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'on. Ike woon*lllat,apothteMinibitaity, end if
his interest were the osameis she constituted. why
should )82 ,be yggiNdedebn lia,eoadd 1104. bit down
without wayinpre row oliNis-eleaor•pos#tion of the

iii.abilities, on !inch he. felt a yeeplifir ;interest.
Roman Catholics were holy admittedto the bar in

Ireland; the Irish Catholic Borristett• wa. now ad.
mitteti ttitat otsPortunity of dioployirig his talents
me a .public 'stage, where every permit couneeted
with Me by the ties or affinity or of ►eligion, could
see and exalt in his progress; but then. just when
ordistinction wits opened to his talents, lot, I
was stopped short in his career, and, condemned to
temsin in otter hopeless'''s and despondency, on
the outer benches of the Courts of Justice, whilst
he saw his cosupetitors pa's him in the race, moil
thus the most infliienthil portion of the Irish public
wrre left in u stale of irritation sod gloomy despair.
NiTas it right, he would ask. to send them thus into
,411 parts of the empire to sow the seed. of discontent ?
The Roman Catholics at the bar hod been remirk-
able for their loyalty sod good principles ; but be
would entreat the House, poi the behalf of the Pro-
testant bar. to restore to their Rowisn Catholic
brother all his privileges and remove every impe-
(Juana that might restrain his laudable ambition.
It might be ssked where most concession stop? and
l►e would answer. There where the necessity lweitit
to exist. If there was exclusion from any office
from soy solkient reason, the Roman Catholic
would it* it, and lie •woold see diet there was ilo
brawl. no intention to stigmatize. Should the
House go into a Committee what Ise should desire
on the part of the Catholics was, that the Declara-
tion against Tmasabstantiebou should be abolished
and some ulterstion should take place in the Oath
of Supremacy. to enable. the Roman Catholic to
take U. On the behalf of the Protestant be should
wish to have some power of inspecting the inter-
course of theCathobe Clergy with the See of Rome,
and that some plan might be devised to assure the
Government of the loyalty of the Clergy. If on
going into the Committee it should be fouod that
the Roman Catholic asked only foe what the State
might with safety grant, the inquiry could not fail
to hi- conciliatory. The Right Hon. Gentleman
then moved....

" That a Committee be appointed to inquire into the stale
of the Lasses reseed' the Irish Roma Catholics, and to see
it Lay sad whet alteration mold be made is the Declaration
whim Triasabstastiatios, sad is tie Oath of Sepressacy."
Mr. DIMS Bacswein seconded the motion.
Mr. Peat, apologised to the House for rising to
offer himself to their attention so early, his diffi-
culty was considerably Mcressed by the circum-
sauce of the Right Hon. Gentleman having re-
islied to a speech of his, mode four years ago,
wheu hi 'himself was present, and had the oppor-
tunity of replying to his obiservetioas with all those
rowers of reasoning which the light Honourable
Gentleman so pre-einineutly possessed. In attempt-
iag to follow the Right Hon. Gentleman he would
Ant allude to that part of his speech in which
he expressed his regret for the loss of his
departed friend.. In the eoloeinas which he had
potouotaoced *Splint whom above all he lamented,
lie (Mr. Peel) cordially agreed. It might seen)
arrogant in au humble individual like himself
presuming to praise Mr. Grattan. He had not the
advantage of that Right Hon. Gentleman's friend-
ship; he had not even that community of senri-
meek which often was the source of admiration and
regard, and if he followed the Right lion. Gen-
tleman in his patwgyrie, it was only to testify to
those who did not know the departed statesman,
that the Right Hon. Gent. had not been seduced
by the partiality of friendship in his eulogium
on that illustrious man. He (Mr. Peel) who
knew him only in his mild decline, particularly ad-
mired him for his unquestioned and unquestionable
integrity, and, to use his own eloquent language,
for that desperate fidelity with which he adhered to
this very question, but, above all, he admired him
for his readiness to part with his preconceived bpi-
Mons when he foond them interfere with his public
dui v. At the mine time that he regretted the loss
of Mr. Grattan, he could not but rejoice that in the
Right llonosiable Gentleman they had found
one corneetent to wield the arms which he had
borne. With respect to the immediate question
before the (louse, he had never viewed any thing
which had been done is any other light than a
choice of evils. He wss not satisfied. but the
measure he selected grew eat of the anomalous state
of things which bad preceded, and when he had
made the selection, he was compelled to acknow-
ledge it was not satisfactory. When the Right
lion. Gentleasso tied he (Mr. Peel) was so sa-
tisfied with the arrangement of 1793, did he really
tinnier that be cowl., view it with such satisfaction
When annual discussions were inking place in that
House, and when lie heard those ;civil names who
had advocated the other site of the question, lie was
obliged to admit that he could not be satisfied.
Thom great names imposed on the House the ne-
cessil of examination ; but after that examination
they might theta exercise their own free judgment,
and they might be satisfied that there had been nu
alternative. The Right Gentleman had de-
clared that every subject of the realm had a right
to office. On that point he was at issue wills hint ;
and be could let least appeal to such authority as
would chew that, if he erred, lie did not err alone.
If it were right to admit the Roman Catholic to the
capacity to hold office, the same must he given
to the Ploteseint Dissenter—that being granted.
it necessasily led to the repeal of the Teat and Cur-
roratton Al tO, Mid on that point the great authori-
ties of the Right Doe. Gentleman deserted him.
Mr. Po,t, Mr. Burke, and be believed 11r. Wind-
ham, when it was proposed to repeal those Acts,
all declined against it. Mr. Pitt, then oppiosed
Mr. Fox, declared them the bulwarks of the Comiti.
tonal, and denied the right of every mew to hold
ufftce. Mr. Burke opposed the repeal on grounds
somewhat differing from Nlr. Pitt. Ile declared
that he would hero voted for the repeal ten
years befort, but that lie then saw wounds
rif espedteacy to induce him to resist the
repeal ; and therefore he (Mr. Peel) ha.l Burke'ir
authority fur this, that under certain circtimstaiices,
in his opining, the repeal would be inexpedient.
De heard with considerable surprise the ergo..
111(111 which the Noble Lord (Nugent) had that
uililuctil from Blackstone. 'I lie pimage
which Inc Nidite Lord had quoted was in the Cosa- I
menturr,es, but it was inserted with a different
io-
tent. file statutes which the Learned Judge
spoke of repealing were the penal statutes, as con-'

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