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man action, and feeling at the very moment of this deduction that it fhares in that great progreffion which filently, though rapidly, is accelerating the confequences it predicted.

It is not in vain that the providence of God, in fome inftances, imparts to man a portion of his intellect, to penetrate into the future, and forefee the revolutions of time. Human nature is feldom vifited by misfortune without deferving it, and knowing that it proceeds from its own omiffion or offence; and never does God fpread before his, creatures the pit of delufion and fate, without giving them faculty to fee and avoid it.

The moment has therefore come, in which the government of Great Britain is urged by its own intereft, by its parental duty towards Ireland, by the irresistible claims of that great portion of the Irish people who iffued from her loins, who fhare her religious faith, and whofe property refts on English. title; and, above all, by the characteristics of the English nation, her order, humanity and religion, to fave Ireland, without delay, from the evils which impend, and the deftruction to which fhe is expofed. Whatever difficulties may impede an immediate incorporation, whatever inconvenience may attend the prefent agitation of this measure, they are as nothing to the embarraffinent which will accrue, and the direful neceffity in which fhe will be involved, if the prefent occafion be neglected, and the fchemes of the difaffected prevail. Her magnanimity will encounter danger if it exift; there will be none if he is firm; fhe will regard as idle found the clamour which is raised by the ftupid politics of fome, and the wickedness of others; and true to the great character of her nation, fhe will conduct herfelf with wifdom, philanthropy, and juftice.

THE END.

On THURSDAY, the 14th of February, 1799,

ON THE

QUESTION for receiving the Report of the Committee on the RESOLUTIONS refpecting an

INCORPORATE UNION WITH IRELAND.

WITH A

Correct Copy of the RESOLUTIONS, as they were finally amended by the House of Commons.

DUBLIN:

PRINTED BY JOHN EXSHAW, 98, GRAFTON-STREET

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MR. PEEL prefaced his Speech, by

faying, That a regard for confiftency made him anxious to trespass a few minutes on the patience of the House.

Mr. Speaker,

SIR,

In the year 1785, during the difcuffion of the Irish arrangements, as they were called, I was a petitioner at your bar against thofe

thofe arrangements with Ireland; and I am
warranted in saying, that I carried with me
the fentiments of a great proportion of the
trading interest of England. The object of
thofe propofitions was to open a freer inter-
course betwixt two independent kingdoms;
the one poffeffing great foreign dominions,
and an universal commerce; the other pof-
feffing no foreign dominions, and
very little
trade; and, confequently, enjoying separate
interefts, as they always must, while they
have feparate legislatures; because they may
become separate, in fact. It was apparent,
then, that thofe arrangements, however
well intended, would have been prejudicial
to the manufactures of Great Britain.
The fupport I have given the present mea-
fare, does not arife from a change of fenti-
ments, but of circumftances. This plan
embraces great advantages, both political
and commercial, which, by uniting two
countries

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