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Parliament Of Ireland.
to those scenes that were so recently the theatre of devastation and carnage ; yet he therefore could not comprehend the policy of allaying the general system of" mercy by a Bill partially operating against the property of these solitary individuals , such as are named in the Bill , whilst so many others , at least equally guilty in the eyes of their country , were how the objects of Royal clemency , —while the ashes of Keugh , of Esmond , and of Crosbie , were suffered to rest in peace . His object in rising this day was to move the
House for permission to bring Counsel and evidence to their bar on behalf of two gentlemen who were petitioners against this Bill , John Knox Grogan , and Overstreet Grogan , Esqrs . the nearest relations of the late Mr . Grogan , of the county of Wexford ; men whose loyalty stood not only unimpeached , but highly illustrated by their conduct during the late unhappy rebellion ; and whose concern in this affair arose not so much from any injury they might in point of property sustainas from the reflection of what the honour
, of their family would suffer from an attaint of treason attaching to theirblood . He . was ready to produce evidence at the bar , which would convince the House beyond all doubt , that the late unhappy Mr . Grogan was not , during the late unfortunate struggle , voluntarily guilty of a single act of treason or rebellion ; that he was impelled to the part he had taken by force , and'the constant threats of destruction ; and that he had fallen the victim of his terrors rather than of his aruilt .
Saturday , 18 . —The House in a Committee heard evidence'for and against the bill of attainder . A number of papers , found in the possession of Lord E . Fitzgerald , were read ; containing an account of the several principal officers of the United Irishmen through the kingdom ; a list of " the persons who subscribed for the support of a paper called The Press ; and in his apartment was found a plan for attacking the city of Dublin : on his seal was engraved the arms of
regenerated Ireland . Monday , 20 . —Mr . Curran rose , and declining to adduce any evidence , which he said was impracticable , under the circumstances of the case all together , addressed the Committee in a speech of three bouts and a half , in which he warml y opposed the Bill , as being oppressive and unjust against his clients , ; first , as being supported only on the evidence of Reynolds , a common informer , whose base character , by the oath of several respectable witnesses ,
entitled his testimony to no credit . He considered the Bill in principle as mipiire , as totally abandoned by the British legislature since the 7 th of Queen Anne , as violating national justice , as a measure of supplementary vengeance , seeking reprisal upon ' the grave of the supposed culprit ,
' Et credis cineres curare sepultos . " mid plundering the pittance of the widow , and the cradle of the innocent orphan . Mr . Fletcher , in a speech of two hours , supported the arguments of Mr . Curran . The Attorney-General very . ably replied , and concluded by moving , that the name of Lord Edward Fitzgerald remain as part of the Bill , which was carried in the affirmative . Tuesday si . —Lord Castlereagh brought up the Report of the Committee
to whom the papers communicated by bis Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , on the 17 th of July last , had been referred . He stated , that the Committee had thought it expedient to add to their Report some of the documents upon which it was grounded . This Report , which occupied in the reading two full hours , commences with a general view of the conspiracy carried on by the Society of United Irishmen , from its original formation to its intimate connection with a Forei gn enemy . The Report then refers to the Report of the Lords Commit , tee , in 1793 , and that of both Houses in 1797 , which it states ' to have been full y confirmed by the evidence of some principal leaders in the society . '
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Parliament Of Ireland.
to those scenes that were so recently the theatre of devastation and carnage ; yet he therefore could not comprehend the policy of allaying the general system of" mercy by a Bill partially operating against the property of these solitary individuals , such as are named in the Bill , whilst so many others , at least equally guilty in the eyes of their country , were how the objects of Royal clemency , —while the ashes of Keugh , of Esmond , and of Crosbie , were suffered to rest in peace . His object in rising this day was to move the
House for permission to bring Counsel and evidence to their bar on behalf of two gentlemen who were petitioners against this Bill , John Knox Grogan , and Overstreet Grogan , Esqrs . the nearest relations of the late Mr . Grogan , of the county of Wexford ; men whose loyalty stood not only unimpeached , but highly illustrated by their conduct during the late unhappy rebellion ; and whose concern in this affair arose not so much from any injury they might in point of property sustainas from the reflection of what the honour
, of their family would suffer from an attaint of treason attaching to theirblood . He . was ready to produce evidence at the bar , which would convince the House beyond all doubt , that the late unhappy Mr . Grogan was not , during the late unfortunate struggle , voluntarily guilty of a single act of treason or rebellion ; that he was impelled to the part he had taken by force , and'the constant threats of destruction ; and that he had fallen the victim of his terrors rather than of his aruilt .
Saturday , 18 . —The House in a Committee heard evidence'for and against the bill of attainder . A number of papers , found in the possession of Lord E . Fitzgerald , were read ; containing an account of the several principal officers of the United Irishmen through the kingdom ; a list of " the persons who subscribed for the support of a paper called The Press ; and in his apartment was found a plan for attacking the city of Dublin : on his seal was engraved the arms of
regenerated Ireland . Monday , 20 . —Mr . Curran rose , and declining to adduce any evidence , which he said was impracticable , under the circumstances of the case all together , addressed the Committee in a speech of three bouts and a half , in which he warml y opposed the Bill , as being oppressive and unjust against his clients , ; first , as being supported only on the evidence of Reynolds , a common informer , whose base character , by the oath of several respectable witnesses ,
entitled his testimony to no credit . He considered the Bill in principle as mipiire , as totally abandoned by the British legislature since the 7 th of Queen Anne , as violating national justice , as a measure of supplementary vengeance , seeking reprisal upon ' the grave of the supposed culprit ,
' Et credis cineres curare sepultos . " mid plundering the pittance of the widow , and the cradle of the innocent orphan . Mr . Fletcher , in a speech of two hours , supported the arguments of Mr . Curran . The Attorney-General very . ably replied , and concluded by moving , that the name of Lord Edward Fitzgerald remain as part of the Bill , which was carried in the affirmative . Tuesday si . —Lord Castlereagh brought up the Report of the Committee
to whom the papers communicated by bis Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , on the 17 th of July last , had been referred . He stated , that the Committee had thought it expedient to add to their Report some of the documents upon which it was grounded . This Report , which occupied in the reading two full hours , commences with a general view of the conspiracy carried on by the Society of United Irishmen , from its original formation to its intimate connection with a Forei gn enemy . The Report then refers to the Report of the Lords Commit , tee , in 1793 , and that of both Houses in 1797 , which it states ' to have been full y confirmed by the evidence of some principal leaders in the society . '