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London, England, 1813-02-14 00:00:00

I'FII. 14.

i,hed it to appear on the Journals th ,t the measure was oprstoi,
limine.
The Motion was then put and negatived, the previous question being
eat rind.
Sir JOHN NEWPOnT gave notice, that, on Tuesday next,. he would
move for leave to hring in a Bill to exempt flout the tax afFi'cting
hack...tors, til; members of colleges and Universities in the United Em-
pire, ani all the Catholic Clergy of Lifland.
The other Ord2rs of the D,iy were then disposed of, and the Howe
--Adjourned.

TIIUR SDA V, VES. 11.
ROMAN CATHOLICS.
A Petition wa, presented from the County of Anglesey, against the
Catholic Clanns, On the question for bringing it up,
Mr. PA KNIAA. raid that when the meeting took place to consider of
petitior, a aenileman made a speech, which was nothing aiore
than a recapitulation of arguments that were published in the .4 ati-
Acobin Revicw, purporting to come from the Catholics themselves,
tun:cr the title of " The third Part of the Statement of the Penal
Lawfs."--The two first parts of thii wiark, were acknowledged by the
Catholics to he consonant to their avowed principles, but this third
foirt was a gross fabticati•ai and forgery. The House would there
for? judge what credit was due to the allegations of this, and other
Pcti,ams iS a similar kind.
Dr. Dew EN AN said, there was evidence ming!' in the two first parts
of tile work in question, to sustain the allegations in the petition.
Mr. PARNFI,T., Mr. FD, Mr. GRATTAN. and Mr. CAN•
INO, reprobated the g_ross forgery alluded to ; it was a total misre-
r,e citation of their red sentimeuts ; and Mr Canning said, that he
knew it bad the effect of making many persons unfavourable to
the Catholic claims, who before had been favourable to theta.
The Petition 'vas then ordered to lie Oil the table.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S BILL.

On the motion for the second reading of the Vice-Chancellor's Bill,
Lord CASTL.F.RE n rose, and entered at large into the reasons which
rendered the creatiiln of such am office adviseable. If some mode were
not devised to render that judicial portion of our Constitution equal to
ite labours, the whole of the judicial code of the country must be
f:ffveed, and great injary done to the subject, from the impossibility
of obtain:lig timely redress in any suit. As a proof of this, he needed
state, that there was at present in the House of Lords an arrear
of '2BO appeals, which at en mieerage of the rate in .which such causes
had beet' decided, could not he determined in less than eleven years.
The Noble Lord went into a discussion of the provisions of the Bill, as
well as various other modes which had been -tiggested to remedy the
evil complained 1. t and after gi% ins a decided preference to that now
wider their considm.ratiun, he moved that the Bill be read a second
time.
Mr. BaKEFS did not think tl c Bill would remove the evil it was
;net nd..d to remedy. The elect of it would be, to have the business
of Lord Chancellor executed in the Court of Chancery by a person in-
feri, r to him in learning and ability, white the business in the house
of Lords would be ellowed to go on, or to be in a state of stagnation,
ai it best might suit. . Appeals would be multiplied, instead of reduced,
for it could not he supposed, that there would he fewer appeals from
the Vicc-Chancel!or to the Lord-Chancellor than for the Master of the
Bolls. He coefessed he could see no radical objection to the separa-
tion of tile two offices of Lord Chancellor and Speaker of the House of
Lords. earth:Oat ly if that separation were merely temporary, to meet
a temporary difficulty. He knew once it was a favoutite object of Mr.
rat. Auotle r objection he had to the proposed Bill, was, that it
tended to make the individual appointed vice-Chancellor, a deputy
and not a Judge. He was to do merely that which he was ordered to
du ; and the person put into this degraded situation, like all other
drudges, was to do all the work, and to receive but small emolument;
and that too from his immediate master. After many other cogent ar-
guments against this measure, he concluded by moving, as an amend-
ment. that the Bill be read a second time on that day six months.
Mr. Niv coon ATI) thought the most adviseable step would be to take
the Bankruptcy business out of Chancery, and extend it to seine other
tribunal. He opposed the Bill before the House as nugatory, and in
the highest degree unconstitutional.
Mr. STEPIIEN supported the Bill with considerable ability. In ad-
Yertine to the length of time for which suits in Equity were depending,
he stated from the report, that el those now undecided, one hart been
protvacred for twenty years, seven fur eleven years, 30 for seven years,
tied 77 Lr live years! He denied that there was any thing taticunlith-
tionak in the measure new proposed for their adoption.
Mr. Coe aTra Ay opposed the Bill, and maintained that it would
have the elii.ct of aacrifleing time judicial character of the House of
Lords,

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thing itucunlitti- considerably hard, as ne was outigeu Lu tan.. .•••-• ~
in payment tbr his labour. He most earnestly requested that the GO..
ined that it would vernment would take into c ,nsideration a case of such terrible priva..
of the Huuse of tion and difficulty, and send to Ireland as much silver as could he
atlcorded. The people of that country were not only sufferers from tl.t