The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-03-24 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDM.—Futokv, MAUI II '23.

111 r. At,roett, from the Treamirr, prv:enteil the
atnonnt .tecounts of the Public Expeitili tire, the
State of the Unfunded Debt, and the Distribution of
terantq.-4,.tift on the table.

Mr. llCLuatt, from the Exeltepter, pre(ented an ar•
count of the Inenme charged on the l'onsoliel.kted
Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, np to the ui

Jannitry 151.1.-l Aid on the table.

Mr. IRVING, from the Custom Douse. prevnted
an a..eornt of the %aloe of all Goods imported into
licost Britain front the East Indies vott china, up
to the 25th of January. 1 s'2l.—Laid too the table.
The Bari of SIIAFTESIII•It presented a l'eti ion
from the Archtlesconry of Sunbury. in the t minty of
Suffolk, against the Roman Catholics.
The Earl of CARNARVON m I that the esi-
deuce taken before the Committee of the Cons lllllll►
on the Drampounil tease be printed.— %creed to.
The Mutiny; and the MarineNlntiny Rill. were read a
third time, passed and sent to the Commons.
Lord ROLLE preseute.l a Petition from the Clergy
and Freeholders of the County of Devon. recol•trly.
a/slain& "amazes&ly assonsh/g4. against the Roman
eallholics.—Read and laitl on the table.
Lord KENYON presented a similar Petition from
the Minister anti Churchwardens of the rm.'s!' of St.
Mary's White-chapel, and front the t'lergy of the town!
and neighbourhood of Ilritlgen,trib, in the County of
Salop.—Read, and laid on the
The E4rl of WA RW 'K prew'eted a Petition from
the lientry and Freeholders 4,f the County of Warwick,
14-ing for Agricultursl Relief.—Laid on the table.
:Fad UKEY presented • Petition from the Pro-
testant Dissenters of Nlorpetb, praying that the law
for the Legal Solemnization of Matrimony be altered.
-1-Laid on the table.
'The Court of King's Bench Dispatch of Business
Rill nest through a Committee, and the Report seat

received.
ROMAN CATHOLICS.
The Duke of DEVONSHIRE held a Petition from,
the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of the Counties of
Warwick and Stafford. As it contained nothing im-
proper, be had unt refitsed to present it, but be should
be sorry to be considered as approving the sentiments
which it expressed, as he conceived that its prayer ass
Most improper.
The Petition was then rea,l it prayed that the

House wonld not aer.e to the II:II now in progress
thr.mgh the Commons Co. the Homan catholic,.
'[be Marquis of I.ANSINIWN E did not rise to call
the attention of the House to the Petition which had
just been read, nor to the tvar!;s of Dr.
Milner, for he felt that 1.0 •,.reat :4,1 of beneficence
could ever be accomplished Pot ark the Catholics, if
the House were put to the task of contenting the
scruples of any, or of all inflivOlti.ols of that persua-
sion. He only rose to e,.; ress his earnest lope. with
a clew to the fair ronsilleration whi;-li every Noble
Lord, he was convinced, felt disposed to give to the
subject, that when the Bill now in progress thronLrla
the other House *boob' come before them, it would
come unenrn,nbered with any provi•ioos not nerescr-
rily connected with the mea-nre. Ile was induced to
state this in consequence of a pros ision ulsich now
formed part of that Bill, and whirl, tmole I to supply
a maintenance for the Homan Catholic lerzy of Ire-
land. He did not mean to say that se.rh a prori•ion
might not be a very fit stibjpet for the consideration
of the Legislature ; hut it must rest on ,'rounds to-
tally different from the present urea-ore. and wont be
discussed in a detached state. He had thus taken the
first opportunity of expressinz that anxious feeling,
which he had no doubt was sh.ired by every Noble
Lord, that the present measure nii;lit come before them
is such a form, as to enable them to give that final set-
tlement to the Claims of that haze class of their fel-
low subjects, the Roman Catholics, which the welfare
of the country required.
The Petition was then laid on the tabl:.
OREAT BRITAIN AND N
The Marquis of LANSDOWNF. rose to pit time
questions of which he bad given notice, to the No-
ble Earl at the head of the Treasury. The Noble I
Earl would find that they arose It-Our:01y out of Mel
important transactions which had taken Wave in the
sodth of Europe, and out of the late discnesions on
this. transactions in the House. The first question
related to whet had been already stated, that this
country had preserved a British squadron in the Bay
.if Naples, for no other purpose than to protect Wi-
dth interests, and the property of all classes of [hi-
' flab *objects. As that had been represented as the
ippie repos for adopting the measure, ke was anxious