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at various times , and through various chanuels , to remove the unfavourable and unjust impressions which existed against them . With this view they had associated and formed that body which was called the Catholic Association—an
association formed on sound and constitutional principles , and in the . institution of which they were warranted by the precedents and practice of the best times of British history . They complained , that against this association a bill was introduced . The allegations of that bill
they offered to refute , and prayed to be heard at the bar for that purpose ; but this prayer was refused . They therefore complain , that , without examination or inquiry , that bill was passed into a law .
By that law the petitioners felt themselves deeply aggrieved , and they had stated in strong terms , but not in such as would render it unfit for him to present the petition to the House , their sense of the injury they had sustained .
They concluded their petition by praying their Lordships to repeal the law . After this statement , it only remained for him to fulfil his duty by moving that the petition be laid on the table . Before he made that motion , however , he would ,
in order to save time , beg leave to present another petition , which was from the Catholic inhabitants of the parish of St . Audeon , in Dublin . The object of this petition was Catholic emancipation , and on that general subject it was not neces-
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sary for him to make any further $ bser- > vation . But the petitioners requested their Lordships' attention to a particular point—to those proposed measures which were known by the name of wings , but which , he concurred with the petitioners , did not assist the cause in its upward flight : for , instead of enabling it to soar ,
they clogged and impeded it . To these measures he had strong objections , particularly to that one which went to disfranchise a large body of electors upon the allegation of abuse—to deprive freeholders of the right to elect
representatives—a right which they held under the same sanction of British law by which all other rights and property were protected . He was not at all surprised that those persons who had always opposed Catholic emancipation should take up this particular clause of disfranchisement for the
purpose of defeating that measure , to the principle of which they objected . He agreed with the sentiments expressed in the petition on this point as well as on its general object . There was no question , the consideration of which was so
essential to the peace and security of this empire , as that of the coutinuance of those laws , as unjust as they were unwise , which excluded Roman Catholics from the privileges enjoyed by other British subjects .
The petitions were read and laid on the table .
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We are again obliged , by some recent instances of inadvertence , to remind our Correspondents that communications must be addressed [ post-paid ] to the Editor , at the Publishers' > Messrs - Sherwood & Co ., Paternoster Row . _ ¦¦¦ fc
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P . 172 , line 30 from the bottom , [ col . 1 , ] read " Boreaj . "
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__ Communications have been received from Messrs . Bristowe ; Noah Jones ; and Bretteli : from Theophilus ; Rusticus ; a Free-Thinker ; and C . ; and the Verses from Kendal . The legal argument on the Trust-Deed of the Chapel at Merthyr Tydfil would not , we apprehend , be intelligible to the mass of our readers . 44 The Oldest Subscriber" has completely mistaken our design in the insertion of the passages from Mr . Huskisson ' s and Mr . Canning ' s sneeches in the last number
Our object was nor political , much Jess to give our humble countenance to " the Pitt system " , but solely to sbevv the progress of the age , and to paint out Ministers of State as the eulogists of " philosophy , " ( so much abused , ) and of reform ( so long dreaded ) . We are constrained to defer to the next number the Obituary of the late Ebenezer Johnstony Esq ., of Lewes .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 252, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/64/
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