ABSTRACT
The Irish Parliament provided in that event not only for the preservation of the Monarchial principle, but for the preservation of connexion likewise, and adhered to his country, though they did not link themselves to his party. The principle that came under the consideration of the Irish Parliament was threefold – the principle of Monarchy, the principle of Connexion, and the principle of Party. A British Republic never was in the contemplation of either; but an English Monarchy, and no other form of Government, was present to the conceptions of both, giving thereby the Royal House, who are the Monarchs of Ireland, as well as of Great Britain, a double security, and the Throne upon which they sit a double-root. Well, this Assembly, this Imperial Parliament, what are its elements? Irish Absentees, who have forsaken their country, and a British Parliament that took away the Constitution – does he say that such a Parliament will have no prejudices against Ireland.
