text:  That the amount of representation already enjoyed by Ireland is _at least_ sufficient for all constitutional purposes cannot be doubted; for every one knows that by the Radical portion of it alone an administration odious to the people of Great Britain and rejected by their representatives was for years kept in office and that through its instrumentality both Whig and Tory ministers have been compelled to abandon measures which they believed to be beneficial and which they brought forward in a spirit of good feeling and with a desire to promote the best interests of the country