The Sun.
London, England, 1829-02-21 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

William Lockwood, Robert Sorby, and .joilo Lockwood,
Sheffield, manufacturers of ffies,

William Bailer, William Swann, and Robert Nall, jun.,
Derby, stone and quarry-men.
Thomas Pratt, sen and Thomas Pratt, jun., Coventry,
grocers.

John Allen and John Newlyn Woodcroft, Manchester,
merchants.

James Scott Walker, Chas. A. Worrall, anti T'ho..;;►as
Taylor, Liverpool, printers,
Thomas North, Thomas 64rgcnt, Joseph Smedley, John
Bonser, Aehert Mayfield, William Parkin, John Parkin,
Philip Burton, George New, John Garner, and John Pol-
lard, Nottingham, lace-manufacturers.

George Skinner aid Edward Eaqon, Peckham-Rye,
bricklayers.

Thomas Harris, Edward Harris, and Thomas Harris,
jun., Frome, Somerset, card.makers.
N. Isherwood, Nicholas Thomaq slieywood, and John
Fielding Ishevw;),c,d, Larrih't-COnduit-street, Holborn,
p:i pev-11apger4.
• Frederick Gye and Giles Balne, Gracechurch-street,
printers,

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
James` Marshall, Glasgow, inn-keeper, Feb. 25, and
March 12, at twelve, at the Lyceum Rooms, Glasgow.
James Thom, Rothsay, merchant, Feb. 23, and March
10, at one, at the Royal Arms Glasgow.

The House then went into a Committee on the Bill for
the Suppression of dangerous Associations in Ireland.
.The Bill went through a Committee without any opposi.
tion ; report ordered to be brought tip on Monday, with a
verbal amendment of "shall have been," for "will be,"
—moved by the Lord Chancellor.
Lord KING presented a petition from the Roman Ca-
tholics of Killarney in the county ot Kerry, against the
Sub-letting and VesbizActs..
THE DUNALLY PEERAGE.

The Earl of SHAFTESBURY understo xl that the
papers had not arrived from Ireland in the matter of the
Dunally peerage. He therefore moved the adjournment of
the Committee of Privileges from Monday to Wednesday
next.

The Earl of FALMOUTH presented a petition from
East and West Looe, in Cornwall, and several other places,
against the Catholic Claims.
The Earl of LONGFORD presented a petition from
the Protestant Dissenters of a parish in the county of
Limerick, against further concessions and the Sub-letting
Act.

The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from the
Catholics of a parish in Galway, in favour of the Catholics.

The Marquis of DOWNSIiiRE presented a petition
from a Mr. Andrew Watson, calling himself an Alder-.
man of Limerick,, which stated that the petitioner had
been an officer of the Brunswick Club; that he was now
75 years of age ' - that up to this period he had been a very
strong opposer of Emancipation; that this has been with
a view to please his Majesty's Government and ac-
cord with their opinions (Much laughter) ; but that as
the sentiments of the Government bad now changed, he
heartily coincided in their sentiments, and hoped the
change in his conduct would not be considered a dereliction.
of duty. (Repeated laughter.) The Noble Marquis col-
lected from the petition, that this old gentleman was now
in favour of granting power to the Roman Catholics.
Lord LIMERICK could bear testimony to the strong
opposition this gentleman had given to the Catholic Claims.
He doubted much whether this was really the petition of
the person it purported to be from—he was much more
inclined to consider it a hoax.—(Laughter.)
Lord KING observed that if it were a hoax, and be

had been the hoaxer, he should have put the petition into the
hands of a new convert, for then the hoax would have
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told with double force. It was a very common thing for
some persons to change their opinions with the change of
opinions of Ministers : this only shelved the Government
to be composed of good apostles, and he had no doubt that
the present apostles would gain many converts.
The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE washed his hands of
any thing to do with this petition as a hoax. He believed
that a very great portion of the community were now
favourable to the granting of relief to the Roman Catho-
lies. The Noble Marquis then presented half a dozen peti-
tions from other places to the same effect.
Lord HOLLAND presented 16 petitions, 12 of which
were from Protestant Dissenters of this country and the
others from Roman Catholics in different parts of Ireland,
praying their Lordships to take into consideration the laws
affecting Catholics, with the view of removing their civil and
religious disabilities. The first petition was from a body of
men well known to the Government of the country, the
Dissenting members of the three denominations in and ad-
joining this metropolis. It was true they were invested with
no autority fiom their Lordships' bar, that they had no
Corporate Seal, no office of emolument under the Govern-
ment, nor any claim to attention except what their piety
and learning entitled them to. They were the last set
of men who would wish the Noble Lord to assign to them
any power with which they were not legally invested. Yet
they were a class of persons who had been long recognised
by the Government of this country, and were the suc-
cessors of those who had negotiated with Mr. Locke him-
self, respecting the Toleration Act, which the Noble Lord
looked upon as the key stone of that great edifice which
was now about shortly to be completed. They had ever
since been noticed for their loyal feelings and warm
affections to the personages who had sat upon the Bri-
tish Throne. Without drawing any thing like an in-
vidious comparison, there was -no class of persons in this
country to whom his Majesty's family were more deeply
indebted for the possession of their Crown, than the Pro-
testant Dissenters. So strongly had their attachment to
that family been evinced on many occasions, that it was
customary for its members, on their accession to the
Throne, to receive, from the Protestant Dissenters, at the
Throne, the congratulations of that body. They were the
descendants of the old Protestant Dissenters, who had long
been distinguished for their wealth and respectability, and
who now amounted, as he was informed, to not less than
3,500,000 persons, exclusive of the Wesleyans and other
Methodists. The petition eminently deserved their Lord-
ships' attention, because it was the opinion of men who
had been on all occasions conspicuously opposed in their
doctrines to the Church of Rome, entertaining opinions
the very reverse of that Church, and who had not
only been forward in detecting the errors of that
Church, but had been at times ready to expose the
false assertions of civil and ecclesiastical tyranny, and for-
ward to resist it.—(Hear, hear.)—When the Noble
Lord found this set of men petitioning their Lordships
to extend civil and religious liberty to all men, and particu-
larly to the Catholics, if he wanted encouragement, this
above ail things would stimulate him to support their
claims. The body from which the petition immediately
came was composed of 91 persons, 63 of whom had
signed it. One of the other petitions was from the
ancient corporation of Nottingham, with which the Noble
Lord was himself connected, and the circumstances
attending which would prove lie believed that the
inferences drawn by a Noble Duke (Newcastle)
from the petitions that he lied presented, that the greater
portion of the inhabitants of that part of the county
were against Emancipation, were decidedly erroneous. He
would not refer to the stories which were in circulation, of
which there were many, about the manner in which the
petitions front that part of the country were-got up ; but
in presenting that petition from so respectable a Corpora-
tion, situated in a populous and manufacturing enmity,
their Lordships would see that the whole population of
that county did not acquiesce in those petitions which
prayed against the measures recommended by his Majesty's
Ministers. His Lordship, concluded by presenting these
two petitions, 4nd eleven other petitions, from Congrega-
tions of Protestant Dissenters at Northampton, Liverpool,
Toxteth, Crediton, Wareham, Nottingham, Framlington,
and Stockton. The Noble Lord observed, that the peti-
tion from Liverpool and other places had been agreed to
before the measures of the Government were known.

His Lordship also presented thr petitions from places in
Ireland, with the same praye;,7.
Lord GQSFO.4I? Kesented six petitions froth the Ca-
tho4s, of parishes in Ireland, in favour of Emancipation ;
also, four Petitions against the Vestry, and seven for a re-
peal of the Sub-letting Act.
The House adjourned till Monday.