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    itself without waiting for any legislative proceeding . — { Hear , hear . ) Mr . R . Smith believed that the hostility to the Catholic Claims was not so general as many supposed ; and he was sure that the course now resolved upon ¦ would shortly be rewarded by the increased prosperity and unvarying attachment of h-eland .

    Lord Althorp was delighted to see the question at letigth in the proper hands , and thought that the Noble Duke deserved great credit for the manner in which he had proceeded . If the Catholic Association followed the dictates of good sense and prudence , it would forthwith dissolve itself . — ( Hear . )

    Mr . C . Grant thought the Royal Speech the most truly honest and British that had ever come before them , and every way worthy of an enlightened Monarch , who felt for the sufferings of his Irish subjects . He hoped the measure would not be clogged with iucutnbrances , and he thought that the best mode of doing away with the Catholic Association would be by at once granting the

    Catholic Claims . This was a long-desired act of national justice—nay , of natioual piety—{ cheers )—for it was the exercise of an enlarged benevolence—and the result must be a happy one . He should envy the feelings both of his Majesty and the Noble Duke when they met , for the first time , the Representatives of the Empire assembled in the United Parliament of Great Britain aud Ireland .

    { Loud cheering . ) Lord F . L . Go we a had always advocated concessions to the Catholics , but he thought the Association should first be put down ; that would be the very elixir vittB of Ireland , and a mere act of justice to the Protestant population . Lord John Russell differed with the

    Noble Lord on this point ; for though the Association was irreconcileable with law and authority , they had better dissolve it by the grant of Emancipation , and not by force of legislation . A great step was , however , gained ; and he

    hoped nothing would be proposed which would call for any opposition , on his part , in the progress of a measure which would be the most unfading laurel in the crown of the Noble Duke , if it gave equal liberty to all classes of his Ma jesty ' s subjects . { Cfieers . )

    Mr . Peel said he should do his best to secure the interests of the Protestants , and at the same time satisfy the expectations of every reasonable Catholic ; and nothing should betray him into the expression of angry feelings , now that he had undertaken this important , difficult ,

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    and , to him , painful task , whatever might be the reproaches of those who deemed his present conduct inconsistent with his former declarations . { Cheers )

    February 14 th . The presentation of petitions in both Houses was accompanied by incidental expressious of opinion on the general question , and by a good deal of personal skirmishing . The Earl of Winchelsea led the van

    this week . He wished to know when the Duke of Wellington meant to present a petition against his own measure , signed by ten thousaud men of Boston ? The Duke , with military alacrity , said , " I will present it now ; " and the bulky parchment was produced forthwith . Lord Falmouth had a desire to be informed

    whether the phrase ' settling the question" meant " Catholic Emancipation ;" and if so , whether the Duke meant to say that the majority of the people of England were agreed with him ? The Duke of Wellington answered , tbat a great portion of the people were agreed with him ; and Lord Holland

    sarcastically directed the noble querist to apply to the House of Commons for an answer to his question . Lord Falmouth spoke about a dissolution of Parliament as the means by which the seuse of the nation was to be obtained ; and appealed to the unanimity of the men of Devonshire and those of Cornwall as

    specimens of " the people" from whom the Premier was to glean instruction ; people who , the Earl of Caernarvon declared , were utterly ignorant of the petition for which they held up their hands . The last-named Peer noticed a manifesto published in some of the

    papers , under the signature of " Winchelsea and Nottingham " , " in which Catholic concession was denounced as a design to destroy the Constitution and dethrone the King ; but he charitably expressed his belief that it could not be the Earl

    of Winchelsea who spoke of the House of Peers as " degenerate senators" ready to sacrifice the Constitution at the " shrine of treason and rebellion . " Time was when the author of such language would have been sent to the

    Tower ; but the House did well to look upon the letter as the * ' production of a distempered fancy . " The Duke of Newcastle complained one evening that he had lost his ideas ; but some days afterwards he recovered them sufficiently to be facetious at the Premier's expense .

    The two leading Ministers suffered many taunts about " inconsistency , " " miraculous conversions . " To some of

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    220 Intelligence . — Catholic Question .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/68/