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IRISH CATHOLICS.

Lord CLIFDEN, after a prefatory speech, wherein
he spoke of the hardships which the Catholics of
Ireland undergo, presented a Petition from those of
that persuasiotr,
.inhabitants of the County of Car--,
low. His Lordship stated, that he was the more
emboldened to introduce this Petition from the sane=
Lion which, he-was given to understand, was afford-
ed to it from those who held, or recently held, the
highest official situations in the Government of Ire-
-1 Be thlit as it may, said the Noble Lord, the
Pet;lion stands upon the firm footing of natural
right, and it best and most eloquently spoke its own
'merits. As the day would shortly arrive when these
merits would be best and most seasonably discussed,
he would on the present occasion refrain from offer-'
ing any more to their Lordship's consideration, than
merely, That this Petition do lie on the table.
Tire question being put,
Lord REDESDALE assured the Noble Lord, that
no person, in or out of Parliament, had the interest,
the real interest and welfare of the Catholic
of subjc&s more ardently• at heart than those per-
sonages who composed his Majesty's Government.
But he availed himself of this occasion to say, that
the san&ion asserted to be given to this Petition,
" by persons holding high situations in his Majes-
ty's Government," must be founded in error. In-
dividuals having place in the Castle of Dublin, and
holding forth e!;couraging language on such topics,
were not be considered-in the light which the No-
ble Lord would haye them considered. He had no
objection, however,-to the reception of the Petition,
It was accordingly received, and ordered to lie
on the table, after a few observations in reply from
Lord Redesdale,

DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.
Lord REDESDALE, in pursuance of the promise
which he made last year, presented a Bill, which
was read a first time, for regulating the law between
Debtor and Creditor, as Par as the same relates to
arrest, and to the imprisonment of the person. It
was ordered to be printed.—Adjounied.

HOUSE OF COMMOiVS.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH Q.

Mr., QUARMB, the Deputy Usher of the Black
Rdd, informed the House, that his Majesty had
given his Royal Assent to several Public and Private
Bills, and that he was ordered to summon the Hour.e
of Commons to attend in the House of Peers, and
bnay the Commission read.
4. Lit L./x6A}.ER, ksttc,m4eu
then went to the Howe of Peers, and heard the
Commission read.—[See- our Report to the House
of Lords.]
The SPEAKER then returned, ao'd informe.d. the
House of the different Bills to which the Royal As-
sent had been given.
•The Hampstead Burial Ground was toad a
second time.

The Legal -Quays Bill
,vas read a third time, and-
passed. , ,
The SECRETARY at 'WAR presented a variety -of
Papers from his Office, in obedience to the Order
of the House, • , •
1 ,
M'r. LUSHSNGTON brought up the Report of the
Expiring Law Bill, which was read a second.tirne.
A, Message from the Lords informed the HoUse,
that their Lordships- had agreed to theM,ast Impor-
tation Bill, the Whale Fishery Bill, the Sugar
lotinty Bill,-and several Private Bills. ' -
Th? Exchequer Bills Funding Bill _was read a
third tithe, and passed. '
..Mr. FoSTER moved, that it be referred' to. a Corn-
mittee to cons der of the Expenditure upon Holy-
head and Howth Harbours, and to report what
further sums may be necessary to, expend upon
them. Ordered.
The Irish Corn and Provision Bill was read a third
time. ,
, .

. Thb SECRETARY at WAR presented a Return of
the Sick and Womided In the Army of Lord Wel-
lington, and several other Military Documents; in
obedience to the Order of the House.
'Mr; MexweLL.,moved for a Return of the Sick
end Wounded belonging t,o the different Regiments
employed in the Expedition to the Scheidt, up to
the 17th of "February
Mr. LONG had ino objeaion to promote what he
.believed to bathe objea of the Honourable Gentle,
man's motion ' • but he begged it- might be under-
stood, that all those_ who might appear uon the
sick list at that ,period could not be considered to
have contraacd their disorders upon the Expedition,
as a portion of every regiment was always sick-,- as
;might be ascertained by moving for a similar return•
made by the same, regiments at the same time last
year, or any preceding period.
-; The motion was then agreed to.
_ ,

The Report of the Irish Distillery Bill,was brought
up, and ordered_to.be engrossed, with an additional
clause proposed by Mr. Foster.
_ Lord MAnor4 moved for a Return of all Persons

' employed in the Collection of the Revenue at King-
,
Ston-npioti-Hull, alter the paising of the 4c.1 47,th
of his present Maj(-sty, with their respe6ive
.and the compensations which had been Judd...! 'td
shem since the passing of that Act, iti lieu of fees.
Mr. TaostPsoN supported the motion, anti hoped
that something should be done to relieve .those 'lgor
Mun, as tkey were wry, unfit persons to
,colleca the
_Revenue at present, from the circumstanceot many
of them having, xith,in the last year,' 4plied,to the
Workhouse for relief, their 'salary,and compensation
for' fees being. inadequate for their. own support, and
that of their, families.
The motion was then agreed to; and the Hou,,e
Adjourned.,
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Attit;vin—t Dublin, 3 Waterford. Duz----3 Gottcnbutgb,
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THURSDAY, MARCH f2e2, Islo.

Letters from the Mediterranean state, that a Bri-
tish squadron, une.r, the command of Sir SAMUEL
HQoD, has passed the Dardanelles, in.order to a&
against Russia in the Black Sea. We shall be happy
to bear of such a change in the Council.; -of Russia
as will render hostilities . against her unnecessary ;
but if that change does not take place, we trust that
effeEtUal means will be taken to make the Emr,..caoa
of Russia feel the clanger of provoking the hostility
of Great Britain,

The American frigite the John Adams does not
sail from Cowes till to-morrow. The departure of
this,vessel has bgeh delayed, in order that she might
carry over to the American Government the result
of the negociations between the Marquis WELLEs-
LEY and Mr. PINCKNEY. We shall now have an
opportunity of ascertaining the real intentions of the
American Government, beyond the possibility of a
doubt. The John Adams will carry out to Arne-,
rica intelligence of the new outra,es committed by
BUONAPARTE against the property of American
subjeaS, wherever it mil be found ; and also the
amicable arrangement settled between -the Marquis
WELLESLEY and Mr. PINeKNEY. If the American
Government reject the latter, and still manifest a
disposition to submit to every injury and every
insult that BUONAPARTE may choose to heap upon
them, all attempt at negociation on our part witl:be
useless. We trust, however, that the last a& of
violence which BUONAPARTE has thought proper to
adopt, will open the eyes of those men in Ame-
rica who are even most attached to France, and
convince theM that no concession 'on their part,
short of absolute submisSion, will satisfy the T; rant
of France, and that they must make up their mind,
either to be his sassals or his enemies. It is re-
ported that the John Adams' is to call at a French
port, in order 'to convey General ARMSTRONG to
America. This we doubt. Whatever disposition
Mr. ArtmsTitolsosmay have to wish to leave France,
he will, in all probability, wait for dispatches from
hpfnr,. ho. resolves upon SO deci-
sive a step.

Yesterday Paris Papers to the 1 I tlx arrived, but
they contain no news"whatever. -We read, hoiv-
ever, with extreme regret, an article in one of them,
hich states, that ail tikel Tyrolese who l3ad fled to
Vienna have been orftred to withdraw, and, that
some of them had even been arrested. We hove
for the honour of humpn nature, that this state-
...
ment is not true;. such an act would disgrace the
Emperor cif Austria, even more( than the sacrifice of
his daughter to BUoN*LARTE. o. •

,The Dutch still indulge a hope ;that they will-not
be incorporated with France.. Some Letters that
were yesterday received from Holland• state, that
the people were in daily expectation-of the return
of Louis JhroNArAarn ; other accounts say, than the
Archduke CHARLES is to be the new King of Hol-,
land.• This latter speculatioti is
.qUite absurd.--
BuoNAran•re, we areconvinced, will never suffer
the House of Austria to obtain any power in that
part of Europe. •

A Cartel arrived at 'Plymouth on Tuesday lat.—
She brought no intelligence. Some English ladies
came passengers in, her.

The Opposition Papers, with their usual candour,
are beginning to anticipate the result of the Debate
upon LOrd pollen ESTER'S Moilon j but the language
*they use is not very respe6tful, either to.the House
of Commons, or to the Party which they are so
anxious to support. It is not very decent, after the
House of CoMmons has been engaged in so long
and ardnous an investigaiionrespe6ting ,the Walche-
ren Expedition, to insinuate that the Members will
sutrer-their condu6t or judgment, upen the merits of
that measure, o be governed merely by party feelings.
It is not very Civil to the Gentkmen who compose
the 'Opposition to style them upon this .oecasion,'as
they. ate styled by their oun friends, a corn-.
lined phalanx." A combined phalanx, to do what?
to examine patiently, and to decide impartially upon
the condth of those who planned and those who
'nio,execution that Expeditioul Suppose
,a
Court of Inquiry had been appointed to.examine
into the conduct of the Comtnander oftheWalche:-
rill Expedition,: what opinion should we fOrni,of
the judgment of that Court, if we were told
before-hand that a pert of its Members' were
a combined phafartr, determined to condemn ?-=-.
We " are. quite . convinced that• this epithet does

trot apply to the Gentlemen usually denomi-
nated the Opposition in the house of Com-
mons: we are. only-.. regretting that any of their
friends should be at the same time so indis-
creet` -and so unkind as to apply it to them.
This indiscretion is the more apparent from the con-
cluding passage of the paragraph to 'which we are
alluding. It expresses a hope that the result of this
investigation will be,!that " his Majesty will call to
his Councils the 'men whose councils would have
the cordial support of the people," meaning there-
by, of course,' the present Opposition. Now, '
this wish, of the sincerity of which we are
are most thoroughly convinced, throws some light

upoil the expressio,J which we have just noticed.

A cothbined phalanx to examine minutely, and de- •
cide fairly upon the conduct of others, is a contra-
dietion in terms ; but it combined plialanx, attempt-
ing to,force itself into office, is a very intelligible ex-
pression. Any person not thoroughly acquainted
with the pure and patriotic motives by which the,
Opposition are influenced,. might be inclined to
think, from this injudicious language of their friends,
that they had formed themselves into a combined
phalanx., not to promote the public good, but to
force themselves into place; an imputation so cruel
and so unjust, that we feel ourselves bound in can-
dour to exonerate them fromit.

Yesterday, about twelve o'clbck; the KING,
QUEN, Princesses AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH, arriv-
ed at the Queen's Palace, from Windsor, where they
were received by the Dukes of Cum a ERLA:43, KENT,
and CA;I.BRIDGE.
SoOn after two o'clock his MAJESTY held a Private
Levee, which was attended by

The Archbishop of York, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord
President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord
of -the Treasury and Chancellor oft he Exchequer, the •First
Lord el the Admiralty, the Secretaries of State t'or the
Fo-
reign and Colonial Department, the President of the Board of
Controul, the Lieut.. Ceneral of the Ordnance, the Corn,
manier in Chief, the lodge Advocate, their Excellencies the
American, Port ugues:, Sardinian, Spanish, Hessian, Swedish,
the two Sicilies, and Turkish Ambassadors ; the Duke of,
Montrose, the Earl of Harrowhy, Sir S. Cottrell and Went.
worth, Adm. Sir C.-Cotton, Generals triworth, Champagne,
and Sir T. Rigge, Colonel Rigby, Major Wilby, Captain
Stanfell, Dr. kellowes, and Messrs. Brown, Suerricre, and
Owen.

The following had the honour. of being presented.
to iliS MAJESTY
_ Fellows, M. 11. upon his. going to the army at
Cadiz, upon whieh occasion he received the honour of
Knighthood. •
Major.Gcnefal Sir Samuel Auchmuty, on his promotion,
and upon I.is departure for Madras.
Sir (ohn Wentworth, upon his_retnrn from Nova Scotia.
Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, on his being appointed to the
command in the Mediterranean. '

Colonel Rigby, upon hiS ;)romotion to the command of tke
East Essex Regiment of Militia.
Mr. Donis 'Browne, to thank his Majesty for the ribband
of St. Patrick given to the Marquis of Sligo.
13rigadier-General tioworth,. lately .r.oin Spain, and now
the irovid Artillery, under

Major Wilby, Aid-de-Camp to Lieut.-General Sir Gebrge
PeCkyyith, K. B Upon hiS arrival from the Wcrt Indies with
• dispatches, announcing'ttre capture 01 the Islam' ot G tiada-
: loupe, and.his promotion.
The Rev. Mr. 0 wen, Archdeacon of Richmond, on being
appointeil Chaplain-Geucral to the Forces.
Capt. Stanfell, R.N. . on bit.; arrival from the West Indies,
with the dispatches of the capture ot the Island of Guadit-
lcupe, and his promotion.
Le Chevalier de Begetra Nornme, Envoy Extraordinary at
Munich, Plenipotentiary
.from Portugal at the Court of Pe-
tersburgh, by the Portuguese Ambassador.
.Major-General Champagne, on his being appointed Colo-
nel to the 4 tst Regiment.
Mr. Suerteire, by the Portuguese Ambassador. '
Le COmmandeur Braamcamp d'Alineida, by the Portu.
guese Ambassador.
Commandeur A. T. Braamcamp, by the Portuguese
Ambassador. ,

Yesterday at half-past one o'clock, her MAJESTY
accompaniBd by their 'Royal Highnesses Princesses
AUGUSTA and ELIZABETH, proceeded in his Royal
Highness die Duke of York's carriage- from the
Queen's-Palace, and paid a visit to the Collniess of
AYLESBURY, in Seymonr-street; from. whence they
returned,to the. Duke of ,York's house, Stable-yard,
St. James's, w here,' they were received by their Royal
Highnesses the Duchess of YORK, the Dukes of
KENT, CUMBERLAND, and' CAMBBIDGE. At three
o'clock they sat down to an elegant collation prepared
on the occasion, and at a-little after five o'clock, the
QUEEN and PRlNcEsses set out in their travelling
carriage, attended by their usual escort, fur Winthor.
. Yesterday his MAJESTY held a Privy Council, and
give audiences to the LORO CHANCELLOR, the Mar-
quis *WELLESLEY, Earls CAMDEN, WESMOKLAND,
and LIVEkrOOL ; Lord MULGRAVE, Sir DAVID
DUNDAS, Mt. PERCEVAL, and Mr. S. MANNERS,
the last of _whom laid before his MAJESTY the pro-
ceedings of some Courts Martial. .

Yesterday the Chancellor of the ttchequer gave
a grand Cabinet dinner,. at his house in Downing-
street.

Lord Put:CHESTER, we understand, means to
move three' Resolutions relative to the late Expedi=
tion on Monday next-. The first goes to declare
the expedition itself impolitic ; the second censures
the retention of the Mattel of Walcheren, after the
ulterior objects of the.expedition had been found to
be unattainable; the third, it is said, relates to the
appointment of the Earl of CHATHAM. • •
'bast week 'an extraordinary occurrence took place
'in the river Eden, near Drumbrugh. Christopher
Robinson, an experienced ii,herman, placed a floun-
der net in that part of the river which is subjed to
the flux and reflux,of the tide, and on his returning
to drag his net from the river, instead of finding
fish, he found it loaded with wild ducki. During
his absence.a flight of wild decks had alighted be-
loW the net, and on the flowing of the tide they
were carried, from the contraction of the channel,
with great impetuosity, by the' water into-the net,
got entangled, and were drowned. In si4 tides he
caught. 170 golden-eyed wind ducks,. supposed to be
from the Orkneys, as none of that species• is ever
seet\ in that part of the country.
An Opposition Paper of-this morning, with very
great naivete`, expresses- its 'surprize at Lord MEL-.
conduit. The Paper sayi, he Is out of
office, and yet is employed in drawing plans, for his,
country'p good.. •