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PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FRIDAY. Aran. 22, 1821.

—lad HOLLAND presented • petition from an individual,
lassoed Wißiston'Thorne, eemplaining that in the printed evidence
taken before the Committee, appointed to inquire into the State of
Ireland, his name was introduced in a manner hiihly injurious to
Me diorama. The petitioner now prayed, that he might be al•
*wed tame opportunity to vindicate his character, from what be
considered an unwarrantable arpersio...
T►e petition was then read, and to the motion of the Noble
Lord was ordered to be referred to a ecrnmittee on the State of
Ireland.

CATHOLIC CLAIMS.
Lord HOLLAND presented a petition from the Protestant
Diatoms?! the Borough.ot Wareham, in favour of the Catholic

Claims. His Lordshiptibinved, that the Right Rev. Prelate, who
' bad presented it petition on a former night, from the Congregation
of the Jewry.street Chapel, had very properly stated, that each
Congregicion of Independents formed an independent church,
and be lloord Holland) could nut say whether this petition spoke
Alit sentiments of the whole body. All he could say was, that the
petition was most n6merously anti moat respectably signed, and
the parties were most anxious not to be considered as entertaining
any feelings hostile to then' Catholic Brethren, or as participating
in the sentiments of thore persons who had petitioned against
them. In hie opttioo, the Independents were the last body that
ought to corne4bniaid and oppose the claims of any denomination
of Christians who were seeking :',e restoration of their civil
tights.—The petition was laid on the table.
The Marquis of CAMDEN presented a petition against the
Claims or the Catholics, from the inhabitants of Sandhurst and
Newingten, in the County of Kent. The Noble Marquis said that
his own opinion differed altogether from that of the petitioners,
sad 'only regretted that he hai not before given his support to a
melons of the necessity of which he was now most fully convinced.
-k1 on the table.
Bishop of LONDON presented petitions to the saniiefeet,
from the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Archdesconry d Doe*:
ttam the Archdeacon and Cleegy of the• Diocese of, Middlesex=
from the Archdeacon and Clergy of the Diocese of St. XWan's t and
another from the Gentry and Clergy of the Parish of Dedham, in
the County of Esses.—Laid on the table.
The Bishop of ,F,t. DAVID'S presented a petition to the same
effect from the Inhabitants of a parish In Cardiganshire, and
another from the Inhabitants of the parish of Ryde, fo the County
of Pembmkes—Laid on the table.
Ths Bishop of CH ESTER presented a petition to the same
effect, from the Inhabitants of Kendal and Lonsdale, in the Diocese
of Clutter, and also a petition from the Inhabitants of Oldham,
aligned by 2,174 persons. The Right Rev. Prelate said that this
number of signatures had been affixed to it within two days. The
parties were all respectable, and many of them ware landholders
and proprienrs.—Laid on toe table.
Lord ARDEN tvesented similar petitions from the parishes of
St: Giles'. Wellingborough and Weston level!, in the County of
Northampton.—Laid on the table.
THREATENING LETTERS BILL.

The Threatening Letters Bill was read a third time and passed.
LAWS OF FORFEITURE AND CORRUPTION OF

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BLOOD.
Lord HOLLAND said, he rose, rursuant to the notice he had
ye:terdar given, to present to their Lordships a Bill to prevent
imy attainder for high treason, from canting the disinheritance of
any heir, or applying to any other than the offender himself, and
to move that it be now reed a first time, as the Bill wart in some
della' to revive the claims in two Arts, one of Anne, and another
o: George I 1., and also to repeal the 99th of the late King ; he
should now more that those Acts be read ru forma. This being
done, his Lordship said that he would soon 11l a day for the second
tniline, and then moved that the Peers be sumntoued.
The Bill was then read a first time.
The House then stkiluroed.