iven in the "Dublin
Gazette;" that the cause had only been heard because it was
pending before; and that after the holidays, something
satisfactory would be done. I answered as to the first, that
after the opinion delivered privately by the Chancellor, and in
the House of Commons, as I had understood, by the
Attorney-General, that even a new cause could not be rejected by
the Judges, such a ground would be a very bad one to take. To
this he agreed. As to the other point, I said that it was my
intention to state it in the House of Commons, which I
apprehended would answer nearly the same purpose. He assented to
this also, and so I left him. I then went to the House of
Commons; there I saw Townshend, and asked him what day the
Parliament was to meet after Christmas, because I thought it
would give more solemnity if I gave notice for a particular day,
and moved for a call on that day; and that the earlier it was,
the better it would be. He said they met on the 21st. I proposed
that day, and he agreed. Hartley rose at the same time with me,
and being called to, moved for a call on the 22nd. I then got up
and said, that if I had not been prevented, I was going to have
moved it for the 21st; but I would now trouble the House only to
give notice that on that day a very important business would be
brought before them on the subject of Ireland; that I had
understood that a conversation had taken place the day before on
that subject; that I lamented exceedingly that I had been so
unfortunate as to be absent at that time, because if I had been
there I should have thought it my duty to have stated to the
House, in justice to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, that the
business in question had been submitted by you to the
consideration of Government, and had been in the contemplation
of the King's servants a considerable time before any notice had
been given of a motion to be made upon it by a noble Lord in the
House; that I wished further, in justice to you, to say, that
"there was no man in either kingdom more decidedly of opinion
that the good faith of Great Britain was solemnly pledged to
Ireland, by the repeal of the 6th Geo. I., in the last sessions,
upon the avowed and explained principle of putting an end to
every idea of legislation and jurisdiction over that kingdom;
and that