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, • • r I I .1 *• •f• : • . .. • • -_ .\ . ..• ,• ..,••• i t t - •. • • frif • • g-' ‘ 1 : c 1 "; 4 • t: C :C 1 • 4 i 4.10# • AC% a • 7 P r : f if )1 . • ihomarki - PRICE SEVEN.PENCE. ~1 .a ■ ALEDONIAN ASYLUM, for SUPPORTING and ‘ -d EDUCATING the CHILDREN of SOLDIERS, SAILORS, and MARINES, NATIVES of SCOTLAND , who have died or been disabled in the Service of their Country, and of Indigent Scotch Parents, resident in London, not entitled to Parochial Relief.—Cross-street, Hatton-garden. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDDiGS. gIoIIESMINIIIWB Learned VICTUALLING-OFFICE, March 4, 1825. I ICHE COMMISSIONERS for VICTUALLING 1 his MAJESTY'S NAVY, etc. do hereby give Notice, That on FRIDAY, the 11th inst. they will be ready to receive Tenders in writing (sealed up), and treat for the undermentioned Articles, to be delivered into his Majesty's Victualling Stores at 'Deptford, i►iz : Article!. Qua,gilies. Per iods of delirery. i 200 Sacks by the 21 st 'FLOUR, (Kilndried) 600 Sacks Me Istarch, April and the remainder by "( 'BISCUIT MEAL, 2,000 Sacks One half of each by the I st NEW OATMEAL, 50 Tons April, and the other half by MOTTLED SOAP, 20 Ditto the let May. 'BUTTER, S Tons CALICO, 5 , 000 Yards Within one Month from the date of the Contracts. FLANNELS, 5,000 Yards Samples of the Oatmeal will be required to be produced with the Tenders, but Samples of the Soap, Calico, and Flannel, will be ex hibited at this Office. The Conditions of the Contracts may be seen at this Office. Each Tender must specify the price in words at length, and be delivered before One o'Clock on the day appointed ; and the Person who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, must attend to answer when called for. PATRON, The King's Most Excellent MAJESTY. PRESIDENT, His Royal Highness the Duke of YORlCand ALBANY, K. G. &c. His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, Earl of Inverness, &c. The EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL of this,IN STITUTION will be celebrated at the Freemasons' Tavern, on Saturday the ltth cf March. The Right Honourable Lord FRANCIS LEVESON GOWER, M.P. in the Chair. ITZWA ADS. The Most Noble the Marquis of Thomas Dreyer, M.D. Lothian, K.T. I James Farquhar, Esq. M.P. The Right honourable the Earl 'Thomas Alexander Fraser, Esq. of Hopetoun. of Lovat. The Right lion. Lord Francis I John Fullatton, Esq. Leveson Gower, M.P. Iluberr Gordon, Esq. M.P. The Rt. Dun. Lord JAS. Stuart, William Grant, Esq. Daniel Grant, Esq. The Rt. Hon. Lord Macdonald Colonel James Hamilton. Theßt.Hon.Sir G.II.Rose,M.P. James Macdonald, Esq. M.P. Sir JamesWemyss M'Kenzie, of Lieut..-Col. Dar iel Mackinnon. Scatwell, Bart. NI.P. Lieut.-Col. Roderick Alacneil, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart. M.P. of Barra. Sir Coutts Trotter, Bart. Michael Stewart Nicholson, Esq. Sir ItTliaot Adams. Lieut.-Col. Alexander Ogilvie, William Annandale, Esq. 46th Regiment. Capt. Andrew Barclay. Simon Taylor, Esq. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq. I Tickets, One Guinea each, to Asylum ; and at the Tavern. if. W4LLER CLIFTON. CONTRACTS FOR DANTZIC OR MEMEL GOODS RIGA OR ST. PETERSBURGH FIR TIMBER, AND NORWAY SPARS: NAVY :OFFICE, February 25, 182 S. THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COMMIS=, 11 SIGNERS of kis MAJESTY'S NA VY,do hereby give Notice, That on THURSDAY, the 10th of March next, at One &Clock, they will be ready to treat_with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying his Majesty's several Dock- Vards with the following articles, viz. DA NTZIC or ill F.3IEL GOODS, consisting of FIR TI MITER, OAK PLANK, and DECK DEALS. be had of the Stewards; at the JOHN LEES, Secretary. WAY SPARS. RIGA or ST. PETERSBURGH FIR TIMBER. and NOR. Distributions of the Articles, and Forms of the Tenders, may be seen at this Office. No Tender will be received after One o'Clock on the flay of Treaty, nor any noticed, unless the Party or an Agent for him attends. Every Tender must be accompanied by a Letter addressed to the Navy Board, and signed by two responsible Persons, engaging to become hound with the Person tendering, in the following sums, for the due performance of the Contracts, viz. Dantzic or Memel Goods Riga or St. Petersburgh Fir Timber Norway Spars £5,000 3,000 1,000 IMPERIAL BRAZILIAN MINING - ASSOCIATION. T H E PROPRIETORS are informed that the DEED of ASSOCIATION has been approved by the Directors, and is ready for SIGNATURE, and that it will remain at this Office for that purpose from the i.sd instant, for thirty-one days, within which period the Deed must be signed by the Proprietors, on penalty of forfeiture of the payment already made. The hours for Signature will be from Ten to Three each day, Sundays excepted. Proprietors residing at a distance may sign by Power of Attorney; the form of which may be had at the Office, No. 9, Throgmorton street.-21st February, 1825. • LEWIS LEWIS, Jun. Secretary. BY AUTHORITY OF PARLIAMENT. BRITISH ANNUITY COMPANY. Capital .03,000p00, is 60,000 Shares of £5O each. THIS Company is established under the Authoi ity'of the sth Geo. IV. cap. 153, for the Investment of Capital and Production of Income, by the Purchase of Annuities secured on Property in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The Directors will receive Tenders to any amount, and advance Money on unusually liberal terms. Blank Forms will be delivered, co application to the Secretary, at the Office, to whom all Letters must be sent post paid. JAMES I.IITCHELL, Secretary. 36, New Broad-street, London. STATE OP IRELAND. Tbil day was published, Fifth Edition, in fcap. avo. Price 9s. bds. MEMOIRS of CAPTAIN SOCK, the celebrated IRISII CHIEFTAIN,vvith some Account of his Ancestors. Written by HIMSELF. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. ESTABLISHED UPWARDS OF TWENTY YEARS, For the Sale of Irish Linen by the Piece; at the Factor's Price, No. 4, on the SOUTH-SIDE of BLOOMSBURY-SQUARE, four doors from the top of Southampton-street, Holborn. THE IRISH LINEN COMPANY beg leave to an nounce to the Public, that the above House is their only Establishment in this Country ; where they continue to supply the Nobility, Gentry, and the Public, with WARRAN'T'ED grass bleached Linen, for Shirts and Sheets, of the best fabric and colour, and also TA ELE LINEN, at a price considerably lower than can he procured through any other medium. They also engage to return the purchase money should any fault appear. Good Irish Mb and Bank of Ireland Notes takettas usual. Country and Town Orders punctually attended to by JOHN DONOV AN, 4, Bloomsbury-square, London, JOHN DOYLE, 7,1, St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, Agents. HENRY'S CALCINED MAGNESIA continues to be prepared with the Most scettpulous care and attention, by Mists. Tito:mks and WiLl.tan Howl, Manufacturing Chemists, Manchester. It k sold in bottles, price Us. 9d.. or with glass stoppers at 4s. 6d. stamp included, with full directions for its use, Itheir vtll4noll Agents in the Metropolis, and throughout the ted Kingdom; but it cannot be genuine, unless their names art engraved on the Government Stamp, which is fixed over the cork or stopper of each bottle. Of most of the venders of the Magnesia htty be had, authenticated by a similar Stamp, ilsootv's AROM 4Tl€ gilithet et Vismus s the invention ad Mr. Henry, and the only Viking preparation of that article. FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA. TN this Preparation are concentra►ed all the Medicinal Properties of the Sarsaparilla Root, even to a perfect tatura %ion of the Menstrtun with which it is prepared. To rich persons, therefore, who, from various causes, would esperknce great Incon •-entence, or with wham it would be utterly impossible to prepare the Decoction, the Fluid Extract, which possesses the advantages dportability and of keeping in any climate, wi!l be found a most desirable mode of employing this much-esteemed Medicine. The Diseases in Which it has proved most beneficial are those of the Skin, such as the Scorbutic Affections, Eruptive Diseases, Sec°ll darl Symptoms, Ecc. arishvg from a diseased state of the ',stein at tarp. It is taiken in Wattr, rendering it of the same Uretigth as the Decoction. ----- Sold in Beaten, it 48. Cd. and 7e. 6d. by Butler,• Chemist, 4, Cheapsitle, kit. Paul's Savort and Co. IS& Wessr Bond-strzet, and 22b, Regent -street,; and by the prineip..l Aledie.ne Venders throuthout the Unit( d Kingdom. _ Eli ne careful to ask fur IN miles FLtJu EXIRACT or !!:At.;.t. *a hiLl4. YACHT FOR SALE: FOR SALE, by PRIVATE CONTRACT, a supe rior fast-sailing CUTTER, adnicasuring Seventy-seven Tons. She has lately had a complete and thorough Repair in the Isle of Wight; and is, in every respect, as good as new ; Coppered and Copper-fastened; her standing and running Rigging entirely new, as is all her interior Fitment. She has every convenience and com fort for any Gentleman wishing to have a Yacht of superior qua lities, and is ready for immediate use. Farther Particulars and Inventories may be had, by application (if by Letter, Post paid) to Mr. Thomas Heather, Ship-Agent, Portsmouth. TO BE SOLD, PURSUANT to an Order of the High C owl of Chancery, made in a cause, BEAUMONT against PAINE, With the approbation of SAMUEL COMPTON Cox, Esq. one of the Masters of the said Court, at the house of Mr. Thomas Kaye, the Red Lion Inn, in Lepton, in the Parish of Kirk. heaton, in the County of York, on TUESDAY, the sth of April, 1825, at the hour of Four o'Clock in the Afternoon of the same day precisely, in Two Lots, Sundry PARCELS of TIMBER, SPRING, and other WOODS, in the several Woods and Plantations near Whitley Hall, in the Pails Les of Mirfield, Almondbury, and Kirkheaton, in the said County of York. Particulars may be had (gratis) at the said Master's Chambers, in Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ;at Messrs. Rogers and Currie's, Solicitors, No. 31, Lincoln' Inn-fields •of Nlr. George Augustus Merrifield. Solicitor, N 0.50, Ely-place, Inn-fields; ; of Mr. William Rayner, Whitley all, n e ar Huddersfield; the George Inn, and Ramsden Arms Inn, Huddersfield; the Stratford Arms, Wakefield ; and at the Place of Sale. This day was published, price 6s. THE EDINBURGH REVIEW; or, CRITICAL JOURNAL; No. g 2. CONTENTS.—I. Campbell's Theodric.—ll. Alemoires sur la Cour de Louis XlV.—Manners and Morals of Absolute Princes.—lll. Public Education.—lir. Ashantee.—V. Ireland.—Vl. Court of Chancery.—Vll. Ellis's Letters illustrative of English History, VIII. Criminal Law of Scotland.—lX. West Indies.—X. Re duction of the Duties on Coffee.—Xl. State of Hayti.—Xl I. Edu cation of the People. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London; and Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh. CABINET-MAKERS' SOCIETY. CHEAP CABINET and UPHOLSTERY , at t he LONDON REPOSITORY for the CABINET-MAKERS' SOCIETY, being the only real one now existing in London, No. 71, Corner of LEADENHALL-STREET, opposite Altlgate Pump, and which has been Established upwards of Six Years: For READY Motley, and no Abatement. The Trustees and Committee respectfully inform the Nobility and Gentry, that they still conduct the above Establishment, for the Benefit of Industrious and Ingenious Mechanics (who have large Families), by offering their Manufactured Articles in the Cabinet Line, of the best Workmanship, and Cheapet than by any House in London, no other Profit being required than to satisfy the warehouse rent and incidental expenses; being satisfied with constant employment to enable them to support their families, the number of whom appears by the books of the last Quarterly Meet ing to be 148. From the great patronage the Committee have re ceived they are in hopes of increasing that number. The whole of the Society beg leave to return their sincere thanks to those Ladies and Gentlemen who have hitherto honoured them with their Orders and Recommendations, and shall always feel happy in their endeavours to give future satisfaction; at the same time solicit a continuance of their benevolence, whereby they may be enabled to increase the number of the Society. The following Articles are inserted as a Specimen of the *erg Low Prices, all warranted.-Ready Money only. Full size Mahogany four-post Bedstead, lath bottom sea 155.- Full size Tent Bedstead Aft 65.-Bordered Bair Mattress to fit £1 ls.-Mahogany Drawers, solid Ends £3 35.-Featber lied £2 10s.-Ditto, flee from dust and smell, full size £3 10s.-Six japanned Chairs of any description in oil 21 ft-Best ditto Wash hand Stand 165.-Ditto Dressing Table 165.-Ditto Table Ditto Stand Bs.-3 feet 6 inches Chests of Drawers £4 45.-Three feet mahogany Pembroke Table sel 18s.-Three foot ditto on pillars and claws £3 155. -Mahogany Dressing Table £1 45.- Ditto Bidett, hest, £1 ft-Ditto Box Glass, two drawers, best British Plate 155.-Ditto ditto 21 75.-Ditto Swing Glass, 4s. and 6a. each-Tray Stand 65.-Long Mahogany Tray 18s.-Japanned Book Shelf 75.-Tea Caddy lOseL-Music Chairs, any pattern 8.. 6d.-Eight Mahogany Chairs, covered with horse hair, brass nailed £6 65.-121 ditto ditto £7 75.-8 Trafalgar ditto £8 111 s. -Mahogany Sofa to match £6 10s.-Ditto Couch £7 10s.-Ditto ditto £8 Ms.-Set of Mahogany Card fnd Sofa Tables, on turned legs, banded in rose-wood 28 155.-Set of Mahogany Tables, two Card and Sufa, on pillars and claws £l3 133.-Ditto £l6 108.- S:raw Palliasse £1 ls.-Tent Bedstead and Furniture £3 13‘ -Bamboo Bedstead and French elliptic top, with drapery and frinze, £8 10s.-Five-foot Mahogany four-post Bedstead and Furniture, with French draperies, lined all through, complete, £l5 10s.-Five-foot ditto ditto, £l6 10s.-Ditto ditto, with cornice of a superior make, £lB 105.-Ditto ditto, with geld cor nice, elegant drapery, £20.-Drawing room Curtains, of the best Morine and Chintz, fitted for windows, £6 65..-.-bitto ditto, £7 75.-Ditto, of a superior and elegant style of work. £lO 10s.-- Drawing-room Sofa, £6 65.-Ditto, U.-Horse-hair Cushiuds, each ss. 6d.-Common ditto 4s. 6d. COUNTRY DZiLitti stirrtict. • Goods packed free of expense, except the material., for ill parts of Great Britain, and to the East and West lndies.-Cap tains fitted out, and Merchants supplied with Cabinet Goods foe exportation. The above Prices regulated by order of the follow. ing Committee. J. CArrEit, 11. Ja stow, W. Waldman, T. Hasten, 'l'. Connie., J. Wit.son. W. THURNELL, J. HASLBIIs Secretary. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 7. Earl DARNLEY presented a Petition from the Catholics of Liverpool and its vicinity, against the Bill before the Home, and stated that it had come into his hands in consequence of the absence of the Lord Lieutenant for the County of Lancaster.—Read, and laid on the table. The Bishop of EXETER presented a Petition from the Clergy of the Archdraconry of Exeter, praying that no farther conces sions be /ranted to the Roman Catholics. Lord KING remarked, that this was another Petition against I granting civil rights to the Catholics. The Clergy had of late be come great Politicians. He did not wonder at it, as he under stood that in the diocese of the Right Rev. Prelate, there were Rev. Mayors, Beneficed Aldermen, and Capital Burgesses. They' skemed to him to have wandered from the right fold into a field, where the pasture might be good, but where they h ad nothin g to do, and it was time that they should be brought back to their own ground. The Bishop of-EXETER did not see why the Clergy of the Church of England should be run down when they approached the House with a modest and humble Petition. As to the existence of Reverend Mayors and beneficed Aldermen, the Noble Lord could not object to it more than he (the Right Rev. Prelacy) did him self. lie hoped the practice would cease, but he had no power to prevent it, for as the law now was, Clergyman might hold those situations. - Earl D ARNLEY wished that the Petitioners, who dwelt so much on the intemperance of the language used by the Catholics, would consider what night be their own if they stood in the game ' situation? He remarked Milt,no Petitions had conic to the Muse against making fresh concessions to the Catholics, except from the Clergy, and concluded by quoting Mr. Burke's opinion, that reli gion had nothing to do with the question. The Bishop of EXETER did not mean to enter into a defence of the whole or part of the Petition. As the Noble Earl had quoted Mr. Burke, he would recoitmend to hisconsideration the last words of Lord Russell on the same subject.—ThePetition having been laid on the table, The Bishop or EXETER moved an humble Address to his Majesty, praying that he would graciously be pleased to order the Eleventh Report of the Commissioners to inquire into the. Chari ties of England to be laid before the House, together with the Ap. pendiz.—Ordered. The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented a Petition from the Catholics of the County of Galway, and one from the Protestant and Catholic Inhabitants of the Town of Gert, against the Unlaw ful Societies Bill.—Laid on the table. The Noble Marquis then presented a Petition from the Inhabit. ants. and Tradesmen of Glastonbury,. praying for an awaits* lo the law for the recovery of Small Debts—Laid on the table. , Lord &anise and others from the Commons, brought up several Private Bills, which were read a &aite. Viscount MELVILLE rose, pursuant lb to his motion, to motel the appointment of a Committee to consider the state of the laws' which regulated the trials of Peers for offences committed in Scot land. It had been enacted by the Act of Union, that all the vie vileges of English Peers should apply to the Peers of Scotland. One year later an Act had passed regulating the proceedings against Scotch l'ecrs in case of trials for treason, but it was very ambi guous, and it did not seem clear whether they were to be tried by, the law of England or that of Scotland. It had afterwards been determined that they should be tried by the law of Scotland, but Iwith the superaddition of an English machinery. In 1715 the IScotch Rebel Peers had been tried by impeachment on the part of ,Me Government, and in 1745 by indictment. The object of hisCom nutter should be to consider the state of the laws and to report on the subject, giving what explanations or advising what measures it might think proper. After a few words from Lori HoLtaxo, the Committee was ap pointed, and his Lordship's name included. • SPRING GUNS. Lord SUFFIELD moved the Order of the Day for going Woe Committee on the Spring Guns' Abolition Bill. 1 1 The Duke of WELLINGTON wished that the ope ration of the Bill should not be confi ned to the su p - I pression of spring guns when used to preserve game, but when employed in ;any inclosures whatever to pre serve any other kind of property. He thought that as many accidents arose from one cause as the other, and it would be invidious to the proprietors of game to make a distinc tion against them. Lord SUFFIELD had not made any exception, but had only said that he would not object to a clause allowing the use of spring guns for the protection of property which it was felony to invade. The Earl of LIVERPOOL agreed that the principle of the measui e should be that the use of spring guns should be abolished in every instance. That a man should be allowed to buy a trap to shoot another in a case in which he could not directly shoot him, was something extremely preposterous. The only diffi culty arose from the absurd state of the law on the subject. If fruit were picked and carried away in a basket, then it was an offence by law ; but if a person bloke into your garden, and took all your fruit, it was only a trespass. When it was considered what amount of capital was employed in gardens in the vicinity of the metropolis, it would appear necessary that the laws should be med The state of the law respecting trespassing on enclosed land ou gh t to be amended. The Eail of WESTMORELAND was understood to support the generalising of the measure, as he would sever countenance a Pill which would allow man to inflict death ens an innocent person. Lord ELLENBOROUGH objected, that if the al terations proposed by the Noble Duke were effected, no person whatever would be able to keep fruit in their, gardens. No one flew at night over a ten feet wall, or entered a hot-house through accident ;it must be an intentional act, which could only be repressed by apprehension. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after alluding to the uncertainty which prevailed on the state of the law on the subject, as when it was discussed in Courts of. Jus tice opinions were frequently divided, said that- there was no occasion for spring guns in former times, when sportsmen went out with their dogs; They had only become necessary since plantations were turned into a poultry yard, and a dozen of people were employed in beating them, that sportsmen might have the pleasure of killing 1000 head a day. From the days of his youth, and it was flow long since he had enjoyed them, there were no pheasants, or scarcely any, with the ex ception of some for shew, and a few at the seat of an ancestor of the present Lotd Ravensworth. But now how could it be expected that people who had a taste for game, and he never knew an Englishman who had not, would not venture into the preser v es w hich were formed ? Ile trusted that their Lordships would not introduce into the present Bill, any thing affecting the causes pending in Courts of Justice. and he, for one, would never defend a practice which endangered the lives of his fellow-creatures. Tile Earl of LAUDERDALE conceived that the Game Laws themselves were a still greater grievance than the. use of spring guns, as they filled the piisons of the country with poachers. They had immensely increased the number of criminals. There never before had existed such a state of things. A rropelty had been created in the country to the extent of 800 mile lions, and all those who lived on the interest of that propfrty s to the amount of thirty millions were prevented by the existing laws from enjoying what the Noble and Learned Lseti had stated every Englishman had a taste for. Betwee n this arran g ement , of IProperty, and the state of the law, a system bad been eitiiblisked wench was most baneful to the poorer clump The Earl of CARNARVON admitted that the st tte of the Game Laws was a great grievance. Ho 'alluded to the opposition which a Noble and _ Lord had made some months ago, to a Bill for legaliz ing the sale of game, 'as likelyoo destroy his chief amusement. He would shortly; however, have to reconsider the iubject, as a Bill would probably again be brought from the other House. If Country Gentlemen consented to the sale of game, they would give up a great source of odium against them. After a few observations front thz Earls of Ltatettics and FA !Annum Earl DARNLEY suggested the propriety of cen fining the legal use of spring guns to walled gardens, where they should be set only at night. Earl GROSVENOR admitted that there was a great difference between the preservation of game and that of fruit in the gardens near the monsoons. Their peaches and grapes were everything to the poor growers, whilst game was nor sec . yto its possessor. lie gave his hearty sup port to the Bill of his Noble Friend, which did him much credit. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that the Noble Earl had introduced the Bill to legalize the sale of game very noar the close of last Session, and that it had ap pea, cc': to him (the Lord Chancellor) a totes:ion of too much importance to be decided hastily. Besides the difficulty (f proving whose game people might he selling, there was that which arose from tie difference which the law made between trespass and theft. The Noble and Lear ned Earl then quoted the case whith he had mentioned last year, in which a man had been re peatedly acquitted at the Qua: ter Sessions for taking salmon from a preserve on a river, because salmon being consideied fens nalura, it could not he proved whose property it was. The Counsel for the prosecution at last purchased the one which the•man had been acquitted of having stolen, and having cut a hole in its snout to mark it, placed it in the box on the river. The next morning it was retaken by the same individual, who was then convicted of theft ' :•nd if still living, was now at Botany Bay.—The House then went into a Committee. The Duke of WELLINGTON proposed, that in the clause limiting the use of •spring guns to certain en closures, the following words be inserted, 14 or in gardens, or in any place whatever." JAM ELLENISOROUGH and Earl BATHURST urging the propriety of taking time to consider the sublict, Lord SUFFIELD said that he had no objection to postpone the Committee. He hoped, at the same time, that the Noble Lord who wished gardens to he included .within the operation of the Bill, would come prepared with some measure to protect that kind of I lroperty. The CHAIRMAN (Lord KENYON) then reported progress, and ob tained leave to sit again this day se'nniglst. UNLAWFUL SOCIETIES. The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved the Ordef of the Day fur the third reading of the Unlawful Societies' 11111. Lord ELLENBOROUGH should not vote against this Bill because he desired the continuance of the Ca, thelic Association. He wished the existence of that Association to cease, not because it had done any harm, but because, looking at the general serve of the country, he conceived it calculated to iiirre the cause of the Catholics themselves. He did not regret, however, that .it had existed. On the contrary, it was a subject of satis faction to him, as it had made all parties. both Protestants and Catholics, think more seriously of the danger which attended the continuance of the disabilities under which the latter laboctred. it had created a general disposi tion on both sides to make large sacrifices of their re spective prejudices to settle the question, sin] to obtain a great national good. Yet he thought the Catholic Association had been harshly dealt with ; for it had been condemned unheard, and not an item of proof had been brought against it, of -its having in one i stance diverted the course of justice. Ile understood how those who were disposed to libel the Catholic body might feel uneasy before such :ap Institution, but that was no reason for pulling it down. It had dune no harm, and had, perhaps, done some good, by making the poorest man in Ireland feel that he had somebody to as sist him in obtaining justice. It was hard, therefore, to say that the means which it possessed of doing good would be turned to evil purposes. Whatever efficiency the'present Bill might have, it would derive it, not from -its own enactments but from the late Resolutions of the House of Commons. It was possible pow, that in con sequence of the expectations created by these Resolu tions, the Catholics would not • persevere in carrying on their Association. Their Lordships had been told of Corresponding Societies, but thOse formed a very small minority of the people, and were not to be compared with six millions of individuals all pressing towards one common object. It was said that much had already been done for themobut the more they were raised its reek and society, the deeper must be the dissatisfaction produced.-by the laws which disqualified than. The: e were two great measures which , he knew the Noble Earl opposite, himself, thought necessary to the peace and prosperity of Ireland ; the one woe a national provision for the Catholic Clergy ; the other a different qualification in Freeholders. Well, would any man dare to propose them to Pa:fisment, as brig as those disqualifying laws existed? And yet all knew that they , would produce more good in Ireland than any system which had yet been adopted. Ile trusted that the Catholic Association would now submit to the law, but be also trusted that the expectations of the Catholics would not be disappointed. Let their Lordships be wary of telling six millions of people; possessed of gre a t power now, and united to procure one object, that their etern4 portion must be despair. Lord CALTHORPE, although he admitted thatthe prcceedings and intemperance of the Catholic As.oeio lion might be blameable, was not certain w hether 111. E House had not disqualified itself, by its former act, towards the Catholics, from visiting them with a measure like the pj•eSss4. Ile neither believed that the danger apprehended trout them. existed, . Om- . if it did, had he any confidence in the efficacy of the propdsed remedy to remove it. A soothing and conciliatory measure wurstd do much more than a Bill; the operation of *kith must prove vexatious and oppressive. The LORD CHANCELLOR asked if it were pos sible for any man to lay his hand on his heart and to say that he would pass this Bill, not beSiktlaer the con duct of the Catholics required it, but beiause tire House, having done wrong against them before, oasht to per severe in the same course? He sold,• for ore, tltot he would not consent to the third readieg of the OM, if 'it were to he taken as a pledge of what he would (10 after, in discharging his duty to Parliament and the 410411111 y. He knew that in the past he had always done ohm he thought his duty to the country requited him to In the futuie, he should weer cease to act on the seine principle. He wished it to be understood, that whet ever might be his conitict when the Catholic Qoestton • should be before the House, he should not o_t ih ;e- ferrate to whit by Matt already done, hot in considtitstiois of wh..t it would be his duty to dos l lavift thckaglir inctst seriously on the subject for Ote last thirty years, he had, no 'orison to believe drat his opinions were 1.1 fotibded. 11e wes t , however, still orm to cOovitiloO k it noble Lord shQ46 tls. itragtnttuts Mole of •. . . 1