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in all its parts that he was desirous of Riving his strenuous oppose.
t on. As to the serainienie et 31r. Hardy, than whom there was
niot a more Honourable Member of the Irish Parliament, they
alluded to • declaration which came from an assemblage of persons
(we understood at Ath:nue), but it should be remtatbered, that the
persons composing it were Protestants and Prsbyteriarts, and not
Catholics. Besides, the Occurrences to which he alluded took place
in troublesome times ; whereas, it was admitted, that Ireland was
now in a state of progressive prosperity—a prosperity to which this
Association, it had been adinutee, had mainly contributed. lie
would recommend the Catholics, before this Bill passed into
a law, to carry. an Address to the Throne, and beseech his
Majesty rot to give his high sanction and authority to a Hill so fatal
to the privileges of the people. It had been stated that in some
parts of Ireland this measure had met with approbation : this was
refuted by the general pouring in of petitions against it from all
pans of the minty. It was now admitted that the Catholic Assn-
nation was that at which the present Bill principally aimed, Let it
would be found to fail, it attempted to violate a great principle, it
attempted to extinguish the force of public opinion, His Friend
O'Connell and others might be prevented from meeting in a room
together, but the cause to which they were attached could not be
extinguished. The day of retribution would come. Look to the
Netherlands, to Switzerland, and to America. Ile did not direct
the attention of the House to them with a view of intimidation, but
he took his stand upon the safe ground of polical knowledge and
experience, when he adverted to the successful struggles to
which an attachment to a great principle had carried the people
of those commie'', it would be better for the Government
in time to adopt some 'immure of conciliation. As to the
foreign policy of this country—(Cries of question, question)--He
approved partleularly of that part of it which related to South
America; but he-observed that in the Army Estimates which
were proposed, fifteen thousand men were about to be raised, five
thousand of them were to be sent to India ; but the llouse was not
informed of what wag to he done with the remaining ten. It
showed, however, that some necessity at least existed for raising
troops. Was such a time the period when the House were pre-
pared to shake the amideace and effectlon of the people of Ire-
land ? Ile saw nonecedaispat ell for raising these forces, but it
was to be presumed Omemunent did. (The cries of " Question"
became here eery general, and the latter observations of the Ho-
nourable Member, owing to the noire which prevailed, were not
distinctly audible in the Gallery.)
Mr. PEEL begged to assure the House, that at that late hour he
'would not trespass on its attention longer than the few observations
he felt it his duty to address to it would render necessary. Ile was
disposed readily to acquit the Hon. Member of any lie/talon of
seriously terrifying by any thing that had fallen from him ' • he
was also ready to acquit him of any intention of terrifying him
perconally. Ile could assure the Him. Member, that it he (Mr.
P.) believed such to be his intention, it was not in that House he
would appeil to him. As to any alarm of Ministers losing their
heads, or any apprehension from the pile of petitions with which
they had been threatened on a former night, he need nut say, no
real ground of Tear existed. He would not at that hour tellow
the Hon. Member through the topics of foreign policy and the
army estimates which he thought proper to obtrude on their at-
tention. Neither mullet he anticipate the discussion on the general
measure of Emancipation, which way likely to come under their
attention in a few evenings. On that subject his opinions had been
deliberately formed. He hail no reason to regret or retract the part
he had taken, and that he would continue to take on that ques-
tion. At the same time that the House would bear in mind,
that he had not been opposed to all species of concession to the
Catholics. Whea a Bid had been introduced into that House for
the extension of some ptivileges to the Roman Catholics, he
had supported it, and he now regretted that that measure
had not been successful. The opinions he had taken upon this
important question were entirely his owls : they. were espoused by
him without any regent to party, and with a new to the general
interests cf the empire. An observation had escaped a Right
Honourable Gentleman (31r. Tierney) a few evenings since, which
it was intended to apply, he thought, unfairly to him. His Right
Honourable Friend the Auorney-General for Ireland, in describing
the state in which Ireland was when the present Lord Lieutenant
assumed the government of that country, had described her as a
vessel which he had found upon the breakers. The Right
Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Tierney) bad asked what would be
IMr. Peel) say to that sentence who placed her in such a situation ?
le denied that he had done so. Lord Wellesley entered upon the
government of Ireland in 10211 he (Mr. Peel) did not immedi.
ately precede him. At the vete same time did he (Mr. Peel) accept
the otEze of Secretary for the bionic Department. It is —s true
he had formerly tulltilled the oflim of Chief Secretary in be laid.
but he had left it in the year 181 d, and he was not therefore recount-
able for the state of things in the year 1821. All he could say wee,
that when he left Ire'st d, although he could not deny that some
party ;mink existed, yet it was in a state of general tranquillity.
rio violent proceedings of Associations then prevailed. Nor was
there any angry exacerbation of party animosities. (Hear, hear.)
At the time that the disturbances did break out, he believed no
blame was imputable to any portion of the Government of Ireland.
These disturbances, in a great degree, arose out of the distresses of
the times, out of the sudden revulsion of things that then occurred
..the effect of the recurrence to rash payments, and the calamities
consequent on the close of a protracted war, which were felt very
heavily in this country, but which were telt in a very aggravated
degree in Ireland. These were the causes which led to that tem-
porary disturberee of which Government was, lie believed, wholly
innocent, and which Government could rot control. Before he
sat deueseetee was anxious of adverting to the speech of the Honour-
able and Learned Gentleman, the Mentber for NVinchelses, is reply
to what bad fallen from him respecting a statement he had made
concerning an individual—Mr. Haniilton Rowan. It would
be fresh in the recollection of the House that in a former discus-
eon on this Bill, he had adverted to the' authenticated documents
of the Association. To them only did be refer; and he even re-
queeted that he might be stopped if lie stated any thing in an ex-
aggerated or unfair manner. What he had remarked upon on that
occ,mion was, the publication of an address to the people of Ireland
on the very same day that a letter of thanks was voted to Mr.
Rowan. The terms of the letter were—that the writer could not
find language to convey the esteem in which the Association held
the beloved and respected name of Mr. Hamilton Rowan, for the
service lie had done his country. This letter, containing other
encomiastic phrases on the character and conduct of Mr. Rowan,
was signed by Mr. O'Gorman, Secretary to the Catholics of Ire-
land. All he said of these proceedings was (he believed he re-
membered the very words), was that the Act was equivocal—that
it was at least indiscreet—and that it was calculated to excite sus-
hicion anti alarm as to the objects of the Association. (Hear,
ear.) Now he (Mr. Peel) was somewhat surprised at the power-
ful speech of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, whom he
always heard with great pleasure, and with great admiration of
his talents; and after he hail heard his statement, lie was deter-
mined to become more accurately acquainted with the facts of
that statement, before lie would undertake to contradict it—deter-
mined to abardon a false position if he found he had taken
up one--and determined also not to make an inglorious surrender
of a right position if he found he had occupied it. (Hear, hear.)
The letter which he had read expressed the gratitude for the de-
voted service of 11r. Rowan to his country, stud concluded by the
expression that the esetuance of this gratitude was the sweetest re-
ward which could be either conveyed or received. On a former
occasion he had stated 40 much of the history of 3lr. Rowan as to
put the House in possession of his character. lie read to them an
extract from &report of the Secret Committee of 1791, to show that
he had been attainted of high treason, that he had acknowledged
his connexion with an emissary of France, and that lie had acted
and cm operated in all the designs of Jackson, who was tried and
convicted of high treason, on whose trial circumstances transpired
in evidence which implicated Mr. Rowan, and subjected him to a
similar charge. Yet it had been asserted by the Honourable and
Learned Gentleman that lie was received by the Lord Lieutenants
of Ireland, and that he fdlel the office of Magistrate under what
he termed the pink of loyalty, Lord Manners and Mr. Saurin. It
had been also relied upon by the Honourable and Learned Gentle-
man, that he had not been put upon his defence on that charge,—
that he had no: an opportunity of vindication. It happened that
he was not tried, but the cause of his not having been tried on that
charge was this:—He had been found guilty of publishing a sedi-
tious libel addressed to the I'nited Irishmen, an address adopted at
a meeting of which Mr. Leeman was ehairmao,
_and Mr. Rowan
secretary. For this seditious libel lie was charged, convicted, and
sentenced to tan yea& imprienament. Meanwhile, circumstances
transpired which subjected him to the charge of high treason, but
before the trial on this charge could take place, he fled the country.
From that address lie would, with the permission of the House, read
an extract:—" Citizen soldiers, you first took up arms to protect
your country from foreign enemies and front domestic disturbance :
for the same purpose it now becomes necessary thae_you should
renithe them. A • proclamation has been issued in England for
embodying the militia 3 and a proclamation has been issued by
the Lord Lieutenant and Council in England. • • Citizen sol.
diem, to arms ; take up the shield of freedom and the pledges of
peace—peace, the motive and end of your virtuous institution--
war, an occasional duty, ought never to be made an occu-
pation. Every man should become a soldier in defence of his
rights. No man ought to continue a soldier for offending the
rights of others. The sacrifice of life in the service of our country
is a duty much too honuarable its be entrusted to mercenaries, and
at this time, when your country has been by public authority pro-
claimed in danger, we conjure you by your interest, your duty, and
your glory, to stand to your anns, and in spite of a police—in spite
of a fencible militia, it is only by the array of a force in whom the
people confide—by a desire to preserve peace in your respective
vicinages, that the present agitation can be stilled, the pre-
vailing licentiousness put down, and prosperity restored in the
speedy resurrection of a free constitution." The Right Honour-
able Gentleman proceeded to read several passages from the
address, which he contended to be of a highly inflammatory
character, and he did not think that he exceeded the bounds
of strict propriety and even moderation, when he said that such a
letter, as lie had read, addressed to such a man, was at least via act
of indiscretion, and was calculated to excite suspicion and alarm.
Hear, lima) On the privatecharacter of Mr. Rowan lie did ten
at all animadvert. As a father, a husband, and in the several rela-
tions of private life, he was said to be, and lie did not doubt that
he was, deserving of the highest seeped.. But it was not in that
capacity that he was addressed by the Catholic Association. They
addressed him as a public man, in the character and capacity
of a public body. (Hear, hear, hear.) Luckily, the persons to
whom this eddiess. excising them to a civil commotion, was
presented, did not obey it, and it failed in producing the mis-
chiefs which an observance of It must have heaped on the country.
The Htmonrable Member for Wincholsea had stated, that Mr.
Hamilton Rowan had been received in private life by persons of
distinction ; there existed no Imputation against Mr. Rowan's
private life, it was only with his public conduct they had to deal.
and themost moderate language that could be held respecting that
' conduct was, that at best It had been very suspicicus. The Hon.

Gentleman himself admitted Mr. Hamilton Rowaa's connexion
with Jackson, who FaS implicated in treimnable Fr:acne:a ; he
gives an account of the free pardon he had received from but *
vereign. but lie naps them, sad emits all mention of the lenity of
Lordelare towards hint, and the kind protection he hail extended
to his wife and children when Mr. Rowan was ansent from the
country. What hal born the language a Mr. H. Roman himself
when be entered the Court of King's Bench to plead Ids Majeste's
pardon ? He stated, that before be had left his country be bad
known bit Sovereign only by his acts of authority aril command,
but that he had now to acknowledge the support and pretettion al--
fretted his deritute family during his absence. Ile owed his inn to
his Sovereign's clemency, and if he abstained from pretensions, it
was may lest his motive in making them might be misinterpreted,
bitt he trusted his future life would bess explain what were the ten-
timenta *lbis breast, and atone for ilia past errors. Such had been
the language of ale. H. Rowan, and the only remark he (Mr.
Peel) should make was, that the nature of that address made him
regret the part Mt. Rowan appeared since to have taken. The
Honourable Member, in addition to his statement, respecting the
reception of Mr. Rowan in private life, had gone on to ir.form the
House, on the previous occasion to which lie had already alluded,
that Mr. Rowan had been placed in one Magistrate's chair under
the auspices of Lord Manners and Mr. Saurin. The Honourable
Gentleman had stated this boldly, and he was sure if it would tura
out that the statement was erroneous, it was at least unintentionally
so on the part of the Ilonourable Member. However, he had
stated it boldly, and he(Mr. Peel) had lately heard so many errone-
ous assertions with respect to facts and individuals, that, cur his
part, he was unwilling to venture to contradict any statement
however glaringly incorrect. Ile had, in the present intterce,
mane inquiry in the quarter most likely to &Mod correct informa-
tion on the subject, and had that day received the document which
he now held in his hand, from the Ilanaper Office in Dublin.
It sung!, that search having been made in the official records, it
was thereby ascertained that Mr. A. 11. Rowan had not been in the
commission of the peace during the Wit twenty year.. ( Loud and
protracted Cheers.) He thought the liouseameld be satisfied with
this information, and allow that he had dashed the poisoned chalice
from the bonds of the lion. Member, which he bad commended to
his lips. The lion. Member sat down amid loud cheers.
Mr. BROUG lIA3I would trouble the House with a few words
in answer to what had been advanced by the Right Hon. Secretary
who had just sat down ; and, in the first niece nothing could I*
more perfectly different from the Hon. Member's speech upon a
former evening, than his own version of it to-night. In w, nide
could be able to recognise the tenor of that speech in the lion.
Member's repetition of it. But in his (Mr. Brougham's) memory,
there dwelt a recollection of the wordy and sentiments uttered by
the Right Hon. Secretary on that occasion, and from that recoln
lection he was free to say, they were totally unlike, and distinct
from, the moderate tone adopted in his speech of this night. No
two things could be more unlike. On the former evening the Right
lion. Secretary had asked if it was at all meant to defend an As-
sociation which, to its other rash and illegal acts, had added the ad-
ditional error of addressing, in a respectful tone, an interned mime ?
Those were the wordsof the Hight Hon. Secretary and he appealed
to the calmer and more dispassionate part of that House, who neither
sat here nor there, on his side or that sidelof the Hon. Secretary--and
he would add, he appealed to the better feeling of the Hon. Geetle.
man himself, after the lapse of one week, whether these were words
to be uttered with impunity, and permitted to pass without contra-
diction, when applied to an Indiv,dual who hail not been convicts]
by a tribunal of his country ? (Hear.) Were such worms to be
uttered within these walls, and in the face of the country, and
was it not right that a contradiction to them should go forth with
an equal degree of publicity ? Let the Hon. Secretary imagine
himself for a moment in the situation of the gallant son of that
calumniated man, and what would be his feelings at hearing his
parent branded and denounced as an attainted traitor ? These
were the expressions which he wag not ashamed to say, had ex-
cited his (Mr. Brougham's) feelings of indignation at the time,
and he had stood up in his place to defend Hamilton Rowan from
such an imputation—from that defence he would not now shrink.
Ile had defended the Catholic Association, who were charged with
having communicated in respectful and friendly terms with this
attainted traitor—neither would heshrink from that defence. And
as nothing of the harshness of the original charge had been abet td
except the tone of it, he was now going again to enter upon the
defence of Hamilton Rowan and the Catholic Association. He
would pass over much of the detail of the transaction; it had been
admitted that Mr. Rowan was not tried on a charge of treason ;
but if he was not, Mr. Jackson bad been, and said, the Honour-
able Gentleman, Mr. ilowan was implicated in some of the facts
which transpired on the trial of another party. It was wholly
unnecessary to say any thing of such an inference—he would
leave it as he found it, without remark. But, said the
Honourable Secretary, Mr. Rowan has been tried. For what
had he been tried ? Was it for felony ? Was it fur treason ?
Or, was it not rather for such a constructive crime as any
honourable and patriotic man might under similar eircum-
'tames hare committed, and committed without feeling either
shame or regret ? Mr. Rowan had been tried for a libel ; and, if
the Catholic Association have put forth an address to a man
who is accused of a crime which any virtuous man might have
been accused of blamelessly, are they to be stigmatized in
in such language as that adopted by his 31ajesty'a Secretary for the
Home Department? If the Catholics have erred, in looking with
respect upon such an individual at the time of his conviction, they
do not appear to have profited by the experience of 31 years so as
to americt that error, for they have this Session selected, as the ad-
vocate of their claims, an Honourable Baronet, who, in peaceable
and settled times, was coevicted of w seditious libel, and sentenced
to imprisonment upon the very banks of the river that washes these
walls. (Hear.) For his part, looting to the circumstances of the
time and the country, and looking to the terms of the alleged libel,
he (31r. Broughaiu) would not have cared to have set his hand to
it. What were the sentiments of the libel ? Hamilton Rowan had
called upon the people to arm in defence of their country ; and if
he had meant to advise them not to stop there, but after they had
repelled the foreign invader from their shores to secure the posses-
sion of constitutional liberty, he had only done what Parliament
had done itself. And had not the Irish Parliament stied
as it did on the occasion to which he alluded, it was
hie opinion Ireland would not now be a part of this ern-
pire. Let the House bear in its recollection that tnese were
troublous times in which this man lived—times in which the
name of an individual, now never mentioned bat with respect and
veneration, did not wholly escape imputation. lie alluded to the
late Mr. Grattan. The name of that great and respected character
was not safe horn similar charges to those which had been made
against Mr. Rowan—accusatious were made—the Privy Council
deliberated—and it was only by a temporary absence that he had I
escaped the danger. Another part of the charge was capable of
being met in another manner. Mr. O'Gorman, whose signature
appeared attached to the Address, wet not a Member of the Ca-
tholic
Association. But in what manner had the Honourable
Secretary stated the case of Mr. Rowan's trial 'r He commenced
by reading ifs attainder, and concludes with the accused's con-
fession of gratitude for his Majesty's free pardon, and the kind
trcatmeut of his unprotected family. And, gracious God ! was I
the House to be told that the only use of the Royal mercy was to
make it serve to round a period, and point a sarcasm against par-
ties whom it might be the interest of Gentlemen at the other side
of the Horse to vituperate and decry? Above all, was the King's
mercy itself to be outraged by denouncing the object of it as an
attainted traitor? The Honourable Gentleman has stated, that
Mr. Rowan was received into private society of a dignified charac-
ter, on account of his private virtues and without reference to his
public conduct. His (Mr. Brougham's) statement had been rand it I
remained uncontradicted) that Hamilton Rowan was received pub-
licly at the levee of the Chief Governor of the country. Another
statement of his had been, and at the time he had no more reason
to doubt its correctness than the Honourable Secretary himself
appeared to have, that Mr. Rowan was in the Commission of the
Peace. The fact had been so represented to him on what he then
considered, and still continued to consider, very good authority.
however it might have fallen into error in the present instance.
He had stated the circumstance on the authority of a gentleman
from the sister country; he could, of course, himself have no
knowledge of the facts, and had been perfectly ignorant of them
till within a few minutes of hit addressing the House. The mistake,
for a mistake he believed it was, appeared to have originated in his
informant having seen the signature of Archibald Hamilton Rowan
subscribed to a loyal address of a particular nature, which, from
the tenor of its wording, be thought extremely likely to lead a wain,
better informed upon the subject than he could pretend to be, into
error. The document purported to be, " the Address of the under-
signed, being Magistrates, and Grand Jurors of the County of
Down." Nothing could be more likely to occasion a mistake than
a document such as that; and though some Gentlemen might be
disposed to construe the "and" in a disjunctive sense, it certainly
was capable of receiving the other interpretation. He thought be
heard some Honourable Member cry " Question." He assured
the Gentleman, whoever he might be, that he alight betake hint.
self again to the repose from which be had been probably aroused,
but it was his (Mr. Brougham's) intention to proceed in his course
in spite of the lion. Gentleman's interruption. (Loud cheers.)
Many errors had (wept into documents in public offices. It was
answered that Mr. H. Rowan was not in the Commission of the
Peace. lie had mentioned it on the authority of three witnesses,
who were as credible, perhaps, as a Return from the Ilanaper
Gabe. He therefore stood acquitted of any misstatement. (Hear,
hear.) How else could he have acted than believe and repeat it
with positiveness r But remove altogether from his statement the
part of Mr. Hamilton Rowan's being a Magistrate,—remove that
from his statement, and still his defence rentained impregnable.
(Hear, hear.) Ile was granted a free pardon,—was that nothing ?
Ile was restored to his freedom as a subject.—was that nothing ?
(Cheers.) He was raised to the dignity of a eiteristrat 2, aye, and of
Grand Juror, too—was not that any thing ? (Continued cheers.)
He had had entrusted to him the preservation of the King's pe.acc,—
he m igh t have been engaged in accusing, committing, and trying for
any offence, even for high treason,—war that nothing? (Cheers.)
He had been taken into fainter and respect by one Lord Lieutenant
after another ; and he could now read to the House a letter from
one of those high and respected individuals. the Duke of Bedford.
(Chairs.) Was it likely such a man could be favourable to the pro-
psgation of treason? He would respect his opinion more than that
ordain: who mule themselves (as they called it) the defenders of dim'
Altar and the Constitution. (Hear.) It was more reasonable to
rely on him who had a personal, as well as hereditary title to re-
spect. There was nothing so valuable as the authority of men who
had a deep stake in the country, who were of high personal cha-
racter ; the opinion of such persons wits s truer test of loyalty
than any that could be brought forwent on the other aide. The
Duke of' Bedford's letter rao thus:—" the first official act of mine
on going to Ireland was to recommend to his Majesty to grant a
free pardon to Mr. Hamilton Rowan. (Cheers.) A more honour-
, able or rota...rattle gentleman there does not exist in all Ire-
land." (Continued cheers.) The charge against the Association
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a Lord Lieunitant describes as Fosse. s.ng as mt-ch respectability
RS any of his 31rjcs:y's 'tl' Ity ti.cal ahouhl nut I t have a
tight to complain ? lie had been hounded asa Thia had
been done in the the teeth of a free ender,. He was bearded*. a
tro tor on whom the Sovereign smiled, anal whose misters now
forward, and charge the Assodation for their addressing him
trim iitteroled and had been received too by the Sovereign et his levee,
with his Ministers agent him. No living being could charge the-
Associat:on with being irdiacteet for hokiirg intercourse with Ha-
milton Rowan. Nothing scald he more mown ssuy Hsu the at-
tack 00 that gentleman ; he envied net those that made it—be en.
vied not those who coukl unneerssarily aril uncalled-for wound that
individual—and siol lees did he envy those who had attacked Uss
Association. He would text advert to the charge against Baron
31.-Clelland. He still believed thee former statement ; he bad a
co muuniattion with the gentleman who was Counsel in that case.
That wee presented two views--.firstly, the charge, was apetitic ;
secondly, the denial general and argumentative. Ile (Mr. B.)
had been charged with usicg strong and ton abodes lAA-
.guage. His language, he lilt, was not top *iron or abusive.
Ile it was not that tunic the charge originally ; had cited for it
high &ILI o ity, that of an Hod. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Martin),
it was not his (Mr. Brougham's) statement—
" Non meus hic ammo sed queen preetpit et folio',
Rusticus, aboormia cras.ceque ilinervie."
(Cheers and laughter.) Artt what was the fact P A gentleman,
two yen,' ago. presented a petition to that House, charging Baron
111Clelland with a malversation of justice, and praying to be beard
at the bar of the House by Counsel in support of hie charge.
IVith that (same hint he saw no reason to retract what he had said.
In conclusion, he entreated the Horse, to pause behamittook that
step, which it might lor,g, too long, deplore asthe greareet nil. He
de. ounced it as the harbinger of evil, and as the death-blow of that
short reign of tranquillity, brought about Ey ele Anode:ion.
(Cheers.) In that view of the case, lie was strengthened. not
wakened, by what he had heard front the ovosite aide ; he c njured
the House, before it took that last step, to pause, white pause it
might, (Cheers.) The Bill abcut to be paned, if pass irdid,
was not against tile Orangemen but the Catholics, and the Catho-
lics only. He had hoped, that though the slititAnCe of justice was
withheld, that ri.l they would have the sernblante; it was the
Catholics only who were prohibited from meeting. (No, no, from
the Ministerial Benches.) Yes, it was the Catholics, he would r:.
peat it, and prove it, too, that the Catholics alone were to be put
down. What did the Bill say P '• No persons are to meet to pe.
tition for redress of grievances, or for a change in the Constitution."
Who ever heard of an Orangeman mating to petition foe redress of
grievar.cee. (Cheers.) Whoever heard of their praying for any
alteration in the Constitution P Who WAS so mail as to think then,
otherwise than exd, that thing. should shy as they Were, the. was
their interest; alteration would be fatal to them. (Continued
cheers.) The Bill to the Catholics was a double-edged sword,
against Ott Urangeinen single-edged; it p -ohibits in both secret atm..
i:iga—it prevents the Catholics alone from having open meeders—
it WAS under a mask, double-edged, against the Catholics. 'l'l4
Orsngemen may meet openly—they may have their Partiaseseg, rm.
sided they meet not to alter. Bin was au Ora-geman to meet lot stidt
a purpose ?—they wish not for alteration. He prayed the House, ea
it valued even.handcd justice, to pause. if it acre his last prayer
he would conjure them, if they paned the Bill against the Catho-
lics—if they imposed on then, that rtmedylen and grievous '
justice--if they closed the door of conciliation---if they " shut
the gates of mercy" on the Catholies--(lcud cheers)—he would im-
plore that on next Tuesday they would recollect what they Lei
done that night. (Loud cheers.) Thin he conjured them to do. if
they were not dead to the voice of jus lea If that fa:al *tap be
to-night taken, he implored them to give, as an act of justice—Oa
give to the Catholics Emancipation.—(Thu Hon. Gentleman sat
down amidst loud cheers, which continued for some minute:.)
Mr. PEEL rose midst cries of " Question." He aid he rn.
asserted many things that had before fallen frem him. (Cheers.)
He had not of himself branded Mr. Rowan as • traitor ; he bad
merely read an extract from the evidence taken before the Secret
Committee of the Irish Parliament, from which it appeared that
Mr. Rowan was "an atainted traitor." The Right Honourable
(tandem:in was proceeding to protest against his bei7g censured
for the course lie had pursued, when he was interrupted by cries of
"Spike, spoke," and " Chair."
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided.
When there appeared—
For the third reading, 226 Against it, 061 Majority, 130
The Bill was read a third time and passed.
The other Orders of the Day ware then disposed of, and that
House adjourned at A QUART ES TO OWE O'CLOCK.

exiccs or BRITISH
Hank Stock 239 k
3 per Cent. Red. 94i
3 per Cent. Cons. 94 / SS/
Ditto Acct. 94i
S per Cent. 1014
3 per Cent. Red. 101/
New 4 per Cent. 106 / 106

PRICES OF Ii)IIEIUN
Austrian Bonds 117 j a
Brazilian Bonds 810
Ditto Scrip Ifi fPm
Ditto Acct. l6tj s
Ditto Scrip (1225)
Ditto Acct. 4,k pin
Buenos Ayres Bonds 921,
Ditto Acct. 92
Chili.sn Bonds 091
Colombian Bond. 92
Ditto Bonds (11324) 91 1 1 /
Dam Acct. 91 j 1 e
Danish Bonds 101 1011
French Rentes 1051. 104 G M.

war. 25c. _ _
Exchange 25f. 10c. Dk.
Ditto Scrip
Ditto Aect.

ITOCKS YESTERDAY.
India }Smith 96 90 pm
South yea Stuck 106
Ex. Bias, 9d. I.oooi. 61 61 pm
Ditto, 5901.
Ditto, 10. 1,009/. 61 03 pm
Ditto, 560/. 61 03 pm
Ditto, ti.mitll 61 63 pm

F

STOCKS YESTERDAY.
Greek Bonds 57i 85
Ditto Scrip (1825) If 5 Of pia
Ditto Acct. If 05 om
Mexican Bones 805 g i
Ditto Acet. atif 5
Pit* Perip (1825) 35 i 5 i Pal
Ditto Aect. 35 a i pm
Peruvian Bonus 85 i i i
i k
Portuguese rondo
Ditto Acct. 905 5 1
Prussian Bonus
Ditto Bonds (1822) 1005_
Russian Bonde (1822) 275 i $
Ditto Acet. 975 8
.t. Spanish Cons. 235 f 435 4 35 4
D!tto Acct. 2:1 f 5 4 31 4
Ditto Cans. (180) 18f 195 5
Ditto Acct. 191 5

PRICES OF Sfl.l:
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
Alliance Wit. and For. 193
Ditto 3laiine 8
Guardian
Protector

ES YESTERDAY.
0 %4 MORT AND CONN COX.

PAKIES.

Continental 9f 4
Provincial Portable

Anglo-Mexican 1324 1274
Anglo-Chilian 17
Arigna Iron and Coal 17
Holmes 410 pm
Brazilian 25,4
Chillan 23
Colombian 38 40
Gel. Mining Association le
Ilibernian 94
Pasco Pernvun 434
Real dcl Monte
Rin de la Plan 31 90
Tlalpu :shim 230
United eleziesn 145 150
Ditto New 324 pm
Welch Iron and Coal 8 74

IRON R•ILIFATII•
London and Birmiog. 1
London and Northern
Manchester and Liverpool 481

_
MISCELLAYKOVS.
Australian 27 28
1 British Iron Company 8 94
Canada Company_ 37 32
Equitable Loan Bank 2
Gen. Steam Navigation 04 4
(fold Coast Aucmation 74 *
(heat Westminster Dairy 2 4
Hub. Joint Stock Com. 4 m
Metro. Alderney Dairy 44
Metro. Fish Company 14 24
Pearl Fishery (Yellow) 14 let
Prov. Bank of Ireland 91 PI
Patent Bricks 8 4

COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.

Amsterdam C. F. 12 2
Ditto, at sight - 11 19
Rotterdam 12 3
Antwerp - -1! 3
Ilamburgh - 36 11
A Hann 37 I
Pails, 3 days' sight 26 16
Ditto - - 2146
Bourdeaux . 26 46
Berlin . 7 6
Frankfort-on-the-Main 161
Petersburgh -
Vienna 103
Trieste . - 10 3
Madrid - - 311

Latham • -
Genoa
Venice -
Malta .
Napples
Lisbon
11::r Yaoatiro
Bahia .
Dublin
-
Cork

27
48
119
61
♦8
60

BULLION, PEE OZ.
X. a. d.
Poitr•-al Gold in coin • • •
Foreiii Gold in bars S 17 II
New Doubloons 0• •
•
New Dollars
Silver in ban

o 4 1 0
O 3 Ot

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Tb. Evening, SATURDAY, Feb. 116, will be performed
_ OTHELLO.

Othello, Mr. Mesa; lege, Mr. ifilTieici ()cadmium, Mn. W. Mott ;
Mrs. Haim.
After wl;eh.
HARLEQUIN AND THE IAI.ICINT4 sißn,
THE. SINGING TREES, AND GOLDEN WATERS.
Harlequin, Mr. HOWP::: Pantaloon. Mr.l'.lllaabehli/M: Clews, Kr.
Kirby. Columbine. Miss DlU'llett.

TITr ATRF: ROYAL. COVPIITT-G.4RDE N.
1 his Evening. SATERDAV. Pets. V. trill be performed
TIIE INCONSTANT;
Or. THE WAY TO frIN HIM.
Old Mlrabel, Mr.W. Farren; Young Minkel, Mr. C. lieruble; Dire.
tete. Mr. Josses. Bizarre. Mrs. Chatterley.
After which,
SIMPSON AND CO.
Mr. Simpson. Wr.W. Farren; Mr. [Manley, Mr. Cooper: Mrs. Bromley.
Miss Chester: Mrs. Simpson. airs. Gibbs: Mrs. l'itzullan, Witsit Luve.
To conclude with
THE IRISH TUTOR; or. NEW LIGHTS.
Terry O'Rourke. Mr. Connor.
On Monday. A Woman Never Veit. and Father and Sun.

ADELPHI THEATRE,
STRAND.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. POITER.
This Evenln,,. SATURDAY. Feb. 26,1011 to presented the Gr►nd
Tertite Speer/rele of
VALMONDI:
Or. THE UNII ALLOti WO SEPULCHRE.
The Principal Characters by Meesrd. Canq Lee. Payne.
Millers. J. Reeve. W. hl,wn, and Elliott; Sign, r McKim's
Boden, Bryan, Brown, Only, and Parroek.

After which a Ballet Dere.. called
JEMMY OP ARENOCEN.
The Characters by Nien.rs.J.Jom., W. liirbe, We,Mourn. am! Cooper;
Mrs. Searle, and her Young Pupils.
To conclude with (fur this night and hrst time at this Thaetrai
the Farr• of
THE IRtitt PM. ‘NTWR ;
Or, TIIF. \I)V AN!) THE LAWYF.R.
Terence Oletsack, Mr. Power Frank, Mr.W. H.Williasail; Leap
Auguste, Mhis S. Bot,th.