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London, England, 1827-03-09 00:00:00

'ARLIAMENT.

aD2I, Mama S.
)UGH presented a Petition from
Peterborough against the Catholic Claims.

presented a similar Petition from a parish
the table.
, a Petition from the Bishop and
praying that no further concessions

an oppo‘ite nature, from a small
who described themselves u the
Europe, the Roman Catholic
,in the county of Roscommon.
Christian charity in the sentiments
dignified and Right Reverend Di-
just been read. There was not, In
they said, which, In point of loyalty,
• Noble Earl on the Woolsack.

their Lordships to the following

means my wish to make
Lordships receiving the Petition,
by. the Noble *now, but 1
not pass without an obser-
this Petition may be the

.. a culptit to the bar of your
lardships'HoOse ,as it will appear, if I am permitted
us wad a speech, which has been made by an Hon.
Member of soother House—(Order, order). My Lords,
I mast explain, and I trust it may appear satisfactory
to your Lordships, that it was very far from my inten-,
*to make any allusion to any Member of the Imperiall
flouseof Commons. No, my I,,ords, I allude to a speech,
which has been made by a Member of the Irish
Roman Catholic Parliament, whose speech was reported
in his own newspaper, and is now in my hand ; with
your Lordships permission I will read it : Mr.
O'Connell rose to move a Petiti against the uncoil•
stitutional conduct of Lord Lorton ; it was the indis-
psStle right of the subject to Petition. It was a right
merted by the Revolution of 1668. King James was,
hurried from his throne, for, as was said, attempting to
interfere with that undoubted right of the subject. It
was the very essence of the British Constitution, and
the violation of it was put upon record, as a justifies-
tioa of a violation of allegiance ; it was for that that
the people considered themselves entitled to cashier their
Monarch. If the Parliament of England acted thus to-
wards a Monarch, they would be untrue to the pin.
aisle, if they did not punish the Village Lord. The
Village Tyrant may consider himself a great man in his
own village, but when the Monarch on his throne, when,
be to whom the original music was chanted of ' Goa
save Great James our King,' was not above the law,
shall the comparatively petty Village Lord escape with
impunity? They shall bring the question before Par.,
Lament; they shall spew the injustice done, and can
for redress. lie would move that it be referred to the
Standing Committee to frame the draft of a Petition to
be presented to the House cf Commons, complaining
of the unconstitutional breach of the subjects rights
committed by Lord Lorton.'—Now, my Lords, you
have a specimen of the proceedings of the Roman Ca.
thole Parliament of Leland, and truly laughable it
would appear, were it not for the effect that these kind
of denunciations have upon the minds and actions of a•
deluded population, as the natural inference to be draws
from this production must be, that the proscribed per-
son is a tyrant, an enemy to the people, and an op
of their just rights.—My Lords, the origin of all this,
was, that I recommended about 14 or 15 of my tenantryl
to have nothing to do with the getting up of a Petition in
Boyle, as there was a general one for the County, and
which was to be presented by a Nobleman (the Duke
of Buckingham) of the highest rank, which probably
many of them bad signed, and which they acknow-
ledged. After a little more conversation, we parted in
very good humour, and without any threat whatever on
my part. They all agreed not to have anything to do
with the meeting which had been announced for the
following Sunday. This mating did take place, with
the Coadjutor Priest in the Chair, assisted principally
by two or three persons who had lodgings in the town,
and no further connection with it. After some very
gross abuse of me from the Priest and two others, this
Petition was agreed to ; and I congratulate the Noble
Baron on a sate deliverance of it. It is unnecessary to
trout* your Lordships further than to say, that a re-
port was made to the Convention by the Emissaries
which are employed in all parts of Iceland to excite
mischief, and I was denounced accordingly. My Lords,
it however strikes me that it may be as well to take this
opporipnity of informing your Lordships, that since I
had the honour of addressing this House, the most vim
lent threats havedseen held out against me by different
Members of the Roman Catholic Parliament, MOM
particularly by Messrs. O'Connell and Lawless. The
latter person, who is the Editor of a Newspaper, The
/rieinten, says, at one of their late Sittings, in no very
Parliamentary language, The speech attributed to
Lord Lorton, and the assertion is it that the Protestants
of Ireland are persecuted, is a lie, and that he (Mr.,
Lawless) if at the Bar of the House of Lords, would at
any expense tell the Noble Lord that he was a liar.'
Now, my Lords, as you may perceive, this Member at
the Romish Parliament is a candidate for notoriety;
but it is not my wish to indulge him further than
now doing, as really I am grown quite indifferent to
any abuse that may be lavished upon me by suck a deo
scription of persons. When they resort to any this
else, I shall know how to defend myself. My Lora.
it behoves your Lordships to put an end to this mock
Parliament (so similar to ' the National Convention'
of former days), the existence of which has affixed in•
delible disgrace on the Government of Ireland."
Lord ELLEMOROUGH said, that Parliament had
attempted to put down the Catholic Association. It
had failed, because as long as the causes which pro.
doted discontent and irritation in Ireland were suffered
to exist, all such attempts must fail. If the Noble
Viscount wished to give consequence to the contempti-
ble individuals of whose speeches he complained, he
could not do it better than by the course which he had
just adopted,
Viscount LORTON said, that it was very easy for a
Noble I.otd who never visited Ireland and knew no-
thing of its real state, to get up and speak as the Noble
Bann had done, as if he knew more than a mar.
*La had sojourned fur years in that country. Lc.

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which has been prepesmed by,
se desirous that it should is,
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' to read a speech, which ha
Member of another House—((
lipost explain, and I trust it
to your Lordships, that it war
tile to nuke any allusion to an
Housed Commons. No, my L,