d with, and too inseparable from, the dignity and honour
of Great Britain, to make them desire that Great Britain should
humble herself by an acknowledgment that the right which she had
so long exercised had been usurped; that, on the other hand, it
would have been absurd to have asserted the right at the very
moment that it was to be abandoned for ever: such an assertion
could answer no good end, and could only serve to wound the
feelings of a nation whom it was intended by that transaction to
bind by the strongest ties of affection, as they were already
bound by the strongest ties of interest, with Great Britain.
These were the reasons why it had been brought forward in the
manner in which it had; and every friend to both countries, or
to either, must certainly wish that it had proved satisfactory.
But it could not be concealed that doubts had arisen upon the
operation and effect of the transaction, and that if such doubts
had prevailed--if from reasons, possibly ill-founded, they had
been adopted by many well-intentioned men, and if those doubts
had been strengthened by the late decision of the Court of
King's Bench, however necessary that decision might be, from the
circumstance of the cause having been set down for hearing
before anything had passed in the House on the subject of
Ireland, and if that decision induced a necessity--as it
certainly did--of passing a Bill for preventing any writ of
error from being received, it was surely an act of policy and
magnanimity in Great Britain, it was consistent with the honour
and dignity of the House to set that question for ever at rest
by an authentic and solemn avowal of that which was avowed by
all the parties to the transaction, and to place upon the
records of Parliament a lasting monument of the good faith and
justice of Great Britain.

It was with this view that I gave my most hearty consent and
support to this motion; with this view that I hoped it would
meet, not only with the general support, but, if I might be
allowed to hope so much, with the unanimous concurrence of the
House; because I wished very much to show to Ireland that it was
the unanimous determination of the House to abide by those
principles which had been unanimously adopted in the last
session, which had at the opening of the present session
rec