History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: had cither been mifundcrftood o-r mifreprcfcntcd by a for- mer fpeaker. Mr. Flood was rifing to fpeak again, when Lord North rofe, and faid, he had fomcthing to fay in LJ.N.rtJi. explanation. He faid, that admitting the words delicate lit nation had been ufed, he faw no icafon vhy the honourable gentleman ihould have interpreted them in the feri- ous manner he had done. He faw nothing in this delicate word that could poflibly be interpreted as implying any jcaloufy towards the Irifli Volunteers. Was there not other fituations to which the word might be applied, than referring to their loyalty ? In his opinion, there was nothing in them which deferred fo ferious a comment. But what ufe does the honourable gentleman (Mr. Flood) make of thcfe words ? aflced his Lordfhip. He makes them merely a plea for voting two thoufand men lefs than the eftimate before you. His Lordfliip treated this idea with peculiar farcafm, and concluded with fome obfervations on the inexpediency of the propofed amendment. General Luttrtll faid, the honourable gentleman had, in General the Irifh Houfe of Commons, declared, that the proper- Luttrcll tion of the Irifli eftablifliment fliould not be beyond the proportion of a ninth part of what was the eftablifhment in Great Britain. Now, in the Britifh, the honourable gentleman had voted for only fifteen thoufand men, when, agreeable to his own declarations in Ireland, they fhould at lead be nine times the quantity. This was what he had done in his great friendship which he had lately fliowii towards both the lifter kingdoms: but his friendship to wards them would be foon difcovered. General Gonway rofe to explain what he had 'faid the day GenenU before, which he found had made fo much altercation in Conwa- the prefent debate. He explained himfelf en...