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before the noontide.heam. while the whole Rock of
timorous birds slew; scared and terrified at the new.
appearance!'
Mr. MARA:I'OT cnnebrred in the propriety of
the motion. Helririshedito.concede Emancipation to
the Catholics ; but he wished to concede it with cer-
tain restrictions and &nerds. Ile thought the,Com-
mittee should he.gone tuto, .if it were only to ascer-
tain whether,such oats could be devised as w ould se-
cure the Establish:4Bc' or whether they could not.
Lord MILTON depritated the cry of the Church
being in danger, raised, he believed, only 'to answer
political purposes. But they who raised it uniformly
avoided coming to close,qearters—they avoided speck.
Eying where the danger lay. The tests which had been
enacted, wereenacted not against Catholicism as a re-
ligion, but as a protection of the State ; the necessity
of that protection had now ceased, and the tests should
cease likewise. Ile trusted, indeed, that they had run
their race, and that more liberal notions were now
spreading over the whole empire. He was willing to
allow that the opposition which the Right Hon.
Gentleman so consistently maintained to the mea-
sure, wai the result of a sincerity for whirls he ho-
noured him ; in him he firmly believed it arose from
a decided conviction of its danger : but he could not
say se much of his subservient colleagues, who got
into office by pledging themselves to no very sincere
hostility to the Catholic claims. Ile should con-
rclude by giving the motion his support.
M r.. C. AD.klrl rese to oppose the Jootiosar Amid
loud cries of " eiljuutts—Lodjouro." cooddered
the Catholic religion as essentially dangerous in its
idolatrous worship, in its invocation of saints and'
! images, its auricular confession, and' its consoqueot
absolution.
Mr. BARNARD spoke against the motion, WWI
the question was adjourned at two o'clock, till this
I day.

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(the Chancellor of the Exchequer) as by Members on
tic other side of the House. Then if the tests at
present imposed on the Roman Catholics of Ireland.
were such as were not destructive of the security, of
the country, it followed that those tests must fall:
Ile could not but say, that the public was much di-
vided on this subject. The Catholic Question was
gradually gaining friends year after year. The mist
was daily falling frem the eyes of those interested in
the question.—[llear,heaer] Many enlightened men,
both in and out of Parliament, who formerly op.
ro.ed the measure, now gave their assent to it.[lfrar,
hear, hedr .9 A tl if so, at the leastoltis was a
ground for enquiry. He believed that there was an
insuperable objection against this measure, on the
part of an illustrious personage, who, on account of
his age and services, ought never to have bad it pressed
on him, in opposition to his conscientious scruples.
Now, however, the House was informed that they
were strived at whit was called a new kra—at
which new era the Roman Catholics were given to
believethat they should meet with an impartial hearing.
The Roman Catholics were ready to meet their oppo-
nents on this subject, but the argument against them
ee,•.sed to be, the impugning of every Act of Con-
cession ever granted to them. The Acts against the
Romeo Catholics were of such a nature as must make
the people look to them with a. species of suspicion.
The Acts passed against them, after the Revolution,
and before it too, kept pace with the alarms which
then egift* the-publicadvice. In 1671, Kiog James
published ftc,_finueus Declaration of Indtilgence.—
After 10711, '(fie Popish plot took place, on which
Roman Catholics were turned out of Parliament.
The Popish Plot, he was convinced, would at this
moment be unavailing to any one of our enemies;
be. he inclined to esteem its operations ever so much,
who aided us to enforce it against him ? The Popish
Plot, at this moment, deserved only to be laughed at.
How far the disabilities against Roman Catholics
were intended to be perpetuated, he thought might
be judged of from the terms of the Declaration of
Rights, in which there was no mention of any such
resolutions biting to be regarded as fundamental,
which, otherwise, they certainly would. To give
freedom to four millions of our subjects, he thought,
would be the bed way of meeting any danger
that could arise to us. We were not to carry
these laws, as formerly, to the extreme, because
the period for this penal tyranny was gone by.
—No Petitions against the Catholic Claims had,
as on former years, been transmitted by the Ge-
tters! Assembly of the Church of Scotland, against
the Catholic Claims.--This she• Ned, however,
only that the Rights of the Catholics were no
longer looked upon with the same jealous eye as
formerly. If we looked to Catholic Europe, we
saw that all the finest arts had there flourished—
which could not have been expected, had the Catho-
lic Religion been so dangerous, and inimical to true
prosperity as had been represented. To our Catho.
lic ancestors we owed our greatest blessings. The
field of Ittinymede—the glorious fought battles
of Cressy, Poictiers, Agincourt, &c. ; and were
we now to be told that our Catholic countrymen
would not' fight for us, because our situation had
been matured under a Protestant Government? That
it had been the intention of Mr. Pitt, in granting to
the Catholics the rights they at present enjoyed, to
go en tall he had given them all they could ask, was
apparent. If the Roman Catholics were not enti-
tled to receive what they wow asked, then had those
privileges formerly granted them, been improper.
ly conferred !----Every thing that justified their
former conduct, condemned that which they now
pursued. It was impossible that the Catholics
should not consider what remained of their disabili-
ties as a stigma and disgrace. By the indulgencies
already granted, the face of the country had as-
sumed a greatly improved appearance ; a circum-
stance which gave encouragement to go on. As to
any dread for the Established Religion, he felt none.
lie bad a better opinion of the Protestant faith,
founded as it was on principle and reason, than to
be afraid of it : but if it could not stand against Ro-
man Catholic logic, he was satisfied it could not be LONDON:
sppported by all the tests which could be passed. We
FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1812. •
might create a source if weakness to out Church by
increasing her enemies ; on the contrary, by repeal. FALL OF BADAJOS.
lug the tests, the Protestant Church might be regard- The official details of the storming of isdajoss
ed as the enlightened Patroness of Toleration I He the account of which, as we mentioned yesterday,
approted highly of the motion of the Right lion. Gen- ,
was received at the Admiralty by a telegraphic die+
tleman (Grattan) who might be truly styled the ve-
nerable advocate of Catholic rights, and thought that patch, did not reach the Secretary of State's Office
a list of their grievances might be selected to present till between the hours of eight and nine o'clock last
to the Mince Regent, so as to procure a removal of night. They were brought by Captain CANNING
the most pressing disabilities under schich they la. of the Guards, who had a stand of the enemy's
boated. This would have the effect of immediately
lours taken at Badajos, over the roof of the carriage
increasing our re-ources. Twenty thousand men
from the Catholics of Ireland would immediately join which conveyed him to London. The dispatches I
our standard on being informed of the adoption of were opened by the SECRPTARY AT WAR, in pre.
such a measure ; and such an addition to the army of sence of the Duke of Yoga, who was wailing their
Lord Wellington in the Peninsula, would do more ' arrival, and the following Bulletins were shortly
for the Fatablished Church, than all theetests that
after Issued:_.- . •. • •
could be imposod.-r[ffecte, hear!]
BULLETIN.
Mr. OWEN, in a long and argumentative speech,
WAR DEPARTMENT
opposed the motion of the float. Gentleman, as not Downing-sired, April 23. Int
more inconsistent with the ancient laws and policy of Dispatches Save been received by Lard Lir adroet beta see
the realm, than with the immediate interests of the Earl of WIELLIIIGTOni dated Camp at Badajas. April I.
Empire. " /Hs Lordship reports, that the fire was. opened
Mr. VERNON professed that he had beard no- l from kia socoodpavaliel on the Sist of March, and
thing alleged against the Catholics, and nothing hi. I
deed short of some original sin in that body, there was continued withgreat effect till the night or the
6th lest. whew a gestural attack was made upon the
was, that could induce him to agree with the opi-
nions of the last speaker. The Learned Doctor had ! place. Three breaches bid been effected; the attack
talked to them a great deal about the dangers of the I woo these was made by-the 4th Division, led by Ma-
Catholic persuasion, but little or nothing on the in-! jar-General Cogitate, and the Light Division ender
justice of excluding from 600 offices 9f one kind, and .
Colonel rraatttf but such were the °Wades
20(X) of another, a fourth part of the Empire. There
certainly had been delay in pressing the question, on which the "oaf .11.411"Paredt and Pilch the gad-
acoottut of the known scruples in a certain quarter ; saes, of his defense, that in spite of the most atm.
but stow, when the time had arrived that the Prince ordinaty efforts Gotha part of these two Divisions,
of Wales had assumed the Government of these Lora Wnatuirrou roved it necessary to withdraw
realms, an expectation was certainly entertained, , from rbe assault. In the mega time, the billed
that bettet principles would have -been adopted, andi .
getter views entertained, than those on which the I "a' commanded by- Lieuteeee‘General Pleg°w'
greatness of the Right Honourable Gentlenrinn was , made aa attack en the Castlq of Bsdaeints which tatc
founded. He himself was a Member of the Uttiver.itroops mewled by amlade to the most gallant man.
sity of Oxford, and could say, that 'neither he nor ner, and truly established themselves there,
his friends had had auy previous knowledge of the 'the Revell. er It. Roque ; while so the our ado
Petition: The Honourable Gentleman concluded anlof the cith iihdee*Gebtral Ditigeat
wMplt
able speech, by quoting the celebrated anticipation
of Milton, is which he congratulates himself in the tad heis la** to make aNO VW*, M
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contemptation of seeing "a noble lead puissant ea- Telt !Cis* II Ned ON If i 1111111d.:01013,106
lima, like a young eagle) staling her matiusled eyes tug the 4.0/111111 ratilibillia pd
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T a very numerous MEETING of the M ER-
CHANTS, TRADERS, and OTHERS. iatere-ted in
the INDIA and CHINA TRADES in the PORT of LON-
DON, held at the City of London Tama, the 4.1 d of April,
1812,The Right lion. the LORD MAYOR, in the Chair.
It was moved by Henry Smith, Esq. seconded by George
Ward, Esq. aid
L'oanitnisusly Resolved,
That the imports from the East Imlies end China as now. by
law, confined to the Port of !modems; cannot he extended le the
Out. port. without great injury to these now established in
those Trales in the City and Port of !Ambit' ; nor without great
detriment to the Revenue and to the Country at large.
Tb it a Petition be presented to both Houses of Par Hastiest
in the names of the said Merchants, Tiadess. and Others,praying
that the homeward trade from India and China may be coati-
titled exclusively to the Port-of Condon.
That this Petition be 'saw signed by these presect, and do re-
main at this house for five dos for signatures.
That the Members of the City of London and County of Mid-
diesel' be requested to support the prayer of the Petition iii Pars
lausent, whets any discussion on the subject shall take place.
Thai the Crimmittee of Merchants. by whom this Meeting has
been clammed. he requested to continue permanent diaries the
discussiorn in Parliament. and to use their best todeavoun to
promete the abject of this Meeting.
'Putt the Thanks of this Meeting be gives to the Committee
(or bringing forward this important subjest.
That the Thanks of this Meeting he presented to Sir William
Curti;, Dirt. one of the Representatives in Parliament for this
City; and to George Syng, Esq. nee- of the Representatives
to Parliament Nettie County of Middleses ; for their elated-
:slice this day, and their kind ;locution to the important objects
of this Meeting.'
That these Resolutions and the Petition of the Merchants,
Traders, and Others' of the City of Londe's. after tiresome
shall be presented to the Houses wf Parliament, be piakdished it
the Moruing and Evening Asper,.
HUNTER. Mayer.
The Right lion. the Lord Mayor having retired from the
Chair, the same was taken by Henry Smith, Esq. and it was
thereupon moved, seconded, and unanimously resolved,
That the Thanks of this Meeting be given to the Right Hon.
the Lord Moor, for the readiness he has ever evinced to pro-
mote the Interests of the metropolis, and for his polite and in-
polka conduct in the Chair this day.
HENRY SMITH.

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