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COURT of the said appointed to be held at their House in Leadenhall- W o, WEDNESDAY, the 21st March next, is made e geigL, for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors, w th e i r apprnbation, a Resolution of the Court of Directors January last, granting to Captain Daum Ross, of Lb , gobay Marine, the sum of £l5OO, under the circumstances thereb stated. is ig Report required by the By-Law, Chap. 6, Sec. 20, to mb' with the documents upon which the said Resolution has 1 1 1 . b r ood, are open for the inspection of the Proprietors at do Roam .JOSEPH DART, Secretary. •-•'"" ---- 71, -- 4ST-1NDIA HOUSE, .Febritary 21, 1821. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENGLAND, trading og l e UST-INDIES, do hereby give Notice, m u rk QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Chen , ap pointed to he held at their House in Leadenhall gee‘euiVEDNESDA Y. the 21st March next; is FURTHER nude grECIA 1., for the purpose of submitting, for confirm& tito, the Devolution of the General Court of the 20tt Decem ber, r eying the Rrsolution of the Court of Directors of the mh l ee r, proposing the establishment of a New gme, with a - Sahry of ' (.E300) Three Hundred Pounds per dime, at the Company s Military Seminal) , at Addiscombe, ge the Instruction of the Cadets, at that Institution, in the ,ante of Military Summing. The said Resolution is open at this House for the inspection cf the Proprietor& JOSEPH DART, Secretary. — I 4 IIW DIGEST TO THE TERM REPORTS. mi. day was published, ilf two vols. royal Bvo. price 21. 7s. 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GIBBS, late of Cork-street, Burlington-gardens, in the 4/Baty of Middlesex, Monef.scriveners, against whom a Corn *don of Bankrupt bath been awarded and issued, are requested Illthwidt to leave at my Office any Book rir Account they hold, Wantonly denominated " Pass Book;' or " Pass Accounts;' it the nose may be examined by the Accountant appointed der' the said Commission and the said Bankrupts, and the `fees due to the respective Creditors ascertained, that the lad Creditors may be enabled to prove the same at the Meet ' p appointed by the saill.Comntissioners for receiving the proof Othts, which will be held at Guildhall on the 6th, 10th,15th, ' l tko and the 24th days of March next, at Twelve o'clock at bra ON each of the said days respectively. And any Creditors t y h . ase Books or Accounts were balanced previous to t h e l ast "nab arc also requested to itrle tke same at my Office, for Ile purpose aforesaid, or they will not be allowed to prove the e'Peat tither of the said Meetings. And all other Creditors, ery descrip t i on , are a l so requeste d forthwith to send to my 'th account of their respective demands, together with any ,two they may bold foe the same, in order th at their depo. " k m' may be prepared previously to the said Meetings; and srlstre the Debt is due to Partners, the Christian and Surnames P t.f i the individuals comp os i ng the Firm, as also the name of the mut who will atten d to prove the Debt. I.stli Feb. 162) . GEC). SMITH, - Soticitar to the Commission, Golden square. THURSDAY; MARCH I, 1821. P ARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDING& HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY vs. Mr. Spices presented an Account of the Unclaimed Prize- Money in the Treasury of Chelsea Hospital, from 1819 to 1190. On the motion of the Earl of ROSS LY N, it was ordered, that the Committee on Foreign Trade have leave to report from time to time to the House. The Annual Indemnity Bill was read a second time. ' The LORI) CHANCELLOR said, he felt it a duty locum. bent on him to inform their Lordships that a case had recently come before him in the Coart of Criancery,in which two appeared as claimants to the title ef E ar l o f Strathmore. persona appeared it his duty to declare, that the case was one upon which it was not competent for the Court where he presided to deter. mine • because it was one that ought re gu l a rly t o come before that ;louse. A Petition had already been presented to their Lordships from one of these parties • it would be necessary to refer this Petition to a C o mmitt e e o f Privileges, and he hoped it would be considered with the greatest possible it'ention, not only as a matter of importance to the parties concerned, but to the dignity of that House.—The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The gallery was opened shortly after one o'clock, and .in a few minutes it was completely filled. The Settee* took the Chair at a quarter before four o'clock. Two Mcnibtrs took the oaths and their seats. A person from the office of the Chief Secretary for Ireland brought up the Report of the Commissioners of Public Accounts. Sir WILLMM GUISE presented several Petitions from Gloucestershire, complaining of Agricultural Distress.—Or dered to be printed. Mr. C. DUNDAS presented two Petitions to the same effect from the County of perks.—Ordered to be printed., Lord TEMPLE presented a similar Petition from Buck ingham; unless something was done, he said, for the agricul tural interests, be did not know what would become of the Constitution. His Lordship presented similar Petitions front two Districts of the Lillie County. The Hon. It. SMITH supported these Petitions, which were all three ordered to be printed. • Admiral liEit VEY presented three Petitions to the same effect from three different Hundreds in Essex.—Ordered to be printed. Mr. MABERLY, jun. presented a similar Petition from the County df Northampton.—Ordered to be printed. Upon the motion of Mr. CALCR A FT, the consideration of the Petition against the Aldborough Election was postpoled front the 13th of March to a future day. Sir H. PARNELL postponed his motion, or Leasing of Tythes in Ireland, to Friday next. Mr. GRENFELL, having been for twenty years a Member of Parliament, and having constantly voted for the claims of the Catholics, he felt pleasure in now expressing his determination to persevere in the same course. He was convinced that the concession of the Catholic Claims would be the firmest support of the Constitution—.(Hear, hear). Mr. WARRE referred to the Bill of 1817, which opened the higher ranks of ‘ the Army and Navy to the Roman Catholics ; and he asked whether the Constitution, the. Church, or the State, suffered any injury from that Bill ?—(llear, hear).—Was there now any real ground for alarm ? Was it not wiser, that, since so much had been given, the rest of the' , Catholic Claims should be conceded, before they would be obliged to do so in an hour of public dan ger ? Hear, hear). Mr. BARHAM said, that tbe Petitions against the' Catholic Claims abounded with calumnies ; and he wished that an opportunity was given to the House to express its indignation against such false proposi tions alai:grow mssrepresentations—(ffear,henr). He pointed out several propositions in the Petition now before the House, as utterly destitute of foundation. It was stated in this Petition, that Catholics held the doctrine of mental reservations. Nothing could be better recorded than the total denial of any such te net on the part of the Catholics. To the Petitioners he gave credit for a great deal of ignorance, but still he did not conceive how they could be ignorant that there was nothing in the law of this country which could bear them out in such an assertion as this.— But if the Catholics professed such a doctrine, what could be more absurd than the law which imposed an oath upon the Roman Catholics in the form of a test, to call upon them to declare whether they were to be believed on their oath or not ?—(Hear, hear). The SPEAKER called the Honourable Member to order. It appeared to him that the Hon. Member was alluding to a Petition which was presented before that which was stow before the House, and not to the Petition immediately under its consideration. Mr. BARHAM said, his observations applied as well to this Petition as to one which had been pre sented on a former night. The SPEAKER begged pardon if he misunder stood the Hon. Member. If the Hon. Member's ar gument equally applied to the present Petition, he begged to apologize for the interruption he had given. The Petition was brought up. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE denied that he was a party to the Bill of 1817, but he conceived the enactment of that Bill to be the best reason why no further con cessions should be made to the Roman Catholics.— He denied that this Petition contained the illiberal and false propositions which the Hon. Member oppo site ascribed to it. Mr. BARHAM explained. What he had already said, referred to a Petition which was presented to this House on Friday last. Lord R. MANNERS defended the conduct of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Lincoln, whose Peti tion was presented on Friday last, as being persons of the greatest respectability. The Petition was read, and ordered to be printed. PETITION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF ENGLAND. Lord NUGENT said, he held in his hand a Peti tion in behalf of 8000 persons, the Roman Catholics of England. It was signed by seven Peers, fourteen Baronets, and seven Bishops, and a number of Clergy and Gentry, professing the Religion of the Catholic Church, and they prayed for the abolition of all the enactments which restricted them from the full and unqualified enjoyment of all the privileges of the Con stitution. If he looked with hopes to the result of the discussion which would take plaCe upon this im portant question, it was not from any new expecta tion that the opinions of that House had undergone any material change, with respect to the tenets of their Religion, but on account of the increased and increasing claims of the Petitioners--upon their un questioned loyalty, and principally, and above all, upon a declaration, which was not indeed new in principle, although, he trusted, it would effectually do away with one great difficulty, which had hitherto offered itself in the minds of many to the admission of the Roman Catholics to their complete emancipa tion. The House was alkare that the Oath of Su premacy, for the renunciation of the spiritual pOwer of the Pope, had been one great bar to the admission of Catholics to places of power. The declaration against the invocation of Saints, and the doctrine of 1 ransubstantiation, were justifiable only as it was sub sidiary to the Oath of Supremacy ; ancl, therefore, that oath must be regarded as the security which the Legislature recognized against the admission to power of persons approving of the doctrine of the legality of foreign interference. Upon this important point, then, he-begged that the Roman Catholics of England should be heard; and he should deem it an injustice to that body to allow their opinions to be conveyed to the House in any language but their own:— " Your Petitioners have been- accused of giving to a foreign Potentate a part of that allegiance which is due to. their rightful Sovereign alone. They have I repeatedly denied this charge, and they again deny it. To the King %.re ,wear full and undivided allegi ance—(Hear, hear).—ln him alone we recognize the power of the civil sword."—These words, the House would see, were borrowed from the Thirty-nine Ar ticles :—" And we acknowledge in no foreign Prince_ or Potentate, av power or authority - within the same, whether zivd, sptennol, or ecclesiostscar—(Cheers).— This was the language of the Petition, and the House would see, that atter this the .question was reduceu to a very limited compass. It only remained, then, to be asked, whether it was on account of their spiritual tenets, or their imputed political doctrines, that the Roman Catholics were excluded from the benefits of the Constitution ?—(Cries of Hear.)— Fur the answer to this question he would refer to the oaths which were imposed upon all persons before they entered upon a political office. The Roman Catholics would be satisfied, if the spiritual part of t i ßt . /.1 1 7 .N1-I'l 17. • I the oaths were repejled, that the political part slim I I j remain. Whatever Political ieneta the wisdom of ' the Legislature might d ev i se f or t h e secur i ty 9 f t h e Constitution, the Roman Catholics wete ready to subscribe. They declared, again Add again, that their allegiance was "full and undivided;" and, in proof of their loyalty and conscientious adherence to prin ciple, they evidence the very oaths which were in tended for their exclusion. If, then, that exclu sion were continued, it would be only saying this, that no man was capable of discharging a political office with fidelity who believed the invocation of the Saints and the doctrines of transubstantiation, and that such•dpinions had such it dangerous poli tical tendency as that the Legislature ought there fore to exclude one s fourth of the talent, the respect ability, the energies of the empire, from being allied to the exertions of the rest in the maintenance of the liberties of the country. The Roman Catholics of this country professed a religion to which they Were fondly and firmly attachecll. How fondly and firmly they were attached, let the history of their sufferings and persecutions speak—let' den; tried allegiance— let their conscientions forbearance from any outward act which would indicate that they did not believe what they professed, declare for thefts. Let then the sacred obligation of an oath, so respected by them, cease to be a bar to their enjos, ing the full benefits of the Constitution, and let it be a bond for adding to the security of the British Constitution. The House would bear in. mind the circumstances which gave rise to the unhappy enactments to which the Roman Catholics had been the victin a Let them recollect it was the infamous perjuries of Titus Oates, and the unfounded imputation that Roman Catholics kept no faith with heretics, that inflamed the minds and awakened the apprehension of the Legislature, and which produced these persecuting statutes against that calumniated body. It was true, indeed, that the injuries committed, in the violence of these feelings, upon individuals, - could not now be undone; but at least let the Statutes to which they gave birth, be at last finally obliterated. The cry, however, was still kept up, that Roman Catholics would not hold them selves bound by any oaths taken with Protestants.— In vain did they again and again disavow the doc trine—in vain was the Council of Constance cited to confirm that disavowal—in vain were added to these the universal declaration of the Roman Catholics of Europe against such an imputation; and, lastly, in vain was exhibited the picture of States where Ro man Catholics and Protestantslived together in con cord and amity with each other. With respect to the declaration against transubstantiation, he would say, first, that it was intemperate and calumnious; secondly,- that it affected matters which were purely speculative in their nature; and, thirdly, if it was both temperate and appropriate, still it was a com plete nullity in the light of a security; because, if it were true that the Roman Catholic believed that a dispensation from the Pope was sufficient to protect him, in the eye of HEAVEN, against the penalties of a false oath, why did not the Roman Catholic come foisvard at once, and take every oath and declara tion that might be presented to him?—(Hear, hear). —He should merely say on behalf of the Petitioners, and in the spirit in which their Petition was framed, that they disclaimed all power in the Pope, as far as it could in any manner affect their allegiance to the rightful Sovereign of these realms; and that they re quired, ilforo conseientite,, a power which was wholly abstracted from any civil authority whatever. Fur ther than this it was unwise and unnecessary to go. The Noble Lord then read the opinions of Bishop Hoadley; Mr. Justice Blackstone, and Dr. Paley. The first stated, that the political exclusion of any body of men could be justified only upon the avowal on their parts of tenets openly hostile to the existence of civil government. Mr. Justice Blackstone said, that as soon as the temporal power of the Pope would' cease in the British dominions, it would be no longer excusable to keep the Roman Catholics the objects of penal or disqualifying Statutes. Dr. Paley said, it should be remembered that the connection between Jacobinism and Popery was the only ground on which these Statutes could be continued ; so that whenever that connection ceased, the punishment an nexed to-it ought to be discontinued. • Such were the opinions of these distinguished men, If it were in•• tended by these laws to induce the Roman Catholics to conform to the established worship, the object was one disgraceful to any Legislature. Instead of put ting the Roman Catholics upon the bed of Prccrustcs and fitting them to a certain measure. of opinions, let the Legislature in its wisdom acknowledge the sug gestions of nature, and leave every man to the unre strained exercise of a harmless religious belief. They asked not to be insulted by a rignrous exile , from all the benefits of the Constitution; they asked that they might not be deemed any longer unfit to unite their wealth, talents, and industry, to those of the rest cf their fellow-subjects, in the preservation of that con stitutional liberty to which they had an undisputed claim. If the Roman Catholics did net feel anxiously that their situation was one of reproach and degrae datinn, they would be unfit to receive the benefits which they sought. He exhorted the House to legiss late upon broad constitutional principle;, and not let the interference of Roman Catholic Bi.ards or Autho• rities divert them from the important ob,eet of re• dressing an injured and oppressed people. Let the few bigots who in this era of &civilization would tsiin and promulgate their odious tenets, answer to themselves, their sect, and Cron; but let the British House of Commons. judge of their co untryn . en b y their acts and declai - ations—(Hear, hear). Let tl e House remember who the Petitioners were; let them not forget, when called upon to legislate for Ireland, that in England the Howards, the Arundels, the Ulf fords, the Dormers, and the Petres, were supplicat ing for relief. Let the House give to those illus. trious men the opportunity of serving their country; let them enjoy at last the full and. undivided partici pation of that Constitution, which, let it never be for. gotten, their ancestors so mainly contributed to erect. FALL OF MURAT. Lord CASTLEREAG II said, that having been asked on a former night if any accredited Agent of the British Govern-I meat sanctioned, by his presence, the military trial and exe cution of Murat, he had answered by declaring, that he had never heard the report before. Having thought it his duty to make further inquiries upon the subject, he would lay the result of them before the House. His Lordship then read an extract of a letter from Sir W. A'Court, in which that Minister stated, that no British Agent was present upon the Council of War which was held to determine the fate of Murat, and that his death was the same exactly as that which be had previously destined for the adherents of King Ferdinand, as appeared by the Proclamation found on his person; so that the House would see that there was a complete negative given to the assertion upon which the Hon. General had founded his question. Sir ROBERT WILSON said, that the explanation was sa tisfactory so far as it went; but the Report to which he had advlrted stated, that a British Agent was present at the Coto cil which sent Murat to a military trial and execution. His question, therefore, referred to the Council at Naples, not to the Council of War. Lord CASTLEREAGH said, he could give a still more de cisive negative to that assertion. He had no hesitation in de claring, that it was utterly destitute of every colour of truth. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Mr.WODEHOUSE presented a Petition from the Clergy of Norwich against the Catholic Claims. A similar Petition was presented from Exeter, Ordered to be printed. Dlr. R. FITZGIBI3ON presented a Petition from the Catholics of the County and City of Limerick,' praying restoration to their Constitutional privileges. Mr. S. RICE supported the Petition. It was upon the ground of justice. that he formed his opixion that the Roman Catholics were entitled to the full benefit of their rights. They had shewn by their patience that they were deserving of those privileges which had been so long unjustly denied them. He would vote for going into a Committee on this ques tion, but he would do so with a perfect disposition ' to secure the rights of the Protestant Church, which, in his opinion, could not be better guarded than by adopting a liberal and generous principle of policy towards so large a portion of the community.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. Mr. WILDMAN presented a Petition against the Roman Catholic Claims from the Borough of Col chester.—Ordered to be printed. Lord R. MANNERS presented a similar Petition from certain Freeholders of the County of Leicester. Mr.CALCRAFT asked if this Petition was agreed to at a County Meeting ? Lord R. MANNERS said he did not know; it was delivered to him last year—( Hear, hear). Mr. CALCRAFT repeated this explanation, which lie considered an extraordinary one. Mr. NOLAN presented a similar Petition from Nottingham. The Hon. and Learned Member stated that he did not concur in the sentiments of these Petitioners.—Laid on the table. Mr. HARVEY presented a similar Petition from the Clergy and certain Inhabitants of the Colchester Division of Essex.—Laid on the table. It n•as observed that the Clerk read only the Peti tions against the Catholic Claims ;—the others he passed over. Sir J. MACKINTOSH supported the Catholic Claims. He was not surprised that the Roman Ca tholics had, year after year, :petitioned Parliament for redress of their grievances, and he hoped they would continue to do so until their prayers were ob tained. Nothing could have been mole untruly re presented than the principles of the Revolution, as they were stated in this Petition. The Petitioners I took it upoa themselves to say, that those prin ciples by which the liberties of Ragland were secured were principles of intolerance. It was a violent mis representation of the fact, and a slander upon the character of King William—(Hear, hear). Sir T. LEf lIBRIDGE presented a similar Peti tion from 'Bruton, in Somerset. He agreed in the sentiments of the Petitioners. If a Committee should' be gone into, he had no doubt it would turn out to be a delusion, because he could conceive no see,urity for the Protestant Church which could satisfy a rigid Catholic—(Hear, hear).