CONTENTS. Page Bill to fecure fufpe&ted Perfons. 237 Speech of the Chancellor of the ib. ib. 267 Mr. Tierney ib. 269 ib. 269 Sir Wm. Geary ib. 282, 298. 288 Mr. J. H. Browne 255 Alderman Lufhington Voluntary Corps. T TO THE PUBLICK. HE high fituation to which Great Britain has been elevated in the eyes of Europe, and it may almoft be faid, in the confideration of the world, fince the laft recefs of Parliament, in confequence of her brilliant and important victories in different feas, her firm but wife and temperate conduct at home, (where unprovoked Rebellion and unnatural revolt might have juftified the full meafure of legal vengeance), and the fubftantial advantage of rifing credit, from the rapid increase of the price of her Publick Funds, cannot but fill the mind of every British fubject, capable of reflection, with the honeft warmth of wellfounded exultation, and the rational pride refulting from the consciousnefs of having rifen in the midft of an expenfive, critical, and dangerous war, to an unparalleled degree of national glory. To enter into a detail of the particular grounds on which the preceding obfervation is founded, would be to trifle with the Reader's patience, and to weaken the impreffion of facts too well established in proof to be doubted, and of too much magnitude to be overlooked. The fplendour of Lord Nelfon's victory off the Mouth of the Nile has already been echoed from fhore to fhore, and its fame by this time has probably reached the diftant coafts of the habitable globe. In the European quarter of the world, not only the extraordinary luftre it has thrown around the character of its hero and his officers, but the extent of the beneficial confequences it is likely to be followed with, in regard to the restoration of general tranquility and repofe, has been fully admitted and received with the highest general gratitude. More remote regions may probably early reap their A share share of the advantages it is apparently pregnant with to all mankind, as a check to the inordinate ambition of the Rulers of the French Republic, who having abjured the Deity, and all pretenfions to religion, which they have practically followed up by a total difregard of morality, and every notion hitherto held facred by the civilized world, feem qualified for the degraded fituation of publick executioners, appointed for a time by Providence to hold and exercife the fcourge over those nations which, by French intrigues and delufions, they have been able to delude and fasten to the whipping-poft of modern republicanism. With regard to Ireland, and the districts of it in Rebellion, what candid man has had the opportunity of obferving the progrefs and termination of the partial revolt, without feeling his breaft warmed with a glow of grateful applaufe to Government, for their judicious conduct throughout the course of fo critical and fo embarraffing an event. Well informed of the meditated treafons that were plotting, the King's minifters had to conduct their meafures, in defiance of general opinion, which had been artfully turned in favour of those who are now known to have been the most accomplished traitors, and even betrayed into fentiments of fincere compaffion for the fufferings of large bodies of men, whom eminent characters poffeffed of a confiderable stake individually in Ireland, having been themselves grofsly deluded, had held up to the Publick in the British Parliament, as fuffering under the moft unmerited and cruel oppreffion. At first, when the fword of rebellion was unfheathed, and the moniter ftalked in blood in the face of day, the avenging arm of military force was uplifted to check its career; the fpirit, the firmness, and the valour of the combined exertions of the yeomanry of Ireland, with the prowess of the King's troops, effectually fucceeded in filling the Rebels with awe, apprehenfion, and difmay. A battle or two fought made a fenfible impreffion on the |