The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-04-17 00:00:00

" literetieni, 'Alin:slims, et rebelles eld.ia D••minn
Matto eel soecessoribus prredictis, pro Fume persequar et
hispngnalso."
And widi the addition of the following words at the
conclusion of the with :
" Hee amnia et ainignla eo inviolahilins ohsersebn. foe
eertior sum, tuba iii its coutmeri, quad JortsinPnto lideli-
Wes mast ergo Serenimimnas N. Regem, tjusque ad
Thulium 8 sores, dPhste adversa►i posse." •
Could their Lordships find out any tern's' which
could express the sense and purpose of the last. tt-
meat in a stronger mintier ? The paper trim. dale()
1744, so that the pretends.* of the lioinaii Catholic
ei•ligion had here the same from 1744 downwards
at the least. To prove this, he would read part of
atinipor daeoment of the some chile, '(inset,. Atm
'tremble to the order of reference made to the
Bishop. and sneering's 'of the Catholic Church,
when called upon td flake a report of the state of
their respective dioceses or districts, extracted frog►
an order of the Prepagaiida, printed in 1744 :
Anionsirerteleduas est " has qtresliunes a Sart& Congrega-
tione ea lentil', de mak tieri, at Regiouum Simile Spirt-
Watts, et Religi is ipsi immistesent—nude mode curia tem-
porslis, et politicas—quippe rev ejustuudi ad earn u►aitr►e
pertinent, me ens moire desiderat—mque suit outuino Ws-
si 111 l arius suns cis implieari—quamobrem que rtsponsurus
est, widest, lie respondent ad shad, quart, ad ea, quo spiel-
wide dL.itiumque ministerium respiciaut."
Such was the political character of that Pope.:whom
their Lordshipe bad thought necessary to represent
in the course of parliamentary proceedings as a
person dangerous to the State, es one whose duty
and calling was to disturb the tranquillity and vice.
late the ■lJegiance of foreign States. It was on
account of thus peison that a Bill had passed the
other House, and been brought up to their Lord-
ships, to place restrictions on the intercourse which
the Catholic Clergy might have with the visible
Head of their Church on earth. Yet they had it
iii proof that this Potentate, held to be so danger-
ous to the peace and welfare of other States, had
ha-en in the fixed habit of abstaining, and forbid-
ding all his Clergy and their flocks from interfer-
ing, in any way, in the political affera of the seve-
ral countries in which they were prohibited from so
doing by regulations of State. He had mentioned
before that the Bill had not passed through the
oilier House of Proliainent without the giavest
consideration having been were to it. Never had
any Bill come op to their Lordship. with suck ad.
vantages of repeated and toed deliberation ; never
heel the discussion of any Bill been conducted with
snore coolness and assiduity. It had not been de-
ter 11l i l ted itt heat, but with the greatest temper and
moderate'''. It was necessary for him to i:ond out
for e moment what the Bill contained. First, theme
was ill it what he would call a full enabling *Y"tirt
of provisions, which went to restore the Catholics
their full kind free admission to the Constitution.
IVith respect to this view of the Bill, he wished to
ohaerve, that lie looked at it not as a system of prie
vileges, but of rights restored. The Catholics of
Ireland had been admitted to the elective franchise.
The present Bill would give them back the right of
sitting in Parliament, as well as of voting for others
to sit in Parliament. They had enjoyed the latter
for 28 years, and faid not in any instance been
found wanting in their duties to the constitution.
There were exceptions taken in the Bill which he
could not directly condemn. Every thing contuses.
ed with the Crown, whether it related to the justice,
duguity, or authority, was necessarily Protestant,
and was to he held inviolate by the Bill. A Catholic
King could not even be proposed; hut they would
not wish to shew their jealousy of a Protestant King.
who was certainly to be trusted to for preventing
his authority from being encroached upon by the
influence of counselloss, Protestant or Catholic.
The Sovereign could have no inducement to sop-
port an authority which claimed or threatened to
entrench on les own ; the Ptivy Council was there.
fore very properly open to the admission of 'Catho-
lics. The King was not likely to appoint any one
to such an office except there were great proof or
probability of his becoming serviceable and remain-
lug obedient. Then why should Catholics be kept
out of Parliament ? The answer had been, that
they were disaffected. Was not this the way to make
theist disiffected ? Nobody liked, either in private
or in public, to be charged with any defect of
loyally or allegiance. There was no knowing
what the feelings of an eminent Catholic bar-
mier most be on every succeeding night and
morning, when viewing the Bench, his heart was
oppressed with the conviction that he could not
be admitted there ; hi• 'mod stow agreed with
every thing which the Bill had given, and with
the few exceptions which escluded Catholics from
the chief offices of S'ate and Law. All this
was in accordance with his wither, because it
went so far towards doing away the disunion
which must at present exist. becau►e it took
away that unworthy declination of disgrace from
the possession of certain religion. opilsione He
appeared of new modelling the omit of supte.
macy, so as to meet the scruples of the coo.
ecientiout. Considering then gist the Catholics
were worthy of treat wider the preterit eircurn-
litilliCell, and approving of all the concessien* that
were to be made to them, and conceiving that every
thing so conceded should be yielded to them,
without imposing on them the restraint of nn addi-
tional oath—such being his opinion, lie could not
concur in utiy of the enactmen►s of the stetted Bill.
He defended the first Bill on the roiled that the
Catholic was not a suspicious subject. If lie
thought the Catholic a suspicious subject, he would
give hint nothing. But by the exercise of the elective
franchise for 28 years, the Catholic had proved him-
self In a political brute to be trust-worthy. He would
have no übjeetiou to see the /levied Bill entirely
expunged. So far from approving of that branch of
the Bill, it would, if pissed in its present shape,
detract so much from the value of the whole toes-
surer as to induce him to request that they would
take back the Bill altogether. He would. 1113 i nave
Stoettpiridvtibler moult Istutchhecond Catholicsdw n of
? Age:lt:l47ly aVistiL)ye