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THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COM MISSIONERS ot His M NAVY . , Jo hereby give Notice to such Lieutenants NaVy as are desirmie of hrii i recoMmendea for the a iipolot meut of POOR loararr. of WINDSOR, under the Will of the. late Stl- SMUEL TRAVERS, Esif. that they must apply at this Office, on or before the 'lst of Apt when iht:t will he -in formed of the notate of the CC/ tifieat es and Testimonials which are required 'to spew that they come within the meart inz of the.soid Will, which expresses that t " are to tic superannuated or disahled LientenaufS of English Men of. lit":.r," and shalt be "sjm. , ;:e Nlt..n without Children, inclined to lead a"virt mins, studious, mid det out Wei to he removed if they Ore occasion for'Scandal." • sr,vrioNAßl orrteK, t tit. 12, Its2l TEU COM PTRO 14 I;F; andSTORE -I...EEPZit of this OFFICE are le,toy to E1,C,1V4: TEN MIS for the Supply of P.,-aPEI, PENS, and QUILLS, fur the Public Service., grintiid particulars will be delivered, and Sample•% of the Articles required will -be exhibited' at the Stfirekeepr's Office, from Eleven o'Clock until Titi . ee, fur twenty-eight day; fccaig the Date hereof, nArrISI-1 GAI Y, nri fri MS.' GALLERY, for the EXHIBITION. and SALE of the IVortis of 111orIvrti Artists, IS OPEN 13A ILY from Ten in the Morning until Fire in the Evening. Admission, Is.—Cat , il , Pgno, is• By Older. JOII,N EAST INDIA fIOUSIP,, I.HE COURT of DIRECTO RS of the UNITED COMPANY of : , ,lERcii., , ANTA of ENG LANO TRADING tti the 'EAST INDIES, do hereby give That . the QUARTERLY GENERAL tr)I_7RT of the Raid IS;ninpany, appointed to he held at I in Leaden h%ll-st rect, on WEDNESDAY, the elSt March next, is Iuat.hi..ISVECIAL,' fur the purpose' of ,lapog bufore the Pro- Priet.rs for their approbation, a Resolution of the Court of. DitJetio s of the 17th January last,-grant to•C-ipt ant Da ftly! Ross of the Bombay Marine, the swig of 15001. under t he'eircumstauces therein stated. _ . it. Itefick required by the Bye EAU', cap. 6. sec. 20. to gether with the Documents upon whiLli the said Resolution 1 " 1 5 licyri formed, 'are open fur the inspection of the Pro prittot, at this liouse. JOWII DART, Secretary. .E Sl' INDIA HOUSE, Feb. 21, - 18 21 . rrILL COURT of DIRECTORS of the - 131 - • UNITED COMPANY of MERCHANTS of ENG AND "Tit -WING to the EAS . I' INDIES, do hereby give Notce, That . the QUARTERLY GENERAL COURT of the said Ciltipany appointed to be held at their douse in Leadiniha t.tre,t, on WEDNESDAY the 21st March. next', is, further Made Special,, for the purpose of submitting for confirma -11015 the Resoldtion of the Geoer.d Ctiurt of the 20th of becemlier, approving the Resolution of the Court of Direc tors ot. the Btil of Novembcr last. proposini the Establish ment of a new Office, with a Salary .of Three Hundred P utlud:. per annum, at the Company's Military Seininary at Addisc?mhe, for the instruction of the Cadets at that Insti tPioti in the Science of Military §Urveying. The said Resolution is open at this -House for the Inspec tion of ..the Proprietors. JOSEPH DART, Secretary. pi L i N Ts , ASO BOt)KS 'l'o BE SOLD BY AUCTION,' -ny Mr SOTIIEBY, at his [louse, Wellington-Street, Wa terloo-Bridge, Strand, on I'HURSDAY, the Ist of Match, 1821. and Four following Days (Sunday excepted), at z-rw‘i. , !, • • *PRE Valuable COLLECTION of PRINTS, b .....AL by Ancient and M o de it Mitsters, of the late I. F. TUF AN. EA. ef Park-lane. ENGLISII and FOREIGN POR , 1-11,,,4'S and TOPOGRAPHY; ' - among which are Tenant's Vi; ( ''Y of London, "illustrated with 11 - 1117 I• rous Po,traits and Subsciiption - Set- of Bob dell's Sllaliespeare, Capital I.:F c 'lneus- of Drawing's by the Best Masters of the Italian, Gerniln, and bwelo 'Schools; Water-c,,loured • b Nltalcrn British Artists, Useful Portfolios, 6c. c. Ste .'B7, . • 1 \ 1 . 4 Y he viewed, and Catalogues had, at the place of `ate. TThis day was published, in svo. price Ss. Gd. HE ANGEL OF THE WORLD, an °llicr P Arabian Tale SE. ISTIAN, a Spanish Wu, with , • .ns. By the Rev,.GEGRciE CROLY, A.M. P Also, by the saute Author, , • “IS • 1/3'5, Poetn, St•cond Edition, sg. 6tl. sewed. t•INES on the DEATH - of 'the' PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, 38 • Gil. Sewed. Printed for John Warren, Old Bond Street. CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION. The following extracts - from ,Mr. PITT'S Skeches, delivered in the. years 1790 and 1805, this subject, atftird unequivocal proof that he I cas strongly adverse: to granting what is corn r.nooly called CaPiolic Emancipation. On the 2d gr March, L 790, Mr. Fox having moved for are- Peal of the Test Laws, Mr. Pitt used among Others, the following arguments against that inea. `'''e• The paint at issue between them was, 'whether the House should or should not, at once l'elinquish these Acts, which had, by the wisdom Of our anc e stors , serve d as a b u l war k t o th e Qiurch, the Constitution of which was so con 11ec--ted and interwoven with the interests and Pre servation. of the State, that the former could o be endangered without hazarding the safety the latter c "Il e had heard with approbation the Right Honourable , flti tnlan's arguments against persecution, and in favour of I°'etation, but he was surprised at the latitude of definition Which he seemed inclined to carry toleration ; an' extent definition which if would not bear, and which, he was con- Ilneed, had never before been given to it frtim the beginning t he world. Toleration could by no means be considered as e9l4l itY ; it differed front persecution, and it differed front tstablishment. He was willing to grant every protection of the laws, in support of the religion and property of indivi ; but the necessity of a certain, permanent, and sped= he Church Establishment, rendered it essential that toleration should not go to equalitv4which would endanger the Esta 7 blishment, and thence no longer be toleration. The extent °f the Right Hon: Gentlinuari',s pa inciples, he said, went to t he admittance of every ebbs of dissenters to a full and coin- P l ete equality, and even to the admittance those who might eo nscientiously think it their duty to subvert the Established C hurch. The Right Hon. Gentleman's principles went, not °n1 :: to the admittance of Roman Catholics, but Papists, 111. °P.elly so called (and he observed, there was no material distinction betwetd them), the latter ac knowledging-, the supremacy of a foreign, though an e cclesiastical prince, who, according t9 ‘ the Right Hon. Centlennn, with all the odious, detestable, - and dangerous Principles that belonged to his church (I ), ought not to be kept out of the most important official situations, before the commission of some overt act against the Constitution, ma flatted by force of arias iu the npcn add, by which the po- 7 - v-, , - , „.--....., .4:4 11 ; 4 :1%, : -..... -en - - , -,7.... , il , di . : 4 4 7 -,----,,,,,', - - • )",,- .7. ....• T lIIJRSDAY, iiAl ,----. I, z i :;, ( 4' . ' - ~/ 4 r ---- " ~# ze—.... . , 7t ..4 , .e / / ]icy of prevention would 'be done away, and a dangerous door he opened to the ali'solute ruin of the Constitution. The Test and Corporation Act's, be said, had been wisely adapted to secure the Conititution, and had it not been for them, the 'family of Stuart might helve_ been at. this time in pOssessiou of the Throne,. and the Right Hon. Gentleman not have had an opportunity to state those opinions in the House • which they bad that day beard. e (s) The Right Hen. Gentle man, he said, was mistaken iti his assertion, that no sell— . gious test was taken by the Members of the Legislature---. Every Gentleman Present had Aitken axeligious test, by mak ing a solemn appeal to providence, when he took the oath against transubstantiation, which was purely religious. (a)l - le urged the proprietyand advantage of tests, and contended that all Governments adopted a test of some kind or other; but in a country like this,where the Monarchy was limited, it is pas, ticularly necessary, that the executive. power should be 'ad, witted to exercise a right of discrimination into the fitness of individuals to fill those stations, for which the executive power is responsible: A§ public offices seer,: created for th public at large, the idea of a right to fill•tbens was ridiculous, unless it could be proved that they wert made for therbenefit of the holders,- arid nut as a, trust for the Public. In our mixed Constitution, the appointment to offices necessarily and naturally rested with the. Executive Power, over whirls the Legislature had made - a wise application of limited Mo narchy, by a' list' ktion on even the Monarch hmself, in the disposal of those offices. In private life it was a common po ]ley, for no man to admit another to the mauagement of Isis affairs, if he did not think well of that man's - principles. The same policy kept good in States; it was therefore no Usurpa tion in the Goiernment, if not approving of the political principles of theDissenteis, they excluded them front office." In the month of March, 1805, the Irish Re- man Catholics presented Petitions to both Houses of. Parliament, in which they prayed, that the Statutes now in force against them (including the Test Laws) may be repealed, in consideration of their uniformly 'loyal and peaceable conduct; though they had raised two Rebellions for the subversion of . the Constitution, one in the year 1795, the other in the year 1803. In these Peti tions they denied the existence of some of the fundanAial principles of their religion, though they are "Contained in the general CouncilS of their Church, of which editions are to be found in every . public library in Europe, and 'though every Member of Parliament is required by the Test Laws, before he takes his seat, to make a specific renunciation of them. Mr. Pitt, with his -usual eloqUenee, resisted their application : " Ile disapproved of the terns Emancipation, which he said was not in the smallest degree applicable to a repeal of the few remaining penal statutes to which the Roman Catholics were liable. He considered the admission of them to any posts or offices as a matter of expediency, and not of right ; for they were created for the benefit of the public, for whose advan tage they were to lee exercised, and not fur the sake of the individuals who were to possess them. He said that he be lieved the line of argument which he took forinerly was, that if it should be thought right to give what the Roman Catho lics required, it might be given after the Union with more safety to the empire ; and if it were thought proper to refuse that it might be refused, without producing those disas trous . consequences which might have been apprehended before the Union. I come, then, to the present discussion, perfectly free and unfettered. I certainly was of opinion, that under an united Parliament, these privileges migh,t he granted under proper guards and conditions,. so as not to produce any danger to the Established Church, or the Protestant Constitution. I never thought that it would have been wise ur prudent to have thrown down, rudely and abruptly, the guards and fences of the Con stitution. I formed a determination not to press it, unless I thought it could be done with that pro§peet of suc cess, and with that general concurrence, without which it never can be beneficial. As to tile chance of carrying the question, at present, with general concurrence, or gratifying the RO/11:111 Catholics without offending the Protestants, or confirming the affections of one, without raising the suspi cions of the other, not only in Ireland, but in England, I confess there appears to be none. I lament it as much as any man can. I ask any Gentleman, whether he does not believe, looking to the opinions of the Members of the Established Church, of the Nobility, of the men of property, and of the middling and respectable classes of society, I ask him, whe ther he does not believe, looking at the sentiments of the mass-of theiProtestante of this Country and Ireland, that there is the greatest repugnance to this measure ? (4) soil that even if it could now be carried, so far front producing conciliation and union, it would tend, on the contrary, to disapp iint all the prospects of advantage, which, under other circum - - stances, would he derived front it ? I do not mean wilfully to shut my eves to this conviction, that a Catholic, how ever honouraieler leis intentions may be, must he anxious to advance the interests of his religion. It. is in the very nature of man. He may disclaim and renounce this wish for a time, hut there is no man aequainted with the operations of the human heart, .who sloes not know, that the (Roman) Catholics must feel that ;All xivo-, whenever ths , power and the opportunity may be favourable(s.) It has beets urged by some Gentlemen, that we ought to go into a Committee, to take into consideration the minor crier , . ances under which the (Roman) Catholics tabour; Sir, 1 con tend, that these points are much too unimportant to induce us to go into a Committee upon a petition, which embraces the whole of this important subject, and which excites the hopes and fears of all the subjects of the United Kingdom." M. (1) It is absurd to suppose that Mr. Pitt, well knowing the sanguinary and intolerant principles of the Romish Church, could think seriously of admitting its votaries to political power. - 12) It is well known that . Mr:Fox encouraged the Irish Papists to petition Parliament for Emancipation iN the year 1805, but in the year 1806, when lie and his friends came into poWee, be eniteaeoured to dissuade them from doing so. (3) Every Member of Parliament before he can' take his seat, is required to renounce, and condemn upon oath as im pious, damnable, and heretical, the licensing and dispensing powers long claimed and exercised by The Pope, and that faith is not to he kept with Heretics. (4) In the year 1813, eight years after this question was discussed, most of the Counties and Corporations in England and Ireland petitioned against making any more concessions to the Roman Catholics. See a list of them in the Protestant Advocate, vol. 1. p. 3:34. (5) In the beginning of the year 1793, ;di the Penal Laws affecting tlrc I r i s h ('atholics were repealed, and they obtained the Elective Franchise. They then declared them selves grateful and.contented; and yet in a few months after, Th e y formed a teeaonahle consi.iraey to separate Ireland front England, and to extirrate tlicirnotestant fellow• subjects as Heretics. ZOR 1, 182/. PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, Fr.n. 28. Mr. COOPER and several other Members brought up various Private Bill: from the Com m Ons, which were read a first time. Sricca, from Chelsea Hospital, presented an Account of Unclaimed I'-size Money lying there from 1819 to 1820.--4Jaid on the table. - STR <TI - LNI OR E : PE ER4G 'The LORD CiIAINTCELLOR wished to' draw - the attention of. their Lordships to the claims.made in the Court of chancery by - two Individuals, to the Earldom of Strathmore. lie understood that a Petition had been presented to the House on the subject, and he gave notice, that in a few - days he should move . that it be referred to the Gotn mittee of. Privileges now sitting. 4k stated this in order that the house might be acquainted with the matter when it should come t eiroti.i them, the question being one of great importance,.not.only as it affected the claimauts, but their Lordship s. theMselves. The Earl. of It oss N moved that the Commit tee on Foreign Trade have Nave to report from time to time.— Agreed to. The Annual Indemnity Bill was read. a second time.—Adjourned. ,d.: ---'"?'"-- " 1- ~ • .r ,•:),.„ 4 . ._, . -- • * greatest support to the Constitution, and strengthen the best interests of the country. Mr. ‘I`AIt.P.F. said the . Hon, Member' for Somerset had for twenty years OPposed the 'claitni . Of the CatliolieS, and he nowe. hi s o pposition ia ‘+-ilied the House to ,deliberate on the situation in which they now stood. In the year IEO7, a measure was proposed for open ing , certain offices in the Army and Navv to the Catholics; it was opposed in and the Ileitis!'" cry of .‘ Nu Popery" hating been successfully raised, the proposal mis carried. But. since then all that was sought by that mea sure has been conceded. __A Bill to that effect was brought ion .the House ot ‘ Lotds, in .Itll7, ~by a Minister of the Crowe, and it was passed through the Commons, in forty -eight hotirs, sob xilenti9. In consemiettce of that - Bill a Catholib Moth al might COW wand' the Channel Fleet,, and other ollices might be held-hot hem, their admission to which, it had previously beet) foretold, would lead to the overthrow of the Constitution. The - 'results of that measure, he -con tenth-d,-had been any thing but dangerous, and he charged: with inconsistency those who having formerly opposed it, and after Wards acquiesced in it, •now came forward to oppose the Catholic Chtints upon the saMe grounds. Mr. BAItHAsI disapproved of thesePeiitions. A Petition had bean presented from the Clergy of Leicester, which abounded with calttamy,, and he thought hit House ought to mark its indignation at such Pelitions - heing.presented to it. .The Honourable Member proceeded. to observe, that if the -allegations .cf the Petitioners had been only illiberal, and unchristian, he would have passed them Win, ticed; hut there were' many of them which were grossly false; and although he was in charity disposed to give them a large credit for ig",orance, he could not‘ believe that they were not aware df their falsehood. They assetted ;hat Ca )holies admitted of mental reservation; now lie would put it to the !louse whether the Petitioners could be ignorant of the repeated disclaimers of the Catholics of any such tenets. The I-16th Mernher was. proceeding to refer to documentary evidence oil this point, when SPEAKER reurinded, him that it was not strictly in' order t'o comment upon a former Petition, when another Petition was before the Hottse. After sonic bother observaz ions from Sir T. B. Lethbridge, Mr. Warre, .Mr. Baa ham, and Mr. Legh Keck, the Petition waS,read and orilmed to be printed. Ott the motion of Mr. CALCItAFT, the order for taking into consideration the Petition againSt the return for Aldbo rough, on the 13th March, was discharged. Sir [-I. PARNELL postponed, till Friday next, his motion respecting the leasing of TitlieS in Ireland. ROMAN CATHOLICS OF ENGLAND. Lord NUGENT rose to present the humble Pe tition- of the Roman' Catholics of. England. It was signed by upwards.of 8000 persons ; among whom were seven Peers, fourteen Barons, seven of their Bishops, and a considerable number .of their Clergy if on the present occasion lie was sanguine enough to hope for success, the hope was not founded on an expectation that•the temper of the House had materially changed; It rather rested on .the increased faith of the Petitioners hi the justice of Parliament, and on their uniformly ,exemplary conduct, but principally it rested on that declaration whiCh they made, and which, not new in principle, was . now stated for the. third time, and which he thought removed one great difficulty that had hitherto stood in the way. The House was aware that the oath of supremacy denying the. spiritual power of the Pope in this country had hitherto opposed the admission of, the Catholics to a full share of the blessings of the tnglish,constitution. This dif ficulty was now removed, by their pres'ent de•- claration with respect to tile Oath of Supremacy; the Petitioners had heretofore been accused of giving to the Pope a part of that allegiance which' they owed to the King. This had been repeat edly denied, and they now again denied the i charge, and' were ready to swear fall and undi vided allegiance to the. King. "In him alone" they recognized all the civil power existing with in the realm ; and saying this, it would be seen that their phraseology was borrowed from the Thirty-nine Articles. They acknowledged no right in any. Foreign Prince or Potentate - to exer'- 'cise Civil, Spiritual, or Ecclesiastical power with in the realm. This declaration, so far as these Petitioners were concerned, reduced the question to a very narrow compass. :He. then proceeded to inquire into the grounds on which they could. still be excluded from the Constitution. The Roman Catholics of England were ready to give any securities that might be required. They were entitled to the relief they prayed, from their good conduct, from their history, and.from the evidence of the very oaths by which they were excluded from the rights enjoyed by their fellow citizens. .If the prayer of the -Petitioners were now rejected, they must decide that. no man was worthy of belief who reverenced the spiritual power of the Pope—or believed in the presence of the Deity in the Sacrament, and on such grounds were • they to exclude from the Constitution one fourth of the moral strength of the empire. He then enlarged on the merits and sufferings of the Roman Catholics, on the circum stances under which the oaths against the Ca , - tholics were enacted, and on the false but often reiterated assertion that a Catholic. did not hold. an oath binding on his conscience where'heretics were concerned. He objected to the test. respect ing. transubstantiation in the first instance, Be cause it asserted that which was false. Second ly, Because the matter of belief was by far too speculative in its character to become the sub ject of political enactments. And Thirdly, Be cause if it were, as charitable and true as it was known to be the reverse, the very oath imposed went to nullify the security it was intended to give. The oath after abuSing the doctrine of transubstantiation in the most violent terms as idolatrous, went on to say, "In the presence of God. I profess I believe in no power of dispensas tion.r But if the Catholic did believe in the power of any one to give a dispensation, and re lieve.him from the necessitTof observing an oath, he might then take all the - oaths prescribed 16. Parliament, and in spite of all - their enactments that House might be filled .not only with Catho lics, but with perjurers. The Rothan Catholics were supported in their present application by the opinions of three 'of our greatest authOri , ties in Divinity, Law, and Moral . Philosophy. The first was no less a person than one of the firmest,. most venerable, and most staunch supporters of Protestantism in his day against _Catholicism, connected as it then was with arbitrary principles—lie meant Bishop Headley. ' ..? - 4-. -----%--,:et .- \ ze, -'-: ---'..„..--.• ' f -',- t. 'A . , .1 ~.0 ( ---':•..- -' 7„ -.: r ,•,...., ----,." ,-, ',..e::, -, A .a. . ' qtyl;•• ZJ . ‘. C ' ' - .1,-- ' 1 , - 4 r...........- -- -I'. S . •:, 1 2 [Pra - cE SEVENPENCE. _ - lie had said on this subject--:" I cannot- justify the exclusion. of Papists from civil offices, but from their Open and avowed enmity to Civil Go vernment." 'The second authority to which he had- referred Was that of Mr. Justice Blackstone. ,Ite; Speaking.en this question, had thus expressed hiniself—" If eV.er a time shall - arrive - When all fear of the Pretender Shall have vanished;and the civil power of the Pope shall be redoced or anni hilated; not 0111 . - in England, but in every .coup-` try in Europe, then the time will - arrive.for lie•Ong the Roman Cathdlics from the restrictions of which they at present complain,": The third authority was'that of Archdeacon Paley, who,in his work on Moral philosophy; spoke still Moia strongly in favour of the Catholics (cireont:- stanced as they were now), - than either of -tho4e he had already quoted. lie had said that."• It should - be remembered the connexion betweenth=e Pope and the Jacobites was the sole 'cause of the, restrictions: put upon the Catholics, and; iheit; ought not to continue a day longer'than clrcuffi statiCes of visible - danger•seerned - to'rnake theist necessary," Now without a bad grace,. he thought -- that prayer could not be refused whiCh had'smdt high authorities in its favour.- He lhen- - presst:l, the importance of "conceding the boon- desficlfl, now, when the Petitioners - pledged their :charac= ters to the sincerity of their professions, and of : : fered willingly the service of their lives to the. Protestants on their own terms, only desiring that they might not be disturbed. in their worship; . that their relics and altars- might be left, nn- • touched, and that those who differed from thenl should mot dictate. the' in which they mita address themselves' 'to the Deity. In -grantii:g their prayer, he implored the House-not to nego ciate for securities with those for whom it was • their duty to legislate. lie called not to treat with CatholiC Boards and Catholic Authorities,' but to consult their own feelings and their own hearts in coming to their decision. He called upon them not to charge on the many - the intem perance of a few, but to do their duty, and leave the few bigots who, in the •nineteenth century, . would favour the intolerance of the fifteenth,-to answer to God and to their country for theircon duct. He hoped the Catholics Would at last : Ise. admitted to a full and undivided share in: the Constitution of their country ; and never ought it to be forgotten that their forefathers tr.d Lught to establish that.. Constitution. lie could 11-A -better express his feelings-than by quoting frour the preamble of that wise and humane Act, the I.9th George - 111. which set forth that "it must tend to the prosperity and welfare of the "coin., , try, that subjects of all • denominations should enjoy, the full benefit of the. Constitution." With this, impression on his mind, he could not hut. hope, while presenting this Petition, that the, House 'would that night do what ykit rernained.li be done- to accomplish this important ohject, , Lord GLEsoacur supported '-the Petition. He trusted the House would no longer deny, Ole free privilege of exercising.the : rights afforded,o4. the Constitution, to a numerous class of the ple,'merely because they did not hold 14 s'ol - 4e- , . religious opinion's as themselves. Upon the, Petition being read, - , Lord NUGENT stated, that only four of Tile Baronies were now in existence, whose holckrs signed Magna Charta, and that the representa 7 • tives of those Baronies had pot their names•tothe Petition.—(Hear, hear!) - The Petition was then ordered to be printed. EXECUTION OF MUItAT. Lord CASTLEREAGH, in answer to a coesticl:l which was put to him on a former night by an Member, whether an accredited agentof•' this Government had not consented to the mili tary execution of Murat, had then said that, the: - possessed no knowledge of the circumstance; hut would make the necessary inquiries: He died since that time received information upon the subject from Sir William A'Court, which stated that Murat was - condemned by his own laws, Which were still in force ; and that the, Court Martial which condemned him was composed of his own officers. The fate which he suffered was agreeable to a proclamation found upon him when . he was:taken, pronouncing the sentence of mili tary execution 'upon King Ferdinand. This in formation of course put a complete negative upon the reports upon.which the lion, Member found ed his.,question. , , Sir K. WiLsos said, that the explanation of the Noble Lord was satisfactory as .far., as , it wetic but the report was that an accre dit e d agent,of this Government bad personally Assisted at ttn_t Council at Naples, which determined upon send ing Murat before that tribunal which pronounced. his sentence. Lord CAmEkt EA on (as we understood liki) ,knew nothing of the Council alluded to, that a British agent had taken any -part :in the proCeedings against the individual alluded 0, was evidently destitute of every colour of folladatkOll,. ROMAN CATHOLICS OF Mr: PLUNKETT preSented a Petition, Signed'by a very considerable number of the Roman Ca*- tholies .of Ireland, praying relief from the'd - f , T.- bilities under which they labour. Front the:diA•- tinguished• rank, fortune, and talentSof many of the individuals who signed the Petition, a;1,;1 from the means they had of corttmnnicati:l4 the public at large, he was entitled to s-ly thit far as they sought redress, they • spoke the sen:,:- ments of the great body of the 11.6 man Catholic of Ireland. A similar Petition had been preent-- ed the year before last, and it was unnecessary for hin t to remind the - lloiise that it was present= ed by his departed friend Mr. Grattan ;—that 'it came. before them with all the anthorit, and . with all the importance 'which, waited ttpoil the :majesty of his elo:lncr..c.e. lie 014:1 not Lt. HOUSE OF COAIAIONS. Mr. - P.. GILBERT h ought in a Bill t o I.'o - vide for the Iti crease of the Annual Income •of the Loudon Institution:— Read a first time. Mr. D. GILBERT obtained leave, to bring in a IHill to re .move doubts as to the Powers of the Cominissioners of the Exchequer to advance Money by Exelmiter Rills to flee Re gent's Canal Cutnpiroy. A Person fion: Chelsea Hospital presented Accounts o! the Disbursements of Chelsea Ilospital.—Orderedr to lie on the ( - aisle. Mr. BAnttow, from the Office of Escheats, presented Ac counts—Ordered to be printed. Lord W. BENTINCK presented a Petition from Notting ham, complaining of Agricultural Distress.—Ordered to lie on the table, presented fo , Petitions from the C oun t y ' of Gloucester, l il ' it V aCet i : SE ir r i ,contplaining - of Agricultural Distress.—Or dered to he printed. A similar Petition was presented from Ills whorough, in the County of Berks.---Ordered to lie an the table. Lord TEMPLE presented the , e Petitions on.the same soh jt ct from different districts of the County of Ruckittehanv.— O n p r esen ting the first, he made a forcible appeal to the House in favour of the petitioners, strongly recommendi,g their case to consideration.—The Petitions were ordered to lie on the table. Admiral HARVEY presented three Petitions from Don- MOW, and two onie,• townsitt the County of E ssex , e•lling the attention of the House to : the existiog Agricultural Dis tress.—Ordered to lie on the table. A similar Petition was presented from Northampton. —Or tiered to lie on the tattle. CATHOLIC ENIANCIPATION, Mr. E. WODEHOLISE presented a Petition. front the of Norwich against the Catholic.Claints.— Ordered to li e on the table. .A slmilar Petition was presented from the Arelideacolsry am I ci,r,v of COI , I AV all.—Ordered to lie on the table. • Mr. FI7PZGIBBON presented a Petition from the Roman Catholics of Lintel - jet:, praying to be.admitted to th e f u ll en joyment of the privileges f the British Constitution. 'Pie Honourable Gentleman begged to otter his- testimony to the loyalty and respectability of the Petitioners, and expressed an earnest hope that the result of that nigllt's debate would determine that a large portion of the people of Ireland should no limiter be excluded from participating lit the bles sings of the Constitution. Mr. S. RICE supported the 'prayer of the Petition, con 'ceiving it to be founded on %justice. No paltry wiestion of •expediency, if expediency could ever be separated from jiis 'ice, ought to induce'them now to exclude front the full en jt o h y e t i i r t e i t t t ence, under eilt,venrael privations e a n n a t:mer e p d ro i :: e i s t t l o b r y tunes, how well they deserved them. He hoped the Honse would consent to go into a Committee. - mo the Catholic Claims, but supporting this Petition lie Was desirous of doing every thing that could he necessary to support the Protestant Establishment. If securities were wanted to guard the Pro testant Church from danger, on the proof being ven that these Were necessary, he should vote for them. Bit he was satisfied that the hest security the Church of England could receive, wcmid be afforded by r,n act of conciliation and gene rosity towards the Roman Cathulics.—The Petition was or dered to be primed, Mr. WILDMAN presented a Petition against the Roman Catholic Claims from the Borough of Colchester.—Ordered to be printed. Lord R. MANNERS presented a similar Petition from cer tain freeholders of the County of Leicester. Mr. CALCRAFT asked if this Petition was agreed to at a County Meeting ? Lord It. MANNERS said he did ❑ot know ;. it was delivered to him last year.—(Hear, heat• !) Mr. CALCRAFT repeated this expla - nation, which he considered an extraordinat y one.-Laid on the Table. Mr. NOLAN presented a similar Petition frost. Nottingham. The Hon. and Learned Member stated that he did lint concur in t he sentiments of these Petitioners.— Laid on the Table. .Sir E. HARVEY presented a Petition - from the •Archdea coury, Clergy, and Laity of Colchrster..praying that the Pro fessors of the Roman Catholic Religion ma% he admitted to no greater Constitutional Privileges than those secured to them by the Act of Settlement. Sir J. MACKINTOSH said, those friendly- to Catholic Emancipation did not wish to do away with any of the secu rities obtained for the Constitution at the period of the glo rious Revolution. He was persuaded that his Houiturahle and Learned Friend who hrtarght the *subject forward would be the last man toldo any tiring against the spirit of the Re volution of 1688. They must, however, not confound the 'Revolution with all that was done at the time of the Revolution, and least of all with what was II 911 e in. Ireland at that period.. It Was persevered in, tr.iug their growing intelligence to bring this subject before Parliament, and he hoped their efforts would not be relaxed' till their success was complete. The result of that dot's de bate would, he hoped, relieve them, and render all further petitioning on•that subject unnecessary. lf, unfortunately, they failed on this occasion, he hoped their just and manly appeals to Parliament, in delem e •of their rights, would be contiouted.—Petition was ordered to lie nit the table. Sir THOMAS 13. LETHBRIDGE presented a Petition front the town of Bruton, in Somerstishire, against any further concessio►► to the Catholkes. T he y relied on the w7sdom of Parliament not to :;rant any furtht r concession, without some effectual security for the Protestant Establishment ; brit they doubted the possibility of devising ast measure which should affiod satisfactory telief to the Catholic, ,m 1 at th e s aline time provide for• the sucuroy of the Established 14eligion. He most cordially concurrent in the stotirneotsof the Petitioners and if it were the intention of the Right Hon. Nlentber for the University of Dubhu to move for a Committee, with a view to the proposal of any secoi ities, he could not but think it a mere delusion, for he knew tort how airy measure that would satisfy a rigid Catholic, coold b e .eittisistent unit the security of the Established Church. These were the reasons which had inclined him for so many years as he had been in Parlia ment, constantly to 'oppose the claims of his Catholic fellow subject-5. Mr: GRENFELL said, as be- had I reit nearly twenty years a Member of that House, and had invariably supported by his vote the applications of the Cat hol cs forjostice, but had • not had an opportunity of ileliverit , his sentiments Burin' the discussions which 'bad taken ;lace my the subject, he wished on this occasion publicly to declare his opinion; and so - far from ondermioing the Constitution, he was confident, front the most-attentive examitoition of lb:. subject. that a compliance with the ptaycts of the .Catholics would prove the ott of be of Ct rr 1- i fe n •