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 208 GRATTAN. custody, in order to prevent any mischievous consequences of their unhappy difference. Although the speeches of both abound with much personality, yet they are too elo quent to be omitted,—we therefore insert the whole of the unhappy dispute. Mr. Flood prefaced his speech by observing—“I find myself little capable of speaking to this ques tion, oppressed with sickness as I am; not in the least degree expecting such a question this night, and more astonished than ever I was in my life, to find the least symptom of opposition arising on the other side of the House. The opposition to it should originate here, for the resolution does not go as far as it ought to do. In Lord Townshend's administration, a resolution was pro posed, ‘that the condition of this country required every practicable retrenchment to be made in i t s expenses; and the administration o f that day thought they had done enough, and allowed themselves latitude sufficient, b y amending i t with the words—‘consistent with the welfare thereof, and the honourable support o f his majesty's go vernment;’ though the resolution s o amended stood then exactly like the present motion. (Here the clerk, a t Mr. Flood's desire, read the former resolution.) But, I think, this motion still allows too great a n inlet t o public pro fusion. Some men will think o f their own welfare, when the welfare o f the country i s the object, and include their own support within the honourable support o f his ma jesty's government. I did not, therefore, think any men o n the side o f administration would have opposed the motion; I rather supposed they would have called out i n triumph t o l e t i t pass; they would have exulted t o see ‘the new commons the new country.” Ireland, i n i t s emancipated and dignified state, tolerate the nonsense that was current i n Lord Townshend's administration' “ I am a s willing a s any man t o pay compliment t o minis try, both here and i n England, t o allow them every degree o f credit for their honourable intentions; I have not the smallest ground o f animosity o r resentment t o them, and 1