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London, England, 1813-03-02 00:00:00

• was tried of what Could. be done 'by eNcla...nort lt. t themseivei entered into 'it, )11 )t' I,Tp tot-esti-.
from political in-ivileges. eh thin time, gallon of the question than they had everbefore'l
the great body of Abe State was (mylase-El, and done. . This teas ekentplified.- by the. County.:!
the Turks were called in by the Lutherans and (Que,e„Ws•county)
,Whirl he had the' Imotnitir
tit
Calvinists to teke part with them Oeninst the do- trepreseFtte and in which, in -common with imt)iers,•
toinitot 'Till IVA they were never min- the 'Protestants, after dingeot inguiry',„had,
quit,. but at that period all were invited by on ;of thinking the Sobj'ect a mere hobby- horse for poi
tension oftieil 11004 and political' liberty to-all ; tir it purpo7es-f111"1 it watch-word for sedition,the
The consequence 'watie thmit, Hungary House not to refuse the clainlS of the -Catholics;
• nione;.,:...,*(tuil-irg flitAysboian ayres (ed the-pro- tliny had only said take Care, that in what yon
gresa.eSe'llimonapai4, atawltert•lmeAnni ivached it, do -pion, the Constitution:'
in thnrch an;l State
tri.C-;:l4li*a.::thez Wittitt•• of Unngdry ; Was, " here not injured. lle was -ready to acitootyledge tlimn
sbalk.t4,*ops,•-,loif-Strtid.;' 'Every argtimettt used j some of -the Petitions that mill been presented
Catholics-,
,ivotila use-of Arong 13ngnIge, tad tlnir something..
14;44 etil.lelteonger
,to. the Linherfnis and .of intemperance 1.,1 on. ,several occasions been
111.: f.
.yet Alley bed been admitted to sbe,No. Bin this tv;IS nut to bevisited by
.and, political privileges. They Ind two upon the Moderate and innocent ;. nay, such
beenet.'.emmitted, .401 d by Wilac • Nr.lt: 111 thr. arbi- lain :lathe was to be- excuSed as eery natural to
trmtry will of a Monarch, but by a twijori;), its the. men pushed•io extremity, anti thinking themselves
I,liet or fit least two to One. The p,oad sense of .debarred froth their rights. Blemable as this
the, litingarien laity had overpowered all oppose-' Jitight he, waS it enough to induce the house not
thine as he:hoped,-the: good sense of the Ili•itisit • to listen to their Ptitions, :and refitse to le2rislatc
Varliatnent ieould. This extension or .political for theta, so as iOset the inatter. for ever at rest ?„
priVilt!getop, be wished it to be oleerved, TheTe;
•'repeated, were,einong the results
been grim-04 be the Roman CatholiesetiMse who the decisions come to by the Irish Geverminient,
bad, been represented t be so intederent to all and expressed his firra :conviction, that the tni-e.
other,religheite He thioi Commented on the ex- Jority of the .Protestants of Irehuni were in favotir
tr one vrobhiility of theysupposition,, thet the Ca. of the. 1,-I,onse going into a Cortitaittee On. this.
t if admitted into the pale of the constitu- occasion, 'with a view to grant all 'the,Catholies
tion, wouyl-nse their. power to destroy it,- It Was 1 aSkideinily trtking care to devise suchnieciirities
fig .:nun every principle. of reason to suppose, that j its Were:required to Setisty the Protestaots of Ire-
those who, melee -restrictions, had been proses! ;land', and the PrOteSt.ants and Clcrgyof
loyal, should cease to he so ivhen those restric... then • adverted to the •Resolutions of . tIIC last
tions were taken oil`. The palter prodoced an a sessimt of the last Parlimemint, which, he sahl,
former evening, as haying' beet) issei-,d by t 1,(: 'had given bopes•to the. Catholics, that wrield.
Inc
Pope, was at iciest of doubtful atithentieity' a.;; flo igriettilisly Nlisappoitited if the House now refused
„quiry, Whom he should hare to
,go into a -Connitittee• to consider of their
would have been acquainted with it, htti.it...heen clabuS. After tWelve years struggling, to :gain.
genuine, .declared 'they knew nothing of it: I the good ,Opinion: of a Caldnet united against
lie by no means Agreed those who bad, twodueed them, they at length found a Cabinet divided upon
it with the fabrication 'Of. it. . iThis, however, the subject, and a general disposition iii Parlia-
seemetisto be-the tent of tabrication. A third part. ment to listen to them. 'lnc first time this
of time statemen4 int the Penal Laws had been fa- .question" wtt brought forward last year, • his.
bricated ; aud not only circulated all throligh the 'Noble Friend (Lord Castlereagh) dechired, that
country', but in some places men had been threaten- the Cabinet were then, unanimous. in :their,
ed with a prosecution for not believing it to be opinion, that in the then existing circuit),
gentdne. This hail actually happened at stances the claims of the Catholics einild
ter, though now the work in .question seemed to. not be complied with. liit what was the ease
be aultnitted on 'all hands to be .an infamous for- 'when- his 13,ight Hon. Friend (it% Canning)= mtftem.
goy. .It •was even said to be so clumsy a trig:, -wards brtaight forward his motion on the stiltjectl
Unit it ought not to have deceived oily one, 'll,e Cirettnistanees had then changed, rattly owhmg to
irriter in the Quarterly Review, who had review- tell unfortunate event -which he most sincerely de,-
ed it as genuine; :would, 'he should' suppose, feel,. ptored, and which had deprived the Conetry of the
Mins& very much. aspersed by dais statement, as 'serviCes•of a Minister,whose memory would ever
Ftt could not be ready to•admit that he had been'
,be dear to hilt), and to every honest man ill the
' imptised ott' by, so 'very chimsy a fabrication.— Country 5 and partly owing to other cairn's, Which
After some further• observations. growing out of it:WaS Unneeefia!l. to recapitulate', It
this'subject, 10,.*' shortly described the conrse and tcratiOn took plat:el-loth in the opinion of the
effects of this fabrication,' and in conclusion dm- Cabinet and of the Flonse 'upon the question. !The,
jtire.:l the 'House to throw down all the exclusions, resolution of his' Right [Ion; Frieed w;is agreed
at preseni complained of by the Catholics, who to, and it Was dl tereneed that. this snbjcct tv:e: to-
noW C;,1110!' before them to claim the full benefit of • be beought on tins Sei-,sion, hot not as a C'elminef
the I.::nastitution, to claim community•of interest, 'Measure, lie .cousidered it to be it c.ubjeet of time.
iced community of danger, ,Utmost regret, that after this Resoletioo, and.the
sir. Vwt. Port: said, he did not think it would he -period of slimmer allotved for maturing their ideas
becoming in hint if le did not oxplain distioetly import the tenter, Ministers were nOt prepared to
thel.4.,otive% .Ant which' lie .should that night give •j eome.forward with 'env !;lain for thc guidance, of
'lit. vote. 'The 1101,W Wai placed in an extraor- the Legislature. This he esteemed to,he the most
dimelry predieament. Theyrwere in tee third night imfortunate cirennistooceconnecteal with the ques•.
of a debate opal!
.a question .wideli was debated tion. It .would be, very much to be limiented„ if
three, times gist r:;iar, when'the House finally In • the House was' compelled to come to a decision
solved, that-atfmn eerly period this year they wotild without its beiug.a'Cabinet ineasure'... They had
take the Cudnidie ClitonS•into considerationewith .'the Catholics unanimous in the' desire to .•eaery
tf.titetv to a final and conciliatory adjustrnent, But ~their point. They had the Protestants of Ireland
for the dissolution of, the last Parliament
,(which rconiringlbein to take these clidins into their con-.
he.believ'ed mu. ry.fent Members of it expected at sideration and it -Was most unlucky that they bad
that time.) he apprehended they..would not now not at the satin rime au AchninistiatiOn tletermin-
havo,had to distuss the,question' before them, but eel on tile fittest course to be pursued. Ile. de-
to go on at oneeinto the Committee.. He did not • nied that theProte,:itant ft elide;, ns had been
iis-
slay. the•-•pres,:rrt
.Parliam
entices in any respect ,sorted,' wits hostile to the discussion of the Calm-
hound by the acts. of the laSt, but. atthe seine l lie clainlS.• progress of Opinion among the
time, every man must:feellhat resolittion like ' Protestants in Queens, County and King's cone.'
which.lead,rbeeo conie.to by, the last. Parties-•ty, evinced the cnntrlav to be the case---for ai foss
tat itt, Might to have some weight, from the effect. years ago, they were decitiedly inimical to E2atho.:
it Must neeessarily have produced through- liciSin, but Were.ni.me, :Ls appillr,A Irons their Pe-
Oat the Empire, '.hat Mote especially in Ireland. titions; friendly to the ,e,:::shleration of this .4101--
At all events, it was their duty to consider jectewith` a vieW tv coat ilitition With respect
wintt :the question • was, and myhat Were the to the .I?!:titions on the 'other sick,
11600
of.the
.people: of je) smtd „vt,h• impute to the Irish (invernittent tiny inierferebee
sithation in which the cp:itittti•On at present to prodaee tic Was seee., the head of that
stood, arose, in a great. degree, out of the com- GoeFrnment would mint lend himself to eOttrite
InitaiCatiOnS which had 't Ikea plag:e betty eel the naace any thing ni the kind. The'Duke
Irish. Government And the CatholicCOnimittee, niond-ivould (lot t}ike any steps in,this way, atd
Inthese be.(illi..W.Pole..)• bad acted a distinguislo as for his Priewl. the 'Chancellor of
part, and. hail. had. to complain, common, with tin. likchequer ( Mr. Viti.gerihi), he lead expreSsed
thi,other Members.of 'his . ilajesty'S Governneot, his decided appre heti°
11.1 i of the measares'
of the misreprczentations,which 104 gone ahrolut it.. iiiiSt 'which they were presented. But the
respecting the incasures,purtmeditgainst• What he Itight ifonottnible Geutlematt who iv,td succeeild
mvotild St . call the Catholic Convention. 11. she to the otto of his othees,,his other hot he
Ine;oures thew resorted. to Were tulopted to keep call him, entertained very chat rent views of the
n great number' of persons from trailigressing, its 1 subject, The Climicellor 'of the 'fish
the iriSit Ooyeronient understood the kw from j quer, with had every- Miteaes 'mf hecofflin,
the La \..-• Authorities itilreland, and in that in- 'go anted with' the real state told true trite
.st•inee, they had only cetera against the Catholics rests of Ireland, se'mproved of this intamsmne;
as they would have felt it their duty to ;let against while the Right lion. the t•liiel:.seeri,-taiy, who 110:
any other body of his nikimi.jesty's stlbjeetS, With never beet) in I rehrni hefore last sn•ma-r, globe;
s e thixeeptiou, nett in the ease of the-Catholics; that it the Catholic elailnn Were a;imitt(fd, the eoun
they had proceeded with It rigour th•tn wider • try tvould he. ruined. Ile' l'ecie) thole;ht,
clielue w
l.,t,teci liavo been resorted that to event to a Cittholic 'a silk gown, or the.
toil~ tjtho.„.:. ;it had heel% slot' of thenktitif. pOwer to -command, a cottipiny EngLoul :19 ill:
they wished to Atille the Githolie voice, and to lrel'4o4,'-would lie to ovectlten the '1114;
tekefrOnt there the. right- of petititming... These was the effeer of short,acipniiiitance the
cltenour4,Hhowever, as they weo.,', oot suptor'ziztl people, the manners and the habits of Ireland, to
- truth, had ..subsided; and ti.,e "restate of the tranquilize Whicik, it wits, not withstanding, infi•
Ineasures tti:WhiCh he heti alluded were most se- .eitely more net essary,to itit4i a Committee now
I,:Attetorke fli-me first rest-tit WaX the suppression than ever. It inns o,isible• tit ing3 ni,.l re-
of the autnittee. 'fhat Wits pow no more.— main .A they were.
They eaten, go Itelher one
Fi'ool that hunt arisen the_ Catholic. Board, which way or other, auti, be believed, .there we:; not .a
difterhig• Icom.o6.4Committee in nuntlier, Yuan in Ireland ',rho thought the, eountry could re-
also from it in the toneit had adopted, andsW:l4 j MAO iii the tllt.e ill wittelt it now' w-as. Mithy,
not fraught with the smne danger to the country, he, believed, sensible, respectaine, Ault
ffe,eeehi not bat.regard it an one happy result,. posed-Protestants.. in Ireland were cf opinion, that
tintt that Committee which bad been.so.ditegerout it would be wholesome to re-eintet 3010 e of the
now no More, A
nor.ler rewlt of these' (Us- penal laws; at Leaf IlLtd (ielatelaall WllO gene-
,cuseions -Waii,• that they induced the catholies rally • under the:gallery (we itinkritool lir-At to
ever, part :of' Irehsud to meet legally mind peacc.•:. - allude to Dr, Oinguau), if .he mistook not, !wiz!
.111)1y ttvexlivess their senie upon thk Most import- thk.tenet, and it. Was r maintained by the, Orange
ent.subiect tot Abe Thk 11',1f1 „never SPejay iii gcnepil. Timo Catholice were in thet
hefeee :,,,;•youc•ice. .of their - state teat they would nor stand, still, 'Their progress
beretioes now lettl that the whole to. wealth -111(1 k flow iedge, as 1144 beenolyie;-veti the
ti
ody •waS hivour of.Cetitol ..,ImeilAt ion other night by IrisLeerikel: Friend (Ur. Flutikett)
twat this seutiinent
.WIIS not ctmni .ed ti,-: had be4.'n very ,gtemit since the/Union, This he
who,:vcre, likely to. he ;„ Was rewt-,, ..),a,./.,:-lowledge to be the, demenstri'ble
b&nelittetL hut was shared in ell.l',.lno:_, consequ,ence t i that !:;reat uteit,,,itre, of which le„.
bV.the nneeauest Catholics in the conntry. Milt 1 he'd In tin opponeet, from n heliefthat it would
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If.tese•were not the only Ett,s:lt'??.;. ani,thee, and a, hare hitt' Cowtrary this in4.l*-,e.
ver• fzr"t orw, was-, thac.tho...ProtesbvitNof Ire- to bOlt-',144*1119 the spirit tnid. industry a the
lanittiniting-the Zlttilo)liexatr.rds.enerl,toth,:ix <iw t CativdicAodw, pressed forward to
interests througliout evil y corner of the h.firand, .e.iemautte"ttt' the A" • r CMOVed heti!, by