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pardon of the House for having troubled them so
long, and concluded by moving "That a Select Committee
be appointed to take into consideration the progress
and extent of the disturbances in Ireland; and to examine
whether or not it is necessary for their effectual suppression,
to entrust to the Government of that Country
any and what additional powers; and to report their
observations thereon to the House."

Mr Brown seconded the motion

Mr Charles Grant perfectly agreed with the
honourable mover in the extreme importance of the
subject, not merely because it involved the character of
the existing Government of Ireland, but much more
because it involved the consideration of the principle
on which Ireland had been and ought to be governed.
He (Mr Grant) was certainly in a singular
situation. He had felt it his duty already to state to
Parliament that there did not appear to the Lord
Lieutenant and the Government of Ireland, to be any
ground for proposing the renewal of the Insurrection
Act. And now an honourable Gentleman rose, and
with curious inconsistency complained that the Irish
Government was not alive to the state of Ireland
and at the same time proposed to enact a law
which was to give that Government a discretion
which they did not think it necessary to possess!
He felt bound to oppose the motion, not merely because
it was brought on so late in the Session,
(although, that notwithstanding the explanation
of the Honourable Gentleman would have been sufficient),
not merely because if the House were absolutely
to go into a Committee, the proposition of the
Honourable Mover was not sufficiently extensive, as
it did not include any inquiry into the local and
general causes of the disturbances, not merely because
he was hostile to the supposition of the Honourable
Gentleman, that only what were called
strong measures could be salutary; but because the
Bill which the Honourable Gentleman recommended,
was contrary to that principle on which in
his opinion, the Government of Ireland ought
to

Identifier: | JB/109/165/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 109.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	109	Main Headings	Parliamentary Reform
Folio number	165	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C4
Penner		Watermarks	C WILMOTT 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andreas Louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	35820
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