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been improved, but I apprehend, they hive bem exi.,,iseu to Similar otnettions on the pa t the -Catholics. I must own, however, that I ant averse to any concealment in a spiritual state in its rela tion with a temporal government, though the ,clandestine proceedings in the present case, would be through an authoriSed channel, still that cir cumstance does mit alttigether remove my objet-• tions. 1 wish generally, that ,the grounds which have been adopted may not be ..over rated, but that we should consider and reconsider Whether: we hare in them equivaleot for which %N'e may barter the strength of oor ,Protestant ment. The Roman C.`ttliolie, Prelates profcss plicit obedience to the See of. }tome, and they are. ' directed to exercise their spiritual jurisdiction without the intervention' of any decument w!)at soever. This is a 'Spirit to which : Eriglishinen shoidd not incautiously or without great conside ratiou give Way , this is the spirit which ot u rendon and Somers as Statesmen, our Lotlte as 'a , Philosopher; and William the Third as a Sovercign Prince, pronounced incompatihk , Withthe:Con stitnaon. This spiritual jurisdiction cannot be iunoxiously co-extstent with a Protestant Gosern laaent, To conclude—l must repeat that the point at.which we must Make our stand, is the proposed adriiission of Catholics into' the two , of thiment ; if this be granted', all ulterior objects must be easily obtained. I shall therefore move that the words of the first clause, which admits Catholics to the. two Houses of Parliament,' be left out." Mr. WHITBREAD regretted much the part the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite had taken in the: discussion, particularly because having rarely an opportunity of expressing' his sentiments in that House; they must derive considerable 'weight from' that circumstance. He had now Made a speech, in which he professed to advance some objections. to the clauses of the Bill; but which, in fact, went' to its utter extinction. He would, indeed, adMit the Catholics to military OraitS, but he would ex elude them froth all :judicial situations. 'He would put • down the Monastic" orders, he thought the apostolical vicar dangerous, and that he ought•to be expelled the land; yet lie would suffer theßill: to be thrown out Which tarnished the only opportunity which would probably be al hirdedfor years of getting rid of these nuisances; Which were so much the objects of his dislike.— The Right , Hon.Gentlemart bad availed himself of some dissatisfartion with the Bill, which had been expressed by the Catholic Board in Dublin, to strengthen his reasonings against it, but what did it in reality • go - to prove ? why that there would-be alwaysqiome dissatisfied on such occasions. Was it;pOssible that he could hope that persons would be contented whose, business it was never to - be contented There never would be wanted discon tented auxiliaries of the .Catholic Board. There were many persons,of this description, who felt' that the passing of the Bill DOW under considera tion would be a death-blow to their consequence, to whom that individual consequence was every thing, ; the interest of the Catholic Body nothing. But if ; the proceedings of the Board were calculated to give offence, he could now reuti to the-House resolutions adopted at a Catho lic meeting, which would exhibit Catholic feeling in a :very different point of view. Thete resolu, Otitis which had arrived -in town this day,. Were propo4ed at "a numerous meeting of Catholics in Cork, which a Gentleman of great wealth and respectability had presided.—[Here the Hon ;Meni.'.. ber read' tire reported proceedings' of the'Meeting in question.]-4he:Hort. Member then continued;. be - would . ask 'the /tight Hon. G.:llolmin Whether these resolutions had not relieved Iris mind 'front the apprehensions under which he had.appeared to labour ? Might he not, moreover, indulge a pa.'. tional hope from the tenor of one of-them, that he wduld 'not he . deprived of 'theaSsistance of fi Right Hon. Meinber in the work of legislation, the loss of whom he had conteinplated with so roach unea, sinews ? The night Hon. Gentleman was not averse to the'admission of Catholics into the Army and' Navy, hut he did'hor approve of- their admission to the Bench or to Parliament, entertaining alto gether a differentopinion front an Hon. Burt. :who recently stated, that from 'their admission to the Navy he entertained the greatest apprehensions. He would desire him, as he himself had treated the apprebetiOons of others as visionary, he should now treathi!rin the'saine light. He conceived tber were altogether groundless; but there was (inept' his principles of objection at Which he could trot tes tify suffielent surprise. He had delivered it as his opinion, that a Catholic Judge could not give satis ftction in:decidingbetweco individual and indivi- _ , - ---- dual. He would he ineaptthie of administering justice to the riatisfactioniof Protestant •suitori.-- If the Right HminttrabloMember had , not. meant to say so; he would have an 'opportunity of ex plaining what he did mean. He had assigned two rearions %idly Catholics should be iimdmifisible to judicial offices: the One Writi, that camei in which the Church was intereste►l would come uuder • their cognizance; the other, that they 'would be un#ble to administer justice try the satisfaction of Proteitent suitors. Now the Catholics lied fterv! „ ” 7 tofore grounoli 'for complaint, the'saine as were here ant b.;ipate,d for the Prototents'. 'This Indeed was dissipated by the li-beta). lately fottoil their way into / uren's mirich. The Protet;tant wieendarkey in Ireland, and the state of the public ntind in England towardS the Catholics constituted 8 great grievance to that body. It, ixith all eye, to the state of things, e, CathOlic should apprehend his cause preindgett, if lie were to apirear before tile tribunal . of it PO tvstant ,Judqc, would not the latter. indignantly disclaim the imputation thus cast' upon him ilortotir':ible Alembil, be was boiTy to ob- serve, bad adopted in his s;pecch the languai;e of the-hustings thttnee the cry %vac, that if the Ca tholics were admitted to power, the King would appoint none but Catholics to oflice. When they tvere permitted to have seats in Parliament, tbere '(Act! I.le wottid nom:. tva;Githoiie Mgm_ h clb LA, • . that he would so on be'en n vine e d how little , grottittl he h a il for apprehensions of' this maitre ; indeed, thes e I,3:Ptts one eirtlaniAani't: now before hi s eyes, which might seen, ti, corre.,:t delusion. in the etitift. 4 o of his ditty; ba htof of hot, been I tigned by the bringing up .of .rinmeroir: etiti afrainit the Catholi c signed hy Propotitinono s , till La length they Caine 01 iamb shy, ,t. ; th.,t they were laid upon the table without being read, their purport bray behig ascertai nett tritt? these were, as he observed before, signed by Protestants- , --.by Protestant voters. It would appear then, acc,orii ing to the hypothesis of the Right Hon. Ilear le: man, that these persons' Wilt) were so averse to tI; e Catholics being admitted :to Parliament, as soon as they were :tdmit ted, would immediately' come round to wdifferent way of thinking, and while io the 'very act-of deploring the removal, of - those .guards to' the Coustitution which they were .so anxious to° - preserve . in 'their' 101 l vigour, would think the exercise of that whirl' was in their' owo power_ improper, and at all elections votelor Ca tholic candidates. ,Dissenters might come, and did come into the House of Parliament ; they laboured under grievances also, and slid they en, dei,vour to repeal the acts of security, and over throw the Established Chorch ? At no titne; when the great authorities existed whom the Right Ho nonrable Gentleman had :looted, though the cha racters of the Catholili' and the Protestant differed as materially aslight,did from darkness ; Protes taut then supported Protestant, and Catholic then supported Catholic, the former determined to have and maintain a Protestant suceessionto the throne, and the hitter resolved to sust a in the rights of a Catholic King, or a Catholic Pretender 7 -so tong as that state of things existed, the sentiments of such wise and enlightened men deserved consider ation and weight ;° hat matters were now happily altered, the Catholics mutually supported the Pro testant Throne . •at home and abroad, in alliance with their reformed brethren; and had Lord Cla rendon, Lord ! Somers, King and .Mr. Locke lived now, they would have daciared very dilrerept ()pillions. The Right Honourable Gen tleman had proposed to annul the first clause bat In removing that, he took away the best part of the Bill, and left nothing but the wreck and rem mint out of which the , Right Hon. Gent. had pro.. _posed to frame some meastire conciliatory to the ; Catholics. How painful must it have been to the Right Honourable Gentleman, when propositions in former Sessions were made, for allowing to the Catholic soldier the free exercise of his religion, nil of which had been unsuccessful—he must haVe felt his heart wrung at rie denial of parliameat,and ,must have longed to leap out of his chair to sup port such a measure. But the Right, Honoorable °Gentleman had not expressed' a wish to propose a Bill according to the notions which he entertain 7 ed; lie had reserved some opiiiit:os for his own use; ° and though there Were sitting on, his right and on his left the (rug amid Magog of Protestant ism, be had never heretofore ivhispered to them any propositions, or counselled them to guard gainst the imminent danger of -mopastical institn tiOns. The'Rt. Hon. Gent. though ! , c had argued against the principle of the measure from oneend.of the 13111 to another, had nevertheless confessed that be was pleased with, sonic of the propositions, and had pointed out several defects, yet had left the Committee hopeless by proposing nothing. Ile hoped the !tight lion. Gentleman would assist them in conducting the Bill through the Commit tee, even with the first clause as it 'now stood, for without that the remainder. was wholly unimport ant. The first proposition was calculated to bring the Catholics and Protestants into collision in th e Parlitonent, to bring them into mutual conference, to inspire confidence and to quell alarm, and for these reasons had his hearty support; It appear ed, however, that the enemies to the Catholic s reserved their batteries to the very last, atid° per severed in their errors and misrepresentatio ns w i t h unequalled zeal. It was his disposition to think favourably of the Catholics ; he thought the pen. pie Of Englod wtre ripe for the measure, and he hoped the people of Ireland wduld be conciliated by it. Sir JOHN NrcHoL said, that the Bill now heforo the Ilotise,was presented ... midi:l72m circumstances ; circumstances 'different front those under which lit Watt first introduced. , The supporters of the Bill had met, and reconciled their differences, .and the 3fill, was now brought forward as modified by them ; from them, therefore; there could be but little hope of alteration. Those tivl►,ci voted for the principle, no alteration in the detail could of course remove from their opinion. There were, however, others who had not made up theirminds upon the Bill until the character of the clauses was fully before them. 'The , Right lion. Gentleman (the Speaker) had very properly confined' hi mse lf to a gencial view of the subject ; tie, however, must press upon the Committee what effect this measure: was . likely to hare if carried into eireet. lt should he I:membered' that the Constitution .was fundamentally and exclusively . , Protextmit ; not only were the Church and 'Crown Protest, ant, but the Counsellors of the-. Crown alsO, and both HouseS alParlicunent. The judicial and mi litary system were likewise Protestant : the Con stitution veceived this Protestant charieter, not for the piwpose of nieetiqg anyTarticular circum stances, but granually and slowly,.reniedies be ing applied to evils according as they presented themselves. Eyen in the -times when the State mts Catholic, their ancestors ;lid resist the usurpa tion' attempted by the See of Route. - At the time or the Refotinatioo, the Protestant Ch urc h was. folly 4.;stsibliBlied. By the Corporation. Aet, Ca tholics were excluded unless they . then took oaths of allegiance and supremacy., After the Corporo. tiOn Act the 'Test Act Was passed.' The latter was riot intended to ihear e:;clusively upon the Dissenters, for it was supp orted t by them ; the main object of it was to prevent the clangers fi p - prehended frdnn the Roman Catholics; After titi4 'the Bill of Rights was patised . with the same view, namely, to preserve the Protestant char,icter of the Constitution,. At' the or the Union of Scotland with hlugland, and of England with-Mi 1-and, the same object . was kept_ in view. By the:i'e' laws time nation had now cidjoyed tranquility that was trot disttn bed, eNeept in one or two instancvS. - - - - , w . lie would ask what sort Of constitution they were to have, if this Bill wera to ptss into , ti law It vus true, the ChUrah BthiThrow: %Ore by the Bill to continue Protestant ; but were not die securities that were placed round the throne with this view—were 'not these seettrities removed, by the present Bill? By the present liikl, if ear vied into effect, the great Officers of the State were no longer to be Protestant. This was intro ducing a ftnirfnl change indec d. tt was introduc ing a change in the St., , te which, fifty years tap, no wan would have been 1)01(1 enough to propose; which, if propoied with success, would fectitally wipe out all the taws fur the protection of the Constitution to which he had before allnd edr, It was proposed now to relative the bulwarks of the Constitution not gradually step lip= step, )at suddenly,. -arid almost -ivithout considerittion. It was not to IA believed that Elie forey,n :oitho rity'of the Pope Would confilw it A2ll merely to spi rituals. Ile Was . justiiied, learnig ront what appeared that Nay publications front Ir f eland, that such a Bill would be l'ather an excitement to strife, than a ground for emicord ; be did not believe that any such event as harmony wont d,arise from it, nor would it bring theta to that time when the liqu and the lamb could repose in peace together. We're they quite sure thci sonic agitators would notarise and:say in Ireland, ltat they had a right to pay their tithes for the support, of their own Clergy? Were they sure that they who held the Protestants as intruders would not .do all in their power to drive them from the benefices they pos sessctl Were they quite sure that the Catholics would ilk tome forward with claims foi• those es . - tates which they conceived to be unjustly forfeited? Was it quite cleat' that they would not act toge ther- both in their military and' civil capacities for the attainment of such objects, and endeavour be sides to set aside theprotestantsuccession? It was argued thatsach'eventS were quite chimerical. If they were sa., where Was the occasion of reciting theM in the preamble to the pregent Bill? xvbere was the occasion of proposing any seetirPies against theta ? His' present Majesty hml'only one grand child who was likely to - sticceed to the throne.---- He was not aware ‘vit ether the Queen' of Wirtem 7 burgh had any children, but at al! events, no nedl could say whether, alter the lapse of 20 or even often years, the Crow n of England weld(' settle on aforeigner or one ithtiye, And what emisequences, he Would ask, Might follow from such an event ? In 1770,, did any one foresee the downfall of the. Preuch iiloatarchy ? Hainan foresight was but sLort, and should be employed against the occur- , renee of dangerous possibilities. While thingS re mained as they were at present he 'had no great apprehension of fnrcirn power. He believed the Catholici w er e loyal, "bat did it follow front that" that they should not prefer a Protestant Church or 'Crown to a Catholic one ? It was contended that the power of the Catholics would liOt be increased by dais Bill.' This argument, if true,: would at least, in his mind, go' tea far, for it would go to the extent of reseinding tie boon which bad al ready been bestoWed on them: ,Suppose a Catho 7 lie were to become a popular Minister, would he not attempt, silently:nu! Ill►perceived, to introduce- Catholics into all theleading places of the State; and when they found. thentselvei in the possession of such power, was it elear . that :no attempts would he made to establish the ascendancy of the Catholic religion.? Such 'atteJapts were mide, to what calamity must it not give rise It was from such calumitv that ,he would defend • his children, and his children's children, byre Sistine this Bill. • Air. PONSONDY rose. Be'.ore he observed upon, the speech of the Hon. I:llrotict %clip bad Jim. sat down, he would- say a •few words On. what_ had been advanced by the:Right I.:lon...Gent. (the Speaker) who opened the-debate. lie hadstatedttvn . ohji2ctiotis to the. Bill,. One that it excloded matter which it Ollght. Rtit to exclude. told the othcr that it admitted matter which it ought, not to admit: Upon tits first It world s.:y, that it way . open to that Right Hon:Gentleman to propose itohe, Committee the means of sepplying all the defects of the Bill ; if under the conviction that such de fects exist d, 'he did not propose the remedy' the Right'HOn.' Gentleny.lll was, in . his Mind, open, to a, very fiei'lolJi grave accusation. It did not: aypear that he had considered well the nature of the resoltaions that had been passed in 'the House upon a 'former occasion. These restitutions Went not 'to the protectiOn of the religiOns houses of the Roman Catholics, or to int ituptiry into the state of their reguhir clergy, but ro the removal of their civil and religious disqualiileations.' 'After such •resolittion:, he did not see bow the Hoose could mill-lit:of such minor considerations as bad been recommended. Their time tvonld be. ill employed iti such a discussion. ohiect of the Mil was' to give relief where grievince 15"11., COnlillaill to restore. privileges ‘Nilit!ii fOriliVE • WS taken away;. and in matter of civil trials to proctne equality , . was said, that a stand should be male on the first clause, which admitted theCa thojics-to both Houses of Parlianient ; that such a stand was necesSury to preserve the tonstittt ii6o, •In his mind, the ,way to. preserve the Con , stitution was to enable the Catholics to vote in that Muse. 'But low wits .the danger tO'arisel An lion. Baronet (Sir J. , Nicol), said, that if puce admitted to the. House of Commons, they . would quietly - and gently he brmi g ia. into aill the• great offices, and then when a favourald e Opportunity occurred, begin to exert their tolin ence for the overthrow Of the Constitution. Into these places they wets to creep, quite nnperceived by •any one. * No one was,' to perceive wh en a Catholicbecame Chief Justice or . Conimander tit Chief. All this was .to pass unobserved till every thing was ripe for carrying into effect the design of. upsetting the COnstitution. Did lir:seriously think that-any person who heard sich language laid any stress: npon it ? it possible that •0 plot could succeed in that Honse, of turning out all the Pro testantsin it. ? Cimld 50 or 00 Catholics, who were' likely-to be brou g ht into the Honse in the first' :Session after passing the law, think of 'effecting such an object . ? Coald Such a plot be thought of, or concurred in, without detection ? Or if C;ltholics' were tt) nitllt . lfeat such an intention, how Would it be 'received ? It was- impossible they could ever have sufficient power to attempt such,' an object, even if they had the inclinatiod. The Honourable Baronet did' not know what might ~ happett in - twenty years, No - person 'knew what Might happen in t'kerity years. No - person knew who might he Dean of thesA rch es in t Wen ty years ; but it, was:clear that no person itt twenty years would consent to tl.e overthrO W of the Protestant establishment. He was Convinced that nri'dabger would arise front their ti.tdinission to' the lion e. On the contrary, 'security. would be the cons , :- `quence. of it. He should like to seethe have a n opportunity of.actin: openly, It was by admitting them into that Ifottse that they cool., act openly, and then their eondnetWould be known. A.V :is it to be ithagined that all the members of that , Uouse would britauge their religion, and pre-' • • fer a Catholic choral and crown to a trotestSef one ? . The lion. Baronet should not forget that they wild would give in the present ease, had ibe power alscit to take away I Did be,intagieetb 3r Parliament would a ll ow power to rema i n i n the hands .of people So dispdsed ? This apptel°' soon was a most idle aud i m aginary one. h' real value of the Bill to Catholics was c oniptised ' in the first clause. The real value of the ir,easine: to Protestants. themselves was comprised in tipt first clause. If this clause were once detente); 11 did not care how soon the rest was disposed " ''. 'The laws alluded to in the course of the (10)2° were not made merely for the exclusion of -Cath 3 :,; lics, The Test • Act was brought more for do' purpose of tornitig Lord Clifford out of office, dolt , tor any thing elSe. The coosideration of Paqi mixed in those laws as much as security to t''''.: ; State.' But even though their necessity at 05 , 0. : t t . i i x ts u i l ' s :s . s %%_. . e r t i r l e i l e:s , l ie l l i i ' i t i i i g i t e i t l e : i' ti 4t rgl Im t ' ?l ' it :I it:l ` rnt;‘'PStil necessity vt el (.. p i t:o t. . 4 , 1 _ , Speaker) had allutledllt°orla"iiii:eactleiteit Geveelilittleinas3'Bllll;;.' That event, so far from being au argument spins* the Catholics,' was proof that no outlined derlY .. was now in'a humour to comply with the Pl 5 dates of th e P o p e . Did th e Citiegy of Split'!" yic : ,. v), him ? The desite ou the part of the ganc l° : c ri a t '' , that_ . the matter .should be Rent secret, litulY'`‘,o:. o Clergy were the first to communicate it totllc.`" fc.j , s ii:a' i e : alYis tii ii i t:l t leili °lYY o el. f °n: t it t?b• l ti l butet i li s lt r le i let e eli s irN i iVgaS S aPY: lo 'e:tr _ S g t-Ilir il aeC Y :il e toil. : . . 11 1 ; : 1:111(sI til s:I l i:f eitir911.);eftl(:1:1j9.11::i'llei:11:..i1:1:::::.1•.ti r tvtl °lll' :jfli tigtli(i,cie:tili);:rn:nGtiselelitlPlii;tlY:ticeibeedentoitlf:d*'atileii:e.ifli'iticeri.eot;(;,.:fdial 1:1-:(11.1Y1:,e11::Pyr)tistelr":::::bib°11itittddicilititli:cei: when they found . the people, informed. } P hoe . : I not look upon the Test Law as any secn rit i l , t onel • ' WaS:nu mention .of it in the Bill. But wit" 1.- :,',,, i1 ,L to that Act he would say', that he would suppo.tina application . for the repeal of it by ever) ! ' ee id t. v ot is Ilk power. It was sand, that the Bill w° ll ' ow , give general satisfaction; t het lie did not 10 1 the but ',new that it couferretl suc hbei.V .fit ! °ll ,,,,R , Catholics as they ought' gi atefolly to re ce ':,, e ' il ble ' : was sufficient if it g ave sa tisfaction to r r " ' - ', t tril met); and it was suffiCient for hini if he i r'Pi t) i itit'' what, he looked • upon to, be the ti'lailil'" v it'atlf i', and liberality over f a l se h oo d an d biotry. .„. 0 . II pei:s,percei yeti defeett L s iu the Bill he slictu u ,r i : 3! ppie the remedy. 14.. e. who objected to tis ' ther : 4 would destroy the Whole measure. 'fi le .l a ir r l parts of the Bill, w.jt bout this, would prod liVll O . I discontent than s: , tisfaction. To open to vi e ' ,i, e ' man Catholics the armit r lit ou l Y, /11' yan navy %sou them more stAieitims. for'.‘‘th at rtes. Witikb e i n d . b ,„ 6 , df i - Sir .I. C. Hirilti r LEY'snia, the Bill ' l , l l,i f aof • '-',. his noist cOrtlial support. lie wocig i :: l 7' t is it L j man to say lie was inconsistent. The J-" i ''',, his •', t was now before the Committee would: c li o ' fit ist• support. ,He would contend that he w" - - „ o il enc.,' In the future ,stuges of the Bill , Ir t ,;'hio . not fail to make,suclirelsarks as ototar', l . f a rt of Ile hail been, charged with, suppressing tu'otory. :t i a i f C n l j i , c :% t v g i a . i . t s_ s c n e u o s t t l t n a l b t:l l lt i e s . j e l j a n s fi g e . i t s he f f e l l u a e s e rs 1 1 : 1 : 1 :: Is r ' t i t c i n i l, t ti r ll . l'l , ln : c i l e i t i l ' s l e c t i::t t tac el t4 4 l ~f. Oita fact a year back to the 'Rig" "arc",olivere .'• not Protestant fears, but Catholic fe i l l"' f the Ca- -''' that fact in eislifortn:.ty with the wishes of the th° ll Cs:, themselVes. , The 11/embe . e for vo.° . t i_ h i o e a g i s t i ) .: P . o o r s:e u l i l . , l l . , e i 3 y e a:t l t til ° u ' a p '4 l L i , P i t i l P : e ° r i t n the fori n C ari° ll : l ` tvtle ' I l e e , ll ts i t b i c r v ' et.t : . '' He condemned the ail the stages of the Bill, a nd observed I , t t ' tvea lit•-. !louse woublperhaps'aoree with hielOoP i t: 'he too late. . L °. ' ' 1 / 6 1 lir ' . The . CIIA4CELLOR of the Exciutatli' .ll C ,1 1 ,„ v • lON on the House to .consider at wbat. time `e' ti liel% ' culled' upon to pass this Bill. .1t was at•'' titer Jr ~ 01 ‘ the spirit of Papacy, was as aspiring as ev,..: ~ a fate i I p .r re a c t i l p e i 4l tit st tiCs l n eart'ai- i n,i :t 'cl r ilie said that till!Clergy of Spirits did Hot stippqr,irit'i., w is iostancethe pretensions of tiie I'.oPg'i.,:„ t i i i iiritY ~. i t: t t :t s i t tih t te) o ciei b il e1 e .r:11 ‘ 11 % .% . e t v ) .141 11, 7 ;1 8i ' 0 . r i e se il uv . he a ir t r . . c tc o li o ! tilettitiy:e,n,iticpsoolt;ne; i 7 1 • 11 - srt i b n; 1 - utrou.:' e r t i llulie'ancestor s lied passe r d So .'hull) In":81'eti°1.11:1.(11 state. • It was limn this : orinciole tit . " '''- cur se the pretensions of the Sec f 1 1 °"''' l'" ° fiir i ' respectale i l t l st usl l l s i:heir 1 171s rr :j.i. ti ti l it ls crll!ti2tii(!!;;;:(lesst 1 '... e Gti ;-' _ ''111 : 1( :.1. 13 .: ':i i:f . f: : :: : u l i1C : 1 :1 1Cf1 ; :11: t if i :: k to : 41( : 1 * :1la !t : ! :. ' 1 low a tone,. that he Could not be heard in ` tt lery. ' . . . ' ! .11 01 ) P r ' bensiotis of those who . opposed the Bill. co o ~' peared to }rim absurd to- suppote that if , ; ,,, D eot' .. . i t h ci s t e:y t t : l b 'e '. t i e s i :i t t i l i z ( .l l::o e ' t l l l e t t . r ) ' t i l e ! .I . * OI wore . e bras o rc i• a . c e d o n n i l l i fi a t d t n e e i l e l t r i I . t i t ii t l: e l e y r r: v rt : ) ° 7 l ; ; ‘, l l:lili g : L JI - iiak of " 1 - tem Pting it, and it tliey.did atte rn ' iii' lila . it was impossible they could succeed. . li t i ; i f) 1,,..tT:1t object, o;.* the Bill was to admit Ca"`' rt ife''' :;:t iti•Parliament. Of this lie entirely . s l i t ebr ? l i lac secant was to regulate the rionsiitattol.„'Lcie 1 tholic BishoPs. 011 tihis he would at pi; 'all' ' SO I . little, as it won't! hereafter come ender &O N O!' , Tae third great., object was' to prevent any, c Oil s l'ottintate exercising undue authority in '' i the ~ •,. !kill doiniaiOlis, litese wee - ' the object s ' cs ) o he Bill, 'unit .to the accomplishment. of ! I ', Via' th°h.ght it adegieite. .lii ho sped the Britt's! for 11w... - ll° ~,int would take every necessary pr e ` ( chi li ' , ° goarding against • foreign influence. 11 - - ", e ir . (,gar, ` of the Right Hon.Gentlemair opposite ('' 00 0 11 ` ning) . forlhisPtirpose, met with Iris warto I I 014 b:iti . 9n.: He thought they • fully effec"' il b il a t d i l a , our ancestors had wishzdJo acco mpl i i i s i o o , rioi. ,,, ec .: o 7. . (lid it in a' piritof lisildneSs . and cone hoped die niea-aire Would hitee the haill oi gdo" P conciliating aoti istritingall parties in thc ov ate ~ i The public : feeling, it was his opit4 o ° , ,n o efee r ,l • LLIII able to the proposed arrangement. ' ". co ts 1 ,,. believed it: to be the wish of his' cons i t , 'C iv u t ioa; . :' admit their Catholic brethren to a pitEt. - ' OO IJ 11. • ' the blessiogs of the Cons( itiition. ' ll e e ity yo',l' look forward to what might occur tl ie h l e i,coo't 'hen ilete c i e . d ; esbeurtvevel,traetpeit:(elarchtuitgbiti.tpelrittioprp::; i i 4 i an act `1 justice. Cotll°' i Mr. BANKES thou lt the prayer of th 4: 4f et 01 J[ l fiii