A Ireland, Pas Cament FULL AND ACCURATE REPORT OF THE DEBATES IN THE PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND, IN THE SESSION 1793; ON THE BILL FOR RELIEF OF HIS MAJESTY'S CA THOLIC SUBJECTS. IMPARTIALLY COLLATED FROM THE MOST AUTHENTIC DUBLIN: PRINTED FOR J. JONES, No. III, GRAFTON-STREET. INTRODUCTIΟΝ. IT is an acknowledged fact that the most important objects which can poffibly fall under political difcuffion are those which concern the rights and liberties of the people. The confideration of them is so deeply interesting to society, as to infinuate itself into the minuteft pore of the body politic, where, tho' it may effect a temporary quickness of pulsation, never fails to restore new health and vigour to the constitution. The question of catholic emancipation, which is the fubject of the following report, is allowed on all hands to be the most important measure, which has engaged the attention of this country, for the last century, and the debates in parliament occafioned by its discussion are justly faid to hold equal pre-eminence; for whether we consider the magnitude of the object, the uncommon display of abilities which it brought forward, or the length of time employed in this memorable deliberation, we must pronounce it one of the most remarkable and in. teresting debates which the Irish parliament has furnished an instance of. The reader will here find some of the best argumentative and oratorical precedents in a stile entirely new, and in the order and manner in which they were delivered. It is hoped he alfo will perceive that neither expense or trouble have been spared by the editor to render this book a complete record of the parliamentary proceedings on this great a 2 |