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London, England, 1829-03-11 00:00:00

bury ; but all that either instance proved way, that the
crime of persecution belonged not to any class of per,
sons. but to the times. 6. Vitiom temporis, non hoe:lions
Istuit."
Mr. TUITE, in presenting several Petitions from
parishes in the c.-unty of Meath in fats Or of Bounce.,
pinion, denied that the petition lately presented as that
of the Ps otestant .-orm•44 beeline:44ot the ventiments nE
all the Protestants of that cosmos 'llhe Hisn..Mensber
sent on co impute violence to the Brunswick Clebaraad
an infl .mmatory .peech to a distinsoishesr Meow of
them, fu-pr osed to he Me.Sergernt L.froy.
Carmel ROC If FORT did nut rise ro•frilsow his Hoe.
Colleague about hest°. y or *front' Lefroy, but, trona
a hat fed from him relative to theWestmewth Protestant.
Petition, .t was necosary for hint to state, his tins.
Friend may be eight sedative to the w.ird 11 under.
signed." which wan in the Petition, although it 'Might
aril have 'b: en callsd the. Peri!ti n et the Nohlemen,
Grieco's% kc • &c. tale (Connie) Retenfret) may
have awaited, foe it was signed by three resident
Noblemen out of four, and by orally the whole of the
resident lauded props ietm., &e. &c. The Duke
of Bocksngbam never resisted in Westmeath, and was
now abroad. Ili. Hon. Colleague very rightly does'
not say the thirty landed propisetors who ate for the
Catholics :tie ieodenr,fi.r. many of them are not; in•
Shutt, few corm. ice were so unanimous as Westmeath
on this suljes4 without any di parattentent to the
highly respectable ibJiaduab who di/feted Item him.'
He (Colonel Rochfoal must obsess, , was na
counter petition that could have come over in a sou&
boa, and therefore they very oisely pinned it to the '
"tin case" petition float Leland—(Laugher).
Mr. MOORE bad not intended t s trespass on the
attention of the House on that occasion ; hoe, having
heard the ob.etvatMns of tne Honourable hiembet
IVestmeath, lie could not al:ow them to pan without
declining that they were calculated to do much mis-
chief to the peace of that country, for shine interests
the Hot). Member had protested in much regard. The
Hun. Member had uttered souse strictures on the speech
delivered by a sita•iiiguisheit Menthe, of the hush Bar, at
a public meeting in Dulalio. He was sure the lion. Meta.
brr had riot read the entire 44 that respectable person's
speech, '.r. if he had, that he looked at its arguments
through a false and distorted medium. when he could
toting himself to assert that it was of an ieflanimatory
character. Ile au willing to pia the speech into she
hands of any impeetiol otae. and he was sate that he
could convince him the tenour of the arguments Mir
lurely constitutional, as much 'se- as' that of any •
-peeeh that had ever been delis ered is that or any other
House ;'particularly when it vas recollected that the
,course of reasoning was founded nu us that
necessarily involved points of great delicacy, and from.
which Honourable Altakblr+nticbt easily se;ect isolated
passa},es, such tan that relative to abadviog subjects
from their allegiance. That signer:ern had been over
and over again advanced in that House, and a.as
founded on most safe and constitutional. principles. It
was f lauded ea the preamble of the Bell of eiclusion, to
the elect that. 4t Wheicas James had, by tfie advice
of Jesting and othi !Wish persons, committed acts of
which he forfeited his right to the Wolin, Ste. kc. ke."-
Now, the distinguished person whose speech had been
so severely censured merely argued on the supposition
that improper persons may have access to the Crown,
and exercise an improper influence over its councils,
and on that assumption he protested against a men.
-ure such as the Catholic Relief Bill, which tended
to give access to the,-Royal ear and :the. Royal
colleens to personi of, those eery religious and: pall..
tical opinions, the adoption of which by the Crown had
caused the abdication of James the Second. This was.
the tenour of the Learned Sergeant's reasoning, and all
who knew the character of that high indivichial a eie
awatethatthere was nor minf id the conimunity alum
averse f am uttering a single sentence calculated to in.
ime the feelings or disturb the peace of the cowary
than the highly respectable person on whom the Hoe.
Member for Westmeath had made su.:h an unwarrant.'
able attack.—Tl e petitions were then brought op. They
were from parishes in Westmeath, in favour of Como.
sion to the Catholic..