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:item of fact in the Court of Chancery in the
qatich of bankruptcy affairs.
FELONS COUNSEL PILL.
trig . .R. 111 aartst brought in his Bill for enabling
rts• of Justice to appoint not more than two
onunsel to plead for Felons.: the same in trials for
64VIr
Ugh Treason.—Rend a first, to be read a second
time on Moudatisennight.

whish had

their right of electing'

1 since

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Arabi-in whierthry.were restorer ' 7.4—'•
•
iltittrLATlo24 ACE
Thelfouseleiolved itself into CoMilittlio upon
• k disenation ensued between Mr. hi Cull's,
MK.' Mattoon, rind Mr. LOCIBI RT. The Bill
.passed ihrough the Committee. The IlLiport was
Ors4brilid to be -brought up on a futnre day. .1,
The+ Lunittc Stoek Transfer Bill wso geld a
Gerund lune.
Adjourned at seven o'clock.
BRITISII CA? HOLIC PETITION ,
• • Presienterl by Lard Non enT,
Seconded by Viacom's Gutivotteity, February 2S.
To the Honnurabte the Knights, Citleena, arid Ilnegesies of
. the toiled Kingdom of Great Britain •nd Ireland, in
tar kismet,' enieemb :
The bumble Petition of the undersigned Persons pro.
~resOn thi Roman Catholic Religion in Great Britain,
Itorterro-11ist yOlll, PelilinnerS entertain the 'nest
gret•fNertiesie of the Acts passed fur their relief during the
konerotrut reiii of their late lamented Sovereign.
That there . site, however, several penal and disahlleg
taws still iu force twinge them, which are alike injurious
to their particular intereats, and prejudicial to the g I
welfare 4 the Slate; they impose upon your Petitioners
the vas*. ineapscities with which the Law visits convicted
pia; they entourage popular prejudices; they perpe.
tulle religious dissentious ; and they prevent that general
roneord in the Empire, au essenti•l to its happiness, pro-
s)" ity, cud itidepetitlenee.
That though your Petitioners are marked out as persons
uftwortliy of public trust, yet they confidently appeal to
them who are acquainted with the real doctrines mu, prac-
tice of their religion.
They apneal to those •ho observe their conduct in the
various walks of life; they appeal to the justice and candour
of your Ilooduralde House, whether their principle, or their
octiona clash in the slightest degiee with any mural or puff
Twat Away. Valor Petitioners feel that they do nut. 'flu,
amid to uo clam of their fellowsuhjects in affectionate
loyalty to their Sovereign, in dutiful submission to the law.,
in attachment to the liberties, and zeal fur the Itussuur of
'their country. They hare been been SCCUSIr.I of giving
to a foreign Potentate part of that allegiance whirl, is due to
their rightful Itovereiguy but they bare repeatedly denied
the charge, awl they again deny it. They have lately join.
d in proclaiming, with heart and voice, lips meet Gracious
Majesty, odium God lung preserve, their liege Lord and
s.trereign. To him they swear full and undivided allegiance:
Ittin alone they recognise the power of the civil sword
within this resign of linglond. They acknowledge in no
Foreign Prince, Prstate,auste, or Potentati,any poweroraw-
tburiiy to
use the sense, within Ilia said realm, it, any matter
4.r cause whitever, whether civil, spiritual, or ecclesiastical.
With these sentiments your Petitioner, throw themselves
open the wisdom, liberality, and justice, of your Honourable
House, and humbly pray to Le relieved from the otwration
of those enactments, by which your Petitioners arc debarred
from rujo, in.: in common with their felluw.subjects the civil
ro fits 01 the Conitilutiust.
Norfolk; E. M.
Votur: t n
Surrey e
Shrewsbury
Kinnaird Clifford.
William Gibson, Vie. Apost. in the Northern District.
Prier tulliogridge, Vie. Alma. in the Western District.
William Poynter, Vie. Apost. in the Loudon District.
Thomas Smith, Coadjutor in the Northern District
Alexander Cameron, Vic. •post. iu the Lowland District of
Scotland.
LIMON./ 31.4 c Donald, Vic. Apost. in the Highland District.
Al. x ruder Paterson, Coadjutor in the Lowland District.
William Gerard, Bart. I Caruaby Haggerstou, Bart.
1:-!s aril Hales, Cart Thorns, Webbe, But.
114 nee F.oglefiefri, Bait. Riehard Bedingfield, Bart.
Drury Ticliburne, Bart. Edward Smythe, Bert.
George Jeruiagliam, Bart. I Thomas Stanley, Brrt.
,riaimiug to be Lord Thomas Gage, Bari.
Suairord ) Janice Gurtlau, Bart.
Geo. Tlnuckmmton, Bart. I Thomas Clause!, Bart.
Edward Mount, Bart
.41001 uplards of eight thousand Gentlemen, Clergy, and
others,

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THE CIVIL LIST.

THE 8.E.111511 I)ItESS.

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LONDON,
FRIDAY, MARCH 2. 1821.

We sincerely congratulate Parliament and the
conntry at large upon the decision of the House of
Commons on Mr. PLUNKETT'S motion for the
House eelblving itself into a Committee to con-
sider the state of the laws affecting his MAJuser's
Roman Catholic subjects. To those who esteem
the sincere and affectionate union of Great Britain
and Ireland as one of the best securities for the
general prosperity of the empire, the decision of
the House of Comtrons must afford the highest
gratification. To the Roman Catholics of both
parts of the empire it must prove a source no less
of honest pride than of high exultation, as it has
established the great principle of Mr. PLUNKETT'S
speech—the basis of his splendid and conclusive
argument, namely, that every British subject in.
herits from his birth the right of eligibility to every
office within the State z but in Ireland will the ed-
vantages, the blessings we might say, of that de-
cisiou chiefly be klt. It will prove to the people
of that interesting portion of our empire that after
centuries of it itiey and Moult, of misgovernment
and oppression, there has spr wig up within the
bosom or the Imperial Parliament a feeling of
gracious sympathy for their conditioie which pro-
mises that the future will he more merciful than
the past, and which in kindness, not to Catholics
islowie but to the Protestants also, presents the
hope that the greet cause of their disunion and
mutual hostility, rued consequently of their tun-
versul distress, is abeut to be extinguished for ever.
The disabilities and grievances under which the
Catholics still labour are happily the sole remains
of that narrow, short-sighted, and debasing policy,
too long pursued by the British Goverinnent towards
Ireland, of ruling the country hy dividing it into fac-
tions, and committing one part of the nation, not to
the protection, but to the vengeance and hatred of
another, upon the condition of preserving the con.
melon of Ireland with the • Crown of England.
Opposition upon the one side necessarily gave birth
to hatred and hostility upon the other, unit oue an-
gry and vindictive law uniformly created the neces-
sity of another still harsher mud more oppressive.
When laws cease to be protective they lose their
authority, and the people, degraded and oppressed,
disclaim submission, and recur to the o.iginsl rights

of nature for defence and vengetance. Scaa his
been the state of hostility betimes 'he LegieWore
Dad the people of Ireland for a long coarse of years,
and who can wonder that Ireland has not advanced
as rapidly as this country in the march of civilisa-
tion ? A more enlightened and prudent system of
government has been of late Introduced into that
country, and the result is such as might have been
anticipated in the mere orderly and peaceable ha.
bits of the people. The p►csperity of Ireland is,
however, still 'very much retarded by the extreme
severity of the Excise Laws, which have given
birth to more revolting acts of cruelty and oppreas
sion than can well be conceived, and also by a sense
of inferiority and of a want of protection which pre-
vails very generally among the greater part of the
Catholic population of Ireland, in consequence of
the existence of those statutes that degrade Cs.
thOIICS, by holding them up av a nworthy of powtr
and confidence. When the State draws destine.

Ilona between different classes of the community, in
vain will the kindnesses and charities of social life
endeavour to unite them. Mutual confidence can-
not subsist in any country between higher and lower
castes, between castes honoured and castes de-
graded, between the favonied and the degraded, and
the absence of mutual confidence among different
classes, where the partiality of the Legislature
creates so wide • elistinction, is but little removed
from mutual hostility. The removal of this dis-
tinction will not very probably remove immediately
all the evils, the heart-burnings, the personal jea-
lousies, the distrust in the Government, the im-
patience of legal restraint, which have 'riven from
so fruitful a source ; se Mr. PLUNKETT eloquently
observed, " us well might we expect that when the
storm had ceased to rage, the waves should in-
stantly subside :^ hut ceitain it is, that, from the
moment of repealing the disabling statutes, the
cause of this multitude of calamities will cease to
operate, and we may tiu-t to the proverbial warmth
of feeling, generosity, and gratitude that distin-
guish their country, that the rich intelligence of
so great c boon having been granted by Parliament
will induce the Catholics of Ireland to contemplate
the present good, with its assurance of future ad-
vantage, rather than indulge in an angry and use-
less retrospect of the evils which in past times they
might have suffered.
This evening the House of Commons will resolve
itself into the Committee to hear and discuss Mr.
PLUNKETT'S specific proposition tOr removing the
disabilities from the Catholics, and offering at the
same time sufficient assurance that the Protestaut
Establishment shall receive no injury. We freely
admit that the majority on AVedisesday night was
I not such as is calculated to excite very warm hopes
of the eventual success of Mr. PLUNKETT'S trea-
sure; but still it was of great advantage that Par-
liament should have evinced a willingness, at least,
to consider the question. Mr. PtunKerr, however,
seems himself to entertain sanguine hopes of satis-
fying every scruple and removing every diffi-
culty, for after the division on Wednesday night
be informed the House, that " he had the
fullest confidence that be should be able, in the
Committee, to propose a practical measure which
would prejudice no party and conciliate all." This
measure we presume will he, the repeal of the de-
claration against transubstantiation, and each an
alteration iii the oath of supremacy as will enable
the Catholics to take it ; to which will be connect-
ed a plan for securing to the Government a means
of supervising Had inspecting the i litercoui se of the
Catholic Clergy with the See of Rome. Such a
plan, we do think, must conciliate all parties, and
so far as the safety of the Government is concern-
ed, it will, in poiut of fact, give to it • greater
security alpinist the possibility of any interference
on the part of a foreign Power than is now pi s-
toned. Against domestic danger on the part of
the Catholics what is there stow to protect us?
Have they not numbers, phpical strength, wealth,
talents, and arms ? Have they not commando, or
the right of eligibility to commands, both in the
army and navy; and where is our security from
their violeve or treachery ? What is our security
from the violence or treachery of Prutsattatits?
The laws that provide against treason, or murder,
or sedition, or open violence of any kind—these
are our securities, and these will at all times pro-
tect us front tteaaon or violence, no matter from
what quarter they can proceed. Will these laws
be silent, will their power be nugatory, will the
energy of the State be paralyzed by the eligibility of
a few Catholics to the House of Commons, or to such
pl-ces of trust as the KING in his royal discretion
may think fit ? Does any mall in the empire ap-
prehend danger from seeing a HOWARD or a CLIF-
FORD, or a TALBOT in the House of Lords or
Commons, at the head of an army, or the com-
mand of u fleet, or in his Sovereign's Councils ?
'flue vigour of argument and the splendid de-
sistence of Mr. PLUNKETT in bringing this
mighty subject before the (louse of Commons,
seemed to have paralyzed all the energy of
the former opponents of the measure. The
only argument, if indeed it deserve the natne
of isigunient, which Mr. PEEL could muster for the
occasion, was, that as these disabling statutes had
protected the country in tinnier dangers, we should
not repeal them, lest in some future danger their
services might be wanted. The Right Hon.
Gentleman here begged oce mighty question,
namely, that these laws had protected the country;

but admitting that they had been serviceable, which
certainly is very doubtful, is it wise to continuo a
system of irritation, injustice, and oppression.
which arose out of momentary circumstances, when
'whops auger, not wisdom, counselled their enact-
ment, after the occasion has passed which seemed to
render the system necessary We will not 'indeeir
deny tlvit dauger may ogain arise, but of this we
are convinced, that from nu source will it pssonsit.:
with inure fatal certainty than from the manna.
Al/Ce of this vet,' system itself.

A Flanders mail arrived last night with papers
from ITrussels to the Y7th last. The following Are
extract,:—

VIENNA, FEBRUARY 13.

The new Coustitution which the King of Naplev
will give to his kingdoms will insure to the nation
equal liberty and a representative Government.
but preserving the piinciples of monarchy. The
bases of this Constitution, and the conrequences
which flow front them, will be guaranteed by all
the great Power,. The plan of giving coustitts.
tions to all the Italian States is Hill spoken of, and
it is affirmed that these constitutions will be drawn
up at Laybach by the Ministers of the Courts con-
cerned.

The Prussian Genesis!, Baron Natztuer, arrived
here. on the 11111. It is asserttd that deputies
from Sicily will repair to Loyle.ch to represent to
the liing that the great majority of the Sicilian,,
being eeptally attached to the legitimate dynasty
and to the Colistitution of 1812, established by
the common consent of the King and the Parks.
mew, only wait► for a proclamation of his Majesty,
re-establnliing that Comtitution in its full extent,
to declare with energy against the party prevailing-
at Naples, which Ines sought to impose on the
Monarch and the station a foreign and anarchical
Constitution.

BRUSSELS, FEBRUARY 25.

A Proclamation is in eirculation in Germany,
dated Lisybach, and stated to be addressed by King
Ferdinand to his people, announcing that be means
to give them a Constitution on the model of the
French Charter. As there is nothing to guarantee
the authenticity of this important document, we re-
frain fioni publishing it.

A flamburgli mail arrived last night with papers
from that city to the 24th Febroary.—An article
under the head of Stockholm notices a case btfore
the Chancery of Justice, in which a person of the
°sane of BRYGGER hat confessed that he has car-
ried on a steret correspondence with the Ex-King,
GUsTAVUS ADOLPHUA, mid his Queen. for several
year. past, aid charges Count itObEN We having
been privy to the same.

We have received Paris Papers of Monday last. It
was staled in the Courier Francais of the preceding
that letters from Rome, of the 10th of this month, announced
the entry of a Neapolitan corps into that city, and that they
were well received by the inhabitants. The Papers now be-
fore us make so mention of such an occurrence, which indeed
was of itself too improbable to he easily credited.
An article from Angebusg, of the 2011 i of February, tali.
mates the encomia of the Austria• aimy advancing against
Naples, under Geneial FItI3IONT, at only 50,000 men, and
the At my of Rtsetve at an rqoal number. A Corp. of Ob-
servation still remains in Upper Italy. The three Legations
of Fermis, Bologna, and Ravenna were, at the dale of the
haul advice., uccupied by the invaders. The partisans of the
Court of Vienna, trusting implicitly to the overwhelming
weight of their arms, calculate upon the Austrians being in
Po ion of Naples on the 12th of March. "This upinitiu,'•
we are tuld by the Augsburg Papers, " is not generally en-
tertained throughout Germany or Italy, because they can
appreciate the effects of desperate valour and the lure of
conicity."
It is resolved, says the Coiteilitionel, that the seat of the
Neapolitan Government shall, on the commencement of lies-
tilities, he transferred to Coosa, a small town at the en.
trance of Calabria CiterMre. A part of the National Guard
of Naples will accompany the Parliament.

Ihe intelligence frurn Madrid announces the perftet re-
sto ra t ion of the King of SPAIN., health.

A Lisbon !Unit has arrived, with Papers to the 18th
last. The following is an extract :

LISBON, 8888 IVART 17.

The Auderanfa arrived oa the 15tb from Madeira with an
account of a revulation having taken place is that Diana on
the 29th ult. They have sent three Deputies to the Cortes.
The Castle of St. Grorxe, and the ships of war in the Taut.,
fired a royal salule on the receipt of this iutelrigenee. The
Corks have already decreed the liberty of the press ; ■ mea-
sure pregnant with very serious consequences to the foul c
interests of this country.

iVe have received Spanish Papers to the 1516 last.
They contain marousits of the state of the Spanish lowa
at Limo, Pisco, and Callan, anti of the orders given in
anticipation of the expected approach of the enemy, hut
these accounts are not of later date than the 11th Scpietulit t
last. Avt met which aerived at Cadiz ou the 4th instant. iit
55 days froth Rio Janeiro, tastes, that an English brigan-
tine, in 35 slays from Lima, had brought a report that the
division of Lord COCHRAN V. when ready to land, withdrew.
on receiving notiee that the Constitution had been sworn in
Spain and at Lima.

Extract of a letter from the agent to Lt.ovn's at Genoa,
dated February 33, says--ii War being determined on with
Napks, if that power dots not accede to the I t ems dictated
by Austria, an Austrian vessel, which was loading here fur
Sinaloa and Naplco, has received orders to discharge."

Extract of another letter front the agent to LLOYD'S
at Grum, dated the 17th February, says—" By • Comae
arrived this day, we bear that a division of the Austrian
army has arrived at Siena, on its way towards Rome. This
event has put our underwriters on the Merl, who hsve risen
the Premium of lusurance, and feel more Matta's(' to
risks under the Austrian, Russian, and Neapolima flags
We learn that a premium of 8 per cent. was paiJ yesterday
upon au Austria.. ship whirl, bas arrived from Constar'.
tinuple, with a cargo of wheat for this post. They auk
3 par cent. to insure for England with a British flag."