded to me a credit which I do not deserve for settling this questiou . The credit , if it be a credit , belongs to others , and not to me . It belongs to Fox—to Grattan—to Plunkett—to the gentlemen opposite—and to an illustrious friend of mine , who is now no more . ( Cheers . ) By their efforts , iu
spite of my opposition , it has proved tiiumphant . I will not conceal from the House that in the course of this debate , allusions have been made to the memory of my right honourable friend , now no more , which have been most painful to my feelings - An honourable baronet ( Sir E . Knatchbull ) has spoken of the cruel manner in which my right honourable friend was hunted down . Whether the honourable baronet was one of
those who hunted him down , I know not ; but this I do know , that whoever joined in the inhuman cry which was raised against him , 1 was not one . ( Cheers . ) I was on terms of the most friendly intimacy with that illustrious
statesman down even to the day of his death , and I say with as much sincerity of heart as man can speak , that I wish he was now alive among us to reap the harvest which he sowed , and to enjoy the triumph which hia exertions gained . I am well aware that the fate of this measure cannot now be altered : if it succeed , the credit will redound to o-
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thers ; if it fail , the responsibility will devolve upon me , and upon those with whom I have acted . These chances , with the loss of private friendship aud the alieuation of public confidence , I must have foreseen and calculated before I ventured to recommend these measures . ( Cheers ) I assure the House , that in conducting them , I have met with the
severest blow which it has ever been my lot to experience in my life ; but I am convinced that the time will come , though I may not perhaps live to see it , when full justice will be done by men of all parties to the motives on which I have acted , —when this question will be fully settled , and when others will see that I had no other alternative than to
act as 1 have acted . ( Cheers . ) They will then admit that the course which I have followed , and which I am still prepared to follow , whatever imputation it may * expose me to , is the only course , which is necessary for the diminution of the undue , illegitimate , and dangerous power of the Roman Catholics , and for the maintenance and security of the Protestant religion . "
Thursday , March 19 , the second reading of the Bill for Disfranchising the Irish Forty-shilling Freeholders , was carried , on a division , by a majority of 223 to 17 . The principle of the measure had not a single supporter , except Mr . A . Ellis , who , as a Parliamentary reformer , upheld the Bill , because it was the object of reform to render the elective franchise
free trom corruption Mr . Brownlow frankly confessed , that he was not ashamed to do evil in the present case , for the sake of the good which would follow . Mr . Littleton , Mr . Villiers Stuart , Lord Bective , Mr . Stuart Wortley , Mr . Abercrombv , aud Mr .
C . Wynne , were actuated by similar motives ; holding that the evil of the measure , though great in magnitude , was compensated by the greater boon which could not be obtained without it . Mr . Bankes repudiated this doctriue . Mr . Grattan stated that the Bill will at
once disfranchise one hundred aud seventy-eight thousand voters ; and these , Lord Dun cannon averred , were neither so much the slaves of the priest or the vassals of the landlord , nor so ignorant or uneducated , as they were supposed to be , except perhaps in some mountainous districts . Mr . Huskisson thought it unfair in the Ministers to take advantage of a nation's enthusiasm to destroy its franchises : they might at least have attempted to correct the admitted evila
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Intelligence . —Catholic Question . 295
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/71/
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