Commons Sitting of 28 February 1812

REPEAL OF THE LEGISLATION UNION WITH IRELAND.
Mr. Hutchinssonrose and said: Sir, the motion for the repeal of the Legislative Union stands for next Tuesday, and upon that day it was my fixed determination to have brought it before the House; but it has been strongly represented to me from different quarters, that in consequence of the Assizes now com

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ing on in Ireland, a considerable majority of the persons representing her interests here must then be necessarily absent; under such circumstances, it would not be doing justice to the question to press its discussions now. I regret exceedingly that any delay should occur, and my great reluctance to postpone it yields only to the imperious necessity arising out of the circumstances I have mentioned, and to that alone, because as to the expediency of the motion itself my opinion remains unaltered and unqualified. I therefore postpone my notice from Tuesday next to Tuesday the 28th of April.