The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-04-12 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.'
HOUSt OF LORDS.—Weiriassae, Aram IL
The Bishop of WORCESTER presented a Petition
frurn the Clergy of the Norm of Worcester against
the Catholic Bill—Laid on the table.
Mr. Bs T~cte CLARSI and others brought several
Private Bills from the Commons.—Read a brit titne.
Invixo, from the Custons-House, presented an
. Account of the value pith, Goods exported from Great
Britain to Ireland, sad (ram Ireland to Great Britain,
during the year ending an the bth of January IS2I.—
Laid on the table.
Lord KENYON presented Petitions from several
Parishes in the Diocese of St. David's against the
Cathoiic Bill.—Laid on the table.
The Bishop of LONDON presented a similar
Petition from the Congregation of the Chapel in
Long•acrr. —Laid on the table.
ROMAN CATHOLICS.
The Earl of DONOCOHMORE, acts., alluding to
the important task which he had undertaken to dis-
charge with regard to the Catholic Bill, %aid that he
considered it to he his duty to present any paper which
was sent to bins on either side of the question, and to
explain the sentiments of Petitioners, however they
might differ between themselves, without expressing
Lis own until the day fixed fur the second reading of
the Bill. He hail to state that he heard of no objec-
tion whatever on the. part of the Roman Catholics
ogainst the first Bill which had been brought into
Parliament for their relief. Bat that Bill had been
incorporated with a second, and the two now formed
.ally one measure. It was against the provisions
contained in that second part that all the objections of
the Roman Catholics were directed. Of the first part,
ell the Petitioners highly approvesl, expressing the
utmost gratitude for its enactments. The first Petition
which he should submit to their Lordships was that of
Dr..Sughrue and the Roman Catholic Clergy of Kerry,
mho cnnreived that no Catholic Clergyman could con-
si.ientionsly agree to the clauses contained its the se-
cond part of the Bill.
The Petition having been road and laid on the
table, after a few words from the LouD CstaNcem.on,
The Earl of DONOUOIIMORE then presented Pe-
titions from the Vicar-Deneral and Roman Catholic
Clergy of Waterford and Lismore, ebiecting to the
hoses as charging the Roman Catholic Clergy with
disloyalty, and as injurious to the discipline of their
Church : and from the Roman Catholics ut the County
and City of Waterford who objected to the clauses as
tending directly to affect the integrity of their religion.
'Elicit Petitir.ns having been read oral laid on the
table,
The Earl of DONOU MORE wished also to state,
that though he had no Petitions to present from that
quarter, yet he had received communications from se-
vi.ral respectable bodies of Roman Catholics, who had
sumac to various re.olutions against the clauses in
qeestion. These were from the Right Rev. Dr. Cos-
tello, and the Roman Catholic Clergv of the Diocese
Clotifert : from the Most Rev. Dr. Murphy, and
the Roman Catholic Clergy of the Diocese of Cork :
from the Moat Rev. Dr. Troy. and the other Itaillati
Catholic Prelates of Leinster. The laver stnted their
objections to the clauses, but trusted that they would
be so modified by their Lordships, as to cease to ag-
g:ieve the stonsclestres of his Majesty's Roman Cub°.
Y.:: subject. He had also received the resolutions of an
aggregate meeting of the Roman Catholics of the
• County and City of Cork ; and those of a mown:
meeting of the Roman Catholics of Dublin, who ex-
pressed the strongest acknowledgments fur the valu-
able concessions whirls had been made to them in the
pending Bill, highly approving the grateful spirit
sshich pervaded the resolutions of the Clergy of the
Oiocese of Diddle, and coinciding with thesis in the
expression of their reliance on the pure and henevo- I
lent intentions of the Legislature. He should not no-1
copy the time of the house any longer, and had oily ,
slime it now, in order to avoid delaying their Lotd '
ships on Monday nest, when the second reading of
the Rill should come on.
The Marquess of LANSDOWNE presented a Pe-
tition from the town of Gainsborongls, praying for
t. e revision of our Criminal Code. Laid on the
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Petition
ont the Magistrates and Inhabitants of Ilausstead, in
e County of Middlesex, against the Catholic Bill.—
Laid on the table.
Lord CA ur HORPE presented Petitions from some
Parishes in the County of Cornwall, praying for
tl.e revision of onr Criminal Code. Laid on the table.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented a Pe-
tition from the Protestant Dissenters of the Chapel
ir. Aloorfields against the Catholic Bill. Laid on the
table.

FOREIGN TRADE.
The Marquess of LAN SOOW N E rose for the purpose
cf presmiting to their Lordships the first Report of the
Committee on Foreien Trade. As it was at consider-
length and the Ilonse was summoned un partico-
isr business, he shonld only oa, in a few woctis the
o'aject to which the Report related. Those objects
c-ere our Asiatic trade, :in., the facilities which might
be given to it. The subject was considered under the
three following points of slow :—That part of onr
Asiatic trade which was carried on by Briti;ll mer-
c;.ants under licenses from the East India Company;
ti:at part carried on under licences from the Board of
4.:ontroul ; that part which wag not now. but
might be *carried on by British merchants. anti was
a:111211y carried on by American merchants with the
(Try of'Canton. 'The deport took those three heads
.5' fa ctorsideration, and displayed the advantages which
• .. c:ight be •emecteil from the alterations proposed ;
•. ; • Flitreingr, out the manner in which these facilities
• ; rt.ifflit•lie granted, and stating the objections which
nt: Tsd been made or might he made to them. Alive as the
1". 4;:,,siosiiitee Were to the interests of all commercial
Lottiss, and aware that tin extension of the Asiatic
tratit:sp.stla. be obtained without the consent of the
• Ems: •Ittslia Company, they had kept its interests
.orppritiously in view. and slid not think that what they
-14 propose would affect them. especially their
Ilirtuelititonopoty. They trnsted, therefore, that they
retold pfeet Kith lito•tal assistance f:oni the East
,
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.4uNpatiy, in all those things which neither af-•
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feete+its interests, ts.,r those of the strangers under
• itsisrotection. Ile shot/fit now submit the report to
the eonstsieration of their Lordships, and of his Ala-
;esty's Grverement ; and would pulpit, I teat the ror-
rc,.ptindence between the Ruaril Cubta.,lll, and the