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LIVERPOOL. Mar IS.
Parliamentary Rs0issO.
HOUSE OF lords.

the Roman Catholic petition should be
read, which being done, his lordship pro-
: -cesded TO the discussion of It's contents.
z Il was the wish ofthe petitioners that their
v~cllms should be considered withthat sober
deliberate, and dispassionate temper, which
they were led TO hope for in the parliament
of the united kipgdom: and IN this tone
and temper it was his intention % argue the
Question. The. most striking feature of
4she subiectwas, that in Ireland we had
catholic population of from three TO FIVE
millions. This was fact which had ne
cesssrily pressed on the attention of the
legislature ever since the. reformation. IL
had so happened, thatat sherevolution the
great majority of this body were attached
to the exilcd royal family. la conseluence
of this, that greatest of princes, aud most
enlightened friend to federation, king Viii
liam, found himself obliged to consent to
the imposition of certain restraints upon
them; but he was incapable of ever plac-
ING them in the degraded situation TO
which they were redaced inthe subsequent
reign in which they were stripped OF all
properly, all influence, all constitutional
rights. and thus rendered aliens in the
country which gave them birth. The Ca.
tlolics, however. having during two re-
bellions, eyinced the highest loyalty, a
Change of conductive adopted with regard
to the towards the commencement OF his
naaiessy's reign; aud since thar period the
restraiays under which they labored had
! been. gradually taken off, with the excep"
ton of those By which they were excluded
from parliament, from the bench, from the
high Offices OF state, aud certain other stu.
atoms. The noble lord then proceeded to
: shewxwhy these restraints should now be
removed, and expressed his conviction,
that in short time they must be removed.
He repfobated the system OF attrbutiug to
the Roman catholics principles which they
disclaimed on oath, such as that no faith
was to be kept with heretics, and that the
pope could relieve them from the Obligation
Of an oath. It.was ridiculous to suppose,
that from the admission of few cathoIi;;
peers aud commissioners into parliament,
any danger should arise 70 the church OF
England. A similar danger was appre-.
hended at the time of the union with Scot
land but who had heard any of the six
teen Scotch peers or forty.6ve eommoners
make any proposition in his place deroga-
tory to the rights of the established church.
We haci lately seen presbyterian ehancei-
Ter and chief Justice of the kings bench,
and We now see Presbyterian master OF
the rolls We had presbyterian admirals
and generals. and. even some OF the high.
est ministerial Offices under the crown had
been IN the hands of persons Of that persua-
sion; without any injury to the Aestabtis D.
ed church.
His Eordship considered the present
moment as the most propitious for taking
the petition into consideration, as it would
have the tendency to unite al the class S
Of people, to close the ranks ofthe subjects,
and TO enable us to present firm phalanx
10 our .inveterate foe. He concluded with
moving, that the House should go into a
Committee to consider of the petition.
Lord ,Hawkesbury Iprofesseda disposiu"
on to eat the question with that moderate
on which the preceding speaker had like
wise professed, butt which he had not
adhered when he had recourse to the me-
nacing language that the qaestion should
aad must, in short time, be carried.
Lord GrenvilIe spoke to order. He ap-
pealed to every Peer who heard him, whe-
Their his words bore any other Construct
on, than that the object must be ultimately
carried by the force of reasoning:
Lord Hawktsb6ry laid that in every free tate
of which history furnihed US with any details,
there were certain fnndamentai@la@s which were
conadered as incapable of being repealed with a.
ny degree Of safety to the exiting contribution.
The evils which our forefathers had experienced,
or apprehended from popery, had led them, even
by breaking in on the principle of hereditary iuc.
cession, to fran. protcfant constitution, 70
o,,rded and proteefed a. 20 exclude Roman Ca