Star.
London, England, 1829-03-10 00:00:00

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ask if bi'birit, redeemed his pledge of inspecting the sig-
estates tea. petition front -be Protestants of that Copoty
Which I had the honour to present to this Houset•-cro!.:
Thst•daY l.st, ant that, if he has done so, to requirdi
Mat he will Either confirm the assertion he then -made,
that the iretnisners were I. hole and corner mek'for wllf
•Fit!sealtft tie scatted:in was unfounded, and do them
tit at ovicsgthey ate entitled to- byacknowledging
eriof...ffee. if there are any " hole and corner men"
46tn eteggr tVi icsterford.fl will tell the Hon. Member
dais ippellittspe is more appropriate 'to his suppciFters.
kiosk* fittaheir priest.ridden cabins, than •to those
whose I hie -same' are attached to this petition. I
depretioc-oi wick litany man the waste of time-ocea-
siontrfisS !Motion. House by altercations of• this no-
tate opon'the presentation of petitious, but, however i
• lamest it...LI-feel I shOulthe guilty-of a dereliction of
. savdtity towards those honourable persons who have
confided•their, petition to me, it I subniitted without re-
atoaktr-atil.'enifdid not indignantly-repel the talons'.
Botts acestation the • Hoot Member his thought fit to
peter. It may-be said,•ffir, kis futile to trouble the
• Haase with -these observations, but I am of a different
ropioion, %At the accusation has been made I am en-
titled to have it substantiated or contradicted. Honour-
oblespessons have entrusted their petition to me, and I
will see justice. dons to ikon'. It the Hon. Member'
preset yes silence L shall consider it an admission that
dre charge is unfounded. _ _

. ' Mr.L STUART admitted that • the Petition in question here
the signatures of Lord Cheep. Stretford, and many other Probers.
. taut Gentlemen of rank .in the county of WaterfOrd. He alma&
however, repeat now what he said on the former occasion, namely,
that the Petition' did not tapress the &pinioned the majority of the
Protestinitt of-the•Coarity-of Waterford. •
The Pktition was then brought op and read.
Nr.• MOOltli presented a Petition front the Protestants of the
Codiaj.of Cork,. against further Concesslous to the Catholics. Ile
ohsersed; that 'lt .eapees`setl their serious apprehensions as to the
cotoorquenCis of the invasion Of the Constitution of 1688, and their
. Wit( that tht present distutbances-wosid not be quieted by' Con-
.,'CtS4lool to the. Catholics.
Atter a feerobsethations from Mr. Jarosos against the Petition,
'andVold Admiral Eves* in its favour, it was laid upon the table.
Mr. • MOORE then mewed .Fiddons from the Seceding
Synod of Ulcer; who were nearly unanimous in their opposition
to this measiore. Ile also presented *Petitions from the l!resby•
tear of Armagh. and from eighteen Parishes in the County of
to the same tlltct.--Tbese were severally read, and or.
&red.:to-Imprinted:
Sir 11. IN6Lilfilaid be was about to present a num..
iset'at•PetittiMS agaltist- further concessions to the ca-
tholic., born Various places in the neighbourhood of
LottclOn; He asserted, confidently, that-the peat Maio-
-tit;; not only of oumbef s, but of intelligence, amongst
'the people Wits against the measure—(Laughter, and
loud cries of " No."). He was site that that was the
tine aft the later masses of the people—("t So; no!")—
'He did no: Valk of the fnajoi ittof ititelligence-aMong-
-a•ntrnitm of given individuali, for he did not mean to
caiteird iii that House that the moil splendid talent had
not .been exhibited lOUs favour, Wit he arrant to say
Oaf- a. las gepiopolnon of the intelligence of the people
'at Eitgi,and was against the measiise...4" No, no r)-
When'he wastidd•that this was disproved by the last
appy.% -th's the • people, Medi lb 18426, IM denied it on-
~glitt Fly in order to'have a fair test
Of the opiiiioshisif the petiole Of; England, his Majesty
Might AO V:1116 eibi tied iii•his'Bpeech at the close of last
of recilertistnding a measure such
'as this svMehhehisif rdohr itt".;mmended its his Speech,
it' the c drideneeMeit of this' Session He ought to
traiseVatid 'that ltisilltiiiistess" WOW ptsopose, fUr the
cinisfilet moot •ot- tile rical:kstliument, a men use of,
this kind; •
then the •peolsie Would have known that
the fel tesentatifreii titgftn they elected to sit in the
tiakt Patiiisitrettl'uould.be those to whom they mast
enthist the deeiiiiin
.61 this' Most Orbited; question.
IfCtich-4 c' *hie hadhem:putsuid, • nod the supporters
of: the ineasitre had twilled a majtirity; there would,
Bari been andiereaShb td talk oUthe asajori y of the
p-ople 'befog id its .favoist ; but at present he denied
Volt to be M., tart. A finer Made could no‘noW.be
ifithpleth 'than' that appealing td the people in %hi;
and.if • sutlf ad appe.it were made, he had no
Moral di tibt that there Would be a large and ores-
aiajoiity against the meastre,--(No, no!)
He had .no doubt that if his Majesty's Ministers, in-
stead' of adopting the cOttfse thy had actually pursued,
bybeepingthenintentions secret up to the last mo-
talent,. bad stated what they theMselver thinght, and
;Waled- to the people it, they would have ob-
tained* such a majority as would have enabled them
reto sin their 'gi Lund. and. to have rejected the
diming.. In justice to the House, be should present
all Mese Petitions at once. The fit st liras horn Whit. -
chapel; and to thot *l.4.7B'signatures wereattached.
'Petition Was the result. of a 'meth% called in a
regular- manner ; and at Mat meeting a motion having
been pit to pass a resolution tavout able to the measure,
;ewes rejected by 176 to 24. Thr Petition was there-
fore fahly.itiopted after a discussion, and signatures to
06 ',Cunt of 1,478 ha& since been attached to it
The neat Petition was atom the parish of All Sinn's,
Poplar, with >ignatures to the amount of 1.181, all 61
which had been attacked to it within four slays, and it
was sl'amd to him-that no' person node, eighteen. years
Of age nail keen permitted to sign. He called the at--
tent inn tit the /1-06•Oradle Menders tit tint City of
Loudon to' thie Petition, because onf Of:ClCen, had the
other ',VIIt represented, that thews Pitinniss stele now
fal.ali got up..and had stig.rstatisesi those with bad ass'
tested. in proem:it* theirs
.•.Theiwit Petition was frord
Bt. Aim's; BlacinifiN, signed by.4..50 pe:ionsl another
from Bildeaili Chapel, with 02 signatory*; another
from thd synod ot. Seceders at Glesgootagned by 870
persons,-and three others sigeed by 1,136; by 73,5,-bad
b) 4•V:petsoris. lie had good reason to belly a: thit
usury cne of these Petitions had heels signed sine* Nis
Skeech had been made froni the Throne. attain the
intention of his Majesty's Munster s. De tt.e.efin e
thonght.thr these Pet tidris deNfred the g,arcest
hi-
tenftim. * ••
fstr; bra, RICE was m 1,4,00410 herr the Hon. Mee*.
bet foi'llas Univerety dl 4.hlq!it iritimitiMg tint the
HitrOse dt cdintttons yid -Mt iept'eseut the opinion* of
(41peciiire dl Ertglanil on dais subjects kite sapersied
have braid the Hen. Baronet follow up this droiana,
*ashy some wooed' fur a refoyin. though he had op.
posed ref oin of any kind:. It Was too hinds dossesei,
to sat that the sense and intelligence of the people of
Eng Obit were opposed to his Majesty's Mi..istess owe
this. subject! after:the *koalas fact of the lite division.
As ifs lite pedocnts stn this Sobjee' t it was kid, th while io
ciaihint.fillifi *bat they proceeded, and bow the minds
of Jtki.e.t94.itere eicited Mogan to get up those pest,
tney did not proceed from the good sense add
futehtitee mthe coeiriiry, bit bosh the bid sense,
big** • 'and !gum ince of iieitple out of doors. Same shoi
tises Aegis sinus ter}. to Which Hon: (imitates* must
WOO, flwdthslhe iodignaut at. He bads pidtiord-pist
ids tuVhalittii in. Ii high it was Stated that, Mite Ceillo;
hc-Ilithinpilatidd Gist higlui, i.ot less th in fifty arillioas
of.Pititessassi.4 become to Papal Menge,
filf ensfimss modes of twinges sects as bushidgs 19641111 g
--(slaugii).--tbunstricrows, dod tokf, • 'There were a
swim:, of ealiar woad*.df ttsilisie•WMeraladi add
maseltweant&rid ksattlsid;
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