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READING SAUCE.

"1" COCKS, the Inventor and Proprietor of the
e CELEBRATED READING SAUCE, begs most re-
spectfully to caution the Nobility, Families, and the Public,
against the daily frauds and impositions practised by many Lon-
don and Country Oilmen and Fish Sauce Venders, to deceive
and deprive them of the
GENUINE READING SAUCE.
None are genuine but those which have the corks sealed with
the impression, " J. Cocks, Reading ;" and also the following
description of the Sauce on an orange-coloured label, " Reading
Sauce for Fish, enriching Gravies, &c. Prepared and Sold,
Wholesale and Retail, by J. Cocas, Reading."
This Sauce is generally used at table with all sorts of Fisk,
in preference to all other Fish Sauce:, and is esteemed peculiarly
delicious with Game, Wild Fowl, Hashes, Steaks, and Cold
Neat. Warranted_ to keep good seven years in any climate.—
It is presumed that no Sauce ever met with such general appro-
bation and extensive sale. It is patronised and recommended
by most of the nese FAMILIRS in the Kingdom, and is retailed
'in London by MO of the most respectable Oilmen and Fish
Sauce Venders • in Bath, by SO ; _Bristol, 20 ; Edinburgh, Glas-
gow, Perth, and Aberdeen, b 0; and by nearly all the principal
Fish Sauce Dealers in the United Kingdom, most of whom sell
Cocas's Genuine and Superior Essence of ANCIMVIILS, made
with prime Gorgona Fish, rich as possible.

nonsE AND DOG MEDICINES,
PREPARED BY T. WATSON, DRUGGIST, CAMBRIDGE.
91HESE Medicines have been for many years in the
A. highest repute, and are sanctioned by most of the first Sport.
ing Characters in the Kingdom, who have given the Proprietor
their testimony in writing.
TAM HIS MA:DST'S HUNTSMAN.
Home Park, Windsor.

Sta—l have made use of your Balls fur the Dog Distemper
for several years past, and find them far preferable to any other
medicine I ever tried; therefore will thank you to send me as
many as you can fur --- note, and direct them to Mr. Rich,
No. 101, Holborn-hill, London, and they shall be paid for on
delivery.—l am, Sir, your bumble servant,
R. DAVIS, Huntsman to his Majesty's Harriers.
s. d. s. d.
Purging Balls for Horses 1 4 Diuretic Balls (I dos.) 3 0
Blistering Ointment 3 0 Cordial Balls (i doz.) 3 0
Distemper Balls for Dogs 1 6 Alterative Balls (8 doz.) 3 6
Kirby's Liquid Blister in Bottles, 45. 6d. and Bs.
Sold by Butlers, Chemists, 4, Cbeapside, St. Paul's, and
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terloo-place, Edinburgh; and 34, Sackville-savet, Dublin; said
b y the principal hlediciue Venders throughout the United KingdOnl
Purchasers are requested to ask for" Watson's Ilore and Dog'
Medicines," and to observe his name and address au the direc-
tions, to prevent impositions.

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The Duke of PORTLAND rose, pursuant to no-
.ice, to move the second reading of the Bill for ena-
bling Catholic Peers to take their seats in that Mdse.
Although most anxious to spare the time of their
Lordships as much as possible, he could not move
the second reading of this Bill without reminding
them that in the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth an Act
had passed, making it necessary for the Commons to
take the Oath of Supremacy, but containing a clause
which exempted the Members of the Upper House
from the operation of the Act. The consequence was,
that Catholic Peers continued to sit in that House until
the 13th of Charles 11. At that period, certain Ca-
tholic Peers being supposed to be implicated in a
Popish Plot, that Bill was passed which deprived
them of their seat in the Legislature. Of all the Ca-
tholic Peers so implicated, Lord Stafford alone was
brought to trial, found guilty, and executed. But
posterity, instead of ratifying the verdict of his guilt,
still looked upon his execution as nothing less than a
legal murder. The Act then passed was one which
belief in the existence of the supposed danger could
alone justify. But if the exclusion of Catholic Peers
was necessary then, could it be contended that it was
necessary now ? Would their sitting in Parliament
be attended with more peril than in the time of Queen
Elizabeth, when the Pope of Rome had mcst power ?
He defied the most ingenious opposers of their claims
to maintain that the same state of things existed now
as at that period. But, even when it did exist, what
was the language of the law with respect to Catholic
Peers? It said, that "As much as the Queen's Ma-
jesty is assured of the faith and loyalty of the tem-
poral Peers of Parliament, therefore the Act should
not be construed to require Peers of Parliament to
take the Oath of Supremacy." Was his present Ma-
jesty less sure of the faith and loyalty of the Peers of
Parliament than Queen Elizabeth ? Or would it be
said that her Parliament had been too confident ?
History proves that that confidence was well founded,
for it recorded no evil resulting from the adm- issicn
of Catholic Peers to seats in that House, as long as
they had been allowed to hold them. The Catholic
Peers had opposed the expulsion of the Bishops in
1641, and supported their re-admission in twenty years
after, as strenuously as the Protestant Peers. Un-
doubtedly it might be prudent for William the Third,
considering the circumstances under which he was
called to the Throne, to exclude them from Parlia-
ment ; but would any one say that, because it had
been done then, it ought to be dune now ? During
the last -five and twenty years circumstances had
arisen which had induced Parliament more than once
to suspend the Habeas Corpus ; but had any one ever
thought of reviving that suspension, or making it
continual, after those circumstances had ceased to
exist? If a degree of unfounded alarm had not ac-
tuated Parliament in the reign of Charles 11. he w+ as
convinced that up to the present day Catholic Peers
would have sat in that House. Had this Veen the
case, would not a motion for their expulsion be nosy
considered an act of great injustice? He saw no dif-
ference between committing an act of injustice or
continuing one. Ile regretted that through ignorance
he should have so long been a party to such an act,
and, in order to repair the past, should move—" That
the Bill for admitting Catholic Peers to seats in that
(louse be read a second time." -
Lord COLCHESTER begged.leave to assure their
Lordships, with the most perfect sincerity, There was
no man living more disposed than he was to grant all
that it was possible to grant to the Roman Catholics
without endangering the safety of the Constitution of
the State. But he could not concur in a measure
which delivered both
keys cf Parliament to the Ca.
tholiCs—a mnpsure which it must be seen, however
skilfully iniaped, would only obtain a limited cone's-
'ion, iwatrftr that that concession should afterwards


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icy. The system itself was antecedent to that slaw.
It had commenced under Queen Elizabeth, with the
Corporation and Test Acts. The House of Daimons
had then excluded its own Members. The Aet of
-Charles 11. had followed, then the Bill of Rights, and
by the Act of Uaion with Scotland, by which it was
settled. that no other but Protestant Peers should sit
in that House ; at the distance of three reigns Parlia-
ment had confirmed the exclusion of the Catholics.—
Fresh confirmation had. ensued at the Accession of
the House of Hanover, and the Act of George 11.
had revived and sanctioned all that had been pre-
viously enacted on the subject. The Noble Duke,
however, saw no grounds for continuing those laws;
he proposed to revise and repeal them, and recom-
mended the present Bill as the first step towards so
desirable a consummation. If their Lordships exa-
mined its grounds, step by step, they would see the
full bearing of the measure. He bad always been
of opinion, that little should be yielded to importu-
nity, and nothing to menace but that everything
that could safely be done, should be done by the Le-
gislature on its own views; and that having done so,
it should then make its final stand. He thought that
Parliament should open the full career of emoluments
and honours to Catholic Dissenters as to Protestant
Dissenters. He therefore rejoiced when he saw Ca-
tholics called upon to perform high offices towards
Royalty at the late Coronation, and at the badge of
honour conferred by his Majesty on a Catholic No-
bleman in Ireland. The Army and Navy were al-
ready open to them, and he saw no objection to throw
open all the other roads to fortune And distinction,
and to equalize all Catholics in every part of the
United Empire. He should be glad to see them re-
ceive all marks of Royal favour, reserving only those
which belong to the Supreme Government of the
Realm. Of religious toleration too much could not
be granted : he would wish to see more complete pro-
tection extended to their places of worship, and espe-
cially that Catholics should be relieved from the
painful necessity of celebratingt,their marriages in
our Churches, where tenets were professed contrary
to their own. At the same time he would allow of
no processions in .our streets, no monastic establish-
ments, no Jesuits sending missionaries through the
land, and he would add that the College of Jesuits, at
Stonyhurst, called for the investigation of Parliament.
As to. the Catholic Clergy it would be unwise and
needless to deny their existence as a body. He thought
that his Majesty had been well advised, when in Ire-
land, t') receive the Addresses of the Catholic Bishops
and Clergy, as he had done those of other Dissenters.
But the recognition of their Clergy required new laws
to be made. Let these be properly framed, and we
should have no students educated at Rome, no Vicars
Apostolic, the mere instruments of the Papal Court,
but an Episcopal Clergy, independent of foreign in-
fluence and only subject to the Crown. Thete were
ample proofs on their Lordships' table, that restric-
tions tending to produce that effect, by regulating
the communications of the Catholic Clergy with the
See of Rome, existed in all countries but our own.
For this purpose their Lordships would be under the
necessity of recasting the 13th of Elizabeth. Let the
Catholics hold none of the offices connected with the
exercise of the Supreme Authority, none in the Su-
preme Courts of Justice, no seat in the Royal Coun-
cils, none in either House of Parliament. Our Pro-
testant E,tablishment must be maintained, or else at-
tempts would soon be made to render it Catholic;
for, let us not be deceived, the principles of the Ca-
tholics were in direct hostility to the Protestant
Church and Government; and he believed this, be-
cause he believed in the sincerity with which they
professed their religion. The Noble Earl then quoted 1,
the opinions of the Catholic Church, as expressed in
Bossuet's great works and contended that the same
doctrines had been renewed in our days. Their Lord-
ships were told to take example by other States,
where a mcre liberal policy had been adopted towards
the Catholics, and to be convinced that their admis-
sion into the Councils of the State would be attended
with no danger. But so little were the views of the
Catholic Church altered, that the Pope had lately re.
stored the Order of the Jesuits, which had been pro-
sclibed in all countries ; and protection had been
refused to the tombs of Protestants within the walls
of Rome, although it had been demanded by Pro-
testants of all countries residing in that city, sup-
ported by the interference of their Ambassadors, and
even by the request of the presumptive heir to a
Protestant Throne. if it were said that the Catholic
Governments of other countries treated Protestants
with less of mistrust than we did Catholics, it must
be recollected that the nature of those Governments,
and their institutions, made the religion of the persons
whom they employed a matter of indifference: their
case was not parallel to our own, for this country
was the only one in which the popular character of
the Constitution could carry an individual to the
direction of affairs and the Councils of his Sovereign.
He must look to to-morrow as well as to the present
day. The paucity of the Catholics was no security
against their increase. The Noble Lord then reite-
rated his wish that the interests of Catholic families
should be consulted in every practicable way ; but
believing that their introduction into both Houses of
Parliament would only tend to revive political hosti-
lities, and being desirous that the character of our
establishment should not cease to be Protestant, he,
should propose, that instead of reading this Bill a se-
cond time to-night, it be read this day three months.
Lord ERSKINE rose to support the Bill. His
Noble Friend said that he was not satisfied with the
immunities which the Catholic enjoyed, and that he
was willing to enter on a progressive system to in-
crease them, why not then begin by letting Catholic
Peers have their own? He had admitted that their
exclusion formed no part of the original Constitution
of the country, and that notwithstanding the law
which operated on the Commons, they had continued
to sit in I'arliameat till the 13th of Charles 11. or the
supposed existence of a Popish plot. Was there any
man who believed there was any truth in the charges
brought against Catholic Peers on that occasion
They had not been examined by the Commons, but
rested entirely on the revelations of Taus Oates, a
who was abroad at the time when the pretended
was to be hexecuted. Did Solemn Maynard, the

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