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clissabilities affecting the Ronan Catholics, with certain
exceptions.
The Duke of WELLINGTON observed, that such was
the intention.

Lord HOLLAND considered that so satisfactory an an-
swer had been given by the Noble Duke, or reasons so sa-
ti-factory for not directly answering the Noble B tron's
question on the doss benches (Lord Colchester), that but
little was required front him in the way of observation ;
with respect to the threat, however, of petitioning his
Majesty, to resort to a dissolution of Parliament, this was
one of the most unconstitutional notions that had evr
passed through the head of any man, and which had been
fully answered by a Noble Nord on a former evening.
The Noble Baron had said,—what, subvert our Constitu-
tfon, as settled at the Revolution l—an expression such as
this he (Lord Holland) won'd maintain, had not been
made use of since the period of Lord George Gor-
don, was there any intention nn the part of the
Noble Duke or any person else to subvert the Constitu-
tion as it had been established. He wished the Noble
Baron to explain what he meant by the Protestant
Constitution established at the Revolution. That succession
was established at the Revolution, lint the Protestant Consti-
tution existed long before it. And was there a man wild
enough to think that the Noble Duke of Wellington
had it in contemplation to bring in a measure
calculated to destroy the laws of the Protestant Constitu-
tion.

I LEFT SPFA

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Sir G. COCKBURN and another Member took the oath s
and their seats.

The Sheriffs of the City of London presented a petition
relative to London Bridge ; also another relative to the
regulations of Smithfield market.—Referred to the Coir-

unittec.

Mr. LENNARD brought up a return respecting the
effects of the sureties in the High Court of Chancery.
Mr. C. BEIIKLEY presented a petition to form a
market in St. Saviour's Southwark.—Referred to a Com-
mittee.

Mr. Hoops brought up a Report on the Stratford and
Bew Vestry.
Sir J. AIACKINTOSH stated to the House, that with
reference to the notice which he had given of a motion on
the connections of this country with Portugal, in order to
be out of the public reach of the great question, he should
postpone it till the 26th of March.
The Marquis of CHANDOS, in presenting a petition
on the Catholic question, said that the people would never
allow an alteration in the Constitution, and advised the
House to consider well before they legislated on the ques-
tion. His Lordship then presented a petition aagainst the
Catholics from several places in the county of Buckingham,
amounting to seventy-four in number. He theh stated
that having presented to the House the prayers of 7,000
of his Majesty's subjects, he should move that the petitions
be printed.
Lord NUGENT said he had not a word to say against
the respectability of those who had signed the petitions,
nor should he have risen to offer any observation, had not
the Noble Lord stated that the mass of the inhabitants of

Bitchinglintn were arrayed in their opinions against Catho-
lic Emancipation. As some of those petitions had come
from the hundreds which he represented, he ►nuFt say that

rvith respect to that district the Noble Lord had been coin,

pletely misinformed, if lie was told that they were oppose,