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to receive, day after day, applications for the military
force accompanied by declarations of great alarm and
infinite danger. No doubt, those by whom such declarations
were made thought them well founded,
but it was the duty of Government to use a sound discretion,
and to consider how far it might be proper
to afford the required aid. Under such circumstances,
the first duty of Government was to endearvour
to rouse the Local Authorities themselves to
attempt the suppression of the evil. If that failed,
their second duty,—a duty to be always reluctantly
performance,—was to supply such a moderate military
force as would enable the local Authorities to suppress
the evil. If that should fail, their kept duty
was to resort to the Provisions of the Peace Preservation
Bill. He was not presumptuous enough to
say, that no reproach whatever could attack to the present
Government of Ireland; but attacked as that
Government had been, he might perhaps be allowed
to maintain, that in the instance in question it
had acted as it ought. (The Right Honble. Gentleman
have entered into a minute detail, into which owe
limits will not permit us to follow him, of the
applications which had been made by the Majistrates
of the county of Galway for military aid, and
of the measures taken by the Irish Government
in consequence). During the last thirty or forty
years, it had been the conviction of successive
administrations in Ireland, that it was necessary
by some means or other, to descend from the systemm
of extraordinary measures by which that country had
been so long governed. That conviction was mine—
jested by the Government of Lord Cornwallis. It was
manifested to a great extent by the Administration
of his Right Honourable Friend who had immediately
preceeded him (Mr Peel) His Right Honourable
Friend had established the Peace Preservation
Bill, because it was not safe to descend too suddenly
from the system which had been so long pursued.
The Insurrection Act was in force when
His Right Honourable Friend came into office, but
he had wisely allowed it to expire—The counties of
Tipperary Under what circumstances was
Ireland, when that Act was allowed to expire?
The

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Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
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