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London, England, 1814-05-25 00:00:00

HOUSE OP CoitillONS.
A person from the Admiralty rtniaPtad an Account of the
Judgments of the High Court of Admiralty: dated 16th Maria,.
1814.—Ordered to lie on the table.
Sir R. PEEL presented the Report of the Select Committee emi
East•lndia Sbipping,---Ordered to lie on the table.
Sir H. PARNELL presented a Petition front persons in Ira-
land, concerned in the butter trade, complaining of the previsions
of an Act passed some year, sgo.—Ordered to lie on the table.

ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Mr. GRATTAN presented a Petition from the
Roman Catholics in the County of Monaghan, pray-,
ing to be relieved from the grievances under which',
they labour. He took that opportunity to say, that
it was not his intention to move for any further dis-
cussion on the subject of the claims of the Catholics
under the present circumstances. In this he begged to
be understood as eipressing his own opinidn which
he found coincided with that tit many other Members
of the House. He could .by no means say that it
was the wish of the Catholics that the discussion
should not come on now. Many of them, he be-
lie v ed, wished that the discussion should now come
on. But, under the present circumstances, it was
hls opinion, that it would be desirable not to have
any discussion on the kubject come on now ; nor to
have any ulterior measure proposed. In the mean
time, he moved that the Petition be read and ordered
to lie on the table.
The Petition was then read, and ordered to lie on
the table.

JESUITS' SOLLEOR IN IRELAND.
Sir JOHN HIPPISLEY moved for the produc-
tion and printing of two Papers, which,he lamented
to observe, were the last of the elass, properly of&
cial,. that he could obtain in the Offlces of Govern-
ment or the Records of Parliament. He lamented
this much, as he had once flattered himself with be-
ing the meant of producing, through the Report of
a Serect Committee, many other important docu-
ments. The House, however, had unfortunately
shut themselves out from that information ' • and how-
ever he might himself regret if, it was not for him to
censure their decision. In moving for these Papers,
he thought it his duty to correct a mis-statement con-
hected with his motion, which had found place in
several of the Public Prints. He had been represen-
ted as having asserted, that a large sum of money
had been sent to•lreland from Rome for the purpose
of founding a Jesuits' College. He had in fact made
no such assertion ; but had re-stated, as he had be-
fore stated in Parliament more than twelve months
since, that a remittance of iesomoo had been made
from hence to Ireland, for the purpose of being ap-
propriated to a seminary of ecclesiastical education.
He also stated, that £16,000 of it had been paid for
the purchase of Castle Browne, in Ireland.; and that
a professed Jesuit had been placed at the head of the
Institution. In stating also the circumstance nf the
construction of an oath, as avowed by Mr.slowdeh,
(not Brown, as also erroneously stated,) in his His.
tory of Ireland, Sir John Hippisley had been also
equally misrepresented. Mr. Plowden's construction,
was—that oaths were to be considered as obligatory
unindum inientiontmjuraniii," and not " tecundurn in-
tentionan imponentis." This, said Sir Juhn Hippisley,
is represented also; in many of the Public• Prints, to
have applied generally, as a Catholic principle,
whereas he expressly stated it was opposed to the re-
corded Opinions of the soundest Roman CatholiC
Theologians and their most accredited Jurists, parti.
cularly darning St. Isidore and Justinian, as well as
Dr. Paley and Other writers of the establishment.—
, Sir John Hippisley then moved, That the Report
made to Lord William, Bentiock of the State of the
Roman Catholics in India, and also the Report of the
Proceedings in Council relating to the Estates of the
Jesuits in Canada be printed."—Ordered.
WESTMINSTER HUSTINGS.

Mr. LOCKKART, referring. to .the Petition of
Mr. Morris, High Bailiff of Westminster, praying
for redress on account of Sir Francis Burdett having
refused to pay the expenses of erecting the Ilustingk
at the last election for Westminster, he moved that
the Petition should be referred to a Committee, who
should be ordered td make a Report on the subject
to the House.
Mr. WYNNE did not se: that the Petitioner, in
this case, had any claim to public remuneration. It
was his duty to haie made his bargain before he
ploccesled to erect the Hustings. He saw no reason
why the Petition should be referred to a Committee.
Mr. BATHURST said, that the Act of Parlia-
ment did not direct that a bargain should be made
in order to entitle the High Bailiff to remuneration.
All that it said was, that the Candidate should pay
the expense. In this casei Sir Francis Burdett had
contrived to evade this law, by proving that he had
not been a candidate. He thought that the Legisla-
ture would be obliged to make some enactment to
prevent the lasVirom being cvadedin such a way in
future. It would be very hard if they did not at
least refer the Petition to a Committees
After a few-words from Mr. WNOTTESLEY, Mr.
HARVEY, Mr."LbitriNGToN, and Mr. P. 'Moose, the
former against the ComMittee, and the •three latter
in favour of it. the House divided.---For the motion,
Q 6; against 4,17; majority, 9. • .
The Committee was then appointed, and Mr. BEN.
sar. having moved that all who came to 4 should
have voices, the Motion was negatived without a
division.

CHILD STEALING.
The Report of the Child-stealing Bill was taken
into farther consideration.

Kr. W. SMITH proposed a clause providing that
the provisions of the Bill should not extend to Scot-
land, as by the law of that country the crime was
punished by death.
The clause was agreed to, and the Bill ordered to
be read a third time to-morrow.
The further consideration of the Report of the Scots
Spirits Bill was postponed till to-morrow.
The County Bridges. Bill went through a Colman-
tee of the whole House.—Report to-morrow.
Sir N. COLTHURST gave notice, that on
Thursday he would Mare for leave to bring in a Bill
to Ainend an Act of thie-47th of the King, respect-
ing the establishment of Fever Hospitals in Ireland.
CORN lIIPORTATION BILL.
On the motion+µ•that the Report of this Bill be
brought up,"
Mr. H. LASCEL••LES took the opportunity
(without entering at large into the question) to de-
clam' that in the present state of things he could ndt
litssent'to the Bill.:-:(ttear, hear.)—Before be could
recto such a Measure, he thought it necessary to
be eoiviaced that there had been a state of things

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