THE SPEECHES OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE CANNING. WITH A MEMOIR OF HIS LIFE. BY R. THERRY, ESQ. OF GRAY'S INN, BARRISTER AT LAW. IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. V. THIRD EDITION. "He had ambition to prevail in great things. He had, likewise, honour, which hath BACON. LONDON: JAMES RIDGWAY & SONS, 169, PICCADILLY. MDCCCXXXVI. Br 2.103.7.10 B HARVARD LIBRARY 046*270 LONDON: PRINTED BY T. BRETTELL, RUPERT STREET, HAYMARKET. Complaint against the Lord Chancellor (Eldon) Amelioration of the Condition of the Slave Population...... 190 SPEECHES, &c. &c. LORD LIEUTENANT OF IRELAND. JANUARY 25th, 1823. MR. HUME moved, "That an humble Address be presented to His Majesty, praying that he would be graciously pleased to appoint a Commission to inquire whether the Government of Ireland, under its present form, ought to be continued, or whether the Lord Lieutenant and other officers may not, with advantage, be dispensed with." MR. SECRETARY CANNING* said, that the opinion which he had formed upon this subject before the debate had commenced, was fortified beyond all measure by what he had since heard. Although the testimony was conflicting upon the subject, the conclusion from general principles was so obvious, that he thought it could not be mistaken. Let the House suppose that a few years had passed since this measure of removing the Government from Ireland had been adopted. The Secretary of State would, of necessity, be ignorant of all those local peculiarities which, under the present system, were so accurately detailed. He could not conceive any thing more extraordinary than that |