The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-07 00:00:00

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ROYAL ASSENT.
At half-past three o'clock the Lortlcnalecet.Lon,
the Earl of SnAMSOURT, and Viscount 111gLvILLE.
appeared with to Commission from his Majesty, and
gate the Royal Assent to the following Bills:—The
Commercial Intercourse,the Husbandry Horse Duties,
the Irish Attorneys' Fees Regulation, the Irish Witch-
craft Law Repeal, the Oramponnd Witnesses Indem-
nity Bills, and to a variety of private Bills.
A message was ordered to be sent to the Commons
to request leave for Sir Manaseh Lopes to attend the
.econd reading of the Orampound Disfranchisement
Bill.
Mr. WHIM from the King's Bench Office, pre-
sented Extracts and Copies of certain. Records of con-
vietiton, pursuant to their Lordships' order.—Laid on
the table.
The Innkeepers' Rates Bill was read a third time,
passed, and sent to the Commons.
ROMAN CATHOLICS.
Viscount SIDMOCTII presented a Petition from
the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church, of St.
Petit% Westminster, against the Catholic Claims.—
Laid on the table.
The Bishop of LONDON presented similar Peti-
tioes from the Clergy of Sien College, and from the
hector, Churchwardens, and Inhabitants of the parish
of Christchurch, Middlesex. The latter, the Right
Hey. Prelate stated, teas signed by 2,000 persons.—
Read and laid on the table.
Viscount SIDMOUTH presented a Petition against
the Catholic Claims from certain Parishes in the
County of Stirling.—Laid on the table.
The Earl of SIIAFTESBURY presented Petitions
to the same effect from Hitchin, in the County of Hert-
ford, Sutton Colefield in the County of Ilrarwick, and
from the Royal Burgh of Dumfries, in the County of
Dumfries in Scotland.—Laid on the table.
The Earl of DONOCOHMORE held a Petition on
the same subject, from a most respectable body of Cler-
gymen, not of the Established Church. They overe,
in fact, Roman Catholics, and objected not to such a
Bill as that which had come before their Lordships,but
to some of the provisions which it contained. That
objection was the same which be entertained, and
would, he trusted, be removed by the alterations which
their Lordship,' would think proper to effect in the
measure. The Petition was from the Roman Catholic
Bishop and Clergy of the County of Limerick, than
whom there could net he a more respectable body in
existence. As the Petition was against some parts of
the Catholic Bill, he should beg that it be read at
length.
The Petition having been read,
The LORD CHANCELLOR was understood to
object to the description given by the Petitioners of
themselves, as the Roman Catholic Bishop and Clergy
of the County of Limerick.
The Earl of DONOUOHMORE could not conceive
how any doubt could be entertained of the propriety
of a person exercising the function of a Bishop calling
himself by that name. The power of Ordivation was
the touchstone by which the character of a Bishop
was.to be known ; and it was a fact, that if any per-
sou ordained by a Catholic Bishop, afterwards chose
to conform to the Established Church, he became at
once a Minister of that Church, without undergoing
any fresh ordination. This hail been exemplified in
the case of the celebrated preacher, Mr. Kirwan, who
had become a Protestant Minister after having been
ordained by a Catholic Bishop. This proved that the
character of a Catholic Bishop was acknowledged by
our laws.

The LORD CH NICCELLOR had never meant to
deny the character of a Bishop to the individual men-
tioned in the Petition, or that he had a right to exer-
cise the Episcopal functions. He only objected to the
phraseology of the Petition, %%hitch represented him as
the Catholic Bishop of Limerick, for it could Not be
a►.mitted that there were two Bishops for Limerick,
any wore than for Liloucester, or any other place.—
lie, however, did not mean to oppose the receiving of
the Petition.
The Petition was then ordered to lie on the table.
Adjourned till Monday.

LA IV INTEI.LIGENCIf.

VICE CII MELLOR'S COURT-FRIDAY.

IN THE MATTER OF HOWARD AND GIBRS,

Mr. WhamAnsi', on the part of certain creditors
of the bankrupts, applied to the Vice-Chancellor, for
permission to have two petitions, which were presented
in this bankruptcy, put at the head of his Honour's
Paper of Bankrupts' Petitions, and to have tbem car-
ried on together; he said an application bad already
been made to the Lord Chancellor, for the purpose of
haring the proceedings under this commission, deli-
vered up to the assignees, which his Lordship had di-
rected should he done ; and on his applying. to his
Lordship to allow these two petitions to he beard to-
gether at as early a day as possible, he desired him to
ni ate the application to the Vice Chancellor, and to
coniinunicate to him, that had it not been for the pres-
sore of circumstances, he would hare felt it his duty
to have beard these two petitions together at an early
dove _ _ _

Vica•CnANcw.on.—Let them stand at the head of
the Bankrupt Petitions; I think it propable that they
may come on on Saturday (this day.) You bad better
~;ilte notice instantly to the other side.
Mr. ilawr.-1 have a brief in one of those petitions,
and I think, that whenever that petition comes on it
depend entirely on facts, and it will be difficult to
ban the facts on both sides prepared so as to have it
Leatd on such an early day.
Mr. Wnerstaastt.—lf the parties should not be
leadylby that time, your Honour will allow the petitions
to stand until the parties should be ready.
VieIt•eMIANCELLOR.--Certainly ; let these Petitions
I.- put at the head of the Paper.

?damson tx Huta Lir E.--Captain Frederick Fitz
t Ilreoce.ion of his Royal Highness the Duke of Oa.
r.nee. trill shortly lead to the hymeneal altar Lady
A Igusti Boyle, daughter of the Karl of Glasgow.
At the Shrewsbury Assizes a poor man was plain-
Cif in a cause as the heir-at-law ass estate at Elles-
mere. He sued informs perrperi.r, and .seceeeded.
There are no less th.in two Luodred and seventeen
pri o•lers for trial un the Crown side at the Assizes
t., W. rw7l'ks lire.

THE ST.

lIOMR CIRCUIT.
SUEEICY LENT ASSlZES.—Encerros, Arm, 1.

CROWN SIDE.
SANK 0! EKObAND PROSiCtrnONS•
Mary Mears was acquitted on an indictOsent &saw
ing her with having forged Bank of England notes,
knowingly, in her possession, without lawful excuse.
Ann if was convicted of a similar offence,
and received sentence of transportation for 14 years.
William Groves and Ckmentina Rebecca .Vires, who
severally pleaded guilty to indictments for a similar
offence, received the like sentence.
The following unhappy persons received sentence
of Death for uttering forged notes, viz.—Themes
Mayers, James Stevens, William Jarvis, and Henry
Ethic
Edward Price was indicted, under Lord Ellen-
borough's Act, for cutting and maiming John Cold-
man, at Ewell, on the 26th of December, with intent
to murder, or do him some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. RYLAND, who conducted the prosecution, called
several witnesses, from whose testimony it appeared,
that the prosecutor, who keeps a public-house at
Ewell, attempted to turn the prisoner oat, whilst In
a state of intoxication, when the latter attempted to
stab him with a knife. The prosecutor, in trying
to ward off the blow, received a trifling wound is
the thumb. No previous existed bete een
the parties.
Mr. Baron Woon charged the Jury, that the offence
hardly came within the meaning of the very severe Act
upon-which the indictment was lountled.—lle Jtir
found the prisoner Not Guilty.

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