leaving the Ministers of the Crown in eclipsed degradation. It is therefore I have not come to you furnished merely with a cold mechanical plan; but have submitted to your consideration the living grievances-conceiving that any thing in the shape of oppression made once apparentoppression too of a people you have set free-the evil will catch those warm susceptible properties which abound in your mind, and qualify you for legislation."

When Mr. Grattan had concluded,

Mr. FITZGIBBON (Attorney-General) rose, and, with great candor, acknowledged, that the great effort which Mr. Grattan had now made, must have excited the admiration of every man who witnessed it for surely he might, with justice, say, that this was the most splendid display of elocution that House had ever heard ;--and,

Mr. CURRAN also observed, that the extraordinary talents of the honourable mover (Mr. Grattan) had left nothing for any one to add ;~~ he found himself as unable to add to his arguments, as the other side of the House were to answer them.

On the division, it appeared that there were,

Mr. GRATTAN, unwearied in pleading the cause of the poor of Ireland, again brought forward, on the 14th April, the deeply-interesting subject of Tithes, for the consideration of the House. Though opposed by majorities, whose existence seemed to depend on their submission to the will of the Cabinet-though defeated in ' every effort to heal the wounds of Ireland, in flicted by a system of Government, which had no object in view but the extinction of Irish spirit, and the ascendancy of English influence, he left no means untried, nor no opportunity unseized, to assert the great principle of justice and of right, on behalf of his oppressed and suffering countrymen ;-he wearied the ears of a corrupt Parliament with incessant remonstrances

and upbraidings-and if he did not succeed in convincing the gentlemen of Ireland, that the course which they then pursued led to their own degradation, and ultimate conquest, he at least satisfied the friends of truth and independence, that he performed, with fidelity and with courage, the high trust which the people had reposed in his talents and integrity.

He now submitted to the House a series of Resolutions, which he intended to move, in the course of the ensuing Session.-He thought the great principles of redress should be thoroughly considered; that the following Propositions should be submitted to, and most maturely weighed by the Church-the foundation of fu ture Bills; that they should stand the sentiments of the Commons, (and if resisted by a Right Reverend Bench) their acquittal and justification.He accompanied each resolution with enlightened and profound comment; and has thus bequeathed to the future legislator, a record of those principles which are best calculated to di rect his understanding in the consideration of a question, that now, more than ever, should occupy the attention, and command the efforts of a wise and provident Administration.

On this occasion, he addressed the House, as follows:

"MR. SPEAKER, I submit to you certain great principles as propositions to the Church.-To stand the foundation of future Bills, to stand the sentiments of the Commons, and to be (if these sentiments are resisted by a right reverend bench) our acquittal and justification to the public.

The first resolution relates to barren land. "Resolved, that it would greatly encourage the improvement of barren lands in Ireland, if said lands, for a certain time after being reclaimed, were exempt from the payment of Tithes."

and common sense.

"This is a maxim of politics, and requires nothing more for its adoption, on the part of the Church, but the exercise of Christian charity This is the law of England, -and true in the wilds of America, as well as in England, a principle which barbarity and civ ilization equally proclaim.

"This does not ask any thing from the clergy except the use of their understanding-that they will restrain an unseasonable appetite-postpone a premature voracity. That they will, on this occasion, indulge themselves in a sagacity superior to that of the fowls of the air, who devour the seed, and equal to the wisdom of the hind, who waits for the harvest.-Have mercy on the infant labours of mankind; respect the plough, and instead of dogging its paces as a constable

would a felon, imitate the barbarous, but in this instance more civilized Persian Monarch, who began his reign by taking the plough in his royal hand, and did homage to that patient instrument which feeds mankind.

"To say that the Bill in question enriched the community at the expence of the clergy, was but a poor and uncharitable argument, the result of hot counsel, and crabbed sentiments. If it does enrich the community-true-but not at your expence-you give nothing. What! will the eagle come down, that you may Tithe him, and the stag of the mountain stop at thy bidding? You give nothing, except to yourselves and your successors the chance of getting something from that which, but for such an encouragement, might remain to you and to us, to all eternity, wretched and unprofitable. Supposing, therefore, that the clergy were in no particular to make sacrifices to the good of their flock, that they were to get every law they asked for themselves, and to assent to none on the behalf of their parishioners-yet still should they accede to this measure-on a principle of enlightened selfishness-on a principle not of piety, but of usury, and to resist it would argue an incapacity to see not only the public interest but their own.