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IMPERRL PIRLIALWANI.

, NOUSE Or LORDS-•-relDAT's MAT 10.
flgswir.o4 t.. me adtaswinit of atrium, sant.: busine,s was
naroartvl
In „wwe time after, the doors were thrown opea.
it
Mr. Leycester, Chat:Dan of the Select inatee mof the
Hume 0 u 1 C mmmu attache! by areal Members, prevent d
t tha bar a Mesage9from that Mate, request, e that Dud.ley,
' - 11 win maw be permitted In attend the said Lore-
L, ~d ann ..
The Message, to other res beets, was the same as
cue
,i,' livered on a former 4.ty, respecting the attendance of
v- ;1,1:m Wel viae, and which we stated at length ins foraser
Ite'rlie rt.LORD CHANCELLOR, baying 'pieviouslv par the
seestion,cp-rod the Messengers to he called a is, and informed
'near, that their I.nuttltips wool/ semi an outset( to the Hvaie
of Gbinmow, lit Messengers of their oleo.
Mr. Alexander brought up from the Commons the Irish
Loan Bill, the lath Rank, ono the Nett l'uat Rua.6 Bills,
which were severally teal a fif.t time.
- A few private Bills w•r* brought rip by orher Crt Airmen,
"4 rereadA tint time. Thule already upon the table vine
respectively forwarded.
ROMAN CATHOLICS OF IRELAND.
About bail past &re. 0'44 their Lordships
entered upon the discussion oMishfrportant subjed.
Lord GRENVILLE, immediately after moving
the Order of the Day, moved that the Petition upon
the 'fable from divers of His Majesty's Roman
Catholic subjeifs of Ireland, be read.
The Petition, which is already before the public,
being accordingly read at length by the Clerk ;
Lord GRENVILLE rose, and said—" I was
anxious, my Lords, that you should hear the Peti-
tion read, previous to my offering any observations
to you upon the subjed of it, on account of the many
weights- arguments which it contains in favour of
that which the Petitioners humbly pray to your
Lordships for, as well as for the strain of loyalty
which pervades it, and the moderate and temperate
manner, in which those sentiments and that prayer
ore couched. When the Petition was first presented,
my Lords, I expressed an anxious hope, and such
seemed to be the wish of all your Lordships, that
whatever opinions ind ividual Peers may enter t ain u pon
the sub;eft, or the upon merits of she Petition, that
the subject should be temperately, dispassionately,
and impartially discussed. I was happy to perceive
then Etch a temper, and such an understand-
ing prevail; and I now beg leave again to ex-
press my earnest wish, that this night the import-
ant subjth and considerations to which I shall
hare the honour to call their Lordships' most se-
rious attention, m..y be temperately :old impartially
discussed. Such, niy Lords, is my anxious wish,
and such are the prayer and wish of the Petitioners
themselves. Such a wish ar.d Mciination, on their
parts, are also founded in a due regard to their inte-
rests upon the occasion—for, from party. rage,
clamour, ard violence, they may have much to fear,
but, certainly, nothing to hope therefrom. I now
look, with confidence, my Lords, and with the hest
horoik,tbat heats, becau,se I have the honour of
addressing myself to a body, ape's selsom party
sage, clamour, and violence, are not likely, more
especially on such an occasion as the present, to
have the smallest weight or influence. With re-
vel to myself, allow me to say, my Lords, that, if
1 know myself, I am utterly incapable of the a ick-
edness of speaking with party views or feelings, or
for the objeets or ',upon!' of party, while seriously
discussing the interests, nay, the rights, of mil-
lions tif my fellow-whjeffs ; and en a topic on which
the peace and unanimity of the empire might even-
filially depend. These are my own feelings and
contiaions on the present occasion--and, I trust,
my Lords, that every individual, to whom I now
adlress myself, will regulate his conduit, in this
important discussion, by similar considerations--
I am as perfeCtly aware, my Lords, of the ardu-
ousness, as of the importance, of the task I have
undertaken. I am aware of the numerous and
powerful enemies which I must expe.t, to the pro-
position I shall have to recommend. I know that
it is the subjeCt of unfounded clamour and suspi-
cion. I know that those, who support and earnestly
promote such a proposition, are regarded with sus-
picion, indifference, and are even, by many, regard-
ed as hoaile to t:.e civil and religieus establishments
of the country ; establishments, the security and
perpetuation of which are the dearest °Ojeda of my
heart. Considerations such as these, discouraging
and dismaying as they may be, shall not prevent
we from fulfilling what I regard to be my duty on
the present occasion ; and, whatever the event of
what I shall have the honour to propose to your
Lordships may be, I shall have the heartfelt sans-
tatlion of having brought before your Lordships,
nd before the public, the consideration and discus-
ion of this great and important question, so that
reaper, my Lords, I shall have nothing to reproach
-.self, not alone on the score of the itiletloB of
hat I shall propose, but on that of the these-
. nences which may arise from a rejeftion, if such
oLappay shall he the decision of this Ilouse. This,
y Lords, is not all that I h.tve to remark upon
his part of the subjea. The rejeflion, such as L it-
er to, though I shall regard it as a great misfortune
the empire, if such should be the event ; but that
misfortune I hold as bearing no comparison to
those misfortunes which inevitably mast /ire et-
sired, if net opportunity was allowed for a, fair
nil full discuss:on of the question. Such, my
nth, I trust, will be the case this night. The
scussion will rest upon such grounds, whatever
our decision may be upon it. But it; instead of
ch a line of conduCt, the legislature of the coun-
y were to turn its back upon the discussion, and
Catholics to he told that no one Member thereof
s willing to present their Petition, or that there
ted in Parliament no disposition even to cons'-
. their grievances, what, I ask, must, in such a
~ .be the impression upon their minds ? No-
iiort, my Lords, of absolute despair ; the ef-
k .1 a non-performance of that which they re-
1 as promised, the death of their expettations
! the candour, liberality, and justice of an Im-
al Parliament; a legislature unfettered by local
idetltions t such would their feelings and im-
sions be, dud the legislature manifest an unwil-