. Treasury of Irish eloquence, being a compendium of Irish oratory and literature . lamentstill more the effect that I am sure the making of the present bill theimmediate sequel to that rejection, will have on the public mind.[He dwelt strongly upon the indiscretion of ministers, in thus ap-pearing to make the bill be an attack and an insult upon the Catho-lics ; and then replied to the arguments that had beeu used insupport of the measure ; he adverted to the bills of the last session.]The Habeas Corpus act is almost the only remaining guardian of ourliberties ; and the ministry have stabbed
. Treasury of Irish eloquence, being a compendium of Irish oratory and literature . lamentstill more the effect that I am sure the making of the present bill theimmediate sequel to that rejection, will have on the public mind.[He dwelt strongly upon the indiscretion of ministers, in thus ap-pearing to make the bill be an attack and an insult upon the Catho-lics ; and then replied to the arguments that had beeu used insupport of the measure ; he adverted to the bills of the last session.]The Habeas Corpus act is almost the only remaining guardian of ourliberties ; and the ministry have stabbed the guardian upon its postand in the dark. The house was exhausted by a long debate upon asubject of the last importance to the union and to the peace of thecountry; those members of parliament who were likely to defendthis last privilege of the people were withdrawn, and it was pot tillthe next morning that they were told in their beds, that the HabeasCorpus act was repealed. That sacred palladium of our libeitieswhich was never suflered to sleep, ought not to have been stolen. JOHN P. CURRAN. 377 from us while we slumbered. I ask whj the wisdom of our ances-tors has opposed so many checks to the progress of a bill throughparliament! I ask whether those checks are intended only to pre-vent the precipitation of measures of no moment, and that the dearestinterests, and most sacred privileges of the subject, are to be leftexposed the fatal consequences of rashness and intemperance ?Befoie a bill can be laid before the house, its leave must be asked,and obtained for bringing it in — here it may be debated and opposedin its very first onset. It is then, by the leave of the house, to beread a first time, and upon this reading its principle is to be dis-cussed ; a day is then appointed for the further discussion of itsprinciple upon a second reading; it is then, if so far approved of, tobe considered, and, if possible, to be amended by a committee ofthe whole house. Has the
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