Star. — London, England, 1812-04-21 00:00:00

I I ' PROPOSED BRIDGEWATER and SEATON CANAL. • NOTICE is horehy Given, That a GENERAL MP.): fING of the SUBSCRIBERS to this measure, will be held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-bill. on Saturday, the Sd day of May next, at Twelve o'Clock at Noon. to take into consideration the refugal of Mr. Harct.urt to pay the Drafts of tht Constitute, and on other Special Affairs. By Order of the Committee, I. R. CLARKE. STRAND BRIDGE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Conl minee of Directors are ready to receive Tenders for Build- I ing the Arches, Spandrel) Walls, and Wings, up to the level of the tops of the Arches of the said Bridge. A specification of the Works to 1e performed may be had at the t Office of the Cony. I 'any, No. 346, Strand, and at the go g ineets' Office, Cuper's bridge, Lanilet,b, after the 27th day of April inctart. All Tendril mast be written In words at length, sealed .up, and delivered of the Company's Office, 346, Strand, on or befoie Monday the 25th May next by Twelve o'Clock, indorsed— " Teniler tot 18Pikliag ;he Arc hes, &c. of the Strand Bridge.' . k 1 SAMUEL TAYLOR, AA be., _ • Chief Clerk andSulicitor. • • IptiLKIT WORK Oft iNORAVINGg. • tile AERIES of 'TWLVE LARGE EN rrORAIrIitIGS to be executed by the principal Artists of the present period, after selected Pictures of the Great Masters, with A view of illustrating the various Schools of Painting; the cele brated Picture of the DEAD CHRIST and MAR lES, by ANNI BAL CARACCI, • formerly in the Orleans Collection, has been died upon as an example of the Bolognese Sasso]. Mr. SHARP . is therefore now engraving this subject upon a scale of 20, by 24 inches, and the Drawing will continue on view for a short time longer, at SD, Sackviile-street, together with other fine Drawings, • irons which the Work itself will be executed. Independent of the Work of large Engravings, it is Intended also to peblish A smaller Work of 711,TERN [NGRAVINGII, upon Nee scale of Vandyke'. Book of Heads, Illustrative of the Fine Pertrai*, and Ideal Heads of Raffaelle, Titian, Giorgione, Velas. quez, Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, Guido, andDomenichino. The principal Artists to be employed in these Works arc, Morghcn, of Florence; Sh3rp, and Heath, of London; Bansse of Germany; Muller, of stutprd; and others, who may be • eonddered as the principal Engravers of the present period, as well in thin country as abroad; and both works will be under the direction of William Buchanan, Esq. The Terms of Subscription to the large Work are, Three Cuitieas for each Engraving; to be paid on delivery. The Terms of Subscriptfor; to the Work of Portraits, will be Two Guineas for each Number, containing Three Engravings. The Imrres atons of the Plate* will be delivered to Subscribers according to the priority of their subscriptions, and Gentlemen, not resident in X.oneloriovishine to become Subscribers to this Work, will he so good as to send !heir particular address, anct film mention, if they wish their Copies delivered to any person LA London, or fur warded to them elsresher..—No Subscriptions can be received for single Engravings, as the complete series of Twelve 1 arge Engraving., and that ef the Fifteen Portraits, cannot be broken without an evident injustice to the general Subscrib ers. Mr. Yates, at this Galterj, SD, Sackville-street, to whom the Exhibition of the Drawings is entrusted, will receive Subscribers lames to bitch, or either of these Works; and furnish a Pro , epectus of the sense. p4RLl4.v.pr4nr PROCEEDINGS. 1401141 Pr t.01p).4, APRIL M. The Royal Aisetiewai given' by Commission to Lord Wel lingtotr's Pension, tbesDebtor's Relief, the Irish Militia Families, the lri-b Soldiers' Wares the Ir i sh Spirits Warchousing, the Peniteatiry Hoene, the Cupar! of Fife Gaol, the Thames Nasi gation, the Catwater lint rovenient, the Reversion, the Pilots • litegtila' ion, and she \A'anderet's Bills. ' • '1 he Duke of BEAUFGR'I presented a Petition from the Corporation of fli-istol, against the Company's Monopoly of the Trade to the East Indies.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Has z, from the Bank, presented Accounts'Uttlas total • number of Bank Notts presented for payment, and retuned, as being forzed..4irileted,tri lie on the table. " The I .VlJrlu's of STAFFORD pre s ented a.Petetion teem the Town cf Kilstonr, in sArordshirl, praying for tbe.oneulrg of site trade to India.--Ordered to liion the table. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. , • L• rity both Co.: Chntch and State. He testgratulated LONDON. APIUL 20, Ism the House and the country on this unequivocal proof' A MEETING of MERCHANTS, TRADERS, of liberality among such a very numerous and re:' in and others, interested in the East India and Chins Trades, spe — csable part of the community—a liberality thaw to . Port of Loudon, will be held at the City of London Which nothi ng could more c o ntr ib ute t o ena bl e to to Wave n, on '1 laursday, the esel instant, at Twelve o'Clock, to take i,•to cumiderstiort the Measures to be adopteal to watch come with honour and safety cut of the desperate+ over and protect their respective interests in the arpmetbing ' , „etniggle in which-ste were e ngage d. . Di cussion relating to th e renewa l o f the Charter of the East One of the petitions was read, and that, together la Company. • The Right Hon. th e LORD MAYOR , I n t h e C ha i r. tath the rest, were Cirri laid on the table. will be t4en at one o'clock precisely. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE swirl, that he bad five petitions to present, three of them from the Catholics of Cork—from the city of Bristol, TauntoO, &c. prayingfor a repeal of the Catholic disabilities. The Petition from Cork was read, and that and the other two were laid on the table. PROTESTANTS OF IRELAND, The Noble Marquis then stated, that the other two petitions were of a different description. They week from the Protestant Nobility and Gentry of Ireland, and from the Protestants residing in and about Lon don connected with Ireland by birth or property. — Several other petitions of the same descriptions were to be presented, he understood, the signatures amoun-1 ting to no less that 8000. It was impossible for him' to speak with certainty from his own knowledge ; but he was informed, and believed, that the peti tioners, who were favourable to the removing the Catholic disabilities, comprised a majority of the landed proprietors of Ireland, who were fully persua ded that the best way to secure that property, was to make the concessions claimed. He had only to Te... quest that their Lordships would look at the signa ture% to these two petitions. There they would find many Members of their Lordships' House possessing great property in Ireland, and thinking that the re moval of these disabilities, instead of endangering, formed the best defence of their property. There they would find a large portion of the owners of per. sonal property holding out the removal of the disabi lities as conducive to their interests. There they would find many Members of the learned and mili tary professions decidedly favourable to the Catho lics, and disclaiming that monopoly which you esta blished in their favour, because they thought that their country would be best served by the abolition of all of these exclusive advantages. There they would find, and to their honour be it spoken, a considerable number of the parochial clergy of the established church in Ireland, who were desirous that the inteiesta of that church should be protected in the only way in which they could be maintained—the abolition of civil disabilities on account of religious opinions. He would not go any fat ther into the subject at present, as that would only be anticipating the discussion of to-morrcw : but he had thought it right to make these few observations, as the petitions to which they chiefly referred, were of a different description from any that had formerly been presented on the same sub. ject.—The petitions were read, and laid on the table. Earl FITZ WILLIAM presented a petition from the Catholics of the County a Wexford, praying for the abolition of the penal laws against the Catholics. Laid on the table. Lord HOLLAND and the Duke of DEVON-, SHIRE also presented petitions to the same effect. I Laid on the table. PETITION AGAINST THE CATHOLICS. Lord GRENVILLE then rose and observed, that after their Lordships had heard petitions from a body form'ng a fourth part of the population of these king doms, praying for redress of a grievance, the pressure of which they had long felt and deplored—alter they! had heard these petitions seconded by so many cf, their Protestant fellow subjects, he had now a petition to present of a very different description. It was a petition from the University of Oxford, playing that the Catholic claims might not be granted. This pe tition had been sent to him, to be laid before their Lordships ; and from the relation in which he had the honour to stand—and a very high honour he 1111- The Earl of DONOUGHMORE• presented a I questionably consid ere d i t to b e — wit h regar d to t h at venerable body, he had not hesitated a mo me nt i n ac thetetition from the Catholics of Ireland, containing ceding to the request : but while h e , i n t h e di sc h arge usual prayer for relief. His Lordship stated that are opinions of the whole of the Catholics had been of his duty, prese nte d t hi s p et i t i on to t h e i r L or d s hi ps , ?taken in such a manner as authorised him in assert- he felt it due to hi mse lf to d ec l are , t h at hi s own opi ing, that the petition spAe the sense of the whole area was totally an d utter ly diff erent f rom t h at con body cf Irish Catholics. He had also several yeti: rained in the petiti on . A s hi s name necessar i ly -tions from different towns and counties, to the s a m e appeared to that p et i t i on , h e ma d e t hi s d ec l arat i on i n order to prevent an y ;wrong conc l us i on that m i ght effect, one of which had been transmitted for presen otherwise have been drawn from this ci rcumsta n c e. sation to a Noble Friend of his, who was unfortu. i He completely disapprsived of the prayer of the pe rely prevented by indisposition from attending th e mum, which he was tun)? convinced, instead of pro , otise for that . pu..pose. These petitions their Lo r d— mum, would, if l ong acte d upon , infallibly defeat gips would - find to be couched in the mo s t r e s pe c tf u l terms • the petitioners urging their claim s with fi rm - the object which th e y h a d i n v i ew . H e was b oun d ness indeed, but at the same time, in a tone of dig- I also to declare, th at t h oug h t hi s was t h e act o f t h e majority, and ther e f ore o f t h e C orporat i on , i t did not nitied moderation worthy cf the justice of their cause I as formerly pass unan i mous l y , but had been opposed and the dipity of those whom they addressed. He 1 by the Vice Cha nce ll or , two P roctors , and some heads did not feel it necessary to say any thing f art h er at present, as the subject would receive a mple dis cuss i on I of houses, as w e ll as ot h ers , compr i s i ng a l toget h er to-morrow. almost as much tale nts , l earn i ng , i ntegr i ty , and wis. dom, as had eve r ex i ste d among any b ody o f men.— The first Fetitign was then read, and o r d ere d to But let it not be suppo se d t h at he meant to derogate be laid on the table. The Petitions fr o m Kilkenny, from and other places, were also laid on the table. the weight and cons id erat i on to w hi c h suc h a CA MOMS OF ENGLAND.. . pet ition was entitl e d. What they asked of th e ir' Lag GREY stated, that be had i n hi s hands P e - Lordships was thi s , not to li sten to the petitions of tition to the same effect as the petitio n f rom t h e C a - millions of their fell ow su bj ects . H e wou ld not re tholics of Ireland, from the Catholi cs o f E ng l an d.— quest their Lord s hip s not to li sten to t h em ; on the He could also assert that it conta i ne d t h e sense of i contrary, he reque s t e d t h e i r L or d s hi ps to weigh these petitions in the balanc e aga i nst eac h ot h er , m id i a numerous. The cause the whole body, though the signatures were not ver y ; !''`arty prayer, that the sca l e o f j ust i ce m i g h t prepon . of this was, that a pe t iti on h a d !r de:ate. He agreed with the petitioners, in the desire first been prepared, yeferring to the petition presented to protect that establishment, which he, as well as by them last year. In this form he thought be could . not otrer it to the House, and a n ot h er . was prepared; ;they, thought t o b e greatly endangered ;—though they differed widely as t o t h e quarter f rom w hi c h that but it was impossible in such.a.sho t t t i m e to assemble : danger arose. He conclud e d w i t h pray i ng to GOLItA in so large a body as before ; b ut st ill t h e i r Lord- • ; that the decision of thei r Lo r d s hi ps m i g h t b e such as, ships would find that ton petition wasdigned by all Id hi most conducive t o t h e b est i nterests o f t hi s ' the Catholic, Pee Wend .4 marl of the Cirdw le I 3 "% su gentry. .A more srespectable body,. or one more vas country. Thie petition then luable in every view, did not 'exist ; and h e hopecr•! was read and ordered to li e on their Lordships would be ; disposed to a fi\ r d them the tebte ' that relief which the} had so well mer i te d, b ot h by l'ho Earl of LAUDERDALE gave not i ce o f a the hi.rdshirs to which they had be en subecied, as motion for Friday, re s pe ct i ng certa i n a ddi t i ona l f orms j by the steady loyalty and attachm ent to the Censti- Of licences.—adjourned. tution which they had so long evinced, _ . . • 1 'the Petition.W - as read, antLtid on t h e ta bl e . HOUSE OF COMMONS.i 1 A Afferlage from the Lords informed the House thattbeir Earl GREY their stAtma--,—, that he 114 d Petitions in • (mini of the Catholic Clahios, and the Lor bt slvti a , • ti t abolition of • 4P c.. -r" t o the Le g al Quaffs WI". Lord_ 1.. GOWER presented a Pelt' on from the i Alibi. all civil disabilities on'account of religious di tigrences, tionsof Bilig,ol3, as tilt' Mr. nT.tNNIFOIc' . I4I one (rot certain from Kingston on Hull, Manchester, sllnlvicl: on .tner .i..... ebent .h t of Hon, and M. I,:ailuitsT one from k bristo) . , mead oftbe Fast India Company's Charter. Tweed, and front various parts of the Northern f ":74.t ei r, tr „ lluji.p.u , (ol7:s4;4 6n 4,c,,, b u ttu t t h e n um b, e o f b tam p a Counties, York, Dutham, &c. These petitions were signed, not merely by Catholics, but by'all dcs44:- &red to n Y t . 4lll the table. • uond "A ' 1315 . last thrte Yea"' 2... COTO of Dissenters from the established' Church, and ' • Me. HA S[ presented an account of the amount of stamped by the Bank up to th e I dodollars and tokens isfuettlathth of 1 0.111, by many members of ale- Church of Engnid, who Ordered obe ou the table. jiffy such a Collc.eStiioTl 38 as tlie best Ka). .A P:. r enc ,, i • f rom ' t h e Bank roa m an uevant ok die a.9'. . of the khans belong* to the several Pattie Mites !yin* in die Sank at the end of each week, front the path of October, I lei!, the rlth of April, 18111. Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. FITZGERALD said be should, to-morrow, move an Address to his Royal Histuuss the Prince Reams, requestlug bent to suspend the &dation of spirits from grain in Irfland. Sir F. bURDE yr praadated a Petition from a person ruined by the misconduct of excloo-olikers. Themes bad been by per jury charged and convicted of default; and bla propesty, to the ' amount of Z5OlOO, was soil off by the §bette to recover Xien. I'lle Board of Excise had entered the inussactiou ou their books •as a conspiracy of excise officers. The Petition of Samuel Flit. ebrr. brewer, Westnilastcr, was then read, and ordered to lee oo the table. Mr. PONSONBY moved, that the Eschequtr Account. (pre. seated to-day) eboald be printed. Ordered. ROMAN CATHOLICS Of EMJLA\D• Mr. ELLIOTT saki, that he held In his hand a Petition from a highly respectable, he might say, from a hied); illustrious, portion of our countrymen—he meant the Roma/W.4llwlaes Lit England. It would be t• the House and . the Empire a naelaus ;holy repection, that two years ago this presentation was made by. Mr. Windh.un ; a man, whose ample endowments and emi. nent talents rendered him equal to any task, hostess great.-- Unfortunately for the country, these shining qualifications were snatched away at a time when were pre eminently rental. site for the good of the country . -Herr, hear f—The topics in sisted on in the present Petition were similar to those introduced L in the former, which Mr. Windham had presented. It appear ed that the Catholics of England were peculiarly situated. In Canada the Catholics enjoyed the same privileges with their Pro testant brethren : in England they did act possess the same ad vantages which were possessed by the Catholics of Ireland. They cannel' vote, cannot be Members of an English University, can ; not be Magistrates, cannot hold a Commission in the Army or Navy ; and tins is the situation of men whew names cannot be read without calling to recollection the must brilliant sru is the Annals of England —names numbered among hs heroes and the founder, of its dontestre liberties : and even subsequent to the kerne -1 matter' these men bad led the arniks and navies of their cmattry to victory against the Catholie enemies of their country. 'they respectfully solicit a partkipetion in the remaining rights of the country, that they may rally round and make a cummen stand in defence of England -.-(Cries of hear, hear.) The Petition was then read, sap ordered to lie en the table amid the cbeeis of the House: PETITION OF IRISH PROTESTANTS HI FAVOUR OF THE eA I'HOLIC.9. Mr. M. FITZGERALD brought op a Petition from the Pro testant Proprietor, in Ireland in favour of the Catholic claims; a petition perfectly new and unprecedented in the amount of the petitioning property, and new as coming from Protestants os. 1 such a subject. He had no hesitation in saying, and to provoke; contradiction if he was wrong be would repeat the assertion, that this petition spoke the seine of a decided majority of the Prates. cant property in Ireland' both landed and commerciaL It did not, indeed, contain the names of all who were friendly to its princi. pie, partly because it did not demand any specific condition from the Catholics, and partly oe account of the late disturbances in Ireland. Against this petition all the influence which Govern ment could use had been notoriously and indecently used.lile, se, from Mr. W. PaLr). Since he was defied he would prove it. The important office of Sheriff .had been interfered with. The Gentleman who was to have been Sheriff in the ensuing year, I had been set aside merely because ti n person who recommended ' him had signed the Protestant petition: Individuals.in public si tuations had been indirectly thrraceued with the loss of office, if they affixed their signatures ; and the most violent menaces were employed against tenants of Government to territy them from signii.g, with the hope of defeating a petition which afforded so strong a proof of the extending liberality of the country. There was one circumstance which gave him peculiar plea.ure 4 --it was, that the most numerous signatures came from the North of Ire land, a part formerly particularly hostile to the Catholic claims ; but which now, be was happy to my, was converted to a more lenlarged way of thinking. The petition might have obtained many more signatures if there had been any canvassing foe the purpose. It bad been, however, signed by the most respectable landed proprietors in Ireland; and he conceived himself justified in saying, that it spoke the decided sense of the greater pan of the Protestant property of Ireland. Mr. WELLESLEY POLE did not mean to deny the assertion of the Right Hun. Gentleman, but he declared that it was the very first time he had ever heard it stated that the great majority of the Protestants of Ireland were in favour of the Catholic ' claims. He was sure that the Irish Government had not used any undue influence, or any influence at all, to prevent the Protestanta.l from s plug the petition, and that the Duke of Richmond would never have lent himself to such a business. He bad Dever before heard that which had been asserted to-night as to the appoirrUntat 1 of a Sheriff on those priocples. Mr. 11 r ZGERALD stated, In explanation, that a Gentleman had been designated as Sheriff of the county of Carlow ; but upon his signing the PfOttf: ant Petition, another had been appointed in his place. He knew, and could prove, many instances, where individuals, holding public situations, bad been deterred by ma naces from signing the petition. Mr. POI.E said, that he believed that the Sheriff of the county of Carlow was appointed, as is usually done, Ott tile recommen _ selves wish the property of /Mask red pima diulisrleei er4 the protection of the laws of their native emery. It was for use Learned Gradation to mei ibierwd with his coojeet w when be coufessed that he h a d no pomade of e know assert that the Petitions already presumed wete fi e ' .84aggi signed. Mr. POLE CAREW spoke to order. He thew* that tip d urable Baronet's tpeech was chi t ty I n A l d en to a tonne hit JOHN NEWPORT oliesrved• Oka* le the Lowey D aft had published a speech en this very topic, he had a rr. to moil to the assertions contained in it. He aisalndvd with isseei ng that the Petition be brought op. Doctor DUICENAN cheemed, then the Heseurable &eem seemed like Harlequin in the play, wlio bulk up his htb sad plaister men, for the planers et knocking them down .. h e no put of his speech had be anteind to tie Countyef Wwmpeg and he wutild advise the Honourable Baronet to reserve t hia gnome to Thera* end net to antisipete beemeee. Vb'L woad better salt that mamas ty. The Pet Pion was then read, and ordered to be on the table. Mr, HU TCHINSON postponed to as indellidte paid. hi s motion for the repeal of the Unlit, which stood Sae the ipd i meant ; at the same dyne, by bad not reStiquidd hi s p ienes of brio/Ong it forward this Seising*. Mr. tiOßNha postponed tin Wednesday Wad* his pi. dm respecting the olicc of Calomel Whisks. GOLD Cpl. KU. The CHANCELLOR ef the EXCHEQUER Mead lb Order .1 the Day for bringing up the'repist of Ms Mt Mr. POLE CARE objected a that part .[the NI "bids prohibited the giving more for prams that *dr __al mhos Phis was coaverting into a crime eh act Irlikk, ws, neither a political oor moral Mama.ad ayemamletio, which It was besides Impossible to prima. Sir T. "lURTON aaseded, that beim*, mums weft. tended to Ireland, a Cosandttee ought se have seeeired ime dip nate of the prelacy. and of she knees emereets in that peet of the amustry. iles war in the Palm* nu, d w b a w d* gull& which swallowed up the ',paladin mad thee:waft rattail country : while It emidnuad, specie could Nat poi ne w► *au. Hon. He was ban, a hear that Immures had this day hilt received from France; and be hoped they would at Mast ream the due coasideradou if Milphiters. Mr. TAYLOR argued against the EA frees tin free t fyp parer currency of America,.( France, and of Amnia. Hear tailed that there was nothing In the Beak, er the Gownera% that would exempt oar paper currency [rem slab, deptidake. A Member (whose name we could het Ism) spoke EA but with some warmth, against the Bilk The efforts of the Lord (Cmilereagli) in tile North of Ireland. were deg ede wished to kill two birds with one stone ; bet be would mem go . N.ble Lord, that be reckoned without his best, end dot k would require more tacnteu than he imagined to retire lit name to ha original brightness. Lord FOLKS PONE opposed the DUI, shirty on *egad of its makipg that a crime In law which was no efface +pig morals. The Bill was is fact noddies less than a temptaranito crime. Previoudy to the cewation of comb payment, die ne. • vic t im ' for 'sugary were hut four ; and dnee that periodtkept# increased to 471. The SW also would have the effect et en purfain law Into would interfere with of the Lady entered In Ireland. He mead an anwedmint, tine reports, instead of area, be received this day Wig MOW Mr. SIMEON spoke in favour of the 84 Sir JOHN NEWPORT opposed iv. Mr. hI'NA UGHTEN spate le Weer Mr. JOHNS! ONE spoke against the itepor °bfegi tlel i St up. He said the Sill would be destructive of the ; and the only difference between as aid foreign maim war.** they bounded into bankruptcy in three or tar years, while we sbou'l be longer in doing so; but say what Ministers midi, k must come to the same end at last. i I M Mr.VANSITIAIt r was favourable to the regoft behig bra* up. He said we were no doubt in a state of Meshy ma ow berms:Dent, but &sled that Dank notes were st el He bellowed a great =olty of the House the sad a math greater majority of the Dal m ; sod therefore k his hearty await. Mr. HORNS& desught the bill amend to him esespdeselle In all its parts, sad he thought its Wass would be misetimen sod mimosa Mr. BARING. though be &Eked the measure, du* lib solutely necessary; fee this maubiaery onOovetinewt wait p oel ; and he did am see hew it Wulf do se widest tbh bIL A division mob plese--Por bringing up the Ilepset«Allie Against 1t...49. The report wee brought up ad area te. Lord A. HAIIILT•11. Mr. Jose VIIO NZ end Mr. W.Tarase proposed datum, each of which was l'utt CHANCELLOR of the EXCST/tElied .ascents bal Assam:mane to make to the Bill, owed Work kw committed ; which was accordingly d 0.., the aspect reciad, end the Bin ordered to be read t third dew this day. Mr. 1. REMANTLE moved that Abere be had beta, Ws House an account of the buiidinp and quantity onsed prebar4 and rt ntrd in Gloucestershire for barracks, and she le (Met/. Is-bonne) Mary-ls bonne Park. At two o'clock the House adjourned to this THE CATHOLIC PETITION. The following is the Address of the Bel CIW tholics df Ireland, to the Panics Remiss dation of a person high in office, whom Government usually con. stilted on that occasion, to know the charantrs of the diffierent Gentlemen proposed. Doctor DUIGENAN said, that this was a smuggled Petition, of which no fair notice was given to the Pr,,te•tants at large. He believed that it had not been signed by an hundredt.: pan of the property, or a thousand' is part of the numbers of the Protestants of Ireland. He himself never had seen the Petition. Mr. PARNELL wondered bow the learned Doctor could make so positive an assertion about the signatures to a Petitior. which he had never seen. The names, however, of the petitioners were printing, and it would be then seen what rank they bore among the Protrs. ant proprietors. Sir GEORUE HII.L said, that to his knowledge there was no interference of Government to check pititionmg in the part of the country from which he came. He believed that no t;eotk man was justified in stating to the House so confidently, that the majority of thq Protestants of 'Halpern were favourable to the Catholic Claims. He believed that in the province of Ulster they were generally not favourable; but if Parliament thought proper to grant them, they would bend to the decision of the Legislature. Mr. HUTCHINEON contended, that as far as the sense of the Protestant men of Property in Ireland could yet be collected, . it was decidetlly in favour of the C.:tbolie claims. There ap peared to be lately a very great revolution in sentiment on this 1 , subject. Wheii the Piteestants and Catholics were complet e ly ! united, he thought nu Minister would dare to resist their claims. i Mr. FrIZGERALD said, that even io the north, the cosn mercial pros arty a !every and Belfast was favourable to the claims, which in the other parts of the Kingdom had been sup ported, nut only by the principal landed proprietors, but by the ; commercial interests of Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford, and other lair mties and towns. Dr. DUWENAIs; declared, that he had seen some of the first mercantile characters in Dublin, who reprobated the Petition. He knew it was supported by one commercial family of end. nonce in that city, anti that the Petition itself had been carried about to the inferior shopkeepers, who were desired to sign it and threatened with a combination agatnst their busin ess it t h e ; refused. This was a very improper method of obtaining *igloo tures, and therefore he had u.ed the epithet of smuggling the Petition. He knew, that in a certain town lu the 'loath of Ito land, the Presbyterian Minister was the only persm that signed the Petition; and the consequence was, :hat he was deserted, turned out of his charg:, a td e 4 ed a Joe.. by hi. c.buereg..i..a. Mr. CRAIG declared, that ;hi eti-tointlis of th. Pic:46.41.s ro poution of Beast were taloupide to it.: Cattride Mr. LATOUCHE denied that the had ut his fantit, ha.l aftd the Indirect and improper methods alluded to by the I.4:eith Gentleman (Dr. Dusgenitti) for promoting subscripzious. killt re lative at one time opposed the Ca% 4elic claims, but now he hail seen his error, and late event. Lail taught him that they ought to be complied with. " SUILWITU, "That we humbly qproada your Royal Highillusess disowns dian of the Huuour and interests of this Ordt BROM asilles' awns respectfully to whisk to your Repot Comidetutiolis az!" culler condition under the Penal Laws now is ((less priest la " The generous and elevated character Will alli NV Ireland have ion bets taught to attach to thsamoefloor Highness, has isupreszed us with the pleating wallie s. the glorious work of &Mutually rtfileving the Ram o Col i the n 4 these Realms from their pummel afferkgs, boo how foe your gracious and happy interred*r in oar ham " We have pubhcly and solemnly talon every oath d and Xlegiatice, which the jealous ambito( the 3 from tine to time, imposed as Tests Id Mt s ad Principles. And although We are still sot Om woman mai= to every seotinstst of Honour!) as if of &Ai is*" our sworn Declarations. We can appeal mi It 1118114 lids which We and our Forefather* have lag MB_ we acill make (rather than violate macho" bylddel wl l l, _, a Spiritual import contrary to oar balisf)m dockivallemsollir pr ofound reverted lot the sacred obligee's il 0 014 1 . " By those awful Tests we akOVe booed surogess kat= Bence of the All seeing Deity, whoa all dots of adore, " To be faithful, and boar i true Alleging , to an tent " Gracious Sovereign Lord King George the Tided, NA lilt t t s o w th ha e tsi st )e na:st er t spinst er ma po k : p er criaih against crwoi all cur i ecludi jalow _ 11 . ; "" a dt u f e e sT i p " to use our utmost amideavutue to disclose sod se* haws as .. his Majesty, and-his Heirs, all 'I ramose Ng Tramcar Coo " spiracles, which may be formed wing Ms of thish ad " tuthfsby to ruabitaiu, lappet, sea defend, to the stood ar " our power, the succession to the Crown as his WOO br " rilliTo against all persons sebossaeveri--lbst by dose Oillks " We have renounced and abjured olsodsesce ad alk#lll.o l " any other Person cW..-ning or pretending a right ill die C li " " of this Reaarn s and we have rejected, as snider a/ Mr " pions to believe, the detestable docent" the is is 11141 1 . II " any ways, to injure any pram or parsons whismoney. elk! " pre tame of their being heroics—And also that sotheisdnalso " tinplate I risielple, that no faith is to be kept with tientle', " that It is no article of our faith, and We rourcescoi feint. am " abjure ;he °panted, that Princes ezeomnuancated by tbe . .Pors '• and Council, or by any authority whatsoever, may he 0 , 10 . 1 ' ur murdered by their •sibjects, or by any person utistoseare to That we d i nut behove that the Pope at Ram. ec art_t i t 0, tore*" Prince, Prelate, State or Potentate, MIN err as llmi• - "'hive, any temporal or civil State, rin g, Im P lingiwY ' `• or pre-eminence within this Realm.—That We firmly billevee " that tin Act, in i•self unjust, unmoral, or ukktiti a° d eg is a• justthed or excused by, or under pretax* or Moat that nun " done for the good of the Chards, or in obidiace to sny lc: " clesiatical rower whattosiorer-And dot it is not as ankh c " the Catholic Faith, neither are We thereby retriri d t ' blirs twi 2 "or proftes that the Pope is infaikhles or tit" Ws w" to any Order, in its own nature immoral, shoo. die= " or any Ecclesiast-cal Power, should Niue or direct soth " bat thu clothe contrary We bold, shit it w° 46l ‘ 'bes ii easi g ei g "us to pay any respect or obedience thereto.--I hat wi - .... in " believe that any s whita.ever, committed by as, 00 11 "" -t —. or dal “ given at the mere will of any lope , , or o• ---,Ohio, '"Persian or tenons whatsoever, tut that mey POPO ,_ 11111. ..i n. " dives absolution, without a swam mow 60E 00 la., ...n.. " a Bran sod sincere radiation so wad auerrs."llol" " to Gee, so fir from obtaining for! aalhJlLll,.. AdA ypa il. gl i ll t 44 lOclits 4se 1144a9 11 • 1 it el 1 1 11.1 " • ' • .. ,:v .1." • 1 • , , 1 Colonel VEREKER woyki say, that the great maisiri!y of the • emumercL3l population of I.lliterkk were not favtxrable to dr PFetition. ! . . • 'lle Petition was then laid on the table.% Sir JOHN NEW POW/ . said, he held in his hand a Petition from the Catholics of the town and country of Waterford, praying the removal of the disatirdies under wlocn they laboured. It was signed by a large body of Men, respectable both for the cimmer oat and landed property Which they po,sesnxi, and which, col.: leetively, was *teatsr than' he believed the Learned Doctor was disposed to allow to the whole Catholic populatlon of Ireland. There were men a - anittg them, who, after haying acquired their fortunes In differftit parts of the strurld, bad purchased forfeited eitates to the anima' of at rat 409,1100, 144'00044 *NW