The Speech of the Right Honourable John, Earl of Clare ... on a Motion Made by the Earl of Moira, EtcJohn Milliken, 1798 - 87 pages |
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Page 13 - Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that the said right claimed by the people of Ireland, to be bound only by laws enacted by His Majesty and the Parliament of that Kingdom , in all cases whatever...
Page xvi - ... shall ever commemorate the French Revolution, let this society pour out their first libation to European liberty, eventually the liberty of the world, and with their hands joined in each other, and their eyes raised to Heaven, in His presence, who breathed into them an ever-living soul, let them swear to maintain the rights and prerogatives of their nature as men, and the right and prerogative of Ireland as an independent people. " ' Dieu et mon Droit ' (God and my right) is the motto of kings....
Page 5 - There is not a nation in the habitable globe which has advanced in cultivation and commerce, in agriculture and manufactures, with the same rapidity in the same period ;" — speaking of Ireland since the constitution of 1782, viz., for the last twenty years.
Page iv - Battalion,' no crown, but a device over the harp of a cap of liberty upon a pike ; two pattern coats had been left at two shops in Dublin.
Page xiv - lies too deep to be " cured by any remedy, lefs than fome great convulfion " which may bring back the Conftitution to its original " principles, or utterly deftroy it.
Page v - Belfast ladies of men in arms are drilled and exercised for several hours almost every night, by candlelight; and attempts have been made to seduce the soldiery, which, much to the honour of the king's forces, have proved ineffectual. The declared object of these military bodies ie to procure a Reform of Parliament ; but the obvious intention of most of them appears to be to overawe the parliament and the government, and to dictate to both.
Page v - Belfast, and that arms and gunpowder, to a very large amount, have been sent thither ; that bodies of men in arms are drilled and exercised by day and by night, and that the declared object of the said armed bodies is redress of alleged grievances, but that the obvious intention of most of them appears to be to overawe the parliament and the government, and to dictate to both.
Page v - These bodies are daily increasing in numbers and force ; they have exerted their best endeavours to procure military men of experience to act as their officers ; some of them having expressly stated that there were MEN enough to be had, but that OFFICERS were what they wanted. Stands of arms and gunpowder, to a very large amount, much above the common consumption, have been sent, within these few months past, to Belfast and Newry, and orders given for a much greater quantity, which it appears could...
Page iv - These publications are circulated amongst the people with the utmost industry, and appear to be calculated to defame the Government and Parliament, and to render the people dissatisfied with their condition and with the laws. The conduct of the French is shamefully extolled, and recommended to the public view as an example for imitation ; hopes and expectations have been held up of their assistance by a descent upon this kingdom, and prayers have been offered up at Belfast, from the pulpit,* for...
Page xiii - Number. — On the rock of this principle let this society rest ; by this let it judge and determine every political question, and whatever is necessary for this end let it not be accounted hazardous, but rather our interest, our duty, our glory and our common religion. The Rights of Man are the Rights of God, and to vindicate the one is to maintain the other. We must be free in order to serve Him whose service is perfect freedom. " The external business of this society will be — first, publication,...