walks out of a room before Esquires and Knights. And can we
seriously believe that men who think it monstrous that this
honorary distinction should be given to three Roman Catholics, do
sincerely desire to maintain a law by which a Roman Catholic may
be Commander in Chief with all the military patronage, First Lord
of the Admiralty with all the naval patronage, or First Lord of
the Treasury, with the chief influence in every department of the
Government. I must therefore suppose that those who join in the
cry against the three Privy Councillors, are either imbecile or
hostile to the Emancipation Act.

I repeat, therefore, that, while the right honourable Baronet is
as free from bigotry as he was eleven years ago, his party is
more bigoted than it was eleven years ago. The difficulty of
governing Ireland in opposition to the feelings of the great body
of the Irish people is, I apprehend, as great now as it was
eleven years ago. What then must be the fate of a government
formed by the right honourable Baronet? Suppose that the event
of this debate should make him Prime Minister? Should I be wrong
if I were to prophesy that three years hence he will be more
hated and vilified by the Tory party than the present advisers of
the Crown have been? Should I be wrong if I were to say that all
those literary organs which now deafen us with praise of him,
will then deafen us with abuse of him? Should I be wrong if I
were to say that he will be burned in effigy by those who now
drink his health with three times three and one cheer more?
Should I be wrong if I were to say that those very gentlemen who
have crowded hither to-night in order to vote him into power,
will crowd hither to vote Lord Melbourne back? Once already have
I seen those very persons go out into the lobby for the purpose