Lords Sitting of 30 July 1807

MINUTES.
The Irish Insurrection bill went through the committee, and was reported. Lord Kingston rose to observe, that he felt it incumbent on him to take notice of a misrepresentation which had gone abroad in a morning paper, of the few remarks he had made in the course of the debate on the second reading of the Irish Insurrection bill. As he did not imagine such a misrepresentation could be intentional, he should take no advantage of any privilege the house might possess of calling the printer to the bar, but he wished it to be understood, that he meant not the least disrespect to the magistrates of the county of Sligo. What he pointed to was, the case of a person in the county of Wexford, who, during the late rebellion in Ireland, had a halter round his neck, and was actually on the point of being hanged.