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intention to proceed on the subject of Raman Catholic disabilities by moving for the appointment of a committee to take these disabilities into consideration , or to bring the question under the consideration of their Lordships by means of a bill .
The Dulie of Wellington said , it was the intention of Government to present to Parliament , in the course of the present session , a measure for the adjustment of what was called the Roman Catholic Claims . This measure for the adjustment of the claims would be brought forward in a substantive shape by Ministers , without going through a committee . The measure would extend to the
removal generally of all civil disabilities under which the Roman Catholics laboured , with exceptions solely resting on special grounds ; and it would be accompanied t > y other measures rendered necessary by the removal of these disabilities . Lord WrNCHELSBA , in his usual strain , regretted the intended removal of these disabilities , in which he was followed by Lord Eldon , who maintained that the fmlon between Church and State was as
Indispensable as that between man and wife ! and a great deal of argument , if argument it can be called , of the same nature , which occasioned much amusement in the House . Lord B \ thurst defended ' the conduct of Ministers . Lord Farnham was unable to see any security which could protect the Protestant Establishment from the abuse of Catholic power 1
Lord Downshire was satisfied , that If the Noble Premier went straightforward Sn his work , he would complete his salutary labours for the permanent benefit of fell parties , and secure the peace and prosperity of the empire .
Lord Anglesey congratulated the country on the gracious recommendation made in his Majesty ' s Speech , regarding a question upon which the safety frttd well-being of Ireland—of 1 * he United Kingdom—mainly depended . This recommendation had diverted hkn from
entering upon an explanation respecting his administration of the affairs of Irelaud during tfce lafit ten months , of his sudden recall , and of the charges which lie had reason to foelfeve had been brought against him , of not having acted , in his high trust , it * a mancer consistent witft his duty as the Kfrng ' s Representative . As , homer , the public wrongs of bo mftny millions of Ms fellow ~ stibje < fts were too « w brought forward for the purpose of being redressed , fee should abstain from
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calling their Lordships' attention to his own private wrongs , ( hear , hear , ) aud merely say , that he conrted a rigid investigation of his conduct , ami was most anxious to vindicate the whole course of his proceedings in Ireland , satisfied , as he was , that a jast acquittal would be the result upon every branch of accusation . He sincerely hoped , that what wa » intended to be done would be done graciously , not with a cold and niggard hand—that the measure would be
worthy a wise and liberal Legislature to offer , and befitting a high-minded , generous , long-suffering , and truly loyal people , to receive . ( Hear , hear . ) As fur the Catholic Association , he would declare , that though he had lived for ten months under the nose of its asserted
danger , he saw nothhag- whatever of it . How it was to be put down , without i » - vadiug the right of the subject to express his grievances , he could not see ; for though it was an uncon s titutional body , he believed bo lawyer * vould assert that it was an illegal one . If they would follow his advice , they would for ever extinguish the Association , aud that was , to pass a bill placing upon a footing- of political equality their Protestant aud Catholic brethren :. { Hear , hear . )
LordGoDEftiCH did not advise tlw Catholic Association to dissolve itself , for if the disabilities which affected the Catholics were removed , the nature of things would dissolve that Association . You take awar the food on which it exists , you destroy the vitality of the atmosphere in which i . t breathes , when you say to it , < c the two Houses of Parliament are ready to consider yoar grievances and to remove , them . " You avert
by one generous act a thuuder-cloud which has long ibeeii lowering over yoar horizon and iineateniag to burst with ruin on your heads . He would not be over nice either as to tire question of securities ; for he was convinced that they would find the strongest security of all
m doing justice . Whea justice was performed , six mouths would not elapse before they would all woader how this question could hav < e excited so much dissension in the country , and could have disunited and upset so many different cabinets . ( Mectr ^ bear . )
The Duke of Newcastle said , that though the proposition to release the Catholics from tfieir present disabilities emanated from the Throne , it was not to be accepted without consideration by Parliament . Such a proposition ought to be decided on its own merits—because dangerous as it was in itself , it was ren-
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214 Intelligence . — Catholic Question ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1829, page 214, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2570/page/62/
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