Star. — London, England, 1829-02-25 00:00:00

re hippi n gtheir Gca inlivhatever manner they mi g h t J. nit proper,. but they were _edame to , any ( e ,.. . *gement being made on the Constitutl , u vf 168 8. , t' .e admission a t Roman Catholics to political err He deprec ited the doctrine that had been pro ve . red sotnewb-re, that there was anything *affecting the his of 'the Thtrimi to prevent the admission o f man Catholics, if Parliament, the Clown, an d the preme Authorities in the • Empire should _concur i n : extensiob of . political ()paver to them. At the sa me le the Petitioners, with whom he concurred, h a d a tit to ewes, their adverse opinion to such conces• n. They were unwilling to sanction the admission persons who acknOwledged, as the Roman Catholics. I, en astisority superior to the King, and the exi s „ ice of a power on earth between their King a n d sir Grirs—( Hear, hear). The Hr , noprahle m em b er Ice. ded to express his admiration a.f the Duke of ellington; but great as was his admiration* of his ents and gratitude for his services, he should not :rate to the peo; le. H was sumer* e, it was true, his authority as Minister. The Adniinistration Is regulate! by the n sic vole), sic litheo," of it Mustafa.. Doke. After the conver.inns w hich d ve y recently taken • place upon this 'r ear estinn in the minds of Ministe s and of others- (h e 'claimed all personal alto .ion). he owned for his rt, he had lost the confluence he had in the honant of.. blic men. The c•enges which had t.lceri plice could ly be put down to the account, as they . 11)d - be, n by Right Honourable Gentlemen (Mr. Htilltissrut), of itaculous conversions. There were some persons, he suld add, not the Government—but be believed them ere some persOns who were joined in that conspiracy crush sbnliberties of the people, which ceMmenced only aka the fen -. I 13o..Apatte. and if hie/spots:tiled sris thatoday tsr the present .rnetneut, • principally in ante and in other C.tholic cOuntaies.. This conspi. cy had been fosteted by the Jesuit.—an abletlass of en, who were scatteted all over the continetii, and a saints of which body' was e.tahlist el in this country '(Hear. heat)., —educating some of test siting Catholic ' l ability and Gentry, who were to he, if the proposed cosmic of Concession took place, future Members of at House. The Hon, livable Memher dated tl)e com encement of this conspiracy, .in which he stated the suits to be principal actors; I.? the Congressof Vienna it had continued during the Congress of Laybech, d lastly its spirit had been manifested at Verona'. The (moot able Member, in conclusion, gave notice that on roe future occasion, if niit taken up il some oth er ntourable Member, he would bring before the.Hooto .consideration of the Jesuits' estahlislimei.ts in this ntry..oa the question that the petition he brcu• hi up, Mr. PENDARVES differed entirely born his Hon. league on the subjeit of the on inituity of the county Cornwall upon this question. He beneved that the filth and intelligence of that county* were entirely Durable to Catholic Emancipation. He.tho.ught that tau appeared even from the statement of his Hon. lire. who had admitted that the Petitions pre from Cornwall upon the subject 'were signed by 'lt or nine thousand persona mit of a population If the feeling in the county was'so strong ionourabie Member had asserted' why had not a -Meeting been called? The Hon. Member then . some details concerning the Meeting which had rpOn the subject,and stated that in one place - s it .11tibiteil tning men had ;.ling, Minn had -who- svas , ling up 'ad been id sign :nubs mernd :onteut YQ it pod ithoiicS• securities y and . , Ijotity as of coaceaniqn.-- Popery yeomanry. Its to) speech. lingtqn Ca- Ireland, , in fact, .It wait s been laid regulate It:minded .equently recognised Neer, inure lorig they bkseing.— Mciearche relqgious be en- 2' r • 7. • :•' deds(44: ll - /Appeared same , ahhtber (Sir K. `4? Jaboite, who jostit!-- - sok, with lutt— . rbe party dtthe Pope ?ri riot goesi its is Of Iroise& alladed at. Ira obtained •thir .tat Witte opportalty of called, it did Them oppotetbe 'fallen ell to tbe Je , thins of conetwed Mr,Bel e of er). Dek beki 'as if Quee• I.be-R lO l l she otbee fits eial certain itssa• He.reersasa c0w:y.364)0 Fa • wouldhave . its roped whatever was Is 00010 a raid while on the seiletr• , Win& et igthivoir of •Intsaeiration Mint &Amin mid mooch* Pities b Oertrarallo— Ordered to bepripted; • jl4r. EGER rON.presented-aPetition from the county or Chester against any further concession to.Eoman Catholics. The question being put that the Petition be read, • • • • Mr. GEORGE WILBRAHAM concurred with his . fielloarable Friend in describing the pedant ai that •of the per: eons present at a meeting at Knutsford, but dented that it ex.; premed the sentiments of the Nobility. Freeholders. and Gentry of the County of Chester. True it was that some respectable • name' were affixed to it. He meant not to inipesch the chs •ncter or the respectability of many of those who signed it. Still there were also appended to it the signatures of some individuals of very tender Team The Honoutable' fdeniber proceeded to deprecate the means said to be resorted to to get up the petition; ' and contended that a great body of the inbabkants of that county were ready to acquiesce in any measure that might be brought - forward by his Majesty's Ministers calculated to *give tranquillity to Leland and security to the Empire, provided it could be of &cued with safety to our Church Establishment • t . Mr. LEY('ESTER concurred with the Hon, Memher 'Who had preceded him in describing some of the signatures affixed •to the petition as those of children under twelve years of age. •He denied that the meeting could be *considered a general one of the .. county; still be admitted that it was a respectable meeting: as any meeting must be which his . jion.• Friend the Member for the • • county (Mr. Egerton) would attend. There had been, however, rsette of the Nobleniin who possessed property in the county pre sent, nor Indeed were there present sit Members of Parliament also residents of dm county. The parties who conducted the pro. ceeding had the word. civil and religious liberty" on th , ir ben ne.; but (Continued the Hon. • Membest), at- I hope for Catholic 'Eniancipation in the present SesAim of Parliament. not one word in favour of civil or religiout liberty fell front their lips.—Tne Pa tton (which was from the inhabitants of the County Palatine of Chatter) was then brought up, read, and ordered to b.! printed. Mr. H ANDCOCK presented a Petition from the inhabitants of Athlone, and several Noblemen and Gentlemen re siding in dill tent parts of Ireland, complaining et tote present dangerous slate of the bridge of Athlone, and praying fur the in terierence of Parliament in the improvement of it. The thin. .blenaher observed. that the Petition leas well Worthy of the anew Mos of the House, from the great number anCrespe•ctability of the signatures, and that, if his Majesty's Government would undertake h. they would be conferring a great public benefit upon. many sub. jeers in Ireland, who suffered much inconvenience, and in many . • -cases bodily injury, from the narrowness of that bridge, as it con nects two provinces together. "" Colonel Roessner. Mr. TuttiCll, and bk. Wem.ace, warmly supported the prayer of the Petition . • • On the motion of Mr. BA NIELS, new writs were ordered to be issued for Members to serve in Parliament for the BoroUgh of TTUFO, in room of Lord Fitzroy Somerset and William Edward • Tomlyn, Esq. who had accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. - • Ixird MAND EV 1L LE presented Petitions from the Inhabit.: • • sorts of Thetford, of Anima, and three other places in the county a( . , Suffolk, against turther concessions to the Roman Catholics. Mr. lIKL.I. presented a similar Petition from the Inhabitants of • the paiish of Lung Houghton, in the county of Northumberland. ' Mr. FRENCH presented Petitions front the Roman Catholic InhaMtinti of the county of Roscommon; from, those of the l'..rishes of Arcath, St. Peter, Killoon; statist) other places in the seine ciatinty, ist favour of the Catholic Claims. ' • Mr. BORRA.I)A ILR protected a Petition frootthe Inhabitant,- - of Newcastle under Lyme, against further concessions to the Catholic's. • Mr. LLOYD presented Petitions in favour oftke Catholic CI dine from the Inhabitants of Rallinagar, Knockfanna, and Rathltealea also two, Petitions from the last mentioned place, praying for a re peal of the Subletting and Vestry Acts...--Yhmierstitionwero as. verally ordered to be printed. • .. Mr. BASTA HI) presented Petitions from the Nobifity. tinny, Clergy, Freeholder% and other Inhabitants itshectiunty of Devoe. ag dust any further coocessions to the Romeo Catholics: The Hon. MeMber said, it was almost unnecessary for him to declare that he - concurred in the prayer 6f the Petition, and that on the questius re. (erred to in it his °plains remained unchanged. Sir "1-HOhIAS ACLAND said he was instructed by many of his respectable constituents to support the prayer of that petitiop. It was panful to him to differ•with so many Of his con stituents; fur be must own .that the meeting at which the petition was agreed on was 'most respectable, and the majority was au& ciente dentin, thigh not overwhelming. His own sentiments in femme • _of Catholic Emancipation he declared at the time the petition - was agreed to. and would prove it by his vote on the sues. lion le' that House. Mr; HOLDS WORTH bOre testimony to •the great • respectability of the meeting at Exeter, and it afforded hint great satisfaction' to hear the Hon. Baronet speak ,fo.tespectkilly of it. The llanae oft Clergyman Lad been alluded to elsewhere, as baying . taken_afactiouspatt at that meeting; but he could say from per sonal linoWledge that a more accomplished icholar,or a inore honours ibis Man, or less inclined to abet factious purposes, did not rain. Lord' EBRINUTON s -id, it had been circulated through' the country that the people of the county of Devon week against the Catholic Claims in the proportion of ninety.nine tO one. Nothing could be further from the fact. The greatest 'ef forts had been made to obtain support to the petition. The Opinion of the' King and his Ministers were asserted to be what the feet' bas dote proved they were not, and the people were asked WM.' ther they. would support the King or the Pope? Mad by such delusions many of the signatures were obtained. The property of the county was in favour of Catholic freedom. The meeting was so Hammon towards its conclusion, that his HOD. Friend. the Member of the county, who was arraigned for the votes he be had given .00 the Catholic Question, was refused a bearing in vindication of his conduct. Mr. LOFT said the Meeting was orderly throughont . . themost of its proceedings, but there appeared to be a disposition, on the part of sonar persons ptesent to prolong the Meeting wow triunity late, which led :o some confusion ; but he was colifideet there was not as elector in the county who did not entertain the highest respect for the county Member who had voted in favour VC the Catholic Claims, though, from the latenu of toe hour at %tibia he addressed the Meeting, they had nut rel.lsins 'acts attentive hearing. Sir I'. ACLAND said, that be had to preetst to the House a Petition, which. elide' existing circumstances that at tended it, was one of the must important ever presented to that House. It was a Petition from, the Freeholder. of the County of Devon' in favour of Catholic Emancipation. It was signed by two thousand two hundred Freeholders of that county, which was al most the only one in which the opponents of the Catholics bad • • attempitil to call a County_Meeting. and it had always been dia. • ilitguisfred t.,r it. opposition to the Claims of the Catholics. The retitioW was signed by no less than fury of the acting hlAgi,trate, of the county, and also by the Lord Lieutenant, the Higb Sheriff, • and 20 cot she Clergy., This. he hoped, would be only the herald • • toi theapkrohation which the public would hereafter give to the ' measure which hi. Majesty's Ministers were about to tUtfottllCit. The retititio was then brought up, and ordered to be printed. -The aanistaionairrabk Member presented a Petition to the same &set front the Unitarian Christians of 1)e ronpotr.-...Ordered to be "airinted. ' • • • • Sir T. I. ET HORI LIG E presented Petitions from Chard and .Walnut. pi evil% that no concession may be made to the Catholics witteose secorides.—Ordered to be printed. . MT. THANT presented petitions against the 'Clatholic Claims ' front Morcott, in the county of Rutland, and Farthingstone in Vorthamptoriabire. ' Mr. W i V I IL presented a Petition from the Catholics of Yorke •puyirg einteeltation. Mr. DU al CO M IIE presented a Petition from Halifax, in York shire, signed by 10 . 500 'henna% against any contissiou to the Ca. • • thulium. • •fhe signatures containd the names of many Gentlemen of tespectahility and high character; the residence and occupation .. of each person Was affixed to each name. • Mt. O'NEILL rose, in compliance with instructions from his constituents, to support the prayer of the Petition just prevailed. The Petition expressed, in a decided manner, the feelings entertained on the subject by the vicinity inhabited by his constituents. On the present occasion he Would not declare any 'opinion or conjecture of his own on the general qoastion. He wet, however, bond to 'ratify to the fair and open manes in which the signatures had been obtained. It bad been said that the send inentspi the majority of the inbabita , is of Hull were in favour of 'itoncesdriti to the Catholics. * Now, on that point he woes* strongly at liter with We Hon. Colleague as another Honatleattle Nankai eras with the Noble Lord opposite (Nugent). The @platens of the people of Hull were not fairly heard.. , He could pledge himself Mat a second Petition would be presented aslant the Catholic claims from Hull. fie was sure that there Pasted unanimity In that town against the' Catholic claims. • • Lord. NUGENT &pied that any discussion SA taken place betweel him and his Colleague on the subject. Mr. aNitiLL—The Noble Lord Was esttalisly reported to have odds°. DUNCOM BE stated that no penal ender the age of Sl bid Wined the petition. The Hon. Member presented a Petition' *malting a similar prayer, from the pubis of Atbittidnins th e gouty of York.—Ordereito he on the table - Lord''?. RUSSELL presented i Petition from`the Catholics at Banise, praying a removal of Catholic Disabilities; another beam Nemo= Dissenters of &lemma Seam I aid soother (rem litalsots of the Dissenting Consets Wabborls to the lagiFAS";; " 4 mother from Betides, "mpg a asodilkeibei al- sir Vestry. and &Wetting Act. • • „...-41r. 0. CAVE presented a Petkron front Protestant Disserxes of Leicester in favour et Emancionden. . IMPLOYMIIT Or THI Poo*. . Mr. SLANEY said, Li rose to laiihg forward the motion of which he had given notice, relative to the provision for, and employment of, the poor in this country. This question he looked upon to be one of great importance, as it involved the interests and hap: piness of a great portion of the poorer classes of this country. It was stated by Mr. Serjeant Beaufoy, who sat in that House some time ago, that if the then system of poor's rate was persevered in, we should. in fifty years have the poor s rates amount to twelve mil lions, and that prophecy, he had little doubt, would be fulfilled, as they now exceeded eight millions a year. He conceived that the burthens which the present system threw on the agricultural and' other interests of. the country as a mete trifle, compared with the degradation and disgrace which that system biougit upon a large portion of the community. In the tatter part of the last century, the number of paupers was asone in twelve ; in 1801 it was as one in nine; and now it was as one in seven. there were at this moment more than two.millions of paupers in the country: With the increase of pauperism came the 'increase of crime, as the vat ions Returns on the Table fully demonstrated. This evil be attributed Mainly to the abuses of the Poor Laws. The law clearly said, that employment was to be provided forth ise who ha d no work, end provision made fur (brit children ; but by seizing on one ambiguous word, namely, the word 4 ' impotent," who were also to be pro-. Tided for, the whole spirit of the law was per vetted.— Before 1795 the poor man was able to support himself. as there was little or no fluctuation in the - price Of food ; but since that period various circumstances caused a fluctuation, amounting at times to one-half, so that the poor man found it at times impossible to provide for himself. This, however, the recent C"rn Bill would prevent the recurrence of in future: The poor were, now provided for in three different ways, in different districts. First, able bodi d labourers were paid out of the Poor's-rate; or the rent of their houses wis paid from the sI me source ; or, thirdly, a we, kly allowance • was made to them and their children by the overseen. Now he appealed to those Hon. Members who had studied this subject, whether they had not observed the evils of this system ? The Reports in 1807 and in 1809, on the payment of labourers wage., fully con firmed his view of the subject, in the consideration given by the Committee to the statcof labourers* wages. A Report in 1824, and one on criminal commitments in 1825, followed the same course; and in the latter the Committee expressed their opinion that the remain. ing cause of the increase of crime was the' agricultio al distress which was occasioned by low wages and insuffi cient employment, and that was aggravated by the state of the poor laws, which, by their present administration, did not diminish, but rather increase the number of paupers. In the Report of last Session the Committee were unanimously cf that opinion, and it was Abe mode of administrating the poor laws that he thought' the most objectionable. The Honourable Member ar gued that the relief now afforded to married uteri in proportion to the number of their children had the effect of making men idle and cateless, and of inducing tl•em to enter into improvident marriages, and destroy ing that forethought which men, in all stations of Oddly, ought to encourage in Vie highest possible degree. In one of the Reports it was stated, very truly, that low wages gave t ise to allowances, and that allowances give ti-e to low wages, so that they- operated as alternate cause ;old effect. The system to which he objected es tended thretieh eighteen counties lying south of a fine drawn from Bath to Cambridge. One of the con•-e -'quences of this was the increase of the system of poach mg. l's one county persons had been taken up on the charge of poach.ng. and if these, eleven swam perish paupers, beipg single men who received 2,6 J. or Ss. per week; the twelfth was an experienced poacher, who' hired the test to go out at 21.6 d. a night. This was sure tube the case where single men, though able and willing to won k, only r b aioed horn three shillings to four slid begs per week from the parish, while Married men, merely nu accouitt cf having families, and withoot any reference to circumstances, got as much as 121. per week. He now came to the remedy. Many remedial had been attempted, but they had all failed, beconrsil• those who had made them had not known oh it was the 'real object in view. The real object was to give assist ance to the poor in such a manner as not to increase pas. perism. It to relieve a finite number was the only ob- - ject, the =footle of sonic waste grounds might be Salk ficient, but chat was no lemedy to the present evils; and' in getting rid of them we must take care not to create. °the, s. It was now propo ed to do away whh allowancel to able bodied men while.they were in e ployment:l The object of the Poor LAWS would be better attained by totally supporting a tew, than by partially supporta big all. By that means a' Inc. woilld be drawn betwesio the idle and the industii..u., and the good and the lead It was further proposed that, atter• certain fixed dai s any able bodied man, if ht applied for relief, he might' have parish work, but he shoold not be allowed toter ceive wages from a private pernin, and to have' thosO wages made up from the .patish foods, while be waii,he actual employment. Some people were afraid thatthil charge would affect the farmers •seeerely ; but theje should rect Ilect that, is oropostion as wages-viire teased, pool's rates must tali. - He concluded by moving for Italie to bring in a Bill to declare and amend the laws relating to the employment and support of Mlle bodied paupers, and fur the better rating of tenements of a certain val ie. • Mr. HUME said, that he wished to express, in a few words, his opinion on this subject. Tee Hon. Member who had just sat down had studied the subject well; hut in his (Mr. Hunie's) opinioni . there could be no real 'chef afforded to the country till two important. measures had been carried. The first of these was to. put the labouring population of Ireland, Scotland, arid . England en an equality, by ohich capital and con& dente would find their way to Ireland, so that the English labourer would not be in danger of being Un dei worked by the Irish peasantry flocking over to this country; and the nest was, to pass those lawi which would give us a supply of cheap corn, without which the working population of this country would news be the same as it once had been. • Mr. LOFT suggested that some measure for the en forcement of the principle of the Bill should accom• paoy it, because it was for the interest of the large far ma that the wages should be paid out of the• pours rates Leine was givers. CROWN LANDS. • ; .: Mt. D. W. HARVEY said, his object was to-ascer tain the precise state of the Crown Linda, which were of great extent, and if properly managed, of great value to the country. He' uuderueed that these lands were sometimes sold, without sufficient I notice to the public, and sometimes with privileges st4chsd to them, which should not be placed in the hands of any individual.-- As an instinct, be would ateutioe a property in Essex, which bad been sold last autumn for 500,0001. with the privilege to the pie clasher of bp two Meal Magistrates • and it is bantam'', that one of those strum' so appointed lately was) brewer, ' 4 who Oa less than. fifty pub li c houses within his jurisdiction.-- 1 Member then moved for, Returns of the emcee awl %alof t • Own Lendaalof the several Leases held seder -the OWN; sad the priests or their terwloadva. . . r...•. • emersiruen . . -,:i. -:..44 ~.„)...• _,...... . - • Mr. MUMS beita nedifrable Member would entbrsee in bb motion a ll t . the Crown, and alluded to the light• houss•at AidertOrt:ofivbich a km had'hevn given by Lord Brsy brook for twenty. years, •contrary to an express promise given by Mr. Hushissoa, that It should nut be renewed. He thought Gc vernatent should have held It iu their handi, and reduced the rat... 6 on shipping as low as pos.ible. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the light. house had been built by Lord Briybrook bn hil own property, .nd at his own expense, for which they should pay before they took the light-house into their own bands; and. upon a calculation, it was thought more economical to give a lease to his Lordship for twenty years, at the end of which time h should become the pro perty of Government, and they had also stipulated that the rates payable for that light should be the same as that paid to the Tri nity House.—The test rt. were ordered. tact appeared even vont tne statement or mil t , eague. who had admitted that the Petitions • ed from Cornwall upon the subject were* signet eight or nine thousand personi out of a populs • 5,000. If the feeling in the county sves*ostr he Honourable Member had aliened" why had r nty•Meeting been called? The Hnn. Member t. into some details concerning the Meeting which n holden - upon the subject,and stated that in one i A a petition lay for signature,* picture was exhit eseoting the Catholics of Ireland in the act of but :n•idetable number of the Protestants. Two men brought befote a Magistrate for turnip stew . tl'e - fact was clearly pr need. The eoamitort ion is Abiaticied in .the office of the attnrfirs-- 1140 k - tti tbi Magistrates, and agent for the gettin biAnti-Catholic Petition, and the men who bad witted of felony were solicited to sign, and did Paition after conviction..He thought, that the ic people in Cornwall, it not excited 'by the al • hich recourse bad been had, were wel l come! e .the question in the hands of the Gove rnment liament, cdovinced that, if the Roman Cath Id be admitted to political power, such seen Id be provided as could secure the stability grity of the Established Church. r.BULLER said he felt convinced that the maj e property and intelligence of the . ctionty of Cornwall, y other county in England, was favourable .to conceei t esertiticis had been made In that county to raise theme P . ut it was received with contemptand ridicule by the peon r. HUSKISSON said. his m tire in ii4g sot u himself to she last topic of the Hori. Gentleman's s .erred 10 think that the question affectkog the Romps a was not to be measured merely in reference. to 1r uld be viewed as an European question, and was, it ...arc of a general mutspiracy commenced at Vienna.. It --; 'true, that at the Congress of Vienna it bad bee ataletioral principle, which in flume ought to re • . States, that no civil disqualifications should be gro igloos differences of opinion. This principle was aubseq upon in almost ekery part of Europe. It was reed •Gerinan States, and in that kingdom of Hanover • lately suhlect to the hfcmareh l , to whom ere lcui l he trusted, be, indebten..h e rs for a similar bleu possible that the Ministat e) of some great lie net be very friendly .to the principl es o f c i v il an d re :hut-that the very same persons WA, evere said to Ina Conspiracy against these principles "'old be desii them to the Homan "Catholics of Irelartu, app eare d ontradictory. - He could assure the Hon. 11:i n b or ( n) that in Francs the party Witiychelidied the Jclo o k • 'Orions to subvert the chattel...and to get rid of fri#l it very party was the only ono tri•Frsoce which sal the attempts which were now in prOgreas to pacify 1 • • ins to its population the full benefits ofthe Caudill stated advisedly—(Hear)—and be would add that lb ce which was most desirous to keep the power d(thi • . uelistilisond to discountenance the Jesuits, were (b erd with the greatest delight of what was no*. . 'NMI A McDaniel* with reference to the Catholicitiif 1 R. VIVYAN s a id, that at"the Mee ing al . Honourable Colleague, though the Petition was . y only the two Clergymen, it subsequently obtain es of ail the respectable inhabitants of the parish. . 'etiAons, fourteen in number, were then read" It. VYNYAN. said that in niov ing that • be raid on the table, he would take that (*porn ,Olthough no Meeting of the County was called, from any apprehension of defeat. There was a I . nty.Town, in which le Magistrates attended. . other blaytartrethiandiy to concession who oppo - hut they failed. He Was glad to hear what had fade t•Hoti. Gentleman (Mr. Hostas:eon) with respect to monastic institudocii. A ineasureto prevent any t re Would remove one of his great objections.; He cot ' . fallen from the Hon. Gentleman near him (fir.] • could be so foolish as to suppose that the 13 sandiother educated persons of that communion,. h ions at the lower classes; or as the' Catholic, of . •43, did Dot hesitate' to say gut hi abould.l see `Roman Catholic Peers resume their seats in sa Parllarnoties It was their right to sit there ; bat I .tinithat illoise4—(clear, hear)—ln which cestah —voirdeed to entitle apnoea to a seat. He-re that the first step taken in the 'wey.ot conceuh • ,:. dug of eatiftile Peers to their mats. This woe ter than td take the nation by setpriso. - With . . , and' Nisi Goverantetit he should only say, w been its views, the G•vettunent of this country d friendly4ooneedetriVide it. .. • • USIOSSON'taid be had ex pressed no a Weevtlitutients Or of any *heti .What boo • • dronblirebesivatioba of pamiblrevents . whits it the; Ovens** Sato:net niiged . in - Fronds imptilialitle for WM lot . sti.o6l4avoi that . she hi wereiiie ' •. 'let efilnile gniino2l4 ol . 3 . . ...g.: .. lst_prlllterls-_,. . .. V ol NOXIcv pfesented thiee Petitittas 411 ASSPC4ATION DILL. A Message from the Lords brought up the Association in Ireland Suppression Hi 1. with some verbal amendments made by their Lordships, which were agreed to by the House. The orders of the day were disposed of, and the' House adjourned at Num o'Clocir. DEAN OF CHESTER. Deanery, Chester, February 20. Dtai, giv—l have received the favour of your letter, containing the recorded judgment of many most respectable members of the Univeraity of Oxford, " that Mr. Peel is -unfit to be re elected at the present crisis," and inviting me to vote for Sir Robert Inglis. ' On every personal and public ground, I rejoice at the selection of such a candidate by the opponents of Mr. Peel. Sir Robert 'lnglis is one of my best and most valued friends; a man of the highest character, and honourably distinguished by his zeal and ability-in defence of out Protestant 'Constitution. But am sure you will perceive that' my. 'Ott on tits occasit'sn most be decided hymn ape. del consicietatlop. Those with whom you act have ` ins dirt tend manly manner, brought the matter to this issue -w" Is Mr. _Peel unfit to be re-elected at the present crisis . Idu not think that he is. I will not, therefore. assist in ca.biering him. And now let .me trouble you with a few words respecting my self. You say—s" Report, are circulated here (Oxford) in respect to a change of your opinions on a subject on which you have writ. ten so ably and so much. We are unwilling to give credit to such rumours." I thank you, and whoever else joins you in this send ntent, for year nowil;engness to give credit to any thing which you may, think discreditable to me. In the present instance, the ru mours you refer to, as far as they have reached me, are either so vague as to be unintelligible to me, or, if they assume the shape of an allegation of facts, are absolutely false. A. to my opinions, they remain unchanged; they accord with the spirit of any letter to Mr Canning. p. 138-464, and more especially with the " Application • of the Argument," in my Letter on the Coronation Oath, p. 116 —lBO, It any of those who have done me the honour of reading these works, have happened to attend to such pasts only of them as Mi in with their own pre-conceived opinions, it is rather hard that I should be made answerable for their inadvertence. &JAI' 4...limey, I have the gratification of knowing, thaethe most distils gisklied of the names in etc printed paper you have sent to me are net in this error. They have ststed (as I doubt not you have beard) in voluntary vindication of an absent and slandered friend, that my' writings bad prepared them to expect that I should be favourable to an adjustment of the Roman Catho'le question, 'on terms compatible with the security of the Protestant Constitution.— Whether the Bill about to be brought into Pat Hainaut be of this character, Ido not know. If I shall deem it such (and I heartily wish I may see reason to do so) I shall not be deter red by clamour in any quarter from avowing my opinion ; if Otherwise, I shall not be backward in joining in any fit mode of expressing dissatils faction. For the plesent. I content myself with citing to you, sod to every one who may feel an interest in what concerns me, a single sentence (p. 179, 180) in my letter published last year, on the ,Coronation Oath—a sentence which Mr. Witstor-Hoe-on has, with very good reason, publicly treated as an invitation - (he himself calla it a challenge) to consider the matter of securities on both sides. " In one word, then, see whether.you-(the Roman Ca tholics) can offer us any real and adequate security for our Church, if the boon you ask be granted, or try to - find the securities which we, on our part, may devise, such as you can conscientiously ac- cede to." 14 hether the writer of this sentence can be justly charged with inconsistency for now testifying, or acting upon, a wish that adequate seeurnies-may be proposed, is a question which I will not insult your inderwauding by asking you. You are at 'serial liberty to spider this a public letter. I an; dear. Sir, your faithful servant, HENRY PHILLPOTTS. The Bee. Dr. Illortoo Tutor of Magdalen College, Osfurd.___ ; ki h EVEN I Nti STA R. • Li rN I WhIDNESDAY, PlllCli OF STOCKS }Rini: Stock 2111. r 3 pet Cent.lletl. 6111 1 1 14 0 8 10 7 , 1 9 1 7 6 * l 03ippeerrt. CceCur 111 per ('rnt. Ited. 971 6j 4 per Ct. tien.loll St 4 per Cent 1N26, 1051 I Long Aran. 19 15.16 20 Indio Stock 529 i 30 4) ti s% •ON r ONO: Brazilian Mk. 5 pCI. 611 Dmhdi !L 1 , . 3 pCt. 641 Ponca. iid.. 5pC. Do.Aect. 481 1 71 BKITiSH 11ND FORP.IGN i)i)N. •• 31tU.%11Y 25, 1829 Al TWO tieI.DCIL. India Minds 60.19 • Sniitii Sea Stott Old Annuities • ..New Ditto ADM) ExckeeplUlls 64 S 4500 Ditto 64 5 hit* and Xv.oo Ditto 65 7 Indhi for Acct. ' Conanls for Acct. 1171 6 . TWO trcimi IC Russ. 8d5.1822,5 p . Ct. 936.3 Do. Acct. 99 Fr.ltentes. S lie. 110 f 2Se Exchange ilSt ?0c SD A it RS, TWO O'Cl.oCk its. Pa ttb. Brazilian 35 wo 54 S 7 Ditto National 25 S 96 Alliance British and Foreign 100 10 106 Marine Alliance 100 5 5 6 i Protector Fire 20 2 sel 34 Hibernian Joint Stork 100 25 156 16 Provincial Hank 4 Ireland 100 26 • ' 11:16 The • Paris Papers ot tiondAy coatAiwto news: shay are principally 61'ed with speculatioubrin the intik of. the - proceedingi of the Conc JUSTII4III - spoken of as dm most probabliineceSt r oi of Lao Xl!. his pretensions being supported by the Home of alkns:!. trig. Four only out of the. five French Cardinals. veil; be able to preceed to Rome on this important occasion. Extracts are given from . these P4i,srs in a preieding : column. I. It is understood that the system bitherto aced stroll by the C,mmissioners for the Reduction of the National' Debt, of purchasing Stuck 'hi the' public market, is las be entirely abandoneJ, and that the whole of the Soli plub Revenue, whatever it may be, is to be st plied its . liquidating the sum, advanced by the Rink of England, to government on Excheqrter Bilk, and tu'isequently in paying off the Exchequer Bills which are 8 wing in the market. This will be a sensible and beneficial measure is every point of view. The present large amount of the Unfunded Debt is a serious evil, and clamps the energies of the country; and the utmost inconvenieoce has been frequently ex perieneed from the Government being in debt to the Bank. Both them evils .will be got ILI of by the in tended measate; and as the intere4 paid on Etchequer Bills is rather more than • thiee'per cent. "per annum, ' and the price now paid fir Stock in the msket effects: • reduction of little more than the same sate of interest, the-beneficial operation of the proposed scheme will be obtained at it very small expense. But its most bederti.l, coniequetice will be the gradual diminution of the issues of the Bank; of England which it evil) produce. At present, the effect of the purchases of Stock by the Commissioners for the Redaction of the Debt- is to increase the - issues of Bank Notes, inasmuch as the seller of the Stock bought by the Conimissioners is paid for it in Bank Notes; and the Bank has no objection thus to hicrease its issues, beeause as it holds Exchequer Bills I to a considerable amount, it has always the means 'to a certain extent of getting in its Notes, by throwing the . . . 7 " ; • " . • 77:1, foe Sale. . the other hand, the plan . to.he. ndoifted w ill have the effect c,t „gradually absorbing the dank Notes in circulation ,which sill be paid in exchange for Exchequer Pills which will be cancelled, and the flank wia not venture., to i n . aerie-Its issues again by other means, because. it * *ill no longer possess the power it now has. of - radden • ly getting in its circulation,. by a sale of ihese coniertible 'securities. Capital will then be n 9 longer a ding.. the Funds may perhaps decline in ionsequeuie,' bet health and vigour will he given to that part of our systens which appears to have been languishing from the effects of plethora. • 's • • We regret to find that symptoms of great commercial Distress are appearing in several of the Minufaituring In Glasgow, five homes have already stnpped - payment within the last few days, and as ionst Pf them ire of the • first respectability, it is * . fe,ared that their failure may draw in several other .d.nts. The state of the Silk Trade cannothe viewed without coniiderable appiehension. • We cannot sufficiently condemn the course pursued some Members of both Elnuie.: of Partiaiirenti in Pude if... Mari to represent that the Petitions which are Sally inuring in from all quarter., are what they call get•upt.. or " packed," to serve a particular pugpote, aftlt-instigation of interested persom; and we are.sur. rased to find thxt those Members who have hitherto been the most zealous and determined so ppottei s of the right cf p titioning, and of the importance of this pri e•lege of Englishmen, should now be the foremost to -ight and deride the numerous Petitions which as daily presented bcth to the Lords and Commons.— Sorely these persons • must perceive that the effect if their conduct is to bring into disuse this first hulwark of liberty, and to lead the people ulti mately to' demand some other mode by which their sPritimerts cao •be expressed, and their wishes at tended to, Brdscitarortr, the soundest author who ever wrote on the laws of England, lays. it down as a general principle, "That in a free State; over y matt ought to be in some measure hirovsn governor; and thetef•re a .branch at least of the legislative power ould reside in the whole body of the people." It is-upon this principle that in a large Skate. in which, as in this country, the people-are represented in the great Council of the nation-hy certain pet eons chosen from amongst.themselves. they, the people, .have a rigist to submit their opinion and express their wishes to their Representatives, by the form of petition ; and although it would be too much to say, that in all - cases 'the Represe,ntatiets must follow - toe wishes of the people, yet it cannot be denied that - a respecifuratten• tionthould be paid to such express:on of the people's opinion, more particularly when, es upon- the ,present occo:oti, it :el Ate,. to a subject in which . evettelitizen is deepliinterested—namely, the trety 'principle' of the Constitution wllich he has b e en tangta to revere e. We cannot but think, then, that more •otto. s tion .hould be paid to the numerous Petitiont: which itow crowd the tables of the Houses of Parliament; and hat Honourable_ Alemkers would do' well to leisioar from convincing the people that their notion of the value of this privilege has also been founded in-error. • From the Cape crf Good Hope Papers to ; 4 27th of Ni•vember, received at the North and &nab Awes icaa coffee-house : • General Booeze,our late Lieutenant-Governor, embarked with his family on hoard the Undaukted frigate, for Etiglasid. The Europeans at Port Natal confirm, to be treated with hind. ness by 4:macs, and scent to entertain no apprehensions Unit.their safety would be in danger. THE CAPE TRADE. It appears by an official return of imports into and exports from Greae Britain to all pans of the world, that the experts to the Cape et Good Hope, in 1827, amounted to £1114.615; the imparts from the Cape qf Gpod Hope into Great Main, during the mane period, amouutql to £151,342. It appear% that during the thirteen years of Lord CIIA Rt.n &- Kase+ Wm' ' ation at the Cape ' the expthditute exceeded the imam by a ant of £72,599 10s. 6d. CITY. Twever o'CLock. approaching Account day, which is to.rnotrow, cases a lactation In the market, a. Consuls opened•thit morning 'at 1111 I Ifbr the'Aeessent,•and 87; fur April ; but at present the niaslict Is oat quire-so good, and tbs.) , have been done at Sta. • • "CITY, HALF-PAST ON Is O'CLorK. The Comet market has a heavy. appearance since thently Part or& the nioroing; when Casale w are time at ts 7/ tor th e Account. A slight re action -has taken place. and Consuls m.y at premise be quoted at 871 sa I. and Sig sellers fur April. It cannot as yet be reaaetly ascertained, Whether It will turn out a Be a r or jell Ac. coat T but, according-to present appearance, It is supposed th be a one.ln the Foreign market meslcan and Portuguese Stocks nee rather latest a • . . COURT t IRCULA R. • • . • Eft mon les were issued on Monday evening. b.T-4e sire of Mr. Secretary -Peet., for the holding a Cabinet Cassel rporerder arcensikso. at the Foreign Office, Downing-s:reet. A quarter, before two o'clock was the time named for the meeting of the Commit; bur the Ministers had not assembled till peat two Velo*E... Thole present were • • - - • The . bird Cheat fiber, the Duke of Wellington, Nark Birthartit :salrAberdven, Lord Irio borough, Mt. Secretary Peel, Sit Gerfse Markt, thaCha 9 the Exchequer, Mr. Vary Fitzgerald, and Mr. liertles. • • I. - . •:i. . NATAtt. IN I ~.li s dalt-itENCR. . ••• . . 111104 Atuuno Dir— Dublin 1— Viaterfora I. The cherub". finissals from Demerara, has arrived old Tht Blifi, Dutton, front London to Ostend, was drivel= 'Sore on bloodm morning, lilled.with water—cargo discharging. Dam., Pea. 2e.—Wind B. by N.-Arrived from Loudon tiro Glapbyra; Sewell, for Amity!. . Ponsuonts. Fss. 24: Wind R. to F.N.E.—The Atlas; Hine, la , onme into harboir to repair damage. Sailed the Palmyra, Thompson, for Madras. ' Falmouth', Fits. 23.—Wida. the William Galt. Black burn, for Rio Janeiro • William and Alfred. lky!dale, for. Andgea ; Robert File, Gordon , for Vera Cruz; Unliont, Walla, for BU. boat and Four Friends Vann, for St. Illekatra , • Cane, Fse. 24.— Arrived the John Munro, Munro, sod Earl Selkirk, Gibbon, from Almeria ; 4ohn and Isaac, yd;rtirs,- Inns 'Malaga. Hot.rneau, Fcn. U.—A*lnd the MUM, ProWw ? ArQw Nova Scotia.; William. Tbompno{ from New York; Likwymol, from Boston t William, Niehron,l44lll,Nevr, Woo. . - I,avearooz., nu. U.—Arrived cite Zero, Brinly, trim 7:tituie I: Nivarino, Mitchell; from Lisbon. . The East lisdhi Saipa,wasilk ltawbesit Ibis metakaii(i!tStil ta,mateo.w. •• . •-, .1 • - CORN EXCHANGE, 111ARSIikt4, We have bed a large arrival of Amiga _ Miy Spiudda; tad altknisb tbere were nwonsing barmy. lan beef 'Mitered; the Ihtlibridostiv ffiegiclieett Mb* dole of "Wkladay's unclip bee tompleelyllubsbiled; bed prides 41.111 bo utoduallp as • aw eke day. Amin wed very; dap Isii--the Use m:Eid 011/11.**1' tor ' 5 ?.?- Per liana ea , ts heavy, and islag. Imponadooa sloes Men y Hag. lath Wheat 930 qrs. Desleyl6lloo. Oat. 47,100. Flour I,coo sects. 7