The National Register.
London, England, 1813-02-28 00:00:00

FEB. 2

Gum ail lei, ,$ • He 11,', presented a Petit'. a Ir•nn the
vissenti. Mib.!..,t 4of triree t.r the Same etrxt.—Hc
alsci ore4ented • Petition front the Um arian Society in South
pr,Visig tr allowed liberty of consc ence This Society of Dissin-
tees, he said, was tne ~nly one till. was not allowei this religious li-
betty, and he meant s...rtly to bri: g hi a Bill for that purpose.
Mi. MA. TAYLOR notice. that o fuesday next he woull
submit a motioit iii H use for the setlaration of the bankrupt busi-
ness from the Oth.e ord Chant: 11.4.
I'Ri P't IIq!:ESS OF WALES.
Mr. COCI42ANI 1 oilusToNi. -Sir, I rise to give notice, that, on
M inday nz-x., I suotaot to the House a turnout eel live to the
t.eedings 13,t th• inquiry, instituted by his Majesty's connuand, on
the subject of her Royal Hi; liness the Prine,. of Wales. Conceiviog
this, Sit, to he a matter of the deepest importance, involving no less
than the su, :ei, 1., . to the Throne of England, I
The SPLAKLR —•• It is the umtge tor any Hon. Gentlernas who gives
a notice. ;Al 1- d.scriptioatof his intended m0ti0.,."
Mr: CoCHR A N jonNsroux---" Sir, 1 WAS only going to a'kt, that
1 Wive tiiouo.t it my tio•y in tfanstnit to his I\lajest s Ministers .
‘Ol - the it •!soluti..i., inch it i, my intention to move, in justii...
both to myself and to the.i."— Adi !timed.

THURSDAY. FM 25
A number of Petitions b. ti. for and against the Catholic Claims,
were cid on the table of the 'Luse.
el Committee was ballotte.: for and sworn to try the Veristol Elec-
tion Petition
Mr. k. Trioaneon presented a Perla.- from the East India Com.
patty, pray ing tor the renewal ot their Charter ; and another Pe..ition
for a Bill to en t'sle the Company to settle accounts with the Pub
lie, and borrow more money On new securities.—Referred to a
Cori er nice.
Previous to Mr. Grattan's motion on the Catholic Question,
Mr. Eector presented a Peritit II from the English Ronan Catho-
tics, on wl 1.11 he rem irke:'. to .it the English Catholics, endured
evils of a peeidia nature, and which it was the duty ot an enlightened
L :a•ure forthwith to remove. Though they Were the peaceable
and loyal natives ot eur even soil, they were, by an ill-directed po.
hey,. exctuded from holding any civil public employment, or be-
cemnie Members of eny Corporate Body, or even taking a Degree at
either or. 0- Universities. Although many of them were exten,ive
•7.c.vt.• Pi:, and living among their tenantry, they were by 1.1
diequailtiol firm te•coming M lgisttates. They could not sit in Par-
Renee!, n,r vote a' an Elec'ion for a Member. lii England they•
could eer hold a Cotninissi iin the airily, but. were they to remove
t Irc:anit, teey might attein the rank ut. Coloi.el, and on their ye-
ti'''.... 'a..mil:me he that el),c tv, t .ey became subject to prosecu-
to. I icy ;right, indee.i, tt.e to the Bar, but not hold even a
suitor.ii...,le sit" itinii ni any it the rts L.!w. These Petitioners
mostly iie3..en ,e.I from some of the most Illustrious families that
ever ,•-lear:d in this Couotry ; yet the only offence for which they
eii lured oto •ny hart. hips, was t'leir mist-ken attachment to a reli-
whcse t. nets and et.cl• tic,il polity. we still retained no
it opsidetal le portion It vi.as the religion professed by those great
men, who, lett by a rit•gnanimiels Prelate, once asserted and restore,'
the liberties of the people, when tit .e)t..ntAi by a tyrannical end posit-
teeinee,e, ee. •efell to ht. surtendereO el the Pope. No other religioti
did England know when her sons fought the memorable and glorious
battles ot Cressey wet Agileourt, ane defeated the f e-midable Spa-
nish Armada. manned by Catholics fer the subjugation of England.
We had establis ed the Catholic Religion in Clnada, yet denied its
exer:i e to our subjects at h me ; and we employed whole Foreign
Cal lene reeimente, and even had a Foreign Catholic General in our
service, altiniugh native-b;nn Englishmen were denied the seine ho-
pour. —1 he Petition wits then read. and otdered to lie on the table.
The Reeolutio ! agreed to last Session, whereby the House wag
bound early in this Session to take into considecetion what Penal Sta-
tutes stiii continued to affect the Roman Catholics of I reland, was
then real ; and on the motion of Mr. Yorke.
.parts of the Act of
the lot of William and Mary, as well as certain parts of the Bill of
•Rights
Mr. Wit. Smut'', professing himself to he a Protestant D'ssenter,
rieig.e! himself never to stand up in that House exclusively to obtain
the removal of the laws operating against the Dissenters, without
counlieg with it a motion for the restoration of their rights to the Ro-
man Catholics, who were eqeally entitled to relief.
THE CATHOLIC QUESTION.
Mr. GRATTAN commencedby saying. that it was his intention to
Make the very section of the Declaration of Rights, which had been
rea'! noon t!e motion of Mr. Yorke, a part ct the preamble of the
order to assu.e the Protestants of the security of the Act ot
Settiement. the eetition upon which he should submit his
to the House was, he said, morally, lie would not say metaphysi-
cally, the petit.on of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. He meant
that it contained, the sentiments of the great hotly of the Remit ,
Catholics ; and the motion he should ground upon it was, that the
House should go into a Committee on the laws affecting that body,
pursuant to the resonation of last Session. He knew that these reso-
lutions did in bind the Par Lament. He had to lament that nume-
TOus is lions bid been prestatc.l againat tl>K claiwi of the Catholfes,

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