Star. — London, England, 1812-02-05 00:00:00

(C en tletnan !lino nee t e le Goldman (Mr. Grattan) should- Lan onmh forwarA with some specific.. pith ; MO t her e his motion in the preceding Ses. but 'the Noble Liter must himself hive had such a ho eh o h ohhere e him to have said, that without •plan in his mind at ihr cline 'of tile • ;Union ;if he. ittO went in religious matters, the grant of the hed it not in hi s con t em pl at i on at t h at time he must gettr ing( id h e ueless. He understood the Irish have grhssly deceived the Cathilics. • But he could h maintained that no alteration could be net suspect the Noble Lord of haying so much bout " co nsent of the Pope, and that they treachery rankling in his bosom, is to deceive the to as eept into their own berths the right of people by false hopes, lteit having no specific plan e h ees s. or to take them even from his own in view he held out to them a pledgee f future con hrhee h e this under capthtity ; as they would cession. But the Catholics themselves, it seems, e eh e c oesheing from constraint. With such should come prepared with some arrangement. The “ the . questinie he thought it Catle lies had not the power. What arrangement i . chh i ees surr ound e eehose h e • to tescuss e. He ished to could they make or f r ame wheh they had no censti- Le h ate • eekl e n ere ish Cliurth cemented with the mlt ee' power to nuet ? Their meetings were deemed cos eees t, a n union which we had witnessed in other en the one side to be illegal, on.the other to be legal. eduoive of most happy and triumphant Then the Ven, and the cowl mil over the nom'nation .ri:ts't h eee , a measure fritutlit sehh such general of the Bishops, could not be obtained. '['hen, again, hept e mig ht be adopted in preftnence tee lit was said, that the minds of the Cethofics were not cur are e umnt by the Honourable-. p re pa r ed 'f or concess i on ; b ut h e woul d as k t h e :aeos thrown o f giving po gym , litical freedom, anti allowing Nobl e I ord, if at t h e per i o d o f t h e U n i on; - t h e we t ene al its foreign dependencies Veto might not have been obtained ? and u hether or ..y t e h elm the benevolent enhonchisement bestowed not the procrastination and delays which 11.1 d eince ';;, le . The Statesman, he cenfesed, would re- followed tivete not the true causes ot that irritation '.h e he a bold one who chuld propose such a which was now, as contended, the chief reason for fh rr - t , es allowing 0. kg ilised body of C Itholics to not acceding to their claim',? The Right Hon. Se se h k i n e ; when Government found it ex- cretary of Stine for Ireland wished to have the hem mukh conce.sihis to the laity, the whole different Speakers in that House marehalled accord- I D r ht he w ineffectaal unless they capitulated with ing to his order ; but he thought the House had hC i erhY , who held these men's minds in obedience. reason to complain, that the pet-son with whem lie I w hen to that he did not look forward with strong carried on his cnrrespoidence, the Secretary of State t i e; the present moment was most decidedly in- for the ionic Department, had not suggestei some , opho h ; nor did even think that the Catholic H onourable of concession to the Catholics. -That Right fur acre e nertle a however h glad a t e reeve : su ffi cient prep:thrum h• m. n, , . c supposed, was dupe MCASUIC. He le - recto/et' an insuperable dit- so much occupied with his arrangements t the flaky to be surmenmed in the pore notestant peace o f t he m e tro p o li s an d th e i m p rove m e nt of t he e legislative - , a , and t heislative restrictions of the coup- cou- nightly watch, that he could not give his :meth ion !When hgh in cake formerly-with Mr. Pitt, to this minor subject. The Irish Chancellor of the h (Lied Cestitecaeli) steed hetween the Catholics Exchequer had said, that until the Irish Catholics h eh r determination of petaii fling his Majesty, should' give up their prejudices, it would not be Ro he krohing the hfonerch would rehire a negative, per to grant their claims. What profound ignorance h e perce mel nothing in the Coronati in Oath of human nature I What must be ths feelings of the tt repent his Ma; at; firm legislating on the mea- Catholics, when they refl-cted upon what had passed re -(Nrar, hear) —providing i t h a d not been aepa- in that House no Liter th a n y e s ter day, when a gal. h alt hazardieg thehsubeeision u h t h e rights of the Lint soldier atteaded in his place tier the purpose of pis to consent to it. For his ievn part, he was receiving the highest gratification that could be be who. always to put benevelent constructions on stowed upon man—the Thanks of the Representae htesatings and proceeditegh of men, but he could tives of the People ? If it so happened that a Catho estreftsitetrom tsking notice of the totil want of tic Nobleman, having sons, had been present, hear reereeeohboat the whole of the Cathot c proceed-, ing these deb ties, when the Right Honourable and Gentlemen had , expended much kerning to Learned Gentleman (Sir John Nicholl) had got np I: s ou ther the law did not touch conventicles, but and declared, that the Bar and the Army weie open if it silmied such meetings to pass as those against to them, he would say to himself, my sons may be. vbidi it:had-recently been employed, he would come Lieutenant-Colonels in the Irish Army, but sittbae Honourable Gentlemen ler what purpose they :cannot become Generalsh-they may deserve en the Convention Act framed. -If they did not these honours, but to receive them they never can.— Diem to iteach men meeting for the purposes of Could the House wonder,- then, that their feelings ,nation, whom would they wish to attach ? were exasperated when their claims were so repea -tad did the Gentlemen also say, -that Govern- ! tedly rejected ?• He would - ask,. what had been the heathrchld have been hile seated amidst Com- consequence? 'lt drew numbers from the British tithes and •Meetings if the abohe description army to fill up the brigades of other nations. In all 'ugh he firnalh believed the people of Ireland the great battles of former days the gallaht It ash were wept at all iefected with thht accursed dcctrine found brigaded against us. In 1793, when the last vilich once overflowed upon theih shores from titheiss ceocessions were granted to them, could it be possi ital France, and that while they contemplated the ble fer the men of that day not to h eve had it in con- Item-Aim of::a'phtition to Parliament, they allowed • temptation to go further ? He could not but do jus sot their miads•to be ear ried•aside by .any other con- tice to the most brilliant speech of the Rig ht Ho keratin, yet he contemplated them as persons who noerable Gentleman opposite, last night, who, whilst lad delegated men to sit m the metropehs of le:debt:l leboured, and successfully, to convince others, hammier to influence Governinent to accept more• could not obtain from himself his own vote. The peidtrof their claims ; sitting too, in The face of the , Hon. Gentlemen then proceeded to pass high en fant*, to-make their repulieve Conduct more whin: . .chi/rims Upon Henry the Fourth, who, surrounded seicioustotheie came; bringing themselves into 'legal • by. Protestant Ministers, and beloved' y a Protestant dilcidtieiwialethe laws f their country ; but even people, had no apprehension whatever for the seen all thatifindoed him not front asserting the general , tity of a Catholic. He next panegyrised the telerant matinees oftheif cause. It was hurtful to the law to " spirit of the Swiss and Americans; and concluded itosechtesucica man as Lord Finehal, whose virtu- by stating his intention to give his m :st decided sup em-and .exteht.nt oharacttr had - - lived through bad port to the motion. new; end even a Jury would hesitate, and 'give a: Mr. Secretary RYDER considered that it would , decision with reluethece against him.—(Hear, /:ear.' i have amounted to a criminal violation of the trust' h.Tie Government of his Geace of Richmond Iniel h reposed in the Government, if they had neglected to ken highly erlised.by the Catholics themselves fcht take measures for preventing the meetings, and to rhohhatiete t and lent they kept within the limits of [enforce the provisions of the. Convention Act. The' !ith ativehonnties- they Might have continued to Right lion. Secretary thererecapitaited the stete trathe petitions unmolested, and even furthered by mem made by the Right Hon. Gentleman (hir.Pok) theteverateent No man-a:he ever dispassionately • withhespect to the measures pursued on that occit-, examined intohhe Cathi•liz restrictions could conthin I sion. Did the Hon. Gentleman mean te contend that blaa film asserting them to be highly pain f u l I ; Government were to have waited until the rhject of and initatintto the feelings rf the p e rsons against the' meetings was complete before they decided on w'ila they were ftamed;• but he foresaw a time putting the statute in force ? The construction which co when the interests of Catholics and Protestants' had been put on the Act was the legal one. The could be rented and mutual, and the Les isietuhhh claims of' the Catholics were not recognised by the thsidine Over the whole realm, would hold the scales'country at large—there was a general and prevalent of justice in equal b dance between them. ! disposition ageint them, which had been increased in Mr. WHITBREAD said, that he was anxittut : consequence of their late proceedings, and he was tot mho detain the House, at the same time that lie preened to admit that mischief would not arise from hititnecessaly to deliver his sentiments upon this these frequent discussions. t hportantquestion. The Noble Lord, who hffeCted The ATTORNEY-GENERAL vindicated, .at t° ll how some hew lights upon' the subject, had 'cert. much length, the conduct of the Law Officers and ithihuhted his full proportien to the intelligi- thedudees of the Irish Bench in giving the opinion ' 4 l as the tercussion. the himself, Le wished to which :hey had &livered— that time meeting of the Ole to the House the broad and extended principle ; Catholic Delegates was a violation of the Convention tPhaehhichehe Noble Lord and his kig ht Honour- Act. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman en. 2 ' l 'F'icad alwaie considered ahe claims of the CA. tweed into an able exposition of that Act, and prey thtote.wheneverh the . , y come to be discussed Were; thet ed, that whatever . miht have been the . intention . of . The hohte Lord had stated tit it the claims the CathoFcs for m ing these ;:sannblies, whether c{ pie Cattwnii cs'l►.tef b e en injured be the diSc;:,jons simply and sincerely kr the purpose of petitioning, l'ith•had alreatly 4:Ie . :II:late, and by the nine ions or Liar the furtherance of seine other purposes, those 'Ateti by these who advocated titeir chuse., assenthlits (the Attorney-General said) constituted as vlutwas the coueluet •of• the N,•ble Lord when Mr. ! they were, had rightly been considere d infractions of I , 4t tesienea his offi c e, bt•eituse ceuei accome, the law. Much :Ilse had been sti.l in disapprobation :rsh the eldest' 1 • „ • •lc c epos .t • was hot because the ,of the warrant issued by the Lord Chief Justice of ' ihale-et was indisposed to entertain the discussion; • Ireland, and of the charg e delivered. by that respect -4al CO, because the people' were averse to it, but able Judge to the Jury.--[Here the Attorney-Gene ''.thern. lisethe.Kllig, in hi s conscieuce, could he , t accede ral read several passages from !h. At charge, to shew iss.cause Mr. Pitt would not stand be- I that there was nothing in ithosthe to the general dm- Crown and the peolde; r ssh• d 1 ra tter and intentions of the Catholic body; and that and the King took heto his Councils these' therefore the censure cast upon it was entirely desti %Odd take upon theist to .oppose the conceS-1 tut) of foundation.]—But• why canvass, much less 'IL Upon !be htlestion of the 'Chien, the secede! censure, the Judges, in that House ? Those Judges Lordk Mott sire wee important, because he was . ] had acted upon a swain responsibility. That House ‘ .ho drected that • MeASnre aita the I was not the proper and competent tribunal I•efore hd h e h: Id had sail th a t 'Were was nohspecific ! which .to arraign their Opinions and 'decisiiits ; and out to the Ca.:brake at that period. No, 1 it, in these opinihns and decisions, there was any thing h . not; but there was an trehleiseareding.that: teprehensibie, there was another and a more proper '!nil' ra h s would be urged with all the atithorhy place where their conduct might be competently tof M r . Pao th e Nohht Lettt, thew Secte- •etatcd; and their decis i ons, rec t i fied, if they sheuel rhohhth e for Ireland; and thh Merhuis Cr rni albs. ah pear 0) have been enottenns. Nehle Lord contended, that it.was im: i Mr. FONSON BY animadverted with much seve. au: conceded. Without city on the speeches of Mr. W. Pole, Mi. Canning, e he • •.• t r • 11 ,7 5 7 nme such pledge en the part of the end Lord Cotter eagl!. Mr. 1 o.e seemed to forget, h .,!! wind letehe been utterly impoisible fur the throughout the of his speech, that the real List to thtve• effected that measure. He qeeetion before '''ft-th h a the House woo the perilous Situation ve is it if the Catholic body :of Ireland ; and seemed only to suppose, like the gri.hetalte t h e t , that nt cooese its being Parish Clerk in. Pope, that the sole business to be. at 4 .4 141. 1 C hin" seated 4:e' art:nide." to. Bat the tended to wits the vindication of his, own . conduct, ."‘ t the advheetes of the Catholics • at. d the assertion hilts own digheityh The iLght Hot!. he Ty a‘k \ b: .!_ l • ._ ‘_ • •‘ (Mr. Ce using) had. argued one *m e an .teen circumsteiees 'melt be attended to by awl' Se voted the rondo He contended, that in ecnitequence CrOvernments and Legislatures, vii, stkurity ageing - at of tile motion; of which an Hon. Friend of his (Mr. foreitet influence, and security pitinst the danger to Hatchinhirl s ) had green notice, for the repeal of the hi el our ~.sett est slifichmeees %venni broecrovech - 7 Unien,, it was impossible now to entertaie the pethi Even the NOble Lard so of:en alluded to frera Grew» tion ofthe Irish Catholics ; so that, if the motion for vale) lead exivessie declared in his Letter to Lora the repeal 01 the Union were deferred from day to Fineetl, t'i.it tile veto, or something equiv.:lent to it, day, and net hreught forward at any p riod of the ava: a his epieinn en indispensiiile prftursor A the Session ; neither coull the Catholic Pe i• h n be dis- abotition.of the existing disabilities. The clasp setca cussed, nor any atteatibn paid to the cliints of diet tone of the Cathel cs ais a:tether itoirg le icon t O r highly respectable body. There were, it was tree, retteing at present to accede to their dem 'nes. Ois thine. who would greet nn cot-hese:len at ail, because these and a varie:y of otter groendo he ; teressed hia • the granting :toy mist end:sneer the establishments in' cinvit ti in, diet t :e Ilo•i se woe hl feel nit affficiehy ilk church and stem In ta hat ghirter did these dancers neg it i yin 1 tee m don nisi, Nob e leiol. exist ?By what means WAS the 0-otestant Church to Mr. GRATTAN contended, thirst An eni:tiiry Itri be subverted ? Was it Catholics who weie to that litmse wis perfectly constitu.ieivil ; bet passed overthrow it ; and if so, by what means were they to a high eftcomium on the cheiacter rf Chief Justice accomplish that overthrow ? Was it by farce ? If i IhsielleS ; and Judge 1) re. Delegoihus hid been so, he I they not as mull force now to conteass th it I frequent : by then the rielits if leeten.l hal beet, re. design as they ever had, or were likely to have ? I stood, and the Cathelic fiats-Aloes obtaileel : repre- An I if it was not by force they were to subvert it, by ' settee ice meetings c f that !Ort Silrbtil I not be tree-m. 4, wit it other means? Was it by ass ciating is elzir 1 but occasionally held ; they laid been the meths of plan the Irish Protest ints ? If so, are those Genee. preserving our liheriee :hippo te the Cediolics had men prepared to say that the ltieh Protestants weuhl : acted i iligaliy, he coule not a.ftee ti•c eh age es-elk b lend their aid in destroying their own Church ?Surely : theft of hrite:i-el, 45 a r e as tel ih r ; dui n c , nces:on. ' this would be bordering very close on absurdity.— ! No liar to the r chi:us was t 5 be tome in the mete I But it wiltild only be of a piece with most of the ar. , manner and elms of their erereedines, ;fat the et% guments that had been used against the motion of is peated reitoars the y had C 1 1; .'i ic;l:t - d. We were the Noble Friend. For several years beck it had ah - o cease Id ti:eir ere ts, bt rsltoate the eraycr c f leer been objected toethe Catholic Petition that their Na- : reilions at f llovosehjects. He wished to see tee bility weir adetose. to it. At enrolee- time it teas rpteseon cal rid by a j 'int vice ry cif le otest mats and saidethat the Catholic Clergy were ag tine. it, and that , Catholics, over tit_ r elute:o rneaeices and jealousies. it hid nun been signed by :illy of then Flints, 4- r even :D. feeting dee Goat:rant:no or defeat ne the people, i one of-their prehties. Nor was that all ; ill other weee both iehttious to that concord, in the seitit of o- e asions, and by other alenticinen it saes ii;j •cied, • which, the liberty cif all sh eel b...ectired : 11 de. thit though the Irish N'.bil ty, Clergy. and Gen- fettieg tlu people, we shoule hoot that spirit weigh try, might be in favuur of tie petitien, yet the nets to defend the comm y. i great nu tss of the lower carders of that persuasion : The Right lionesuahle Geed( man lied still, that !wete tell illy indifferent abort its s t oce,s. The the Catholics appeared Mole discontented after every C',etliollzs observed and felt ad these objections. and recession. 11 the obervation was true, the prinell I were aliX:OlIS to remove them, as they have on all oc- ple upon which it was to be accounted fair, was, that casions invariably been to remove every cause of corn- a hostile Adminittration n aurally makes a ditcon • • ! plaint and dissatisfaction at their c: aidtrct. How .' tented people ; 'and if the C 'deities appear eomewhat , ' valid they most effectually obtain their end ? more discontented than at f -rmer periods, it sees be.. Why by endeavouring so to collect the universal opi- : cause the Government appeared more hostile. Be. . nion of their body, as to obviate all objections. They , fore the Act of Repeal, however, there were no Irish , accordingly set to work, in order to collect the opi- , seldiers iii your service. Since the Act r f Repeat nions and wishes of all the classes of their body.— : your ranks are full of them, and Irish blond is emdle • 1 They chose from among their Nobility, their Pi elacy, . gaily spent in defence of your emp re. A Right Hon. anoirtheir Gentry, those in whom they most trusted, . Gentleman had consideled the Irish pests tittry as hu m meet and manifest the general wishes and opinion.: mend and barbarous. If they were so, it would bee --But no sooner did they make this attempt, which ', reproach to England, wile has so bog eoverned that they fondly conceived must • silence every objection, l country. But the reproach was n t deserved ; and when a new cry is raised against them, that such it must always be recollected, that nothing was meeting of thee. Nobility, Prelacy, and Gentry, cculd ! now asked for the peasantry. They are now etectors. only have tar its object to constitute an assembly of What was new asked was fin theCotholie Nobilityand • the three Estates, which would beard Parliament i Gentry; for such men as Lords Fiegel, Ti intleestelve„ 1 and nose the very Government—meetings which ! Netterville, and many others of that descripeon. Would ' were immediately declared to be illegal, and as such 1 it be said that they wets so unedecated, that they must put down. He did not expect that much weight be again sent to school before they could be admitted should be attached to his opinion, but he wetili ho. :to sit and votcin Pet-Lenient, amang their Protestan • nestly declare that opinion, and assert, that in his ' Peers ? Supposing a case, which he hoped would ! conceptiOn of the matter, there was nothing illegal in never occur, of a French army invading Ireland, these meetings. They were no violation or the Con- . and being joined by the Catholics—who would be so , vention Act. The Catholics who so assembled, as- I much to blame as Ministers them , olves ? If they kept ' 'sembled for no other purpose in the world than that iso large a proportion of the eopulaeon of Ireland in of petitioning, and petitioning in such a manner as I constant discontent, they were unnccess trily risking to obviate every objection that had hitherto been I the entire fate of the empire. When the Right Ho n . started against the nature of their petition. In his Gentleman desired to know what sectaities were to mitt& therefore, they had not offended against the be given for the Church . of England, he would Convention Act, or violated any law, and yet they tell li . m, that the best of all securities was the removal have been treated as if they were guilty of the most fla- !of the dispialifications, and placing the Church of grant offences . How then could it be expected thattheir i England in a state compatible with the interests and - I conduct would bespeak the feelings of satisfaction, ac- I feelings of the greet mass of the Irish community. I quiescence and submission ? Was it mere than neural I He did rot think it was quite fen far Ministers 1 teatfailinginalltheirattemptstoplease,they should feel to expect a specific plan to be produced on the other disappointment, and utter the language, and assume I side. It was their common cry se! enever a Commit- I the mien which indicated such feelingi, and tech a tee was mi:Ved for, to say, 64 Let us see yaur specific ' state of mind ? Their feelings and disappointment 1 plan :" but if they wanted to see the plan, it was are then construed into a manifest Won of menace; ! only as food for their oppostiott to it. It was thus in their attitude into that of defiance ; and th again all the motions for Committees to enquire into Par. I are immediately made the ground for ttfusing to liamentery reform. Ministers alwey s objected to " concede any of their claims. This was an unwise these motions on the same wounds, and alleged, that 'conduct ; the experience of all history, particularly they could do nothing without seeing a specific plan ; i our own history, demonstrated that imprudence.— and yet, when they resolved to can the Union, they 1 Such was the cor.duct we had pursued towards Ame- found that there was no difficulty at all iii reforming nca. Ha - people wore said to have assumed a tone the representation of Ireland. They who celled on and attitude which should not be brooked ' - and the others for specific plans, found, when it sui t ed thei r Goseernment of that day adopted towards America purposes, that they could strike out a plan themselves I the sane line of conduct which the present Govern- in half an hour. He retied upon it, that Ministers melt have recently been pursuing towards the Ca- would not succeed in their present views; he was tholics of Ireland. But it will ever meet with the convinced, that the honesty of the people of England same lite. The Government which was so haughty would not permit them to succeed (//ear, herre.)—By end overbearing at first, were at last compelled to those disqualifications, they had acted as it they had submit, and to acknowledge as an i 'dependent power tied up a great artery of the body politic, and it was those whom they had so shortly before stigmatised as 1 not strange that convulsions should follow. He sin rebel. He must entreat the House not to lose sight cerely heped that all those disabilities might hire. of that melancholy lesson ; not to alienate Ireland, moved, and that Ireland would stand 6r fall with .as America hid been lost. They should recollect Great Britain, having equal privileges and equal • how the Irish Catholics fought; bled, and conquered freedom. in our fleets and armies, and were yet excluded from Mr. CROKER made a few observations, amidst. the blessings of the Constitution. Ireland, he would loud cr?es of questioi, veition. Mr. TIERNEY merely wished to explain the without enteting at all into the contend, possessed resources from sltences were de ! rived the greatest energies of the State. Ireland not I mean i ng o f eh ew e, only formed a chief part of our strength, het upon ! question, which had bsea :timely to ably discussed. It was not his to cast blame 't l' ./IG I her cordial co-operation and assistance in the peseta i i meaning on the 11:. o. ,! crisis of our affairs, must depend the security and 1 ' I, . ere e m no or on ally body ; but as he thought it noe• torious that Ireland had, from sonic Cause n• other, 1 safety of the British Empire. Under ilea enpres. I sion, the motion of his Noble Friend mast have his, been thrown into a situ ition which required the inter. ' most hearty concurrence. ' Terence of the Legislature, he should, on that account , The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER vote for a Committee to inquire. If such a Commit. tee were appointed, their first consideratio n shouldbo l e in an able and animated speech contended, that the whether those penal laws' and disqualifications :hold& mode in which the question was discussed was unfair, and that the objects of those who supported it appear- continue any longer ? The course would be simple. to ell to be collect every thing that could initate the Mr. ELLIorr, in voting for the motion, had no. feelings and inflame the discontents of the people of intention to et iminnue Ministers; Etta to consider the Ireland—that could make then; believe that their Go. claims of the Catholics which were essentially mm. verament studied only to oppress them, and their nectrd with the safety of the Empire. Judges to misinterpret the law to their prejudice. He Sir G. WAR RENDER founded his e lnOtion ost entered into a luminous exposition of the character of the Cetholic Convention, and defence of the conduct similar grounds. of Government towards them. So far were the latter Lord MORPE*TH said, that what bad fallen from front having outstepped dirk duty th.t he contended, his Hon. Fiiend. (Mr- Tierney) was sufficient to ree if the Convent-on Act had not existed, they would lieve him from the scenting inconsioeney (as it h a d hive been deeply culpable, heal they neglected to heen celled) of votieg fur his own mo.ii.n. Ti* apply to the Legislature for a Bill to enable them to Chancellor of the Exchequer 'had imputed to hies beat down the spirit of violence which was beginning party - motives- He must say, if an endeavour to g ran . to manifest itself. Blinded by party heel, oiessee. quilise the disturbances of the Empire—if a:t amass porters of the motion- defended all 'efish the Catho- to unite the hears of the people of England ant lics had done, because in doing that they could accuse lol.nsi in the common interest—were to be ealle4 the Goberpment. But he ousted they would be contrivences of party, lie thertfitily acceded so do shielded from any futute evils which the course they imputation.—The Ileuse then divided, had adopted might otherwise occasion, by the m;no• For the Motion - 195 city in which, he was persuaded, they would be left, Against it . . V9B on the divish nof the question. Whenever the time Majority • . - --.. ps, might :wive fir granting to the Ce‘olies their &Pre, Adjourned at !Mir-PAST Mg o'clocn this lama % ,