ABSTRACT
Lord George Bentinck: had large but defined views as to the policy which should be pursued with respect to Ireland. Liberal politicians who some years ago were very loud for justice to Ireland, and would maintain at all hazards the identity of the interests of the two countries, have of late frequently found it convenient to omit that kingdom from their statistical bulletins of national prosperity. An Irish repealer rose and announced that the government were bartering their corn bill to secure coercion to Ireland. Lord George Bentinck said the coercion bill was ‘a second curfew act,’ that nothing but necessity could justify it, and if it were necessary it must be immediate. Lord George Bentinck said, that the chief minister had told them, that this was a bill to put down murder and assassination; in that case, if this bill were delayed, the blood of every man murdered in Ireland was on the head of her majesty's ministers.
