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in the lobby who could give seldom of Ms Mining ..ter wends of
bays brought up to sir it. The Bight Mom Weadomen mli it
was signed by 12 Maglemotes. Those who how dist An ma-
itiotraree had looe been taikavarriss to isteedosethe
law Memthester would not be veer Weere se lad desk
te web a petition. The His. Oentiorma then allothill7.767—A
tics having 331•13 rejected by the Baptises. Calvinists, Ind every
other sect Immo the Methodist', who allowed it to he plaited ter
airwaves io their Meeting-house. Them was ausider petlion
boomer which expressed the true opinion af-Ibo awl wheal
bad been carried in a public Meeting by a ef
is_those
one. That petition would be preeetteth see
piralatmegor.
W (Lord Stanley) wbo Tormented the weettr et
. . petition from alancheanr agreed to at the petite woesbrai hool,
sn a icy days. obtained ten thoomesdidiostares. aid, hod See pr-
>al tea number would ham belnifeegimasm
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UT hi did wit suggest anything = the fact=4.
.• iii tog thew et tbe undersigned in ts of .111
was not deeded by the Honourable Member. Thee Om ell dem
bad sasetted. As the meeting conventicle' the Bridgewater
was we sethand by the Iloroughreeve. it was but 'Wit to
pM Med stolowent with the reason of it. The troth
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tirlay of the petitioners.
bri:WILBRA HAM could ' undertake to es, that tit*
opinions of the Magistrates of the county of LIM4IOII/10 OM WIWI
to the memo" at wthaeipatioo.
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Men Ilenewelde fletawaty Ar the Ilene Depletion*, slither
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wee not *re Leaming of attention Om the ea the
own. Meer, hear.) 99/tril""fl.'.
Mr. PEEL, explained, sod without gi to elfilillikkgew thot
subject, said, that be had merely repres the MOM ill MIN
We dadertigned inhsbitsnts of Manchester.
Lord STANLEY admitted the right of the hl a Oil
es toy other moons., *sign petitions ; but on the OSOldis•
they birthed not indiwidliak only, but Judicially, as theriebien wee
banded to them, as he had 'heard with pain awnwitel, when diet
charging their judicial duties On the brudh. Ilit ezele
bear tietimotty to a thanks et
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t wen Stowable to the Mhos etito7tier
sle
Catholics.
A Message from the Cords signified that tie Royal Assent was
green to aesersl public mid private Bills.
Lord STANLEY presented a petition from Manchester, in fa.
veer of the Roman Catholics. The petition wasagmed to at a pub-
lic meeting.
Mr. PHILLIPS, ie reply to an observation from IL I&
Honourable Secretary fat the Honie Department, that the
reeve iiid advised these who signed a petition against th7n=
Ea•bol es not to convene a meeting only in his Individual capacity.
a . he was wotapplied to in his magisterial amenity, said he had only
given a-private advice, and the advice was, in his opinion, a very
000 d ore, which those who signed the petition would have acted
wisely if they had followed. •
After a few words from dlr. Oascoyxx, the petition was ,
To be printed.
Sir F. BURDETT pretested a petition front the Protestant arid
Roman Catholic inhabitants of the pariah of Ardcronin, in the Ba- '
rosy of Lower Ormond. The petition was accompanied by a letter
to him, intimating that a unanimous feeling prevailed upon this
subject throughout the parish. Theo thought the measure of
tot rneipation wooed produce conciliation, which would have the
*further result of consolidating the energies of the empire. Al-
toough other petitions may be more numerously signed, yet this
wall deserving of particular attention, as it was signed by every Pro-
testant inhabitant of the perish.
CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL.
Mr. CURWEN moved the order of the day for the third reading
of the Catholic Relief Bill. He contended that the country was
dot hostile to the principle of the proposed measure, although an
Attempt was made to promulgate such an opinion. In the county
which he had the honour of representing (Cumberland) no feeling
prevailed adverse to the claims of the Catholics. The restrictions
which affected the Catholics were imposed at a period very different
from the present. They had been imposed for the purpose of secu-
ring the throne of a Prince, who had been placed on it under very
peculiar earcumstences, and ate period when the Protestant religion
was ricked, assailed. The circumstances had entirely changed, and
the grounds upon which the restrictions were formerly imposed no
longer oilseed. The throne was now secure, the established reli-
gion of the country unamailed, and there MU no period when the
Protestant clergy were more respected. He regretted that this en-
lishtered body of men had arrayed themselves against the Irish
Imtbolies. Ile was entry that the feelings and character of the
Irish people was not better known in England. If the Irish cha-
racter was better known it would create e.tee,n and respect. He
(Mr- Custom) went to Ireland full of prejudices against that
country, brat he was happy to say, that before his visit terminated
these prejudices hod been completely removed. There was no
people amongst whom the social feelings were more powerful than
amongst the Irish, and he had no doubt that by kind treatment
this country might insure the eternal gratitude of Ireland.and by so
doing incense in power and add to its resources. lt was vain to
suppose, however, that a high-minded people like. the Irish could
ever be content in a state of abject degradation. Ile should re.
quest the indulgence of the House whilst he adverted to a circum-
stance, which demonstrated the salutary effect of kindness upon
the Irish Omfatter. In the town where he (Mr. Curwen) resided
there were a great many Irish people chiefly of the lowest class.
Some years ago a strong prejudice existed amongst the inhabitants
of the town against them, and this prejudice was in some
degree countenanced by the irreeular conduct of the Irish, and
especially by the manner in which they employed themselves on
Sundays. When other persons were engaged in the exercise of de.
ninon, the Irish were son loitering on the highways, or drinking
at the ale-house. At I -teeth the townspeople got together, and
built a chapel for the Irish, at the same time assisting them to
educate their children; and the consequence has been, that their'
subsequent conduct was quite the reverse of their former conduct, ,
and the inhabitants and the Irish were now so closely united, that
if one of the " No Popery" chalkers, who are so busy about the j
metropolis, entered this town, he would be quickly hooted out by
the united voices of Protestants and Catholic's Whatever might I
have been theiarevailing sentiment some years ago, he believed that
the people of England were now strongly in favour of concession to
the Catholics. He was certain that a contrary feeling did not exist,
except in those places where efforts were mode to excite it ; and he I
gave his full concurrence to the measure, because he conceived it
calculated to odd to the security of England, whilst it would ensure
the tranquillity of Ireland.
Sir R. INOLIS was opposed to the measure before the House
for the relief of the Catholics, because he conceived that the Roman
Catholic religion was not only unchanged, but uachangeahle. The
Roman Catholic religion at different periods had proscribed all the
master minds which appeared in Europe for several centuries. He
held in his hand a large book, containing the list of proscriptions
which bad taken place during the reigns of various Popes. The
works of Room Locke on the Human Understanding, Milton's
Paradise Lost, and Alberoni's famous work on the Newtonian
Philosophy, were amongst the proscribed books. He asked, was
this an evidence of liberality amongst the professors of the Roman
Catholic faith ? Urotius and Puffendorff were also prohibited. In
ertiert, a good library may be selected from the books proscribed by
the Roman Catholic Church. (Hear.) The names of Fenelon and
Pascal had been alluded to, and the advocates for concession to the
(*holies have asked, is it necessary to look with the eyes of jealousy
and suspicion upon a religion of which such men are the repre-
sents:lyre ? He (Sir ft. Inglis) denied that Fenelon and Pascal
were the representatives of the Roman Catholic religion. NVhat-
ever other religion they represented, he contended that they did not
represent the Roman Catholic; for their writiags. had been pro-
scribed by the Roman Catholic Church. The spirit of the Roman
Catholic Church had not altered. The late Pope was a man of
s,tliarly mild manrers, and particularly well tnclined towards
and. Yet, when 'the English at Rome applied for leave to
t d a plane of worship for themselves, the Pope declined granting.
rt. It was true the English were permitted to hear Divine Service
In the drawing-room of one of their countrymen ; but this practice
was rather cuter.itred at that, recognised. Had he (Sir R. Inglis)
seen the Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Mr. Canning, in his place,
he would appeal to him *heftier an application had trot been made '
to Government, requesting its interference to prevail upon the
Papal Goveminerit to grant a burial-place to the English residing
in Rome. IVllen he (Sir R. Inglis) was in Rotne, the English
were not only debarred from having a burial-place, but they were
not allowed even to erect a fence round the spot where the dead
lay. Yet the late Pope was known to possess more liberal prin-
ciples than, perhaps, arty of his eredecessors. He would refer to
another circumstance connected with the late Pope: about fourteen
years ago, when he was a prisoner in France, the then Emperor of
the French applied to him for his concurrence respecting some
arrangements connected with the internal gnyeniment of Franee.
Urie of the principles co which the French Emperor naked his
concurrence was, that- fall toleration should be extended to
all religions. The answer of the Pope ought never to be forgotten
byProtestants. Ile 11.1030 to the Cardinals in a circular—" lie (mean.
ing the French Emperor) demands that the exercise of all
systems of religious worship should be free and undisturbed, a de-
mand which I 'tooted a: contrary to the Canons of the Church, to
the Roman C.tholis religion, and to the welfare of the State."
In teacher letter to the Cardinals. alluding to some proposal for the
uhrort of religiout faiths, the late Pope said. We may a. well
attempt to unite ('brist with Belie], as the Roly Roman Catholic
religion with soy other system of religion.' In truth, the spirit of
the Catholic Church had undergone no rncerial change. Its
temporal power was less, but it still exercised a spiritual tyranny
user the minds of men, as strong and not lean dangerous than its
surmer power. True, we had bound the strong man. but it we
loosened his bonds, and brought him amongst us with his feelings
unchstrgeti, we should take care that he did not pull down the
temple of our greatness, and bury himself and us under the ruins.
t Bear. hear.) We should look to the conduct of modern Roman
Cstholie goyernmenot. What was the first act of the Constitutional
Cortes of Spain ? They declared that the only religion of the State
WOO the Roman Cathelies—that the State supported and de-
*dad that religion, and prohibited the exercise of any other.
The New Mates Ad Venevuela and Mexico had been equally in-