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RUCH PERSONS as are desirous of contracting *kb the Agent for Commissariat Supplies, to furnish for Twelve • lionths, from the 25th June next, such quantities of Coals and • tandies as may front time to time he required, for sundry Barracks and Stations in the undermentioned Counties,Nand Islands, may re- PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.. , - HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 17. At an early hour the avenues of the House were crowded by the strangers who were anxious to listen to the debate on the Catholic Question. The space near the Throne was Stied by the leadlng4 Members of the House of Commons. In the same place were observed several Peeresses. The Reporters for the Newspapers were atcommodated,through the kindness of Sir TuostasTr awn ITT. with a eonvepient place apart from the other strangers. The Earl of LIVERPOOL laid upon the table Copies of Trea ties between this Country and Sweden and Norway, respecting toe Slave Trade. His Lordship then also laid on the table the Copy of a Convention between his - Majesty and the Fimperor of Russia, respecting the North-west Coast of America ; and the Copy of s i Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, between his Ma.] jesty and the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata. wive particulars of the Contracts on applying at this Offira, between the hours of Ten and Four ; and to the respective Barrack Mas ters in the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, and Alderney, and deliver their Tenders at this Office, as follows, viz. Tenders for supplying Coals, sealed up, and marked " Tender for Coals," until Twelve o'Clock on Tuesday the 7th of June. Tenders for supplying Candles, sealed up and marked " Tender for Candles," until Twelve o'Clock on Thursday the 9th of June; but no proposal, either for Coals or Candles, will be noticed, unless made en, or annexed to, a printed Particular, and the Priers in serted in Words at length ; nor unless a Letter be subjoined to such Proposal from two Persons of known Property, engaging to become bound with the Party tendering in the Sum expressed in the particulars, for the due peformance of the Contract. Tenders to be made for the several Counties, and separate Bar racks and Stations as specified in die Partkilars of Contracts. Berk s Brecknoek Chester Cornwall Cumberland Devon -Dorset Durham Essex Gloucester COUNTIES, itc. Mott Ide of Man Isk of Wight Kent Lancaster Middlesex Norfolk Pembroke Suffolk Somerset Surrey Sussex Warwick York , • North Britain Islands of Guernsey, Jersey,& Alderney Northamp4bn Nottingham NAVAL INTE4LXGEVCE. , Arrived off Dartmouth, the Larch, Canws, from Demerara. The from Ki!rush to Liverpool, was driven in some rocks near Ballrwater, lath instant, and bilged. Most of the cargo damaged. FaLamont, MAY 16.••••Wi N.W.—Sailed the Plover packet, for the Brazils.. • Poaranotrra. MAY 17.—Wind &K—Arrived the John Reed, FILATHZII4, and Rider, Lewis, from the Havannah, in 49 days; ' and his Majesty's ship Twain, from Cork. Pasted by the Wight, the Crisis, MUD, from Jamaica. • COWES, MAT 17.—Arrived the American brig Niger, Luce, from Matanzas, in 44 days—bas experienced easterly winds for the last thirty days. The master states, that two days previous to his sailing, a pirate had been taken off that place. by the Gaited States armed steam-boat Sea Gull, one of the squadron employed •on that coast for the suppression of piracy. The pirate mounted its gush and engaged the steamboat two boors, when she finally soak. and had seven roan killed daring the action. Dada, Mar 17.—Wind ?!.E—Sailed for the River, the General Harris, from China. Passed through front the River, the • Amphitrite, Assort, for Quebec; Auo, Run. for Newport; Samos, and William MUM Bzim.x, fur India. , • Livitaroot., Mar 19. —Wind S. Arrived yesterday, the Pacific, M'Gowas, trim Matatio, in 49 days; Lucy Ann, As. • Munn, from Nassau (M.P.); Bingham. FLAMM, from New Or. lrsuss; and Edward, Cesatoan, from Savannah. Also to-day, the Mogul, BRAI4IIAW from New York ; and the Thomas Parsons,' Bun" from bk.:Wedges.. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. -.18.-- BANKRUPTS. ChamberWn, Bath, corn.deskr, to surrender June 1,2, and Is , at twelve, at the Angel Inn, B a th . Attornies, Mr. a- Wawa, Middle Temple; or Mr. HeWngs, Bath. George Campbell, Liverpool, merchant, June 1,2, and 28, at one, at the Star and Garter Tavern, Liverpool. Anomie', Mr. Wheeler, Lincoln's Inn fiekk ; or Mr. Avison, Liverpool. 'Thomas Bower, Sutton, Surrey, horse &take, May 51, June 4 and U, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basingbalistreet. Attorney, Mr:Lane, Marsball4treet, Goli.. - square.. John Dims. late of Warwict-lane, clean:longer, May el, 51, and June 28, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of Bask rupts, Basinghalistreet. Attorney, Mr. Butt, Great Ruse& street, Bloomsbury. Robert Fuller, Rytn, coal-msrchant, May 21, 211, and June 28, at twelve, at the Court of Canunissioners.of Bankrupts, Basing hall.street. Amain, Mr. Math:told, asment's Inn ; or Mr. Burt, Ryegate. Charles Croltat and Thomas Wilkie, Lawrence Poantney-place, merchants, May 2s, at twelve. Jane 4 and 28, at one, at the Court of Consmissioners of • Basinghall-stroet. At. tonics, Messrs. Lase and Bennett, Lawrence Poontney-pla:e. Richard Richmond, Lakoster. woollan.draper, May 26, 27, and June 28, at eleven, at the Throe Crowns Hotel, Lekater. At. townies, Messrs. Greaves asd ilsrridga s leakaaler; or Mr. Jeyes, Chancery-lane. • Charles Barnett, Watarboad Mill, near Oldham, Lancashire, cot ton-spinner, June 8, *, and 28, at Mae, at the Star Inn, Man cisester. Attendee, Mr. Atkinson, St. James's square, Manches ter ; or Mr. Makings°, Temple. John Withers Wakened, BolteasibMisora Ibsen-draper, June 6, it four, 7, at sine, and 2s , at two, at the Bridge Inn Little Bolton. Attendee , Messrs. Briggs • and Hibbert, Moors ; or Messrs. Mine and Parry, Temple. John Rid gwa y, Macclesfield, silk-maaufactuter, June 10, at five, 1• and"ll, at ten, at the Macclesfield Arms Hotel, Macclesfield. Atter nits, Messrs. Bell and Hendrick, Bow Church-yard;. ur Messrs. Grimaditch and Hopes, Macclesfield. Joseph Wills, Queen-Ann-street, boot and shoe-maker ' May and Julie 4s, at tea, at the Court of Commissioners of ilnalsel ruins, Basinghall-street. Attorney, Mr. Hill, Welbeck-street. Edward Wilford, Boston. corn-factor, May If, June 4 and Is, at twelve, • at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basins- 1 thall-street. Attornies, Messrs. Droce and Son, Billiter-squara William Richard, Phillips, Boreham-Wood, near *lsere. Herts, horse-dealer, May 21, at eleyon, 2s, and June 20, at ten, at the Court if Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basiughall-street. Attor ney, Mr. Ford; Great Queen-street. DIVIDENDS to be made its BASINGHALLSTREET. June 10, J. Baster, late of the Stasi, tailor, at eleven. June 7, R. Clark and J. Jobling, jun. Trinkpmpaare, Tower-bill, real ist:tors, at twelve. June 7, J. Piciaasa, libereditch, grocer, at cloven. June Is, D. Montage', Womatreet, West Smithfield, soap-manufacturer, at twelve. June 7. J. Ralston, late of North Shields, ship-owner, at ten. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. June 9, 1. Dicke's, Shrewshera, uphoiseerer, et eleven, at the Guildhall, Shrewsbury. June 14,C. Parker, Calcatalars Merchant, at eleven, • at the Angel Inn, Colchester. Aloe 9, J. Freeman, Reading, coach-proprietor, at 'keen, it the Up _per Ship Inn, V.eading. -June 5, A. Jackson, 'Hhlgrove- street , Uk'untershire , • baker, at twelve, at th e Rummer Tavern, DriatoL—June a, Harrh, Monmouth, grocer, at one, at the Renner Ta vern, Bristol. June ill, Richard, IlsOnsee; and Pant Fa rr '. Bristol. merchants, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, &biol.— June 9, J. flernington, King's byna, Norfolk, ntoney.scrivener, at twelve, at theDake's Head, King's Lynn. Jane IS, H. 'Mtn , t'sslchester, rag-merchant, at twelve, at the Red. Lion Inn, Col chester. June 20, J. Giblett, Frome•S e lwood s elothier, at eleven, at rise George ton, Frome-Selwooi. CERTIFiCATRS--Jusz 7. . ‘v. Harvey ' Highgate, victuall e r. T. Bl u nt, Twickenham, rte,. J. E. Washer, Bristol, tiler. J. A:croft, Liverpool, Iron ittost;er. J. Tiotsey, Beaumont -street, Alary-la-botine. °lnnen. W. Clark, Elizalx to-place, l'immingtue Cross, merchant. W. Nc:stau, late of Jewist Crescent, Ahlersgale Aleut, brtwire. . CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Petitions were presented against soy further concessions to the Roman Catholics, from Brampton (Northampton . ), by Earl Sum ner*; from several Parishes in Kent. by Lord Serra , / ; by the Earl of Lreaaroot, from Manchester, signed by 43,02$ names; from the Town of Liverpool, signed by 13,190 names; another from liaddington ; another from the Isle of Sheppey from the Town of Stirling;. from the Scotch Presbytery of London; and from a. Baptist Omgreption, he Loudest; by the Duke of Ihre.;:- 1160,14iM, from Westmeath; by the Leal CHANCELLOR, front Clerk /swell; from St. Saviour's, Southwark; from the 'Baptist Dissen ters•in Grange (Hertfordshire); from a Dissenting Congregation near Ratehffe-highway ; from St. Olave's, Southwark ; and from Olney (Bucks). • The LORI) CH A NCRL.LOR presented a Petition also against the Catholic Claims, fro'm the Minister, Churchwardens, &c. of Mercy Chapel, }tailbone-place. Lord KING-said that he •had been' informed by a Noble Friend, that these were some circumstances con nected with •the getting up of this Petition so very ex traerdinery, that felt it hii duty to state then to their Lordships. It appeared that on last Sunday the Minister of Percy Chapel: concluded his sermon iii pretty nearly these words : Before I sit down, I must state to you that there il-now lying in the Vestry a Pe. tition against the Catholic Claims, and as the House of Lords are influenced by nurnbeis, Recommend to you. females and all, to sign it, immediately, in order that it may be pre sented on Tuesday." This was a most unwarrantable distortion of the authority and station of a, Clergyman. of the Establi.hed Church. **Their Lordships flailbreit told that religion ought not to be mixed up with polities. but bete was amixture which it be came some of the Right Rev. Prelates to M read,. mark, learn, and : inwardly digest." The B shop of LONDON entered into an explana tion of the facts. He said that the C.ergyman did not give- the .notice to the congregation until after the ser- . mon was over, and that be had not done it with any improper m..tives. Ile was a pious and worthy man, not likely to be guilty of any intentional impropriety. He had conlideiedit as an important question, involv ing religious and theological considerations, and 'n this respect be (the Bishop of London) concurred with him. The mat ter came before the Legislature in a different shipe, for there It as. timed a political character, but the Clergyman in question had never meant to regard it but as a religious subject. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that the Minister had stated the facts to him, and said that the notice was not given until the service was concluded. He added, that he had explained the circumstances to the Bishop of Loudon, who had expressed his satisfaction with them. If the Bishop was satisfied with the conduct of the Minister, there was no reason why their . Lordships should be dissatisfied with him (the Lord Chancellor) for presenting the Petition. 'The Earl of CARNAIIVON was extremely surprised at the facts which had .been derailed. •• He hoped they never might be made a preceient , with the Clergy. If question; of politics were to be mixed with those of the Clergy, and introduced into the pulpit—if Parsons were to be permitted to turn brawlers, and the Church was to be changed into a debating club, then there was an end to the repdtation and utility of the Established Re ligion. He regretted to see .that the Right Rev. Pre late not only did not reprobate such conduct, but that he even set about excusing ir, and panegyrzed the Clergyman. If the Minister had a right to blend poli. tics and religion, any one of his parishioners would have an elual right to stand up and contradict him. The Church was consecrated to religion alone. Had lie been in the Church himself, and had: he even been in favour of the Petition, 'Wile should have regarded it as a dis gusting interruption of the Divine Service. If the Bishops were so dead to all proper feeling as to apolo gise foe such conduct. it would be the business of their Lordships to take the guidance of the Church into. their own hands, and to rescue it from the partial neglect of those who „ought to superintend it.— He really did hopethat some of the Right Rev. Prelates would rise to express their di •approbatiun of the conduct of this Clergyman. . The Ministers of the Church had gone out of their way to procute signatures to Petitions against the-Catholic Claims. But for their exntions there would haye been few or no such Petitions laid on their Lordship s table. At first the pubic were accused ofleing in a state cf.apatby on the subject—then a few straggling Petitions were got up from Archdeacons, written in a style which_ would have diigraced .a fourth-form boy at Eton; then a few towns sent in Petitions front Ministers, Churshwardens, Ike, until the whole machinery of the Clergy was put into aetive Operation. He pro tested against all such interference, which was at once unbecoming and injurious to A: Church. The Bishop t f LONDON explained. He said that he had not piai.ed the conduct cif the Clergyman :• he had only said that he was a pious and worthy man. With respect to the Clergy of the Katablishment having promoted Petitions against the Roman Catholics, he could wily say for himself, that he had never done it. Earl SPENCER expressed his regret at hearing the Right Reverend Prelate speak so calmly with regard to conduct so unwarrantable, and so disgraceful, as that 1 which had been stated to the House. He was shocked when he first heard the statement, and still mote so at the manner it had been passed over by the Right Rev. Prelate. He was told by a person of great verPcity that the Minister in tpestion had given the notice at the end of the sermon, and then he added the usual blessing to the congregation. To a sincere frirnd t.) the Establishe.t Church such-a proceeding was most painful. iit eendenined it in the sevecest'tersiu and lived that. similar instahce would never again occur. Whatever the general charactes of the Ckrgynian might be, yet the Right Rev. Prelate ought to know that such an interference in politics was most jinproper. Lord ItOLLIC said, that the Pritks of the Ceske& March were in the habit of preaching polities as their altars, aid of ilirthii-bO their ',cis to hatted asatng tie Protestants. , , i Lord CLIFDEaI denied .iltat the Catholic Priests ever did so. He challenged the Nuble Lord to name a single instance. No Clergyman ought ever Ito inter fere with politics. The. Clergy in London, however, he Willi sotry to. says had done so, though in void. They were in B uenced- 1 4 the Inibi of a tithe of 25.9 d. in the , . . . .._ 3.1: t.J„...,. ~. not . ..,..!: ; cn.. .0 .: pound granted to them by that bloodiest of. tyrants, Henry VIII. He had heard a Nobleman, the friend of his late Majesty George 111. (Lord Barrington) say, and be concurred in the remark; that whenever a Crgyman preached politica.frum the pulpit he ought to have his ears nailed to that pulpit. Lord LILFORD stated, that when, he first heard of the conduct of the Clergyman alluded to,. he made in quiry, into the fact, and then mentioned it to the Bishop of London. He. regarded it as a desecr.stion of the Church. He agreed with the Noble Earl (Earl Spencer) in all he had said, and he should have been greatly pleased, if the Rig - ht Rev.. Prelate had pronounced on it any, even the slightest reprobation. The Archb.sbop of CANT ERBURX said that he felt it his duty to condemn every reference to politics in the pulpit. In the present case tie Clergyman alluded to had acted improperly and irregulsrly—(Hear) He hoped it was a solitary case, and that ft might not occur again— ( Hear). Its (trace then presented a Petition from Norwood, hi Surrey, against the Catholic Claims. Petitions against the Catholic Claims were likewise presented by the Loan Citamentva from Chipping Wyconstw, (Bucks), and from some parfait in Sussex ; from the County of Monaghan, by Lord housetuate ; by his Royal Ilightte,a the Duke of Moat, front* lit,ooo inhabitants of London and Westminster, and another from Cardiff; by the Bishop of Liscour, from a town in Hertford shire, and from the Dignitaries of Lincoln Cathedral; by the Bids; cif Loxeon, from Homey ; by the Doke 6f ROTUND, from a town in the County of Rutland; by the Bishop of Caverns, from a town in Cheshire, from Warrington, and from the Dissenters of Trinity Hail Chapel, Alderspte-street ; by Lord KNNTON, from two places in Denbighshire; by the Earl of Rotiem, from Lambeth -street Chapel, Westminster; from St. George's, Hackney; from the Dissenters of Union-street Chapel, Surrey ; from the Dissenters of Crown-street Chapel (Middlesex); from a Baptist Congregation in Middlesex ; and from the Baptists of Shouldham-strect Chapel; by the Bishop of Sr. Davis's, from I'. W. Dixon, a Curate in the diocese of Killatal nine Petitions front different places by the Earl of Suarirsasuav; and by the Loan eIt4IMMISLOR, from Dunstable. Lord CA LTHOKPE presented a Petition from a nu merous body of inhabitants of Birmingham, in favour of the Catholic The Noble Lard read a letter, which stated, that efforts had been made by a Clergyman in Binning. ham, in one of die principal chapels, to procure signatures to an Anti-Catholic Petition. Such improper Interference ought. to be reprobated. He believed that the greater part of the educated population of the empire was in favour of the Catholic Claims. Petitions in favour of the Catholic Claims were presented Lord Knus from "the Unitarian Dissenters of Tavistock ' • from the Unitarian Dissenters of Collumpton (Devonsidre), and from Stroud (Gloucestershire), by the Marquis of * Dowasinae, from the Bankers ind Merchants of Belfast ; from. the Presbyterians of Bangor (County Down), and from two respectable Ind opulent The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a Pe tition from Darlington (Durham), and said—ms Tnis is a Petition against the Catholic Claims, and I .could wi.h th.tt it had been placed in the hands of the Noble Lord on the Woolsack, who is connec:ed with the county of Durham, and whose sentiments co , cur with those of the Petitioners. As I anibow addressing your Lordships I will take Cie opportunity : 4 expressing my opinions on this great question, as briefly as :I can.— When I consider how often, and how - ably the im'port ant topic of the Catholic Claims lies - been.discussed, and when I consider the many eloquent, spteches which will be delivered upon it in the-course -of this night's debate, I tear it will bwregarded - es presuinption in qie, who am unused to public speaking, to address your Lord ships at all. But, as I feel very strongly upon the sub:: ject,l will give utterance to those feelings now ratt.ift than interrupt the coming discussion. M y. reasons - are these; .ender the dispensation of PnovtosNoa,:Lhave, verptm fortunately for myself, and unfortunately too-for my country, come into the possession of latge, estates in Ireland, and I have, therefore, an especial interest in the tranquillity of that country.• But there is another, my respect for a departed relative, under whose . care and in whose prieciples l l was bred. That relative, I venture to say, was one of the most efficient and honest Statesmen that this country ever possessed-•-( Hear). — As a subject I do not overpraise him, and as a brother I cannot say too much. I knew his sentiments tho roughly, and if he was in one thing more sincere than in another—if these was . one subject which more than another pressed on his mind, it was to see the Catholic Question fairly and fully understood. .He only re gretted that the external and internal difficulties of the country did not enable him to take such an active part in promoting the measure as he wished, and that he could not at once accomplish his desire.. Ever since the Legislative Union of the two countries under that great man, Mr. Piit, my lamented relative thought that the measure was not complete--(liear, keor).—unless Ca tholic Emancipation . was 'carried—(Cheers) —lf there was no pledge to that effect, there was, at least, some• thing very like it--(ilear).—Had his life - been spared to the ttiun try. he would have called upon his Majesty', Ministers to redeem that pledge. Thete wetV • his sentiments, and I hope Goo may Ned his spirit to animate the Cabinet of his Majesty, and induce ILeo to carry a ',admire so necessary to the tranqaillity and peace lir Ireland. I hope your Lordships will footive this trespass out I your time, but circumstanced as I am, and feeling as I do. I could not refrain from expressing myself as I have done, though I fear, most insperfectry." , --(Hear). • _ - Lord DACRE presented - a Petition in favour qf the Catholic 1 t= signed by 900 Serjeants at Law, and Barristers; Lord and WARD presented a Petition • from the Protestant Ms- Eers of Dudley; the Bishop of NoawscH, from the Presbyterian ymen in Lando' ' connected with the. .Church of Scotland; Hot Hoeasn, three Petitions iron; the Unitarians in and near et ; the Mariiuis of Hours , from Cardiff; his Royal Highness Oho Duke of Sussex, from the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Arch. I tUacont y of Sudbury. The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented a Petition from the Members of the Senates of Oxford and Cambridge, in favour of the Catholic Claims. The Petition was signed by two Heeds of Houses, by the Professors of Greek, Arabic, Gimlet,, Astronomy, Anatomy, and nearly all that made the reputatiss of the Uni versity of Cambridge. The number pf signatures from Oxford Was not so great, because there bad not been time enough to send the Peddon down there. The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented another similar Pod don from ten of the Protestant Nobility, and a large *umber of Protestant Gentry not sitting in Parliament. Also, a Petition front the Bankers and Traderi of Liverpool, 7,000 awes were signed to it..representing net less than six millions of prOperty. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE presented Petitions in favour of the Catholic Claims., flow the coun t y of W u : terford aud the town of Bandon. These Petitiens.wieve numerously signed, and expressed thelentitaievits•Of 00 Protestants of Ireland. The t.,wn of Bandoll'aras be,* of the most prosperinis towns in the Soutte diflrtßtnd, and remarkable for its attachment to' the Pitiltsrsta. Religion. It. cable f retard now to entreat theii'lr rd ships to pass the Bill for reVe+ing ti e Catholics. Eery day furnished fresh• proof of the .4nxiety ofebe Protett• ants of Leland to see abblis'irti thes,dious distinctiobs which existed,'and to see - re,i.),etiven,to that unhappy country by timely coircessios-. I .deed; the whole pnz pulation of Ireland implore.i their Lordships to pas the' Bill. If therk aeie any d loge!, - nn whom would that danger fall ?—not on th-1 0 , , c,testantt of Engl I nd.or Ireland, because they were both equally a minus tnwee the measure carried. They asserted that the safety and security of the country depended on it. The Catholic Question had been agitated for more than twenty -five years, and had been supported by nearly all the ablect and most enlighteied Statesmen in England and Ire land, It was daily gaining friends, and making converts. The Catholics were daily *advancing - in intelligence and wealth. The question ought not to be left to sleep. The present moment was most important. It was a time of peace. The other House of Parliament had .pronounced a favourable opinion. II the - preent mo. went were neglected, who could say Oat conces,ion hereafter would not come too late ? Divisi ns and dill• turbances would again arise, and the old horrors would be renewed. But if the question were lost this night, it must one day be carried. Did any one believe that the jug claims of the Catholics could be for ever with held? No rational man could think so. Why then hazard by a present refitsal so many advantages, when after that refusal most be in v.tio? Let the two people be immediately and firmly united by equal'laws. • He was rejoiced to see the question' in such she hands. Thei hid Ws entire Concurrence. He trotted that their Lordships:nolidd by their decision do credk to themselves end jultiee to Leland ; that they would wipe off the stain from British legislation, arid abolish those hateful distinctions which disgraced and weakened the empire, and consolidate the national strength by uniting the national heart.—( Hear). Earl GREY presented Petitions in favour of the Catholics, from the Protestant Dissenters of the Chapel in ilanover-square, New castie-upop-Tyne ; from the Roman CathoiTcs of Liverpool and neighbourhood ; from those of the county of Monaghan, and those of Preston and Wigan, iu Lancashire.—Laid , nt the table. ENGLISH CATHOLICS. Earl GREY then said, that he h-ld a Petitiln, signed by the Duke of Norfolk, all tire Catholic . Peers of *lnt. . land, all the Prelates, and upwards 'Of 30,000 indivt• . duals of that persuasion, praying ftlr the repeal of those disqualifications under which they lay, not for any fink committed by them, but hecawe they entertained a • religioui belief which they could not conscientiously alter. This Petition was written with proper respect, but with the firmness and tone of men deeply sensible of the injuties whit!) they suffered, and of their own worthiness to enjoy a share in the liberties of the coun try. They submitted that while those disabilities continued, they could never cease to coniplain.— They appealed to their conduct as evidence of their loyalty, and of their being di,tinguished by as ac tive a• zeal as any of their fellow subjects when their exertions in the public set vice were not ins. peded by the impolicy of the laws- , -(Hear, hear). They repelled with indignation the charge that them was something in their religion inconsistent with the principles of free Government, and shined elat-the best Constitutional guarantees of the country had IMOD esta blished by their ancestors; professing the satne-religion as themselves. They alsb demonstrated, by the example of Switzerland, that Catholic. and Priitestanf tostotas bound together in the same union, and in full posses sion ssf Constitutional freedom, lived in perfect harmony: ,Tney thawed that in Fiance a Catholic King had edreed .his Protestant and. Catholic subjects on the saint fdotingr, that in the Kingdom elf the Netherlands high enjoyed :a perfect equality of civil rights, under the specjaigua• .rantve of the British .Government; that In Hahoypr his Majesty had placed professpia of all religiOnion the same tevel; that in Canada, though a British dependency, Ca tholicity was the religion of the State; and thatin the Unir tedStates,instead of impeding the progress of public pro• iperitr and power,the general freedomnf religion, , which was now safely enjoyed , was the cau s e of t hei r itZfvance. They indignantly repelled the imputation .cast, upon them by an. individual, who was once a Catholic him self, and had deserted. tf.eiz faith, that they : bOsi a di. vided allegiance. They declared that they were ready to defend the just rights.cif the Crown against. any Po tentate or Prelate. Under those circumstances, they came with muliminhheithopes that the Wiidom, of the House would relieve them from the opetatiOn.of laws which woman injustice to them, and .a disgracAko Eng. land. . They came recommended by the testimony of ,the NObbi Earl opposite (Liverpool), who. had repeat edly declared that they were not only most peaceable, but most meritorious subjects, and had particularly dis tinguished their zeal and loyalty sr hen the country was in danger. They came recommendrd by she ,Petitions of a great number of their Protestant brethren, chiefly from that pelt of the country whet e dang r wis.,best ap preciated. They came recommended by thevOte of the House of Common% which h id -ent f :r the second time to their Lordships a Bill . for the Relief of the c.iith&ics. It was said that the question hid becothe one of time, and that concessions must be granted at no cflifant. period. If we waited a little longer, they might berrifered in vain. In peace and prosperity concessions . -might be safely made, which in times of dimes, and when pavions were exasperated, would be vainly preffered. ;11ch had been the case with Amer ica. GOD grant that a greater infatuation 'night • not proJuce a greater s*lration. His only apooey for saying so much was that he should not consider himself called upon to take any part in the ensuing debate. The Petitioners did not . pray for any other measure than that before their Lordships ; Las ie atetleit to be forgotten that the case of the English Catholic* was pees that of the Catholics "of Trelind, as the niriner were Sable b. many disabllltia from which the Litter haillting since 'relieved. Hetherefore tnntrd that the Home vrould. its decision of last. year, and remove the mass stri.kin. wawa* 'which existed in our laws, by Placing the Failieltiraitholics tLe same routing as those of Ireland. • The Peskiest was then read and laid on the 614 •••• :75 1_ mint t • t mi CATHOLIC RELIEF DILL. ••• • - y • O r : g •. • ' i rDe Order of the Day having been vp • .:Tne Earl 01 DONOUG H MORE moved the lecoita 'rel.. ding of the Catholic Relief Bill. 'ln doing so. be should not long occupy their I.orlshlpitteittlnn, after, Jibe musserena Petidons which had beet' prinearell,iard WE Ohl . Imaged debate.whiels bad already taken platter•!,llllWad_hle said, ha disaitronell os {he abolition ef th, that if asky Omen were disfranchised, everything like freedom In the English Coosa!' Lord COLCHp - fER contended' `although satisfactory in sr the .ParlitimenNary object... it was evident from the Ira; Lordships' table, Was sense of the country. readinesi had been ells' a fell participation in a,. of the . Colfstitution s , iii I:friochised, c t o rePshi 44/ 104 w. , , • : die incliott Vitali**. PER cot tenitect Mit ihi 00'0 4 ~. sus on the siitect , ii( - rat di. ta `some T aints; ILO niii •Y flip: i i .: ifectioq ;tp the 'ttteal;' van . i, . 1 the - nit6bo: : :Of Peiktio ow 4fr ill h '..i *lair* lidiiir !pilid ientie He thilaiiiiie'd 'l . tit utafkiii.: 1 isplayed, to gratit to he..Cailikiltif ' aH the enjibytnehtk and aditlitkes s ' aiH2 the iikeityoii OrtficithArtl j tir , ,:! . „4-.• •••41; 0 1• ' V r • - _....,..,.._ _ - __ . • ._