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Irish Parliament.
offers that daily came forward to him in support of the proposition , he thought it would not be wise to reject it . THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS . Wednesday , it . Mr . O'Donnell rose , to call the attention of the House to several publications in the two last numbers of the paper called The Press . After stating the mischiefs which that paper produced in the country , and ing the necessity there was for putting it downnot by military forcebut
urg , , bylaw , if any law existed that could eifeft that purpose 5 and if not , that Parliament should enact a law for the purpose ; he concluded by moving , in substance , ' That a Committee be appointed to enquire into the nature and tendency of the publication called The Press , and to report their opinion to the House , ' & c .
Mr . Maxwell thought that the enquiry proposed was too narrow . Me mentioned one instance , the Dublin Evening- Post ; though the productions of that paper were far less culpable than those of the other . Mr . Vandelenr was of opinion , that if any enquiry of this nature were necessary , it should be a general one , and not confined to one particular paper . The Attorney-General said , he should have been guilty of a very culpable omission , if he had suffered the various publications , by which The Press notice
had endeavoured to poison the minds of the people , to pass without . The faft was , that soon after the Press began to be circulated , the printer of it had been prosecuted , was found guilty , and was now in Newgate , suffering under the sentence of the law . Soon alter ,., another person , Mr . O'Connor , appeared as the printer and publisher : he had several times since that period violated the laws , in the manner in which that paper was published ; but , soon after he had entered his name as printer , he withdrew himself from this
countryyand , in consequence , his person is now out of the reach of the law . On the adoption of some means to restrain the enormous licentiousness of the press , he thought the safety of every thing dear to the country depended . Mr . Stanley conceived the best mode of preventing these abominable publications would be to inflict the penalty of whipping , instead of pillory , for seditious publications—for the pillory , at present , when inflifted for this offence , was a triumph . He would inflict this , not only on the publisher , but
on every one who should hawk or circulate a seditious paper . Mr . Pelham was glad the enquiry was to be made general , for he would be unwilling to see the House committed " with The Press singly , if there were other prints guilty in the same way .
Mr . O'Donnell moved fir a Committee to enquire , generally , whether any , and what seditious produitions , had been published , & c . & c . _ and report their opinion . —It was carried , with the single negative of Mr . Tighe . Saturday , 24 . Mr . O'Donnell reported from the Sele-St Committee appointed to enquire into the nature aud tendency of certain seditious prints . The resolutions of the Committee were , < That it is their opinion that various publications , of an inflammatory ,
treasonable , and seditious nature , had been for some time past printed and distributed in various parts of this kingdom , and especially in Dublin , with a direct design and tendency to promote insurrection . ' TJias it is their opinion , that ic is necessary that a Bill should be brought into Parliament for the purpose of explaining and amending the act of the 23 d and 24 th of the King for securing the liberty of the press , by preventing the abuses arising from the publication of traitorous , seditious , false and
scandalous libels , by persons unknown . ' _ The Attorney-General moved for leave to bring in a Bill pursuant to the last resolution . Ordered . [ TO BE CONTINUED . }
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Irish Parliament.
offers that daily came forward to him in support of the proposition , he thought it would not be wise to reject it . THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS . Wednesday , it . Mr . O'Donnell rose , to call the attention of the House to several publications in the two last numbers of the paper called The Press . After stating the mischiefs which that paper produced in the country , and ing the necessity there was for putting it downnot by military forcebut
urg , , bylaw , if any law existed that could eifeft that purpose 5 and if not , that Parliament should enact a law for the purpose ; he concluded by moving , in substance , ' That a Committee be appointed to enquire into the nature and tendency of the publication called The Press , and to report their opinion to the House , ' & c .
Mr . Maxwell thought that the enquiry proposed was too narrow . Me mentioned one instance , the Dublin Evening- Post ; though the productions of that paper were far less culpable than those of the other . Mr . Vandelenr was of opinion , that if any enquiry of this nature were necessary , it should be a general one , and not confined to one particular paper . The Attorney-General said , he should have been guilty of a very culpable omission , if he had suffered the various publications , by which The Press notice
had endeavoured to poison the minds of the people , to pass without . The faft was , that soon after the Press began to be circulated , the printer of it had been prosecuted , was found guilty , and was now in Newgate , suffering under the sentence of the law . Soon alter ,., another person , Mr . O'Connor , appeared as the printer and publisher : he had several times since that period violated the laws , in the manner in which that paper was published ; but , soon after he had entered his name as printer , he withdrew himself from this
countryyand , in consequence , his person is now out of the reach of the law . On the adoption of some means to restrain the enormous licentiousness of the press , he thought the safety of every thing dear to the country depended . Mr . Stanley conceived the best mode of preventing these abominable publications would be to inflict the penalty of whipping , instead of pillory , for seditious publications—for the pillory , at present , when inflifted for this offence , was a triumph . He would inflict this , not only on the publisher , but
on every one who should hawk or circulate a seditious paper . Mr . Pelham was glad the enquiry was to be made general , for he would be unwilling to see the House committed " with The Press singly , if there were other prints guilty in the same way .
Mr . O'Donnell moved fir a Committee to enquire , generally , whether any , and what seditious produitions , had been published , & c . & c . _ and report their opinion . —It was carried , with the single negative of Mr . Tighe . Saturday , 24 . Mr . O'Donnell reported from the Sele-St Committee appointed to enquire into the nature aud tendency of certain seditious prints . The resolutions of the Committee were , < That it is their opinion that various publications , of an inflammatory ,
treasonable , and seditious nature , had been for some time past printed and distributed in various parts of this kingdom , and especially in Dublin , with a direct design and tendency to promote insurrection . ' TJias it is their opinion , that ic is necessary that a Bill should be brought into Parliament for the purpose of explaining and amending the act of the 23 d and 24 th of the King for securing the liberty of the press , by preventing the abuses arising from the publication of traitorous , seditious , false and
scandalous libels , by persons unknown . ' _ The Attorney-General moved for leave to bring in a Bill pursuant to the last resolution . Ordered . [ TO BE CONTINUED . }