The Sun.
London, England, 1811-03-19 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF PEERS.
MONDAY, MAROH IS.

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The Earl of byttasoot. rose, ',and -tnctvefl the
third reading of the 1311 /*Or Puri ding Mutiny and
Dr. BCrtifltl.
Rai 'STa'r*HaPit exi,ressetkins surprise, that, after
what Ipid passed on a former.'right, when the /3111.
was uriLier discuAsion,. the Nohicjeeretary of State
should have brOughr forward Itto third reading that.
night, when those Noble Lords who took a mole
par tenter interest itv.the question, and who wished
to pay every possible attention Id the state and con-
cerits.olidreland, were unavoidahlyabsent, and that
for the budable riurpose of forwarding the iuttiests
of a benevolent lrishlustitution. Anuthei business
(the Messagn.respetting the Subsidy to. Portugal),
bad On that account' been postpuned front Miniday
till Tnursday and be was at a lcts, to see why a
question which rnore,nearlyinterosted the tedingii
ones opinions of the Representative Peers of irelaiiti,
should not also be deterred till that, day, when they,
would be able to take a part in a discussion which
they felt to hoof such great Importance. H should
therefore move, That instead of now, the Bill be
read a third time on Thursday next;.
The /'.art of Lwattpoot, observed, that as the No.
tile Lords to whom the Noble li.irl alluded had ex-
pressed no'wiah of defers ing till Thursday the third
readingof the ,Bill, lies could tee no just ground for
not proceeding in the Bill doting their absence.
Had they 'iniimared such, he should undoubtedly
have acquiesced in it, from the usual courtesy:ob-
served on welt occasions t but no such wish h3Vilfg
hei'st' manifested, it 'Was unnecessary to interpose
any further delay in the progress of the Bid, the
snore so, as the period of its expiring so nearly up.
proached,
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Earl STANIMPB oh.erved, that within these few
yearo the Mettil Bin had not pas,ed that House
before the•27th of i 1 ich. - •
•The question %skis then -put on Lola STAN.
mires Atnenchneni, 'and ,negatived without a di-
vi,ion.

Earl Sreenora next roie to propose a Rider to
the Bill, which, in his opinion, contained matter of
much importance, and which could not fail of, hav-
ing .a most salutary teudeocy. The gronrels
doced rei a former, night by the NoUle.Seeretary of
Slate, for rejeating the Amendineet which he had
the honour to propose was, that no fact been
stated to prove the necessity of adoptitig the Amend-
ment. He had remitted at the time . that he did
not think it necessary to state airy tads—dui h
rested the propriety of his Arnetet:oent on, Ira justice,
and expediency, and if he abstained from mention..
ing fads and mimes, it was because he felt anxious
to ferbear trout every thine t!,at tend to irri-
tate and inflame, But as Noble Secretary slight-
ed his Amendment because: tedid. not Collte barked
,by fear, he shonld no,e aerate- a fow faCts, which he
challenged the Noble Secretary to controvert.. The
Noble Earl then read tee ram, from letters, which.
minutely detailed the ease ot a private in the Enni-
skillen ,regiment, who had beer, seeteneed to per-
form defy publicly in a turned coat, and condernoed
to several clays coottnetnent.in the black hole ut the
prison fur lin/tog refused. to attend Divine Service,
eccreding to the rites of the Established Church.
The ease of this private had beer) communicated by
a Mr. Ve'nort, a barrister, to !lie Eat) of Hai triton),
slid almost immediately tin that Noble Eat] having,
received the communication, orders were issued by
hint for discontinuing; such preetices, amid for taith-
fully adhering in this' •respeeit to the general milers
which long before had beets isimued felipcclitq...; the
pertni-siou to allow Itornae Catholiti solde le to
tend Diviee Service as, performed by the clergy of
their own persuasiote, and these fresh-instructions
were issued in terms so clear 4nd eignificant as to do
lufinite credit to t hat salient,
_honourable, and honest
In in. Toeweccereuees took, place• in the begin,
ring of January of the ;present year. shotildoew
refer to another Vit,tChltaltlAttled it a remoter
period.; but which equally went to prove the itijus.
tice, the cm itlty,raild the tyranny of preventing Ro-
m trt Catholics, or ember. dissenters, tent,
the suggestions of rbelt own conscience in 'omit:lB to
religion, of leant curripelliug them to attend other
religious rights from which their cotiscietices. re-
coiled. This case happened in Sicily, at the close
of the year 1809. Among the Ilritisli • tronps
serVing in that Wand, were two regiments "whiett
were prineipally eteriposed of treat itotnan Catholics..
They .lisd n, oppittaility of receivitig r.Nititttul iti-
strotiton COM,Otillion, 'es, thougb it(nnier Catholic:
Priests.ubun efed itt the Island, nene of4liern.
51004 English, It ,nappened, however,' about that
time, that two llomen '-Catholie Irish Priests were
accidentally.in Sicily, and in those Gentlemen seve-
ral of the Irish Roman Catholic tioldicte applied :for;
spioteal capsulation, tspeciallv, when. any of their
cotoraties were on the point of death... Such a re-
crest thereeuld. not refuse; and they accerdiegly
proceeded to „Messina, where the troope were gar-
seotted who redicited their ministerial assistapec,--
Voulti their l,t,rtlsihips believe, . that the Govetoor
of Messina Wai ittstructed, by cadets nom Sir John
Stuart, not to allow the Clergynteo to atteod the
soldiers ; and that the Clergymen were even ordered
to take their departure for that plisett, end not to
proceed to any place or port where Irish iloinan
CailitAie soldiers wore in garrison ? Here, then,
ere these un:ortunate rhea deprivi;:d of that:1010161-.,
smell, which alone, under the piessere of sorrow and
of sickness; can afford relief and consolatimi to the
iwini,„ wind, On the cruelty and tyranny of such
proceedings, it were sups' eatious to enlerge. ; be must
eol,, :say, irt justice to that Gallant 'Officer,- Sir J,
Stuart, that be did not at from his own ittipulte,
hoeiroin- the itistrualope Of .9overotneut 'at hiethe,
o stiew the itripoliey of Sti(d) Coll4tiCii a word or
two would suffice :" he already bad observed, ince
British ranks welt priecipally filled with, :eel
meCruitod from, dissenters, and of the dissent; ; flow
i iii I...;t:ablished Church, eiliefly' Itree,„o
th Were mittrir IrOrttS;lips aware how the
utenber of dissenters daily ? If t 1.0.-/ were