Whatever were the other flaws in the Treaty of Union, it was no violation either of 22 Geo.III.c.63, or of 23 Geo.III.c.28.The worst features of the method by which the Act of Union was carried would have been avoided had the English Parliament resumed the right to legislate for Ireland.

The Treaty of Union depends on Acts both of the British and of the Irish Legislature.

This is elementary but has escaped the attention of Mr.Sexton (see _Times Parliamentary Debates_, Feb.

13, 1893, p.

319), whose investigations into the history of his country are apparently recent.
[106] "The plan that was to be proposed was to be such as, at least in the judgment of its promoters, presented the necessary characteristics--I will not say of finality, because it is a discredited word--but of a real and continuing settlement."-- Mr.Gladstone, Feb.