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FRENCH PAPERS.

11011 THE GAZETTE DE TRANCE, TM 22.
PARIS, Fas. St.
The Ministerial Journal contains the following article:
" A Journal has stated that Count Pozzo di Borgo
had notified to the French Cabinet the intention of his
Government to continue the war against the Porte;
that this was the object of the audience which his Ex-
cellency had with his Majesty ; lastly, that Count Pin-
tails had made communications to the Russian A mbas •
sailor, after which naval preparations had been ordered
at Toulon.

4. We are authorised formally to contrAdiet all them
assertions. There is not a shadow of truth in any one
of them."

FRONTIERS OF SEMIS, Fisavaar 1.
It k asserted at Belgrade, that the Divan has formally
accepted the declaration of the three Powers, and de-
livered to M. Jaubert an official document relative to
this resolution. •

On the other hand, it is said that the proposals of
Russia ler an exchange of prisoners, which at first ap-
peared to have been favourably listcned to by the Porte,
bass bistuinci reaccie4fialifiVaiii "flitch are nit known.

If the

pacific relations between France and England on the
une hand, and the Purte on the ether, may be considered
as restored.

effect from a parish in Chester. mid Irons the Dean and Clergy of
Richmond, In the diocese of York.. The Right Rev. Prelate ob-
served that the petitioners had seemed to foretell the course that
his Majesty's Ministers and it necessary to pur'ne, and had ex-
pressed their hope that, if concessions to the Roman Catholics were
made, die regard would be had to the interests of the Protestant
religion. He felt assured that the petitioners only anticipated the
views of his Majesty's Minimers.—Ordered to lie on
.tbe table.
Lord LYTTR LTON presented a Petition in favour of the Ca-
tholic Claims from the Baptists of a chapel in Nurtlismptoo.—Or-
dered to lie on the table.

f ban k thesis from the very bottom* of my heart. I
think it will be hardly possible for any man who hears
one this dart° doubt that I am deeply and thoroughly
interest4d in the welfare of my cnuntry—(Hear. hey).
It will be forty years nest month since I have had a seat
in this l-loirse. and I trust in GOD I have never given a
vote here that I have had reason to regret ; but certain
lam that I have never given any vote «iih half so
much pleasure and satisfaction as I shall give. at eve, y
:,age of it, to the measure now contemplated by the
Noble Doke. I consider it, my Lords, a fortunate cii-
cutnstaoce tar E 'gland and for Equipe that his ill.
jeay's Cabinet are united in a measure which every
man of common sense must loek upon for the interest
of England, and it for tie interest of En4land,
also for the interest of Eurooe; fir the interest

The Marquis of LONDONDERRY rose to present a
Petition in favour of the Catholic Claims; and in so
doing he would take advantage of the opportunity if
offering a few remarks. becaese, from whet had takes
place in Ireland, he was precluded from signing the
declaration that had been handed about, and signed by
many highly respected individuals. He wished wow to
state the reasons why he had refused to sign it, and
begged thus eatly to state that his opinions on Catholic
Emancipation had never been for ooze moment shaken.
The declaration refeired to had been signed by the Se-
cretary r f the Catholic Association, and, as he consi-
dered it might be u,ed to tutther the objects of that
body, he had refused it his' name. He thought that
nothing had been so prejinficial to the intesests of Use
cLetholics as pre Catholic Asepciation, and that aOdsia
ha-amdch-svraga much' eiserielTfroartifirei t%7
friends. It was not merely emancipation they talked
of—no; they had 'lronic declared that they looked to
radical reform, to a repeal of the Union, and to a divi-
sion of Church property. Leland had thus been the
base of those clubs, and they had produced a reaction
which had agitated tie country from one end to the
other. He bad passed some time in Ireland last years
and he had never seen it in a state of greater prospelity
but the acts of the two great parties had convulsed st,
and had done incalculable mischief. He entertained a
deep feeling of gratitude towards the Government, va.
der whose sanction a measure was about to be hate.
duced, which would have the effect of restoring her ess
tranquillity. He was deeply interested in this measure;
but he could not forget that the ablest and most talented
Statesmen had failed to effect it ; and, he contested. it
was somewhat extraordinary that this great measure
should be carried by those who had been for so many
years opposed to it. He did nor, however, quarrel with
them, but, when they talked of sacrifices made by thisl,
man and by that, he must say that the only sacrifice
that had been made was made in a quieter where there
could be no possibility of resignation. If that indi '
vidual gave way to what he believed was for the hap-
piness of one part of his empire, in that part of it he
would be adored with a fervent and lasting gratitude,
and his name would for ever stand remembered in her
annals. He hoped if the measure were carried into a
law the act would be received most gratefully in Ire-
bend. He would say of the north of Ireland, %these he
Ind lately been, that he had heard no sentiment is hich
Was not favourable to the Catholic Cause I and in the
'province of Ulster the same feeling existed, provided
the Protestant Church had those securities which the
warmest friends of the Catholic cause were anxious to
secure for it. He had heard of many Protestants going
over to the Catholic cause; but he had heard of tio
tholic advocates going over to the opposite. This was
a proof that the quest on hid been gaining ground.—
For many )ears the Gmrerament of the c..untry had
been a divided Government upon this measure; but,
happily for. the country, it was now a united Govern-
ment, and the cause mutt be successful. Is it did pa.s.
and if the Catholics were so monstrously ungrateful as
to seek to disturb the union between a Ps ()testa:lt Church
and State, let us remember, then, that there Was i Pro•
testant feeling and a Protestant energy in the country
sufficient to avert any danger. o.te of the most sails.
factory proofs of the necessity of grand.% Catholic
Emancipation was to be found in the course pursued by
a N..ble Marquis. who, after declaring his hostility to,
the cause, was sent officially to Ireland, and returned
the strenuous advocate of her cause. This fact ought
to weigh, and, doubtless, would have much weight in
considering the question. Tire present was an assfol
moment for belated. He (Lord Londoadet ry) !elt that'
the Catholics of Ireland never dese. ved the b on so little
as at this very moment—(Laugliter. and vies of Heat).
Their prime leader was no.w bete, enJe.ev swing, per-
haps, to force Isis way into the other House of li
latent ; hut all such considerations should be lost in the
necessity for the misuse, which he pledged himself to
support whenever it was brought before the House.
The Petition having been read,
The Duke of CLARENCE—My Lords, I rise to
address your Lord-hips under f clings of no ordinary
nature. It was my intention io have delivered my opi.
nions upon the subject to which the Noble Marquis has
just referred, in the course of the evening, in a mole rea
gulai course, when, as I have been given to understand,
your L"rehhips will receive the Report of the Commit-
tee on the Bill for su pressing the Caih..lic Associa-
tion—a measure of which I believe there is no man in
his senses but must decidedly approve But more of
that hereafter. But, my Lords, I rise thus en-ly in con
sequence of what has just fallen from my Noble Friend.
I hope he will allow me to call hien so, who has ex
pressed hie pleasure that this measure is now to be an
unanimous measure on the part of his Majesty's Go-
yes nnient, who had beret fore been geneiatfy opposed
to it. This is, my Lord,. the cause of my now rising
to address you, otherwise I should have waited to have
delivered my sentiments upon the Bill which you are
about to be called upon to consider in one of its stages.
My Lords, I consider this unanimity with reference to
the condition. of Ireland to be of mote consequence than
all the Petitions pro and con that have been laid upon
the table of this House—Petitions of which those who
signed them knew no more about than the paper on
which they were written. GOD knows, lied this to be the
fact. But I rise, my Lords, now, because his Majesty's
Ministers have become united. I wish to GOD his Ma
jesty's Ministers had been united iu 1825. I wish to
IGoD his Majesty's Ministers, or rather his Majesty's Ad
ministration, that might have been formed in 1804, could
have been united on this subject. From that hour my opi-
nions were formed in favour of what is falsely called Ca-
tholic Concession ; for it is not concession, my Lords—
it is the taking away a degradation—and I pledge my-
self, I pledge my life, that it is not a concession to the
Catholics, but the removal of a degradation—it is the
binding in strength together of eight millions of his
Majesty's subjects. Now I am up. I will state how
much pleasure I feel this day in supporting ti.e Noble
Duke and his colleagues, who have been so unjustly,,
for I will not say infamously, attacked. My Lords. if'
his Majesty's Ministers are, fortunately for the country,'
united upon a measure of such deep importance, 1

Letters Irom Constantinople say. that Itissein Pacha ,
has received orders to sepair to the camp of the Sultan. I
to take part in the deliberations respecting the opera.
(ions of the approaching campaign. At all events, it ,
seems that the Turks will persist in the system of de-
fence which they have adopted, and, without otherwise
concerning themselves about the occupation of the
principalities by the Russians, confine themselves to the
defensive, and to the support of the fortresses, when the
Russians should re-cross the Danube; that they will
afterwards proclaim a general arming of the people in
its fullest extent, as soon as the enemy's columns ad-
vance stereos the Balkan ; and lastly, in a general battle
in the plains of Adrianople, decide the fate of the empire.
The enthusiasm of the Mussulmans is still the same;
therfare impatient for the return of fine weather, to
ecbmmence the campaign. It appears, that notwith-
standing the inclemency of the weather for this last
tortnight, skirmishes take place every day with alter-
nate success, on the left bank of the Danube, between
the Turkish garrison and the Russians. We know
hardlrany thing of Bosnia. Tranquillity tppears to
be completely restored there. The same tranquillity
prevails in Semis, and the most opposite sentiments
seem to be kept in cheek by fear.
Farms Fusnir;—Fn. 41.—Five per Cents. 110 f. 40c. SOe.
—Three per Cents. 75f. 110 c. lie. 70c.—Bank &ock,
Naples Stock, s 1( Sic.—Royal Spanish Loau, 71111.—Ha
Loan, Oa—Exchange on London, one month, 551. Sic.—Three
months, 251. 10c.—Ckors .4.llAnttirmr.

f Lumpe is so closely coribecied with the intesest
.1 England, that every thing which cranduces to
her %velure conduces to the interest or Europe. It is
then, I say, a loitunate thing for 'his country that the
ible Duke bast re's selected by his Majesty and placed
at the head of its affairs. I sejoice;•my Lor.ts, to see
him these, and, so long as be continues the c.surse he is
now Imaging. Sn Ir.ng *III he have my buppost. My
Lords, in the only aassaaavatma that his taken plate be.
vtorlfeehisirit and awelf—
which t• nkplace wl en I resigned office, and at which
iesignation it pleased his Majesty graciously to accept
—I told that Noble and Learned Lord t at I %souls!

never form one of a factious opp sawn to the Gomm.
mein—that I consider this to I e my boonJeso
appeal to the Noble and Leal neJ Lord to confirns my

winds—(dieL.wd Ch ocellor bowed) —and I HUA 0/01141
%fiords h••e been (As fird by no act on ni Nisi; ; old in-

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decd nothing but the ab-olute conviction of the present
important cri.is to this country, and the mcessity of
I suppoi tine the Noble Duke and his A Iminktatioes in
the cow se which they have had the boldness and fair.
ness, and the candour to pursue, bhouhl have induced
me to come forwaud thus publicly brim. Cron and be-
fore man to decla e my sentiments. My Lords. I should
be the most ungrateful of all mortal, it I did not give
niy testimony to the seception I have teceiveJ lhom,
sod, in all my professional traiisactioes, the reason. I
have had to admire the character, the bravery, ani the
thorough good humour of the Irish. My ow:i ex, et ielice
lof their character has been borne out by that of al the
Csbuttnanders I hare ever known. If the venerahl Eal

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, FaRUARY 23.

Lord KING presented a Petition from the Roman Catholics of
IfonshaViu the comity of Cork, against the Sub-letting Act, the
Iri-tri Act, and in t of the Catholic Claims.—OrJered to lie

to the table.

Hoeie could arise amo. g • the gallant Lord D•nran.
whose action sealed the tate of the Dutch nAry.but yahoos
energies I more admired for basing kept his fleet at sea
during the mutiny at the Note, wets amongst ut--if the
brave Earl Sc. Vincent. whose victories wet, numerous,

Lord ROLLS rose to prase* a Petition from the meaty of
Devon against the granting of farther concessions to the Unman
Catholics. The Noble Lord said the petition was agreed to at one
of the largest meetings that bad ever been held in Devonshire ; two
amendments to the resolution bad been proposed, but were rejec.
ted s and the petition was carried by a very considerable majority.
It contaithd: no less than 114,300 signatures. He lamented the
change that had taken place in the sentiments of his Majesty's
Ministers, which threatened to endanger the British Constitution.
His own opinions upon this subject remained unaltered, and be
trusted would do so to the day of his death.
Lord KING said, the Noble Lord had stated the ranting at
which this petition was agreed to was one of the most numerous be
bad ever seen ; but it was also one of the most disorderly.

bet to whom I think still more is doe for his blockade

Lord ROLLS would venture to my no public meeting had been
conducted more regularly or mere Constitutionally.
Lord KING wished to know if the Noble Lord thought the
conduct of a Clergyman, who acted as fugleman to the meeting,
directed people who they should hear and who they should not
bear. and even prevented the Member for the county from being
heard, was Con■titurlonal? _ _ _

Lad ROLLE did not believe any such circumitanee had taken
place, although it was certainly said of a Ckryymaii from Tavistock.

of Cadiz with his fleet, were now present in this House
—and if one, whose memory is even more dear to me
than that t f any Officer who ever served his Majesty.
Lord Nelson, the hero of t' e Nile—if he could tease •
his head amongst it., and •ee the dawn of happiness
and tranquillity that i. at length spreading over I e-
land, what enjoyment would they feel? Ilcia gladly
aould they hail the present prospect for that great and
gallant body of men who kught with thrm upon the
decks of their ships, and whose conduct enabled them
to gain their victories. What would they so, I ask ?
Would they not unite with si e in bea:ing testimony to
the character and conduct of the Irish who served with
them ? I now turn to a distinguished individual in this
House—to an iiichirierts it to whom, ho • ever I might
have differed from him upon one point, I am el a stye
happy to do justice—and when I le.l,llect bow n %tat
aid he has received front the first dawn of his profes-
sion II career—when I tecollect that the Noble Duke,
from his first battle on the continent—the b,tile f
attire—down to the termination of his gloti us course
at Waterloo—was so deeply indetred to the Irish fur
their courage and support under all difficulties mid
Ovations, 1 cannot wonder at his bring most stai,•ll6
to discharge the debt of gratitude he oaes that nation,
or to serve those by whose aid his battles were gaii ed.
The Noble Duke, after having fought to establish t e
peace ol this c. U itry, is now about to establish a peace of
a different sort; and I am sure that every thing which can
be done for lieland congstently with the safety and well-
being of the comitry will be done. My ',fords. I wish
At e,.ent to say sin more. I trill yr ur Lot dst and tt e
country will believe me sincere.y at a heJ toil e IS. i*
tish Constitution. 1 may have a deal more to say on
this subject hereafter. I will now only lib.erse, that it
is one which I have attentively considered in every * y
that a man could do for the last tw my year, ; an i
during that period I have held the same opinions up in
it which I now hold. It may be said, it such wets
your opinion , why did y u nit pi t stem fora aid le ng
before this? I answer, because then eastre was ti. t
until now a measure of Government: I have no hesi-
tation in saying this. I have told your Lordships that
tot forty yams I have held a seat as a Hriti.h Peer in
this House, and during that period, of I have cited, I
have erred with lionoui. Eatly iti life I considered this
question, and afterwards in 1807. 1 beiieve this is the
-third time I have ever troubled your Lordships ; but.
when it pleinwd Goo that en, present-So. errors shoi:d
become the Regent of these matins. 1 (wined a resolu-
tion that, unless upon some occa-ion e f great and en.
grossing iropoitance, I would never come forward
to oppose his Majesty's Ministers. I did ni there-
fore, come lot ward upon this subject *bile the Ca-
binet was divided upon it. I saw the measure be-
coming of more consequence year atter yeas ; and,
until his Majesty's Ministers had made up their minds.
I thought it my duty to withhold my sentinsents
My Lords, in the only conversation I ever had wits the
Noble and Leatned Lord on the Woolsack, previous t
my resignation of office, I said, if the Noble Duke at
the head of his. Majesty's Government shon.J dam.
sine to resist and oppose the Catholic question—and
if the Government should be attacked, as it ha. now
been-1 said, although my opinions would remain un-
altered, I would not come forward as one of a facie's,
opposition to Government, although my sentin.ents
would be strongly in favour of concessions. Tha k
GOD the times are now altered; and 1 trust lt.r,,as my
heart and my soul—fur I am not in the secret—that
the intended steamer: will be found less objectionable.
particularly to the Right Reverend Prelates, than some
,people now imagine; and I hope the Hight Reverend
Prelates, before the measuie is brought Oslo the House,
will seriously and deliberately. and without passion,
give it their consideration. They ought to :member
that they are ministers of peace, and they ouy:ht to call
to mind what a situation this country would be in in
the event of a War—they Ought to consider she si osni
tion in which Emmet was now placed—a sittiatt .0 01

The Bishop of EXETER said, be should hold himself culpable
if be suffered such a calumny to be uttered against a Clergyman of
his Diocese without contradicting it. Neither the Noble Lord
near himself were lament at the meeting, and therefore both must
speak from the uuthority of others. The Clergyman alluded to
had certainly appeared at the meeting with the intention of speak-
ing, but bad taken no part in the proceedings which he was not
folly justified in taking. The interests of the Established Church
were much involved au this question of Catholic Emancipation ;
but even upon any other principle he was warranted to appearing
at the meeting.
Lord REDESDALE said, there was now in existence a sys-
tem by which certain persons endeavoured to disturb every public
meeting so as to prevent the sense of the people from being known.
It had been recently acted upon in this town, where a Cathode
Clergyman, as be understiusel, had so conducted himself.

Lord KING said, be bad his information front a person present
at the Devon bire meeting.
Lord ROLLE maintained that the Clergyman alluded to had I
not taken a more active part than other persons at the meeting.—
That individual had property in Ireland, and /vet y Protestant at
heart must teel that the Protestant interests in that country were
in danger, if the Catholics gained the ascendancy. As long as hr
Lord Rolle) lived, he should use his best exertions to preserve the
British Coostitution • and from that House he would go to the
Throne, trusting that the Royal Person whit filled it would act up
to his Coronation Oath, and preserve the Protestant religion. Hr
would contend that those who advised his Majesty had acted in
in unity to that religion.
Lord KING said the Noble Lord bad sulciently accounted for
the misconduct of the Clergyman in stating that he bad property
in Ireland.
Lord REDESDALE protested against the Noble Lord's
charging the Clergyman with misconduct after what be bad beard
The Bishop of EXETER said be bad received his information
from a person of an opposite party to that of the Clergyman
alluded to.—The Petition was then read and laid on the table.
Lord ROLLE also presented a Petition to the same effect from
the Mayor apd Curporatkel of Exeter. The Noble Lord said, U
every other means failed, be should consider it his duty to demand
an audk•oce'rg his Majesty and spend his last breath in discharging
his duty to his Geo and to ;als country.—Ordered to lie on the table.
lord DB DUNSTANVI LLB presented a Petition in favour
of the Catholic Claims from two hundreds in the county of Corn-
wall. He professed himself favourable to the measure as tending
to tranquillise Ireland • mod he considered that the majority of the
landed proprietors of Cornwaliwere of the same opinion.
• Lord ROLLE said the best way to ascertain the tidier of the
people of Cornwall would be to call a County Meeting.
Lord DE DUNSTA NVILLE did not consider himself bound
to take any such course; but he had written to a Nobleman of that
county to say that be would attend a public meeting U it were
called.--Ordered to lie on the table.
The Bishop et GLOUCESTER presented Petidons spinet the
claims of the Roman Catholics, from the Dean sad Clergy of the
Deanery of Gloucester, from the rural Doan and Clergy of Stoney
horse, and from the rural Dean sod Clergy of Stowe, Is the dio-
cese of Gloucester.—Ordelted to le es the table.
• The Mho, of MIME resented Midges to the some