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APPEAL.
trailer O'Grady. Esq PlAillilfr in Errors. the Right Bon.
W. SJ4trIIII. Attorney neral of Ireland
Our leaden' are probably aware, that the Oilier of Clerk of
the INAS in the Court of Exchequer in Ireland, became
vacant some time since by the death of the Earl of Bsickilig.
hamshire, and that it ass resolved by a Committee of the
House of Commons that this office, among others, should
be regulated with regard to the amount of she fees an-
nexed to it ; that it was subsequently determined by
the House that the °Bice 'Mould out be grauted uutil
such regulation had takeu place; and that in contempt
of such a determination, the Chief Baron or the Court of
Exchequer in Ireland appointed his suss, of his own atitho-
rity. to fill the vacant office. The right of this appoint-
relent was denied to have existed its the Chief Baron, sisal the
questiou was brought befure the Court of King's Bench by
a writ of quo irarrcutto. On this an issue suss directed to he
tried, arid the July (mind that the right bait been exercised
few a Inez period uf years by the Crows; exclusively. The
ease was subsequently seaweed by writ of error into the Court
of Exchequer Chamber, where the demi ~,, of the Judges
was in favour of the right of the Crown, anal from their
judgment the preseut Plaiutili is Error uow appeals to the
House uf Lords.
Tide day was appointed for hearing Counsei in the case,
and at twelve o'clock the Judges entered the House and took
their seats au the Woolsack with the Lord Clsanctllor.
Mr. Semlett and Mr Nolan were beard at considerable
length on the part of the Plaintiff, and cited a great 'bans-
hee of cases to support their opinion, that th► Judges of this
several Courts have the power of appointing their respective
officers. The further hearing was then postponed.
The Duke of Leimter, Lord Ferrer', Lord Hutchinson,
acrd Earl Nelson, took the oaths and their seats.
The Life Annuities sill went through a Committee, sud

}as reported.
The Claims our France Bill was read a second time.
RONAN CATHOLICS.
Lord Ror.t.o presented r Petition from the
County of Devon, against the Catholic Claims.
Lord CLIFDEN presented a Petition f►om the
County of Carlow, iu favour of the Catholic Claims.
The Marquis of ORMOND presented ■ Petition '
from the Protestant Inhabitants of Kilkenny to the
same ellect.—Laid on the table,
Earl DIGHT presented a petition from Wry.
mouth and 3Jelcombe-Ilegis against the Catholic
Claims.
Lord EXMOUTH presented a similar Petition
front Hoodoo.
The Bishop of LONDON presented Petitions
against the Catholic Claims from the Clergy of the
Archdeaconries of Colchester, Essex, Middlesex,
and St. Albans. and, from the Corporation of Stun
College. The Learned Prelate observed that these
Petitioners were modes ate in their Itinguage,and de-
sired that the Human Catholics should enjoy the
utmost toleration lii religion auJ srrcurity iii the
enjoyment of property, but that they could nut
be admitted to a partiei}wi' of political power,
without danger to the Constitutiou and the Church
of England. lie thought it necessary to add, that
lie fully concurred in their sentiments—Laid ou the
table.
Lord KENYou presented II Petition from Wrex-
ham. in Denbighshire, against the Catholic Claims.
The Duke of Beau Foal. presented two similar
Petitions from the luhabitants of the City of Bris-
tol ; as did the Bishop of ELY from the Clergy of

Ely.
The Earl of Dotionaumotte rose and said, that
in pursuance of his nonce, he had now to present
to their Lordships several Petitions from the Ito-
man Catholics of Ireland, who again prayed the
earnest attention of the Legislature to the degraded
state in which they were still retained by the exist-
ing laws of that country, and to the severe exclu-
sion from political privileges under winch they still
laboured, ft was not Ins wish to enter at length
into a consideration of the policy of those disabling
14rvti It this first stage of the proceeiliogs to obtain
relief; but with respect to the Petitions themselims,
lie felt it necessary to state, that tl.ey spoke the
sense of the whole Roman Catholic population of
Ireland; that they were justly respectful in their
language, were not the offspring of party spirit, nor
dictated to the great body of the people by any
select number of individuals, however respectable.
From the circurostairces counected with flip present
state of this great question, two facts presented
themselves, of which it was impu•►ible to entertain
any doubt:—the first was, that the zeal of the vie.
tilos to the nor:laic laws of rictus' 4444 was airier
more ardent or simultaneous, said never was the
opposition to their claims ►o weak and inetf,cioal,
its at the present motwoit. This lie eh .uld say,
onto ithstariding the endeavours Ohioh b d been
made—tosst uncoostitut al in their tanner—of •
imituing the soldiers in the garrison of Dublin tit
ages Petitions against the Catholics, sod which it
was itecessary for the Commanding Officer to pre-
vent by a public regiinental order--thus he should
notwithstanding this strange sod violent ut-
tempt to array his Majesty's, army against the claims
of a large portion of his Misiesty's subjectes—rthis
lie would also say, without taking advantage el me
ts &gain:mats expressed iu favour ol• the tiotiiisai Ca-
tholic' by the inhabitants of the metropolis of the
South of behind, the City of Col k, where a signal
triumph was (Maine' by the advocates of political

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independence and religious freedom—this lie would
my also from a fair View of the peneiteslities pursued
by " the Protestant esti of Dublin," us it chase to
be cAlled, where a tuiblic meeting was held a 4 all
that was venerable its -rank end character, eminent
in public and estimable in private life, smog the
Protestauts, its fortheratice of the Claints of their
Roman Catholic felluer-subjects. the Lord !Unripe of
Dublin himself presirlistg.-wtHeire, helfr. 1 —Throe
circumstance warranted him tit contending that
the 'Tomtit to the tnareli of toleration bad been
lowered in tame and dinviiiished in power, and that
liberality, polity, mid truth, were preparing that
triumph winch wNId hr enjoyed by Ills country
itt domestic harmony uud lilt nit:reams of its
political strength, lie should not detain their
Lordships guy loiter on tins stabject. but 61-bound
preaseist the several Patina* scriattits, lie should
not trouble the flimsy with the resoling of all
these Petitions, but there wire a tow to winch
he prayed particular intention, and more especially
to stone of the aiginitiires. Asninig them was the
name of the first Catlio!ic Nobleman in Ireland,
the Earl of Fingal ; of the first Baronet of Ireland,
Sir Thomas &monde ; of • Gentleman, whine
WHIM was well knOWO to every iiervon mcquaitit•
IA with the history of Ireland, Osseo O'Connor—
men no less loved in private life by those who had -
the happiness of brio., ° acquainted with them. than
respected in public. The Noble Earl theu present.
ed Petitions from the Roman Csitliniirs-•-
Of the Parishes of St. Mary, St. Thomas, soil St. George,
llnhlin; of the County of Roscommon ; of the County and
City of Cork : of the Parish of St. Catherine, in the City
of Dublin; of the parish of St. Paul, iu the City a's nub
lin; of the Parish of St. Andrew, Si. Anne, mid Se. Mark,
in the City of Doltlin; of the Parish of St. Andean, in the
City of Dublin ; of the County snit City of Waterford ; of
the County of Tipperary ;_of Yonehal RNA its Vicinity; of
the Town soil County of the Town of Galway; of (be
County of Monaghan; of the Town anal Vicinity of Ban.
don; of Neese' and its Vicinity; of tlonowl and to' Vi-
cinity; of the Parish of 'Newport, in the County of Tippe-
rary; of the United Parishes of Swords and Malshide,
County of Dublin; of the Parishes of Kiitersiap and
Kil-
gubbiti, is the Conroy of Dublin; of tie !Visited Parishes
of Wicklow, Kilcummon, sad Killerka, in the County of
Wicklow ; of the County of Cavan (this Petition could be
received as that of Edward Lyaeh only, that hying the only
came affixed to it); of the Parish of Coturall,in the County
of Donegal; of the Parish of Chummy, in the County of
Donegal; of the Parish of (academies, in the Comity of
Londonderry; of Desertaigaity; of the United Polishes of
Upper and Lower Fatima ; of the Town rind Borough of
Tesler; and the Coiled Parishes of Wilhelm, Clolierbrien,
end Anna; and of the City and Llbeilies of laindonilerry.
Throe Petitions, the Noble Loud observed, were
from Catholics only; but he hail now to present one
from the Protestants of the Cut? of Cork, nume-
roo,l7 and respectably lanceted, in favour of the Ca-
tholic Claims. This Pentioto he begged leave to
present to the particular notice of the House, as
eminently deserving their Lordships' attention.,—
The Petition was then reed, and, with the others,
laid on the table.
E .r 1 GREY rote to present it Petition from the
great body of the Roman Catholics of England,
prayiug for the repeal of several laws to which they
were subjected, solely on account of their cousciesi-
tious edlierence to the religious opinions of their
ancestors, and which, us they repre,ented, in no
degree conflicted with their moral, civil, or politi-
cal duties. This Petition was couched it. the aortae
humble and respectful terms as the Petition was
from the same body, which he had the liptionr of
presenting to their Lordships three year* since, and
wai signed by the mune description of litmus,
by Peers of the realm, by great lauded pro.
prior:no, by Clergymen of the Church of Rome,
and by numerous other !masons of that Com-
ft was, lie believed, u faithful re-
presentation of the feelings of the Catholics
throughout Great Britain ; and never did a Peti-
tion come before Parliament which had higher
claims upon their attention, whether they consider-
ed the good conduct of the Petitioners, the decent
stud respectful terms in which their prayer was
worded, the nature and object of their claims, the
importance of the subject, and the time at which
that subject was brought forward. if these cir-
cumstances were empathic of creating a cliiiin on the
attention of the House, the 'peseta petitioners were
eminently entitled to every respect. He would apt
now repeat the opinions he hail formerly urged on
this topic, and the molivrii which, in Ins mind,
ought to induce their Lordships to acquiesce in
the prayer of the Petition; nor would lie anticipate
the discussion of which notice had been given by
his Noble Friend ('lie Earl of Donougliniore); but
he would remarls, that the opinions which lie bad
on former occasions unsuccessfully urged in the
hope of obtaining their Lordships' concurrence,
have every year been more deeply impressed end
rooted its his mind ; and though hitherto they hail
'teen sinsucceesful its producing an inflyetice ou
Parliament, yet be thought, from statements occa-
sionally made in the Mose on presenting Petitions,
that they had nut been offered without adventage.
The services of the Buono Catholics were univer-
sally uckitoisledgeil—them loyalty nod affection to
their Sovereign—the liberal employment of that
wealth which many of them had derived. from their
nocestors,*hose names were recorded its the bright-
est pages of histoly us the establishes., of English
freedum-e-(tieoef—eilwir exemplary conduct in
every relation ief We, as subjects nod to citizens,
were fully ackilowletlgrd; the offeioive opininin
formerly imputed to them were openly disclaimed
by themselves, nod were now withdrawn II their
iiiitagionists; nod lie therefore should urge to the
Noble Lord opposite (the. Earl of Liverpool) that
there umerzisted use cause for their further rxelu-
thati the suitbiwition that they were subject to
the influence of a Foreign Potentate, an objection
which he doubted not would, at no dostant period.
share the fate of those that preceded it, and
Ile duspeileil by the force of discussion and reason.
NOi wall/ bad this general sArsottige been obtuitietl,
but in a feettit iuuatdmsce a usieol.iire of very eosin.
&table rebef had beret extended to the Catholics,
and the Navy were open to
ittlieumnyinotihuge
Tcwilirliceharr:lityllieferorni7lll°liuuril st)ite'reulawobrittli:ym; place in their