'How could they conciliate whose concessions are always known to be the concessions of weakness and of fear, and who never granted to the Irish--the most generous people upon earth,--anything without a struggle or resistance ?' Lord William Russell, in June following, said: 'A man's loyalty was to be estimated by the desire he testified to imbrue his hands in his brother's blood.' Sheridan asked: 'After being betrayed, duped, insulted--disappointed in their dearest hopes, and again thrown into the hands of the rulers they detested and despised, was it impossible they should feel emotions of indignation?
The struggle is not one of partial disaffection, but it is a contest between the people and the Government.' Mr.Tierney said: 'It was certain the people were in arms against the Government, nor was it easy to conceive how--having been scourged, burnt, and massacred--they could have any other feeling than aversion to that Government.' Every motion on the subject in both houses was rejected by overwhelming majorities.

So little impression did the reports of the appalling facts which were of daily occurrence in Ireland make upon that Tory Government, that the speeches of ministers read exactly like the speeches of Mr.Disraeli, Mr.Hardy, Lord Mayo, and Mr.Warren, in the past session.

Lord Grenville, the home secretary, professed the most profound respect for the independence of the Irish parliament, and he could not think of interfering in the least with its privileges, however the empire might suffer from its excesses.
'The motion of Lord Moira was not only unnecessary, it was highly mischievous.' He dwelt on the improved state of Ireland, and the tranquillity of the people.

If there were partial excesses on the part of the military, they were unavoidable, and could only be deplored.
'He was unable to discern what should alienate the affections of Ireland.

For the whole space of thirty years his majesty's Government had been distinguished by the same uniform tenderness of regard, by the same undeviating adherence to the mild principles of a conciliatory system....