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my own feelings_and senrimente on
In the first place, I stand here as the lambed friend of
tbakennstitnOoti in Marsh and State; secondly. from
the musk dMiberisee 'consideration of the subject. ,
houestly and firmly believe that the Church and State
Its
Jboa pargeolarly the Church, are in imminent hazard of
lie-raroetieil-by-eentinuing those Mimes and oppressive
laws; and thirdly,my intention to submit a resolutioa,,
proposing to leave the tiestion to the consideration of
thiLegislatore.-11 Taw asked, as it is likely Essay be,
why 1 entertain the opinion of the necessity of repealing
those -unfeeling laws; I aniwer, 'it is because I am con-
Sinced that if the petition be carried by a triumphant
majority, a :minus national calamity will ensue—(nun.
sense, no danger orthat)and therefore 1 have thought
it my doty to. make some sacrifice of opinion for the
pbrpose of averting so great."' national evil :and I have
chosen this course the rather because I hope to obtain
the support of. those distinguished individuals, whose,
nam•-• are generally coot:used in• requisitions of this
nature. but which, on the preient occasion, you have
looked for in vain; no words of theirs could convey
cleir sentiments so strongly as the fact that they
hate not signed it. I hope and trust, however, that
no clamour will induce those Honourable Gentlemen
to withhold 'their sentiments.-(Hear). A great deal
has been said ot ahe error of the Roman Catholic re.
ligion. I-am perfectly convinced that no one present
entertains the least ill will against any Catholic Gentle-
. man; .and as to the tenets of that. Church Ido not stand
here to defend them; those tenets may be wisdom itself,.
or the greatest absurdities that ever were put together
—the Catholics may believe the non. estittince of 'the
sun and moon, or that two and two make five—but
with those doctrines I have nothing to do—(Hear).—.
What I C3ntend fni is, that gray man is entitled to
rights in his own country, unites he has committed
some civil offence or incurred the penalty' of the law
and as long as any class of subjects conform to the
laws, so long are they entitled to be exempted from
pains, penalties, punishments,or exclu.ions, direct or in-
direct—(Hear, hear). And in what country am I?
Where am I called on to defend the tight of conscience ?
I; has been said, and may be repeated, that the Citho•
licit do not regard the sanctity of an oath —(They do
n.d). It is painful to me to be called on to deny that
assertion, but I say that this very Meeting :elute. it;
what is it that eXcludes the Catholics from civil offices
and Parliament, but their regard for an oath? And
what has occisioned this Meting but that exclusion?—
This Meeting, therefore, is sufficient to prove the nega-
tive of that assertion. The truth is that in Ireland them
are five millions of Catholics, who are strangers in their
land, who ate prevented from being members of Cor-
porations, and. though they have the power of electing.
they have not the privilege of being elected; they ate
not entitled to weal a silk gown in the King's Courts ; in
fact a stigma attaches to three persons out of four I Can
human endurance allow of this? Can itif rtuation go sofa
as so suppose that things can remain as they are? It
has been s il that the lower orders do not feel this
sigma. bus I ask again, in what country I am speak-
ing ? is it not the boast and glory of the British Con.
stituifon, that i. opens the path to honourable and re.
spothible situations to every man, however low his con.
dition? We have had instances of persons of humble
origi.. filling the highe t offices io the State; and are
the Irish then to he told that they shall not be put on a
level with all other classes of the King's subject.? My
II n. Fiiencl. who seconded the motion, has told you
that he uould give toleration, but not political power
Can that Gentleman believe that five millions of men,
. many of them possessing large properties, engaged in
• commerce, well educated, and possessing the elective
franchise, have no political power? Gentlemen, the Ca-
tholics of Ireland possess e. °mous political power—
(Camoui). And but fur those exclusive laws that
power would be used for the State instead of against
it —(lt is and would be used against it). And so long
as they are continued. it will be a source of we acne.%
to the State instead of stiength. My Hon. Friend has
alluded to the power they would gain it they had seats
in the Legislature. Undoubtedly the argument would
bear analogy; the instant they are received into the
bisom f the Constitution and amalgamated with the
King's subjects, they would find their proper level.
Many Gentlemen may recollect an individual who was
the terror of all the friends of good order in his day--
the noted Horne Tooke, whose consequence was gone
the moment he came into Parliament, and so it would
be with the Catholics. It has been often said that the
great men who have advocated the repeal of those ob-
noxious laws had acted under some delusion, and that
if they had guns to Ireland their eyes would have been
• opened ; but is it not sell known that many distin-
guished individuals, among whom were the Noble Mar-
quis Cornwalli,, the Earl of Hardwicke, Lout Camden,
and the Marquis of Anglesey—all went to Ireland pte-
judiced against the Catholic.? and what happened ?
Were th y confirmed in their opposition? No; they
lax ked at things as they were, and awed their opi-
nion. No longer ago than 1825, 1 heard the Marquis
of Anglesey make a speech in Parliament inimical
to the Cinllo.lC Claims. and ten days ago I read
his letter in. the newspapers, in which lie says "that
the peace and (lingual ty of the empire depend on the
gsai tine the Catholic Claims." It is very easy fur
' G tulemen to look on one side of the question; but are
they competent t r decide on all it. bearings? Do they
know bow it th 4141111 .he Sovereign in the choice of hi.
Ministers? llo» it emhar asses the Government? How
it ionuences our f reign relatious? How it oppresses
our finance.? Ate they aerate of the manner in which
foreign nations regard this question? Do they know
that within the last three moths contributions to the
Catholic rent had been received from America, and
that remittances are expected from Fr ance? No one can
be more averse than I am to any thing that may pro-
duce excitemen , but I have taken some trouble to in-
form myself of the way in which our finances are
affected by this question. The number of square acres
in Scotland and Ireland is nearly equal—the popula-
tion in Scotland is about 2,300,000, and in Ireland
6,900.000. The number of the army in Scotland
is 2,100, at a cost of 81,0004. per annum; %s hole in
Leland it is 30300, at an expense of 1300.0001.—
therefore, by the present system, the sum of 1300,0061.
are taken out of your pockets annually, to maintain this
detestable system. It has happened to my lot more than
once, to pre _cut From this county petitions to Parliament
and memorials to the Government. for the repeal of the
tax on coals carried coastwise—(Cries of " Question").
• The ansa er 1 have received has been that the tax is so
-productive it could not be repealed; now the fact is,
that you pay for this system 260,0001. more them the
.
..solve to continue the
such petitions, 1 pro-
atholics granting se-
come when we shall
negotiation with
rotestaet. I &infirmly
''s duty on this sub.
. rf the petitiao
*aspires and invite

the attacks of foreign and hostile States, who under
another system would-admire your.wisclons nod revere
tyour power.- Canayou thistle that all the great WO who
Save advocated einancipation,ta king experience for. their,
"sides hate been in War. er that you. who have had
kg such experience, limy not by possibility be wrong?
The Noble Earl concluded by moving the folios ins
Amendment :
• That although this blertinniews, with ssatiMswir ewe-
hand= and of the deepest regret, the discontents which prrvail
amongst a large pardon of his Alpo?, subjects, they do nor feel
themselves called upon to offer to Parliament the expression easy
particular opinion as to the mods and manner by whici such dis-
contents bad best be allayed. but willingly trust to its wisdom, to
adopt such measures as shall most effectually establish pence and
tranquillity within the United Kingdom."
Wu. COllitTamAlf. Esq. said, agreeing most entirely
in the sentiments of my Noble-Friend, I might content
myself with simply seconding his motion. bet I trust
you will allow me to state shortly the ground. of my
acquiescerce; I say shortly, because I am firmly con-
vinced that this is not the proper time or place-for a
full and satisfactory discussion of this great question—
(Great noise). The point on which the discussion this day
may turn may be confined within narrower limits. Is
it under circumstances such as I now witness that this
Petition is to be sent up to Parliament and presented as
the Petition of the county of Devon? (Hear). It has been
said that the course recommended by my Noble Friend,
is to be supported by those alone who are in the ranks of
opposition to Government. Has Lord Motley, or have
those who are waiting to address you in support of the
amendment been always in the ranks of the Opposition ?
Before the Meeting separates you will be convinced that,
the assertion is unfounded. It always leads to clearness
of discussion when parties can settle on what points they
'will agree. and where they begin to diverge. All whom
I am addressing agree in a firm attachment to the Con.;
stitution ; and all must, I think, agree, in order to pre'
serve that Constitution and the form of Government
man which we happily live, that we should .engagethe
interest and suite the energies of all his Maj?ity's subjects;
we must also agree that it is unwise, unjis and impolitic
to exclude any from the benefits of the istitution, un-
less there is a paramount necessity for so doing, in con-
sequence of some imminent danger to be apprehended.
Now we differ as to the quarter from which any suspected
danger is to arise; th•rse who propose to continue the
exclusive laws against Roman Catholics, consider that
their Emancipation would be subversive of the Conti-
tution ; but has any one pointed out the particular form
which that danger is to assume? It has never been
nude apparent to any man of understanJing—(Crier 4.f
Hear, and Off. off) But can we point out no danger to
be apprehended from continuing the present system?
Can we look at the divided state of one portion of the,
Empire, and believe that the present state of things can
continue? If not. what is the alternative to be proposed
by those who call this meeting ? And here I am led to
notice a curious discrepancy between the language of the
requisition, and an app' oath to common sense is the pre -
posed petition; that requisition is signed by a large num-
ber ot respectable individuals, but is destitute of the si 4-
natures of some of the warmest friends of the Constitu-
tion in Church and State—that requisition declares
against any further concessions to the R -man Catho-
lics.
Those who prepared the petition felt that such
language could not safely be proposed to a County
Meeting, and therefore couched it in much mote mode-
rate terms; they have assumed a tone which might
have been almost unanimossly adopted. But let me',
put the matter in another lights that document pup.'
ports to be not the petition frl individuals, whose signa-
tures are attached to it, but of the freeholders and in-
habitants of this great county. I know that one half
of those whom I see around me, will not passively allow
that course to be adopted, but will send another
more expressive of their sentiments. I do not pretend
to say that a petition in favour of Catholic Emancipa-
tion would speak the sentiments of the county at large;
but it would be a mockery to say that the one proposed
to you can be a county petition, when I see around me-
so large a proportion of wealth. rank, talent. and
chuacter. who are opposed to it. My Hon. Friend who
seconded the Petition, thought fit to suppose that some
of us on this side were so absurd as to believe that no
County Meeting wi uld be called on account of the in-
fluence of certain families r my Hon. Friend was wrong
in his inference. I do not pretend to say it was not
perfectly tight for the freeholders to meet and state their
sentiments fully and tally against the Catholic claims.
but when et: have that ir.auence, to which he alluded.
together with a large number of the Ye rmanry—larger
than he thinks of, I ask my Hon. Faired how it can be
called a County Petition ? Atter noticing the terms of
another Petition about to be proposed. Mr. C. pro-
ceeded so say—we are now in a state of domestic quiet,
but suppose that we should be called on to engage in
any foreign warfare, will Ireland present no tempting
object to them? It has•beeo said by some, but I am
happy that it has not been repeated to-day, that the
Catholics must be put down I Good GOD I is it meant
by this that five out of six millions are to be put down
by an armed torte? and if we are to engage in a civil
war. are we prepared to treble or quadruple our army ?
(Great clamour and cries of 64 Question"). Mr. C. then
concluded by seconding the amendment of Lord Morley.
A. H. Hotosworrit, Esq. after a few prefatory re-
marks. observed—it had been objected that our Requi-
sition and the Petition did not awes, that one was much
more violent than the other, and he would say that it
was one of the most extraordinary objections ever raised
as to who the parties were who presented the Requisi.
lion. Were the high and talented always expected to
call a County Meeting ? In his opinion, if the Requisi-
tion were signed by respectable freehoWers, it was ties:
for the S rad to call a County Meeting. He seamier-
ledged that a great number of Gentlemen of the battiest
class we• e arrayed on the other side, yet he could not
but be.ieve that they were equally anxious with himself
for perfect unani laity to exist throughout the counts y,
though they were not agreed as to the means. He
thought that the Noble Lotd was a little inaccurate
in his opinion of the meaner in which the Requi.
sition was got up, and he was ra her surprised to bear
the Honourable Gentleman, who seconded the Amend-
niece, request to know whence danger might arise?
He st.ould have tb.mght that the Gentleman's profes-
sional education, and early hibits of consult eg the
Statute Books, would have furnished the reply to
his question. Why were the Catholics excleded from
Parliamer.t, but because the Government and King
were in danger tr m their influeoce? It was rather
unfair in the present day to be talked of as if they
wished to exclude the Catholics Irons Parliament, when
in fact they found them excluded in the Statute Books.
He felt pleasure in saying that if at could be proved
that Catholics may be se-admitted to Parliament with.
out danger to the State. and united in political feeling
with Protestants. he should hail it as the best day of his
life. A Noble Lord had asserted that there was no
occasion for calling a County Meeting; be (Mr. H.)
would ask whether. what was u'ew pessieg in Ireland
was not sufficient to alarm evert friend r (civil order—
When an old Member of the Hone of Common., wt o
had been a fires friend to the Catholic claipp, had he -n

turned out if seat, not by'a Pr. testint. but by a
Catholic, 'act there by a body who may W termed the
Cadman. 4arliansene _of Ireland Tes-(lleffs • tesiir—
When be read arleiter Rom .a Nottllaiun of this
county. sending his contfibutinn to that body—
requesting to be admitted a menther—congratulariny
them on the influence they possessed over the minds
of the. people. and atnibutiug to them the peace of
Ireland!—(Cries of Hear, from Lard Ehriiston).—
He asked whether it was not time to express their sen-
timents to the Legislature? Far he it from him to take
the least exception to the Noble Lord's pursuing what
line of conduct he thought prope —(Hear. from Lord
Ebrington)—but when he recollected th.t die N ible
Lord bed been brow ht up in the Piorestant
under the Care of a Nobleman venerated f r his vittues.
be thought it dangerours and impolitic to attribute to
the Catholic Parliament the pies.' vation of peace in
that country. Mr. H. here enteiedentu an able review
of the history of the country is the reign of the Stu arts
as justifying the laws passed against the Roman Catho-
lics, and also to the provisions of the Bill of Rights.
After minutely going irito various point 4 of history
( which time will not allow us to detail) he proceeded to
say—that it was to the Bible they were indebted fur
their liberties, and he would ask them, did not the
Priest's who were in obedience to the Pope of Rome,
renaeavour to suppress that sacred book by every means
in their power? If, then, be had at all made out his
case that the Catholics of Ireland were the same now
as those days, when the laws affecting them were
passed, what security could be given for again admit-
ting them to power? He said that he had hoped to see
the day when unanimity should prevail in the empire;
but he felt convinced that until the Legislature could
.sever that stumbling block—the allegiance of Catholics
to the Chute' cf. Rome—fie could not hope to see it
accomplished. Mr. Huldsworth concluded arnids loud
cheering.
Lord Eierrurron observed, that his opinions on the
question of Catholic Emancipation had been so often
declared, there and elsewhere, chit he had not expected
it would have been necessary to rep, at them on the
present occasion; but alter the personal appeal which'
had been made to him by the Hon. Gentleman who
spoke last, he owed it to the courteous terms in which
that appeal had been made, but more particularly is.
gratitude to the freeholders of Devon—frnm whom in
times past he had received so many p.m.fs of kindness,
and regard, which be 'hunk! remember to the latest
day of his life, to trouble them again tin the subje t.
As he was not now connected with them as their it pr. -
sentative, nor accountable to them tor his actions and
least of all to Gentlemen from whom he had always
differed on political points, he did ii t feel b.rund t,•
make any thing in the shape of an aro.ngy. I s the
few observations which he should eddies, to theirs he
should not foil iw the Honourable Geutlernen into the
ancient lore of history, but should endeavour to
turn their attention In the f cts of mule model..
date, arid mote applicable to the present discussion_
(Great uproar). He addressed them as a F eehnhier r f
Desionshne, and therefore trusted they would hear hini
in his defence; but he addressed their. as personally
connected by no inconsiderable family property with
the kingdom of I. eland, and he thought he had as good
means of information with respect to that country as
any gentlemen piesent. It was now five years since
be had fixed his residence for a considerable portion of
the year in Ireland ; be vent there favourably im
pressed towards Catholic Emancipation, from a con-
viction of its rlicy and justice, and after the esperi-
ence of five years he returned confirmed, beyond all
doubt. in the paramount and ,pressing necessity of the
measure which he now stood forward t ►advic.te.
He bad a deep stake in both, countries. and tberefoie
had nu interest in deceiving them; but unless they cun-
rtemplated the separation of Ireland, from this country,
they must emancipate the Catholics.—(Ci it% of "No.")
If they did not, that fair portion of the B. itish empire,
with its brave, intellige..t. and, if properly treated, its
grateful people, instead of being as heretofore almost
the nursery of our soldiers and seamen, it would be a
point of attack to a foreign enemy. He felt convinced
of this fact, and he believed that such was unfortu-
nately the conviction of foreign Powers at this mom nt ;
for unless the nations of Europe were aware of some
festering sore in our poi tical system, they never would
have slighted this country as they had done on a recent
occasion. He would ask them, had an instance occurred
fur years when the influence of .England was reduced
to so low an ebb as at this moment ? And was it
not better to be bullied into an act of conciliation and
grace, which would be received with gratitude by
our countrymen. in Ireland, than to be bullied into i
when the hour of denser came, And come it :min
would. by those con mental nations who were jea
lons of our poser and prosperity—jealous et our vic-
tories—but above all, jealous of our,, free Constitution,
and only waited for an
-opportunity of liqing us all at
the feet of foreign despotism ?

(Great confusion ant Do broi hen the Sheriff interfered And said
that the day was wearies fast, and the name orderly they were the
sooner they would coats to a conclusion.)

They had been told that they could n t great emanci-
pation without danger to the Established Church. He
would not yield to any man in attachment to that
Church—he bad been brought up in its communion
from his infancy, and every succeeding year, as it tangl.t
him more and more to meditate upon its divifte pre-
cepts, regretted hit attachment to its pure and apostolic
doctriues—(Cheers). He protested, as an honourable
man, if he believed chat Catholic Emancipation would
endanger its security, he would rather incur lathe evils
acid calamities which be apprehended from a cootrary
course. He would go further, and say, that though he
might Irish the funds of that Church to be more equally
distributed, he was willing and specious to leave to the
excellent nsinisters.who generally discharged their duties
in so exemplary a manner, the lull enjosment of all its
possessions in England. The Church of Ireland stood on
a different footing, and he would ng t insult the Clergy
of England by putting their useful labours in compari-
son with those of their Irish brethree. Nicole° parish in
Ireland—and there vim hundreds of others similstrly
situated—presented an instance of a Protestant. Clergy.
mac without a Chinch, without a parsonag.e, or a single
Ptotestant inhabitant, except when his (Lord Ebrior
ton's) own family resided there—(len, hear)...-
He did not believe that such a state of things could be
acceptable to the Clergy of England.or that they could
wish to embark in the same boat with their Irish bre.
thren ; and if the Irish Clergy were only known to their
parishioners by the exaction of their .tithes, it was per-
haps better than their iresence among them when they
bad no duty to perform. But it was worthy of notice,
that no petition had ever been presented from the Ro-
man Catholics for a participation of the revenues of the.
Protestant Church ; on the contrary, when in 1825 a
801 l was in progress for paying the Roman Catholic
Clergy, it was only a .matter of doubt whether they
would receive the piovision it was intended.to give.—
Altl.ough he must ever think that-the state of the Pro-
testant Chu, ch in Ireland teas a - usillestone round thel
neck of this couutry, still the operatic!? of.asty..Act.fog I

tilowocciortlute"ltiittihneilsyl;tiehmeb. .attuudij tend to thedil
wetrite;
of the Constitution, provided the Catholics weto
admitted to possession of their 6,4 ris brio Aid
aisse he would say two or three yetis cft the soh.
j ct of the Catholic Association; he certainly did not
iginally approve of the foimation of that body, taw
should he have joinel it now, if he hid not seeu other
societies no tned in this contitry and Ireland, piolessinge
itidteJ, a regard to the Con Citation, but using lan.
and intimidating, that he cos.
goatee,jded si:gislhairash' du.tlyliets . t'unite, as many respectable Pro.
cements had dotie, with the Catholic As•ociation. He
would say m ore, that to the Catholic A snclation was
doe the credit ofspreservi og the peace of Ireland at this
moment—(Cheers and disaknobAtion). They taught
the people and helped the poet
an a
oppression laws,onof he rich. It bad been
min
nst resthpeec opt in the
said by a late Lor l Choscellos. of Ireland now living
(Lntd Redesdale) that in behind there was One law foe
the rich and atwitter for the poor, and the Honourable
Member for Somerset would anti,/ that Lord Bedew.
dale was no radical—(hear, from Sir Thomas Leth.,
bridge).—lt was on thne grounds he supported the
amendment ; he tejoiced that the meeting had been
called, whatever might be its result, for he had been
always a friend to assemblies of the people, and should
be ever proud to be present at the ies-dogs of this
County.
Sir T. Lwroettrooa,
.Batt. M.P. for Somersetshite,
ti en came fora. rd and ssid—l hare the honoor of
being a freeholder o f your County, throuszh not residing
within its boundaries. If I ever wanted an worms'.
ty of addressing. and congroulating a loge and
.teo
spectabht body, n is affinded t ► me now, for I, stand
here before an assembly the highest in respectability,
rank. and wealth, I ever witnessed. I never 10-foto saw
so much temper of such true British spitit exemplified;
.t is to that Width spitit I app al, to answer the Noble
Lord, who his just reined. For that Noble Lord I
entertain the greatest esteem; I know hi, virtues and
the respectability of his name its this great county; I
know his pul.lic spirit, but I believe he is acting under
a fatal deinsion.—(Cheet.) he Noble Lord has told
you that he is not arc" nralle to the gent emen aho
s:and on this side the Sheriff. I concede that he baa
a right to do what his judgment doctates, to: he is ac-
countable to the Constitution of these real:ns ; and I
will show yoW, bet ore
.1 conclude, if you will do me
the favour to hear me, in what pi nts he Is wrong. He
tells you that it is not necessary to go iiito history. I
agree that it is not immediately necessary. but I do not
agree with the Noble Lord atsi hiy friends, who call
that history an old *Womack I I rather think it will
be found th •t those who lived brf .ie us were as wise as
ourselves; they knew what they were about, they had
enemies to deal with, and so have we; and al their
head I 11H the Carbolic Association of leland,./f
which the Noble Lord is a member —(Neer. heat ) I
had h and as much before. and if I e had not admitted
it in the manly way he has Joni, I shoo d h tie thought
it my duty to elicit iii The Catholic A iodation is op-
posed, in co4o, to the, principles of tl e Constitution; it
includes•in its bodyin soil y am Ito pay.it—my Lord
Ebrington—and it assembles what ?—why, men
whom, judging by to eir speeches, am compelled
to denounce, before this assembly, as traitors to the
Constitution—(Loud Cheers). By the Constitution,
all the subjects of his Majesty are forbidden
.from thsi•
ting for illegal purposes, and if there is no statute law
to that effect, these is common law for it, that is the
foundation of all statute law, or it ought to be—(Lnud
cries of Hear, hear, hear). This Association, of which
Lord Ebt'ington is a Member, has endeaeciered by
every %cans to counteract the peace and tranquillity
of the empire at large; they have levied taxes on the
pock, is of the people, without the sanction of Par-
liament; they have assumed the power of marshal-
ling the people in tremendous squadrons, to be re-
sorted to as they may deem requisi:e—(Great uproot).
You must hear these words, and though they are uttered
by a plain man, they are true—(Hear). That Astoria-
tton has controulled the Em;.ire in a nay the most
unconstitutiooal, and I agrt e that things cannot -remain
as they are. Thanks to false concil;ations, the Roman
Catholics assume a position so dangerous to the &ate,
that it cannot exist without imminent danger.. GAntle-
men, the Catholic Association a 114 be put &an,
(L-uJ cheering). The Popish Priests must begot rid of
as far as regards their power; they have no right to
coerce men to vote against their real friends,againss their
landlords, and against the best interest 1:f the country
—because, trsootit, if they do not, they will be
eternally damned!—(Cheers). After noticing that
Lord Plunkett. late. Attorney General for Ireland.
made no use o f the Act for repressing -the Citholic
Association, Sir Thomas. Lethbridge proceeded
.te re.
mat k— l7re Noble Lord says that the Catholics never
asked for the seventies of the Church ; but though they
' have nt t asked for it in direct terms, the whole of their
views are directed towards it, and they say that outs is
the usurpation ; and if they get into Parliaments the
Mother CI urch shall -gain the ascendancy. Mother
Church ! 1 call it the most horrid of all stepinothiesi
May you,by your spirit, keep youtselvea from her mater.
nal hugs.; keep round your Sheriff on ail puolic OCC4.
sions—(Much confusion). I have notes here which
would keep me till I should be at home, thirty miles
distant, but as you are anxious to come ro a oecsion.
and there is no novelty in the case, I will c-'nclude by
saying that you have done rightly in assembling bete,
as men end as Britons, to declare that the laws of Eng-
land shall not be changed—if...rod cheerios).
Dr. Tucean (late of Ash`mtten). E Pt Lyon.. Esq.
and thallti WiIarWORTII BULLIIIe E q. offered thensa
selves at the same moment to the not ice of the Meetissg.
The Sheaf said shit Mr. Lyra had first caught his.
eye, but had very handsomely teen place to. Mr.
II r.

J. W. BULLIR, Esq. (Downes) said he was anxious
foi an opportunity of expressing his deep donviction
4f the a isdorti aad necessity of conceding the Roman
Catholic cl ints—(Great uproar). When we succeeded
in hearing Mr. Buller, he was proceeding to say—that
the Noble Lord had stated, in strong and forcible lan-
guage,dsat by birth and education be was firmly at-
tached to the Established Church. He (Mr. Bulky)
agreed with the Noble Lord- in supporting Catholic
Emancipation, because he considered it would be con-
ducive to the interest of that Church and tbe COQ*
%tit_ntion—(During Mr, Bullet's address there were
loud cries of Question).
E. P..Lyou. E-q. came forward amidst great spreme.
As a Freeholder of the county,derirous of addressing thins
for the first time in his life on this question. be imperils'
should be beard; he was convinced that political P°?"
could not be granted with safety to the COilititniloll of
this country ; but the Catholics asserted they had ulti-
mate objects in view, which could be no other dips the
subversion of the Established Church and the ascendancy
of their own Priesthood. They had been t .14 that the
man Catholics h ad never asked for the revenues of the pre-
testant Church ; they were too wisert‘-do tbrit ; but gibe
glens' poltticalso wet. sodihenvottld hare an opportooif
ty,t.f making their of ts terms. Thor had beard the prase

et the koasanCo
..That it was inass
biesof"Cilm6
4he bread► of the
Rive the word ai
issenea was one

this country coul
Lord SITMOL
%roar. and spc
Bible to hear win

Lord lime

a‘nur, he seed.t
Meeting, and he
his speech owl'
the way in whocl
or,if th-y gristle

'De Samar sak
of time day. If k s
pet, be hid net the
Qaaides. Camelia,'
bddrees tbeek and I

Wu it dirk pireoir4
Lord tlerolove

The Bev. H. I.v
" Hem bon!
• Sir Taiaus Acu
Sherif decided tbal
•Sit Thomas Ached
dunce." air Thee
Leg, and se obeli tile
Sir Houacvssa V/
Wee the Meeting
doe►a by an opals
The Uses& Susi

`toseitinotie heard:"
&r Trona* ACLA
than to be tea year
Member on a "wad
uproot was 11161111VCC
•, • The Han &mats
called yob by the I
At this twessent a
tants, stop and sign
Dowsed, " that's a
and that's the way tI
Air Trams Acid

am In pmeaminn of I
. akin, sag I camplaia
]iembe►.
The Wax &man
tir Tbqpism Atiand

question—integre p
J. EtZAKBILIT, 1
I met it to you, on.,
• bar dtele COgney-3
TM* Hams /Um
If I err, it Mthito
do my duty. tearing
will not bear your c
—(Cties of " Yr%
• 111 r. F MIT
the meeting. Imo

I.,rd Joali Huss'

SAssolwas, Rd
. the Ji.cot+tioa was
•meeting ; I thersta

The Hum Bataan
me of bating stated
awattempt to Weir
log; but I thluk wh
o'clock till past lout
en each side of the
the question be not
tiny detrulithig the
" Tes—lt's all a eta

The Han. New,
bad not bean heard,

At tbs osonseot
980 S were proem ;
swot, sod request's,
Wet st was negative
As Ainetidmeot
homed at racoons
question to the deb
stectssity of coneedit
Boos Sommer with
The original Petit
ebootiotis and outgo
Sir WiLLUIIt Ten

friend, 3b. Fonda,
latent majority of el
Couoty of Devon, I
. requested to present
- etlperto the Hamel
Dastard, Seq.and
tor the County.
Seconded by Mr
large attjurity.
P. Damao. I
and aupport the Pet
Sir TIECIMAS Seca
asid..—Gcodensen, ii
siten—it you ate
as I recollect you to
heard the debate, a
ham allowed the
have permitted oh
have called on me I
Inlaid am do a cc
mill do my duty
bojealdissa with
I well not support
a Weed to the sacs

witnessed tire mann
support a petition so
solves as Ike frerbok

Nevenlieless, I tbni
comphment you bow
irons you In your of
detente to the l.egi•l
manner, and I will d
to-tisy. Right years
•ice, unsolicited on n
vote; I then declarer/
act according to my c
less' did so. I cam
the most listittfelt h
41a: retire of ophiuo
a vain task today to
shown yourselves; h
eilltipte, by giving
penance whisk no i
parted to h—..(Much
country that I am rig
moss which void not
heard. And Dim, L
certsinly a great, but
beard my sseninums
and bid you all a est
utmost confusion pre

W. A. H. Almon
Lyra wooded. a •
touted by at:clematis
The SUBRAFT, in at
the bigbeil reward a
the respondbk situat
the of kis fellow-cos
tante to the Meeti
Impartiality and lode
own ientlasents, but
He felt emerdingly a
to the business of the
vriniessed a popular
few days be should
sow ass4l. and It woi
Ilse take bad lost non
albs meetkti baying
to dimly, it—(Alech

At the test ibe
ibessaaki persons prem
bide ti( tbe prides at
wipe give it as their ta
babas or the biotin
At all the principal
Looden Inn, about et
thassasri presided at
the otbet.—At the
the fettle, board, Gs
sod Anemia Omni
dinners apeeebes Well
peNtleid train et die
The Bea et Cats*
Weide&
•

1

. .
l!
tn on coals; if, therefore, you resoles
\ system, 1 will never present snore rich
arise you. With regard to the Cat&
ens; ies. 1 trust the day will never corn
ve t. or the Goveromrnt. in
any ch:liaiil subject., Catholic or Protest
convincel.that Pat Hameln will do its 4
irct ; and rvosett. that the adoption
beim e you wi!) Cad to weaken the en
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