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James Ormrod, St. Helen's, Lancashire, limmdreper, April 2,3,
and 21, at one, at the Commercial Rooms. LlveritoOL Atter.
Ides, Mr. Chester, Staple Inn; ei AIM Runes, St. Helen's.
James Sadleir, Liverpool, victealke. April 1,8, and 21, al'eues
at the Clarendon-buildhip, Liverpool. ' Anoraks. Mr. Chester,
Staple Inn; or Mr. Hinds, Liverpool.
Hugh Oreaves, Manchester, merchant, March 24. V, and April
11, at tWo, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Attornies,
Hammon, Manchester; or Messrs. Rills and Co. Meetly-hue.
Alexander Frankiand, Nottingham, lace dealer, March It, 24,
and April 21. at eleven; at the Ram Tun, Nottingham. Attor-
nies, Mr. Foe, Nottingham; or Messrs. Willett and Co. Buss-
street, Strand.
Thomas Simmons, John Simmons, and William Simmons. Winch-
combe, Gloucestershire, road contractors, March 17, 18, sod
April uI. at eleven, at the Cross Keys Inn, Oswestry, Shropshire.
Auornies Mr. W. Dean, Pahgrave place. Temple-bar ;or Mr.
W. Roberts, Oawesuy.
Robert Pearson, Liverpool. Sour dealer, April 2,8, and 21, at two,
at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Attornies, Mr, Moss,
Liverpool; or Messrs. Adliugton and Co. Bedford-tow.
William Payton Summerfield and William Lloyd Sommerfield,
Uverpool, merchants. March 23, 24, and April 21, at one, at the
Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool. Attendee? Mr R. 'Cheater,
Staple Inn; or Mr. Davenport, Liverpool..
John Barnes Brucker, Uverpool, broker, March 24,118,504 Apia
81. at eleven, at the Clamodon-hoildings, Liverpool. Attornies,
Mr. E. Chester, Staple Ina; or Mr. T. Davenport, Liverpool.
Edwin Graham Sim, Mark-lane Sour factor, March 17, 24. sad
April 21, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of BM*
rums. Basinghall-street. Attornies, • Messrs. Stevens and CM
Little St. Thomas Apostle.
Dividends, &c. to-morrow.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS. MARCH 10.

The Duke of RICHMOND presented a Petition against thp
Catholic Claims from a parish in SCUM
A NOBLE LORD presented a similar Petition from a parish
in the county of Perth
• The Matquis.of CONYN HA M presented a Petition in favour
of Snisatipstion from the Roman Catholics of the county of
Donegal; and also front the parishes of Lighted. Banish. Klichristbi
Cioncurra Ki'finnan, and Ratlike&le, to'tbe same effect. .
The Doke of GLOUCESTER presented a similar Peddoa
from.the inhabitants of the town sod county of Southampton.
• Lord DE 11UNSTANVILLE presented a similar Petition.
from the inhabitants of Falmouth. -.
Mr. Dimas: and other -lilembero elf the •-kionits of Commons,
hrought.np a private Bill. •
• Mr...Hams= and other Membgevirsuslit top umber private
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atistoue
• . igaed,BOSTON preienterboreeral*Petitioos against further Con.
Amiens to the Roman Catholics from. Colebrook and the adjacent
places; from the inhabitants of a parish in the county of Gloueeti
ter; from the freeholders and other inhabitants of the parish of t
Kindest, in the county of Gloucester; front the Clergy, freeholderet
and other inhabitants of the parish of Gilmore, in Bucks; hogs
the parish of Dockland. in the saute county; in= the latish of
Wayland, in the um, county; from Ow Minister, Churckwardene,
and inhabitants of two other parishes lit the same county ; from tip
Minister, Riders, and Members of the Welsh Calvicistic Matt-
distsof Caesarean.
The Karl of MANSFIELD presented a simUor Petition (rep a
parish iu the county of Clackmaunan. j•
The Bishop of bURII id presented similar Pekrions
the Rector' Churchwardens. and Inhabitants of the parish of Wid.
bourne; him the Vicar. Churchwardens, and inhabitants of
Auderby ; and from the parish of some place in the county palatine.
of Durham.
The Archbishop Of YORK presented similar Petitions from
Huddersfield, and rruei certain members of the Clergy of York.
Lord MAY NA RD presented a similar Pythias from Rochdale,
lin Lancashire.
[ The Bishop of BATH and WELLS presented a Antilar Pathan
[from the Archdeacon and Clergy.
Lord KING said a few wads on the subject of the Petition.
Tire Bishop of GLOUCESILIt tad ihe B shop of
NORWICH rose too her, and, :Mei a short time, the
former Right Rev. Prelate pioceeded to address the
Masc. He said that he owed it to a most respectable
body of men, and to a most r• spectacle individual of
that body, to take that opportunity of making a few ob-
servations in answer to shot tad fallen 'tom the Noble
Baron (King) on a former evening. He (the B•shop of
,Gloucester) did on that evening present to their Lord-
ohips a petition from the Provost and Fellows of Eton
College against any further concession of political
power to the Roman Catholics. Upon that occasion the
Noble Baron read to the House an extract of a sermon
a h.ch he said had been preached in the chapel at Eton.
l'lr (the Bishop of Glouceotr r) was at the time convinced ,
that. the extract read by the Noble Baron was not cor•
reedy reppried. The• Noble Baron, however, differed
Irons him iu his view of the matter. •He should now read
to the House the extract as given by the Noble Lord.—
Here the Right lt,v. Prelate read the extract, which
was.to the effect that " Popish ministers were now creep-
ing into power, and would rum us all in Church arid.
St de.. They (the audience) were therefore bound to
stand up for theu principles, and to protect the religion
which the Government oppooed." The Right R.-v.
Prelate proceeeed to observe lbw', from the structure
of the seniences, he had been induced to think that they
were the work of some bungling school boy rather than
the composition of a Clergyman advanced in years, and
deeply conversant in the tear ring belonging to his pro.
frobion. The Right Re v.Pi elate then said, that he should
now read the real passage to which, it to any part
of the Rev. Gentleman's address, the Noble Lord must
have alluded. He should first, however, read a passage
:Tom
,a letter of the Rev. Gentleman. lii this passage
he sired, that after having tikea his test from the 141 h
chapter of the book of Pr overbs, " Righteousness exalt-
eth a maim!, but sea is a reproach to any people," he
rano:Led his audience to the practice of virtue and the
maintenance of true religion, and concluded by saying.
" Such is the religion which our Church possesses, and
which our Government usllirrids (not opposes), and
which is calculated to secure the general happiness of
the whole body of society, and the individual happiness
of each of its members. Maud ye, therefore, upon the
ancient ways, and see and ask for the old paths where
the good way is, and walk therein. well assured that
the religion professed by your fathers was holy and
true, but that, by- the corruptions of the Romish faith,
it•had been changed into a dangerous and intolerant
superstition, arittch was not only the reproach, but
would also be the ruin of any people who professed it."
Such wis the real passage of which the Noble Lord had
given so false a version to the House. These were sen•
finfents from which he (the Bishop of -Gloyersiee) .be-
lieved that no Protestant, whether ClergyehaWiar. lay-
man, would dissent. This was the langtage !rich'
bad been used by the Reformers who bad brought the
people of this country to the 1, old paths," from the
illireistition in which they had been buried. The Right
Reverend Prelate said, that, 'after having made this
statement and explanation, he could not help capes: ,
ing his astonishment that any Noble Lord should have.
ever thWught of entertaining their Lordships with such
,idle trumpery. He was ready to admit that The.
Noble Lord, when he was representing this affair
so their 'Lordships' notice, was convinced that the
representation .he made Was correct. But he should
have ktitewn Wane • He (the flight Reverend Pre.,

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late) and the Noblie Lord bad • brim at school
together for many years. He knew that schoolboys
were fond of raising a laugh, and that they were par-
ticulerly fond of raising a laugh against their masters.
The boys, however, in the present case, besides the jest
itself, appeared to know well for whose taste they were
insulting the entertainment. But, however ready he
might be to excuse. these juvenile politicians, he could
not so easily forgive the veteran politician who had
'rend to their Lordships the extract to which he had
called their attention. It was not worthy of the Noble
Lord to,censure a tespectable body of .men and a re-
spectable individual upon.such information as he had
received. The Noble Lord bad shown a most egregious
degree of credulity, for which he (the Right Reverend
Prelate) could in no manner account, except from the
fact that the Noble Lord was infected with the most
inveterate prejudices against the Church, and from the
extreme eagerness with • hich the Noble Lord was sc.
customed to catch..ar every scrap and morsel of a hint
which could afford him an oppoaioniey of casein dis-
credit upon the Petitions which bid lieeci • presented
upon that side. of the Hous.. The Right. Reverend
Prelate, is conclusion, apologised for having so long
occupied their Lawdships' time ; he.had, however, left it
his duty to say so mush in vindication of a Reverend
and worthy titan.. in whose society he had lived for up
wards of six end thirty years.
Lord KING saki that he should not have read the
extract it it had not come to him from a source which'
he thought entitled to credit.
The Bishop of NORWICH rose to present a Petition
in favour of Catholic Emancipation from several Clergy
of the diocese of Norwich ; and another Petition to the
same effect from the Unitarians of Lynn, in the county
of Norfolk. The Right Reverend Prelate read to the
Hothe a passage born a charge at
.Bishop Burnett to
his Clergy, in which that P.elate recommended them
to exhibit moderation towards the Protestant Dissenters
. from the Establishmftt. This c. urse he (the Bishop
'of Norwich) recommended to the Cleigy of the Estab-
lished Church on the ;uncut occasion. . •
After a few words ham the Duke of Sussex,
The Earl of WINCHILSEA tow to move the Order
of the Day, and addresses) their Lordships to the fol-
lowing effect--It is not my intention to trespass upon
yeti Lordships at any great length in moving for the
returns;of which I have
-given notice... In looking over
the returns made to this House, 1 do not find that any
returns have been 'mooted upon this subject since
those of 1767 and 1780, which were much more ezien.:
sive than those for Which 1 am now about to move.
Since that time there have been no returns made of the
numbers of the clergy, or Of the stateof the religious
establishments, of the Raritan Catholic church in this
Country. To these two obj cts my'resent motion i.
confined. The state of ignorance 'in winch the Noble
Duke at the head of the Government has thought pro.
per to t,ep.•not only the representatives of the people,
but also the hereditary councillors Of the Crown, as to
the nature of the nieisure. which was to be introduced.
into Parliament for the relief of the Roman Catholics,
'Made it matter of mere conjecture with me what that
enactment should be when I. shodld come to mike
this mo,i,n in this House. I have thought it my duty
to move for these return. for two reasons; first, that
this nation may know to what ex ent the securities of
the pe.iple have been increased in' this empire within
the last few years. In that period I have been assured
that the establishments of the Jesuits have greatly ie.
creased in this country. I can state, upon authority on
hich I cats rely, that within a few years one of the
chief establishments of that body in this co intry has
been much increased, not only by th.: erection of new
buildings. but by the purchase of coniiderable property
in the immediate neighbourhood of their demesne; nag,
I can further state that the majority of the population
of three adjoining parishes have been pinselytyzed to
the doctrines of the Jesuits.. Tie second reason by
,which I am induced to make this motion is, that, if any
provision is to be made f r the support ref the Clergy at.
the Roman Catholic Church, the people of the country
may kn w to what extent they are to be taxed fir this
purpose; for I hold that it will be. impossible for the
two Churches long to maintain towards each other the
position in which they will be placed by this measuse.
1, therefore, was anzions to, show the people of this
Country to what exte'.t they are to be taxed tor the sup-
port of a religion which everyone..f their Stn,tors has,
by his oath, pronounced to be superstitious and idola-
trous. Tile Bill for the relief of the disabilities of the
Roman Catholics is now before lie (louse. That Bill,
of which.the Noble Duke at the head of his 1113jesty's
Government stated th it, as soon as its provisions should
be knomn, they would give general satisfaction to their
Lordships—that Bill which wit, to give additional
strength and security to the Protestants, to sow dissen-
sion amongst the Roman Catholics, and establish-the
safety and tranquillity of the empire—that Bill is at
length before the Legislature. I d r not mean at present
to inquire what are the securities which the Noble Duke
means to substitute for those, old . and established gua-
rantees which have.been provided by the Constitution
of 1688. I shall upon a future occasion have an ample
opportunity of entering into that subject ; but I pledge
myself that when the time shall come I shall prove, to
the satisfaction of every man in this House or out
of it, thai the statement which has been made upon
this subject by the. Noble. Duke is the most falls
citrus, in all its .bearings, that has ever been delivered
by a British Statesman.. -1 shall, hawing said so
much upon general considerations, now confine myself
to the itanuchate object of the present motion. It may
be said that the principles of modern Romaoism are so
far different from the ancient doctrines of that Church
that the same opinions are no longer entertained by
.Rortran Citholies, and that therefore these returns are
not new any longer necessary,. as no danger can be now
apprehended from an. increase of the numbers of the
R..man Catholic Clergy. rln answer to this objection
I shall beg leave to read to the. House a few passages
from—not a Protestant, but a Roman Catholic writer
urn this subject—from a work which deserves to re-
ceive an attentive petusal•from your Lordships before
you come to a decision upon this.awlul and momentous
qu-stioa. In this work it is stated that certain obnoxious
doctrines of the Notch of Rome, however obsolete they.
may appear, are still in existence, are ready to come,
,isito.riettve operation whenever an opportunity shall be
afforded. The Truk, which I hold in my hand, has
been written by au-Italian Nobleman, who, from his
birth, station, and country, is'likely to be well versed
in all the principles and doctrines of the Romishchurchi
His book is ably written, anti there is every team to