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tined from the granting of emancipation to the Roman
• Catholics. - He thought that when once they wee ad.
twitted to power, they would go to any lengths to ad.
IMMO their own religious tenets, and that inroads would
be attempted to be made upon the Establishathareh.
But he would net now dwell upon the subject, as he
should take an opposition, in a fetes stage of the Bill
of expressing his opinions more fully, and of pointing
•out the dangers which he thought would arise.—Tbe
Petition was then read, and ordered to be printed.,
li,. CURTEIS presented four' Padden., which he said were
nemeroosly and respectably slgned.agairist ovicesidon. They were
front Alpiston. from the Archdesconrr of Lewes, from Uckleld,
and from Portadown. is she county of Misses.
Sir T. LETHBRIDGE preiented a Petition from
Ilminster, in favour of concession. The number of Pe-
titioos of this nature which had lately been presented to
the Home from the county of Somerset proved, he
thought, beyond the possibility of doubt,' the altered
state of opioinn in that county. Now that• he Was ad-
dressing the House, be could not refrsin from calling
its attention to the audacious and insulting denoncia-
lions which had been held out against theta who had
voted in the majority upon the Catholic Question. Such
denunciations would have no effect upon him ; he should
• persevere in the course which he considered the eon-
scientious discharge of hii dirty ; but at the same time
be thought that the privileges of Parliament had been
attacked by a corrupt and venal press in a manner
which was wholly unjustifiable. His own character
bad been traduced in a manner which would justify
• him in bringing up to the bar of the House some of
the delinquents who bad attacked him; and he did
• not dou'st it, if he did so that the House would visit
them with its displeasure in such a manlier as to
convince them that they had been guilty of a gross
breach upon ;he privileges of the Parliament. It was
not his intention, however, to appeal to the House for
• the punishment of those who had so foully libelled
int Ihe should leave them to themselves. But at the
same time he begged to observe, that an influence and
a power was held over the Legislature by the Press
uhich was not consistent with its dignity and honour.
The privileges with which Paeliameto .was endowed
were given for the better maintenance of the liberties of
. the people, and he was satisfied that those liberties were
deeply involved when any infringement wits made upon
the privileges of the House. It was time, therefore,
that Parliament should come forward to assert and sup-
port its privileges, or they would be lost for ever. A
• course of intimidation had been pursued from without
which might lone deterred many Menthers of that
House from doing their duty to their country in the try-
ing circumstan es in which they were placed with re-
spect tothe great
.and momentous question which was
now agitated in the House. He declared, for his own
part, that be had never given a vote with more mental
satisfaction thin that wnich he had given a short time
since upon this measure—a measure involving, in his
• opinion, all the vital interests of the empire.—The peti-
lion was th. n read, and ordered to be printed.
. Mr. GUM weeded a Perking from Pembroke in favour of
• the Lialons.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. T. F.STCOU LIT presented a Petition from the members of
a Wesleyan Methodist Congregation of Mariborough ageism Con-
eession.—Ordered to be printtd.
• Lord Cki A NOUS resented a Petition from the Magistrates,
• Clergymen. and Freeholders of Eforidogbasn, against Concession.
This petition. he observed, was got op at a meeting of twenty
thousand persi.ns. among whom time was may
.one dioseatkat
wk.. 'Duo Nublo Luru alba promoted four mbet Petitions from
41iffrrtni places in Scodasul against C04C0111016-I)hey were an
ordered to he printed.
• Lord ROISERT MANNERS presented a Petition from two
parishes in Leicestershire against Cutices.ino.
Mi.ti. BA NKES said that he held iis.bia hand a Pe-
tition to which he begged to call the particular atten-
tion t f t, e House, .nit because there was any thing
peculiar in the petition itself, but beentse a similar pe•
tition from the same place having created some discus.
Won in the House. lle did not wish it to he imagined
_ that be should shrink fr-m any animadversions which
. might be passed upon him.eit or thy cauw which he
suprorled. The petiiion which he had now to present
was ir 41) the Under Graduates and Bachelors of Arts
of the Universjty of Cambridge, and was signed by
upwards of 600 persons. Of this petition be (Mr.
. Baiskes) bad no knowledge until it was placed in his
hands threedays ago; but he understood. that the num-
ber of those who had attached their names to it consti-
tuted a very great.proportion of that class of the mem-
bets of the University to which they belonged. This
number, however, great as it was, would -have been
much greater but for the circumstances which be con-
sidered it his den to state to the House. The such°.
rides who presided at the University had throughout
the whole of the discussion upon' the Roman Catholic
Claims been opposed to any petitions being got up at
Canibtidge. They had lent no coutrenastee to the pe-
. titions which had already been resented from that
place, and had been actitoin their ezeitirms to put them
down. He (Mr.U. Bankilldid not in any degree mean
to arraign that Learned east Hon. body for the dis-
ehergesof that which they considered on honourable
duty ;loot at the same time he did not mgret that the
Petitioners had broken thiough the strict mules which
had been imposed upon them in order to espies, ti,gif
feelings upon this all inspoitar.t question'. and those
tdembeis usho might -11 dAsed,to sopiehend them for
(saving acted tomboy to f$ wish of tho e hho seri
placed en authority over thafaskshoold 'intern* that if
the step was unprecedented the occasion' was thyme,
dented also. The fact was, that she yoprigm.ossflose
names were attached to this petition reittitatihey must
come f rward now os•never. Having oted-tbot ouch
to the Hone. and dui-with the utoso.delercoce and
rvapott to the heads of the Unteersity, he bad only to
add that he thought a Petition hens such,' place, and
from such persons, should have seine weiglit.,Tbe pe-
tition was then brought up.
Mr. BATLEY said that this Petition 411 g bt net to be taken as
severally apresside of the feeling of the University. sod it there
• were any doubt wpm the question. the better way for Government
would be to "pit a new /mousey General, wilts the matter
*mild be peeved lelysod dispute.
A*ee a few wards from Air. TIDIIITION and Mr. &MU the
Pukka was bid alma the table.
Mr. J. BROW Nit presented several Petitions ha favour of the
Catholic Claims from plates la Ireland.—Ordered to be laid UP
the batik.

COHAN CATHOLIC HUM BILL.

Seenstary Pin moved the Order of the Day for the
amp lir Coulee itself into a Committee on the Rosman Catholic
Waal. .
OantallEßß having put the peelers,
DenetP-OASCUYNIt did not rise he the purpose 4.renetelsi
dil-ficioNlbe 'Peg this subject, to Keys= the elialslaas irons
hi the-Chair. hot, u she prmi&M of the, Bill . • char,
what*, vultites Acts of Paths/Dem do *Riot, which • to
be reptekd, he wished to know to what Acts this pre
boned. Owe of those Acts which bid been particularly
was the Act of Union with Ireland. .111 e wand now as • •

his modem, and %maid, therefore, nom, " That inalrectiens be
petit N the Committee to inqaire into, and distinctly spirlfy, what
Abets of Parliament verb to berepeaird, or infringed, by the Bill
for the &het et the Roman Catholics." -
Mr. Secretary PEEL said, there would be onsoroliteilipms to
the proposition of the Gallant General; buck the 'toning IMO
et thrprocerdlogs of the Hume, she Gallo! qiipeel WNW *not
ate tbr`becouvenleoce of pressing k.* lig VOW/ larfrfefes wytnc
to Ms Nee. Friend that it be for the plea* withdratils•
General GASCOYEK wield net soot pee kb abotioop but
tumid Wag k forward la Cornatillem

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