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C.4THO Lie EIII. ACIP4TIO.Y.

4Lstractof a Bill to proud: for the removal of the Diequali•
(rations under which hie-Ilajestys Roman C.'alholte Subject
nua tabour.

Whereas the Protestant succession to the Imperial
Crown of this United liingtions and its llcvnileticies,
is, by the act, for the further limitation of the Crown
and the better securing the liberties of the people,
established permanently and inviolably.
And whereas the Protestant Episcopal Church of
England and Ireland, and the doctrine, discipline, and
government thereof, and likewise the Protestant Presby-
terian Church of Scotland, and the doctrine, discipline,
and got eminent thereof, are, by the respective acts of
Union between England and Scotland, and between
great Britain anti Ireland, therein severally established
permanently and inviolably.
And whereas, after due consideration of the situation,
dispositions, and conduct of his • M .je,cy's Roman Ca-
tholic subjects, it appears just and fiiiing to cominuni-
cate to them :he full enjoyment of the Iwnefits and ad.
vantages of the Constitution and Government happily
esialdished in this united kingdom, thus putting an end
in religions jealousies, consolidating the Union between
Gr..at Ilritain and freland and uniting anti knitting
together the hearts of all his Majesty's subjects in one
amid the sante interest, for the support of has Nlajesty's
person, family, crown, awl goverittnent, and fur the
defence Of their common nglais and liberties.
And whereas, by certain acts passed in the Parliaments
of Great Britain and Ireland, the oaths of allegiance
and supremacy., therein provided, are required to be
taken tor certain purpose.; therein mentioned ; aid the
said nob of supremacy is expressed in the following
terms ;-+." I A. B. du swear; filar I do from my heart,
detest and abjure, as impious attil heretical, that dam-
alable doctrine and position, that I moves, exeunt intani-
cared or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the
Seoul Bowie, may be deposed or murdered by their sub-
jects, or any other whatsoever; and I do declare, that
no foreign Prince, Pre., e, State, or Potentate, both
or oti6lll to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority,
pre•erninenco or antitority, ecclesiastical or spiritual,
within this realm : ti.. help me God."
And whereas his NJ aj:sity's Roman Catholic subjects
in stew Britain and Ireland hate been at all tunes
ready and rivalrous to take the said oath of allegiance in
crtiotimit with his Nitje.iity'a other subjects i but cater-
tam scruples with respect tie taLing the oath of stiliranacy
so far as the sante might ho construe.: to input( a dis-
claimer of the yentual authority of-ilie Pope or Unwell
of Botoe iu matters of relit:ions belief
And whereas it appears from the admonition annexed
to the injanctiorts of her Alujesty Qneen Eliaabcilt,
puhltshed in the fiist year of Ws, ~ia~esty's errs n, awl
sanctioned by the act passed 1,1 1.,“: fasts )e.r of Is:r
intitlettl, ft Ass act fur 1,, a,c4r.mc.:ur the Queen's
rei.,4l powers ova, all cisme, Awl ,onjects isathus tier do•
no woos," that such tic4clAnyvt- tv..s origin:l:ly meant
naiy in tsiess:l to any. wit akiattoAledipsicat ul ft4ev...4
loJetch suli.tlyuty, ine.gantlaiGe, cr istatha•

rity, as i.-or could be incompatible with the cis ii ditty
anti allegiance which is due to his Majesty and succes-
sors from all his subjects :
And whereas a legiilative explanation, to that effect,
may therefore be properly and safely given and declared.
May it therefore please your Majesty, that it Hoy he
enacted and declared, and he it enacted by the King's
most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and con-
xut ot the Lards Spiritual and Temporal, anti Om-
inous, in Parliament assembled, aud .by the authority of
the time, that nothing.contaiued in the said oath of
supremacy shall be understood to express or imply
fu Cher or otherwise, than that the persons taking the
sante do thereby ullteser.ettly and unequivocally pro- •
, fess and declare, in the presence of Almighty Gud, that
no foreign Prince, Person, Prelate, State, or Potentate,
lath or might to have jurisdiction, poweroupretuacy,
pre-eminence, or authority, temporal, ecclesiastical, or
spiritual, within this maim, that in any manner, or for
any purpose, conflicts or interferes with the duty of full
and undivided allegiance, vs•hicli by the laws of this
realm is due to his Majesty, his heirs and successorsi
fro:n all his subjects, or with the legal riiitis of Iris Ma-
jesty's 'objects, or any of them.
lite Bill then proceeds to enact that, the declaration
respecting Trausubstantiation; be repealed ; that no
oaths be tendered to Roman Catholics, except those re-
quired from other sullects ; that nothing in the act shall
repeal the statute of uniformity, or enable Roman Ca-
tholics to hold any office or place of the united Church
or England or Ireland, or the Crunch of Scotland ; or
any office or benefice belonging to the said united
Churches ; or any place in any Ecclesiastical Court of
Judicature; or in •any Cathedral or Collegiate Estab-
lishment or loundatiou ; or any office or place in any of
the Universities ; or any Culiege or Sellout oh Royal or
Ecclesiastical foundation; or to exercise any right of
presentation. That when any right of presentation is
annexed to any office held by a Rona of Catholic, his
Majesty may transfer such right of presentation to any
sticalbet of toe Privy Counsel beittA a protestant.—
L istly, Roman Catholics not to advise the Cross n in the
appointment or disposal of any lay
,or ecclesiastical
offices of the waited Church of England and Ireland, or
the Church of Scotland.
THE QUEEN.

The following is " an account of all monies ex-
pended touching any proceedings had respecting her
Majesty the Queen, from the year 1817 to the
present time." It was presented to the 'louse of
Lords, and ordered to be printed, on the 12th inst.
ITEMS OF CHARGE.
The total awn supplied out of the Secret Service a. d.
Money, from the commenemient of the Proceeed.
ings, r lll,lOO 13 0
Tho total sum issued to Mr. Manic, the Solicitor
of the 'freasury, out of his Giant of Parliament
for Civil Contingencies, for the expense of the Pro-
ceedings. is -46,000 0 0
The total sum issued to Mr. Vizard, her Ma-
jesty's Solicitor, out of the Grant of Parliament
for satisOng certain charges upon the Consoli-
dated Fund, or Civil List, fur the expense of those
Proceedings, is 60,000 11
To his Maicsty's Great Chamberlain (Lady Wil-
loughby tie Lreshy, acting by bet Deputy. 1). \V.
Fellow:J. Esq.) out of the said Grant fur Civil
Contingencies, for extraordinary expences incurred
by him on this occasion, is 2,250 0 0
To Sir Robert Raker, (Chief Magistrate of the
Bow-street Police and Horse Patrole,) out of the
said Grant for Civil Contingencies, toward; the
extra cxpences of preserving die Peace during
those proceedings 3.1,11 10 0
Whitehall Treasury Chambers C129.43s tt 0
Feb• IS, 1.421. (Signe.) It. LUSHINGTON.

OADRTO, Fri. 28.—Our Journal called the Cur-
reiro do Porto contains the following article
Rio DE; JANEIPIOs Nov. 5....1t is continued in the inert
venire manner, that in one (tithe Sittings of the Council held
to-they in the pro:ewe of the King, the Condo dos Areas spoke in
favour of the new order of things in Pormgal, and expressed his
opinion with great dram:taw lie soil it was highly important,
and at the same time cunturmabie with tha dimity of the crown
to adopt the conAitotional system, not on'y for Portugal but also
for Wards, where the spirit of liberty was ranking a rapid
progress.
" The Minisiers, Villa Novo era Tiogini. replied to the
Count, suit oreleavoured to prove that the ptincivies which he
ii,stljtka Lid down, were s..ry noturnry to the true principles of
Nlomue:iy• They say, that the reason; adduced by tae Count
dvs Areas n, favour of the nonstitutional system, made a great
impress:lan on the mind of the King, whose &wine's and lave of
justice are well knowu to all he subjects, it i, affirmed, that/
their IVvyal Highnesses toms of his Majesty, art well inclined
these changes, and have declared as much to their august
ther,
The troops tree a gr:at part isi the geneval joy caused by the
renta m t inugal, nod tic liutupestua es aerially distinguish
thentialves, riese lan thatinleta form the la,* part Of tint_ form
of the Goverihnent. They an ount to :,000 at east. Tae disc
po.i4eti tit tae true it, and of the inhithitscm. of
aersoas consideration, and gives no t i;a9fttl to be pev enulet that
the King will not fail Laillly to yield to me wLhce of the pdblie."

The Ilissenting Congregations of Brighton hese
unanimously si,,reei to rtitim Parliament trill.'
Brougliain's Education Bill.

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HOUSE OF LORDk4.
MONDAY. MARCH 12.
Lord MACCLESFIELD presented a petition from
Chipping Norton on the subject of agricultural distress,
which was read, and laid en the table.
WOOLLEN Tans.—Lord CALTHORPE miksented a
petition from the manufacturers and others netted
with the woollen trade In Frome, (Somerse ) com-
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plaining of the duties on foreign wool, on to three-
half-pence per lb. as well as the finer. The petition was
then read.
The noble lord then presented a second petition, hav-
ing the same object, from Shepton Mallet, which was also
read, and both were referred to the committee oil foreign
trade.
STATE OF IRELAND.—Lord BLESSINGTON rose upon%
the order of the day, the peers being summoned for the
consideration of a motion respecting the internal state of
Ireland. His object was not, however, on this occasion,
to enter upon that important subject—various eircum-
stances made it expedient to postpone the discussion.—
The noble earl concluded by moving, that the order of
the day for his intended motion he discharged.
After some conversation between the Marquis of Lans-
down, the Earl of Liverpool, Lord Limerick, and Lord
Darnley, the Earl of Illessingtou's notice was discharged.
The house adjourned.
TUESDAY, HAREM 12.
The Lord Chancellor ;mended the house lit four o'olock,
when prayers were read by the Bishop of Exeter.
Mr. Mason, from the East India Company, presented at
the Bar of the house, copies of resolutions of the directors
for granting salaties, pensions, and unmake, which were
laid on the table,
The Lunatics' Stock Transfer Bill, the Nova Scotia
Trade, and the New South Wales Duties Bill, went
through a committee, and were agreed to without any
amendment. _ . _ .

The General Enclosure Bill went throuali a Committee,
and the re,oltit ions were agreed to with no amendment.
On the motion of the Marquis of Lansdumrne, Lord Beau-
champ was added !to the members of the committee on
Foreign Trade.—The house adjourned.

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WEDNESDAY, MARCH le.
The Lord Chancellor attended the house at the usual hour,
and disposed of appeals.
The General Inclo,ure Bill was reported, and the third reading
appointed for to-morrow.
The Stock Transfer Bill, the Nova Scotia Trade Bill, and
New South Wales Duties Bill, were read a third time and
paned. The house adjourned,
THURADA V, MARCH 15.

Mr. Irving, from the Customs, presented an account of
the Quantity and value of imports into Great Britain from
the United States of America and Canton.

Mr. Hall, from the Penitentiary, Milbank, brought up a
report of the state of the establishment.

"The above returns were laid on the table.
The General Inclosure Amendment Bill was read a Blued
time and passed.
The Earl of SFIAFTE'I BURY prseented a petition from
the Mayor, A Iderincii, mid Corporation of Colchester, against
the Roman Catholic Claims. The petition was read and
Laid on the table.
Mr. Brogilen, and other members from the Common.,
brought up the Silk Manufacturers' Bill, the Cochinenl Bill,
and the Glass Duties Bill, a hick were read the first time.—
The house adjourned.
CR !DAY, MARCH 16.
Mr. Smith, from the commissioners of roads and bridges
in Scotland, presented the seventh report of the said
commissioners.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a petition
from the proprietors of land in Upper Canada, ;praying
the duties on timber may not be altered.
The Cochineal Bill, the Glass Doles, and Silk Manu-
facturers' Bills were read the second time.

The Earl of DARNLEYsaid he held in his hand a petition
signed by many clergymen of the church of England,
praying for the restoration of her Majesty's name in the
liturgy. In the absence of the right rev. prelate (the
Archbishop of Cantei bury) lie was unwilling to present
the petition, therefore should postpone it till Monday,
in the hope that the right rev. prelate would attend.
Mr. Brogilen brought up a message from the house of
commons, which announced that the house had allowed J.
Gladstou, Esq. and another member, to attend the lord's
mitten upon foreign trade.
Mr. Brogden also brought tip the Flax encouragement
B U. which was read the first lime —Adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
MONDAY, MARCH 12.

Mr. Sheriff %V A l I'H.IIAN presented a petition from the
Common Council, London, praying to be heard against
such parts of Mr. Calvert's London wharfs bill as affected
the City's interests.
Mr. S.FOX presented a petition from Beverley against
granting the required claims to the Roman Catholics.
Mr. LA NIBTON observed, that the petition came from
a meeting composed from 19 persons: tour aldermen
and eight chamber-men—four of whom were against the
petition.
Sir %V. SCOTT presented a petition from the Univer-
sity of Oxford against the Catholic claims. Severally
read, and ordered to lie pinned.
Lord A. HANDLFON presented a petition from In-
vet urie, Abetileeti, complaining of the law as far as af-
fected Scotch Burgh-. Petition ordered to be printed.
The LORD ADVOCATE brought in the Scotch admi-
ralty regulation bill.—Read a first time, and ordered to
be primed, and to be read a second time this day fort-
night. . .

LUSIIINGTON moved that leave of absence be
given to dlr. Seals( tt and to Mr. Denman, to go to the
Northers) and Mi l:ii ris.ts. Agreed to.
Mr. Aideslll4ll BUIDGES prownied a petition from
Bridge Wait), praying to be beard by euuniel against the
London %hails' bill.

Mr. Altlertnan WOOD moved for • return of the debt
due front Mr. Hill, late .1 tax-gatherer ut
the amount of the hale of his property, &c. lie had
presented a petition holt' Mr. Hill, 1141 W cotitiqed iii ll-
cliester ; and be elite' eil into a tif the ilia-
gistrates who had, on account of the City of London
vi3itr4l tlik anteagst other lie had now ivaud Inn
ilt,eninelits. the bills, ere. So far rfolll hilVilig examined
the jailer, he was absent at a ; •iiii d 3 t the
Sur dinner with which the magistrates entertained them.
elves, he (Alderman Wood), produced the hill, which

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charged for cold meat, the expellee being 11. M. for al-
derman Wood, Perring, Goodbehere, Mr. Deuce, Mr.
Birch, and the town clerk.
Mr. F. BUXTON had never intended to question the
worthy alderman's statement—but he was somewhat sur-
prised that four aldermen, the town clerk, and a surveyor,
should have dined for a guinea.—(4 laugh, and hear.)
Mr. Alderman WOOD replied, that he had the bill in
his pocket. (Hear, hear.)
ROMAa CATHOLIC3.—Mr. HUSKISSON presented a
petition from the clergy, &c. of Chichester, against the
Roman Catholic claims—but he could not support the
prayer of the petition. (Hear.)
Yet' '
on read, and ordered to be printed.
MiepUTTERWORTH presented a petition front cer-
tain p,rsons in St. Dunstan's in the West, also against the
Roman Catholic claims. This petition, he said, met with
thelesctir cordial concurrence.
ARRE said, that the lion. membox was a most
zealous advocate of exploded doctrines and obsolete opi-
nions. He wished they would have the goodness to read
the petition, for it expressed sentiments alike at variance
with history and truth. The allegations were totally des.
titute of foundation. The truth was, that the Protestant
mind had undergone most important changes.
Mr. BU'rfERWORTH said, a inure temperate petition
had nut been presented. The petition, like himself; did
not wish to indulge in any un-christian feeling towards
our Catholic brethren.

ROAsTEU WHEAT.—Sir R. WILSON asked whether it
was intended to press the recent construction of the law
regarding the sale of roasted wheat, or rye breakfast
powder. He also hoped that the conviction against Mr.
Hunt would not he pressed. (Hear, bear.) He had in
some degree contributed to the offence, for he had com-
municated the Chancellor of the Excheqw:r's answer made
to him about ten months ago, that there was no intention
to prosecute for the sale of roasted wheat.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied,
that he could not give any answer now—hut the subject
was under consideration. . .

SCOTCH Bei ns.—Sir R. FERGUSON moved, that he
be excused further attendance in the Scotch Burghs com-
mittee, because the labour was carried on in such a way
as to present no hope of any thing useful being done.
He knew the people of Scotland were looking to the com-
mittee with considerable expectations; and as he knew
that they would be disappointed, he could not lend his
sanction to the inquiries.—Motion agreed to.
Lord PALNIERSTON moved, that the house resolve
itself into a committee.

Mr. BENNETT moved, that the Finance Reports be
referred to such committee.—Agreed to.
Lord PALNIERS'VON then ruse to move the army
estimates. Lengthened details were not so requisite now,
after what bad passed. When dangers threatened, large
forces were requisite ; but government said, when tran-
quillity was restored, diminution should follow. This
promise was kept; the estimates spewed the diminutiou.
There were reductions of 9,000 men-145,0001. expence;
on the first class of estimates, the reduction was 367,0901.
.411 the estimates evinced, he trusted, the most anxious
desire to reduce the public expence. 'Fite savings, it
appeared, on the whole of the estimates, would amount to
about 7e0,011q. His lordship concluded with moving the
first grant for the quantity of men.
Colonel DAVIES took All extensive review of the esti-
mates, maintaining that there ought to have been still
greater reductions, and that the state of the couutry called
for the exercise of more extensive economy.
Mr. DAWSON, without admitting the views that were
entertained by some gentlemen opposite, acknowledged
that the former establishment was not now called for.

Mr. MACDONALD did not enter into detail, but con-
tended that a more rigid application of the principle of
economy was called fur.
After a debate wiiich continued to a very late hour, dur-
ing which the members on the oppostiun side divided the
house at least a dozen times,
Lord CAS'fLEREAGH observed, that he would not
press the question further, as the estimates could not be
got through in any reasonable time. The chairman Oleo
reported progress, and obtained lease to sit again on
Wednesday.
The other orders of the day were then gone through,
and the house adjourned at a quarter to tire o'clock.