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:meat nature, which bad been •agreed to by a part of
the p oplk of that city, and wool& probably ',pear
before their Lordships in a few days. He mist express
his full CODeliffell“ in the sentiment* of the presboe'po-
titioners, and he bawd at the same time to ewe,:
his thanks to his Majesty's Minions loathe me, tre
they intended to intredece, and urbiclreould nat fat*
secure the happiness and ftanquiday (the ccuattroa—
It was his duty to state bow tbi,.petition move, and -the
circumstances connected with ir. and to claim for vie

petitioners that degree of attention to which:thee v tr-
indebted, not only on account of these respectability,
both as regarded numbers and property, lint oho on
'tenant of their meritorious conduct in -everting the
threatened occurtencs4 ti t and mischief. It w, aid

be necessary fir him to advert to the other peti ion to
which be had alluded,. but as it war not yet before. the
House. he •shoOld confine himself to a statement of
farts, add shined maka no comment opon them. •He
was the mere disposed to this.course, because it was of
the inmost iosoortareliedhei they eb• dW rateraida
emaidderatiori- of the sabject sow awaited them
vomit anyezcitement of their fe I riga. • The Other
playing would be more numereusly signed than that
be had tt e honour t *present ; he wis competlei, brier-
eller, to state. that it *moot got up in the manner in
whichsoch petitions ought to be got' up. A public
Meting had I een held ; but although the opponents of
ilut:petrtiort were permitted to be present, they weal not
pith tied ki speak; and when an amendment was pin-
posed, the atairmao refused to put ft to the meeting. It
had been said that:the petition arose onto the 8, eich
of his Majesty's Commissioners. This
sould a t be the
fact, as the dates would Show them. * A meet ng had
been pi...jetted sir weeks 'ago—although, from some
ieascn or other, it had been postponed ; but th, ieqtri.
oition fur the meeting which after wards took 'placo was
domed on the very day of the meeting of Parliament.
Much stress VMS laid on the comparative number of sig.
matures to petitions. It writ necessary thei Mine to de how
often thetanse names might be repeated. With teapots tai
the Clergy, for int tance—they probably rigOed the
parochial pettion first, then a petition iv a the Clergy
at the district; and las ly,the general ' peti i n; to
that their names came three tin es befit, tr e House.
Ho was a friend to the right of petition, but If they.
compared the number of one class of petitioners tai if
that r f another, they ought to endeavor to make the
comparison fairly. T:te persons:, then, who st.tie n
peratittedio move an amendment at the meeting, very
naturallrand properly. got up a petition of their owu,
and Wiplicd to the Mayor, who had. acted throughout
most impartial?, for leave that it might lie for tigna-
tare at the Exchange. the other petition-bring kft at the
Guildhall. Tpis was granted. and in two days it re-
ce red no less than one thousind seven hued ed sight-
lutes. At the end t f this time the table on which the
petition wait placed wis broken.and patt the petition
loin away.
.The Mayor then in:mooted. and requested
the managers to withdraw the ietiti n, as Or oily
means or pies sitting a riot, and promised to r.e.,..resent
that the petition was withdrawn on this acl rant aa
could not sit down withciet ageinth eking h.s Slaj-sti's
&takers for the heneficial measures they popifsid to
intr duce,and saying that they had his enrite co. adence.
and should have the utmost support it was in his power
to give them. 'He bad the happiness, du.ing the last
Besse. nof Parliament, to addles. theatight Rev Braids
in-terms of congratulation upon the liberality and can-
dour they had displayed up in another great and-im-
portant q lotion—a liberality and candour tt which tie
bad in a great degree ascribed. the success of that mea-
sore.:- He hoped they would pursue the same c tose
upon the present occasion. With respect to the Noble
.Lords-who had already announced their intention to
oppose the treasure now in come to platiun, t e give them
lull credit for the sincerity of their opothos, and he
hoped they could give him credit for 00 sincerity of
his. This was not the time to tater hit.) a full diicu oihn
-ef the question ; •and he had 'heard no arohnierit to
which, in hit situation; he felt bot.nd to ashen.. It hid
been Slid, be understood, that if.the Catholics were ad.
notte.d t s political roue). the King w. old tan longer
hare a tight to his Throne. Good Gun, Could; atty
man' Isf • common sense believe :uzb a doeirini ?
He • would not answer the ogimetit ; for after ,the
iffetitiOn it bad received f.om the 24.,b1e rail
IGrey).arld the Noise Baron (Rolland), his old and
intimate fiiendi. any' thing be could "say now could
only weaken 'The'_ efEct. their forcible seasoning had
produced.• He hkd dearly studied the sub.) and
he knew that theie was. no foundation far such an
opinion. He could ndt but think that the N.l•le Lords
who advanced it did so merely for the take of argument,
and that they wee laughing in their sleeves ill the
time. His Royal Hight e.s then read the petitit,n,
•which wet from certain iisbab tarts of the city slf Bristol.
and prayed for the removal of all disat Lilies on elegem •
of Religion..
The Bishop of BRISTOL sad he mdse take the
liberty of stating what he knew up sn the tul.ct of
this unfortunate Petition from some sf the inhabitants
of Bristol. Bof re fie left that city there • had beets
Meeting upon the Roman Catholic Ca h li 0 ;eerie, rif ',very
fatith, and as the opinion of every parish Was the same.
it was thouht by some persons belles to have a getter-a
Petition. He Pegged tot himself to sai, (hat heltad
not taken any plot directly st indirectly these'plo.
eeedfogs. kip to the rime of his leaving Ilestulbe did
not knot* that any public meeting was "intended.' '4.
to the character of the meeting. he had kttitelfrein'aomii.
members of•his own family, nod frons'ieveral elegy:
seem Who were presenti and they all agreed in stating
that the 'petting was perfectly cordial and nearly ona-
ainious. The Mayor being adeerse der chair was filled
by ane-olshe oldest Aldermen Of the "ch). He koew,,
upon the atobbrityotone of his own family, that the
Voettitieris.the most unanimous eller held in Baste.
Cogs were displayed,: he believed, Isom some of ,the
Chuicbee; and all the vessels in the port were sin ally
decorated. • The general Pitition had already; be was
informed, received airdinny Sighatorei milled. 25 sheets
of parchtdent .FrOm all be inew;of the opinion of the
.inbsbitanti of that great city, lifter the most impaetial
observation, he could not doubt that they 'were neatly
unanimous • in
,the belief. that die measure proposed
would be toostatiliethieilios to Ireland; as well as to the
rest of the empirt; that It &Mild leave the rising. gene-
ration of seven millions 6f peepte, according to one
:estimate, or'of five 'ow and a half; leavings to
ibei.ro be .brou in gloss igituraoti ebd super-
Itition.* For b bound by his'cluty to*Gon
mid,plistatipeaPost lth !very diarosjilon.foiour
dlintt-he tbr'propsecrchnige igribi Dacus
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