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INTELLIGENCE.

LORDS, MONDAY, FEL 21.

ICATURE BULL.
.)11 gave notice of hiv intention, On
seoood reading of the Sssugh Judi-
DEBTS.

presented a Petition from the
inhabitants of Merton, in Devonshire,
in the laws for ch.: recovery of small

IN SHIPS.
petition from a person of the
inhabitant of Portsmouth, pray-
state of his ;Majesty's Navy, for the
rot. His Lordship observed, that the
' with whom he had no acquaintance;
f so much importance as the con-
felt extremely glad that it would •
(Lord Melville) an opportunity
at that had given rise among the.
1, that a great portion of our wraps
e dry rot. Such was the opinion of
Petition, but he (the Noble hoed)
in the vicinity of a dock-yard, his
_-yo frequent, that this opinion was in
unfounded. lie believed that there was by
- • • Majesty's navy unfit for service,
PA the case.
: he was happy to reply to the ob-
As far sa regarded the condition of
general decay, beyond what was nato.
utoiutely untrue. Certainly, either the
trjght occasionally rind a rotten beam
undoubtedly s frequent ease, but in,
been suspected to be Infected with
, and had been found to be directly
state, that of late years more pains
.0 state of the Navy, in conYequience
thject had created in the public mind ;
least once a year, every ship had been
of these exertions, those persons who
nls, and were the best able to judge
were any period when his Majesty's
dry-rot or any other evil, it was the
stated. he would not deny but that
e found. His own opinion was, that
tilling ships, hut that which was Good
be no fear of the dry-rot. Ile felt
that daring the war it was found
_at quoraity of English oak, sell it
procure it from our American CoLonits,
this timber had, in some ioetances,
r more would be found so. Ile could
se public generally, that, taking into
, the British Navy wv never in a bet.
moment.
ir expressed his entire satisfaction nt the
Lord (Melville). Ile (Lord Darnley)
' one in particular, in which ships bad
' examined, because suspected of be-
tut they had been found to be scarcely
considered the skill and talents of those
navy, he was ready to believe all that

from whence the timber of which
A been brought.
front our North -American Colonies,
trope.
table.
Anita House. presented the First
tissioners; and the Twenty-first Re-
! Carnatic.—Laid on the table.
House, presented Accounts of aU
s granted by the East India House
thr table.
0 fice, presented Aceoints of all
under the Assessed Tazes.—Laid on

lONS, MONDAY, FED. 21.

' of the House. appointed for to.
.. day week. The gallery was not
roamer to live.

IF MISENCE.
...are of absence fora month, to go the
lbers, whose names we could not catch,
account of fits of the gout, domestic

.RINE'S DOCK.
ted from different pieces, in favour
terei to lie on the table.
petition from certain inhabitants of
of the MU for the erection of St.
) be printed.
a petition from certain inhabitants
the erection of the St. Katharine's

ASSESSED TAXES.
a petition from the tows of Yar.
of the Assessed 'rases.—Ordered to

presented a petition from Axbridge, for
-es.—Ordered to lie on the table.
;E TAX.
a petition from the parish of St.
Gloucester, praying for the repeal of the
from the parish of Temple, in the
printed.
t a return of the quantity of coals ex-
Ale name of the owner of the colliery
and also of the quantity acried coast-

Tavistock, praying for the repeal
coals.—Ordered to he on the table.

ASSOCIATION.
, presented a petition from the Roman
dewcastle (as we understood), against the
Catholic Apociation.—Ordered to

. a petition from Dublin, signed by
respectable inhabitants, praying that
for the suppression of the Catholic
a law; and he (JL Grattan) must
s ith the petitioner', and protested
against the dearest privileges of the
athalic, and as calculated to alienate
Ireland, and to turn their attention
brought up, lead, and ordered to lie

petition from Kilkenny, and Sir J.
stholic inhabitants of the parishes of
üblin, both against the Bill for the
Associstion.—Read, and ordered to lie

ition from the Roman Catholic inhs._

__ county of Tipperary, in favour of
stating that that body had acted in coo-
, that they consider that if the Bill
an infringement of their rights NI
that the 'louse would not pass it
a heard, as they were prepared to
t against them. Mr. Hume said,
....incurred with the prayer of the petls
see Ministers propose the further
lamented that the English people did
this attack on the liberties common to
table.

ivtented several petitions, stating
,is Majesty's Ministers to have been
maths to them respecting the Catholic
measuce ihould not pass. He (Mr.
in i sters sliotild carry this Bill to the
approbation, that they ought to lose
hey would brow upon the country.
the Catholics against them, but the
: hut the measure did not originate
tbinet ; it was only consented to by
their places. boot Wellesley had
imself, for this was not his measure.
again, that whatever might be the
a, and he was sure every :can who
so also, that it was an unjust met.
sacluded by presenting petitions trona
lie barony of Bantry, the town of
Dronielogue, Scull, and Kilinoony,
itirod to bt primed.
a petition from the Catholic inhs.
the Queen's county ; also from the
Darrow, in the same county, against
of illegal associations in Ireland.—
. a petition from the Catholic inha.
f niinghem, against the Bill for the sup.
ions in Ireland ; also a petition from the
!Camara, county of Cavan. against the
sf illegal associations in Ireland. The
11/04114 in support of the prayer of the
e printed.
presented a petition, signed by two thou.
sof the City of Dublin. The peti-
t were averse to what is called Oa.
they considered such a measure in.
our fres Constitution. They viewed
establishment of such a body as the
holding its sittings in the face of the Govern.
a hove amount, and inflaming, by its
•oftl e mi:guided populace. in eons
the noose to consider some mei.
vhich had alien, and were likely to
_ A the Catholic Association. Mr.
aaser.ions contained in the petition, met

I be printed.
*uteri petitions horn the Catholic inha.
lehurd, sod Rathtard, against the Bill