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(Goo - RA- Nonce, The Older of the Day for the second reading Lords in the course which they hail taken P khe UNIVERSE, Thst • MINERAL COURT o y th e said Company w il l b e of the Roman Catholic Disabilities Bill being The Nolde Earl opposite, the First Lord of the held at their Mime io Leadenhall.steeet, on . WEDNESDAY, read— ed in aid of the Treasury, had detailed his opinions with the tit- ration of the mi. the 18th instant, from eleven o'clock in the forenoon until The Earl of Dohouonaogit then rose. Afters must candour an d f a i rness . H e d ii id e d the Bill six i n the evening, to ballot o n th e f o ll ow i ng quest i on, viz. — onstructed on a nee, and expense. " That Sir Harry Venda Damn, Ba r t ., l ate o f t h e B en - system of crue l ty an d intolerauce which had c o o - i n t o t wo orts, and after noticitig the contents of 'al Civil E s tabli s h ment , b e perm i tted to return to the Ser. termed fur m ore 111R11 • ceaturyi.--;fter th e ar d or - eac h, declared thot lie was content with neither. endu e the SUN, •ice, minder the provisions or the A ct o f t h e 33d G ee . 111. once of th e most extreme savorit i es ou the part of The Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack , their respective cap. $2, met. 70, with the rank which lie held when he quit. British Roman Catholics—such severities and tbs.. objected to the Bill altogether, without partici:- „„,„,,,, sod ro- led Ileatid, agreeably to the Act of the 53d Gee. 111. tress as had almost rendered todre )ijciarmiget. Cap. 15 5, sect. 85i" ss ontl relief Mra t. Iszing parts o f it. The Bill conten t ed two omen- possible—th a t system of injustice and oppression tial positions. The first related to the restoration In order tu determine by such Hlllot whether three parts began to r e lax its violence, slid batter piinciples of suspended rights ; the second to the price ishich Pled extent, it.. in four of the Proprietors present at curb Gement Court got the aacendaticy about, 1 ba fbe t b db • the Catholics for that commie , ' gloom** i was o e raid y ty Feet, and the conssist that Sir Harry Verelst Dant! be permitted to return • reign of his late lime . tiled; with the mild mak to Wig, . . -The British in the way 'of securities. fie assord.. that be Antis at items. . 5 JOSEPH GRIM, g a i e t ar y. Act of Mg, and the statute pitied by the Par- ' could Lot conceive boa !Mr one ZoatiFilileetta i;........i _s• i—.l.--1 1 _ .a -- ... N UM ii EU 5730. Pans 7d. THEATRE ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA STRAN D. THIS EVENING, TUESDAY, and on every Evening during tbia Friday eaceptetil, nn entirely new LECTURE NOLOGL4, and the STRUCTURE of the' will be delivered by Mr. BARTLEY. The machinery whirl, will be introduced in subject. and necessary for • popular illustration of blame phenomena of the H , has been constructed scale of unprecedented splendour. magnificence, rin IN PART 11. The GRAND PLANETARIUM, repreventiog EARTH, and MOON, with the times of their t revolutions, imitated with mathematical accuracy, ended by • Z•idiae, One Hundred Fret in Circe IN PART 111. The ,lagnificent ORRERY of unparalleled seribing a Crete of Ore lioudred and Thirty r Comet of ISM . • Osiorte Me spoiled et RhW4. WS. and yam+ have cawed so much misrepresenm.i ....a times, viz. way" could hot Conceive CHANGE OF PERFoRMANCES!!! ADE LPH I THEATRE, STRAND. QTR. BOLOGNA in returning his best thanks to the numerous Patrons of his Performances, begs Unmet* assonnee that several Novelties have been added, as well Ite many improvements male iu the different pieces, -avid dist the whole now basing acquired the greatest facility of solos, and continuing to 'Rote the moat nattering ap plause, will be repeated every Evening this Week (G..0el Friday earepted), to commence with an entirely new Pie aistial,Optical. and Mechanical Ezhibition, called THE PANORAMIC MIRROR ; I. -.-. • TO THE PROPRIETORS OF EAST INDIA STOCK. LADINO AND GANTLICIWAN, THE result of the Ballot on Wednesday last Laving released many of my valuable ronnexions, who were elicited to the mseeemfal Candidate, I have now, with d coufidenee, to selirit the honour of your 'offenses for the brat vacancy which may occur io your Court of Di. rectors ; ensuring you that, in the event of success, it shall be my constant endeavour, by a ZPSIIIII4 attention to your important interests, to merit the distinguished situation to which I aspire. Or, NATURE'S REFLECTOR: including, amour oilier Novelties, I.—A beautiful Turkish View, painted expressly for the occasion by owe of our moil eminent Artists, in which will Le represented a Sea Fight, between two Vessels of ditrereut 'Nations. I shall immediately renew my personal canvass for the favutir or your countenance and support, and I beg to re peat my grateful acknowledgments for the kindness with which I hive already been received, and fur the activity and exertion which have been so unremittingly ,hewn by my ■naseruus friends —I am, with great ►espect, Ladies ■nd Gentlemen, 'VOUS' most obedient faithful Servant, J. pErry MUSPRATT. New Broad.slreet, April 16, 1821. S.—An Automaton Male Figu►e, Eighteen (aches high, of ve►y 'interior Nlerbassist') (being a Purchase ►ately made by Mr. Bologna, at Petit), and which will play Eight different Tones on the Organ, changing each time himself without any interest assistance. 3.—A small Automaton Female Figure, who, from her Miniature Dwelling, will, al call. serve Sweetmeats, Bonbons, and other Refresl•.nurota to the Cumpany, taking in Payment a masked Piece of Money, Ring, or other Token, and either which she will natant) , return, on demand, to its Owners. 4—Philosophical Esperimi sit,. among which will be in trodnevd it real Balloon, which will he filled with Gar on the Stage!!! after the method used ht 11 Lunardi, Garne sin, Sadler, and other etleheateit Aeronaut•, and will after wards ascend to the roof of the Theatre, and continue dilat ing in air daring the remainder of the Eat sting. The ',hale Process of preparing , a Balloon for Avcen.i.iu, to carry any weight required, wilt be shewn and explained by this in teresting Spectacle, which will take place exactly at Half past Eight to'Clock. Mr. BOLOGNA, during the interval of the Perfiinn sates, will exhibit a variety of new and ■musing Decep with Cards, Magical Figures, Balt., and curiously eivanrucled Pieces of 3lechauiern, including the Cabinet of Safety—the Wonderful Colunn—the Stir-acting Wien,- atoll—and the Prince of Conjurors! CHINESE SHADOWS; or, OMBRRIII CIIINOIS! in which the following very favourite Scenes will be intro .ineed :—The Magician's Case—a Hope Dinner, with the Humere►s of the Clown—Sea Storm and Shipwreck. The Evening's Performance to conclude with improved • Hydraulic Experiments, in whirls Mr. BOLOGNA, in addi tion to sonic of the must admired of his former Pieces, will introduce a variety of new ones; shelving the pleasing and weeiderfol Effects of the Union of the two Macula of Fire and Water!!! THR NEXT of KIN (if any) of JAMES GRI I,ls. late a Seaman belonging to the East India Merchant Ship Eases, deceased, by applying In Mr. Owen, No 3, Milled, Doctors' Commons, may hear of some ihiug to their advinitage. On Saturday will he published, is Bvo. 14s. MARINO FALIERO, DOUE of VENICE: An Historical Tragedy, in five Arts, with Notes. Aad The PROPHECY of DANTE, a Poem. By the Richt Hon. Lural BYRON. Printed fur Jobu Murray, Albanarle•stree IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. AT a Meeting of the DEPUTATIONS of the I TURNPIKE TRUSTS round the Metropolis, held at the Crown and Anchor T4bern, in the Strand, on Wedninsdsy the II th day of Apia, 1821, to tak• tutu coast aeration 14.- 6 ' Metropolis Turnpike Road Bill;" JAMES RICE WILLIAMS Eaq. in the Chair. Patatira— Deputations from the fullowina Trusts: namely Kilburn Ts us', I Uxbridre Trust, Ilary.le hone Trust, Old-Orert Trust, Highgate and Hampstead True. K. oaugton T. est, Harrow Treat, Brea t ford Trust, lateworth Trust, Stamford Hill 'trust, City Rood Trust. Sauey and Sussex Trust, New Cron Trust, Surrey New Road Trust, The following Resolutions of the 26th Day of March last, were read Resolved—That the Meeting having maturely considered the " Metropolis Road Bill," are unanimously of opinion, that the preamble is taut fomented in fact. That the present @eaten' of local Trusts iv, both in prin ciple and practice, better calculated for the maintenance of Rood Roads lbws exteusive Diatritts, which the state of most of the Roads round she Metropolis at this time incubi. teetably proves. That the principle and provisions of the said Hill are in *tilting to the understandiags and deer:idiot to the feelings of respectable bodies of m•n, who give their time amid Ser. vice gratoituously, who, from their local modem e, are most interested iii the state of the Roads, and, Gum their know. ledge and experience, fully competent lit their matiagement. Tied though the Rill permits a few individual Trustees to be chosen, yet, in effect, they will be mire ciphers, under the tundra of General Ti::stees anal Ilse Surveyor. General, who will base the entire 11111.14111m0 lenre and ina nagewielit, with unlimited power to aptaminl Sob Surveying, Inspector*, and oilier Officers, to purchase Materials, to pirate Contract., fie. That it appears to this Meetieg, dist the evident ten. stoney of the Bill is, to rrr.tr umseceflory Offices milli Sauk% sod Allowances, which will cause M eld s expeg ,, e , seal entail briny bum dims on the ailjoiuttic Panahrs and uu taw Politic. That in the opinion of this Sleeting, it is only necessary :to lewd the 8.11 to perceive that it will be weak and in. eaticiesit fir all 'info, purposes. 'that it substitute's a rash and hazardous condiment for a SiStela "nel i0"4" , 1 hytmei xperience,sml • it • lirre rsavun in fear. Mot all of improving, it m 17 ultinirtrly ire injurious .10 Mr Basil,. That the Meeting fed it a dory Which they owe to them ., It e 4 moil to the stake ti.e. Of all Inn Ail meats. to witpuse theism! Bi;l, and do recommend it I. cetieral eon moderation, should thi• Bill be ',nitwit into a Law, it may, perhaps, be followed by similar Bills thronbout the Kingdom. It was then liroolired...Tlat the said ResAutions be re prirtid ; and Is was further Reaolvi d—That Otis Meeting observing the M Metropolis 'ruts:pike Hoed Hilt" lib hare been read second tinge its the House of Common*, and refined lu a Committee, it he recommended to the s I Trial* nut to relay in their exertions in upirositi,; the said Bill; mad That this Meeting (Wel:liming all pi ivate views, wit; -totalled eulely by motives of general c I, feel it their duty to call the attention of all the Tarn pike Trikit• in the Kingdom, of the ailjniuilic Parishes. and of th e Pubhr nt large, to the Principle and PritYl4l ~,, s of the said ft 11 , ionvinced, frum its roture and teutleitcy, and allude uf operation, that it would prove extremely iojunll tit. hi,;ised by Order or the Sllertisig, J. It. WI ULU% MS, Chairman. Tl , e Chairman having left the Chair, the °looks of the ileetnig were unanimously voted to him fir his able and Judicibusconduct to the Chair. AMIN BICKNELL, Clerk of the raid DevitoCons. .._. • HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, Amur, 16. Their Lordships met at four o'clock, and adjourned during pleasure. At a few leallartall after bee o'rliselt the LORD CHAN CELLOR remenvad his mot en the Woolwich. CATHOLICS. Several Petitions were presented for and against the Claims of the Roman Ceiliolies, but from the oppressive number of persons that were admitted below the bar, we were only able to hear the following. The Bishop of CIIF.STER presented a Petition from cer tain Inhabitant' of the Towle of Liverpool (against the Claims of the Roman Catlodies. The Marquis of LANSDOWN presented a Petitiolt from the same place in favour of the Claim,. The Bishop of CHESTER presented a Petition from certain Inhabitants of the City of Bath sgainst the The Bishop of BATH prevented a similar Petition from the Clergy of Bath and Wells, and the Deanery of Stowe, and a similar Petition from the Clergy of RI il.lOl. ' flue Earl of SRA FTE•.BURY a similar Petition from the Protestaut Dissenters of the 'fowl' of Newark-opon -Trent ; end a similar nue from the Parish of East Dereham is the County of Norfolk. The Bishop of OXFORD presented a similar Petition from the Clergy of the •relsdraconry of Oxford, and similar Pe litioos from the Parishes of St. John, Soittliwirk, and St. Botolph's, Aldgale. The Bishop of NORWICH presented a Petition in favour of the Catholic Claim.. The Earl of DONOUGH MORE. as we understood him, lamented a Petit' from the Boman Catholics of the City and County of Galway, prestoe that the Bill might be passed into a law; and a Resolution from She Catholic Clergy of the County of Kerry against the second part of the Bull —They were severally read and 'mid on the table. TILE PETI fION OF THE CATHOLICS OF ENGLAND. Earl GREY said he ruse for the purpose of presenting the Petition of the It u Catholics of Euglatid to their Lord ships, which was signed by the Catholic Peers, the Clergy,&e. He had great satisfaction in presenting the Petition, from the high characters stud the loyal disposition* of the Petitioners. From his own observations he could seseill that there was no class of men who were more distinguished fur all that was r e g oh r ett of them in th. it star of life. It was unne cessary for him to 1111 SA ibis encomium on theist, as it was admitted by those %%les opposed their relief, he would say, who roll.Cleatinasly typos. d it. Ile wool.' undertake la say that there were no class of people that were more at. ached to the Constitution, and more loyal to the Crows.— Thus WaSa.l.nittill by the Noble Earl ( Liverpool), who Ctillari eativas:y opposed the grant of She broit to its, Petitioner*. The N•ible Carl had gone Natter on a former discussion, and said that the echelon itself of the Petitioners wrs not au objecti iiii to their beteg pot its mania of their rights; but the Noble Earl look up his objeclion on another ground which be (Earl o.) would have an opportunity of discussing in the proceediugs of the night, which was to be brought lwfure their I rordships by much inure able hands than his; but t.s the Pelitlou mime recommended by the good conduct of the Petili 0000 err, and the time of its bring presented bring, is his opinion, most propitious to their attaining eheir ob. jeet, it would be °newer...Ars to enter inure fully into the subject further thin to f Clll.ll k, thee the Herd of the Roman Crilsolic Church Cal b., placed as not to he longer dan. [emus to the Established Church of this country. 1 he Bill had passed the other House of Parliament, after a most fair and tntlrar ti.s d i woresion, which did honour to those who opposrd She Pitt; it was Slot met with iter•ntimy, but fairly and bouoorably disc owed. and 1.3, , ed the Iluww. This was a ll b e shed Cur the measure, which load been justly de scribed by his Noble Friend as a measure of justice and mercy to the Runim Catholics; he therefore trated that their Lordships wool.' pass the Bill, which would he adding strength to the country; and &Oath we were at peace with all the INMI.I, ul was impossible for the wt,.aS of them to say how loeg •c should remain so, as the roles UlOlOllll *hurl. had taken ph-ce might reach us—sod if they did, and all his Majesty's subjects had 'goal rights, it would be such a barrier of dcfruce as to defy all the world from intrrfetiog. If this was strength that could he vatted, why emits& the Petitioners from silo:slims* in the State, which their claims called loudly fur? Ile hail also to lay before their Lordships the Resolutions of the English Catholic Perri, See. after the 11111 bad palsied the other House of Parliament, that they were ready to lake the oaths as proposed I.y that Bull ; and at the same time expressed their 'halide+, and also their hopes that they would I.e enabled to tale their seats in that House, as their forefathers did. ho cuntiolcoce iliat their liament of Ireland in the sine year, iiermrd to have made the first material breach in the injurious disabilities and penalties mailer which Roman Catholics suffered, which breach was still more widrued, and that almost to the whole extent of rights soil civil privileges at present enjoyed by British Catholics, by the British statute of 1791. The spirit of liberality seemed about this period to have pervaded the upper ranks, especially of the Irish gentry and imbility. Very great and import ant concession* were made by the Irish Act of 1783, and still greater and more important were those made by the Act of 179 i. But the British Sta tute of 1793, which enacted the resolutions of the elective tisuchisie, and several other very important privileges, had ',laced the Irish Holguin Catholics so far above their Catholic fellow-subjects of this country, as could nor be justified by any principles of fairness and right redsou. In this strange and anomalous state had the Catholics of all ranks stood at the passing of the Act of 1793. And to that stair they would have stood until now, had it riot been for the generous exertoun of the autho rity then held by a Noble Freiad of his, who was then at the head of the naval department, who, at the iliarigation of a Noble Viscount, caused an Act to be passed, which ought to be styled an Act of peculiar grace and favour, by which 111011 e English Catholics who were serving an the navy sou army were put upon the same hunting as those of Ireland. Few of the latter had, however, derived any advau urges front the concessions thus previously made to Since the Act of 1793 coucessieu seemed to have been dead ; there were no subsequent records of its influence und operations. The case of the Nuivau Catholics bud cut altogether escaped the notice of the Gower iiiii rot and le gislature. lu 11-cloud. while they had a Par. lisment, and in the Parliament of this country, the wretched spliditioo. of the Rainau Catholic population had been urged, and coos:detect over and over again ; but with the exception of two in stances which occurred in the other House of Par lieineist, never, since 1793, had the consideration of the grierunces of the Catholics beet' treated in what could be fairly called a parliamentary way. Under these circumstances it was that the present Bill, winch again might be called a Ball of grace and mercy, had passed in the other House, and had now arrived at its due stage of discussion before their Lord ships. The Bill had beers met uhnost before it passed the threshold of their Lordships' I louse by a threat—lie would rather say a prutuire olopposi tiois from two Noble Preis. Ile alluded to the re marks made upon the Bill lei soon :is it entered the House by the First Lord of the Treasury mid the Noble and Learned Lord who sat in the 11'ool sack. They hail promised to the Bill their must firm opposition, seemingly without a moment's time fur delay or deliberation as to the question whether or not the Bill was of a character to require it. He trusted that in the course of the debate their Lord ships 'would hear the reasons assigned which could have induced those noble persons thus to treat the introduction of this Bill with such indifference as to its intros, sod such determitistiou as to their treatment of it. Was not there some loran of deli beratiois at least due to a communication made to them by the other HOIIIIt I Were they prepared upon any proposition 'stitch might be made by the Lower House to declare that they would hear notlmig— that they had already determined nut to grunt one iota of any thing which nr.ight be asked ? He had always understoud, that, in a parliamentary- sense, the limit reading of a Bill wes a matter of' mere form. This was the substantial reading of the Bill —that stage whereto the practice of Parlia meet had always been to take foil deliberation upon ir. %Vete they then prepared—did those Noble Lords to whom he had alluded, mean to in timate:et by their prompt opposition to the Bill, that they would tallow it no reading at all ? Ile wished them to consider the eircuinotances under whirb at had come to them. It was not a measure which hall been rashly adopted by the other I looses It had been tried in the furnace of debate; it had passed the fiery ordeal of tire weeks of Parliamen tsry discussion. Scarcely was there a paragraph in it which Mud not undergone examitineion, and upon which a division had not taken place ; and after the dehisce/dim) and prolonged attention paid to the subject by the other House, were their Lordships prepared to say that it deserved neither its soy de gi ee from them? They were justifiable in ex ainiiiilig, and oat the convietiois derived from thence, either to applitove air ele•appsove of the proposition t4ulltilittrd to them. He particularly regretted the eiturse taken by the Noble Lords to whom he had alluded, because it was too much the ease for the majority to be influenced not more by the merits of the gorstiuli, than by such decla rations coming front quarters of so high an autho rity. Atuoflaer reason lie had to iiiduce his sur prise at the early opposition of those noble per sons wane that, in a Parliamentary sense, the OR. 11061 tint to the second reading of a Buil was always supposed to be au opposii of principle to the Bill, and of course it was quite competent to any •Peer to say that he objected to any Bill, either ill the whole or in its parts. They might declare that the priociplL• wns or that the tivtailr the first part of the Bill, who was not per fectly satisfied with the condition of Rumais Catholic subjects, as it stood then—and thought that their condition could not be made better, mid that the subject was not fit to be inquired into. But if the Nuble Earl really thought the condition of Roman Catholics not satisfactory to themselves: and at the same time deemed them not worthy of civil trust, why did he object to the securities which were offered by the second part of the Bill ? He could not comprehend on what such objections could be founded. Yet the Noble Earl, after dividing the Bill into two parts, had declared that he objected equally to both. Ile (Earl Uou►oughrnorr) had nut only the antholity of the Peers and Prelates who bud signed the Petition which had been prevented by his Noble Friend, to thew that the Bill likis*ble and conciliatory measure, but lie had also the sißhority of the other !louse of Perlianteist in its favour. All that he had to request of their Lordships was this, that they would deign to consider that Bill whit h had been mulct so many favourable circumstances sent up to them let it have full and due deliberation. If this were to he refused, he would hove them consider who those persons were whose case they would not deign to consider. They were full one-fourth of the populatioto of Gnat Brita►n—they were four fifths of the whole population of Ireland. lie the letter country there were four millions of Roman Catholic►, comprieing all classes of subjects, and -among them some of the most respected urines knew') to the couutry. Were these ',toper persons to be treated with► indifference) Had they never heard of their case before? Did their Lordships never inquire at any time how far these very pasties were in • civil Belem trust-worthy ? They had made that inquiry as they ought to have doe, ; they had given the Catholics nothing wail they had first moored themselves of the loyalty of the Ronnie Cethulic hotly. They (the Catholics) hail proved their loyalty in every practicable way ; they had offered themselves to ell sorts of tests ; there were oaths of all kind, prepared for them to take, from 1718 to 1778. They bad taken a:I the oaths so prepared, acid proved themselves to be completely trust-worthy. He did not know what more could be required of them ; he did not know what they had left to concede—what it was now in their power to disown. He wished any Noble Lord would get up in his plaCe and describe any thing maintained by Catholics of ■ religious knot which was tea owned, which was in any way disowned by any other religious sects. The Act of 1793. which restored the elective franchise to the Catholics of Ireland, was a full soil complete admission that the Catholics were worthy of trust, aid of the p►otees lion of political power. They had stow been in the possession and exercise of the elective franchise for twenty-eight years. Perhaps it would be said that this wits not sufficient time for probation ; perhaps it would be said that tuuch had been douse, but that it was necessary first to see the ultimate effect of that which had been already granted—that the door of the Constitution was 'already half open, and if there should be no abuse of the privileges sires& conceded, that would be a good argument for admitting the Catholics into the full and un qualified possession of constitutional right roil pri vilege ; or he ought to be tub' that the Constitu tion was a Protestant Constitution, and that it was dangerous to attempt silty alteration of that pflitcl• ple in it. He was also ready to declare that it was • Protestant Constitution. He venerated the Protes tant parts cr the Constitution. But he considered that there was a necessity fur securing ummitnisus nceordatice among all classes of his Majesty's sub jects—that all causes of jealousy and heart-burning should be done away from between them, and that no invidious comparisons should in future be allow ed to be maintained between them. These were the reasons which lie had to offer to their Lordship. in calling on them to give the seciesil reading to the Bill. Ile wished next to consider for a while the pot.- ties who were to he chiefly benefited by the Bill. One of these parties had appeared in the eyes of some of their Lordships as very formidable. Ile alluded to the Pope. His Holiness was not a little dreaded, though lie had done no harm, at any rate for the last 100 years. Having done nothing argumenta tively wrong for such a period, and the British Roman Catholic Clergy under him having clone nothing to the annoyance of the State, was this u favourable time to prohibit the freedom of intercourse which hail existed between these patties (luring so long a time ? Ile could not think, with such facts before him, that the Pope could be that dangerous sort of person which the fears of some described. He did not think that the conduct of that Potentate was calculated to keep awake any suspicion of his motive.. There was nothing which he could do which he had not done—there wits no length proposed in Parliament in which he had not gone more than half way to meet the concessions proposed to him. He would read part of a document containing important alterations made by the College of the Propa ganda Fide at Rome, in the oath appointed to be taken by the Viesrs Apostolic in England, and the litsh Roman Catholic Bishops, according to which the full .tre.ng words are entirely omitted, ... - _L . - ♦:3~r0.~ ~k. .1- r " literetieni, 'Alin:slims, et rebelles eld.ia D••minn Matto eel soecessoribus prredictis, pro Fume persequar et hispngnalso." And widi the addition of the following words at the conclusio n of the with : " Hee amnia et ainignla eo inviolahilins ohsersebn. foe eertior sum, tuba iii its coutmeri, quad JortsinPnto lideli- Wes mast ergo Serenimimnas N. Regem, tjusque ad Thulium 8 sores, dPhste adversa►i posse." • Could their Lordships find out any tern's' which could express the sense and purpose of the last. tt meat in a stronger mintier ? The paper trim. dale() 1744, so that the pretends.* of the lioinaii Catholic ei•ligion had here the same from 1744 downwards at the least. To prove this, he would read part of atinipor daeoment of the some chile, '(inset,. Atm 'tremble to the order of reference made to the Bishop. and sneering's 'of the Catholic Church, when called upon td flake a report of the state of their respective dioceses or districts, extracted frog► an order of the Prepagaiida, printed in 1744 : Anionsirerteleduas est " has qtresliunes a Sart& Congrega tione ea lentil', de mak tieri, at Regiouum Simile Spirt- Watts, et Religi is ipsi immistesent—nude mode curia tem porslis, et politicas—quippe rev ejustuudi ad earn u►aitr►e pertinent, me ens moire desiderat—mque suit outuino Ws si 111 l arius suns cis implieari—quamobrem que rtsponsurus est, widest, lie respondent ad shad, quart, ad ea, quo spiel wide dL.itiumque ministerium respiciaut." Such was the political character of that Pope.:whom their Lordshipe bad thought necessary to represent in the course of parliamentary proceedings as a person dangerous to the State, es one whose duty and calling was to disturb the tranquillity and vice. late the ■lJegiance of foreign States. It was on account of thus peison that a Bill had passed the other House, and been brought up to their Lord ships, to place restrictions on the intercourse which the Catholic Clergy might have with the visible Head of their Church on earth. Yet they had it iii proof that this Potentate, held to be so danger ous to the peace and welfare of other States, had ha-en in the fixed habit of abstaining, and forbid ding all his Clergy and their flocks from interfer ing, in any way, in the political affera of the seve ral countries in which they were prohibited from so doing by regulations of State. He had mentioned before that the Bill had not passed through the oilier House of Proliainent without the giavest consideration having been were to it. Never had any Bill come op to their Lordship. with suck ad. vantages of repeated and toed deliberation ; never heel the discussion of any Bill been conducted with snore coolness and assiduity. It had not been de ter 11l i l ted itt heat, but with the greatest temper and moderate'''. It was necessary for him to i:ond out for e moment what the Bill contained. First, theme was ill it what he would call a full enabling *Y"tirt of provisions, which went to restore the Catholics their full kind free admission to the Constitution. IVith respect to this view of the Bill, he wished to ohaerve, that lie looked at it not as a system of pri e vileges, but of rights restored. The Catholics of Ireland had been admitted to the elective franchise. The present Bill would give them back the right of sitting in Parliament, as well as of voting for others to sit in Parliament. They had enjoyed the latter for 28 years, and faid not in any instance been found wanting in their duties to the constitution. There were exceptions taken in the Bill which he could not directly condemn. Every thing contuses. ed with the Crown, whether it related to the justice, duguity, or authority, was necessarily Protestant, and was to he held inviolate by the Bill. A Catholic King could not even be proposed; hut they would not wish to shew their jealousy of a Protestant King. who was certainly to be trusted to for preventing his authority from being encroached upon by the influence of counselloss, Protestant or Catholic. The Sovereign could have no inducement to sop port an authority which claimed or threatened to entrench on les own ; the Ptivy Council was there. fore very properly open to the admission of 'Catho lics. The King was not likely to appoint any one to such an office except there were great proof or probability of his becoming serviceable and remain lug obedient. Then why should Catholics be kept out of Parliament ? The answer had been, that they were disaffected. Was not this the way to make theist disiffected ? Nobody liked, either in private or in public, to be charged with any defect of loyally or allegiance. There was no knowing what the feelings of an eminent Catholic bar mier most be on every succeeding night and morning, when viewing the Bench, his heart was oppressed with the conviction that he could not be admitted there ; hi• 'mod stow agreed with every thing which the Bill had given, and with the few exceptions which escluded Catholics from the chief offices of S'ate and Law. All this was in accordance with his wither, because it went so far towards doing away the disunion which must at present exist. becau►e it took away that unworthy declination of disgrace from the possession of certain religion. opilsione He appeared of new modelling the omit of supte. macy, so as to meet the scruples of the coo. ecientiout. Considering then gist the Catholics were worthy of treat wider the preterit eircurn litilliCell, and approving of all the concessien* that were to be made to them, and conceiving that every thing so conceded should be yielded to them, without imposing on them the restraint of nn addi tional oath—such being his opinion, lie could not concur in utiy of the enactmen►s of the stetted Bill. He defended the first Bill on the roiled that the Catholic was not a suspicious subject. If lie thought the Catholic a suspicious subject, he would give hint nothing. But by the exercise of the elective franchise for 28 years, the Catholic had proved him self In a political brute to be trust-worthy. He would have no übjeetiou to see the /levied Bill entirely expunged. So far from approving of that branch of the Bill, it would, if pissed in its present shape, detract so much from the value of the whole toes surer as to induce him to request that they would take back the Bill altogether. He would . 1113 i nave Sto e tt p i ri d v t i b le r moult I s t u t c h h e cond Catholics dw n of ? A ge :l t :l47ly aVistiL)ye . '