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EXTRACTS.

On the 14th or May 1805, on Mr. Fox's
Motion for a Committse, &c. Sir J. Mimesley
stated. iu Parliament, ill it his Majesty had rat►fied
the Catholic Common 000 of Ciosica, as he had
before ratified that of C tut►da, and h.ul also given
under his Koval S wafture, in Marian
Catholic ( leruyinen, to act us Chaplains of Catholic
regimentr, raised in Great Britain and Ireland.—
la a few days aliernarils Sir J. 11. published a trot t
of •• Adilitioual Observidnois," in the forni of
continuation of IN. apeast►, its which he made use of
the fullownig expressions:..." God forbid that any
Member of Parliament, en strewing to the prayer
of the Petition, wader such rood 'cations as may
be deemed advisable, should be accused of u
wish to propose to his Majesty a depa►sure from
the solemn obligat►on by which he has bound him-
self • to maintain the Protestant 1k /heated lieliKion,
established by law, anal to govern the people ac-
cording to the Statutes in Parliament agreed on,
mid the laws and constitutions of the realue."—
(Corouatton Oath )
66 Were we to go into a Committee, I should
think the occasion favourable for adducing massy
heeds of repaid' which 1 conceive to be mini-
Solely conoecled wish the concession of the objects
if the Petition—so necessary, is ►ay own opinion,
last I shish nut think myself justified is voting in
froas► of Mal concession, if unaccompanied with
provisions of a similar tendency ; and under the
influence or the mine opinions they were submitted,
by myself, to his Majesty's Miiiisiers, while the
great measure of like links was prod-111K."
On the tstli of May, InoB, on Mr. Grattan's
motion for a C tier, Sir .1. FL stated the
regulations and restrictions, which, to his opinion,
wear uuls.peu•alde, end •r which 'night trod (he
added) to quiet the appielmosioas of she moot
scrupulous, wl►enevrr the See of flame should be
considered as acting under u hustik tsflt cseer Old

beconic an- object of jast!flubte enspitifort :" con-
cluding, that " he voted for going into a Com-
mittee, in which the important subject might be
more adequately considered."
Qie the iAtli of XIV, 1810, on U similar motion
of Ali. Grattan, Sir J. I-1. 'proceeded to state the
grumps& of his insuperable objectiou to :thy further
concision:, unless they were accost' d with all
those regulations and restrictions he had
before urged, concluding a speech of touch detail,
with these words : —" To the Catholic anti Protestant
Bigot, t feel equally indisposed—l would recour-
mend to in my Catholics lu des.st Gooi their flippant
mod ill-directed attacks, and not outstrip their ad-
! versaries in the race of calumny; they have to corn.
hat the honest preindiees of is great peopk, the early
imp 'tons of path. and the farce of inconsiderate
zeal, as well as the timidity and deject in illiwnra-
lion of a great portion iy.' their fellow-sr:Neer:. It
was a melancholy truth, that the best-informed on
other subjects, philosophers and statesmen, were
often moat ignorant of this, w loch totally affected
the interests, she feelings, and the honour, of !pil-
lions of the people. and the security of the empire
Our Constitution ( says the great 'sir.
Burke) is not made fur great—general—proscrip-
tive exela.ialis; sooner or later it will destroy them.
or they will destroy the Constitution.' in the
choice of measures (Sir J. If. observed), he only
wished to see those adopted that could ensure use
great ends of conciliation, by the least exception-
. able means—to secure the rights of conscience for
erery description of our. fellow-saljects, and GU A It D.
RELIGIOUSLY. TRH BULWARKS OF OUR CONSTITU.
110$, FOR TIIE PROSPERITY OF ALL." tie there-
fore voted fur gOO% into a Committee, for taking
into consideration the objects of the Petition.
On the loth of June 1811, on a third similar
motion of Mr. Grattan, Sir J. 11. repeated the same
arguments, and urged the same restrictions. He
urged also the practice of moderation by the Callus.
lice—and 'minted out the inconsistency of some of
their Prelates. Ur suggested, also, that " a Select
Committee should lie formed for the consideration of
the sobject, consisting or the King's Law Officers,
Civilians, and COMMOII Lawyers of eininesice, as
welt as other Members, most competent to the
exunsinati of such a subject ; and that in the
Howse of Lords, the Prelates of the Establislanent
ought to take a material part its such an investiga-
tion. The production of docaments, and the ex-
aminations, in such a Committee, might he follow-
by resolutions of fact, directing the attention of
the piddle 114 the material points, and constituting
the most satisfiletury authority on 'Alai u Boa
might hereafter be framed co tttttt ensurate with the
rest etigency and justice of the case. The adop-
tion, qiialification, or even the reirettou of the claims
of the Priitionets would thus &live. sanction tu.t to
be found iu the loose discussimis of successive parlia-
mentary debates. ft should seem (said Sir J. H.)
that this expelient was too rational to he question-
ed by espy, but those who were determined to resist
inquiry in any shape whaterer. No Member of the
florist was War zerdansly devoted to the Constitu-
' tans, both in Church and State, than himself. Ile
wished, nevertheless. to give a free currency to the
investigation—and to see a great fabric of 'optional
strength raised on the extinction of antiquated pre-
judice. . Union, he was persuaded. pas within our
reach, though uniformity be unattainable."
On the 24th of April, 1312, on a fourth similar
motion of Mr. Grattan. Sir J. 11. pressed spin
the adoption and report of a Cominittee, " for the
satisfaction (as be observed) of the public at large,
me a question which involved a striking and material
departure from a *viten' which had been the re-
ceived policy of ages. The mete act of legisla-
tints, however great the Parliamet.tary M.jorrtira
with which it might he carried, would still lie com-
paratively unsubstantial till hulled by she according
public voice, enfranchised from its prejudices
human d is not so readily liberalized, as civil
franchises are extended by legislatiort".o
On the 22t1 of JUOP, 1813. oil the motion of the
Right lion. George Cowling. late one of his Ma-
jesty's Principal Secretaries of State, Sir J. H.
spur expressed himself as strongly in favour of
" regulations which should be interposed as bar-
riers against the encroachments of the See if lionie :
and there were not winding instances, lie observed,
of the existence of such encroachioent.. A pro-
' dent Legislature would not &swine with the enact-
ment of such provisions as might eventually meet
the evil whenever it might present itself—however
small the probability might be of its recurrence.
lie hail hero (*oilmen, he said, in his deciaratit.ns
from the first moment when he look part is: the dis-
cussion of the question, and he would never assent
to the measure, unaccompanied by those securities,
which had been sanctioned ty the wisdom and ex-
perience of ages."
To these extracts the opinions of some eminent
Prelates of the Establishment may not be unoppor•
tunely subjoined.

The late Bishop (Watson) of laindaff (Regina Pmfi-ssor of
Divinity ill ihe University of Cambridge). in an advertise-
event prefix. d to a Charge delivried to his Clergy iu DM,
theme:presses himself —" A numerous and respectable part
of the Clergy of my Diocese requested me to publish the
Charge now submitted to the world. I excused myself from
complying with their eeriest, because I considered the
Catholic Question to have been then settler!, at least, for a
lime; ■nd I was unwilling to revive the discussion of a sub.
jive, on which I had the misfortune to differ iu opinion from
▪ majority in each House of Parliament. I have Mill that
misfortune; but, looking upon the situation of the empire
to be abundantly more hazardous now than it was three
)ears ago, I have thought it a dusty to declare publicly my
approbation of a-measure, calculated. I snicerely believe,
above all I/I hsr inea,nres. to :import the independence cif the
eountrp—to ware the stability of the Throne—lo promote
peace among fellow **Neel:, and charity among fellow
eldristions—wd to wo probable degree dangerous to the
Constitulinn, either is Church or State."

The late Bishop (lA.) ut Elphin, in one of Ilia publics-
tinua. oloserves, " fly far the greatest part of the population

• to a note annexed to the substance of Sir J. H.'s speech
nn the motion of Mr. Granata, on the 441 h of Apil, Aloe
facts stoud were earned to, with the following ohserre-
tinn If such be the opinions of eminent Ecclesiastics
of the See of Rome, jealous of the independence ft their
Church, shall the Members of the F.atablislemeitt wholly
shot their eyes against the possibility of encroachment ?
And shall they, who seek the protection of their Coiholic
fellow-sobjects, et:loony with their own, be ealoinniated,
hersu.e they are nut disposed to surrender their remota to
the ruler of clamour? If the represeutntire body of the
...lion—the guardisiss of its Interests and security--shonld
be so lime alive In their duties, as to torn aside from whole-
some in ysrlding to those clamours.-my little
peruntwene good co•hi be augured fr,rr coacesejoios meted
by Mich illyrounded apprehensions."

of nfv Diotemeareßnatan Cathofies. II knew I dnnct make
them good Protestant.; I tber.fore wish to clothe Z.,04
Catholics of tbrot-i-and with thi. int' 'llion I put into their
bands the works of Gopher, in ',snits. Divine "
The same Prelate, up a debate 1111 the itili to 093,
dtdared„ that, in his opittimi, “apecu Wire Jtlr.l,•.ets sill
some poiuts uf foul h wire of no ai toiliit Ilk Roman Cati.o.
lir brethren and himself had lint one
uC Choistiana?-7and that witbuoi jostler to thr
there Cllll6llO. on seridrilr for tlw
."
_ .

The various &derma:Ms in Pa, Mimeo 'sooty sin shi- •sso-
ject io concurrence with these opoliona, by the present
Bishop (Batlmerd) of Norwich, Were pi...retied by a (hinge
to his Clergy is, 1808, whim sp. irking of tht Kaman Can/0:M
subjects of his Nl.jesti, be says—•• That it woreld he usifair
t. involve in the guilt of his mi-guiMd Zealots of form r
days, a rod' of mini of a far dilt,,tnit dereriptieri,lo wham
it is our duty, and should be °us mclusatiou, to ►kyr y
mark of benevolence, birth at brethren and as deserving fal-
low subjects."
And in a speech of the sic Bishop (Hoist y) of St.
Asapb, in 1805, his Lordship says—" I do noi hold ittnt slate
is any thing iu the Roman Catholic religion at mintier., wall
the principles of loNatty. Idu not hi lirve Ili it .ins Roman
Catholic of be present slay thinkohimaelf Si lib, ri y nos so k,, p
faith with Heretics—nut bound by his u.tli in a l'r.ri, stint
Gireermnent ; or that the Pope can mei., him from M. °liti-
gation of his oath of allegiance to his Sovereign. I have a
perfect knowledge of the questions proposed, tied she an-
swers returned by the foreign Universities, iu which thus.
abominable principles (Me dispensing and drposisof power)
were most complt tely and unanimously ur pcob.:to d by those
learned bodies, and I am persuaded the R.. 11.1.1
are sincere in their disavowal and ssijorntiolt of those per.
niciusts maxims; and I hold that the Roman Catholics of
ibis country are dutiful aad loyal subjects of bat Nlajesty."
Ssieli are the extinct+ and referencra winch wece
circulated on the occasion alluded to, in the pre.
ceding address. In each subsequent Session, Si,
J. Ilippisley maintained the same grou..ti, d
reurged the appointment of a Select Committee of
Inquiry. That meastaie Way id itilu;ll accede et to,
and on the 24th of June, 1816, the Report of die
Committee was deliser.d to she "louse. It has
since been printed by order of both Houses of
Parliament.

The chief documents annexed to die Report,
together with the supplementary papers, commu-
nicated by command of the Prince Regent, 0, the
c2ii•th of March, 1817, stand upoo the authority of
the Gurernmems of the most considerable Stotts
of Europe, of the Roman Catholic, the G eult,
the Lutheran, and the Reformed Churches—mitt
may lie considered valuable, especially irons
" throwing Light" to use the words of the Report,
" upon subjects of long mil continual controvetsy
regarding those points, in which a regulated inter-
course with a fureign Ppllltual jut isilietion has
been held to be necessary or allowahli:, consistent's-
With the rights of conscience, the Mit-gully of civil
obligations, and the security of the State."

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