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---(Criss of Hear, hear
.Honourable Friend hagau
'pith curious reason ha said his (Mr. Canting's) history was
•not new. This demand for new history was curious—(A
13tigh)—but if novelty was desirable in history, he recom-
mended hirn to furnish his Right Hon. Friend with something
new.—(Laughter.)—One of the Hon. Members went on to
state, that great danger had occurred. in other countries
from the machinations of Roman Catholics, and that it
was found necesemy to impose restrictions. It was also
said that Great Britain should not be left without remedy
against Popish danger. This was also declared to be the
opinion of himself (Mr. Canning), when he supported the Bill
okie f hat Session. The ground however of his opinion was this :
thought those of the Catholic Religion who enjoyed the
rights of the Constitution should not complain of supervision...—
B:1i could there be any relation betitteen the assertion of sepa-
rate rights, and the admission of all the Catholics to the Consti-
tution ? 1 here a great distinction, and securities in the
Bill before the House were not necessary. He was not bound
to answer the oucstion, why Great Britain was not to have
ooetroul over Catholics, but lie could advert to the great Con-
gress of Sovereigns at Vienna and give their proceedings in
answer to the question. That Congress adopted an Act of
Confederation by which it was agreed that religious distinc-
tions should make no difference in civil rights. A paragraph
of two lines and a dash of the pen made by the Congress of
Vienna told a population of 50.000,000 persons that all reli-
gious distinctions in civi: rights were at an end. The
CrJwn of England sanctioned die arrangement to which Hano-
ver also wes a party. In Hanover a Catholic Minister
might act, in England a Catholic could not be a Minister, but
time which produced so many changes would no doubt work a
l'ha"ge. In the great Empire of Austria not many years ago,
her ire the Act of Confederation passed, a menial servant in
the stables of the Emperor was dismissed for being a Protes-
tant ; and at the present day a Catholic was Minister at Ilano-
-( Hear, hear!)—Would England then be the only country
where religion is a bar to civil rights ? The land where the slave
touching the soil is free. Should Englishmen, who enjoyed
rights which meaa them great' among all the nations of the
earth; deny the participation of those rights on •no other
grounds than difference_ in modes of faith ? With the ex-
ample of other nations before their eyes, sanctioned by their
Sovereign in behalf of another country, could they possi-
bly reject the measure then before the House? The grounds
on which he took the liberty to recommend this bill were these :
It was found from the Reformation to the reign of Charles 11.
that the struggle was between two contending religions for
Power in the State. Up to the Revolution the anger was con-
fined to the Succession, which was threatened by a Popish
faction which opposed the established religion of the coun-
trr- He presumed the dneger was now at an end, and
therefore there remained only the question whether the pre-
tudices of former years were to be revived. Mr. Can-
fling then adverted to the manuscript read by the Honourable
Can-
aLearned Member, and complained that the word " exclu-
sion" from military office had been omitted. He denied that the
Paper was more than a promise made by King William, by
virtue of which he was called to the Throne. He denied that
there was any thing to chew a specific law, for the exclusion of
Catholics from office was to be perpetuated. His Right Hon.
Friend had availed himself of the Bill of Rights, which cer-
tainly would not answer his purpose further than to show what
the Constitution was. During a long time Catholics and Protes-
ants were fighting to see which should make the State his own.
That feeling was now at an end. They said, we have wanted the
rights of the State, but we are now willing to live quietly under
Your reign. That was the state of the question, and those who
°PPoged it regarded the claims of the Catholic Peers as a
!natter of conflict. Near a century they had been loyal, go-
''ernesi by the voice of reason. lf the boon they asked were
g'rsnteleit would doubtless produce an effusion of gratitude as
well as loyalty. It was but justice to say, those Noble Persons
ad long lived under proscription, yet there was not one bo-
r,,oni that felt the least disaffection, but human nature would
egenerate. Their feelings might be again brought into
if their civil rights were not conceded. They had a
atarl upon the justice and humanity of the country. To
Peetuate their exclusion, if unnecessary, was inhuman.—
( Warm cheering.)
The question was then loudly called for, and strangers with-
'rev.% As the Reporters left the gallery, Mr. WILBERFORCE
a)peared on his legs.—The numbers, when the division took
P'sez, ivere—
For the Second Reading - 235
For the Amendment - - 223
Majority for the Second Reading -
—l2
The Bill was then read the second time, and the other Or-
ders-of the Day having been disposed of, the House Adjourned
at ONE O'CLOCK.

the Isle of Chio, where the Turk were reduced
to the possession of a single fort.
It is stated that the Austrian Internuncio re-
ceived dispatches brought by. a courier who ar-
rived the 6th April, and that he immediately
transmitted an important Note to the Reis Ef-
fendi by his Dragoman. But nothing had maid-
fasted any change of opinion on the part of the
Porte in consequence of that Note. No person
believes, either at Constantinople or here, that
the Porte cat. be induced to accede to the Russian
Ultimatum. The answer given by the Reis Ef-
fendi on the 25th March, namely, " That the
i Porte has nothing to add to, or to take away
from, its answer of the 28th February," proves
sufficiently its system. Very little is known in
Europe of the Turks or their character; if they
were known, there would not be a talking with-
out ceasing (like the English Courier) of hopes
that the Divan will at length yield. Assuredly
it will not yield. But it is possible that the
Christian powers, seeing the obstinacy of the
Porte, will give way on their side, and renounce
every species of demand against the Porte.
AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, MAY. 3.—( Extract from
a Private Letter.)—" According to the infor-
mation which our Warsaw correspondent has
procured, respecting the movements of the Paellas
who command' the Ottoman forces, as well on the
banks of the Pruth as on the east bank of the
Danube, we may presume that the Divan has
taken advantage of the delay with which it has
impeded the course of the negociations carried
on at Constantinople by the Austrian and Eng-
lish Ministers. All the warlike preparations or-
dered by the Ottoman Government are now com-
pleted. An army of nearlylso,ooomen is assembled
along the Danube, occupying a position which,
if it were under the command of a skilful Ge-
neral, would even enable them to dispute the
passage of the river with very considerable ad-
vantage. This army is abundantly furnished
with warlike stores and provisions, and is accom-
panied by a large park of artillery, under the di-
rection, in a great measure, of European Officers,
consisting chiefly of English. The Porte has,
moreover, established a second line of defence,
which embraces all that chain of mountains
known by the name of Mount litmus, which
separates Belgaria from Romelia. Thus a Russian
army wishing to attack Constantinople by land
must first break this line, which, from the nature
of the ground, would present difficulties almos
insurmountable if defended by troops better dis
ciplined than the hordes of Asia."
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