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was his opinion that no Catholic clergyman had ever made use- of of Peterborough; and a seventh, signed by 25,000 inhabitants.
spiritual authority for political purposes.—(Roars of laughter Armagh, praying that no farther c•oncessions might be made to
from all sides of the House.)--Ile hoped that the Hon. Member, the Catholics.
if lie persisted in his assertion, would give him the name of any Mr. H. GR ATTAN said that the charges contained
clergyman who had so 'nisei:inducted himself; for he thought that in these petitions against the Catholics were foul and unjustifiable.
if any clergyman had employed the terrors of excommunication to Mr. CAULFIELD presented a petition from Pro-
secure votes at an election, he richly deserved to be exposed. Ile testant freeholders of Armagh, in favour of Catholic Emancipation.
repeated that he gave the Hon. Member as respectful a contradic- Mr. wish
WHITMORE expressed a that, the
as he could.—(Laughter.)—lf that did not give the Hon. Gen-
amendment which he intended to move to the Resolutions of the
tleman satisfaction, he was ready to give him another kind of con-
Right Hon. Foreign Secretary, on the subject of the Corn Lave,
tradiction as unqualified as might be.—(Laughter, and cries of might be printed for the information of the House.
order.) The SPEAKER—it
Mr. -I‘IOORE received the remarks which the
Hon. Member for Galway had made with regard to the petition of the House, must be done with the con-
sent_.ole, and not upon a motion. . .
Lord HOWICK presented four petitions from the
county of Galway in favour of Emancipation.
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unqualifiedliad
contradiction to what the petition said, but he appealed to the Mr. BROWNLOW begged to know if the Right
House whether he (Mr. Moore) bad said any thing of the kind of Hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer meant to do any thing in the
which he (Mr. Martin) had represented. present Session towards assimilating the malt laws in Scotland
The petition was ordered to be printed. and Ireland.
Mr. MOORE presented a petition from certain The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
freeholders of the county of Cork, respecting the present state of had a motion in preparation for that purpose.
the elective franchise in that county.—To be printed. DUKE AND DUCHESS OF CLARENCE'S ANNUITY
General ARCHDALL presented a petition (to BILL.
which 13,300 signatures were annexed):from the Clergy, Gentry, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
and Freeholders of the County. of Fermanagh, against any farther moved the second reading of the Duke and Duchess of Cla cs's
concessions to the Roman Catholics.—Ordered to be printed. annuity bill.
R.
Sir HERON observed that the Duke of Cla-
Mr. H. MAXWELL presented 45 petitions from,
different parishes in the county of Cavan against any farther con- rence, he thought, should be satisfied with what the country had
cessions to the Roman Catholics. He moved that these petitions already done for him. The Hon. Member concluded by moving,
be printed. (Murmurs, and " No, no.")--The petitions were as an amendment, that the bill be read it second time this day six
ordered to be printed. months.
Mr. DAVENPORT supported the amendment.—
Mr. SAUNDERSON presented a petition from
the Nobility, Gentry, and Freeholders of the county of Cavan, lie observed, that there was a contingency not provided for in the
against any further concession to the Roman Catholics. bill. Suppose his Majesty should contract another matrimonial
alliance.—(A loud laugh.)—lt was not a thing impossible;
and
The SPEAKER, on looking at the petition, ob-
would any Minister be bold enough to vote back the 9,000/. ?
,
served that it contained three erasures and two interlineations,
which, as every person who was acquainted with the uniform prat- Oivnirth.ewrquEesTatioLn
sbeisnugpppuorted the amendment ; he could
t
tice of the House must know, rendered it unfit to he received.—
The petition was withdrawn. not conscientiously approve of the addition to the Duke's allowance.
Sir R. VAUGHAN presented five petitions from Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN would not object
Merionethshire, against any farther concession to the Roman Ca- to a liberal allowance to every branch of the Royal Family ; but
tholics.—To be printed. he looked upon the present proposition as an iniult.—(Hear !)--
Mr. L. FOSTER presented a similar petition from The very day it was introduced,- the House had heard from the
Drogheda.—To be printed. Right Hon. Gentleman the most gloomy description of the con-
dition Mr. PRITTIE presented ten petitions, from thehad' ever heard. In his (the
of the people it( . "Mom-
Mr. magisterial capacity, upwards of 80 persons had been `sum-
county of Tipperary, in favour of the Roman Catholic Claims.— ruoned before him for non-payment of church-rates andl-poor
To be printed. rates, which could not be enforced against more than ten. - .-
Mr. HUTCHINSON presented eleven petitions Two Hon. Members, whose names we could ' not learn,-, sip-
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from the county of Cork, in favour of the Roman Catholic claims.
—To he printed.
Colonel BERNARD presented petitions from
Rynagh and Gallen ; also from Rapen and Rinally, in the King's
county, in favour of the Catholic claims.
Sir N. COLTHURST presented a petition from
Cork, praying to be relieved from their disabilities.—To be printed.
Sir E. KNATCHBULL presented petitions
against the Roman Catholic claims from Margate, and 12 parishes
in Kent.—To be printed.
Sir R. HILL presented two petitions—one from
Salop, and Flintshire—against the Roman Catholic claims.
Sir G. H. SMYTH presented a petition from Col-
chester, against the Roman Catholic claims.—To be printed.
Sir C. HASTINGS preser.ted a petition from Lei-
cester, against any further concession to the Roman Catholics.
Lord MILTON wished the petition to be read at
length, in order that the House might have a taste of the spirit
with which the petitioners were imbued.—(Hear).
The petition was then read at length. It was interlarded with
a great many scriptural and metaphorical phrases, which were
not always introduced very appropriately, or with the happiest
effect, and indeed the language of it was throughout so very curi-
ous and singular that it more than once excited the risibility of
the House.
Sir C. HA(TINGS should not hesitate to say
that he himself agreed with the substance of the petition, which
was at any rate respectfully worded.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER
did not wish to enter upou a discussion of this question on the
present occasion ; but could not avoid observing, that the peti-
tion which had just been read was replete with a figure of speech
commonly called rigmarole. His object in rising, however, was
to observe, that if the time of the House should he similarly
taken up on Monday night for five or six hours, in the presenting
of petitions, it would be extremely inconvenient ; he should,
therefore, beg to suggest to honourable gentlemen the propriety of
abstaining on that evening from presenting petitions after half-
past five o'clock.

ported the amendment.
Mr. MONCK opposed the Bill.
Mr. HUME wished to ask the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman how be could propose such 'a vote, when he must know
that as a financier he was bankrupt ? It was a. mean and. scan-
dalous waste of the public money. When he lOoked at the dis-
tress of he country—(coughing)—. If he could lay on the
table of the House proofs of the distress occasioned by taxation,
he could prove that for the 9,000/..proposed,'l6,ooo perkiis had
been turned out of their homes.—(Loud murmurs, cheers, and
cries of " No.")—lf by legal exactions this sum was taken. from
the people to be spent in extravagance and waste, as this would
be—(coughing, which prevented our hearing the conclusion of
the sentence.)
The question was now loudly called for, and the House di-
vided :—For the second reading, 128 ; against it, S 9 ; majo-
rity, 89.

Mr. PEEL said, that if the same course had been
adopted of having the petitions in favour of the other side of the
question read at length, many might have been found quite as full
of absurdity as the one just read. He would refer to one in par-
ticular, which was presented on the 7th of December last, from
a parish in the county of Wexford. In this petition the names
of Judge Blackstone, Sarsfield, Tyrconnell, Julius Caesar, Agrippa,
Numa Pompilius, King David, Jeremiah, Marcus Atilius Regulus,
Festus, and Artaxerxes, King of Persia, were jumbled together.
These two petitions were of about equal merit in point of compo-
sition, and perhaps the best course would have been to have suf-
fered them silently to have paired off together. • -
Lord MILTON had no intention of objecting. to
the printing of this petition.
Mr. J. SMITH wished to observe, that the indi-
vidual who was reported to have drawn up this petition, had
lately published a very seditious work, which had only been
permitted to escape with impunity , on account of its excessive
absurdity.

Sir T. ACLAND objected to the printing of the petition.
Mr. W. SMITH observed, that as all sorts of peti-
tions were ordered to be printed, it would be a kind of compliment
to the present one to deny it that privilege.
General HART presented eight petitions from the
county of Donegal, praying that no further concessions should be
made to the Catholics. Several similar petitions were presented
from the county of Derry by Sir G. Hill ; from various places in
Essex by Sir E. Harvey; from Lewes by Mr. Kemp; and from
the Clergy of Bath and Wells by Sir T. Lethbridge.
Petitions praying for Catholic Emancipation were presented by
Lord Bective, from two parishes in the county of Meath ; by Mr.
O'Hara, from the county of Galway ; by Mr. Carew, from 27
parishes in the county of Wexford; by Mr. Butler Clark, from
three parishes in the county of Kilkenny.
Lord CASTLEREAGH, in presenting several
similar petitions from the county of Down, observed, that it
would not be possible for any argument he could adduce to add
weight to so just a cause.
Mr. G. LAMB presented. a petition from Dun.
garvan, in Ireland, praying for batholic Emancipation, and hoped
that it was the last petition on the subject be should ever have oc-
casion to present.
Lord E. SOMERSET presented seven petitions
from Gloucestershire, against Emancipation.
Sir G. ROBINSON presented a petition from
Northampton in favour of the Catholics. It was the first, the
Hon. Member said, that had been presented from that town upon
the subject.
Mr. H. GRATTAN presented five petitions from
Dublin, Cavan, and Kilkenny, praying for concession.
Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN postponed his mo-
tion on the subject of the Refuge for the Destitute until Tuesday
next.
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Mr. BARING supported the petition.
Mr. G. DAWSON thought it rather hard that the
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in the
Hon. Member (Mr. Brownlow) should endeavour to cast an
odium upon the Protestants of Bangor. The Hon. Member, how-
ever, only displayed those feelings whiCh converts were very
much in the habit of evincing.
Mr. BROWNLOW, in bringing up two other pe-
titions from the count:es of Antrim and Galway, said that the
course which he had chosen was that which he was convinced was
for the benefit of Ireland ; and, 'ventually, he should find the
Right Hon. Gentleman near him advocating the same opinions.—
(Hear, hear.)
Lord NORM ANBY presented two petitions from
Meath, to the same effect.
Mr. GOULBURN presented a petition from the
Primate of all Ireland and the Clergy of Armagh ; a second from
the Archbishop and Clergy of Dublin ; a third from the Bishop
and Clergy of Clogher ; a fourth from Killala ; a fifth from the
Clergy of Down and Connor; a sixth from the Dean and Clergy