The EARL of EGLINTOUNsaid, that, when he was at the head of the Government in Ireland he felt it necessary, in the execution of his duty, to dismiss a magistrate of the name of Kirwan from the commission of the peace. The first act which the noble Earl who was his successor in the Irish Government (the Earl of St. Germans) did, on assuming the duties of Lord Lieutenant, was to reinstate Mr. Kirwan in the commission of the peace. 1363 He (the Earl of Eglintoun) felt it due to himself that the grounds upon which he suspended Mr. Kirwan should be made known to their Lordships, equally with the grounds upon which that act on his part had been reversed by his successor; he therefore moved for papers relative to those transactions, namely, correspondence and papers (including the Report of Mr. Martley, Q.C., relating to the Suspension and subsequent Re-instalment of Mr. Kirwan, Resident Magistrate in Ireland).
§ Motion agreed to.