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Ingt toeseoted by Mr. CR4TTAN
oaf. that of the Pr0f...130t Freeholder* and Illrte.
holdess of the City of Dublin—which *SW, read and
Id d .111 the halite.

Mr. thtATTrite the 4 !rote and said —" I b-g
leave., Sir, in piesentiog awry Petitions, in expre..
my most ardent hope, that they may tiltpinsate:y
tuceerd—and the, in their success, they still con-
tribute to give to ieriglh to the Protestant Establ,islr.
meor—to the Protestant Clitt,ch—to the Act 1.1
Settlement—and to the Protestant sticce-sion to
the Crown, as by law esliblisherl„ I -think.
tied, by the ialentifiratiosi of all cla..ea of
with each other, in coneecineoce of 1'
the successful result of this questiani, two import-
ant events will he accomplished : the nor, general
tranquillity—the other, is great addition of strength,
and twee, sod liniment. annexed to the empire for
aver.—(/-/tier, hear.)—Ft is s y moat ardent wish.
that the two religions. bearing to each other the
:strongest similitude—;-huvitig the same Itedremer,
the same Gospel, and, iii feet; similar, though err.
tautly not the same sacrainents—l wish that these
two religions, existing under the constants rule of
one great empire. May be at liberty to exercise
their free wail in the adoratihu and mi.e of their
column's God—however different their idesi.on star.
titular points—with all the iritriety_ of maitre, bat
with all its concord also.—(l-/ear, hear./—I bet.'
leave to state, that the Petitioners desire to be freed
from a penalty imposed on them and their genera-
boo, by the ionic:nig oil them a disqualification, I
Illsy say a degradation, with respect to thr common
law right of eligibility to sit in Parboil:heist—a die.
qualification with which they hale been visited* be-
cause they refuse to abjure their religion!—(Dear,
hear.)—The Petitioners do not avert soy fan.
treeless! claims—they keep clear of the theoretic
spirit of the times—and rely solely On the coins
non law right of the 1.110.-If/fear, boar, hear)
—the commonlaw right of eligibility to sit in Par-
liament, like their fellow-subjects of different far.
milestone, If you retold the Acts which eataliti.li
their incapacity, you do not grant any boon--yont
merely restore to them what they long posSeasest:....
what, in the eye of justice, they ought now to teijny I
If you continue the disqueliticatinie you impose un
them a grievous seateilee—a :emetics. which the
facts do not warrant you in passiiig--elthough it le
certainly a sentence which you have, speaking in
strictness, • right to impose. But, err yon pro.
ceed to that extremity, you Are hound, iii justice
and in duty, to establish the delimpiesicy, facture
you call ou the Petitioners to establish their • oe
cence ! I submit, that the Petitioner. have a corn-
mot law right. as yois hoe, to sit in Parboment*
and to iict in ofAce i. I do submit, Sir. and, its
my mind, properly submit, for them, that the
causes of disqUalification have ceartel. First,
the combination of the Roman Catholic Powers of
Europ't, one of those causes, hits ceased ; nest,
the Pretender. dumber of those cruises. no longer
exists ; and the power of the Pope, the last of those
causes, is nn longer to be feared. I submit that
those causes have wholly ceased—not only thlt,
but the 'passim's:nu' prejudices which were annexed
to those causes, are no more. I may go even far.
tiler, and say, not only are those viscous nu More,
but the objects on which they could bear—the pro.
jects with which, by possibility. they could he rums
'leered, have vanished likewise. The Rousso'
Catholics do not, and they cannot question
the right of Parliament to disqualify. It is
a right which was exercised in the best times,
and for the best purposes. is a right and power,
exercised for the preservitiott of the purity of Par.
Barnett. You disqualify the clergy...you disqualify
a certain description of placenten and pensioners—a
with a view to the west-IV:aims of your own parity.
This I admit. But there is one privilege which
you have not thought, and cannot think, homier
to attack —that is. the privilege of rehglioi,—
(Hear, hear.)—Every man has a tight, au 11.1.411t-
testable right, to worship his (;od, nil deli nice of
his fellow-creature ! This is not the privilege
which mail concedes to men—it is a siteragalive
granted by the Deity. The King who would in-
terfere between the Creator and the created, usurps
the place of the Almighty. Ile has not, anal can-
not have, any itermiesion from Mal: ; and lie Cal iiiii t
assert that he has received the permission of Goals
All the King's power—all the force of the Court.—
ciiisld not alter this ainiple siropositiosi..a proptl4
sition founded its policy, in rel,eocti. it monthly.
The Gentleineti who inesti to combat the Chum. of
the Petitioners will not support a doctrine contraiy
to this. They will oppose ti.e Cit Imlies tin d!ff'..r.
rut grounds. They will say that their hostility
does not arise front geuerul reasoning, but is faitindsil
in their dislike of cerLtiii principh•, which. they
suppose, the Roman Catholic i.h eisCoonegro
—of the existence of which thee conceive the
Roman Catholic religion etraids snflioient evitience,
This is the source of objection—ties i- the humid -
bon of the disqualification of whit!, the Rumen Cs.
thistle' have long complained. Tlita.e principles
they classify wider three heads: —hist, that the Ito.
man Catholics disregard the ai old:gallon of su
oath--ed, (list they doubt the valiihty of esistiug
andse dr•
gi :rie:2:ldd ldna.tiraotslitlise);;lLtuleelt ttuit:ii:eieiti :sr 1 ii;:eatsei el
ars osiurta
Catholic Gentleman, Sir G. tar to -
Stance. ilidacted for trenoto. Ssippo,re the Cotioael
for the Crown mittniiittett general argument.. iigaiii•t
the Roman Catholics, as evidence ageinst
gUlllelliN drawn from Ole Council tit COti•tmot iolfl
from the decrees of the Lateran. Suppose, iii
denim to this, that they offered in evidence Or.
Gendulphy's pamphlet—the history of his r, reptitot
at the Court of Rome—the conduct of the Pope en
the occasiousthe revival of the order of Jesuiti-s•

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