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Show [58] [59] was the true eaufe why Ireland was five hundred years in fubduing; and after the vain pro- tions from them, at fuch times, were fuffered to jects of a Military Goverrn'nent, attempted in the tive amount .of fuch cafual breaches in the con- reign of Queen Elizabeth, it was foon difcovered, fiitution, judge what the flated and, fixed rule of fupply has been in that Kingdom. Your Iriih penfioners would Prarve, if they had no other fund to live on'than taxes granted by Engliih au- thority. Turn your eyes to thofe popular grants from whence all your great fupplies are come; and learn to refpeé‘t that, only fource of public wealth in the Britifh empire. that nothing could malze that con itry Englilh, in civility ;;.1d allegiance, but your laws and your forms of legiilature. It was not Englilh arms, but the Englilh conftitution, tha eoneuered Ireland. From that time, Ireland has ever had a general Parliament, as the had before a partial Parlinnent. You changed the people; you al- tered the religion; but you never touched the form or the vital fubilance of free government in that kingdom. You depofed kings; you refiored them; you altered the fuccellion to theirs, be ufed as proofs of their nullity. By the lucra- My next example is Wales. This country was faid to be reduced by Henry the Third. It was faid more truly to be f0 by Edward the Firft. as well as to your own crown; but you never But though then conquered, it was not looked altered their contiitution; the principle of which was refpetfted by ufurpation; reflored with the upon as any part of the realm of England. Its old confiitution, whatever that might have been, reiteration of Monarchy, and efiablifhed, I trult, for ever, by the glorious Revolution. This has made Ireland the great and flourilhing kingdom was deflroyed; and no good one was fubftituted that it is ; and from a difgraee and a hurthen in? vernment of a very fingular kind; a flrange he- tolerable to this nation, has rendered her a principal part of our firength and ornament. This country cannot be faid to have ever formally taxed terogeneous monfter, {omething between Hofti- her. times, to that of commander in chief at prefent, to whom all civil power is granted as fecondzn‘y. The manners of the VVelIh nation followed the The irregular things done in the confufion of mighty troubles, and on the hinge of great revolutions, even if all were done that is laid in its place. The care of that traét was put into the hands of Lords Marchers-a form of G0- lity and Government; perhaps it has a fOrt of refemblance, according to the modes of thofe to have been done, form no example. If they have any effect in argument, they make an exception to prove the rule. None of your own liber- Genius of the Government: The peeple were ties could {land a moment, if the cafual devia- itfelf, was in perpetual diforder; and it keptthe trons frontier ferocious, refiive, favage, and uncultivated; {ome- times compofed, never pacified. Wales within |