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; ;11,W 1 t-/ NUMMIIMOM e - --; -- ' 4.401 V S. Avis ;wow , • l• • • avir If _ • 4". WO% VA 11. 4 0 4 4 M . '. • • ilo• • ...-4/12 Awl* ispitlys•-mum No. 7,007. PARLIAAf E.VTAnr I NTELLIGENCA. 110 USE OF LORDS, Torarrao, MAT 17. --•••••• The space below their Lottahips' bar was crowded to encase long before five o'clock ; the reporters to the public press were kindly accommodated by Sir Thom** Tyrwitt, with that portion below the bar which usually remain* unoccupied. CATHOLIC CLAINIS—PETITIONS. Lord ARORN presented a petition from a parish in Northamp. tooshire, against the claims of the Catholics. Lord KING presented a petition in favour of the claims of the Cstholica from the Congregation% of - Unitarian Dissenters of the towns of Tawiatopk and Cullutnpton, in the county of Devon; and another from certain Memhers of the Church of England of the town of Stroud. in Gloucestershire. Lord SYDNEY presented several petitions against the claims of the Catholics, from various parishes in the county . of Kent. The Earl of LIVERPOOL presented petitions of a similar nature from Liverpool, containing 13,MX1 signatures, from Had. dingo'', from the Scotch Presbytery of the city of London, fr,im the inhabitants of Stirling, sad ham the Protestant Dissenters of a parish in the tanloAo of Illswkk• The Dube of BLCKINGHA3I presented a similar petition from Vannodniii. The EMI orENNISK IIiLEN presented II petition to the same elbet SVGA the realty of Monaghan. Petitions of a similar mum were presented by the LORD CH.INCELLOR, Been the parish of Clerkenwell i lien the clergy, perish o ffi cers, and inhabitants of St. &Aileen • porit.h, Southwark; from the Protestant Deese:nem of_ the whim of Grange, In Herefordshire; from dor Prosimot Dliti of oho chapel of Bell. street, Raddiffe.highway ; Prom the lishollima at Ms town and borough of Southwark ; from the View, Clemeh ' wardens, and inhabitant* or Olney, to the countpot Barb t road from the Minister and Congregation of Percy-street Chapel, to the county of Middlesex. Lord KING said that before this petition from the Percy -OWN chapel were laid upon their Lerdwhips' table, he had to remark that there was something peculiarly extraordinary in the way in which it wamgot up. The Minister of that chapel had made an address to his congregation from the pulpit, in which he informed them That a petition against tke claims of the Catholics lay for signature in the vestry-room, and he reommended females as well as males to go and sign it. Now, their Lordships had been told that the clergy took a religious view of this important subject, and this was indeed taking a religious view of it, when it was mixed up with divine worship, rid when the people were told to " read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest it." The Bishop of IAiN DON, in • low tone of voice, entered into an explanation of the facts. He said that the Clergyman did not i sise the notice to the congregation until after the sermon was o er, and that be had not done it with any improper motives. Ile was a pima and worthy min, not likely to be guilty of any intentional impropriety. lie had considered it as an important question, in volving religious and theological considerations, and in this respect he (the Bishop of London) concurred with him. The matter came hetore the Legislature in a different shape, for there it assumed • political character, but the Clergyman in question had never meant to regard it but as a religious subject. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that at the conclusion of his sermon the Clergyman had certainly informed his conger. gatian that a certain petition lay for signature in the Vestry-room, where all who thought proper to do so, might go and sign it. He Lad, it appeared, informed the Bishop of London of what had taken place, and if that Right Rev. Prelate had been satisfied in his conscience, he (the Lord Chancellor) did not think the Noble Lord (King) should be dissatisfied in his mind. The Earl of CA RN AR VON said that if such an act were to be taken as a precedent--if the Clergy were to be permitted to intro duce great political subjects in which they were interested, into the pulpit—and if sentiments of' the kind were to be mixed up with divine worship, he felt assured the respectability and influence of the Established Church would be at once gone ; and the Churches of that establishment would become places fur debating meetings. To his astonishment and d• , he had heard the Right Rev. Prelate palliate thetarnduct of this gyman, and couple this pal. limion with a panegsric on his drummer; and he would entreat that Right Rev. Prelate to consider whoa the effects would be if political questions were to be thus blookd with the worship of God—a Ciergyman were to call his coopegation into the Church, not for the purpose of worshiping the Creater,but in order that they might he induced to' sign petitions. What would the Learned Prelate have said if any of that Clergyman's petitionets had risen to oppose 4 ere his opinion, and a brae ling had MANI ill the Church, while that Church had bees osemmeesiiiie e he • debating society. DifEring as he d id.l cote aehmfeten die Dec Prelated he were in • Church,and heard a Clergymen Ins *option give notice that a petition lay for signature in die Veatrproous, praying for tolera. non as devoutly as the Right RemPrelate* prayed for intokrance,he should conceive it his duty to rise immediately and condemn the conduct of such a Clergyman. If the Right Rev. Prelates were so dead to feeling, it became the duty of every individual of their Lordships, who professed and felt attachment to that Church, to take it into their own hands and rescue it from the partial neglect of those to whose care it was more especially committed. It was his opinion, that to the exertions of the Clergy was owing the number of petitions that had been presented against the claims of the Catholics ; but he hoped the Learned Prelates themselves would deprecate such interference as that to which he had been alluding ; or were it otherwise, not only thin, but all political subjects would be introduced into the pulpit, and the Divine Service would become polluted. The Bishop of LONDON disclaimed any interference or in. euence on his part to procure petitions on this subject: he had carefully abstained from any such acts, and would always abstain front it. With respect to the Clergyman who had been alluded to. he cer.ainly had not censured him, nor did he feel himself called upon to censure him. Earl SPENCER said that, with the highest respect for the Right Rev. Prelate, he thought the Clergyman ought to have been censured for committing an act so unwarrantable, so dis graceful, and so shameful as the act he had committed. He heard the fact yesterday, and heard it with astonishment. lie did not believe that any discussion on the subject was intended; but if Clergymen of the Established Church were permitted at all to introduce such topics into the body of a sermon— The Bishop of lA/NDON said that the Noble Earl was mis. taken : the Clergyman had not Introduced the observations into the body of his discourse. Earl SPENCER continued. He was told by a person of great vcrscity, that the Minister in question had given the notice at the end of the sermon, and then he added the usual blessing to the con gregation. To a sincere friend of the Established Church such& proceeding was most painful. He condemned it in the severest terms, and h o p e d t h at a s i m il ar i nstance wou ld never aga i n occur. 11 brevet the general character of the Clergyman might be, yet the bt Reverend P re l a t e oug h t to k now t h at suc h an i nter f erence i n Melt was most improper. He trusted that the Right Reverend 'relates would consider any such transactions as decidedly wrong, and severely condemn it. Lord ROLLE said that the Act was certainly wrong, and should be condemned; but he believed the Priests in Ireland *min the constant habit of doing the very same thing as that cool osined of in this Clergyman. Lard CLIFDEN said that the Noble Lord was mistaken. 7'br Priests certainly did address their flocks from the pulpit, but not against the Protests-ti. There never was • calumny more monstrous; the Irish Catholic Priests preached peace and Rood order. lle remembered a saying of one of his late Majesty's fury Council (Lord Barrington), and he agreed with hint, that when politics were introduced into the pulpit, the Clergymen who istrodueed It ought to have their ears nailed to the pulpit. Lord LILFORD stated, that when he first heard of the conduct sf the clergyman alluded to, he made inquiry into the fact, and then mentioned it to the Bishop of London. He regarded it as a desecration of the Church. He agreed with the Noble Earl (Earl bsencer) in all he had said, and he should have been greatly pleased if the Right Rev. Prelate had pronounced on it any, even the slightest reprobation. 'file Archbishop of CANTERBURY said that he felt it his duty to condemn every reference to politics in the pulpit. In the pment case the clergyman alluded to had acted improperly and irreg,larly. (H ear .) H e h o p e d i t was a solitary case, and that it might not occur again. (Hear.) His Grace then presented a pcti non from Norwood, in Surrey, against the Catholic Claims. Petitions against the Catholic Claims were likewise presented By the LORD CHAN('ELLOR' from Chipping Wycombe (backs), and from some parish in Sussex. fly Lord ENNISKILLEN from the County of Monaghan. BY his Royal Highness the Duke of YORK from 12,000 inha bltants of London and Westminster, and another from Cardin: Ily the Bishop of LINCOLN front a town in Hertfordshire, and irons the Dignitaries of Lincoln Cathedral. Hy the 111%hop of LONDON from Hornier. Lu ••By the Duke of RU f LAND from a town on the County of Rut c:. ny the Bishop of C H ESTER from a town in Chi shire, from ‘‘erTington, and from the Dissenters of Trinity Hall Chapel, Al doll:ate-street. fly Lord KENYON from two places in Denbighshire. By the Duke of NE‘VCASTLE, from a place we did not hear. It ) the Earl of RODEN, from Lambeth-street chapel, West. annrer; from St. George's, Hackney ; from the Dissenters of tnon.street Chapel, Surrey ; from the Dissenters of Crown-street (hotel (Middlesex) ; from a Baptist Congregation in Middlesex; and tram the Baptists of Shouldham-street Chapel. liv the Ilishop of ST. DAVID'', from T. W. Dixon, &Curate in the diocese of Killala. BY the Bishop of GLOUCESTER, from a place we could not kew. And nine petitions from different places by the Earl of B RAFTF.SBURY. Lord CALTHORPE presented a petition from a numerous 7e) of inh a bi ters of Birmingham, in favour of the Catholic 4 timts. The Noble Lord read a letter, which stated, that efforts but been made by • clergyman in Birmingham, in one of the prin. e !PalFhapels, to procure signatures to an Anti-Catholic Petition. bleb unproper interference ought to be reprobated. Ile believed ''t the greater part of the educated population of the empire was lei:trout of the Catholic Claims. Petitions in favour of the Catholic Claims were presented by L. 4.1 KING from the Unitarian Dissenter, of Tavistock ; from Ki r - 1 Per C etrt . .. , . ....,:__,-.... . ...._ - - 4 .,. re. sr : •1 . ....• , + 4 . it '• s . 11. A ... 4C 4 it , • ••• or,. pm sin . . ..,51 - 4•!•• ~.;- il lik L l4r Ail •-• . • .411, 1 . . • • - P ' • .• . . .. . • --- ' Tir 1;111 - 1NEs1) , . 'j''lP PT 7 l r the Unitarian Dissenters of Cullumpton (Devonshire), and from Stroud (I iloucestersh ire). 'rite Marquis of DowNsitlßE from the hankers and mer chants of Belfast ; from the Presbyterians of Bangor (County Down), and from two respectable and opulent manufacturers. The Marquis of LONDONDER lir presented a petition from Darlington (Durham), and sail:—This is a petition against the Catholic Claims. and I could wish that it had been placed in the hands of the Noble Lord on the %roebuck, who is connected with tltc county of Durham, and whose sentiments con cur with those of the petitioners. As I ant now addressing your Lordships, I will take the opportunity of expressing my opinions on this great question, as briefly as I can. When I consider how often and how ably the important topic of the Catholic claims has been discussed, and when I consider the many eloquent speeches which will be delivered upon it in the course of fain night's debate, I fear it will be regarded as presumption in me, who ant unused to 'public speaking, to address your Lordships at all. Bat as I feel very strongly upon the subject, I will give utterance to those feel ings now es her than interrupt the coming dimitation. My reasons are these : under the dipensatioa of Pr. , edeece, 1 hare, very unfor. tutiately for myself, and unfortunately too fur my country, come into the possession of large estate* in Ireland, and I have therefore an especial interest in the tranquillity of that country. But there is another, my respect few a departed relative, under whose care and in whose principles I was bred. That Muir., I venture to say, was one of the moat efficient and honest Stineenten that this country ever possessed. (Hum, hear.) As a subject Ido not overpraise him, and as a brother I earin..t say too moth. I knew his send. meets thoroughly, aid, if he was io one thing more sincere than in another—i r there was see subject which more than another pressed so bib maid, it was air ese tire CILLIIAC Questiun fairly mid folly understood. He only regretted that theologies! and Internal diffi culties of the country did not enable kin) to take such an active part in promoting the measure an he wished, and that he could not at once accomplish leis desires. Ever siuce the legislative Union of the two countries under that great man, 3lr. Pitt, my lamented relative, thought that the measure was nut complete (hear, hear), unless Catholic Emancipation was carsied. (Cheers.) If there was no pledge to that effect, there was, at kid, 'something very like it. (lean) Had his life been spared to the country, be would have called upon his Slajeaty'a Aliniatera to redeem that pledge. These were his sentiments, and I hope God may send his spirit to animate the Cabinet of his 31ajesty. and induce them to carry a measure so necessary to the tranquillity and p eace o f I re . land. I hope that your Lordships will forgive this trespass on ,your time, bat circumstanc e d as I am, and feeling as I do, I could not refrain from expressing myself as I have done, though, I fear, most imperfectly. ( Ilene) Lord DACRE presented a Petition in favour of the Catholic claims, signed by 200 Sergeants at thaw and Barristers. Lord DUDLEY and WARD presented a Petition front the Protestant Dissenters of Dudley. The Bishop of NORWICH from the Presbyterian Clergymeo in London, connected with the Church of Scotland. Lord HOLLAND, three Petitions from the Uniurians in and near Exeter. The Marquis of BUTE, from Cardiff. His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, from the Arch deacon and Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury. The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a petition from Dun stable against the Catholic Claims.—Laid on the table. The Marquis of L.INSDOWN presented a peltion from two Heads of Colleges in Cambridge, from 30 or 40 Fellows, and 80 or 90 Graduates of that University, accompanied by the names of 30 members of Oxford University now in town, praying that the Ca tholic' Claims be granted. The Noble Lord said, the petition was signed by the Professors of Greek, of Anatomy, of Astronomy, o! theology, and indeed by some of the most considerable men of the University. The Noble Marquis presented another petition from 100 Gra duates of both Universities—The petitions were laid on the table. The Marquis of IsANSDOM N presented a sindlat petition from ten Protestant Peers, not Members of the House, and many of the great Landowners of Ireland, residing in the vicinity of Dublin.—Laid on the table. The same Noble Lord presented a petition from Liverpool, signed by 7.000 persons, and representing six millions of property. —Laid on the table, The Duke of DEVONSHIRE said he had two petitions to pre sent, both praying that the Catholics be admitted to a participation in the rights of their Protestant fellow-subjects, as the only means of promoting the peace and prosperity of Ireland. One was signed by a large proportion of the inhabitants of the County of Waterford, and the other by the inhabitants of the town of Bandon, hitherto the strnng.hold of Protestantism; yet now praying for Catholic Emancipation as the only method to secure public tranquillity. Every day, indeed, afronted fresh proofs of the anxiety of all classes in Ireland to abolish those religious distinctions which had hitherto produced discord there, and by timely conciliation give security to all classes of its inhabitants. They had now the concur. ?ewe of both Catholics and Protestants in the measure, and he hoped their Lordships would not reject a measure which was desired by all parties, and so consonant to reason anti justice: for if danger was to be held out as an argument against the measure by the Protestant inhabitants of Catholic Ireland, he would understand and feel its force: but when the whole Pro testant body implored their Lordships to pass the Bill, he thought there was no longer any pretext for refusing it. They asserted that the safety and security of the country depended on it. Th.. Catholic question had been agitated for more than 23 years, and had been supported by nearly all the ablest and most enlightened statesmen in England and Ireland. It was daily gain. ing friends and making converts. The Catholics were daily ad. ranting in intelligence and wealth. The question ought not to be left to sleep. the present moment was mast important. It was • time of peace. 'rhe other Ilouse of Parliament had pro nounced a favourable opinion. If the present moment were neglected, who could say that concession hereafter would not come too late ? Divisions and dietuthances would again arise, and the old horrors would be renewed. But if the question were lost this night, it must one day be carried. Did any one be lieve that the just claims of the Catholics could be for ever with held ? No rational man could think so. Irhy then hazard by a present refusal so many advantages, when after that refusal must be in vain ? Let the two countries be immediately and firmly united by equal laws. He was rejoiced to see the question in such able hands. They had his entire concurrence. Be trusted that their Lonlshipit would by their decision do credit to themselves and Justice to Ireland • that they would wipe off the stain from British legislation. and abolish those hateful distinctions which disgraced and weakened the empire, and consolidate the national strength by uniting the national hearts. (Hear., Earl GREY, in presenting a petition from a congregation of Dissenters in Hanover-square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in tavour of Catholic Emancipation, called their Lordships' attention to a part of the prayer of the petitioners, in which they stated that they had never wished to trouble the House with their opinions upon this subject, but that they felt themselves compelled to come forward on this occasion, to remove the stigma which had been Cast upon the whole body of Dissenters by some few aho had prayeil that House not to grant to their Catholic fellow-subjects civil and reli gious rights. (Ilea%) The petition was then laid on the table. The same Noble Lord then presented petitions from the Cathelic inhabitants of Liverpool, the Catholic inhabitants of the county of 3lunaglian, the Catholic inhabitants of Preston, in Lancashire, and the inhabitants of Wigan, in the same county. praying the removal of Catholic disabilities.—These petitions were laid on the table. ENGLISH CATHOLICS. . . whose rapid advances to unexampied power and prosperity have , the present position dale Roman Catholics—what k watt they de not been impeded by religious gisheiniae. th at moot fertile source aired, and what were the Melilla by which they sought to antra et Of all evil, and whose present gveint ent bat boo 'stately supported what they desired, and waist would be the result of making the by the utter extinction of all civil ae clilliWeeme. mod I ti concessions which they now sought for. They enjoyed a full and Ifthe protection granted by its ' to di dediatoms i tics exercise of their relieton..—they enjoyed a right of prolserty 111:1 persuasions. ( fled% bear. New) Tido 'disdain tallier. ear ;fully as the members of the Established Church, and it was id le to Lords, that which has be faleoiy sin& cobeeedeeilly emended maim In declamation to 016Si...oats, enactments which were reyead to than in a petition which him dile night. bus yresooteel 1 were than half a century agO, as descriptive of the prevent positing to your Lordships, from a person like troj yeekebot dm awn* ter. , which the Roman Catholic, vat-tared in the Stale. Again, loon ligious opinions that they do ; whit Woe Opinions lie beide now I : ing to the civil offices of Me gtati, many of them were eligible to know not ; but, my lairds, they Makin' any ingiallid dieetance, ; and occupied places of trua;An the Revenue and in other de sari and they declare themselves reedy now, ee it Is • known they menu of the Government. ~ They had also been long admitted into have so often done before, to defend the Crown ask tfMioet of i the army and navy, ( Hear ! hear.) Sn far their position was this kingnom against any foreign Prince, Prelate, I, Poster, or highly advantageous,: but what more did they seek for ? Political Potentate upon earth. (Doud cheers.) On dam !ids, my I power—a participation in our doir.eaic Government, anti in our Lords, the petitioners earnestly hope dog yo.w will, In G overnment, abroad ; as he believed the only exception made consideration consideration of the advantages 16 be dean * fowl gvaating their 1 I from which they were to lee etc/tidal was that of Lord Ideate. claims, and the danger which my be hooselei by refusal, at last of Ireland. And if they were admitted to those offices and higli places relieve them from that situation shah b Mince en injury end a of truer, would not the result be that the Roman Catholics would disgrace, excluding them free their Jest dew s add making us aim at the gradual re-establishment of their Church. This oppor. objects of diegrs!* and contempt. I IMP% trey L. I amid state milky he was not for one dispersed to give them. &ranched as he was my hapless( imams this night were opell es my ateeietion of the to the present connexion between Church and ;(:ate. and believing justice pf the petitioners' claims, and it* yollopoirl. _ ispetlienerof Metteueuexiou to be for the security , send welfare cf both. Rut it granting them. This petltioo come, Nembilliodoi by the .high had heat said that the doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ebreesee of trop seltatsser so Illieb CMS the Noble were not swell now as they had formerly been. This he w o uld ale- LadlakerPoul) boor . set eolraorpoome- by ; acne twit they were now such as they had ever been, he ' , mild wog s c ir ea" end oterloseloro oojeer , but ea men die. refer to the writings of one of the !Alan and most prominent of their tioggebed by orbit mod salboory In dee Post of dome*, oo churchmen of the present day. Dr. Doyle,, the titular Bishop of ail ocaniere whops *de etoono7 tloorodett dolirsetwieeo. filar) Kildare, in a letter addreased to the Martinis Wellesley, denied It ammo see, Leede„ by osoootrieks petitiOas of a greet the juitice of the law by which the Church heW Its proßet't Jo portion of tbe Peefmerst pe olt is belialt, that the *sager Ireland. The same writer, in a letter to the Catholic A ifracrition, apprehended from granting, _ an an longer firkin spoke of the detestation in which they should hold thaw who differed this sawritennevitasee a. • Noble , ••••• WA aireseiebt. iliotio- front thew in religion. An Women which weighed straggly with guished hiemellt, m well by the wisdom of hie sent manta as by the him wasabe concealment which the Ilielseps undertook to keep with mannerof hisdelivering them. asid.where those daogers would bethe 'respect to their com nmunicatio with the Pope. At their online. most keenly fat, and where any opposition should bare the greatest don, one of the vows which they took was, " Consilium Domini weight. lhe Bill now before your hardships comes too recap. Pain termini thorn." Dr. Doyle he believed did not go so far ; mended as well by the assent of the Protestant population of Ire- but there was a passage in his writings in which he said, that al. land as by a vote of the Reprmentatives of the people who though rebellion was raging in the country, no Roman Catholic have now, for the second time, sent to your Lordship* their Priest or Bishop would excommunicate a member of their flock. consent to the relief of their Catholic brethren. (Hear, bear.) 'l'u show that such had been the doctrine of the Roman Catholic 011 this night there had been, as on others, a great deal of discussion Church at all times, he would reter to the eloquent' Bossuet, on the subject of the degree of public feeling exhibited by the Bishop of. Menx. In a sermon which he preached before the petitions presented to your Lortiehips: by some these petitions had King' and Chancellor of France, in enumerating their praises, he been taken to show a deckled fading against the Bill—by others it particularlycommeadell them fortheirztal in the "extermination of has been sought by observations sill the mannerof their being got heretics." Such had ever been their doctrine; it was unchanged and up, and the means used to procure signatures, to show that they unchangeable. Of the auxiliary measures by which it was supposed had directly the contrary effect. I will not, my Lovd, take upon to render the present meoureaceeptable, he hail heard withsurprise, me to decide which of these conflicting Micron may be right ; but for the fin: time since the Revolution, the establishment of an this much 1 will say, both from wiad I have heard and from my endowed Catholic Church in Ireland. Olean hear.) Domestic own personal observation—that there has not been one petition nomination was also spoken of as a security ; for it was right tri from a county—hardly one from a great town against the Catholic apprise, that there wax a Dean and Chapter, and all the fonneof a claims, where there had not been see or mare petitions more nume. religion, ready to step in and to fulfil all the functions of an estab rously signed on the other side of Me question--and that there had fished religion, should it be established. HeIVIIII surprised, however, been no public meeting held upon the subject, where the majority that no power was given to the Sovereign of this kingdom in the had not been two to one i 3 favour of the Catholics. (Hear, hear.) nomination of Bishops:. although such was given to the other non- And, to y Lords, whatever may be said of the majority in the other Catholic Sovestimis of Europe, and to the King of Ilano v e r House, I would maintain, that considering how that House is situ- (hear), yet It was refused to be conceded by the Catholice of Tre ated, on the eve perhaps of a general election, a time of all others land. la the Commission which was proposed to be appointed, he the least favourable to a question of this kind—l would say, that observed that the several bulls and resenpts which were proposed with all thecircumstancea of such a situation operating against them, to be submitted to the Commission were not to be submitted to the there was a strong manifestation of feeling even in the majority inspection of any of the Members of his Majesty's Government in with which the Bill was carried, and that much as I admit that Ireland. Such were the measures proposed to neutralize the elan- House may stand in need of reform, I doubt whether this Bill gas which lie anpreheteled ; but he for one saw n i security in would have been presented at the present mostient at your Lord- them. Several large religious institutions already existed in 'hese ships' bar if there had not been in that House the strongest convie- countries. That powerful and aide body the Jesuits, who- were tion of such a measure being not disagreeable to the general banished even from Catholic countries, were sheltered here without wishes of the country. I say, therefore, that it public feeling is law, and as he thought against law. He thought that they ought not altogether decidedly favourable, which perhaps it would be not to be admitted into this country, nor any other portion of the too much to assert, that it is at all events in a state of tranquillity, Roman Catholic clergy excel)t the secular clergy. The only aecu and that if we had a Cabinet united upon the question, not coin- city that he SAW against the Roman Catholics, was the exclusion of posed of heterogeneous material., not suffering every thing to be ef. their' from all participation in political power. (Hear, dal a fected by a kind of chance medley.—but I repeat an united Cabi- laugh.) lie was not an enemy to emancipation; but the emanci. net (cheers), as to the policy and wisdom of granting the Ca- nation of which he was an advocate was en emancipation from ig. thulic Claims, that my opinion is. in the present state of the norance, and the misery that their poverty and the under-letting public mind, all obstacles might be surmounted, and the cause of and 'subdivision of lands in that country was productive of. Al civil and religious liberty be borne throutgb this House in triumph though an artful leader might endeavour to make it appear that (loud cheers), that we might now see benevolence and love sue- disturbances in Ireland originated in religious dissensions, yet he cod to uncharitableness and hate—that we might see peace and would undertake to say, that that misery originated in the poverty tranquillity in Ireland succeed to discord andjealousy, and that all and distress of the district in which disturbances prevailed. This parties might, by a great measure of conciliation, be brought to would be evidenced by a contrast of the north of Ireland with the give their aid to the promotion of the general good, and be at last south. In both there were persons of different religious persua. induced to live together in that state of concord and unanimity of nuns, but distress and disturbance prevailed principally in the feeling which should characterise those who profess the Christian south of Ireland. He besought their Lordships to consider that faith, and worship God on the same general precepts or religion. the Roman Catholics alone were not to be considered in the adjust- We have heard much of the influence used to procure petitions, vent of this question, but that the feelings of the Protestants of and many Reverend Prelates have disclaimed any interference in England were also to be consulted. (Hear, hear) He hoped they exciting public opinion against the Catholics. 1, for one, have no would not descend from the high situation which they held in the reason to doubt their assertions : I believe them to be holy men, country, that they would not spread &sooner t among the Pro lneapable of stating a falsehood, but may I not say that there may tenants of the Empire, and that as the other House of Parliament be something in the knowledge of their feelings and opinions upon was so nicely balanced on this question, that they would throw the this question, and that such knowledge may have a considerable ef- weight of their authority in excluding the Roman Catholics front feet in exciting time zeal of those lees fortunate than themselves, further political power. He (Lord C.) would conclude by moving who naturally look forward to them for rewards from the per- that this Bill be read again this day six months. [The Noble formance of those duties they consider pleasing to them ? (Cheers.) Lord spoke front the front of the cross batches, facing the woolsack. However that may he, this is certain, that such endeavours have Ile spoke in an extremely low tone of voice, so as to be very indis been used, and though they have been hitherto unsuccessful, who tined,' audible below the Bail can say what effect the continued effbrts of a zeal actuated by such The Marquis of ANGLESEY, after much consideration, had motives may have upon the public mind ? It'ho can say what come with great anxiety to the vote which he intended to give on may be the effect if they succeed in reviving that religious animosity the present occasion. On the ore hand he was disposed to do all which is now slumbering, but not extinguished ? That they may that was kind and liberal towards the Roman Catholics—and on fail by the enlightened feeling of the people. I earnestly hope, and the other, he was unwilling to throw down those barriers which I would say, in the language of the Noble Duke, that I trust they had so long been regarded as the protection of the British Constitu. will not succeed in preventing the union of Catholic and •Protestant, non. He had observed the concessions which had been made to , if that time should happily arrive, from being a union of interest the Roman Catholics ; and observed also the effect that these con. and affection, as well as a union of political party.—(Cheers. ) cessions had upon their conduct. These concessions were not fol. We hear, my Lords, at the corner of every street, that this is a lowed by patience on the part of the Roman Catholics until they question of tune, and that the period must come when the prayer should obtain the further privileges which they claimed and ',t ot these petitioners will be granted. Good God ! is it possible that petted, but they were uniformly followed by the increased irritation, any one, relying upon the opinion that this question must be some restlessness, and discontent of that body. (Hear, hear.) At the time or other carried, can take upon himself the fearful responsibi. Milne time that he wasrottleeiroutiof any grievance which the Roman lov of refusing it now. The moment is not, as the Noble Duke Catholics might feel, lie apprehended that it was not emancipation observed, only favourable--it is precious. (Cheers.) rhe title alone they sought for, but something more—he apprehended that may shortly be when you cannot grant the boon if you would. The they sought for the establishment of Catholic ascendancy. This he Noble Duke has told us that we are now peaceful and prosperous ; would not concede, and here he would take his stand. And although but how can human foresight look to the continuance of such a the argument of six millions of Irish Roman Catholics was resorted state ? Already do we not see clouds above our horizon in more to to alarm them, he would say, if the battle was to be fought let than one direction, and who is it can say when they may not burst it be fought in the position we could command, and, in his opinion, into a tempest ? (Cheers.) In peace and prosperity you may grant there was none so good as the old ground of Protestant ascendancy. tbese claims with honour and safety, but when the passions are (Hear, hear.) lie did not see that the present Bill offered any raised and asperities excited, take care that you do not find the guarantee for the security of that ascendancy, and he could evils you have allowed to continue incurable, and the remedy of not therefore give it his support. Ile was a friend to the concession no loner in your power. Such an infatuation, such an Roman Catholics ; and any measure for their relief consistent indifference and delay, once lust LS America ; may God grant that with the principle he had faith down for the maintenance of a similar infatuation do not separate Deland from this country, and the Protestant ascendency, should meet with his support. He inflict a wound upon its power and resources even more fatal than would therefore approve of the measure relative to the elective that unhappy dismemberment. (Cheers.) My Lords, in solicit- franchise, which did rot, in his opinion, interfere with the just and ing your favourable reception to this petition, I have said thus honest rights of any class of the community. The measure for much, and I think the best apology I can offer for troubling you the provision of the Clergy was also in his opinion a proper. at at such length is, to express a hope that I may not be called upon least it was a benevolent measure, although he could not forbear again, to take a part in the discussion. Indeed it war hardly neces- from the expression of some surprise that the Roman Catholic sary, my Lords, that I should have addressed you at all ; my opt- Clergy of Ireland denied to the Sovereign of this country the right nions have been expressed so often, and are so well known, that I of interfering in the nomination of their Bishops, which was con could not hope to make a single convert to a cause when such ceded by the Roman Catholic,' of' the otter nations of Europe. Ile powerful eloquence has been exerted by others ; and I can would give to the Roman Catholics of Ireland equal protection of only repeat, that after hearing everything that has been raid for law with their fellow-subjects, and consent to the removal of all and against this queetion for twenty years, after every debate I disabilities that did not endanger that which he (the Marquis of feel more firmly convinced of the necessity of granting what is Anglesey) deemed essential—the impregnable security not only of asked, if you wish to preserve the peace and prosperity of Ireland. the Protestant Establishment but of the Protestant Ascendancy. I would ask for the Catholics of England a complete measure of (Loud cries of hear, lies.r) Emancipation, but lat the same time beseech your Lordships to The Itlarqu's of CAMDEN. in a low tone of voice, next bear ice mind that the Roman Catholics of liiigland are very din addressed the noun : he had been engaged (as we understood) facility situated from the Roman C a tholics of Ireland. I would on the measures of relief to the Roman Catholic+ in the year call upon you to extend to the English Roman Catholics those Inela and he could bear testimony to the patience and ex laws, out of indulgence but of justice, which they had already. emplary conduct which they manifested at whatever dieap. granted to Ireland. I hope sincerely that in your wisdom the full pointments they might have experienced about that period. measure of Emancipation may be carried this night, but at Many persons considered the endowment of a Roman Catholic lent I trust that you will remove the striking anomaly now upon College at Maynooth an improper anti impolitic measure; he was your statute-book, by raising the Roman Catholics of England to aware that much sentiments were entertained on the subject, and an equal footing with the Roman Catholics of Ireland. (Hear, that it might be saiu to be a prevalent opinion. He did not concur hear, hear.) The Noble hoed concluded by moving that the pe- in that opinion, and lie thought individuals must, on a little eon. titian be received and ordered to lie on the table. eiderstion, see the policy and necessity of such an establishment. CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. He had had opportunities of seeing the state, and knowing the feel. The Earl of DONOCUIDIORE moved the second reading of ings of the Irish people, having been in that country in an official the Roman Catholic Relief Bill. After the long disco:alone which situation at a troublesome and dangerous periol ; and he always had already taken place on this question, and after the repeated op. would feel it his duty to bear testimony to their conduct under dr. portunities of addressing their berlships of which he had from cunestances of a most untoward nuttier. He had been in Ireland in time to time availed iiimeelf on this important question, he would the year 1793, when there were good opportunities of judging of not now trespass on their attention. Ile would repeat that which the state of the feelings of the population, and at a subsequent lie had often before said, and which he sincerely felt, namely, the period he had thought it his duty to address a letter to Mr. Pitt on injustice of excluding men from civil rights on the ground of dif- the condition of that country. During the French invasion of ferences in religious opinions. If such a principle were permitted 1797—sa most trying mid alarming juncture—he could bear testi to prevail, there was at once an end to the freedom of the British niony to the good and loyal conduct of the Irish peasantry. They Constitution. It was idle to talk Of their liberties and their boasted had afforded every possible assistance to time soldiery, and shown independence whilst they treated the Roman Catholics of Ireland every disposition to diseountdance and oppose the invaders. This as if they were actually slaves, and endeavoured to extinguish the feeling had exhibited itself on the line of march of the enemy, and thoughts of liberty in their minds. Ile would not at present tree- the roads by which liis,:tlajeety's troops had to advance to meet the pan tunlier on the attention of their bonlships, but reserve any invaders. In consequence of their loyalty and obedience, it appeared thing else that he might b e di s p o sed to address to their Lordships to be the intention of the Legislature to do something effectual for until he had heard the objections which Noble Lords might enter- the relief of the Roman Catholics at tie period of the Union: but lain to the measure. The Noble Lord concluded by moving that that intention had not been coiled into effect. lie thought there the ltdman Catholic Relief Bill be read a second time. could be no more favourable opportunity than the present for effect. lord COLCHESTER rose to advert to some of the grounds ing that object. Ile was riot tube driven out of his course by ebui- . which had been relied upon by the advocates of this measure, in boons of public feeling, and from a conviction of its propriety he support of the expediency of passing it now. The putting down now came forward to give his support to this measure. Now that of the Catholic Association had been referred to as a ground for the Roman Catholic Association had been put down, and no appre passing the present measure ; that was an Association, the nature hension of any kind was to be entertained, he thought it the fit and of which Wa4 at variance with the spirit of the Constitution, and proper period to concede - lie measure sought by so large a body of which was accordingly suppressed by the powers of the Constitu- their fellow-subjects. This, he would say, was his fixed and set. Lion The evidence, too, given before the Parliamentary Inquiry, tied opinion, without going further into the details .. the measure. had been made a ground for passing the present Bill. He (Lord With respect to another topic that had been strenuously urged by Colchester) came to a very different conclusion front the perusal of the opponents of the Catholic Cmime—the authority possessed by that evidence, aid he certainly at least saw nothing in the evidence the Pope in Ireland, he wished to offer an observation. The ex. to remove the fundamental objections which he had taken to this istenee of that authority had been denied upon oath by the Roman measure, although there was much in that evidence which in other Catholics, and he believed from his heart, that neither the Pope, respects he hoped would be productive of much benefit to Ireland. nor any other foreign Potertate, could lay claim to the slightest He sincerely believed that, in his opposition to this measure, his temporal authority in Ireland. On general grounds then, e sou with feelings were in unison with the general feeling, of the nation. His the view of conciliating the feelings anti affections of t . ii Ca tho lic . ricrrer opposition, however, to the Roman Catholics, was not to their ad- commenity, he would support the measure. And herr,r,ruhitmaylf per- State; to a full participation of the honours and ernolumenteof the the affectionate and friendly ;IC was ready to consent to their participation of every thing milady in that country, andfeeilni'llnguesndeinsflabyyedthreAdial support he short of political power. Here he would take his stand (hear); Lad experienced from many ind ividuals there tin , g h t e d f t e h lt e a m gr m ea ure t an ne x w i. but, in the conaideratioa of this question , it was but right to regard ety that their Lonlships woul d, by I Price 7d. Earl GREY thensit7isClhavenrWti present a petition to your Lordships. signed by the Duke of Norfolk, the Premier Peer of England, by the whole of the Roman Corn: :ic Peers of Great Bri tain, by all its ancient gentry, and by many other respectable per sona of the Roman Catholic persuasion, to the number of, I believe, thirty thousand persons, praying for a repeal of those unjust and impolitic laws, which, for no fault committed by them, but on ac count of their adherence to a religious belief which it does nut de pend upon them to change, exclude them from a participauon in those constitutional rights and privileges which are enjoyed by the other classes of the conmiunith The petitioners, my Lords, speak with perfect respect to your Lordships, but they speak with tear , lestness and firmness—in the tone and language of men deeply oen alble of the justice of their claims—in the language of men conscious or their own worth, and of their title to the enjoyment of that civil and religious liberty, which cannot be perfect when a great mass of our fellow-subjects are excluded from their share in its advantages; and they say, my Lords, that they can never cease to complain to your Lordships, while they remaiii in a state as degrading to them as It is disgraceful to us. (Hear, hear.) They appeal to the evi dence of individual members of your Lordships' House as to their loyalty and integrity, and they proudly assert their title to the estate of men, from their invariable practice of pure principles of morality. and front their discharge of all the duties of social life, with a val not to be exceeded by their Protestant brethren, where ever they were nut impeded by the jealous spirit of laws as unjust as they are impolitic. They maintain else, my Lords, that there is nothing in their religion inconsistent with the principles of a free Government. (hear.) And they appeal to the history of those times when Protest:it:ism was not the religion of this country ; I mean to the periods before the Reformation ; and they call upon your Lordships to declare, if there was any failure upon their part in the maintenance of the rights of the subject against the en- Vroaehments of arbitrary power. (Hear.) They assert also, my Lords. from the example of modern times, that there is nothing in their creed incompatible with the principles of a free Go vernment—nothing inconsistent with the full exercise of civil and religious liberty. They call upon your Lordships to look at the continent of Europe; anti first they would direct your at tention to Switzerland, where Protestant and Catholic Cantons.— the last certainly not the least numerous and powerful, rule to gether i t harmony and peace, untlist-rh,.. : by political or religious dissension. They call upon your Lordships to look at France, where a Catholic Sovereign has granted by charter equal rights and privileges to his Protestant and Catholic subjects. (Hear.) At the Netherlands, where Protestant Holland has been united with the Cattiol'e provinces of the Catholic House of Austria, under the special gm.rantee of Great Britain. (Hear, bear.) At Hanover, where all distinctions upon the ground of religious opinions have been repudiated by the liberal and enlightened Sovereign of this country so equally impolitic and unjust. (Hear.) At Canada, where, under the same wise and beneficent direction, Catholics and Protestants have been admitted to an equal partici pation in the right of legislation. And last, above all to America, "NMI I , before them, quiet the apprehensions, and unite the affections fa': ' all classes of his Majesty's ettbjecse in Ireland. Ile would repeat what he had already pressed upon their Lardships' attention, that I ho fitter time than the present could be chosen for carrying the pro posed measure into effect ; and under this impression, and en the best consideration, he now came forward ft) give it his full, cordial, and most unqualified suppert. The Earl of DARNLEY entirely concurred in the sentiments pf the Noble Marquis (Camden) who had last addressed their eeordships. Ile thought with that Noble hoed, that the present was the time for the adoption of this measure, if it was ewer W. tended to adopt It. His Noble and Gallant Friend (the Margie. of Anglesey) appeared to entertain a contrary opinion, and lie watt itady to admit, much as he differed from the sentiments expressed by his Noble Friend, that by no one could his opinions (such as they were) be uttered with more nroprie.y and decorum of mea ner than had been done on the present occasion by the Gallant Marquis. Vet he could not avoid expressing his deep regret, that the Noble and Gallant Lord had so far permitted his profes sional habits to influence him in the discharge of his civil dutief and lead him to from the opinion which he had that night ee . pressed upon a subject so important as the present. lie thought the Noble Marquis would do well to consider the provocations which the Irish people had repeatedly experienced, and that whatever intemperance-of language they might at times and seismic* of great irritation have given tato, they had never departed teem their loyalty, but stood firm to their allegiance in a most trying and tliffirult emergency. ellen the Gallant Marquis talked of telling tip a position against the present measure, he ehould reflect ' hpon the consequences of that resolution; and, considering that strong as his position might he, he might find it unpleasant to have his flacks and rear attacked, and i i n erheps be reduce) to a situation from which all his skill and t r y would not he suf. ffcient to extricate him. flowerer , fa, part ' fofluenced by . thet dictates of common Christian clualty, and knowing how he himself would feel, if placed in a ,;(nation similar to that of the Roman Catholic at the present moment, he was disposed to ex cuse, and make allowance for much more intemperate language then that bay of ecople had ever indulged in. (Hear.) On the expediency of the present measure his mind had been long made up ; and in the course of a long parliamentary life, he had seat nothing and haled no argument to induce him to swerve from his opinion. lie did hope that the time would yet arrive when his Noble Friend (the Marquis of Anglesey) would see reason to alter his present opinion, and be re-converted to the cause of humanity, justice, religion, and sound policy. At the commencement of the Session their lordships had been called on to put down the Rom= Catholic Association, by a measure, in his opinion, not very cone eQtutional in its nature. He did not mean to become the advo cate of that Association, but he wished the circumstances of the Roman Catholics fled not been such as appeared to justify the eg.. istenew of the Association. In the summer of 1792. while the eountey wan tranquil, and the Government unembarrused, the Catholics were told not to expect any concessions, and a deaf ear yes turned to their petitions ; but in less than six months those concessions were not only made, but recommended in the Speech from the Throne. If concessions were ever to be made they should be granted in a time of peace and national tranquillity, and they ought not to wait for a period of alarm and apprehension. Allusion had been made to the inquiry into the mate of Ireland, which he e l taken place berme their Lordehips. Ile thought that inquiry, which, it would he in the remembrance of the House, he had been among the first to recommend, formed a most important feature ia the case of Ireland. He confessed he was not able to come re> exactly the same conclusion from the evidence afforded by that inquiry which Nome Noble Lords appeared to draw. Their Lord ships had received some infermation from the mouths of most ua impeachable witnesses, which went to show that they, in common with the people of England, had been surprisingly ignorant of the true state of the sister country. They could not be said to be in that state at present, with the evidence afforded by that inquiry before them. But a Noble Lord appeared to have drawn a very different conclusion from that which he felt disposed to draw from that evidence. That Noble Individual considered emancipation as a mere pretence, and not the object really sought by the Roman Catholics. !le( Lord Darnley) was not disposed to concur in that opinion ; and when lie heard the assertion was almost inclined to disbelieve the evidence of his sen•es. Ile referred to the undoubted. testimony of witnesses on oath before their lordships for a con futation of that opinion. Ile did not think it fair to compare and contrast the sentiments of individuals, when heated by political anti polemical discussion, with their calmly expressed opinions, and their sworn testimony. Ben he was content to put aside and not advert to the evidence of Mr. O'Connell and Dr. Doyle before the Corn. metre. net in justice to those individuals, he felt bound to say that if the one had had the good fortune to have been educated in the established religion of the country, he would have graced Lest Right Rev. Bench, and funned en ornament to it by his piety and learning. ,}or the men gentlemen, Mr. O'Connell, under dif ferent circunistahees, lie (Earl Darnley) thought he would not have disgraced the 'Woolsack. But as he had said, he would put due evidence of those two individuals altogether out of the question, and quote the evidence of a gentleman of the greatest integrity, and who had merited and received the confidence of the present Lord Lieutenant of Ireland—he meant Mr. Blake. The Marquis Wellesley, in compliance with the spirit of the law, had placed that individual in a sitnation of trust and importance, although he was 'Catholic. That Gentleman being asked his opinion of the effect of the thodifitseion of the elective franchise in Ireland, answered ie these words—" I am satisfied that it would not weaken, bee strengthen the Protestant inte.est in Ireland; and I assure your Lordships, that it I did not think it would have that eft:et—if L thought ft would go to disturb the Protestant eettlemere in Ireland, not one of your Lordships would disapprove of it more heartily than i should. The Protestant church In Ireland is a great link ex the chain which connects Great Britain and Ireland together; and with the security of that connection, I a m satisfied the in.. tercets of Ireland are essentially identified." If the dog. mu and doctrines of the Lateran Council, and the Council of Trent, were to be taken as a preferable authority, and applied, and mtnapplied, toehe present question, he had no more to say I but if their Lordships were disposed to believe Mr. Blake upon his oath, they must then admit that there existed no wish on the part of the Roman Catholics to subvert the Protestant Estee blishments in Church or State.. Ile (Earl Darnley) was prepared to give a flat denial to the existence of any such wish or intention. But it had been urged, that if their Lordships entrusted political power to the Roman Catholics, they would abuse it. This was as objection that scarcely deserved a serious answer. The effect of the passing of the present Bill would be only to admit five or six noble families to scats in that house, which had long been their birthright, and of which they had been deprived by means of a flagitious plot, got up for the purpose by a band of perjurer; and informers. Was it to be supposed that those Noble Petra would attempt a plot for the overthrow of the Constitution, and that the 'Mike of 'Norfolk, and the Earl of Shrewsbury, oa their admission into that House would, instantly set about the de struction of the establishments of the country. For his part, he looked upon the powdered wigs of the superior clergy to be quite as essential to the reiteration of orthodoxy among us, as the main tenance of Catholic disability. Ile repeated, that the perpetuation of that clerical ornament—the wig —was as necessary to the purity of the Protestant clergy, as the perpetuation of Catholic exclusion was to the safety of the Protestant Establishment. It was obely ate argument too ludicrous to be insisted on, that besause the increased intelligence and ability of the Roman Catholic' entitled them to a ;ere to high offices In the State. they should be therefore excluded from their enjoy:rent. It had been asserted that a large number of Roman Catholics would immediately find their way into Lower House on the repeal of the existing disqoalifications. He did not think so, for lie was of opinion representation would always go with the greater weight of property. Whence, he would ask, were the Catholics to come into Parliament ? 'Was it from this country or Scotlaitd ? He thought not. And as to Ireland, he was perruaded, from what he saw and knew of that country, that the elections would not be influenced by the religion of the can. ablate., but by the natural and predominating weight of property- Ile did not think that if this Bill were to be passed, many Roman ' Catholic Commoners would obtain seats in the Lower House ; he thought not more than about double the number that would be. conic entitled as Peers to sit with their Lordships. The effect of such a very small number of inditedures must be very trifling in deed, even supposing them to harbour the intentions so errone ous] y attributed to them. It had been said , th a t th e tenor of the Coronation (lath precluded the King of England from ad mitring the Roman Catholics to the enjoyment of power: in hist opinion it did no such thing. The substance of that oath went to bind the Monarch to uphold the Protestant Church and Establishment ; how they would be endangered by the admission of a few Catholics to the privilege of holding seats in the two flosses of Parliament, he could not imagine. With respect to the petitions, which had been numerously enough, he would admit, presented to their Lordships, against the messing of the present Bill, he doubted whether they spoke the entire sense of the cottrary. Great numbers of the people were undoubtedly diepused, naturally enough, to follow and adopt the sentiments oftheir spiritual teachers, and the latter were known to be hostile to theCatholk claims. A petition had been laid on their Lordships' table from the cities of London and eVestmineter, and it was numerously signed, against the Bill. fie believed it would be easy to procure signatures to any petition t • u ect a different feeling was arising among the Protestantes: e t ; , t r e ot . e,ti i nts, i w , h or a d tsoLrer tfie tAen i, oo th i t: i ll a f k h r i m tw ol ere hi o s tie m tn ai re es m ty o . ‘ s e twheuNncoabisf.e In tier:l.o,nel of Catholic claims. lie referred to the petition f rom , P th ro e tes pr ta n indeed more so., was as muds their canoe as that of the Catholics, a nd t o e f m t a h r a k t . us in Ireland who could lay And he believed three were few ees few!' remain as they were. their hands nn their heartland ettee to timeliest itself on the part There was a been. feeling beginning , nietstanutentwTereFbengnitaxmlagnghiol.PeeiCgt anion i :n n ci o p f ati h o is n, spirit prevailing towar‘lv their Catholic fellow-countrymen, and he. popidetion of Ireland, and a more Christien-like :e l le-satisfaction to say, that a eserson most nearly with him, and of whose qualities of' heart and need he would much rather reacts should weak, had already taken the lead of that better and more Christian feeling, because he was well coo . v i n c e d that things could not remain as they were at present, and c h:ite f ri t i n h ec t e li g i e:rseou °" ; diet the way to ensure w.f...ty to the state was not by the enactment of a renal e ale. Their lendsliipe must either assent to the Hilt sow before them, or they most enact some other measure that should have the tendency to assuage the agitation which a long serie.s of opprectiye lees had at length reduced on the Catholiebody of the Irish people; Something inure must be done than bad hitherto I I 1 I 4 1 1 ; 1 '1 st Is d:. impel is Is Ost• itliar. ice, 14 go, thel e Mir' • e ldest 4 31r. 1.100, .~ ..4