On a motion by Mr. Tierney in May 1819, on
the state coy the nation, Sir Francis Burdett thus described the character of the Irish people— a with reference to Ireland. respecting whist, each early prejulices were im- bibed in (hit cottony, he %MI 601111,1 to declare, t hat when he visited it he Ms moat agreeably disappointed, The Irish were treimently represented as a tut tion of s,sva,t..s; he could only say lliat if they %sore a tvage, they sent the gentlest on Iii, face or the earth. Generally ep..altiag. the Irish were at Mi. dred ftin ang nati a on the fire of the earth. n4t e re, pang the pi t0 Freed ma us fall if hymn it,, hoapitatit!,,, and Mario. Ile as as persuaded that Ireland %tits the 0.d■ cou:div in ahem, if a stranger am, thrown naked on the iore, would lint Outlier in (he first house he came to, mei might travel through the whole island withmt in penny in his pocket, and never be in want of either a meal or a eight's, to bring. That no, limit could not be bad which prompied to such practice."
In one of his speeches during the recent tour in the North, Sir Francis Burdett spoke thus of the same Irish people, Seen from a different point of view-
" tale people of Ireland, of whom Mr. O'Connell talked so much, were, he aim grieved to the mad ndAvrable, iparant, Ptpista priest-tidden p pulace, and super. billions to a degree. of the inveteracy of w1,i:11 Englisioneu formed no coueeptiou est cept from tIto humiliating picture of degradation and superstitioo presented by Mr. O'Contutil himself, alien he I 11 down on hi. knees in the dirt at the aed nine of the priests in the public street."
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