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satoghent' playing fur a repeal of the Penal Laws
....().dea....().deadd to lie on the table.
Mr. Micetioett presented a Petition from the
Clergy of Wiltshire, against the Catholic Claims.
The floe. Gentleman took occasion to say, that he
agreed with the sentiments of the Petitioswrs. He
1141 d. if the &liniment of the Regent wished to pre-
Puree their place% they should not waive a subject
of pitch vital importance, they should meet in a
ol.culeil manner the question one way or the other.
Tne Ilan. C. H. HUTCHINSON coodemeted• a.
imparliamentary and unconstitutional. the
I sogsage of the last speaker. ft was most uncoil.
*oust ~,,, al for any Hon. Member to say that the
of the Crown should be permitted to
still. soy question or to carry any question what.
ever. He would repeat. that the lengoope was in
the highest degree unperliamentory isibconatis
t whom!.
Mr. llurnalte mtplaitied.
Mr. Lurie ‘Vuts.w.si.tv presented • Petition
from the Ciergy of Salisbury against the Catholic
Claims. The Hoe.tiesisleman said, that be could
I.nt but look with Norm urn the naked Claim, of the
Cohn! e. ; bat lie *ll no humility towards them.
on the contrary, he ounsid wish to see them restored
to all the tights wwial4 compatible with the safety
of the Coostitutios. Story could enjoy. He hoped•
that the Right Hon. Oesueinan vionkl. whets he
In/night forward lei minim, be able to phew the
llouse exactly the stature and extent of the Claims
of the Catht.lics, mid of the Meuritie• they were
willing to give. If hermit(' beconvincrd that they
meant nothing ageism the Protestant Ascendancy.
anvil that their Claims were compatible with the
oublic safety• he would be one of those who would
feel pleasure. in changing his opinion upon this mast
important subject.
'llle Petit was ordered to lie on the table.
Colonel O'Netti. presented • Petition from the
Pristestantiof Antrim spinet the Claims of the Ca-
tholics. It was, be said, signed by MAIM ptllll/110.
4.000 I.f. whnws were inhabitants of Belfast.
The Provost was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. W. Pitottee.i. said, he had • Petition to
present Irian thatoman Cathidic lidialistaute of the
tsarists of Arklow, and an adjacent parish, in the
y of Wicklow. The Hon. Geutlentan en.
I irgeil on thilniprovemesit hourly taking place in
the condition and habits of the lower classes in
ireland, is, conseqwence of the extension of the
heitttlib of education, which, he fisted. the Roman
Ifistlitilec clergymen, in numetims instructs with
winch he was acquainted, used every exertion to
promote. The floss. Member suede • variety of
oh...nations on the omit policy of admitting our
Catholic fellow.subjects to • full participation in
the privileges of the C•intitution, which, were.
greet, some confusion in the gallery prevented MI
from hearing distinctly.
The Petition was then brought up. read, and
laid on tlw table.
Mr.thSIES lINOwNt said, that in asking leave to
present a Petition from the Romeo Catholic lobs.
Minns of the county which he represented (Mayo).
Ire would leg perssisnou to say. that its prayer was
-*she placed. as to all the privileges of the Conti-
lotion, oleo' the mime fabling as their Protestant
telloss.sobjects; and he would hututily suggest to
the Flossie, that, in this period of profound peace.
to 110 way could the attesitiou of the Legislature be
snore beneficially directed, than'towards devising a
remedy fur the evils seising from the state in which
perseois prefessing that reVgion are placed by law.
No eatlonal person could seriously argue that the
religion (if it was to be guarded against) was
guarded against by a continnince of the eaclurion
from Parliament. the only political privilege the
Catholic's did not now enjoy.
Mr.-noutoic• Boomer entirely concurred in
the 'a insolent. expressed by Isis colleague. He
sincerely hoped that the motion of his Right Hon.
Friend would succeed in bringing back our Co.
tholic brethren to an equal enjoyment of the right,
nod benefitt of the Coostitution, from which they
had so long been unwisely and cruelly excluded.
Tile Penile, was read, sod laid on the tattle.
Genenit keenest:l, wed, that he held its his
Lash! the Petition of the Frotettset Inhabitants of
the county he had the honour to represent. the
of agret4l en at a meeting re-
coissened by the requisition of 'the
`lei off at E • killeo, iltayisq the Rottte to eon-
tome all restrictions rush exelusidiss imposed on
Catholics by the existing haws. Tlus Petition
toestlud the real setitimems of the people from
i.!istiis it proceeded. pot At Other* which had been
4in-twitted, particularly th..•Troin permits professing
the-towhees to be Protestants of in 'event
of she Catholic Claims, to procure vignettists to
whirl), he understood that means the Most tooter-
rasitable and usiconetitutional had been resorted an.
The ancestors of the ',resent Petitionerstail fuegtft
and bled with King William fee the establishment
nt our gldrious Constitutims, snail shy owe wow
'emitted to stand by it..—fagsieiref lewBll.l.—He
thought it highly impolitic to speak of making
new concessions to the Resnais Catholics. re the
onmerous coocessions already made iwd only had
the effect of brisiging forth new desires and prim'.
tam's. But, 111 tact. as long as live (minims prevail.
ell in Ireland. that Ministers were divided upon the
quest ~,,, , lie expected neither peace nor quiet there.
The Honourable Member concluded by moving—.
'nest the Petition be read at length, in order M Awe
Geestrawn opposite what an error they had lanes into in
i•taling, that the tientimesita of the Protestants of Iselasok
generally, were in favourof she Valholie
The Pt-Mints was then read.
The question that it he tits the table having been
put.
Sir .1. NEWPORT said, he should not have thotte lit
of noshing the smallest animadversion on the l'eti-
tom just lead, or on what had fallen front the Hun.
cbeiwial 111 oresentisig it, had he Dot umlerstooil
lain to intionste, that sigiEstores lied beeu sniduly
and borieplitiously obtained tit sonieof the Petitions
!mot the Protestants of Irrlatid, in favour of the
Chsuus of their Catholic brethren. Bat, under
111. se el rcouto ances---liavi lig presented a Petit to
that • fret t from the Piniestant lislisbitaints of the
(sty oh Waterfnid—lie felt himself called upou to
eland up said pones' against any such declamation
or ito.inuatiott, and in defence of his coitatituents
so b.). teat the permits who put their names to
1 hat I'. tition were MS holltid and indepeisdetit, us ins
apatite of tieing, influeo ced by hope or intimidas
~,,,, as the inhabitants of Fermanagh. or Noy other
'tate to the empire. The lb /Hunt ;ritual, in ex.

pressing the opinions of his constituents, might to
hew, ebeteowd from tte.-ciaig on and cesiournet the
conduct of nth/ Ilrotestatits. WlOrli be coosn-
derail that the Jury of the county Fermis.
nagh had directly oppo.eil the provisions of. the
I,egislatore. the appointment of Catholic Chap. •
Inca. %Own they were called op to perform I hat
duty by Judge Osborne at the Assures, lie thooght
they dill not come to the House with much
elaiwts
(NI Its anent 00000 . Ile ironed lie shoald he per-
mitted again to claiiii, for the other Protestant low
tishitanto of tritaid, the right of giving a free ex.
pression to their Owls
General A114:410A1.1. said, he slid not mean to
allude in the Petition from Waterford, but that
from Dubliii...stial his information respecting the
latter came from a source whirl) did not permit
him to doubt that moot estreordituiry and vendee
influence hod bees' used to procure signatures to it.
Ile hail been informed that traders had been
threatened wish a loos of their business. bankers
with • run sin their houses, and lawyers with a
orithdrawsl 'of their briefs, if limy should refine
their names. A. to the Charge concerning the
tried, the iselividual the Jury had refused to op.
poiist was OVUM of excesoively doubtful character.
Sir JOHN NOWP'ORT would expressly affirm. that
the Gressel Jury had been twice called upon by Mr.
eltriaice o.lwirsie to nominate a Chaplain, and that
bowing at kiwi!' complied with his direction, the
individual nututuated would not be allowed to act.
bentose he was a degraded Roman Catholic cler.
cygnet).
Mr. GRATTAN mid. that the remarks of the Mem-
ber for Fermanagh had made it necessary for ban to
rise in defence of the distorter and conduct of his con •
stit swots w ten ',rationed the House. The Petitiou of
the I'roteid,llllll of Hublin.had been resolved upon
at a potittc Meeting held there. regularly convened.
lie had dOver seen a fuller Meeting, nor any reso-
lution* receive a more ready +aunt from the great
majority of the onto'ss foremen than those in favour
of the Roman Cmtliiilics. Ile knew very well that
charges ouch as those lie heard from the gallant
General had been in circulation since ; but be also
knew that the Protestants who attended that Meet-
ing were as incapable of being influenced or awed
at any Protestant. in England. Souse of them were
the first men iii Irelasid. The Meeting was as
orderly a. Meetings of that descriptiimi usually W 0....
the tentimehts embodied in the Petition were very
general—the signatores fairly and openly given,
though lie could not say but some of them might
have been procured iii au improper wanner. The
l'elition from Dublin was signed as respectably as
any l'etition ever presented. Great men had taken
• part in the Meting which laid given rise ton, and
tlhe Petition did them honour.—(Cheeriag./
Genets, Attenuate said that his oboerrations
*lmplied only to some of the signatures.
Mr. C. liercstissiom mid. that hewing presented
a Petition from the Proteritauts of the Pccosid City
it. Ireland, most restwetably signed, praying that
the advantages of the Constitution might be ex.
tended to their Catholic fellow.sobjecto, he felt
linvireff 'called upon to rite and declare that no
such arts a. feud been insinuated by the Member
fur Fermanagh, hail opereted towards its predate+
tion or support. lie concurred fully in the semi.
melds of that Petitiou. Ile was surprited that the
gallant Ceiserel, who bed, during the arduous
eantest of twenty years, himself freounitly led on
Catlidtics. mid tenanted their heroic bravery and
devotion in tlw service of their country, could enter.
tails any doubts of their fidelity and loyalty. He
Was Milted lotiiiiiiilved that he should raise hie
voice it. that lloe‘r, to keep such fellow-subjects
slaves. The Host. 11eitilwr then described at tome
length the art.. which, he affirmed, had been put
iiimrectice to procure tignatures to the A.uti-Cas.
tl * from l)utilin. He stated that the
Petition had been introduced into the Blue Coat
Hospital, for the purpxse of being eigued by the
boys, IPA that time tomes both of theist mod of Po-
lice Officers were to be &mid subscribed to it.
A public miler alto issued from • Comtnasider in
'hewed that the l'elitum had been intro-
duced into one of the barracks to hove the list of
its supporters swelled with the names of private
soldiers. It was his dm conviction. that unless
extraordinary and siniatural exertions were used to
obtain aignstures to psi-tile Petitions. both here and
in the claims of the Catholic. must be
successful. and such an event WANK id lilt opinion.
cooduce materially to the stolidity asid prosperity
Of the empire.
Mr. l'Ext defended the conduct of the Proles.
boils who had originated and cumlircteit the Pets.
host from Dublin against the Catholic Claim*.
Willi reoptct to the rumour of obtaining the signa-
tures of the Blue Cost boys. that publication had
been resolved at a Weird held by the Governors on
the 111th March. called by the 1 ord Mayor. in COll.
segoence of a lettet horn the Rev. Allan Morgan,
the Chaplin's. to be 5' fame and scandalous." The
other allegatiou. relative to. ouluitiug the names of
soldiers, was disproved by * resolution of the Com.
nonce of 21 Gentlemen, whom was devolved the
duty of procuring signatures. '5 that 'wither they
nsw any of them had. directly or indirectly. soli-
cited. received. or permitted the signature of any
uomconimisstoued of or rivals."
Mr. C% HUTeilthilUll said he had taken what he
had stated not from any public paiwrs. but from
door, Emits in his own possession. in support of
Ins allegation. respecting the totrodOction of the
Anti-Cathelic Petition into a berratk. the
Member read the Order to the teen seder his cons.
muud, at Island-bridge, issued by Brigade-Maier
Wildman (soil published k short time since in the
papers.) fie repeated. that he had leartied. on
ouquestiotieble authority, that the must violent and
ousiatural efliuts had heel' made W procure signs.
toter to the l'etition.

Mr. rtEt. explained.
The Petition was theta Nit, nu the table.