ward in February next, instead of the | he should enter into any pledge whatever at the present moment. present advanced period of the Session; but yet, on the grounds stated by his Lord Redesdale declared himself Noble Friend (Melville), he could not one of those who had any hope not help declaring, that if he were a that an arrangement could soon be Catholic he should consider the adop-made which would satisfy the Protest tion of the present motion as a mere mockery. Lord Boringdon felt it impossible to give a negative to a proposition so distinctly stated as that made by the Noble Earl who opened the debate. Let them not lay that flattering unction to their souls, that the question could rest as it was. He hoped that the spirit in which that debate was conducted might be cultivated without doors, and that in the course of the next Session a system of conciliation would be adopted, which would enable them to bring it to that result in which it must be the wish of every one to see it terminate. Lord Donoughmore, in reply, said, that seeing the temper of the House, he would not persist in his motion, but would lay in his claim to bring the subject forward at an early period of the next Session. He would, therefore, propose that the motion, instead of being worded as at present, to "go immediately into a Committee," should be altered to "an early period in the next Session." The Earl of Westmorland said, he did not mean to pledge himself to any particular mode of proceeding, when the question came forward at a future period, by refusing to support the motion now, but he saw no reason why ant and Catholic population of both countries. He was not one of those who thought that such securities as were proposed could have any good effect. His view of the question was, that the Constitution, as it stood, was Protestant, and required a Protestant Administration, which could not be conducted by Roman Catholics. If Catholics were admitted into Parlia ment, they must necessarily possess a considerable portion of influence.The proposition now before the House could only have reference to the admission of Catholics into offices and into both Houses of Parliament, and in that view he could not assent to the present motion. The Earl of Aberdeen supported the motion, on the ground that by the motion, he was not pledged to any general principle, but merely to an inquiry, for which he thought the present moment inauspicious. In the next Session the situation of Europe might enable them to decide without danger on the claims of the Catholics. The motion was then put in the amended form, and the House divided Non-contents 42-Proxies 44-86 Contents 29-Proxies 31-60 The motion was thus lost by a majority of 26. LIST OF THE MINORITY IN THE HOUSE OF PEERS.. The Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Darnley, and the Earl of Albemarle's proxies had been given, but were lost in the vote, by the Peers who held them having been accidentally absent. The Earl of Darlington and the Marquis of Headfort are said to have paired off. LIST OF THE MINORITY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Abercromby, Hon. J. Althorp, Viscount Barham, J. F. Bewicke, Col.. Blake, Valentine Courtney, Wm. Douglas, Hon. F. S. Horner, F. Hurst, Robert Huskisson, Rt. Hon. W. Horne, W. Latouche, R. Law, Hon. E. Leader, W. Lewis, Frankland Madocks, Wm. A. Montgomery, Sir H. Morland, S. B. Mahon, Hon. S. Naper, James Newman, R. W. Newport, Sir J. North, Dudley Nugent, Lord Odell, William Ogle, Henry M. A Bill intituled an Act for the effectual Relief of the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of these Realms from the several Penal and Disqualifying Statutes, now in force against the Members of their Religious Communion." Whereas it is just and expedient, that the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of these Realms should be restored to the free enjoyment of the rights and benefits of the Constitution, and should partake of the same, equally and in common with their fellow-subjects of other religious denominations; and whereas, upon due consideration had of the several Statutes formerly made and now in force against the Members of the Roman Catholic Communion, it appears advisable and proper to repeal the same altogether, and to bury in oblivion all jealousies, complaints, and animosities, arising from the same, so that all the inhabitants of these Realms shall, from henceforth, and in all times to come, be bound and firmly united together, by the same privileges, interests, and feelings, in de. fence of their common Rights, Liberties, and Constitution. May it therefore please your Majesty, that it may be enacted, and be it enacted, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same. 1. That from and after the passing of this Act, the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of these Realms shall not be liable or subject to any laws for the limitation, charging, or discovering of their estates, real and personal, or touching the acquiring, enjoying, holding, or disposing of property of any kind or nature, save such as the Protestant Inhabitants of these Realms are liable and subject to, any Statute, Charter, Bye-Law, or usage to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding." *This Section does not extend beyond the Irish Statute of 1793, (33 George III. chap. 21. sect. 1.) but annexes no condition of Roman Catholic can by law hold, enjoy, or qualifying by oaths, &c.-At present, no dispose of any landed property in Ireland (beyond rack-rent leaseholds for 31 years,) without publicly qualifying by oaths and dethe Statutes of 1774 and 1793. clarations, in strict form, as prescribed by 2. And be it further enacted, That | porate, and to enjoy the freedoms, from and after the passing of this Act, franchises and immunities thereof, and the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of to hold, exercise, and enjoy any office these Realms shall not be liale or or place of trust therein, any Statute, subject to any Disqualifications from Charter, Bye-Law, or usage, to the office or franchise, or right or privilege contrary thereof, in any wise notwithof voting at any meeting, or in any standing, upon taking, making, and place, or to any disabilities, incapa- subscribing the oath and declaration cities, restraints, conditions, or penal- following: (instead of the oaths of ties, save such as the Protestant Inha- Allegiance, Abjuration, and Supre bitants of these Realms are liable and macy, and instead of making and subsubject to, any Statute, Charter, Bye-scribing the Declaration against TranLaw, or usage to the contrary thereof, substantiation, the Sacrifice of the in any wise notwithstanding.* Mass, and the Invocation of Saints, now by law required, and instead of taking the Sacrament according to the forms of the Protestant Religion,) that is to say, upon taking and subscribing the oath and declaration following: "I (A. B.) do hereby declare, that I profess the Roman Catholic Religion. "I (A. B.) do sincerely promise and swear, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his Majesty King George the Third, and him will defend to the utmost of my power against all conspiracies and attempts whatever, that shall be made against his person, crown or dignity,—and I will do my utmost to disclose and make known to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against him or them. 3. And be it further enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, it shall and may be lawful to and for the Roman Catholic Inhabitants of these Realms to sit and vote in either House of Parliament, and to hold, exercise, and enjoy all Civil, Judicial, Military and Naval Offices, and places of trust or profit, under his Majesty, his heirs and successors, within these Realms, and the dominions, dependencies, and colonies thereunto belonging; and to take and receive any degrees of medicine, law, or arts in any of the Universities of Great Britain or Ireland, and to be Students, Exhibitioners, Scholars, Professors, and Lay-Fellows, of or in any of the said Universities, or in any College or Colleges therein, or belonging thereto, and to hold, exercise, and enjoy the offices of Mayor, Sovereign, Bailiff, Alderman, Treasurer, Sheriff, Town Clerk, Common Councilman, Master, or Warden, of any Guild or Fraternity; and all such and the like offices (by whatsoever name or names the same are, or may be, called or known,) in any city or town within these realms; and also the offices of . Governors, Deputy-Governors, and Directors of the Banks of England and Ireland, respectively, and all other offices therein; and also to be Members of any other Lay Body Cor * This Clause does not, in substance, extend beyond the first section of Statute of 1793-but there is no subsequent exception to its operation-or condition annexed, of qualifyin by oaths, &c. "And I do promise to maintain, defend, and support, to the utmost of my power, the Succession to the Crown, (which succession by law now stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, deceased, and the Heirs of her body, being Protestants), hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance unto any other person, claiming or pretending a right to the Crown of these Realms. "And I do not believe, that any Foreign Prince, Prelate, State, or Potentate, hath, or ought to have, any temporal or civil jurisdiction, power, superiority or pre-eminence within these Realms. t "And I do declare, that I swear | certificate shall, upon all occasions, this oath, and every part thereof, in be sufficient evidence of such person the plain and ordinary sense of the having duly taken, made, and subwords of this oath.* scribed the said oath and declaration required by this Act.t "So help me God." 4. And be it further enacted, that the said oath and declaration may be taken and subscribed in any of his Majesty's Courts of Chancery, King's Bench, Common Pleas, or Exchequer, or before any going Judge of Assize in Great Britain or Ireland, or at any general Sessions of the Peace, or at any adjournment thereof, to be holden for any county, city, or town, in Great Britain or Ireland, or in any of the Courts of Session, Justiciary, or Exchequer, Sheriff or Stew, ard Court, or other Court of Justice in Scotland, or of Magistrates or Counsellors of the Royal Boroughs in Scotland, or before the Council of their respective boroughs; and that a certificate of such oath and declaration having been so taken and subscribed, pursuant to this Act, shall (as often as the same shall be required) be delivered to the person so taking and subscribing the said oath and declaration, by the proper Officer of the Court in which the said oath and declaration shall have been so taken and subscribed as aforesaid, or by the Register of such going Judge of Assize as aforesaid, signed and subscribed with the name of such Officer or Register respectively, in his own handwriting and that the said certificate shall be so delivered, at any time at which the same shall be demanded by such person so qualifying as aforesaid; for which certificate there shall be taken no greater fee or reward than the sum of one shilling. And such This oath is the same as the present one, only omitting those passages which are now, confessedly, unnecessary, or are felt as of fensive and reproachful commemorative of jealousies, animosities, &c &c. The form here proposed is accommodated to persons of every Christian Denomination. This will be conformable to the principle laid down in the Preamble, of burying in oblivion all jealousies, complaints, and animosities, &c. &c. 5. And be it further enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, it shall not be necessary (in order to enable or entitle any Roman Catholic inhabitant of these Realms to vote at any Election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament, or any other Election, or to vote at any Election of a Representative Peer of Scotland, or to be enrolled as a Freeholder in any shire or stewartry of Scotland, or to vote in any proceeding of the Court of Freeholders, or to be chosen a Commissioner or Delegate for choosing Burgesses to serve in Parliament for any district of boroughs in Scotland, or to enable or entitle any Peer of Ireland to vote at any Election of a Representative Temporal Peer, or to make or sign any return to the Writ of Election of a Temporal Peer; pursuant to an Act made for that purpose, by the late Parliament of Ireland, in the 40th year of the reign of his present Majesty that any such inhabitant or Peer should, at, or previous to the time of his so voting, or being so enrolled or chosen, or so making or signing a return to the Writ of Election respectively, as aforesaid, take or subscribe the oaths of allegiance, abjuration, and supremacy, or make or subscribe the declaration against Transubstantiation, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the Iuvocation of Saints-any Statute, Charter, Bye-Law, or usage, to the contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding.‡ + This Clause renders the mode of quali fying more easy and convenient than at pre sent, and does not require the oath to be read aloud, or taken at the place of usual dwelling. As the right of enjoying landed proper. ty upon equal terms with Protestants, and without imposing the condition of qualifying by oaths, is conceded to the Catholics by the preceding Section I.-it follows, that the rights appendant to the enjoyment of pro |