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Agsenthlies of Jamaica. whereby 20 Curates we're appointed with salaries or 3001. currency ; but ii is tout being considered suf f icient to mince resprcht hle Clergymeri ot• the Church of En0...1 io pro. ed thither, the Hower of Assert)lnv nrocceded to iss u 13iI1, lucre:smug this stiproul to 5011/ rurrency. to this *object he could not refrain Isom stating. :not while the Colonial Lego,loughs displayed •ooelo seal and anxiety to obtain the means of ems hist t uction for their le Roses, the Es hntrut uf the Church of Eloglai d seemed • remiss. He of course could nut he wider.. to divert this isuput otion against the Right Reverend Prelote (the Bishop of London), who lid ever evinced a motet laudable earnestssesso in promoting the means of religume instruction ; boot it saes vertain that larger impends were required by' professor- of the Cliorch of England, to Mauve Oren to becoone than by pers o ns of other ,Neci , . It way to he lamented that lawy should eta,-t in the Colonies that tended to prevent the all- Itesei , os of persons of other PeCtii, and threw too extvonsive it power into the bends of the (lovernots, for restioneing the freedom of religious worship. It was but four to add, that, with the exception of one seet, these laws were temperately enforced, a nd m i g ht tedeed, with the exception already stated, be regard est 40'11 , 14 as Brad hotels. Their very txtidesice, how ever, otiottio hare' posier of deterring, and therefore it woo to be lamented. Some sent of - encouragement "howls! Ire held oust to persons of inch previous leoloits ut as Would not hesitate to become fa ieloar with the feelings, habits, and prejudices of the iwgroes, and who would, therefore, be most bk e ly to address iheesselres with advantage to their stilderetendiog. There was one sect, which had :.new' a very marked eeol in the diffusion of Chrts fiats knowledge, he meat the erct of the Moravian Urethren, which lie wished was more distinctly encenreged by the Colonial Asseintolies; lie could wish that the Moravian Brethren were made sub. • sisliary to the Church of I".itgland, as the Dissenters as re to the Church of Seoteird, who had exerted themselves w.tli such distiegulshed 'Merest% in the lambert parts of the American Colotimed. With respect to the third object of the Address, namely, improvement of the state the slaves, it could *weer Ile Ins-witted that their Lordshirs linsl con fined themselves solely to a regard for the mere support and clothing of the negrues. These were, or. doubt, of great importance; hut with them it war •cessary for the Home to interfere, as they might well be left to the Colonial Legislatures. who snub), of course, feel interested in attending to these points. The object of the Address was, that the religious sod moral condition of the slaves might be Unproved. He had conversed with litany enlightened colonists residing in this country, and It was their unanimous opinion, confirming his own MIMI the subject, that the uneatorul supply of labour having erased by the Abolitani Lew, te e existing slaves were thereby placed in a situation requit log great improvement in their civil cowls- Ors this subject a plan had passed through his head, which, however, was not sufficiently wa tered to be Matra to tht Ilouse, lost of whirls h r b egge d leave to slate the principle, as, to his siew of it, It coilililited the three (objects 0 1 . the i r Lorroiships' Asklietr. The registry, it linty he recollected, was always regarded by the fowls& of the abolition as the important 11).../.1111 of tutoring it. 'llw registry contained MI at I'olllli of the noirolwr of slaves soul of their Mgrs; tout to these he should recommend the atl.h. ti:m of Ilir smoother of o.e.,:tors who had been hap sisvot, 141111 tlir pro, : sers of their religious notryle tkok. lr was Oleo his object, that en snug as in the of the Rector, Cur de, mud other c privet prisons, ally slave should Imre acquired sufficient tv.iowlesl4e in the nature of Cluirdisit duties, and of hoe el - sheet of an oath, lie skunk' be alittlittr4l to got . vith•itee ill n Court of Justice. It must n i .netr 11l 11 t Ir Lord-hips that alien members of the Church required large temporal in slucemestis to tempt slits.o to undertake the (Art ..f Cbnstian illoisitolioieri it would not be inadvisa ble to extend smile is tupreal ituduremeist to I lie too. enlightened isegro, that he might Ise ilochised to engineer the tenets of Choistiaility, and steely its doctrines. It was desirable th a t some Penefitel dot shtnild How 110111 their eXertions, soul how. rail' laden alai degraded the Ilygio was in the stale or I malty, their teas use person with whom even a irifloug personial dosuuctio., had a stronger influ ence That this distinction should come through the mowers was all ativatatagr, as it would tesid to dispel the deliesioni that oust usihapisily prevailed g the iirgruer. that their niasters, in (sr( ))))) teg tiiiir religious instruction, were isofluttocral 9.4.110 . 1 by a regard to their own interests. 11 return* here irgularly made of the progress made so this respect among the slaves, he thought it might tit list on the aide of humanity and policy the lion. st 'sooty of the 'dottier, who In such a county would put wish that his estate Contained freer firliglitti.etl ue..roes that, that of another.. lit iintsentg Ibtlt plan to their Lordships he slid not &Hie that they should adopt any poet of it, fur in his 'mind a Bro. tikii House of Parliament was out the most looter place for entertaining such a question. Ile hoped in God that the time would never arise when they should have to disc's** what were the rights of a British Parliament and what of a Colonial Legisla ture ; but of this he was convinced, that nothing short sit absolute necessity should ever indoce them to pursue mra-Ores, however salutary. which might wish equal pro/suety he left with the Colossi:II A.- hear.)—The Noble Lool, tiller a few rfirllWT lIIINCIVAINIIe tot the of throwing out buggestiour in pi.-elice of those whose office might enable them, it worthy of attention, to give them effect, concluded by moving au humble Address to the Prince Rt gent bur coulee of all Acts posed by the Colonial Legisluture, in isureuatice of their Lordahipe' Ad area. In the Crown in the year 1y 16. Earl fleiliunsT ruse, not to object to the motion, hat to offer a f e w explanations which the silt tell of t oe N o bl e Lord rendered necessary ; and, first, be 'begged leper to return his lint thanks to the Noble 'Lord for the judgment and moderation of exores emu anti which he had iistroducerl the ,inject to the 14outwe With respect to the Colonial 1 ,, r ,... e b e N o ble Lord and his b Wilds might think them tardy, while they, 1111 the Other hand. Magill think ihor momenta 11110'Llilelii, 11114 probably this of on aright not br very . Iticotrret. The Address of lee House, lie the Noble Lord statvd, bad origiusted ill the excesses COllllllltted in the island of Robsdoes, where the negroes were taught to believe that they hail all bten ennuicipated by the route Regent or the Narlitionelit. The regis try required by that Address had lore:, adulated all the islands. tl oh not in precisely the terms sterol by the Bill which Rata heels i n troduced tai the House of C . The sevetal Bigotry Acts also differed in solar instances Irons each other, hut in 'lone of them (...uld a ny want of zeal or bia.cerity be discerned. l'he Bill here had declared that all slaves not registered should be ipso fiat° made tree, loot in s lI the Colonies it w,is thought Inure advis able to follow the poinciple laid down with regard to the tiestonetot of slaves claiitlestiiiely impoo tea, 161111 1111tiog apprenticed those omitted from the re wooly for seven years, then ti) make !limn free. Ile esid it was his 9644 for the purpose of rendering a strict ollserviiiite of the Regis' ry At is absolutely necessary, that a law should be passed here, by which all mortgages of estates, &e. to the West negoctated in this country, t;hould be declared illegal, if made general, without a specifi cation of the number of slaves on the estate, de . scribing accurately their ages and persons; and oleo, that in all eases where slaves were omitted front this annexed registty, such slaves should not be considered as transferred. A BM to this effect will shortly be I ght into she House of Com mons. To prove the zeal of the Legislature of Ja - 11141411, in the proiuuUml of Christimt knowledge, he alluded to ass Act, granting to Curates 500!. a year; and to esciise ilie Established Church fiiiin the charge of indifference, he stated, that by the Callon Low no) Bishop could ordain a person, 11111.. less for the purpose of immediately filling a vacancy, anal that Bishops were prevented from ordaining persons who described themselves as intruded for colonial service, from the nopossibtlity there existed of obis' • g any sectiiity room the persons to or (hoisted, that they would inimeoliately 'proceed to the Colonies, or on distaste return. lie paid is compliment to the seal of the Bishop of Loudon, but folded, that the Bishop or London had no more croutexion with the West Indies. than uny other of the fieverend Prelates on the Bench. With re regard to the scheme of the Noble Lord for pro motiog religious iostruction, he should say nothing. Much might be done by giving instructions to the Clergy, but tie did toot conceive it advisable to pro ceed at once to give all the negroes, indiscriun tritely, the advantages of education; this should he done gradually, by selecting • certain number of children. To ascertain the progress of Chris than knowledge, he had sent a circular letter tome time since to tile Governors of the several islands, by which he required an account of the number of parishes, the churches, the ouniber of persons bap -1 toed, the fees paid on baptism of negroes, and by I whom, and the returns he should lay before the House. They would, he doubted not, prove highly satisfactory. The Bishop of LONDON felt himself called upon to make sonic obseovati 111 l s. in cousequelice of what fell hoots the Noble Lord, who had brought this subject so tenoproiitcly and judiciously before their Lordships. He could not avoid expiessing his ac. knowledgments for the favourable terms iu which he had been noticed, mod he could assure the Noble Lord, that he did bun only justice ito attributing to him au rattiest desire to promote cm all of:ca sinos, as far as in liim lay, the extensiou of Chris. Dan knowledge. tie, however, could nut ogees with the Noble Lord in esery thing that had fallen from him, arid he could nut but think him over hasty in concluding, that because little had hitherto been dour by the Members of the Church of Rap land, the Church should have recourse to the es .i.tanee of other sectaries. Hitherto the Church of England had no means of educating the negroes, or of' isteressing the Humber of Clergymen. He Own noticed the Act of the Jamaica Legislature. granting to twenty Curates 300/. a year currency, or about SlOl. sterling. arsd which, on his suggess tion of its inadequacy to support • Geastleman, was afterwards raised to 300/. currency, or 36W. stir , hog. Tsar only means hitherto possessed of ex tending religious instructiou was by means of a chartered Society, founded to administer a property Irlt by a Mr. Boyle fur that purpose, and two Clergymen and Schoolmaster* were appointed by that Society. The Rev. Prelate then gated at sonic length his desire to promote the instroction of Ow negroes, and complimeuted his Majesty's Ministers on the willingness they had ever muted to hitters to his suggestions, and correct every error pointed out to their attention,. Lord HOLLAND, in explanation, said that he had 'audition-41 from giving any opinion upon the propriety of admitting u.grors generally to give cvi den. e, and merely repeated whit Ise had heard from others respecting the necessity of giving the slaves Will religious instruction before they could enjoy that slistioction.-1 he question wee then cariied. ('OA I. DUTIES. The Martinis of Latesou*n presented a Petition from certain individuals against any uneasier, fur equalising the Duties ton Coals. Thit: Pttition was similar to one which bowl been offend In the Mouse on $ former evening by his Noble Friend (Lord Granville) and which was then with drawn, (runs in opini )))) that ouch a Petition haring refer. t ion to a subject nut before the House, and that subject re. biting to taxation, conbl not he reicired, according to the rftnbllOVll USIVICC of Parliament. Much stress was then laid on the practice of the other house of Parliament ; but he had since banned that in the Hunve of Comnsoua Peti t' were received against any measure, excepting agaiust a Tax Hi • Actually pending. The reason fur this was ohr/b.. stars—hat Representatives might he directed front the true interests of the cuointry, by too peat s deferetsaa Is the Weal IlitcreOlt of partiesslar places. The Petition win Own send. anti lag on Ihe table. Lunt tiltAXIlll4.l.: presented the Petition MIS the &wet of wow., so she Como y of York, which had beats previously a iihdrawll, and which now, after a few whearvations frees the Earl of tiltaftrabory, the Marquis of lamidowts, Lord Mel litus!, and Earl Hasruwby, was received, and laid on the table During the conversation on this Patitiee, Lord GRAN twat expressed his satisfaction et learaiag that Ministers not only did unt mean to prepare aay altaratioe in Ilse pre sent Coal Duties Inn sere sesuleed se oppose every rope sitinu having that object The Hume then adjourned. HOVER OP COMMONS, TUVIIIDA‘, MAR= 4. The Hew* hayloft been rammed in hallotiog for Com mitteen un the Petitions :Irvine. the declines he %roots* aril Beverley, 'treaters were not admitted into lie sentry till ire o'clock. DFFAVITERS _ _ _ Th. sown Ef the defluliero al ti, lolled of Friday, Fehruory 18, *err called toyer. Mr. Mormoduke Lawson epprorism wh. u his name was culled, woo, attrr taw ruilverbatiun, ands inuliou math au4 pot to that (Scat, w• demi In he taken into the custody of the &Fires( at Alms (A laugh.) Mr. W. P. T. L. Writes'?, net answering to his new, was aim. un the emotion of Mr Onuniag, ordered to he takes Trio the custody of the sass? Aker lemph The names of the Members who aid not appear a 1 the ballot Sisal day were ordered so be set aside, to he reported to the House by the Sredturk we Friday, with the excep tion adulate serving, or who had served on Election Com- mittees. At *eves o'clock Ow Animist at Area announced that he bed taken Mr. Long Wellesley end Mr. lairsou tutu cus tody, is obe•iwnee to the order allow Nouse. On the wititiole of Mt. CANNING. these Iles. Mewilwrs were ordered to be discharged or the payeneut of their fees. BARNSTAPLE ELECTION. Mr. Lr' appeared at the Bar with the reduced Eat of the Member. draws ow the Selrrt Cosansitire to try the la erlif of the Petition apical the likable fur Barestaple.—The ;me, were read as follows: — John Mansfield Viseosaat Chas H• Joni& Marquis of iVormaler T. Braddyll T. T. Jones H05..1. B. Simpson Earl Compton T. F. Busters T. Freesias Hestbark Hon. H. Grey &omit W. Holmes. W. H. Pere, How R. T. lllaniard Thomas Wood The Members then withdrew. A Copy of the Reandations of the last Quarter Assembly of the ('Dart of Directors of the Lest India Company, rela tive to Pensions, was presented mad laid on the table. .. ~~~. CHARITABLE FUNDS. Mr. Carlisle presented a Rrport of the Commhailow op•' pointed under the Great Seal in inquire into the abuses of Cle mitahlr Funds, which was laic' ea the table, sad, us tk mutton of Lord Casuraratut, ordered to be rioted. COUNTY RATES. Lnrd Giosor BERZAFORD presented s Petilion frost the bilisWants of the Turn of Cappoquin, Iti the COlll4l, of Waterftwd, complaining of the inequality of Comity Rates, and praying fur relief.—Read, and Isi.l on the table. - - - - _ POOR'S LAWS. Mr. CURWT.II presented a Petition from the Town of (as we understood) Maryport, praying an amendment in the Poor's Laws.—Read, and kid on the tattle. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. _ _ Sir ROBERT Wit.soit presented a Petition from the Bo rough of Southwark, which, he said, was most respectably signed, praying the House to take tato consideratios the Law respecting Debtors and Creditors, and to revise the same —Read, and laid on the table. PENAL CODE. Mr. BLlfietTT presented a Petition from the inhabitants of Yarrow ' in the West Dieting of York, praying a revisal of the Penal Code —Read, and laid on the table. Sir JAN'S Gamuts said, be held in his hand a Petition from the Magistrates, Churchwardens, Overseers of the Poor, and other Inhabitants of the Town of Carlisle, stating the alarming increase of pauperism sad Poor's Rates, and pray ing a revision of the Poor's Laws. Mr. Cvawax said, the stagnant; of the Petitioa mili tated strongly against the picture of the flourishing state of the country, drawn by the Noble Lord a tittle time Mom. He trusted they would map the attention of the Commit tee en the Poor's Laws. Read, ordered to he on the table, and be printed. WINDOW TAX. Mr. GILMAN presented a Petitioa from the Inhabitants of the parish of St. Peter, Dublin, for a total repeal of the Wisdom Tax.— Read, sad laid on the table. PROTECTING DUTIES._ _ _ Mr. W. BURRELL presented * Petition from the Land. owurrs ■ud Land-holders of the Comity of Sussex. fur pro. tretiog Autirs uu the products of the soiL—ltead,aud laid on the table. COAL DUTIES. tievr lax. .....-.. _ _ ....,. Mr. LIVOIf presented a Petition from Bewdley, in Worces tershire against the imposition of any inland tax oa Coal. Ilia famlicict.Loit of the EircasQUlßß was swore of the inconvenience of discussing questions of importance in that incidental manner; at the same time he could not negket the opportunity of saying, that be did not nitrate any combi nation of circumstances in which it would be prudent to alter the laws fixing the duties au Coals.—(Henn ) Mr. LaSIBTON said, the pressure of the tax on Coals car ried coastwise was felt must severely by his constituents. Several meetings bad been held in that part of the country, with a view towards procuring its repeal. Feeling that the persons on circumstanced were entitles! at least to have their allegations considered, it was his determination to move fur the appoiutioent of • Committee, to inquire into the facts stated in their Petitioss; not, however, till many more Petitions iii preparation shoalil have been presented. Mr. DATaIIPoRT was repulved to give his decided opposi tion In any measure imposieflia tax on hiked Coal. Such a measure would be the absolute 'via of the various branches of the iron trade the men employed is which were already labouring under the must severe pressure of distress ever known in the country. It would, is the next place, be ex irrinely unjust to the persons who had embarked their capi tal in mining awl iron CIIIICtf as, on the faith of Parliament. Such • duty would he also injurious to the general coesumer and the country at large; and the Miracler who should lay a tax on the raw material, would evince a very slight ac quaiateece with political ecumemy. A Member, whose name we could not Irani, said, that the declaration of the Chancellor of the Exchequer did rat ap pear to him very satisfactory. Fur his part, he should not be satisfied till he heard that Gentleman give a decided premise that he wrald oppose the appointment of the Com mittee. In order that he might be the better prepared to oppose it, he should feel obliged to the Member fur Dur ban; (Mr. Lembo's') to say, whether be intended to move for the appointment of the Committee before Easter. Mr. laistrron had already stated it to be his Wraiths,' to more fur the appointment of a Committee. That was all the Petitioners against the existing duties at present desired, oud that, he thought. they might justly demand. When that was obtained, of which he had confident expectations, it would be competent to the Hon. Member to appear be. furs it, and give whatever evidence he could produce. It was not Loner's only that experienced the oppressive effects of tax, but all the maritime coaraks. The decline of the coal trash at Sunderland had been so considerable of late, as to throw 300 seamen out of employment. The How. Measlier foe Surrey :.Mr. H. Sumner) bad announced his io testier, also to wove for a Committee; perhaps be might state, whether he should bring on his motion before Laster. Ile could not mention any &Suite time, as his course would depend on the reading up the Petitions be had spoken of. The Cuaucat.t.on of the EXCNICQUaII had certainly be fore meant to imply, that at whatever time the Committee should be moved fur he should oppose it, as be was of *pi nkie that the agitation of the question would be productive of nothing boot hiconvenimece.—(Haar.) Mr. Cotneifenaw said, that the question ought to undergo a fair and fall discussion. Many more Petitions would be restated, and the interests of the Petitioners were of such merited* that it became the House to attend to their desires. Mr. H. Sumer said, that whatever part the Members for London might take, who bad originated the quad** in. aratber place,. he Weld ant shriek from bringing the geniis/a before the House. Having been referred to by the Member for Durham, h• should ray, that had be come to any determination re:praline the traitor movieg fur a Coin nadir+.' be should slot withhold it. Ile conceived the le peop lie represented to he most grievously oppressed by the local tax—surf be was sarprisrd at the spear they exhibited; bet if they neglected their interests be should out—he should 'epistle to them the situation they stood M— ite should hare Petitions from them on the laths, and be trusted, that notwithstanding the declaration of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, be should prevail sport hr Horse to give them a hearing. Mr. Wit.som thought the nee of the poor of Are City of London deserving of coookletatiou. He hoped, with the Member for Surrey, the House would grant them a hearing. Mr. C. CAI.TraT hoped the opposition of the Chararllor of the Era:limner would be gut over. The Borough of Booth ! work hail been the drat to polities, and be bad no doubt they would seed in more. Mr. Steurrr Aimed it.tieskslole the gayeties should rearivt as ampli dipeasi.ion. Ile ii*4 an 614 , 4 16 m in 11 repel ufauuld, but could aut causes' to the taipu.itt.... Mr. I.YTTet.ToSt said, the garilion nail toot whether London and other !slower should he rrlicer.l, hot "Flo dor there shoot., be a general rgnatheatioto, o h;eh 'from lh , ow ret.sity of a femme) ineplo..l iiie new ditty. If Ilse Chancellor of the Excheiorr ehoohl lay a new lam on that article. in Ike Inland iste.inbaritiiiix it would destroy Ilts lirsnelses of industry stud wide., wlss, h were now only relieving from a %We laturatsr sod exlssoi- H u sssare dist s ss•ing liue isa rn.sist us: to stse pr.spie of Lass Muss, it asssold be doubly itstuteralSr su alir Usti:4l.o*mq of the tri sua rss I su tog fanatics, wbolrver is lair's s•sunse. Mr. 11. Davis sdid a few words, ish,s Is arse not u.laLle lu Ise. . . A new Membe►, whine mime we roui , l tiol teem Issntrio. ed to is, that the die.tresuee of the Illilltiiirietistry) • nel• Never greater thou it the present 111(Mieni rn al u a au eon td, world manifestly increase them, be thought it los duty to protest az:lima it Ak/erman WatTnnias said, that the envy of Loudon 111.1 not yet petitioned the I,gislature on flee aubjeci, but lee bi•lievell it Wil% their intention to Ate so. - The Petition was then read and told on the table. DEP Eft I.EY ri,EcTion. IH,. Ley preeeeted the rednee.l list of th. Weinb,r4 c h osen un the Committee to try the merits of the Primo , ' against doe Elective fur Bereslry —The unmet were read as fol. lowa :..... Hon. R. Donde* J. T. Thorp Earl of Serena Hun. C. A. Pelham James Browne Hon. Fred. St. John T. Thitidss C. H. Hutchinson The Committee then retired. Mr 11111111VEN presented a Petition from Bradford, in Yorkshire, against ally alteration in the Coal Dative.— Read, and laid on the table. The same Member, after some prefatory remarks, pre sented a Petition from Westboro, praying fur a diminution of the shades on leather, soap, and candles. Mr. CVRWEN made some observations on the Petition— s/inch was then read, and laid on the table. A Petition against renewing the Insolvent Debtors Act was preterites!, read, and laid on the table. Iliarneint Bernard Sir It. Frreneo J. N. F kT IL Power %bolos. of Biendford P INltspre Akita-moo S%nud. GAOL DELIVERIES. A Petition presentedwas from the Inhabitaots of the City of Norwich, praying the House to adopt such measures as to give them the benefit of two general gaol deliveries in the yesr.—Read, end laid us the table. The motive of a 11101i011 fur papers relative to the govern ment of the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen, wu postponed from the 16th to the 23d intent. CATHOLIC CLAIMS. Lord NuolaT ro►e, and spoke to the following effect . •, Sir—l have the honour to hold in my hand the Petition of the Roman Catholics of England. a body who form a considerable part of its popish'. bon, praying to be relieved from the penalties and disabilities which press upon them.—(Heer.)— It is signed by upwards of 10,300 persons, many of them the representatives of the noisiest and most ancient families in the kiugdom—Wear.)—Among the siKnatures appear those of eleven Peers, Oil.. teen Baronets, arid malty hundreds of most is. spectable gentlemen. The House will bear with me while I add, that the name at the head of ri•is list is, that of the Luke of Norfolk, hereditary Earl Marshal of England, premier Peer—(liens.) For the present I shall content myself with 00000 tong, that the Petition be read and laid on the tAle, without inquiring what measures the House may hereafter deem desirable or practicable in compli. ance with its prayer; particularly as Members must be in possession of the itature and bearings of the question, from the fell and ample discussion it hoe undergone on former occasions. The letiguage of the Petitioners is temperate and respectful in the very highest degree; they do not presume to pre scribe to the Legislature the mode or measure of relief which they humbly seek.—( Hear.)-1 think, however, that their application is peculiarly entitled to the consideration and attention of the Hotter. It is expressed in nearly the same terms es the Peti tion which has often before been presented from the same body; and which, though it failed of success. gained, I may say, the general approbsti and kindly feeling 01 t..e House, for the temperitteness, discretion. and modesty of its ) In bringing ►his Petition under the tritice Of the House. the memory irresistibly forces itself on one of those great and good men, now no more, to whose hands it was for many years intrusted. The r.eol. lection, while it snakes me feel how incompetein I am myself to succeed to such worthy nod cele brated men--at the same time convinces me what strength the cause has derived and should derive from such illustrious advocacy. The advocacy of these distinguished men is still fresh in the recollection of the Utilise. The last of them, indeed, coning eerily he forgotten, though the Catholics of England ate for ever deprived of his support. When I name Mr. Elliott—(/teer) —lt name the last of that great essemblage of public men who hail advocated their came f or th e Petitioners. Though this distinguished eller:icier was unhappily uo more, they had yet the great value of his high example; they had the value which must attach to the support of such a man— or the support of a Statesman entineutly dts tinguirhed for his knowledge and virtues-- and who. perhaps more than any other man in late times, left behind him a high example of modes's. lion as well as steadfast principle. after a lung life of public service, in the most trying and contentious times.—( Hess, hear, hear.)-41y such a man lord the Petition of this Imig-discredited portion of his Majesty's subjects been last presented to ilie eon. sideratiou of this Il••use ; it had 'been bequeathed to him, utmost in his lest moments, by his dis tinguished friend. Mr. Witidhstm, who had been long its illustrious advocate. The list of the eden. cites of this great cause comprised all that was illustrious in the former taletit of our courtly— coseptieell ell those names which are cherished and revered by the wise and the good, from the names which I have just mentioned up to the revered *Ames of a Saville and a /Irate. The whole of them illustrious characters had been the steady and liens advocates far the repeal of the bloody and use. sierra enactments winch we call the Penal Code. --(Hear.)--1 am aware that the general elate of the Catholics of Ireland will he shortly !nought ruder the courideration of this Mauer. by the venerable and distinguished man .(Sir. Grattan), who has often, and with so much ability, in. trucheced it. From him you will hear that advocacy which shall be worthy of so great a cause. those arguments, the cogency of which m os t by irresistible. At no distant period then will the re• dress sought for by the Petitioners be. I trust, abided to clear Ult II sultsfactiun •raid %hot of Ow people et Idrge. The time has, I trit,t, - rri , . 4 l, when the spirit of usitvrt.Nl freedom owl rK frlt end acted upon by the people of The motion of my linci.t II 1111 l ou.r3l)lr Fri , ll.l I fed confident, schurve liir. übj.. r Mc , sinners. I .611 not. thereftere. bale which lie means to induce, but tuer•-ly serve, with reference to the Ertgireh Cunt/Ate., t;„, t their grrAt cud high spirit itas it.en 13111 y i '!, by their patient endurritrii*nl long, .eitt.t.-, untnerited tow however, one conviction, which 1 rhnnl•l vrt.t ts•r imprtior iipun the Prtitiolletri. 1, hese they Intl it already, that lin o , flirt, and steady conduct as subjects dn.' the stinfurus tone and tentirer of th,,i, applications to IParliatnen►,,, they !persuaded, established a wood titling for ti km , and their cause in Oils Hou•e, flea thew to every reliance not humanity, but our justice. On the •uhjrct . _ are termed securities,' all I I yis that no good can portably arise from thr con.ideia. tion of this branch of the subject, if such it can h e called. There was no I o hcs , or rather the poi!• v was fats!, which prniniitvd any orgovotioi n the subject of •termir between Parliament owl indi viduals, with the view of snaking the itir,i7tirr of the relief consonant to their own ferliou•- • F rom a orgociation between two such virtie.4s meat mud the Pettttosters. no Kona eth pt,sibly to either—it mot only end its dowewi , :ssr.sitt,,og them- KA res.—told for tam it can only end so lurs •rsts K tt,e lue of the relief whiels we may tlwisomesl to rxiro 1. and eornprotannag our own IrgtOali.e 1 .‘,%%r% Petitioner% ni etomplaisitog of the {navy buff they enduied, state that they latwur 'Hider Itv l'it gri;vances—the one them i.ohtic,it dttxqualifi. anon, and the other religious ohloriiis— mil obloquy indeed maitily grown orit of their ivil btete—u political disqualification 111,0,1 them, not ou account of any political tenets w1,,r11 they may happen to hold, but solely on account _ . . spiritual faith; or. in other words, 011 ilcomalt of cerr s ui s c r upl e ., which it is presumptuous fur m arl _ . to judge, and for the exercise of which turn sliquld alone be answerable to his God and bis coloc.eoce hear) —scruples, indeed, the edherence to which is the hest proof and earnest the Petitioners can give of the integrity of their moral principle, the steadiness of their religious obligation, and the permanence of that social virtue %Inch thr reAt object of laws to inculcate and enforce. The dis. gracefel disqualifications which our laws sills to tba exercise of mere opinions, such as thn.4e which the Petitioners hold, do not affect them only in one instance—they meet them in every way in which penal enactineuts can be fr..int,l to operate—they go into their pursuits in all the relation* of sotiety—they meet the to in the puss tit not only of all honourable career, and just awl k.- gitiniate ambition, but also in every sphere is which the mind prompts a man to exercise his 'doh tiee and his efforts. The horrible spirit of 3, ur laws is, that you mark out the Catholics as a sect or east separated and contradisinignished from your selves., on account of some undefined suspicion of their pi iiiciples. This enspicion is the more ignoble when you apply it to English Gentlemen lake the Petitioners. who are silliest iu 3 ourselves by all the tie* of birth. education, feelings. and blood, but whom you doom, for conscience sake alone, to hitter and galling incapacines, on account of the constancy with which they have adhered, thronglo ages of ,err. **cation. to their own religious rites, to the attar;,. meld they bear to what they comteive to he their spiritual obligations. For this adherence to their own conscientious belief, in a matter iii which they hare no right to be coutroled by the arm of tha law, you point them out as a separate claws from the rest of your fellow subjects—you proscribe them with unparalleled ri.. ; our—)oil ni .ke them alien* in the laud of their birth.—(llear, hear.)—Ttity have. indeed, the right of inheriting the property of their micestors—property which, in matiy in stances. carries with it the marks of their dtirewaril ed loyalty to that Static which yet proscribes theist. and fur the preservation of which they made sari i lice. whorl) leave hero acknowledged only by a continuance of their disfranchisernent.—(llear.) In looking at the history of the English Catlio.irs. who can fail to recognize, in the ciiiiste_ucy of th-r principle'', the purity of their moral character? — who cat, fail to recognize the uttuteritell lingoes which the Legislature has c..st iii this class of the people. and %Inch must still attach to I'v-ue until the iiiterveution ef as inure liberal pohcy ? The laws have made the refusal of the Cathy{ c to conform to our faith the canes. of Ilia disquatilic.- tion ; and the test you propose for *tering los i allegtatice, is the violation of his conscieuttuu• fr.l* ing—.4lse tleparttire Irons his avowed fehtli.-- (Ifrar.)—lt at difficult to conceive a ware ito!);e "r 1 more iiiterestiog spectacle than that resented ley the El:ghat' Cailintice—ecdowed all the ~, t -kti k ti ire vantages of birth, ploperty, honour tale n t , . imbued as they Naturally are with ah oy rotates to I ourable ambition which sorb attributes ir- I they are doomed, and tlia4, tpli, by the Isis' of their own country, to duipeleit in die narrow sphere of private Isle the onyoystiessla which their station gives them. Yoh,' leers hoe narrowest their sphere and i:ligniansed their printittles—they have coolined the ilisinensation of the blewongs which Providence 111111 placed in their hasals e .and whicli the wave and the good dispose of fur she fievetit of ; society at large, to die narrow sphere of private lih , \ and local conuezions. But thus teatticled. this large class of his hlajcsty's eubjects lieeprits a dip Wird forbearance, an unabated attar idiottes to (last laws. an nominates loyalty, II fifoMllo,lol rioCillar which your outrageous laws have mantissa able to eradicate, and which entitle* theta to Oil. Me opi nion of every reflecting sod well.regjihdp4onini.— . flleor.j—The Petitioner. state tWeptvinice in the language of moderation and twili t , They state that they base been for centuries akstosalitied hy ilia laws, without being guilty of say crime. Is • looking at the period shortly' after these hiss wile imposed. it was impossible to look at the couda( t of the English Catholic without athiirotion I,t his principles. Look et their et/induct in the iviAu of Elisabeth..-look at them in those 0)1,1 pe tied* of our history, when their lorilt, was het /.. be shaken by yaw proecriptials—took a t t1.t. ,, rallying foetid your, Putsti!,titina A Mai very li"/' sliesasOilethAlleir attrvicea were irripprioul. and * 1 " " they We droltilitidttlidrr use bilawasuisiutliotant of your • penal laws.swlaws which I mod issuie voll* ~. - ~., • - 1. .