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BRISTOL, 31st Dec., 1824.
I'a 'MEETING of the VESTRY of the
Parish of ST. THOMAS, specially summoned for tak-
ing into consideration the unconstitutional Proceedings of the
Itonian Catholics in Ireland, and the propriety of addressing
Parliament thereon.
Mr. HENRY WOOD, Churchwarden, in the Chair.
The following Petition to the House of Commons was unani-
mously edopted by the Meeting, and ordered to he submitted
to the Parishioners for the Signature of all
who approve
thereof:—
To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.
and;
ine,
h the undersigned, the Minister, Churchwardens, Vestry,
abitants of the Parish of St.
osThomas, in the City of Bristol, have observed with the utmost solicitude and alarm,
the unconstitutional proceedings which have, of late,
.been so
openly and systimatically pursued in Ireland, for the purpose
°I-subverting one of the main pillars of the Constitution—the
Protestant Ascendancy—and re-establishing in its place the
Bupremacy of the Church of Rome.
4 The happy delivery of these kingdoms from the galling and
,Zhasing yoke of Papal usurpation we have ever regarded as
ui4le prime source of
our liberties and national prosperity ; it
mpossible, therefore, that we should look with indifference
Pon the attempts which are making to rob us of this inesti-
su /noble blessing and to .restore again the reign of ignorance and
Perstition.
as Friends to religious toleration in its utmost latitude, so long
the views of our Roman Catholic fellow.subjects appear to
be confined within that limit they had our most cordial con-
!orrence, but when political power became their avowed ob-
J_esir t, when, not content with every indulgence in the exercise of
rerntreligious worship, they sought admission into the highest
iees of the State, we felt it our duty, in common with the
st of his ;Majesty's Protestant subjects, to raise our voice
against their demands, convinced that the concession of politi-
cal rank and influence to the members of the church funda-
raettallY opposed to the Reformed Protestant Religion, and
to the State,
the government of a foreign power, would be dangerous
dear State, and incompatible with the secure enjoyment of our
est and most scared rights.
Defeated in this attempt by the good sense and awakened
feelings of the country, the tormenters of disaffection in the Sister
Knffdom have had recourse to measures of a more daring and
equivocal character. An organized confederacy, under
-.oroe;?arrie of The Catholic Rent Association, has been formed,
tg
evident purpose of enforcing their demands, and dit-
iv no to
the Government of the country. Emancipation
.is
but peiP.nger held forth as the ostensible object of their pursuit,
in
its
eetica.l reform, another name for revolution is substituted
That an Association so constituted and composed, acting in
ayleow,ed hostility to one of the fundamental Establishments of
enConstitution, assuming to itself the functions of Govern-
t, holding regular Meetings for debate, collecting taxes
tender the title of Contributions,
and exercising, through the
Priesthood, an 'unlimited controul over the minds of a mis-
polic- PofPulace, can be suffered to exist, consistently with the
be entertained.d. 5 is a proposition,
'oawe conceive too monsusto.
nless
appears That it must lead to the most deplorable
re
promptly suppressed, it to us impossible
the notice ;
of and we rejoice to observe that it has already attracted
his Majesty's Government.
4.,_e Jrider these conscientious impressions, we presume to draw
attention of your Honourable House to a subject of such
importance to the best interests of the empire, in the anxious
that it may be taken into early considaration. For the
and
?),e ervation of the
f public tranquillityd for the maintenance of
protection of our Protestant fellow subjects in Ireland, andthe in
:tieroY to the deluded Roman Catholics themselves, we most
,arti 1
tak.sr !..), implore that prompt and effectual measures may be
tO suppress their unconstitutional roceeings, and "ag them back to a sense of their Duty asp Britisdh subjects. to

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