The National Register.
London, England, 1817-05-12 00:00:00

FINANCE.

The Cita SCELLOR of the EICH/QUER, in answer ton goes-
tiou from .%r 1. P. Grant, moved for an account of the pro.
dime of the reverine for the respective (planers of the year
eudiog hut sth of Cdr. 1515.
CA I HOL IC QUESTION.
Giusyraa, pc. SillltS t 44 Sill • 1111111( his motion to the
House MI rile subject of tl v Cath Cilia's, mov. d, " That
the Petilio nomad Calle lies of Ire,and, presented on
the itatli of April, Isl 6, be lead.' —Ordered.
his . W. e st.IOTT moven, •• •I hat the of the Roman
Cali, lies of L'autiand, pi eseitied on the 26th of May, 1816,
be read ;" whirls was also done.
Mr. GRATTAN then rose. and said--" Having been up-
plied to In use Roman Catholics of Ireland to hi iug their case
untkr the conside•ation °filly House, l shall now proceed to
daelraige tit duty I have undertaken. But, Sir, it is out
my int••ntiva at present to go tow this important question. 1
shall cairns, the indulgence of the House to hear ni.. se sti-
inanta by way of r ply. The Resolution I i. tend to
move is fora Col ttttt iti• e w take the laws eting the Ito.
num Cathol,cs into consideration. It is the same motion
wh.en OAS e allied in Ibl I have read the Report which
to) Leanne -1 atoll most useful Friend (sir J. C. Hip,..s., y„
his e•ented to the Hume, whichltas(La:lysheWa tun,
Molt, in a.t Lie great countries of Eutope, th,ie are a civi.
anti .o.w. a: y toleration., itirolporatien, and qualification, for
ail rent:ions sects—that there i . w nearly every state of
F0v0p,... a 4 ertaili roiniection Uri *seen the Clergy and the
triov.,lllllll4lll, so as to pi eciude the danger of foreign Milts-
rime uii I that England is almost 'he ouly country where
such ill arlallehlt ml has not yet DCVO made. I beg leave to
11.4, that the present qa .sumo is not aimasit the means by
melt brownies nay •e eflected. I will Sot debate ilia
vim. The question is, wile her any SeCI cities what .s. r
mil be reccivid? et tell you why. There is a can
smaiecati on be %CPU the Pepe and the Calhoun. Clergy—
* li eh most coda i her in invorporat ion is. h t Ir See of Ito or,
GI ea,aro ,an wi.b the G••v eminent nt Eugl“nd—and. if the
latter be. rein-ed, it wall d.41,17.Wr4.41S to the safety of Eng
land. You w.II have the Callum'. Clergy inet.rp..raied ui.h
the See of Rome—and the CAM. ir laity disrotrotalvd trout
the people of Engiand. , hra.ll I shoal go into a
Committee to move lii • repeal of the taus that diaquarni, nu.
Catholics from civil, militai v, and naval power, suoject to
Shith at ratigement as may be judged necessary for the satel
of .h.‘ Protestant religion. the \et put Settlement, and t (-
Government of • rest Itritain--that s to fi.”, subject w sue.
provisi tttt s as you wilt feet necessary for the security of you.
Church and State.—That, if you choose to adopt the Reim
bloods, you may slew to the world, that you nave ceased to
be the only great manna in Europ that withheld those rights
—lint that you are ready to give franchises —that yro
Willing to gram a participation in the benefits oh you. Cons..
rtition----to your Catholic jects, this will nequi
you with ri gar-1 to your having a jots, id. a of the artimitii•
of lioerty Mist the securities yon receive, will efiectualiy
protect your civil and it ligious priviaages. 1 shall nu*
laove—
.. That this House do resolve itself into a Committee of the whole
House, to takc into its most serious consideration the state of the
Laws afflcting his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects in Great Bri-
tain and Ireland—with a view to such a final and conciliatory adjust-
ment of t..ern, as will be conducive to the p...ace, strength, and secu-
rity of tae Unitwi Kinghom. the stability of the Pnaestant Establish-
man, and the general satisfaction and concord of all classes of his
Mkesty'sSubjects."
• . I 'I ming seconded by Mr. W. Fa.fiterr,
11, L. Fosr..it said, tpiestein now appra, ea to be nib
at Ise t t • . e Alan oi the House. under circumstances
id.tferent I any that k marked its introduction at former
peri ,ds— hot, in 6,1.1, no (litho enee existed. In the last Ses-
sion, two Petit ttttt s were pr.sented from cut bodies et
Irish Romeo Catholics. The first was from u very few persons
—not more than one hundred--c .vied with the lay arist•••
eracy. and prole4sing to seek for their emancipation. on any
tei los the House .night dorm proper, consistent with their
religious tenets. 'fhe other Petition, and the tar more nume-
rously signed one, including all the Catholics, collected at
Aggreg ate and otter eetings, for unqualified emancipation.
Thet Petition branded the other as a mischievous document,
and hurled an anathema against those who supported it, as
vitroe than orangeinen. The House, however, now heard
not!iing from the first and more moderate party—they were
entirely mien t on this occasion. It WWI notorious that the Veto
which occasioned all this ferment last year. was not o matter
,t• dINCIVISiOII ill that House, because it was a basis on which
tse Catholics would not treat with the Legislature. Now. he
asked, whether Oen bonen did not know, that the utmost
extent to which the persons %lit) had signed that Petition were
willing to gum, was confined to domestic noinination-- that the
Yefo they Would not giant Had they not itilorolcd the Right
800. Gent. himself, distinctly. that they nautili rather con-
tinue in their preset,: state, thou owe their emancipation to is
ec neession of the Veto? lie should now endeavour to sliew
IC the House the absolote deinsion which a professor of don't s.
hoia Il iun ,1r .4 t calculated to produce amongst Pi otestants.
Ve iota asel the word, he lucent nothing disrespcettul to We

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