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I al " eagerly seize the occasion of expressing my grati tude to the numerous Friends who have, in the course of canvas, hitherto received me so kindly, and promised me a support so mur:h emeeeding my expectations and P l " t tntioii's; and to assure them that I will not relax in my exertions to make their good wishes effectual on a proper opportunity... 4 remain, Ladies and Gentlemen, Your obedient and faithful servant. RUSSELL ELLICE. 1 45, Leadenhall•street, March 5, !Se). TED ItIEXICAN MIvINb ASSOCIATION. A. SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING of PROPRIETORS will be held at the City of London Tavern, on :MONDAY, the 23d Of March instant, "t -One o'Clock precisely, by adjournment from the 23d of Fehruary last, to determine upon the question of con firming certain Resolutions passed at a Special General Aleeting held on the last mentioned day, respecting an in crease of the Capital of the Association to an extent not , Aceeding 57,0001. RICHARD HEATIIFIELD, Sec. No. 13, Ohl Broad -street, March 3, 1829. HORRID MURDERS. TWO HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD. EREAS, ott the Afternoon or Evening of Sunday, the Ist of March instant, Mr. LANGTREY, of Prospect-row, PORTS AOLJTH, late Master Bricklayer, and Mrs. CHARITY JOLLIFFE, his Housekeeper, were MURDERED in the tltost shocking manner, in their Dwelling-house, situate in P'ospect-row, in Portsmouth aforesaid. A REWARD is hereby offered of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, in ad dition t o the Reward of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS offered by the parish of Portsmouth, to any person or Pfmns dinovering the horrid perpetrator or perpetrators of the above Murder, to be paid by the Executors of the 14- 2 1 (1 Samuel Langtrey on conviction thereof, (except to t he party or parties actually committing such murder) on PPlying t o hl rsers. T. A. and W. M i nc hi n, t h e S o li c i tors the Executors, at their Offices in Porteea or Gosport; or to. Mr. Thomas Minchin, solicitor, No. 15, Harlow street, Bloomsbury, London. Marsh 3, 1829. 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Thi Cla.ss of Birds will occupy about Nine Parts ; the 4 4 .11 and Insects will form about Eight Parts ; and the i t ° l*, it is computed, will comprise about Forty Parts ; b e so arranged, fur the convenience of those who CI! onfine. their Zoological studies to either of the 1 4) , th ofa each Class will make a distinct work, as well vthe Series of the " Animal Kingdom." The nelasio n w ill conta i n a ta b u l ar V i ew of the System, a T I V°' l 4 Ind ex , an d a genera l T erm i no l ogy o f t h e S c i ence. be: Il lustrations will be from Original Drawings, and will ° nfined to new or very rare Species. Ac u he L or d Ch ance ll or , E ar l s B a th urs t an d q t, '"Acen, vi scount Melville, Lord Ellenborough, Sir vZge Murray, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. th7Y Fitzgerald, and Mr. Herries, had interviews with A "uke of Wellington yesterday at the Treasury. Kin 's Messenger arrived in town at a late i k ,j r Wednesday night, and another Messenger arrived f r l' Yesterday morning, from Windsor, with despatches -. his Maje s ty fo r th e D u k e o f W e lli ng t on . th: r ir. Secretary Pcel had an interview with the 4 etlior of the Exchequer, yesterday. O. [1,383. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Lord Chamberlain's Office, Feb. 26, 1829. The Lord Chamberlain has appointed Edwin Burnshy, of Baggrave-hall, in the county of Leicester, Esq., one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber in Ordinary. Foreign Office, March 6. The King has been graciously pleased to approve of William Cadday Good, Esti. as Consul at Kingstsn-np - m- Hull for his Majesty the King of Denmark. Crown-Office, March 6. ME)IIIF.R RETURNED TO SERVE IE THIS PRESENT ? ALIA- MENT. Borough of Ripon. George Spence, of Pall-Mall, London, Esq. in the room of Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart. who has accepted the office of Steward of the manor of East Idendred, in the couuty of Berks. Whitehall, Feb. 24. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Hardwick Merriman, of Amersham, in the county of Buck■, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chan cery. Whitehall, February 28.: The Lord Chancellor has appointed Samnel Haynes, of the borough of Warwick, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, March, 2. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Pearson, of the city of York, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, March 3. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Fortune, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. William Heald, Heylridge, Essex, maltster. George Vaile, Alaze-pond, Southwark, carpenter. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Jacob Smith, Diorama, Regent's-park, printer. Edmund Seymour, Gerrard-street, Soho, dial-maker. William Smith, Leeds, flour-dealer. BANKRUPTS. William Shephard, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, glass-cutter, to surrender Mardi IS, at ten, 20, and April 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Dashwood, Three- Crown-square, Southwark. Thomas Kilby and Samuel Carroll, Fenchurch-street, brokers, March 13, at ten, 20, and April 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Gatty, Haddan, Gatty, and Haddan, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. John Welsby, Liverpool, coal-merchant, March 30, 31, and April 17, at twelve, at the York Hotel, Liverpool. Mallaby, Liverpool ; Chester, Staple lan, London. Samuel Bennett, jun. Truro, Cornwall, grocer, March 13, at ten, 20, and April 17, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Bet keleys, Lincoln's •inn. Samuel Weller, jun. Oxford, victualler, March 17, IS, and April 17, at eleven, at the White Hart and Grey hound Inn, Oxford. Evans, Gray's-Inn-square, London ; Parsons, Oxford. DIVIDENDS. John Osborn, Leigh, Essex, merchant, March 20, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Henry Mee3ki, St. James's-square, tailor, March 27, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioner!. John Alfred Hawker, Birmingham, merchant, April 3, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Richard Sperdelow, Drayton-in-Hales, ironmonger, March 28, at eleven, at the Phrenix inn, Drayton-in-Hales. James Newman, Upper East Smithfield, slopseller, March 27, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. John Meliar, Nuneaton, Warwick, ribbon-weaver, April 3, at one, at the Globe Inn, Warwick. Thomas Nash, Ipswich, currier, March 27, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. George Bu rgies, Eaton, Buckingham, courier, March 29, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Timothy Hoyle, Lee-mill, Lanca4hire, woollen-manu facturer, April 2, at one, at the Thorn Inn, Burnley. William Tickle and Willi.tm Roberts, Burnley, Lancas ter, cotton-spinners, April 2, at one, at the Thorn Inn. William Bayley, Macclesfield, silk-throwster, March 17, at eleven, at the Co ur t o f Commissioners. William Lea and James Farr Lea, Paternoster-row, silk-manufacturers, March 27, at one, at the Court of Commidsioners. Samuel Rhode, Mdnsel-rtreet, Goodman's-fields, dealer in sail—cloth, March 31, at one, at the Court of Commis sioners. CERTIFICATE3.—MAR.LH 37. Joseph \\Tooth], Manchester, toy-dealer. Elizabeth Freeman, Cheltenham, lodging•-house keeper. Samuel South, Horncastle, Lincoln, brickmaker. Thomas Halford, Coventry, cabinet-maker. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Thomas Turner and Ralph Turner, Stone, Stafford shire, bakers. Sarah Biggs and Lyon Joseph Levy, milliners. James Milroy and John Milroy, Devon, tea-dealers. Thomas Thorne and Thomas Frignall, Arnold, Notting ham, frame-smiths. James Nalder and Charles Smith, Ctanbourn-street, Leicester-field., mercers. Samson Samson and Louis Samson, Bartholomew-lane, London. Joseph Schroder and George Schroder, sugar-refiners, Princes-place, St. George's, East. Branwhite Oliver awl Abraham Stevens Syer, Sudbury, Suffolk, grocer.. Thos. Mann and Roht. Tosicy, London, yeast-merchants. Henry Jessopp and Henry Jordan, Lincoln's-Inn-fields, attorneys. Mile; and John Pearson Robinson, Great Mary-le-bone street, boot-makers. Joseph Blizard and Pinfold Westley, Cheltenham, at torneys. Roger Wrightand Abiather Llawkes,glass-manufacturers. IM FERIA L PARMA ME NT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. The Royal Assent was given, by Commission, to the Transfer in Aids Bill, and the Pensions, Duties, :fie. Bill. The Commissioners were, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Bexley. Duke of RICHMOND presented three petitions against the Catholies from parishes in Sussex. I3i•hop of EXETER presented a , imilar petition from Ardington, also four to the same effect from a parish iu Oxford. The Marquis of ANGLESEA presented 13 petitions from Ireland ii favour of the Catholics, three fir the re peal of the Vestry Act, and six for the repeal of the Sub letting Acts. The Marquis of THOMOND presented five petitions from the county and city of Cork against concession. Lord ROLLE presented a similar petition from the county of Wiltshire. The Earl of TANKERVILLE presented a petition for the repeal of the Assessed Taxes from Berwick.upon- Tweed. The Earl of CARNARVON presented a petition from Portsmouth in favour of the Homan Catholics; also three others to the same effect from the county of Somerset. The Marquis of DOWNSIIIRE presented a similar pe tition from Ireland. The Bishop of ELY presented a petition from six pa rishes of Cambridgeshire, against the Catholics. The Bishop of GLOUCESTER presented three peti tions against the Catholics, one from the Fellows of tha College of Eaton. Lord KING did not wonder that a petition would coma from that quarter when the following words had been uttered from the pulpit to the youth LONDON, v , MAY EVENING, MARCH 6, 1829. who were sent to that College for instruction.—(llear.) " Roinish principles are fast flowing into the country, and trill soon ondermine the Protestant State ; stand up my brethren." He had better have said " Stand up my boys, and resist any innovation on your rights." The Bishop of GLOUCESTER replied, that when he was not informed when the petition was put into his hand, he was not told that when these words had been used. Lord KING only wished to mention the subject to show how the rising generation were attempted to be influenced. Lord WINCHELSEA rtatefl . that as none of his 3la jesty's Ministers were present, he should postpone his in tended motion till Tuesday nevt, as it would not be cour teous to bring it on in the absence of the Noble Premier, Lord FITZ WILLIAM presented two petitions in favour of the Catholics, from Macclesfield and another parish. Lord TORRINGTON presented a petition from an individual in favour of the Catholics. The Marquis of bUTE presented a petition from Car diff, in favour of the Catholics. Lord DARNLEY presented similar petitions from Cha tham. Lord SIDMOUTH . presented a petition from Rich• mond, Surrey, against the Catholics. The Bi,hop of BATH and WELLS presented a petition from Sherwood, against the Catholics. Lord KING observed, that it ought rather to be called the petition of the ghost and spirits of the persons hung by Jefferies, as from a placard posted in that parish. He (Lord King) found that 19 persons had been enumerated as martyrs in one parish. Viscount LAUGHTON presented eleven petitions against the Catholics from parishes in the counties of Durham and Worcester. The Duke of DEVONSHIRE presented four petitions in favour of the Catholic.. Lord FALMOUTH presented six petitions against the Catholics, from the counties of Dorset, Berks, and Corn wall. The Bishop of LONDON presented a petition from Leeds, against the Catholics. (LEFT SITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS At Four o'clock, the attendance of Members at the House was very great, although not equal to that of yesterday. When the SPEAKER took the Chair, there must have been upwards of 200 Members in the House. A Message was brought from the House of Lords, de siring the attendance of the Commons in the other House, to hear the Royal Assent given, by Commission, to se veral Bills which had been passed by Parliatnent, for which see the Lords' Report Admiral HARVEY presented six petitions . from places in Essex against further concessions to the Catholics. AdmiralEVANS presented four petitions from parishes in Cork against further Concessions to the Catholics. Sir R. HILL presented a similar petition from the county of Salop. Alr. APLEOD presented a similar petition from Paisley. Sir HENRY SMITH presented several petitions frein Colchester and places adjacent thereto against any further concessions to the Catholics. Ile could not, he said, avoid reproaching the Right lion. Gentleman, who had last night proposed a measure of concession to the Rause with political apostacy.—(Hear, hear, bear.)— The speech delivered by the Right Honourable Gentleman would have been excellent if delivered by any one but him self; but coming as it did from him, it commenced with cant, and was filled with false reasoning thros;hout.— (Laughter.) He had been deceived in the Right lion. Gentleman, who had been the champion of the Prote.tants, whom he now betrayed.—(llear, hear.)—When he said this, he spoke the feeling of the counsry, who could believe last year that the Right Hon. Gentleman would have ceded to the Dissenters, and that he would have ceded to the Catholics.—(Hear.)—He was not capable of arguing the Catholic question, as well as many gentlemen whom he saw around him, but be had reseived part of his education amongst the Catholicf, and had formed the opinion that they were a bieotted and intollerant set.—(Hear, hear.)—They would never be satisfied with equality of rights. They would not be content to be placed on a footing sinless thy everstepped the Protestants.— (Cheers)—Every Catholic, who was true to his religion, must be a bitter enemy of the Protestants. He (Sir H. Smith) might be called a bigot, (hear, hear, and laughter) but if he was called a bigot for supporting the Church and the Constititution he gloried in the appellation. as it was, he felt bound to give the strongest opposition to Ministers on this q uestion.—( Hear. ) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQOER said, that he did not rise for the purpose of vindicating the cha racter of his Right Hon. colleague, for he would trust that to the jodgmeut of those around bins. (Hear, hear. hear.) The only thing be had to observe was, that the Ron. Baronet had said that the speech would have done honour to '3lr. Canning—(hear,)—and this was as high praise as he could well bestow on the speech. If the Hon. Bart. supposed that his Right Hon. Friend had any intention in what had fallen from him, of casting aspersions upon those who had not been in the habit of speaking upon the question, lie had entirely misapprehended the tenor of his observations. Mr. W. PEEL said that he felt convinced that his Right Hon. Relative had acted from motives as pure as those which influenced the Hon. Baronet, and whatever might he said by Hon. Members, he for one should not indulge in personalities, for he always found they recoiled with double force upon those who were in the habit of re sorting to them. Admiral Sir E. HARVEY presented petitions from three parishes in Essex, against Catholic Emancipation. Mr. W. SMITH presented petitions from different Dis senting Congregations in Suffolk, Kent, and oths r places, in favour of the Roman Catholic Claims. The Hon. Member said that one of those petitioners was from the deputies assembled in London, and represented the opinions of at least 20,000 prisoners. He alluded to the temperate tone in which the prayer of these petitions was expressed. When this question was discussed in this House many years ago, Lord George Gordon presented a petition against the Roman Catholics, signed by 120,000 persons; but the opposition to that great measure terminated in a melan choly catastrophe, by which many lives were lest. He thought that the opposition to the present measure was attributable to the means which had been adopted tor raising the public mind to an unnatural degree of excite ment. Mr. CRESSETT PELHAM contended that public opinion was in direct opposition to the measure as pro posed by his Majesty's Ministers; and however the judg ment of what were called the lower orders had been under valued, he thought that they were competent to form a correct opinion on a subject which so affeete3 their dearest interests. Sir R. H. INGLIS rose to present several petitions against the Roman Catholic claims. He had heard it stated with surprise, that the proper mode of representing public opinion is by the votes of the Members of this House. To ascertain the extent, he would recognize this principle, but he contended the right of petition should he held sacred. This right was the prerogative of the people, they knew the value of the blesssings they enjoyed, and all they asked was that these blessings should be preserved. Ile trusted that the voice of the people would always be heard with that attention which it deserved. One of the petitions was from the city o f Bath, as a proof of the strong feeling entertained on the subjsct of the Catho lic Claims, and it was quite enough for him to say that in thity hours it hail been signed by 5,636 persona. He was aware that a petition of a contrary nature had been presented on a former night, which had been signed by only 293 persons. He also presented a petition fron the county of Tyrone, signed by 270 persons, And another from the parish of Northfleet, in Oxfordshire, of a similar nature. Sir THOMAS LETHBRIDGE was quite satisfied tivit the character of tke petitioners had been fairly described by the Honourable Member. He knew that a large majority of the constituent body of the county of So merset, in which the city of Bath is situated, were de cidedly hostile to the measure now recommended by his Majesty's Ministers to Parliament ; but he knew that an altered feeling had been latterly manifested. He was justified in the assertion by the Honourable Member's ad mission that a counter petition had been presented, which though not numerously, was most respectably signed. He had previously opposed Reman Catholic Claims on prin ciple, but he would now most sol emn l y d ec l are d t h at h e had determined to withdraw that opposition, Me. BRONWLOW said he had another petition sent to hi.n from the city of Bath, in favour of the Catholics. I LEFT sramcixcl NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PIXMOUTH, MAncit s.—His Majesty's ship Sheldr:ike arrived at St. Thomas's, from Falmouth, Jan. .20. The Grasshopper, from Havannah, arrived at Barbadoes Jan. 8. The Arachne, from a cruise, and Hope, from Falmouth, Jan. 13. The Icarus arrived / t St. Vincent's, from St. Lucia, Dec. 26, and sailed for Mustique. The Pickle sailed from Port-au-Prince for Newfoundland, Dec. 2. SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. In the House of Commons last week Lord Althorp pre sented a petition from the Surgeons of Birmingham, pray ing that some alteration may be made in the laws connected ',with the obtaining of subjec's for dissection. We also trust that some alteration may he made in those laws, and that the alteration may he of such a nature as to render them a greater terror than they are at present to the bar barous violators of the tomb. The Birmingham surgeons, no doubt, who signed the petition, think it a very hard case that those who traffic in the spoils of church-yards, and steal dead bodies for the surgical market, should be liable•to fine and imprisonment for following so useful a vocation. They, no doubt, would have such persons be regarded as martyrs to the " interests of science," suffer ing for their devotion to her cause. They would have that universal iiii.tinct, that sentiment of naftiral affection, or de cency, dr whatever it is which protects the mortal remains of relatives and friendS from 6avage profanation, considered as an ignorant prejudice, unworthy of the " march of in tellect," and which might to be exploded. Why then do not those enlightened persons strengthen the influence of their precepts by the force of their example ? Why do they not give their beloved " science" a property in their own bodies, instead of bequeathing them to the safe-keep ing of consecrated vaults, or to the repose of their parent earth ? We do not observe that surgeons or physicians are more ready than other people to direct their executors in their wills not to give their earthly remains a decent fune ral, but to put them into deal boxes, and to send them to the dissection table ; nor do we find that they have induced their wives and children to get rid of their " ignorant pre judices" against the knife of the anatomist. The family of a surgeon, however numerous it may be, does not - supply more bodies to the lecture-room than that of any other per son. The services of the undertaker, and the solemnities of a Christian funeral, are preferred to the exposure of the dissection-table, and all the revolting circumstances con nected with the " interests of science." But, when this so-much-talked of " science" is analysed, what, in reality, is it ? Professional lucre, and nothing else. The surgeon buys bodies with the view of making money by the sale of his knowledge—or the ignorance which often passes under its name. His calculation, like that of the lawyer, is one of pounds, shillings, and pence. The practice of cutting up the human subject for surgical purposes, was never so prevalent as at the present time ; but we do not find that it produces more skilful surgeons than those who flourished at a time when this mode of study was not so obtrusively brought into collision with the decent feelings of society. We believe there are far more dead bodies used at present than there would be any necessity for if the works of former• able anatomists were studied as they ought to be. To hack and carve the hu man frame is less difficult than to acquire the principles of science. The hand and knife are employed to save the la bour of the head. Hence all the cant which we continually hear about the cruelty of the laws which punish the viola tion of the grave—as if they were directed against the inte rests of science, and not against its abuses.—iFforning Herald. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.--(LAST NIGHT.) A Commission was formed by the Lord Chancellor, Lord Shaftesbury, and Lord Ellenborough, to express the Royal Assent to the Bill for the Suppression of Dangerous Associations in Ireland. The Duke of CUMBERLAND presented a petition ftom Hawkston, Wilts, against the Catholics. The Earl of ALBEMARLE presented a similar peti tion from Yarmouth. Lord KING presented several similar petitions from Ireland ; and also several against the Sub-letting and Vestry Acts. The Earl of ESSEX presented two petitions in favour of the Catholics, and another against the Vestry Act. Lord DARNLEY presented r.ine petitions in favour of the Catholics from the county of Lancaster. The Earl of RODEN presented a petition Irons the county of Meath for the repeal of the Vestry Act. Lord DE DUNSTANVILLE presented a petition from a parish in Cornwall, in favour of the Catholics. Lord LONSDALE presented petitions from parishes in Weettnoreland and Cumberland against the Catholics. Lord ELDON presented petitions from the city of Glas gow and other places against the Catholics. On present ing one from Sheffield, Earl FITZWILLIAM spoke for some time in answer to the Noble Earl, but not one word of what he said could be heard. The Noble Earl concluded by presenting a counter-petition to that presented by the Earl of Eldon, from the Master Cutlers and other inhabitants of Sheffield. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that the meeting was not called by any Magistrate, although it purported to be the petition of the Magistracy. There was certainly a Magi strate in the chair, but he should say that it was a clerical meeting, where all the speakers where Clergymen, and Laymen were not permitted to speak. A short time afterwards another meeting was called by a regular requisition, and none but Clergymen opposed the counter petition.—( Hear, hear.)—lle was sorry to say that very improper language had been used. The people had been asked if they would have a Popish King.--(Laughter.) If they would have their daughters taken from them, and under the pretence of keeping them in chastity and placing them i❑ convents. He deprecated the interference of the Clergy in such cases, as he believed that if the advice of the Clergy had been-followed, the House of Hanover had not now occupied the Throne. The Bishop of LONDON wished to say a few words of defence for a calumniated body of men. Was this to be the only occasion in which they were described to express their sentiments to this House, which had ale , ays protected the Prottstant Constitution. An awful change was about to be made, on which he would not offer an opinion, and were the Clergy to be the only persons who were to be debarred from expressing their opinions ; he believed, that if an investigation were shade, he be lieved it would he found that the Clergy had not attempted to promote petitions, but that they had rather attempted to delay the expression of the public feeling. He had been told so by several of these gentlemen, and he believed that the word of the poorest Clergyman was entitled to the same credit as the noblest Peer. Lord WHARINCLIFFE replied that it was evident the Noble Prelate was not in the House (luring the former part of his speech, as he himself acknowledged Lord ELDON said, that the meeting at which this peti tion was got up was merely called together for those who were adverse to the Roman Catholic Claims ; and if persons chose to intrude themselves, the Chair man was right in preventing their obstructing the business of the meeting. He thought, however, that the Clergy of England would have eternally disgraced them selves,—(Bear, hear)—if they had not firmly and calmly come forward to support the Protestant Constitution of this country. . _ Lord COLCHESTER presented petitions from Colches ter and other places against the Catholics. The Duke of GLOUCESTER presented a petition from Portsmouth in favour of the Catholics, and a►so a similar petition from Gloucester. The Bishop of DURIIAAI presented a petition from St. Martin's, Durham, Bishop-Wearmoutli, and Sunder lind, against the Catholics. Lord DURHAM said that the last petition was not got up at a public meeting, but was done so by a curate who had allowed women, and he was informed 200 boys, to sign it. It was not the feeling of the inhabitants of Sun derland, whom he was certain were favourable by a:large majority to granting the Catholic claims. The Bishop of DURHAM s:►id he did not state that it was signed by a majority, for he had no right to say so, as he knew nothing of it. The Bishop of BATH and WELLS presented petitions from parishes in Somerset. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition to the same effect from the Clergy, Churchwardens, and Inhabit ants of a district of the county of Suffolk. The Clergy of the Church of England had often been accused o f f o ll ow i ng the King's Ministers in every thing. The conduct of the Clergy at the present crisis showed that they could oppose the Ministers when they thought them wrong. The Duke of SUSSEX took this opportunity of stating a fact with reference to a petition which was presented by the Noble Duke the other nights, against concession to the Catholics. The Noble Duke had, with the greatest can dour, informed him that two or three of the signatures were marked with a cross. fie had an affidavit from a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, which stated that the mark had been 'wide by a poor man, whose name appeared next to that of the Vicar, which proved the zeal of the latter, when he preferred having this mark after his name rather than that of a snore sub stantial signature. The Physician asked the man whether he kneW what the petition was about, to which {he could give no answer. lie then asked him whether he knee what a Catholic was, and he stared and could not tell. He ❑kid another who had put his mark whether he knew what he had been signing, and h; answered that his master had explained all, and that was sufficient. He wished hi► Noble - Fr:end at the Leal of the Admiralty had been pre sent, for he (the Duke of Sussex) had to state that he had been informed, that the Clergyman had gone about amore those employed in the Preventive Service, and had got both Offices-8 and privates to sign the petition. This, he considered, was subversive of military discipline, and well deserving of the attention of the Noble Lord at the head of the Admiralty,: and of the - Noble Duke at the head of the Administration. The Duke of RICHMOND did not think much of these voluntary oaths, as they could not be followed by any punishment. Their Lordships would judge for them selves, even from the language of Noble Lords on the other side. What the Catholics wanted appeared to be ascendancy, and their Lordships had always thrown out the measure proposed to them for the admission of Catho lics into the Legislature. He had no very serious dread that the Protestant Constitution would be endangered in England, but it would be useless to pass a measure which would not pacify the Catholics, because it appeared that what they wanted was ascendancy. The Duke of SUSSEX—He had only mentioned the affidavit in justification of himself, and to chew that he had not treated their Lordships with remarks on the man ner in which the petition had been got up without having some ground for what he had said. The Duke of RICHMOND then presented a petition from s parish in Surrey, to the same effect. Lord MORLEY had a petition to present from the county of Devon, in favour of settling the Catholic Question, by conceding to them the privileges of the Constitution ; 1 and they expressed their conviction that the question could not be settled while so many millions of the subjects of the United Kingdom were excluded from these privileges. The essence of a petition was the argument and reasoning; and a well-reasoned petition was, comparatively speaking, worthy of nmeh snore attention than that which was dis tinguished only by the number of the signatures. He was well acquainted with the manner in which the county petitions presented the other night had been got up, and at the presentation of which it had been stated by a Noble Lord, that not one in a hundred in the counties of Devon and Cornwall was favourable to concession to the Catholics. The Lord Lieutenant of the county did not think proper to interfere prominently in the matter, and bad refused to sign the requisition. The meeting, however, was got op by some gentlemen in the vicinity of Exeter. When that meeting took place, a gentleman happened to see four covered waggons filled with his own labourers. He asked whitLer they were going, and they said they were going to the Castle of Exeter to be marshalled, and that then they would he told what they were to dr. • Allusion had been made to a Rev. Fugleman who had attended on that occ,sion, and who regulated the display of flaps and placards by signal—and be had seen them displayed all at once, as if by signal—but that this was done by the Rev. Gentleman, he himself, although be was present, did not see. The Rev. Gentleman bad been attacked in the news papers for his conduct on the occasion, which he answered, rind this was his account of the manner in which the meet ing had been got up :—lt was fitting, he said, that the most needy should have assistance to enable them to come up and vote, and a subscription was entered into for that purpose, and needy persons had three shillings a-day. The Worthy and Rev. Gentleman added, that they might be but indifferently informed on the points in dispute. This was his opinion of their competency, and this was the man ner in which his Noble Friend's petition had been signed by the help of the clergy. This petition, however, was signed by persons who were competent judges of the mat ters in dispute. It was signed by almost the whole of the resident nobility except the Lord Lieutenant—by the High Sheriff, and 101 Magistrates and Clergymen, and by 2,200 proprietors. Being on his legs, he could not help express ing his best and warmest thanks to the Noble Duke (Wel lington), for restoring peace to this distracted country. He had always supported concession ; and now that it . came recommended from the Throne, h e regarded it with still greater favour. He hoped the measure would be such as to conciliate the affections and secure the confidence of the Catholics, and to quiet the apprehensions of those who honestly and sincerely entertained them. He concluded by presenting the petition in favour of concession, signed by the description of persons, and under the circumstances, which he had mentioned. The Bishop of EXETER—The attacks on the Rev. Gentleman to whom allusion had been made were utterly groundless. He had not, as it had been alleged, brought up the fishermen from Brighton, although these men might be freeholders of the county, and had as good a right to ex press their opinions on the measures now in agitation.— But the Rev. Gentleman had nothing more to do with the matter than others. The Noble Lord said that this peti tion was signed by 2,200, but how happened it the other petition was signed by 26,500 ? Because the holiest yeo manry of the county of Devon chose to think for them selves, and from their own honest unbiassed conviction signed,,that petition. Lofild MORLEY—He had cast no imputation on the Worthy Clergyman alluded to, but, on the contrary, had stated that he himself did not see him act in the mangier he was said to have done, and had merely quoted his own words. Lord ROLLE observed that if the petition was signed only by freeholders, they did not constitute a sixth part of the freeholders of the county ; and if signed by lease holders, they constituted but a very small proportion indeed. The Bishop of LONDON presented twelve petitions front the Magistrates, Clergy, and people of ♦arious in the counties of Lincoln, Cumberland, and other coun ties, against concessions to the Catholics. Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonalty of the City of London, in favour of concession to the Catholics. At one time they were against concession. For twenty years they had been silent, and now they were decidedly in fa vour of concession, and this showed what the progress of information had effected in the way of producing sounder ♦iews on the subject. The Bishop of LANDAFF presented a petition against concession to the Catholics. This was the only petition, as far as he knew, that had come from his diocese on the subject, and it was liable to none of the objections which had been made to some other petitions. It :was signed by no persons under age, and each signed for himself, or had his signature attached to the petition by another, at his own desire, and in his presence. He could not himself, however, entirely enter into the fears of those who were apprehensive of any inroad being made on the laws passed against the Catholics in the reign of Charles 11. Lord REDESDALE presented two petitions from places in the county of Gloucester, against concessions to the Catholics. The Earl of HARROWBY presented a petition from his own parish in the county of Stafford, in favour of conces sions to the Catholics. This was the only petition which it had been his lot to present on the subject in the course of the Session ; and although he MIS adverse to the introduc tion of debates on occasion of presenting petitions, be was anxious to seize the opportunity to make a single observa tion. He could not let the occasion pass without express ing the gratitude which he felt, from the very bottom of his heart, to his Noble Friend (the Duke of Wellington), who had at one time opposed concession to the Catholics, but who now, from a sense of public duty alone, had resolved to endeavour to settle this great question, in defiance of the clamours which might operate on more feeble minds. The moral courage which his Noble Friend had exhibited on this occasion was fir supe rior to that physical courage which, together with the skill, energy, activity, and perseverance of his No ble Friend, had already proved 4 - 14 salvation of .114 country He could not l'elp plying a sitni!or tribute-a arliMration and applause to the condoct of the Right-Eu.l. Gentleman (Mr. Peel) in the other [louse, who, front a sense of ditty alone, onPI corTiing many personal feehrigs which mi t bt have neigh,d much with him, hid now 11-- operated in the same happy work. If the measures to be proposed be of a nature to bring this question to a close in a satisfactory manner, the names of those by whom the great result would be accomplished would descend W I rivalled lustre to the latest posterity—as men who had set at defiance temporary obloquy, when the olject was to ,ccore a great and permanent good.—(l-lear, bear.) The Earl of ELDON presented a variety of petitions against cut cession to the Catholics, from sever al pl aces in he countiei of Devon, of Suffolk. of Lancaster, of Glou- ~ester, of Cumberland. of Norfolk, of Middlesex, of 'tafford, of Essex, of Dorset, of Sussex, of Warwick, of Hunts, of Northampton, of Somerset, of Flint, of Carmarthen, and of Du M fries. Some of the petitions were from Harrow-on-sthe-Idill ; from St. Sepulchre's, St. nary-the-Less, and St. Peter's, in the town of Cambridge; from the Mayor and Corporation of Beverley; from the inhabitants of the town of Lancaster and its vicinity ; from Wolverhampton ; from a parish in the city of Bath, &c. The Earl of WINCHILSEA postponed the motion of which he had given notice, to a future period. ' Lord TORRINGTON, alluding to a petition which had been presented the other evening from the vicinity of the place where he resided, stated that he had been applied to on the subject, but had seen no reason to interfere. Eta 'le heard that swops had been taken against those who hail efused to sign the petition, and en inquiry he found that the Clergyman of the parish had sent about his servant to persuade the people on his estate to sign. The Duke of RICHMOND called the Noble Lord to ardor. There was no question whatever now before the House. Lord TORRINGTON said, that his only object was to .how the shameful manner in which these petitions had 'wen got op ; and if he was not in order now, he woult,l sake an opportunity to make his statement to-iorrow 4 when he should have a petition to present. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition tgainst concession to the Catholics, from the 111i,ister anti congregation of Soho Chapel, Oxford -street; atel some petitions to the same effect Item places in the counties of Nottingham, York, Norfolk, and Derry.—Adjourned at Eight o'clock. PRICE 7D. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(LAST NIGHT.) At ten o'clock in the morning, persons began to assembly in the avenues of the House of Commons ; anti although it, as distinctly understood that Lord Chandoe had dcOared his determination to persevere in his motion for calling over the House;and, consequently, that the gallery would not he opened until after six o'clock, they remained at their posts, and were gradually joined by others, until an immense inob had collected. When the gallery was at length opened, which was at a few minutes past six, the rush wits tremendous; in two minutes not a seat was unoccupied and the doors and lobby were crowded with people anxiots to avail themselves of any resignations that heat, pressut r, and fatigue might occasion. On our admission we found Mr. MANNING presenting a petition from Warminster, in favour of concession to the Catholics; Mr. WYVII L presented a petition, signed by the Re corder, and almost every Magistrate and Banker, with a large majority of the respectable inhabitants of York, in favour of Catholic Emancipation. After this petition had been brought up, recd, aryl os:• tiered to be printed, another lion. Member rose with n petition, which he held in his hand ; but the impatience the House to ascertain the nature of tie measure which kis Majesty's Government meant to propose xv:,s so groat, and the shouts from all quarters of "Mr. Feel'. Mr. Peel ! Mr. Peel !" were so loud and incessant, that the Hon. Gentleman sat down. MEASURE FOR THE RELIEF OF THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF IRELAND. Mr. Secretary PEEL moved that the Clerk should read those passages of his Majesty's most gracious Speech at the opening of the present Session in which his Majesty re commended to Parliament the consideration of the state of • The Clerk accordingly read the passages in question, vi.'. " His Majesty laments that in that part of the United Kingdom an Association should still exist which is dan.• genius to the public peace, and inconsistent with the spirit of the Constitution ; which keeps alive discord and amongst his Majesty's subjects ; and which must, if permitted to continue, effectually obstruct every effort permanently to improve the cowl:lion of Ireland. " His Majesty confidently relies on the wisdom and on the support of his Parliament ;• and his Majesty feels ae sured that you will commit to him such powers as may en able his Majesty to maintain his just authority. " His Majesty recommends that, when this essential object shall have been accomplished, you should take into your deliberate consideration the whole condition of Ire land ; and that you should review the laws which imposs civil disabilities on his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects. " You will consider whether the removal of those dis abilities can be effected consistently , with the full and per manent security of our establishments in Church mid State, with the maintenance of the Reformed Religion as established by law, and of the rights and privileges of the Bishops and of the Clergy of this realm, and of the Churches committed to their charge. These are institu- tions which must ever be held sacred in this Protestant Kingdom, and which it is the duty and the determination of his Majesty to preserve inviolate. " His Majesty most earnestly recommends to you to enter upon the consideration of a subject of such paramount importance, deeply interesting to the best feelings of his people, and involving the tranquillity and concord of the United Kingdom, with the temper and the moderation which will hest insure the successful issue of your delibe rations." Mr. Secretary PEEL again rose. Although every bench and every nook both in the body of the House and in the side gallery were crowded with Members, the most profound silence instantly prevailed. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in a most earnest and impressive tone and manner, then spoke to the following effect : I rise, Sir, as the Minister of the State, and by the ju-t authority which belong:.; to that State—(hear, bear)--to vindicate the advice which was given to his Majesty by a united Cabinet, to insert in his gracious Speech to Parlia ment that recommendation with respect to the condition of Ireland and the disabilities of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects which has just been read, and to submit to the con sideration of this House those measures by which his Ma jesty's Government propose to carry that recsmtnenda, tion into effect. Sir, I rise in the spirit of peace, to pro pose the adjustment of the Catholic Question—( Hear, hear, hear)--of that questiod which has occupied so much of the time and attention of Parliament, and which has distracted the Councils of the King for nearly SO years. I rise to discuss this subject in the spirit which is enjoined in one of those beautiful prayers by which on this, and on every day, we are enjoined to lay aside all private interest and personal views In our discussions. " May God grant," in the words of that prayer, " that the result of the Councils of this day may lead to the safety, honour, and happiness of the people, to the public wealth, and tranquillity of the realm, to the uniting and knitting together of the hearts of all persons within the same, in the bonds of Christian charity and peace." Sir, by the ythe l d u i n ffi d e n u n l b t t i e e d s ly w a h ol ich nn l t knnw magnitude havn t o of l t he ie encountered—andinterests—by of the extent to which these difficulties have n— certainly increased—and in the magnitude of these interests through these difficulties I am supported by the conscious ness that I have done my duty.--(Cries of hear, hear. )_.I have fulfilled the obligations of that solemn oath which I have taken to his Majesty in the capacity of a responsible Minister of the Crown, that in all matters to be treated in his councils, I should there declare my opinion openly and faithfully, according to my heart and con science. According to my heart and conscience, I believe, the time is come when there is less danger to the general interests of this E.npire, to the spiritual and temporal welfare of the Protestant Church, in attempting upon safe principles an adjustment of the Catholic Question, than in any other cause which I can suggest to his Majesty. have stated this opinion on a former occasion, and to this opinion I deliberately and fixedly adhere ; unchanged by any seurrility—(hear)—wachanged by any expression of opinion, however general, or however limited; unchanged by the popular estimation ; unchanged by the heavier I ..9 of private friendship. Sir, I say, that looking back oi. the past, surveying the present, and looking for s,. ,r , l to the prospects of the future, I think the time has arrived, when an attempt should be made to ad just this question. 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