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London, England, 1827-02-24 00:00:00

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IRVERIAL PARLIAMENT.
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.34t*•"\ - HOUSE OF LORDS, Fan. 43.
WWI of KINGSTON presented a Pedtion from the Men
praying to be protected agalast the Iroporraelsa cig,Fo.
Flatir._—lead on the table.
SPENCER presented two Petitions from Piddles la Ire.
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• the •Jalbursio Hetrick, and Kelso distsints of Reshwglehlres—•
Uhl no the table.
Lard TRY'S II AM presented a Peebles te-she sense Aka free
tire Owners and Occupiers of Lien it Mythe, in the 'Consity of
Kan.—Laid= the table.
111111,1 PROTUTAIITS.
Lord LORTON. in rising to present a Petition from
the Protestants of Sligo against any further concessions
to the Catholics, wished to My *few words on the sub-
• jeet to which it related. With the prayer of the Petition
he most sincerely concurred, but still he thought it no..
iiiseery to stand up for emancipation—the emancipation
of the Protestants of Ireland, who really were the
oppressed part of the King's subjects. Indeed, if semi
strews measures were not speedily adopted for their reo
lief, those who were able to remove must leave the
sowntry, and those who could not would be annihilated:
It might appear necessary to state ts their Lordships
that the Roman Catholic Parliament had been allow
to sit fa Ireland ever since an Act passed that House to
put an end to it; and was become the more daogerous,l
since it combined the highest and the lowest classes of
Catholics. The Protestants were everywhere marked
, out for assassination. The general feeling was, that if
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matters continued much longer in their present state, $
rebellion Would be the consequence. If such a calam•
should take place, he hoped that measures wettish be.
taken to. prevent the leaders from leaving Ireland, fee
• .be bad no doubt they would be the first to fly from the
mischief they made. But they should be forced to rot
main, and not be allowed to leave their dupes to des
struction. The Noble Lord begged to read an extract
From an Irish Paper, which consisted of satirical remarks
-on his appearance at a Bible meeting. The extract was
of vonsiderable length, burtl:e Noble Lord thought it
necessary to read the whale to skew the enmity of the
Catholics to, the Piotestant Church Establishment.—
With the Catholics, the terms Orangeman, Protestant,
. on& Englishman, were synonymous. The Noble Lord
also read a lettrr which had been addressed to himself
. from a Clergyman of the Roman Catholic faith. celow
• brined for the possession of great oratorical posers.--•
This letter was printed and circulated at Roscommon.
on Monday the 18th of June, the day before the else.
Con commenced. in it was this sentence—" Blood has
be w shed in Italy. in France, and in Spain, and why
should not Ireland assert her rights r To this Very,
• Reverend person he had dale many acts of kindness,
' aid he had even con-ributed to build him a Church,
yet on this occasion he had been made the object of his
attack. To 'arrive the vindictive and hostile feelings
which existed against the Protestants, he should
also read an extract from one of the compositions of
the Jesint who writes under the signature of K.D.L.
The Noble Lord proceeded to read a long letter under
this signatuieltom a Dublin P :per. Among other pas-
'. sages, wa• one which stated his opinion, that sooner or
later, the Protestant Chinch E•tablishment of Ireland
• must fall; and that clamour, bigotry, and enthusiasm
were the only suppers is of that Chuich. The Noble Lord
ob•etved, that there was a secret incrisition at wotk in
• Itelsnd, hom the baneful effec's of which the country
ought to be protected. He then Pressmted seven Yeti-
. siutis—viz. lions Protestants in the county of Sligo;
• Cum three places in the county of Monaghan; from
the Bishop and Clorgy of Killala ; the • Bishop and
Clergy of Eph•n; the Bishr4 and Clergy of Clogher ;
* and horn a congtegation of Piesbyte. lino in the county
so Monaghan. To the last Petition the Noble Lord
c lied the particular attention of the House, as it had
been asserted by the Catholics that the Presbyterians
• were in favour of emancipation.
Lo d KING was sure that the Noble and Learned
Lord on the Woolsack, when lie recoonnended *it to
their Lordships to !drain from making long speeches
on presenting Petitions, would have wished to make an
exceptints with respect to the speeches of the Noble
Viscount, because the sentimetits of that speech wiriest)
consonant to those which he himself expressed on the
same sub jest. The Noble Lord had in his long speech
stated one side of the question. He had stated that *
Protestants of Ireland were an oppressed and proserlb:
ed people; that individuals one marked out and her. -
up to public reprobation. The best answer which could
be given to the speech of the Noble Lord, was to be
found in a Petition which he intended to present. He
. would read a sentence from it, and in doing so, was
• stating the case of the oppressed, not of the law-makers
• and powerful. The passage was this—" That your Pe-
tanners most humbly beg to state, that their unpro-
tested situation and condition marks them out to per-
• petual notice and hostility; that they are the Objects of
• the reproaches of the evil-disposed, who strive to heap
wrong upon wrong, and injury upon injury, in order to
render them odious in the eyes of the Legislature." He
hAd only another observation to make, which was, that
the Catholic question put him in mind of the old fable of
the wolf and the lamb. The lamb was found guilty,
under wolf-law, and punisf•ed by wolf-law. The case
was the same with the Catholics, and was likely long to
asotinue so.
The LORD CHANCELLOR rose to explain the
eircumsta ces to which the Noble Lord had just al-
laded.l W tat he said soon after the House met in the
present Se on, when he had the honour to present a
Petition against granting concessions to the Roman
Catholics, was tens—that, accoroing to the old Parlia-
mentary usage, the presenting of Petiti .its should not
be considered an occasion for debate. He could not
help complaining of the cnnduct of the Noble Lord,
who not only would not follow his advice, but was
always throwing it in his teeth. Whether the Noble
Lord was in the habit of presenting lamb or wolf peti-
tions, he lest it to the House to determine. For the last
tins nty•five years his mind had been occup•td ire consi-
dering what ought to be done with respect to thisques-
tioo, Without, however, saying one word more, but re-
serving his opinion, and the reasons on which that opi-
nion ems rounded, for the day of discussion, he would
then endeavour to chew, and he hoped and trusted with
a good conscience (throwing no imputation on the opi.
nion of any other Noble Lord), that upon the preserva-
tion of the Church Establishment depended the civil and
religiums_liberties of this country.
Lord KING presented a Petition from the Catholics
of the county of Kerry, praying for the full enjoyment
of the British Constitutioo.
The Nost.E Loan next presented a Petition from the
working classes of Manchester, asembled in a Public