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London, England, 1813-02-23 00:00:00

CATHOLIC CLAINIS.

Lord KEisrot,: presented a Petition kr...Ai:lst
those front the Gentry,
.Clergy, and Freehol.lers.
of the County of Denbigh, observing, that the
measure was agreed to at a very numerous 'ilnd
respectable meeting, with ; the exception of only
one individual ; the Petition in read, was or
dered to lie on the tnhle. IliS Lerdship pre-
sented to the like efiat, from the Gentry, Chi; y,
Freeholders, and others of tha connty, of Zie-
rioneth;- '!'he Petiiion,, amollst otli4 points#
stated the conviction of the Pe'fitioners'i that tliC
political powers now claimed by the Roman Ca-
tholics were incompatible with, .the safety of the
Protestant establishments; and that in their minds
there was no less danger to be apprehended from
Such bands now, than at the period of the Revo- •
tion.

The Petition was ot•dered to lie on the table:-,--
as-was one presented by the Marquis of lleadfort,
from certain Protestant inhabitants of. the county
of Meath, in Ireland. •
The Marquis of LANsnowil took occasion to.
observe that he should have a Petition from a con-
siderable number of the Protestant residents of
the same county, and by xvhoin a large propor-
tion of the property was possessed, of a contrary
nature, being favourable to the petition of the.
Catholics.
• Lord Viscount BULKELEY presented a Petition
from the Freeholders, Clergy, and other inhabi=
'tants of the County of Carnarvon, praying that,
HO change may be made in those statutes which
were framed for thesecurity'of the Protestant Es••
tablishments of the country; which, with two Pe-
titions presented by the Earl of It/mt.:nit,. from the
City of New Sarum, to a similar effect, were or
dered to lie on the table.

The Noble Earl then presented a Petition of
the like nature, from the Borough of-Walling-
ford, in Berks ; which, though under the Cor-
porate Seal, he did not hold to be correctly de-
signated as from the Corporation that Bo-
rough.
'This proposition gave' rise to, a conVersation Of.
an expl,natory, but rather of a dcaoltory nature of
some length, in Nwhich the Noble Earl, Lords
Holland, Ellenborough, Sidmouth, Redesdale,
and the Lord Chancellor, partitipatei:, It seemed
chiefly to „him on the point in question, of who
were the description of perions regularly entitled
to petition as the Corporation of the Borough of
Wallingford: In the course of the above, Lord
Holland stated he had a Petition in'' his, pocket
from persons whont he, seemed to • consider ire
more properly .regardetras the Corporation of
the Borough in question, of a contrary ten-
dency.
The document, which was the subject of the
above conversation, was not, as We could col-
lect,' laid upon the table. •
The Earl of RAnsott. then presented anOther
Petition from the same,Binoogh, of a similar ren-
deney ' it was signed, among Othe,r4, he said, by
three. Clergyintut of the town, by the Ministers •
of three Dissenting denominations, by several.
Qaakers, and 'by a majority of those who were
Voters for the Borough. The Petition being
read, was ordered to lit on the table, as was one
from Worcester to the same effect, presented by
the Earl of Coventry.
Lord Hota.stao then brought .forward the Pe-
tion he hairs alluded to, in favour of the Catholic
Claims ; it purported to be from the Mayor, ,Re-
corder, and Inhabitants ot„the Borough o: Wal-
lingford, in the County of Berks, and being mut,.
was ordered
,to: lie on the table.'

Lord itoLLE presented one against the Catholic
Claims from the City and County of the City of
Exeter; as did

Lord SHEFFIELD, one from the ToWn of Lewes,
in Sussex, which, he stated,' Was signed by up-
wards of 4000. prsons ; this, after a few words
between his Lordship. and the Duke. of Norfolk,
was, as welt as the foregoing, ordered to lie on
the table.

The Earl of KtoosTrm (one of the Irish 11.e7
presentative Peers} rose to present a petiton to
their. Lordships from Sligo, as we understood the
Noble Earl, praying thit. the Catholic Clitims way
not'be acceded to. Ills Lordship tool. the occa-
sion to observe. that in a former inst;ince he had
voted for the,Rm oan Catholic Petition going into
a Committee, as he then thought (Tamil conces-
sions might be made to the Roman Catholics, on
their affording saire securities for the conservati-
on of the civil and religious establishments of the
country. Since that period, however, it appelr-
ed, it was declared, ou the nati of these Catho-
lics, that they would give, no securities ivhatever.
Ak„ resolution to that, cited was votod at once of
their Assemblies in !rel.:mt. The meeting be al-
bidetd to was held at Kilkenny, and the resolutions
spoke very decisively upon the point. The Re-
solution was referred to by his Lordship, and
seemed to express the sense and declsration of the
nieetin, that. the question of securities was set at
rest for ever, by the decision of their (the Roman
Catholic). Prelates. Decisions of this kind, he
seemed to say, materially altered the question,
and lied made a correspondent impression on.is-
mind.

The Alargnis of LANsnowN expressed his opi-
nion, that what the Noble Earl had taken occa-
slop to advance, tt•as of such K a I attire,' and pro"
ecezied On such a I»i»ciPte, as that he felt it to be
his imperious duty to enter' his solemn protest
against' the adoption of such a doctrihe, The
NoMe Earl stated 'thlt he hat! formerly Voted for
the Catholic, Petition being referred to u Commit-

tip? :t :since ex-
pr.' '.2d. to cone.-eut to certain
was filtered. Ai-ere
rule'
1) .•-) tar to consider;
. intia.,,ientlent body.—
other:than as sub,:
_the I...,e4idattire. As
ley 2;0 ohey., any,
the Legislature
ma i,. tr) in their h4,..:a1f.
Spoke in explanatlon,
ans reterre,i to t o langttae of several of . their
iilostr::tion of Nvbsrt lie hod 4dvaneed.
be iwitanced that from t?„e (:;nnity of
'Fippcnary, in Part of which the words
were--" eirnestiv fieske and cientaild
anscter to a cinestio:l from 11!,.. I\lanvils of, Laos-
down, his .I,4)r,,.ls'aip said, ! not know whe-
ther or not the netltinn he atin .•,1 to, was on the
th.otahle; iliould rath;:c i,,i lithe to the of-
iirmative. as it bad been voted viougiy to otte
of vt contrary tendency, which ile. ii,Etl , to present
to the House ti-okt. eveni”g. Th e,. i,ictitiort float,
as presented by the Noble. Earl, was then
rend. . , .
. The Puke of Nottrotx dfprec.ttecl cvhnt he con-
ceive:l tzi be tfie etforts to rose the • Protestant
pari of the ..comontnity ;n!;aimt the' consideration
of the CKtholic claitns;' to the pro-
listblo'danger of h in its fen-,
tlent to rt:use the othe;• ode to correspondent
aninw'sitics.

The Earl of iiir!-nrxoti then brought forward
the Petition he had allotted to, a .1-coni
merott and resPectabl.e. meeting in the Protestant
Noblemen, Clergy, and,l).echo;der,i, of the ronnty
,of'fippei.ary against th 'Catholic Oairus, aod
verted to some ilirctuustances stt:luling the pre-
vious meeting, at Which a Petition of a contrary
nature v,..w; produced and which,: lae observi!d,
was atteuded, comparatively, by very few Protei-
tants:.

The Petition being read, a slidrt e(?nVer*tion
thol; place between Lord Holland the NOble Earl
and Lord. ti,ede.illale, on the subject of the
Htions and lan?:itage of certain Anti-f„;:ith:ilic
tions : this,.first-mentiotied Peer parti.cularly ad-
verted to what was-alleged,- that the claims of the,
Catholics were no longer urged in the forin of Pe-
tition, but in that of demand, and noticed the ir-
regularity of referring to documenes.which were
nut actually belore the House.
The Earl of Kt!,:c;t;l.l)4 renlinded !be Noble
Lord, he 02ND' said he did not know that the ficti-
tion'adverted to by -him was on the table.
Lord .I:l,:nr%.;nSt.E, did not conceive Chat fact to
be important, when It WtIS notorious that wlytt
the Noble Earl bad adverted t was troll-fottntlel;
these Resolutions liere in all the -Dublin, and
in. other Ne'wspopersl. an:l he agreed with .w. 44.
had .fallen front a .`noble Visconnt early
eyening,. viz,. that Petitions on
.one side 'of the
question 'lnttl.been received and scrutinized in en
extrasrdinary.innunter at the opposite side of the,

• • Petition from the county, of. Monaghan ivas
presented. (as could collect) against the Ca-
tholic claims, acid ordered to Ili on:the ta:hlc..
The Earl of (..-ill.r.:viLLE preSeitt(!d a Petition,
from the Gentlemen, Clergy, &c. of the County
and Town at (..nrlow. Lordship Lilai
(
although the ;41%iyer :orate Petition
cal to theL'3tllleyk r! • .otuitri„
yet its tenonr breatli-d a spirit of tolet and.
conciliotioo -suitable to the subject, at the tame
timp. slibiniiting to their Lordship§ the Itece,Rsity
of guarding against such coneeJsions as might'
ench our. l?rote tant
.Constitution.
Ordered to lie on the ta)?le..
The Report of the litolveitt Debtors' 13.i11wa9
received, tin(' agreed to by• the liouse. The 23111
now lies over for a third reading.
On the motion of Lard [Algixt,,, the fitrther
consideration of the-case of the.. 6 otbury Peerage,
was adjourned front,to-morrow till Friday•next.
The final consideration of the Appeal causes,
which stood for judgment:this day was, on the
motion of the Loan CHANCELLOR, postpotwd
to-morrow.—Adjourned at seven o'clock. •

HotisE Or COMMONS,

4'R MAY, PE B. 22.

The SPPAKER was ordered to issue his writ for
the elec4On of a new Member for the County of
Buckingham, in the room of Lord Temple.
WEYMOUTH ELECTION.
• Mr. Alderman ATKINS brought up the Report
on the Committee sitting on the Weymouth Elec-
tion, stating that Lord Ifilnehinbrolie, in con.e-
(*lice of illness, was nimble to attend. .Mr.
!sank head, it medical man, appeared at the Bar
of the House, and said that he did not believe the`
Noble Lord could attend in less than teat or fifteen
days, lie was accordingly excused.
The Sitting Members for Great Grimsby were
declared duly elected.
Mr. MARRYATT presented ft Petition from the
tanners of Sandwich, against the Leather-tax.
Ordered to lie upon the table.
Sir WILLIAM Lutor; presented a Petition from
the inhabitants of the county of Cornwall, against
the unconditional repeal of the Laws fiftieth % the
Roman Catholics.

Ordered to lie upon the table.
Colonel Lastan presented a Petition from the
inhabitants of the county of Monaghan, against
the unconditional repeal of the same lays...
Ordered to lie upon the table. Sit
litArrnew ittimEy presented a Petition
front Neweazitle-upon-Tylle) HwainSt the retwAval
of the &Ist India Company's Crratter.
Ordered to lie tipon the taldr.
Mr. Nriox presented a Petition from the Ca-
tholics of the County of To•one, pr,lying to E►e
reheved from the di,::th;lities water which they
'apt:seta labour. _
NivoX saitl..til it :in -presenting the
tion, he took the opportunity of, t•.tatitig, that al-
though it. wits his intention to support the motion.
for. an inquiry into the state of the I s
affect the Catholie itoilv,..ln.ft he should not vote
for the total ttf. apy of thoße 11111,. thi.
Itiea,ute was aceottpanied by the InGit amPle
forthe security of the existing Esta-
blishments in Chilrelt and State.
Ordered to lie on the table.