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Article PARLIAMENT OF IRELAND. ← Page 3 of 4 →
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Parliament Of Ireland.
moting the cause , and recommended the French to bring with them some good engineers , a large quantity of artillery , and as many Irish officers as they could collect ; likewise to bring with them the Irish seamen , prisoners of w'ar in France , as they woultl be found ready to assist in the project . It also contained an assurance of being joined by the militia of Ireland , and urged France to stipulate for the independence of this country in the treaty then pending with Great Britain .
The examination of Arthur O'Connor was very brief . It acknowledged his being an United Irishman , and a member of the Executive Directory , but denied any connection with the societies of England and Scotland . Samuel Neilson stated , that he had been liberated from confinement on condition of not again engaging in treasonable practices , but having been advised of the intended insurrection he had determined to give his aid to it ; that he believed there were no depots of arms , every man keeping his own ;
that Ulster is not now as well organized as it was , for many had joined the conspiracy from the supposition of its superior strength of numbers , but that it was considerably weakened by the arrest and dispersion of its leaders . Thomas Addis Emmett stated his having been an United Irishman , and a member of the Executive Directory of the Irish Union . It corroborated the intercourse with France , and accounted for the apparent loyalty of the South at the time that the French fleet was in Bantry Bayby stating that a
, letter had been received by the Executive , . which it considered official , from the French Directory , and which mentioned that the expedition could not take place until the following spring . Thus , when it actually did take place tne time
at previously promised , the conspirators were taken b y surprize , anel not in a sufficient state of preparation in the South to afford it any concurrent aid . It stated , that the old Executive had determined not to spill any blood , but to transport tiiose who should resist them , affofding to their wives anel children subsistence out of their property , and devoting the residue to the public purposes . ' It stated that the mass of the people hoped , by a revolution , to have their situations bettered , and to be absolved from the payment of
tythes . It stated that he , Mr . Emmett , conceived Ireland capable of standing alone , unconnected with Great Britain , for that since the period of the Revolution her population was more than doubled , and her prosperity encreased in the same proportion . Having been asked if it would not be still better to abide by that connection which had protluced to Ireland those great advantages which he had acknowledged ? he replied in the negative ; adding , that if Ireland were erected into an Independent Republic , it " wouki be the
happiest nation in the world . Being asked how it could maintain that inelependence against the force of Great Britain , or how subsist in enmity with her , when its ' commerce would be destroyed by her fleets , and when it could be so greatly distressed by that enmity , even in the trifling article of coals?—he answered , that the colossal power of her navy once reduced , would be a security against , the hostility of England ; and as to coals , k only required research , and the extension of our inland navi gation , in order to find a plentiful supply at home . Here the whole concluded , and an order passed liy the House for its beiiv printed . D
Thursday , Sept . 6 . —The Lords Committee , appointed to examine the matters of the sealed up papers received from the Commons on the 23 d of July last , and to report the same as they shall appear to them to this House . ; having seen an advertisement * in the public prints , sigoedArthur O'Connor ,
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Parliament Of Ireland.
moting the cause , and recommended the French to bring with them some good engineers , a large quantity of artillery , and as many Irish officers as they could collect ; likewise to bring with them the Irish seamen , prisoners of w'ar in France , as they woultl be found ready to assist in the project . It also contained an assurance of being joined by the militia of Ireland , and urged France to stipulate for the independence of this country in the treaty then pending with Great Britain .
The examination of Arthur O'Connor was very brief . It acknowledged his being an United Irishman , and a member of the Executive Directory , but denied any connection with the societies of England and Scotland . Samuel Neilson stated , that he had been liberated from confinement on condition of not again engaging in treasonable practices , but having been advised of the intended insurrection he had determined to give his aid to it ; that he believed there were no depots of arms , every man keeping his own ;
that Ulster is not now as well organized as it was , for many had joined the conspiracy from the supposition of its superior strength of numbers , but that it was considerably weakened by the arrest and dispersion of its leaders . Thomas Addis Emmett stated his having been an United Irishman , and a member of the Executive Directory of the Irish Union . It corroborated the intercourse with France , and accounted for the apparent loyalty of the South at the time that the French fleet was in Bantry Bayby stating that a
, letter had been received by the Executive , . which it considered official , from the French Directory , and which mentioned that the expedition could not take place until the following spring . Thus , when it actually did take place tne time
at previously promised , the conspirators were taken b y surprize , anel not in a sufficient state of preparation in the South to afford it any concurrent aid . It stated , that the old Executive had determined not to spill any blood , but to transport tiiose who should resist them , affofding to their wives anel children subsistence out of their property , and devoting the residue to the public purposes . ' It stated that the mass of the people hoped , by a revolution , to have their situations bettered , and to be absolved from the payment of
tythes . It stated that he , Mr . Emmett , conceived Ireland capable of standing alone , unconnected with Great Britain , for that since the period of the Revolution her population was more than doubled , and her prosperity encreased in the same proportion . Having been asked if it would not be still better to abide by that connection which had protluced to Ireland those great advantages which he had acknowledged ? he replied in the negative ; adding , that if Ireland were erected into an Independent Republic , it " wouki be the
happiest nation in the world . Being asked how it could maintain that inelependence against the force of Great Britain , or how subsist in enmity with her , when its ' commerce would be destroyed by her fleets , and when it could be so greatly distressed by that enmity , even in the trifling article of coals?—he answered , that the colossal power of her navy once reduced , would be a security against , the hostility of England ; and as to coals , k only required research , and the extension of our inland navi gation , in order to find a plentiful supply at home . Here the whole concluded , and an order passed liy the House for its beiiv printed . D
Thursday , Sept . 6 . —The Lords Committee , appointed to examine the matters of the sealed up papers received from the Commons on the 23 d of July last , and to report the same as they shall appear to them to this House . ; having seen an advertisement * in the public prints , sigoedArthur O'Connor ,