But as to us, you declared to the world that you knew that
the way of bringing us to reason was to apply yourselves to the true
source of all our opinions and the only motive to all our conduct! Now,
it seems, you think yourselves affronted, because a few of us express
some indignation at the minister who has thought fit to strip us stark
naked, and expose the true state of our poxed and pestilential habit to
the world! Think or say what you will in Ireland, I shall ever think it
a crime hardly to be expiated by his blood. He might, and ought, by a
longer continuance or by an earlier meeting of this Parliament, to have
given us the credit of some wisdom in foreseeing and anticipating an
approaching force. So far from it, Lord Gower, coming out of his own
cabinet, declares that one principal cause of his resignation was his
not being able to prevail on the present minister to give any sort of
application to this business. Even on the late meeting of Parliament,
nothing determinate could be drawn from him, or from any of his
associates, until you had actually passed the short money bill,--which
measure they flattered themselves, and assured others, you would never
come up to.
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