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London, England, 1828-05-10 00:00:00

.portunities to address y0u...-(Continued laughter.)—A
Jest is at all times an agreeable thing, aid must be.particu,
larly so, when the patience cf the House has, been so
greatly exhausted, hut I was not awart! that I had given
any ground for the merriment in which the House seems
willing to indulge. lam perfectly serious when I say
there must be other colleagues of the Right lion. Gent.
who are anxious to be heard on this subject, and that not
only are you bound to hear those who hold situations in
his Majesty's Government, but also many gentlemen of the
Sister Kingdom, who are no doubt extremely desirous that
you and the country should bear their opinions freely de-
clared. The question now is, what do you intend to do ?
You must choose either alternative—you must either con-
sent to the adjournment, or (,-o on with the debate : hut
that which you seem to consider as most expedient is, that
you shall neither proceed with the debate, nor consent to
the adjournment, but that you shall go on with the noise.
(Laughter.) If then the House shall say we will not go
on with the debate, hut we will go on with the clamour,
the wiser course perhaps will be to adjourn.—(Cries of
" dear, hear !" " No, no !").

Mr. Secretary PEEL said, the House must choose the
alternative—either to go on with the debate, or to adjourn
the question. If it were decided to proceed now with the
question, it would he necessary to give a patient hearing to
all those who were anxious to address the House. (Loud
cries of " Adjourn, question, divide, withdraw,")
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw; but the
mokionfor the adjournment to Monday was carried without

a division.
The other Orders of the Day were then tii4posed of, anti
the Home adjourned at Three o'Cloek.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The debate on the Catholic Question is again adjourned.
We shall, on Monday, offer some remarks on the discus-
sion ; at present we shall content ourselves with the fol-
lowing sketch of our own opinions on this momentous sub-
ject :—Every appeal to upright policy and to generous
feeling, on behalf of cur long-suffering Catholic fellow-
subjects, baying, failed to procure them constitutional re-
dress for their wrongs, it is time to show the enemies of
emancipation, by arguments the force of which they will
better appreciate, that their own power, their safety,
their ecclesiastical monopoly, their political preponderancy
—that, in fine, all their selfish interests are staked on the
admission of Catholics to the rights of British subjects.—

Ireland, we repeat, is organised from north to south, and
ready to act like one man, whenever the signal shall be
given. Let the blind or corrupt followers of Lord
Eldon, and of a greater than Lord Eldon, hector as they
may about their repugnance to he bullied, and about their
unwillingness to gratify the claimants of religious liberty,
increasing with each day's evidence of an accession to the
spirit and numbers of those who are shut out from that
liberty, the thing will go on,—the exclusionist,' cannot
help themselves,—justice is too strong for them, as injus-
tice has hitherto been for their victims. What is it that
has measured out Ireland like a camp, and mustered her
people as an army ?—Not the Irish priests,—not O'Connell,
nor the Association, nor the Jesuits, nor the Pope. The
Orange Government alone has been the grand creator and
stimulant of Catholic power. From slaves too much de-
pressed for industry, and too much impoverished for
revenue, it sought so far to relax the penal code, as would
qualify its victims for becoming more productive members
of a tent•and-tax-paying community. It made a law which
encouraged the acquisition of property by Catholics, and
forgot that the growth of power out of property
was one which would enact and execute itself.—

... ___
When the Catholics were poor, vile, and spiritless,—
worms that would hardly turn when trampled on,_
theo was the time for your Protestant ascendancy
heroes to crush, and if such their pleasure, to extirpate
the reptile rare. The Catholics for fifty years have been
gaining—first, wealth ; next, by importunity, access to
franchises and professions. They have throughout the
south of Ireland bought up immense estates which Pro-
testant extravagance had squandered ; they contain amongst
them large numbers of individuals, well versed in the his-
tory of politics and war,—distinguished orators, goaded
on by just ambition, indignant at their own exclusion from
office, from honour, and from legitimate power, at the
,ceming disgrace of their religion, and at the real bondage
of the people whence they spring. Numerically, the Ca-
tholics are a third of the whole united nation : in Ireland,
they comprehend within themselves—and they are con-
scious of it—the whole sinew and substance of the state
of Ireland, from the enjoyment and exercise of which
they ate by the laws of a feeble minority precluded.
For the first time in the annals of the country, the
landlord, the farmer, the priest, the peasant, net and
feel as if there were neither opposition of interest,
nor traditional jealousay amongst them. They bel-
low, and threaten, for those remaining rights to which
we, the Protestant, have taught them to aspire. A Coro-
i nation Oath is set up in one quarter. Lord Liverpool,
the Protestant advocate, takes no further trouble than to
call the objection " nonsense." A knot of stale place-
men have the assurance to baptize themselves a Pitt. Club,
while they worship that very Devil of Intolerence to cast
out which was the aim and glory cf Mr. Pitt's political 1
existence. The Irish Orangeman cries out that the Ca-
tholic layman has confederated with the priest to destroy
the Church Establishment, forgetting that the only link
between these associates is the common grievance, which
once removed, would bring again into full play their pris-
tine tendencies to mutual watchfulness and counteraction.
When the Catholic was weak and prostrate, the Govern-
ment restored him to his native strength, and raised him to
an erect position—but still he was 1,11 in chains : long has
he supplicated that the fetters might be struck off, and
now he is bold and brawny enough to burst them. This,
no doubt, may augment the repugnance of the excluding
faction to emancipate the Catholics. Hatred is the child
of terror, and to the very eve of emancipation we shall
hear that the Catholics are too strong to be safely admitted
into Parliament. But if the Catholics he so strong that
we must not treat them as friends, is it because of that
gime strength that their hostility is more desirable than
their friendship ? We are told from day to day, that it is a
grievous calumny to dispute the " loyal" feelings of the
Catholic body to the state which spurns them ; and this
is the made of arguing employed by the enemies of eman-
eipaion. They deprecate the notion that the Catholics,
whose t:J-ley oppress, can he otherwise than overpowered
i
with graLiaki,lia for their various injuries. " Don't dare
" to talk of the Catholics being disloyal. Do what
" we will to their.—kirk them—degrade them—in-
depend upon it we have no-
" stilt, persecute, spoil than,;
" thing to fear, they are the most loyal set of people exist-
" ing:' Of the liberality of such sentiment we have not a
word to say, but something with regard to their com-
mon sense. . We affirm, therefore, that if the Catholic
body, under the usage bestowed upon it, he what is gene-
rally t,,,,rmed. ~ loyal," it is composed of materials rather
different Icon the rest of mankind. Allegiance is the
price of proteeti,a' ;it is not a boon—it is not a gift :
it is the condition of a bargain-,-a transaction wherein one
good is bartered for another. We should like to know,
what is there so ineffably lovely in a hostile Court and a
emiaing and contemptuous Government, that ought to
eommanai the grateful affection of those against whom the
contempt ;a ,i-rsatility are displayed? The Catholics
loyal ! We deny aiiat they are loyal, or that any human
creatures in their tituation ,k,art or ought to be so. Has the
state done ita duty towards the Ci.applies?---does it encou-
rage them?—dnea it protect them equaliy,w,ith the rest of the
people? No: they are an outcast race. Liberate giant, an d
thee willloe az as 10y31,We doubt not, as their fellow-subjec;s.
Enable them to Rua:6ol;4r own purses, to defend their own
persons—to speak theircwn thoughts in the assembly of the
nation—to make laws to aitja'iP.44'r laws ; unlock their
letters—efface their brands---raise tllega from helots into
' 66z:ea.-I.—then, only, will it he onsistent svi.di the honour
of a Ca 4
6,,,a to declare himself a " loyal" man, 44 this
moment he is a ,public enemy ; or, if he says otherwise,
he is of all hypo: i,',ea
the basest. At this moment he
stands to his. arms, and liit:4 for the signal to fall on. At
this moment his standard is /* II Lot unfurled. Ile is in
close communication with foreign 'eowers—with
Ca-
cal Ilurope knows it ; will tile Runge-
torilic Powersaenyit ; ,
or conceal from himself that it is •iiia
is this a danger to 42 verpetuated, or
put it lime to our sober-judging,
own work f And we
a rioni€o4o enemy of millionsti of
riefly
iirint tpr'iosmsieble' for any. rational hieing .
g to shut 11;'s eyes to
the zecessity of averting such an fty4 a:„
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n min e e wh.etil;air•
that with ,whial,
the aa4stencer of.„
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their situttair,
ros
korocnroL,
menace.Fatnily
v thin., aatributive about r....eh00,1.ti5c,e.,,,i? p
there nay be a".
and we a:l'rd)
e the plural as
us ' d the C 3 OUt It :-
They have at{ .tve
tiliae,ti r
'ono' oppose attu'OC,, whose
spect), they have s• s, ,
-0 they these th,,,,,..
bias is monarchial. H.-
11i,7e commanded a re,
natural friends, they might , '
I i 'it, or wrong,
effectual resistance to the cl.aurksp.
ncg-eded ; usl iitdor
their natural .enemies, net
long
since
c°
Com nisi° 'e
time they will have experienLad a double I) :11 m
giving way to 'both.— Times.
* See Patty ma Ci.y.l ,GocTitiment•

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Prince LEopqr,p arrived in town
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'Pty Princess AUGUSTA took! aq airing yes
h ,lay la the PArks, Pimlico, .&c,