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London, England, 1829-03-28 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS MARCH 27
Mr. Score permuted Papers from the Courts of Chancery ani
Exchequer in Ireland.
The nineteenth Report of the Committee appointed to inquire
into the state of Public Charities was laid on the table
The Red of ROSEBERRY presented a Petition in favour of
the Catholic Claims from the Royal Burgh of Stirliog.—Ordered
to be laid on the table.
Lord CA LTHOR PR presented similar Petitions from the t. wo
of Birmingham, and from Wasfield. its the county of Suffolk •.
Ordered to be laid on the table.
Earl GREY presented two similar Petitions, one from the n-
habitants of C,okhester, and the other from the Protestant 1)1 se.e.
ten of the Independent denomination in Colchester.—Order •J to
be laid on the table.
Lord HOLLAND said, be rose at that early period of the
evening an compliance with a regulation adopted mice be had last
the honour to Occupy a seat in their Lordships' llowie—.4 regula-
tion to which he certainly should have no objection. but which he
thought necessity alone could justify—to preemie several petition,
all of which, with the exception of two, prayed for the regrowsl of
those dieabilites under which the Roman Catholic. bad so long
laboured. In presenting those petitions he thought it his duty to
remark, that, owing to the ill state of hie health. he had been
prevented from presenting them at an earlier period, as a large
number of them bad been for a considerable time in his possoo•i at.
He would not now enter into a discueshin of the subj. ct to v h ch
the petitions related. They all prayed their I.or.ohips' .swot to
the great margins) now before Parliament ; anal all lbe• rs Ave,
with the exception.of two or three Goo} Ireland were silver item
Protestants or froOtroteetant Diwlttirs, and that net hr thote-he
was sufficient to >how that the petitioners dig not th r; the B a• •
in prognese through the ether House wc tea affect the Protests- t
constitution or the Protestant esublishnsent. The Noble IA r I
then presented the first petition, which he elated to he that of
the three denominations of Dissenters • whines nyder mars of
London—the In dependents, Baptists, anti Prealtyteri.n. It w•••
determined upon at a general meeting of timer denote natt .m. a ter
a long, aniline, and delibeiate debate, by a. major ty of three to
one. The other Petitions were from the -i'reshyttrians of the
• south a Ireland ; from the* Pat-thirteenths of Hellion, lien. Undue;
and of Duchitsgfie J, in the county of Chester; from .he di' cute
ins congregation of a chapel in Nlanchester ; Worn the stew tad and
local preachers of the Primitive Westrysin hlethodot• to Loigh.
borough, in Leicestershire; from the Unitanane of a panel so the
county of Norfolk ; of Barking-greet chapel, in the city tot Gitou.
tester; of Battle. in the county of Suave ; of Mows Sit ect chapel,
Manche's:re; of liillingiturst, and another parish in Leicester; of
the parish of Chowlers; of a chapel in Finsbury-nu tie ;of ibe
parish of St. John's, Hackney ; of a parish in Done-shire; of
Blackfriare chapel. Surrey; of Honiton an Devenshire; art °nom
bark, in Lancashire; of the city of Bristol; of Bolton le. Moors ;
of South-place chapel, Finsbury; of Wareham; esti from the mi.
misters of the Unitarian Society in the counties of Lane ist r and
Chester; front members of the Established Chinch and Protest .sit
Dissenters of Stroud, in Gioeicestt 'like ; from the general II trtist
Society art a pariah in Slane:; (runs the Baptists of St. Tnore's.
street chapel, in Portritouth ; (rum the Dissenters of Deptiord ;
from the Dissenters of several denominations in Chichester ; front
the Dissenters of High•street Chapel, Newport, in the i.e. of
Wight; from the lispist Society of Norwood; from the lisp ists
of a parish in Bucks; front three denominations of Di.. mere lit
the West Riding of Yurk and thy City of York; from the Os eo-
byteriatis and Baptists elf Natosvich, iii Ikesetshire ; from the Dia.
muting Congregation of Hustler Street Chapel. Liverpool; fru n
the Protestants of Whitechurch, its the Archdiocese of Dsblin ;
front the Roman Catholics of a pariah in the county 01 Oa: rI;
from the Roman Catholics of Ituscarb> rry, in the coo sty car (:.are;
front the Protestant inhabitants of the borough of Wigan, in I.JI.
cashire ; front the inhabit ints of Kingston upon Thames;
from the inhabitants of a patiati iu Gloucester; keen alt- I. habi-
tants of a pi..ce in Northampton ; and from the 1.../11 ta. Noosug.
ham and us viclitity. The N ;We Lord said be would lake it upon
him to say that the Petition he then prestuied, and which was sety
numerously signed, bad obtained its •issiatures without any 8..1id.
laden stn the part of those who bad originally (ranted the Weirton.
The jails lt.d not been retorted to for signaturee, nor had s. -y chil-
dren or lunatics signed it. He understood that another I' rigout
of a contrary nature bad been presented from the same pisee,
which was said to have been very numenoisly soignee!, seal animist
the signatures were those of every felon confined in the jail. 'lke
Noble bird presented similar Petitions from Ilminster, not front
Leicester, which last, he observed, was signed by 5,334 pertants,
many Of whont were certainly in the lower ranks of life, but ye;
perfectly understood the question; also a l'etitiots fruits the city of
Glasgow, very respectably signed. The Noble Lord said lie bad
two other Petitions to present upon a subject which Ise did lint
perfectly understand; they were from Ireland, and these prayer
was for a ripe.l of the Subletting Act. It what was stated sty the
petitioners should prove true, be thought the subject was worthy
their Lordships' consideration. The Manlius were front Ilusear-
berry and another parish in the county of Cork.
All the petitions were laid upon the table.
The Earl of HADDINGTON said, be rote with very 'great
satisfactiun to present a Peddles from the city of Edinburgh in fs.
sour of the Bill for removing civil disalilities from the human
Catholics, which would shortly come before their Lprdshipi; and
be felt satisfied that no petition was ever presented upon the sub.
ject more we/thy of their Lordships consideration than that be bad
now the honour .to present, whether their Lordships considered
the place from whence that petition came, or the respectability of
those individuals who had signed it. It arse from a place which;
neat, perhaps, to Aim great metropolis in which they weer worm-
Med. was the most important in the Empire; none were brute
able to judge of the great question they came forward to support
than its inhabitants. The petition originated in a meeting convened
for the purpose, at which there were assembled 1.1100 or lOW
individuals, many of them the most respniable and sefite nrial per.
sews in that city. They were persons of all patties attil.delit onto..
dons. who formed themselves together for the purpose of penises.-
Mg Parliament in favour of the measure. which they loulod upon
with feelingeof interest and delight. The worthy Baronet who
filled the Chair no that occasions and lobo held the office art Chief
Magistrate of the city of Edinburgh when his Majesty honoured
that city with his presence, was known to many of their Lured.
Nips; and be (the Earl of Iladdingtoo) might woritubs
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Whoever saw the name of Sir James Monerielie eubwribed lethal
ipetition, he thoughts would be 'Wronged to view We erosion' as one
tram which no danger was likely to arise to the Establieheel church
of Scotland, not that it tbn stewed any danger Of untenthmegO upon
the Constitution of the country, %%hen he saw the Lames ul.Jeg•