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The Noble Marquis moved that it be read, in order that their Lord ships might learn from the words of the Petitiooers themselves bow deeply they were affected by the disabilities of their Roman Cathay lic brethren: The Petition was then read. It stated amongst other tight's, that the restrictions to which the Catholics were restricted ant only ass ccuraged manufactures ; but diminished the value of property lo fee land. That Protestants having more than two thirds eldoe landed property of the country in their possession, they sualled prow. tionably more from its deterioration, occasioned by the cheeks on the Catholics than the Catholics themselves, who bad only die re maining and inferior part. They therefore prayed forma remedy as the wisdom of their Lordships might devise. On the motion of the Noble Mtaquis, the Petition wan then ordered to lie on the table. 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'llse Noble Eirl observed that it contained the 'knaves of nr lees than thirty tbousand persons, being nearly one-foot th of the whole populadon of that city. When it was remembered that Glasgow was, perhaps, more than any other city in the British dominions, connected with the West India Islands;it might have been supposed that its inhabitants would be disposed to favour the system that existed. rather than any proposal of a change, yet they bad thus declared their sentiments on a sub ject on which more than any other the feeling was universal In this canntry. Petitions to the same effect were presented by the same Noble Earl, from a Parish In the County of Stirling ; by the Earl of Ross- Lex, from Burnt Island: and by Lord Surrtztn, from several parishes in Lincoln, and also from Wilton, Wilts. La id on the table. 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Earnestly solicitous to expel the unfeeling empyric from the position so presumptuously taken up, we deviate from general principles with less hesitation; and confident in our own honourable integrity as Members of the College of Surgeons, we refer the suffering community of either Sex (especially those entering into matrimonial life) at once to our house, where daily attendance is given for personal consultation ; and letters from the country are immediately answered; these must contain remittance fur Advice and Medicine, which can be forwarded to any part of the world, however distant. GOSS and Co. M.R.C. Surgeons No. 11, Boner/le-street, andon. ;West published (Seventeenth Edition), 1. Tbe Rens of 11111, a familiar Commeatary on the above Diseases. end, Hvorsesta, addressed exclusively to the Female Sex. May be bad at 16; Princes-strut, Soho; 174. 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He was the more especially desirous of offering a few observations be cause this Petition had been placed in his hands, in consequence of an event which this House could not fail to deplore—the loss of that lamented individual, a Noble Member of this House, whose services had been so long engaged in the cause to which his whole politi cal life, from its commencement to its close, was,.from particular circumstances, so intimately connected ; and of which he continued to the last to be the able, the eloquent, and the disinterested advocate. Their aord ships would feel thst although the grave had dosed over him as it had closed over many other distinguished characters, who, in submitting to the common lot of humanity, had been compelled to commit to others the unfinishe4 task of endeavouring to enlarge the bounds of civil and religious liberty— " Et quasi enrsores vital lamps& tradutar —the cause that he lest unfinished - was one that could not fail to live, although one of its best and ablest sup porters had departed, and although he had left to others to advocate its claims, those claims would continue to' be urged upon their Lordships, so long as the different members of the community re:ained a just sense of the advantages of equal rights; so long as a population ex ited under a system of exclusion, which, though it al ways unites, can never diminish ; so long as they felt, and GOD forbid they should ever cease to feel, the dis advantages under which they laboured, in being ex cluded from those constitutional tights which their fel low men and their fellow subjects enjoyed, and in whick if they had lived under any other Protestant Govern ment now existing in' the world, they would be al lowed to participate. It was therefore impossible for their Lordships to expect that they would not again and again have these claims pressed upon them: that they would not again and again have to listen to those appeals which were made equally upon their policy and upon their justice. Having said so much, although it was not his intention to offer any argument in support of the prayer of the Petition, be thought it a duty to those who had placed it in his hands to state, that having perused it with attention, and knowing how indulgent their Lordships would be, even those who were* hostile to the claims therein made, towards any language that might have been accidentally employed in giving vent to feelings somewhat irritated, under the pursuit, as the. Petitioners were, of what their Lordships would admit were no contemptible privileges. Notwithstanding this, he owed it as a duty to the Petitioners to state, that in the Petition they had placed in his hands there was not a single sentence deserving of reprehension. They had judiciously abstained from entering into theological discussions which are not necessarily connected with their cause, and which however fitting they may be as subjects of instruction from the pulpit, or for learned dissertations from the press, he most sincerely wished might never be heard within the walls of that House. They had in a great degree confined themselves - to combat the assertion that they were unfit to enjoy the privileges enjoyed generally by other subjects of the same Government under which they lived, the allega tion of a divided allegiance .they solemnly disclaimed, and to that disclaimer, worded and signed as it is, he begged to draw their Lordship's attention, as well as to the petition generally, which, foe the number of its sig natures, the respectability and charatter of those by' whom it was signed, and from the object it sought to obtain, would be treated by them with the eesuidsreaion it deserved- He considered It at the present moment vatIMMIN/117 to occupy any more of their Lordships time, save to aware thein that be retained all the sentiments upon this important subject which be had hereto. fore expressed—and that be trusted the period - would arrive when those sentiments would be more generally adopted by that House. —The Noble Marquis then presented a Petition from various indi viduals, professing the Roman Catholk Rellglogin Ireland,raying for Catholic Emancipation. which was read at length, and La on the table. The Marquis of LANSDOWN.presented a Petition from 3 great number of the Protestant :Proprietors in Ireland, complaining of the injury which they, as Pro. Earl GREY said, that he held a Petition from a pan of the same body who had entrusted their general Peti. lion to his Noble Friend. and could not possibly have entrusted it to an abler man. . His Noble ?fiend had :hewn that his zeal in their cause was tempered by sound judgment, when he had declared that he woeld do nothing more than make the usual motion that their Petition do lie upon the table. He would follow the same course ; but before he did so, he could not refrain from exprevskto his conviction, a conviction strengthened by every passing year,that disqualifications on the ground of -religious opinions, unless irl cases of over-mastering necessity, could not be maintained on principle.of either policy or justice, and that on their repeal and' the se. , complishment of the great work of conciliation and peace, the welfare and prosperity of behind, and the security and power of the British Empire mentiall, depended. He agreed that it was inexoedient at pre sent to enter into the discussion of that great question, but it was one of such a nature that it must force itself again and again on their Lordships consideration, and he looked with anxious hope to a time, not a far distant time, when, under the auspices of his Noble Friend, th it great question would be taken up with better gators,' and brought to a favourable end. The Petitioners ex. pressed their deep sense of the injury which they suf.. , fared from their disqualifications as Catholics. They . stated that at various times they had endeavoured to obtain their emancipation; that with this view they had formed themselves into a boJy known by the name of the Catholic Association, according to former practice, and to attain legitimate objects through legitimate means: They complained that a Bill had been introduced into their Lordships' House to put down that Association; that they had appealed to their Lordships to be heard and exemined at their Bar against the Bill, but that without any inquiry whatever the House had passed that Bill into a law. They stated their sense of the injury thus done them in strong terms, but not to strong as to have made it unfit for him, or inconsistent with the respect due to the House to pre,ent their Petition, and they prayed for the repeal of the law of which they complained. He should consider, that he had dis. , charged his duty towards them when he should have moved that the Petition lie upon the table. In order to save their Lordships time, he should state before he sat down that he also held another Petition from the Catholics of the Parish of St. Audeon, in the City of Dublin, and that they bad requested him to draw at. tention to two particular paints in it, which referred to • those measures brought in along with the Cotholic Bill tut year, and known and er- the name of " Wings." Ms owe of these, he hiateelf bad felt a strong objection. He meant thetwidelk disfranchised all forty shilling fiveholders by one sweeping Act. and depdved them of a right held on the same principle, and by the ' mot tenure, that made every other species'of property inviolable. fie had not been surprised, therefore, at the time, at finding that many who had till then supported Emancipation opposed it with such appendages. He need not add, that he concurred in the e:u. timeats of the Petitioners on those points, as well as in their general object.—Both Petitions ware *en read and laid on the table. WEST The Order of the Day baying been - read, Lord SUFFIELD rim. Thou4h the subject of his motion was totally unconnected with the emancipation of Slaves, or the time at which it was to be carried into effect, yet be could not help offering a few observations cn so:re of the points which had been brought into controversy. Even the most able advocate, or rather he ought to say, apologist of the present system in the Colonies did not deny her propriety of Emancipatinn. but only contended as to time. The Anti Slavery Society bad been charged with precipitation in its efforts.to bring that great and desirable event to a close. But this charge was unfounded : and nothing precipi tate could be found in its language or in its measures. With respect to compensation, his own view was that the country having during the last thirty years added 150 millions to her national debt, and sacrificed 50,0'J0 lives to protect the colonies, she was more entitled to compensation for what' he had done than they for what was required from them. At all events,however, it would be better for her to pay three millions annually for the abolition of slavery, than an equal sum for their de fence and support. As to the charge thrown on the Abolitionists that they represented slavery as incom: patible with Christianity, it was wrongly laid to their account, for the assertion originated with the West Indians themselves. He had read tbit very morning an article in the Royal Gazette of the West Indies, psib lishei in 1808, which said :—" He that chooses to make them Christians, let him give the slaves emit freedom. What might not be the consequence of calling such men s Beloved Brethren ?' To ass Isemble negroes in a place 'of worship gives them a feeling of independence, and makes them form ideas and comparison= which it is dangerous to indulge, and which must not be encouraged."- 7 It was evident, therefore, that the idea of slavery being incompatible with the Christian Religion, was the growth of the West Indies. Having thus taken a ge neral view of the question, he should say that the single object of his motion was not to convey civil rights_ to the slaves, but to prevent criminal wrong, an idea which was so well expressed by Commissioner Dwharris, in his report on their Lordships' table. And 1k should think be would do much towards effecting that object if be could make it to be law, as be intended to propose this evening-0 That no public functionary amid be allowed to be the owner of any slaves ' • as 1,114.140. passible that the corruptive influence of slavery sbeadd not be felt in the conduct of those charged with the administration of tr e laws, if they were staved to have an interest themselves in the possession of slaves. The Noble Lord then referred to a dispatch from Earl Bathurst, which said that there was not one et the Colonies in die Wine ladies Wish hise est deft MIN