The Substance of the Speech of the Marquis Wellesley, on the 31st January, 1812, in the House of Lords: On the Motion of Earl Fitzwilliam, Respecting the Present State of IrelandG. Sidney, published, 1812 - 34 pàgines |
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able ambition admonition altar apprehended argument Bench in Ireland body Catholics of Ireland channel of petitioning civil claim Committee common Court of King's criminal ambition Crown or Parliament danger description of assembly disorder EARL FITZWILLIAM Earl's election enforced established order establishments in Church eternal exclusion Executive government government of Ireland HARVARD COLLEGE honour House of Commons House of Lords illegal Convention individual interest inquiry Irish government justice King's Bench Law of Ireland Law Officers legal authority Legislature liberty lics Lord Lieutenant Lord Wellesley declared Lordships Majesty's MARQUIS WELLESLEY ment mischief MOTION OF EARL nant Noble Earl object Papist peculiar perilous piness and welfare pledge of attachment political power power in Ireland present principles proceeding Protestant Constitution Protestant Establishment prudent public order question realm removal respectful petition restraint right of petition Roman Catholic cause sect sentiment solemn Sovereign spect spirit temper throne tion tranquillity violation violence zeal
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Pàgina 30 - ... displayed by the Roman catholics was implanted in the human heart, and congenial to the spirit of every free constitution. " The noble earl would thus perceive, that Lord Wellesley's opinions on the condition and claims of the catholics were substantially" the same as his lordship's. He trusted that he should not be accused of a spirit of procrastination or delusion, if he now objected to enter into the committee for the purpose of instantaneously abolishing the restraints under which the Roman...
Pàgina 21 - This factafforded matter of deep re. flection ; it must be the policy of every wise state, to connect all descriptions of persons, possessing political powers, with the general frame of the community, to mix and blend their individual pursuits with the common interests of the state, and to attach them by the powerful ties of honourable ambition and honest gain to the established order of the government. " A body, possessing great political power, but separated from the state by special exclusions...
Pàgina 22 - ... a body with the ordinary operations of the established government, by infusing the same principles of connection, which unite and harmonise all the parts of the community, and which form the peculiar strength and beauty of the British constitution. It was not so much a question whether additional political power should be given to the Roman catholics of Ireland, as whether they should now be refused those appendages to their present political power, which would identify its exercise with the...
Pàgina 14 - ... great question to which it in part refers, with circumstances of temporary and I hope transient irritation, I must give my vote against it." The motion of Lord Donoughmore drew from the Marquis Wellesley the following reflections on this great question. He declared, " That he approached the interesting cause of the Roman catholics with a solicitude for its success which could not be surpassed, even by the ardour of the noble earl. From the first dawn of his reason to the present hour, his anxiety...
Pàgina 33 - ... enjoyed by any class of subjects, by any sect of religion, whatever civil or religious liberty existed among us, originated from the protestant establishment, was guarded and preserved by it, would flourish with its prosperity, and decline with its decay. All sects, all parties, civil and religious, are concerned in the preservation of this great bulwark of the community. It is the safeguard of the subject, as well as of the crown ; connecting the purity and moderation of our reformed church...
Pàgina 32 - ... of right, however arrayed with violence, or enforced by clamour ; nor would he lend his hand to close the gates of the constitution against any class of his majesty's faithful subjects ; nor would he presume to proclaim a sentence of irrevocable exclusion against a large portion of the population of the empire, under colour of pure zeal for the protestant establishment.
Pàgina 29 - ... unreasonable or inordinate desires ? Was this criminal ambition ? " These wishes were the most substantial proofs that the Roman catholics entertained a true estimate of the value of the concessions which had already been made to them, and a just sense of the constitutional use of those advantages. Was it to be argued, that because the Roman catholics were sensible to the same emotions of honourable ambition and public glory, which similar causes, and similar situations, had raised in all other...
Pàgina 17 - One maxim is clear and undeniable ; that every state possesses a right to restrain whatever is dangerous to its security ; no sect, no individual, can assert as a claim of right against the state, the relaxation of any restraint, of which the continuance is required for the safety of the community. " On the other hand, every restraint, excluding any description of the subjects of any state from the enjoyment of advantages generally...
Pàgina 28 - ... ambition of desiring to emulate the illustrious sons of Ireland, under whom they had fought, and bled, and conquered ; of hoping, ultimately, to direct the armies in which they had so gloriously served ; and to devote to their country, in the command of her troops, those attainments, which they had laboriously acquired in the subaltern branches of her service. " Were these unreasonable or inordinate desires ? Was this criminal ambition ? " These wishes were the most substantial proofs that the...
Pàgina 19 - The noble marquis declared, that in his judgment, the mischief of continuing this system of restraint greatly overbalanced any danger which could be apprehended from reverting to the more liberal, more mild, more benignant, and auspicious policy, which had adorned the earlier periods of his majesty's reign. The original severity of the penal laws was directed against...