Star.
London, England, 1807-02-21 00:00:00

COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY.

The Houfe, on the motion of Sir JOHN NEW-
PORT, refolved itfelf into a Committee of Supply,
to which the various accounts refpeaing the Ira
Mifcellaneous Services had been previoufly referred,
Mr. Hosmouse in the Chair.

Sir JOHN NEWPORT moved, and it was re-
fulved by the Committee, that the feveral (=sin the
refpeilive Eilimates be granted to his blAjetty's fur-
ther fervices to which they referred, for the year end-
ing the sit of January, 1808. The following are
fume of the principal items :
}or defraying the erpence of publifbing Proclamations
and Advenifements - £ro,soo
Civil Buildings - - 2.5,000
Printing 2,y0 Copies of the Atts of this Winn s.ico
Printing and Stationary for the Public Offices in Dublin a i,soS
Criminal Profecutions and Law &pence& ay ,000
Arrelling public offenders - 2,500
Reformed Minifters . T 9,429
Together with the ufual grants for the charitable hittitutions in
Ireland.

On the Refolution for a grant to the Society for
the Difcouragement of Vice and Promotion of Virtue,
Mr. HERBERT objeaed to the grant, on the
ground that the Society ought to bear the burthen of
their expences on their own q4oulders, but withdrew
his oppotition, on being informed that the grant was
intended to enable the Society to furnith Bibles and
Prayer Books to the mall of the people, at a reduced
price. The Refolution was agreed to, after a few
obfcrvations from Mr. WILBERFORCE and Mr.
CORRY.

On the Refulution, that a fum of pool. be grant-
'
ed for the Roman Catholic College at Maynooth, in
addition to the turn of eight thoufaad pounds annu-
ally, which additional grant was for the ereilion of
other buildings, for the further accommodation of
the Students in that Seminary, 4 Ilion but intereft-
ingconverfation took place.
Mr. PERCEVAL had no oblation, as this efla-
blithment had been founded previous to the Union,
to granting the fum of B,oopl. as ufual ; but as he
looked upon the prelim &imputed addition as the
commencement of an intrealing expenditure, which
would tend to make that Inllitution rival the Univer-
thy of Dublin, ;id to the e(lablipiment of the Ca.
duty' tholic Religion, he felt it his tity to exprefs his dif-
fent to it in th'e firli infiauce, though he did not then
Itt
mean to profs his op ciOtion to a ilivifion. II he was
rightly toforfoed, - yolab of the Roman Catholic

Gentry were educated in the Univerfity of Dublin,
before the eltAlithment of this Inaitution,which prat
tic: had wholly cured fence. If this addition were in
this inllance to be granted, it would be the founda-
tion for a further application next year; and he was
againtt the policy of giving any encouragement to
the growth of the Roman Catholic Religion.
Sir JOHN NEWPORT obferved, that the qoef•
tion was, not whether the Catholic Clergy fhould be
educated in foreign countries, or at home ? for in the
prefent Rate of Europe, they could not go for educa-
tion to foreign countries. The quetlion, therefore,
was, whether they fhould be educated at all? Every
Gentleman would admit that the Catholics could not
by being educated abroad, be rendered better fubjeds,
and that a dorneflic education for them was mod
deferable. Since the eliabliatment of the Inflitotion
by the diftrfe of foreign education, the demand for a
fupply of Catholic Clergymen had increafed, in order
to replace the infirm or the dead, had increafed to
fuck a degree, that the College did not afford fuffi-
cient. Zr had on that account been recommended by
the Government of Ireland to increale the Grant, for
the purpofe of providing greater accommodations.
The Nation was folely for the education of the
Catholic Clergy, but a lay feminary had been eflab•
lifhed near the College, which had the benefit of
the Profeffors of the College. The Catholics had
not been allowed to enter the Univerfity of Dublin
till the Relaxation in 1793, and this Inditution had
immediately been founded.
Mr. HERBERT declared, that there was not an
item in the whole accounts which he would fupport
with more real pleafure than this grant.
Mr. GRATTAN obferved, that the queflion was,
whether Parliament would fuffer ? by fuffer he meant
impofe upon the Catholic Clergy the neceffity of fo-
reign education and foreign conneetions ; or whether
it would give them the means of education at home
If the great objeEtion to the Irifh Catholic was his
foreign conneflion, the better way of getting rid of
I that was to educate him at home. In this confided
the wifdom of the Irifh Parliament, in founding
this Eftabliffiment, in the year 1793. Though
he might think it better that the Catholics should
be educated in the College of Dublin, where
they would amalgamate with their Protedant bre
threw, than in their own College, yet he thought it
much better that they thould be educated in a Col-
lege of their own, than in a foreign College. But the
fum was fo fmall, compared with the magnitude of
the objed, that he was flue no objection could be
preffed againa the grant. Thirteen thoufand pounds
was a very moderate fum to be granted for the
education of three millions and a half of people,
efpecially as domedie education would promote the
allegiance, and foreign education might promote the
difloyalty of the Catholic.
Mr. BANKES objefted to the Grant, as it would
have a tendency to promote a growing ellabliihment
of the Catholics, which he walled to tolerate, but not
to eflablifh.

Captain HERBERT and Lord STANLEY both
concurred heartily in the Refolution, becavrfe the
withholding education in their own feminaries from
the Catholics would not promote the Protellant Re-
ligion, and it was of the molt efrential importance
that they fhould have the benefit of the inaruaion of
learned men of their own perfuafion.
The Refolution was then agreed to without a di-
vifion ; and the other Refolutions having alto been
voted, the Houk refumed, and the Repert was or-
dered to be received on Monday.