The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-03-01 00:00:00

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erivellNigniichtlioA biit..1
jaler that disappoint ee
4 Worthy Alderman tr boil he then saw near like Darr
Rrt,nl-.-ed 'cheer lihn up, and give him a dinner at
the Mansion house.—(Loud Cheering, and the cry of
U Question ! question !")—The Heniii-able Member rt-
pre..sed tii.pnrtiality, which conkinot fail to
int re the political hostility toe frequent in Ireland.
He biped the hill:: of &Timid would never he -consi-
dered the sovereign of &faction instead of bcing the
tither of his people.

Sir te. HILL said he had heard nothin; rtat night
r:)anze the opinion be had formerly entertained. tt.
had been amid the present restrictions en Cathrlics
Were niitiore,stiry. hitt such was not the opinion of
our ancestors. It had keen shewn that the re%trietinns
now in force were nr.t as necessary at the present tittle
as thry were thirty or forty yeatz ago.

i.urd CASTLEREAGH rmuld nut rise on this mill-
ject without mulls personal pain to himself, seeing it
separated him from a great portion of those with whom
he had generally the honor and the advantage to act.
nut wliateter luielit be the destinies of this great
question, he felt it they to state his sentiments oa
it with yet fret (-melon r the Raise. Ile was ili•pn4rd
to wonder thot the iptextioa should excite putt strong
a feeling on either si,:e a, was found to exist among
the Catlioiies on the one haul, and atisong line Nees-
tants on the other. He could, in some neeasn.re, ac
connt for the strr.n., feeling manifested on elio part
of the Catholit s, Lrtaa.r. as his Right Hon. Fiend
had remarked, nothing could appear More de.
than that per oust! elf sality whit h eta. now claimed
by tilt. Catl.l):i• however remote the pro,pect
of bring lifted to the enjoyment of political power.
Bat he could not see that the real extension of
poiitiral p.swer forward to by the t. a tholics,
ii!:rl.; to be what tlsey !sites fed. nor war. that dan
ger on the offer to be feat etl, tih.ht athnld ,atisftetorily
expiain to hi:. mi. II the triso. whi. Is had
bren I. It. Ht. 181.1.'4 tene frit' 4:011 attrutioni
and lie 1,..81.1 tr.t 14..!p bring of opinion, that if the
political ps....cr which it hail been :.ttgl:..sted should be
concede.! the f 'a•lsoFs,, Wt to givrii to-morrow, and
if they i..ere thts;ls)..i.:l to use it to th•si.4tis hos-
tile to tlo• Coe titntil, h, he !lid not lieliee.• they would
do any thing that would jo,tify any vt iy alarm.
The ILuse oat ,t allay:, that the number, of the Irish
Catholics utre great, yet. 1.5.)! c•I at the
parts that his g telt rlilloit at the soula-
lion, wealth, education, and all that use; political
power to he fowl citewberes hr ti 11.;.1)1 they e. null
see that hul . danlei clodsl he appielseivled to the
working of the Con...tittoiou floni the drills of en
small a both. a.. the C.:C.1,14., direetcil agaiiist the
great Tess of the costits.iiiiity. Nicely lulaut ell as this
vital unestion eves, it Wit:: of ;u
_ut:h importance that the
House determine whet krt. or nut they won't! suffer it
to hang Abt,lit thi: Cot:mils of the euipire a: a circum-
stance of Vtal:lte4S autl einhatia:.. mew, or whether
they wonlil endeavour, at mice, to set it at rest. This
led him to rompaie the ;L. which might result I:uni
yielding to the prayer of the isetitinners, with t!iit.ue
which. tai lot be expecte! to :LILc f1..111 talin_• an op-
posite comm.. The 'at ter, to him, appeared great r
than the former woe likely to prove. Ilacaast a pus-
sihle ilan:Ter might arise in the event of our leasing a
Catholic King oat the E 14.14611 Throne:, and in the event
of the Catholic pourer in Eur.upe becoming ittll4ll
greater than it heel lien of late, of which there
was em symptom, he for 09C COUPI Hot VOW eta tit
let this 1110.:tiUtt haw.: sin the COlittl.iis of the Empire.
He saw nothing in the state of Europe at the pre.,ent
day, that ought to keep elite the distinctions which
at present divided the Empire. Among the great
powers of Europe, this ennotry afforded almost a mili-
tary instance of eachr.: from office on account of
religious principles. Nothie; of the kind was known
in Holland, in the Netherlands, or in Uermatty. It eras
seen that the most beneficial &frets resulted friau the
annihilation of religious distinctions in other coma-
tries. In the case of Westphalia, where the question
between the two religions was balanced to a simile
vote, all was tranquil How ; an 1 it was remarkable, •
that the only question on u Welt the Congress was com-
pletely unanimous, was on that respecting the extinction
of religious distinctions, as connected it ith adted::sibility
to office. Ile saw nothing in the history of Swede n ,
and Denmark that should induce England to di pa:t
front a principle which it might well become her to.
teach other nations; and, thank Gail, he knew of no ;
country where the Established Chu ch, fruits its real
strength. was more capable of making such a conces-
sion. Till Emancipation should be granted to the ;
Catholics, the blessings of the great settlement
lead been made with respect to Ireland, could never be
fully realized. If by deciding against the pro.cut mo-
tion those who opposed it thought they eeeld -et the
question at rest for ever, he could nutlet-A:mil why some
individuals should be anxious put a negative on it,
hut when it was known that there was but one way o
discussing the subject akr.getleer, by eari sing
the metier, he felt surprised at the opposition
which had been made to it. He believed
such an act of conciliation would do touch to
settle Ireland, and unite the Catholic Clergy
now ix subsea iency (for that would be an evil), bat
in honourable connection that would give them the
means of obtaining proper education, and raise them
considerably in the mural scale. Another motive for
granting Catholic Emancipation was the increased
strength and importance it wuto.ll confer on the Go-
vernment in Ireland. The Government there ought to
be looked up to as the common of all, and this accom-
plished, the safety of the country would be secure,
placed as it would he by such a measure on the pedes-
tal of a liberal policy. Ile concluded eulogizing the
temper is which the present debate had been conduct-
ed, sad giving it as his opinion, that till the esialing
renew; differences in Ireland were subdued by a
measure of conciliation, and not by one of conquest,
there must still remain a great defect in the general
seeurity and harmony of the country.
Mr. K. MARTIN spoke in support of the motion.
The House them divided, when the ambers wate—
rer the Motion
Against it .. full
Majority —4
It was then ordered that, on Friday. Ow Beale
should resolve itself into the Committee.

Adjourned at half-pas two o'clock this morning.

The King has iwen most graciously pleased to ap-
point Mr. Sebastian Erard, of Great Marlborough-
street, Harp maker to his Majes.ty.

LONDON:

7111:10-DAT LTENING, MARCH 11, 1821.

STOCK EXCHANGE, ONE O'CLOCK.

The account passed off yesterday without any► defal-
cations; neither hare we had any to-day which being
the sattiing, has created considerable bustle. The
tu irket, contrary to general expectation, is very'
flat, Consols for the Accuuat in April having been
done as low as 733.

By a majority of sir, the motion of Mr. PLt MUTT
was last night carried in the House of Commons, fur
the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the
has imposing political disabilities on Roman Catho-
lics, and to determine whether their repeal could be
effected with safety to the State. On the acquisition
of this preliwrioary paint we cordially rajoied, as •
symptom of the doe, though tardy ascendancy of rea-
sim, justice, and good policy, over prejudice and bad
principles in Oorernment, as well as bad pensions
men. Most earnestly do we pray that the ex-
ercise of liberality thus properly begun, may be
carried on to its completion. The solicitude we feel
for its success, is not, however, exempt from great
anxiety. Even after a similar concession bad been
granted, we have witnessed the abandonment of the
grand measure proposed, in consequence of the resist-
ance made in a Committee of the House to one of its
essential parts.

The letter from the King of NAPLES to his son, in-
serted in our paper of to day, is a document that exhi-
bits no ordinary dexterity. The mode in which he
strives to avert from himself the odium which he fork-
saw would attach in the minds of the independent por-
tion of the Neapolitans to the determination of the
Holy Alliance, seems ;is if it were intended to preserve
for himself what share he had acquired of popularity
among his subjects, and to excite divisions that would
be favourable to the invaders. The Lazaronni, it is
alleged, are rather partial to tiosir old, imbecile
Monarch; and the Kohl* an effeminate race, on
account of the immunities which previously apper-
tamped to their rank, are also said to be averse