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London, England, 1819-04-29 00:00:00

The Petition we; ordered to lie on the table.

The Hon. C. H. IltAtitifisoti pi enter! a Poi.
Lion from the Human Catholic Inhabitants of the (711 y
of Cork, preying for the repeal of the Petted Cod'
idler:ling their body. The Hot,. Gent. on presentis•gi
the Petition, said, that the Petilioit 1441 t very bleu' I.
brit the topics it embraced were •t in 1t.11}41.—.
The Petitioners, lie said, stoted, th it for exerting a
right which the Protestant exerted—which ail
Christialis possessed, that of worshippili.; our vim,-
rums 6001 111 the indorser must agree iltle to Ilit• .14
tales of conscience, and iii the mainlyr their fore -
fathers hail worshipped —that li•r this they trri.-t
harassed, insulted, and oppressed by the law ;
that system of insult arid oppression 114* protioer I
nothing for Ireland but division—nothing fur
laird but weakiars•—nothitig for both townie
disgrace. The Petittotrer., heroin, felt a great she.
gree of satisfaction on the approaching' di-cussiii,t
of their Clanrid, because they rwlv oil the jo•-
ttce of Parliament fur redress. Cools dies mt.
portant Subject there was, us retry Gen: 1..
man who heard him, and who is at all ae •
quatirted wills the state of the public mind its lir. -
laud knows, a union of sentiment which dill not
exist fur a number of years. The Petit:oilers.
indeed all Ireland, entertain high and warin•lioves
that this odious and rrurl code will be now for ever
effaced from the Statute Hook, which it has so Lei.;;
disgraced—will be for ever oliliterate.l boos
the memory of a people, to which it liar hoot
source of shame, of misery, and misfortune, y
expect redress from this New Parliament, to white
wisdom, to whose justice and liberality, they hum.
lily but confidently appeal. They expect the ii..
sturetion of those rights which 'wore had gisen to
them as men, which the faith of treaties •liarl go*
ratrteed to their ancestors, of the vioiation of winch
they now complain.
The Petition was ordered to lie on the table.

PROTESTANT PETITION OF THE CITY OF CORK
IN FAVOUR OF EMANCIPATION.

Mr. HUTCHINSON rose to pieseet a Petition
from the Protestant Inhabitants of Cork, pray.
ing for the repeal of the Penal Code alfecting their
Catholic Brethren. He did not, lie said, eland is
the unhappy situation which an Honourable Gen-
tleman snood in the course of this ',rulig...mi.
happy, at least, he must have appeared to the
House. Ile was indeed grieved to are, that in an
enlightened city, any body of men could be found so
unjust or so benighied as to resist the fair and con-
stitutional claims of millioas eltheir fellows,ubjeetes
The Petition he held in his hand was rigned by
persons of the greatest coesideratiou, of property,
and of commercial weight in the city eh eh qa ha.l
•the honour to rr peesient. 'fliese distniguielied, loyal.
and respectable Protestauts knew the real character
of their Catholic fellow-coutitsyman, they are ace
quaitited with their motives and their feeling% and
they press forward with one voice prayiste for the
repeal of the Penal Code. They upped to tl.e
Legislature on this important OCCAs.IIIII, beCHU*O
they are 111(11;411mA at the wine rited degradation ef
their countrymen—because they take up this quer..
lion, hot as the cause of the Catholics mere!), hut
a, the cause of Ireland lied of the Einpor. They
stale it as their opinion, iii it the Chums or the Cr-
thOliCs are founded uponjustice,ssid that they ought
to meet with c omplete success. lie would i:ui nue,
as the subject is so soon to creme under discussion,
cuter on its merits; but lie ceted not sit down %lie-
out noticing. amongst the number of distineuirdird
Protestants whose names are e.glied to the Petition,
the mune of our individual-4 name which carried
with it every le that was independriii, anti
every quality that was endeared. He meant the name
of Me. Brumish—eit•lted iu his peofrootose
esteemed in private life—as a meichant lie was re-
spected, and as a mini he was beloved—iinfrpel...
dent, liberal, and .snore, ill ',Oldie; in private,
Innivitie, charitable, and kind; his virtues, as is
citizen, as a Christian, and es a !patriot, racket
deservedly high in the estimation of his es.uniry.
The Petition was then ordered to I e en the
table.

A silessage front the Lord* the
Howe that their Lordships had ~greed to alit. Pad-
dington Coiled, mid other liiil,; and raiineoril thoi
the Howe would permit iiliktisnis to
attend, in order to be examined an 4 enures berme
their Committee, no the awe of thy cialalreii e4l.
iiloyed w cotton-factories, and tin the exec:eta is
of the law now cawing fur their irruireihrii. The
stirssrugeni were called in, awl toluitard that Ilse
Masse. would %NM >tn answer to the latter part U$
the conimun,cotion by messengers or their own.

CLERK OP TUE PACIR (IRELAND). •
Oil the motion of Sir Joum Nawroat, the Or.
der .f the Day fur the second reading of iuie lull
for regulating the Ace of Clerk of the
Ireland, which 'toot! fur Ttouriday, Vyth 4prit,
was postponed tiU Turoday

DEFAU LTERS.
A conversation then ensued between 31r. Wynn.
Sir J. Newport, the llon. W. ',oath's, Air. Tier.
ney, Sir James Graham. and Lind Carharnirjoii.
on the best wrests of 4:411•141111011 in /Annie
WI the tertranianon of the ballot and floe courts pl.
Cominitiers into the 1110,16 e•
The SPEAKER observed, that there hat' We',
two b4llots lort—a caseuinstasica 60,114
occur hut rurely again before the rod of the Sr...
sion. 'flit public butincss lia6l lcru pustpung4

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