Possible consequences to the connexion, if the posterity of the Suicidal Irish Parliament should ever learn that the Liberties of their Country were compromised by the vilest Corruption.

LET me adjure the noble lord to weigh well and consider deeply the probable permanency of a measure so conducted; let me implore him to avail himself of the passing experience of his own days, and of the instructions which history may afford him, and when he sees volcanic revolutions desolating the face of the political world, the first elementary principles of society loosening and dissolving, and empires not built upon the liberties of the people crumbling into dust, let him contemplate the awful change which he is about to accomplish, and consider the dreadful responsibility he incurs to his sovereign, by exchanging the affections of a loyal nation for the reluctant obedience of a degraded and defrauded province. Let him look for the permanency of this transaction, something farther than to the vote of the night, or the job of the morning, and let him have some better document than his army list for the affections of the people; let him consider whether posterity will validate this act, if they believe that the constitution of their ancestors was plundered by force, or was filched by practice. Let him, before it be too late, seriously ponder, whether posterity will validate this act, if they believe that the basest corruption and arti

fice were exerted to promote it, that all the worst passions of the human heart were enlisted into the service, and all the most depraved ingenuity of the human intellect tortured to devise new contrivances of fraud. I do not say those things have been-I state hypothetically, and ask if posterity believe such things, will they validate the transaction? If they believe that there was foul play from the first moment to the last, both within doors and without, that the rabble were appealed to from the parliament, and debauched or intimidated to petition against the constitution of their country-if they believe that in parliament the disgust of the measure notwithstanding a proscription which made office incompatible with honour, stained the treasury bench; that the disgust of the measure broke asunder and dissociated some of the tenderest and most delicate connexions of human life, that the nominal office of escheator of Munster became an office of honourable competition, and after the parliament was thus reduced, that the Irish commons were recruited from the English staff. If they were to believe those things, and that human frailty and human necessities were so practised upon, that the private sentiments and the public conduct of several could not be reconciled, and that where the minister could influence twenty votes he could not command one hear him!-I say not that these things are so, but I ask you if your posterity believe them to have been so, will posterity validate this transaction, or will they feel themselves bound to do so?—I answer, where a transaction, though fortified by seven-fold form, is radically fraudulent, that all the forms and solemnities of law are but so many badges of the fraud, and that posterity, like a great court of conscience, will pronounce its judgment-let me not be misunderstood-I am sure I shall be misrepresented-odious as this measure is in my eyes, and disgusting to my feelings, if I see it carried by the free and uninfluenced sense of the Irish parliament, I

shall not only defer and submit, but I will cheerfully obey. It will be the first duty of every good subject. But fraud, and oppresion, and unconstitutional practice, may possibly be another question. If this be factious language lord Somers was factious, the founders of the revolution were factious, William the Third was an usurper, and the revolution was a rebellion. For what did James the Second lose his crown? Can the case of the seven bishops be compared with the case of Ireland? I shall not draw the parallel.

I have too long troubled you, but before I sit down, let me for once conjure this House, to consider whether this be a transaction altogether upon which they are willing to commit themselves, their properties, their characters, and their children. Let me conjure them to weigh that question well, if private honour and public virtue be not a name, and if every generous feeling be not banished from amongst us. Where is that spirit which in the year 1782 swelled the crest and glorified the character of Irish gentry, which achieved liberty for yourselves, and extorted justice from England, and admiration from Europe? Is it fled and extinguished for ever? I will not believe it. But were every appeal to every thing human fruitless and vain, I would invoke that Providence which even in my short life has so often stretched his protecting arm over my country-in my short life, my country from a province has become a nation-has been protected from a bloody rebellion and a formidable invasion, and has seen one desperate attempt against her liberties and constitution frustrated and overthrown-I will rely on God to save

EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH ON THE TRIAL OF MANSERGH v. HACKETT, FOR CRIM. CON.

GENTLEMEN of the jury, permit me, like Hamlet in the play, to present you the reverse of the portraits which have been drawn of this husband and his mate—or to quit the style of metaphor which does not so well become the language of truth, let me tell you in a few words what the facts really are. Lucretia, stripped of her Roman garb, turns out to be neither more nor less than Miss Shields, a lady of whose talents and accomplishments you have heard so much, and of whom you are just going to see a little. Possessed, as we are informed, of every virtue, we cannot suppose her deficient in prudence, the parent of the whole moral tribe, and of this she gave an early and a striking proof. Finding her person of marriageable age, and feeling herself little disposed to celibacy, she yet thought it prudent before she entered upon the awful state of matrimony, to see how she would like it, and by taking earnest of a spouse," and before she took the final step, to know by anticipation what were to be its consequences. She made the experiment and liked it, and her marriage with Mr. Mansergh followed. Too liberal in her temper to confine her favours to one solitary object, and a philanthropist in the most extensive meaning of the term, it would require a combination of the powers of memory and lungs, with which I am not blessed, to give you a list of the individuals who have been honoured by her embraces. To aid recollection

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I shall reduce them under certain general heads, and tell you that the navy, the army, the bar, and the PULPIT, have paid homage to her charms!!! And such was the admirable congeniality of temper between her and her mate, that he exulted in her triumphs, boasted of her success, and when he beheld a hoary headed divine tottering at the tail of her conscripts, has been heard, at the edifying spectacle, to ejaculate in a strain of religious enthusiasm, "Praise be to heaven, I have got the grace of God in my train!" Children were the natural consequence of this diffusive intercourse with the great world, and that they were her own children, is certain but farther the most zealous of her deponents sayeth not. For, gentlemen-.

The troops of heroes did surround

Her couchée and her levèe,

The pie-bald breed was never owned
By light horse or by heavy.

CONCLUSION of an ADDRESS TO THE JURY ON THE TRIAL OF SIR JOHN PIERS FOR ADULTERY.

GENTLEMEN, I shall not pursue this odious subject. I have stated the facts of this unparallelled case-I leave it now to you. In discharging your present duty, you have more than the present parties before you. You are guardians of public morals—you may give salatary instructions by wholesome example-you may teach the man of modern gallantry that he shall not invade domestic peace with impunity-you may teach the votary of modern honour that he