§ Mr. Sheridansaid the case of this Petitioner was one of such, extreme hardship that it called loudly for redress. He had carried on business as a distiller at Ballinacloon, in the county of Westmeath in Ireland, where his whole property was destroyed by a party of militia acting under the orders of the government of Ireland, on the most unfounded suspicions. There were circumstances in this case which separated it from other applications for compensation from government, to which the consent of his Majesty's ministers was necessary. The petitoner stated that he was promised full compensation by lord Camden, formerly Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, which compensation was afterwards, for some reason or other, thought proper to be refused. He said he should proceed to read the Petition, after which it would be seen whether it ought to lie on the table.
The Chancellor of the Exchequersaid he bad heard the right hon. gent, with some surprise. If there were any thing in the Petition which it might be necessary to obtain the consent of the King to, he, thought it unreasonable to ask the House to depart from its established practice, without first making an effort to obtain that consent. He would not say he had never heard of the case in question, but he had no recollection of the claims of the Petitioner having ever been brought before the administration of which he was a member, and therefore saw no reason for departing from the regular forms of the House.
§ Mr. Sheridansaid, after what had been stated by the right hon. gent, he, instead of moving that the petition be brought up, would put it into the hands of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to-morrow.