Star.
London, England, 1813-06-22 00:00:00

Mr. POLE CAttaw, and Mr. rhetAY: Atter which a
division look place, when the numbers were—tor the
Resolution; 38—. Against it 20 —Majority Is.
After a short conversation, the CHAIRMAN was di-
rected to report progress, and ask lexie to sit again.
Lord CASTL'EREAGH brought in a Bill to
continue to the India Company their exclusive privi-
leges for a limited time.—Read a fiat time, and or-
dered to be read a second time on Friday.
The Report of the Auction Bill war fixed for Wed-
nesday. The other Orders were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at hall-past two.

TO THB EDITOR OF THE STAR.

It is a fact, which, however little known to the
public, is unquestionably true, that the failure of the
late Emancipation Bill, so called, is a subject of
exultation to most of the English Catholics, and to
almost the whole collection of the Catholics of Ire-
land, at appears by the vote of thanks of their Board
in Dublin to their Bishops for censuring the Bill, by I,
the Resolutions of the Catholics of Kilkenny at their
general Meeting, and by numerous other documents.
The last named go so far as to degrade their repre-
sentative, JasaasßuLoEtt,Esq. barely for withholding
his assent to part of the vote of thanks passed by the
Board. This, however, will cease to be wondered at,
when it is understood that the Bill went to put the
Catholic Bishops and Clergy ender the arbitrary and
unconstitutional controul of a Directory of five per-
sons, to be named and changed at the discretion of
the Minister, and bound by an oath of secrecy as to
the evidence and charges, whether of disloyalty or
sedition, which might be brought against the former;
in fine, to subject them to a far more tyrannical tri-
bunal than was the famous Star Chamber under the
first STEWARTS, or the Inquisition itself. Nor would
the religious oppression, implied by this Bill, have
been confined to the Catholics, for, by some of the
latter clauses of it, the Chaplains of the Russian and
Swedish Embassies, 'the Moravian Brethren, the
`Quakers,
and various other denominations of Chris-
tians would have been restrained, under the penalty
of transportation, from their usual and perfectly in-
nocent correspondence with their foreign brethren.—
Still, however, it is proper to observe, that the grand
and leading motive of the Catholic Prelates in Ireland,
and of Dr. MILNER in England, for declaring against
the Bill, was the opinion they entertained that certain
clauses of it, it complied with by themselves or their
people, would have involved them in the guilt of
schism, that is to say, wocld have excommunicated
them from the Roman Catholic Church. Dr. MIL-
NER having expressed this opinion in a published
paper, called A Brief Memorial, previously to the third
reading of the Bill in the House of Commons, and
thereby, as it was conceived, having influenced cer-
tain Members to vote against it, was censured and
disowned by a majority of the English Catholic Meet-
ing, l‘eld in Stanhope-street, on May 29. In return,
he has been thanked for his conduct in opposing the
Bill by the Catholic Bishops of Ireland, in the fol-
lowing Resolution ; and it is presumed that, by this
time, he has also been thanked by the Irish laity of
his communion.
6' At a General Meeting of the Catholics of
Ireland, held in Dublin on Saturday, May 29, 1813,
the M. Rev. Dr. O'REILLY, President, the following
Resolution was unanimously adopted :
‘4 Resolved, That the Right Rev. Dr. J. Milner, BishOp of
Castahala, our vigilant and incorruptible agent, the powerful and
unwearieii champion of the Catholic Religion, continues to pos
seis our esteem, our confidence, and our gratitude.
" R. O'REILLY, President."