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jested to the did ritschisemeutbuut upoishog tabu grounds,
and because the principle might be hereafter extended
in a manner which might be attended with great incon-
venience. Upon the whole he highly approved the
=leisure of telief, as it would subsitute peace for wile,
weakness for strength, and harmony for intoler.snc•
T/39 It 01,1 e Marquis cenelyild by moving that the pe-
titipa be read at length, which was accordingly done
by the Clerk of the House. The Noble Marquis then
• presented other petitions of t'le same nature from the
Merchants, Bankers, and others in Glasgow ; from the
Steward. Recorder, and Potmen of the boroutzh of
Ipswich; from a C inisegstion of Unitarians in Bel-
ford; front th • parish '.l fadcaster, in Yolkshire ; and
from the Roman Catholics‘of 12 parishes in Ireland.
The Earl of CLARR presented a similar Petition from Rath-
kept. In the county of Limerick. •
The Duke of SUSSEX presented a °Panda in revolted Ratan.
cipation from the inhabkants of London and Westminster, signed
by 1,17.5 permits. among.; whom were 400 merchant", 11 bankers,
198 lawyers. 17 Quakers. and 149 medical men. The Royal Duke
said that. knowing the 'tartness of the Nobliand Learned Earl oa
*objects of that Dusty, be had been very correct lo his inspection
B(4te P thou.
The Earl of ELDON said that be was happy to see that them
Were 17 Quakers who admitted that Ober, were Lords Spiritual to
that Haase.
The Earl of DARNLEY presented a Petition in hewer of
Emancipation from Rochester, in Kent, and rfritersted the °twirls-
doos'which he Ism often made as to the Tray in which Pratium of
a contrary stature bad been signed and get up.
The Duke of RICHMOND begged permission to
say a few words. The Noble Lord seemed angry with
him. because he said it was his dirty to bring foiward
the persons whom he accused e f obtaining signatures
by means of menace and compulsion, in order that such
persons. if any such were really in existence, might be
dealt with as their conduct deserved. The Noble Lo d.
in accusing the petitioners so generally ignorance,
most surely nitan to make a'. exception in favour of
the county of Kent. The Noble Lord would surely
not say that the inhabitants of that county ohs bad
sembled at Psnenden Heath remained in a state of ig.
norance. lie, surely, would not deny that they must
knoW what they were doing, after having had the ad-
vantage of a speech upon the subject from the Noble
Lgrd himself, and speeches born other Noble Lords, to
say n 'mi.% of the speech made upon that occasion by
a Learned Irish Gentleman oho volunteered his Sel'-
Viet' for their instruction. The Noble Marquis had
spoken of the great number of conversion's to his aide,
of the question. BUt he f og• tto state that that side`
had recently acquired thePs easier. Give him the Pre
mier above all other converts. This was the convert
to make eimeorsion fasisionahle. He would never con-
descend to call in the aid of clamour in support of any
opinions he might entertain. But his prejudices, as he
supposed he must call them, mete deeply tooted. They
bad been confirmed by *the arguthents he had often
heard both in that and the other Iloure of Parliament.
H • still remembered the doctrines so earnestly and stu-
diously inculcated, that Emancipation scold never sa-
tisfy the Roman Catholics of Iceland, anti that it would
n t be granted without 'breaking up the Constitution.
However the persons mho havlb rmerly emplojed these
arguments might think it convenient to renounce iheui,
he Could not 10 easily renounce the opinion they had
eontsibutrd to fix in his mind. He should; thersoor,
meet tt e measure, o he-never it Crime before their Lord-
ships. • ith every Pethemettery me ans of 'lemma,.
After a few words from the Esti of r atwouru and the Earl of
Dattatung. the petition was laid upon the table.
The Earl of ELDON then rose to move the Order
of the Day, ir That there be laid before their Lotrisbips
an account of Roman Catholics. in England who hate
taken the oaths under the Act of 1791, and in Ireland
who have taken the oaths under tie Act of 1793, each
since the year 1815:' The Noble Earl, b: fore pro-
ceeding to the Older of the Day, said that he had not
on that day brought down any Petitions to the House,
observing, that, in presenting the Petitions with which
he bad been entrusted, he had often unintentionally
been the cause of giving their Lordships a great deal of
trouble. He was, however, sorry to acquaint their
Lordships that the number of Petitions had so accumw-
listed upon him that he should be obliged in the course
of the next week—(Hear)—to give their Lordships even
more trouble than he had dr•ne before—(Heal). He
could not on the prerot occasion help observing, that it
VIA, very singular that. at the /newt day, w. en the
people of thisscountry exhibit more feeling, mcre senti-
ment. and more apprehension, than they had ever done
at any former period within the last fifty years in which
he had had the honour of sitting in Parlisment—it was,
the Noble Lord said. very singular that in such ensure.
stances the Noble Lords on the opposite side of the
House should have discovered, for the first time. that
all the Petitions which they presented were re•pectably
got up and signed, whilst all that were presented of an
opposite nature were stigmatized with every nett of op.
probiulle expressions—sale to be got up in hole, and
corners—to have been signed by charity children, school•
boys, ac.—the fact being that not one word of all this
could be truly alleged against those Petitions. He (Lord
E.) had now, with astonishment, heard it said that the
people ef this country were, as it were, guilty of a
degree of presumption in attempting to judge of a clues•
Lion of this nature. It was said, indeed, that in matters
of t;ade and merchandise they were competent enough
income to a sound conclusion, but that, when-a qu:s-
lion of another sou came Write them—when the noes-
siiire was the salvation or destruction of the institutions
which they revered and wished to preserve inviolate—
that upon this point their judgment was good for no-
thing—that their voices were to be - insignificant when
they called upon their Lordships to maintain those in-
atitutions which had been established by a Parliament
containing lawyers, divines, and•other men of character
sod eminence, at least as great as were eujo) ed by any
saes of the present day. He wished to sty one word
• about the dissolution of the Avsociation by themelves
—Olen). His opinion upon t!se measure shish had
been enacted for the purpose of patting down that body
was, that, unless the leaders and members of it could
ore aati-fied in some other way, the Actwhich had been
passed would- be equally evaded and 'wife, ru al.—
AA, Am was, passed •in 1.704 .graning certain ptivs.
legit tp, the Citholics of- Englsndj on their -consent
int to take the oath of ailejoance to the King and his,
Ikoteast tut successoes ot the /Ir. of Menotti. ; Arid
0460400 were apprinted to, tee ify for such at had
famed to the oath ; making a register of their. names
and places of abode. It wait something singular that
others_de Prissy Council, wished, to ascertain -the num.
boc.nrilooss isho•had conformed, they found that the
ours had made no retail na, that no information could
bit obtained ; and whel. inteiries were made at Watt-
@ninon Hall, is emoted that in some counties none
had taken tips oath, its some only two, and. in others
fowl:, hie would now submittn their lordships cousi-
deratiou that a> return. should be laid before the House
of the number of, Roman. Catholics in England who
had taken the oath. since 18441. As to Sr.otJand there
bad ale bma an Act. pastas' for the reliefof the Roman
Catholics of that country, sad thee Lordships
wrrold-
rnwsembe:r thalamus Watt& he. aside to the &three
of tip :literal:seas. It "formed part of the resent