every year for more than a century, not only were the subordinate posts in the army and navy open to a Roman Catholick, but he might be a privy counsellor, a judge, a lord Chancellor, a lord high admiral, or commander in chief. The practice of putting the particular oaths which excluded Catholicks from various situations had been long disused; and if they were put, the Act of Indemnity gave the party six months longer time to take them, and when that period arrived there was then, by the renewal of the Act, a further extension given. The Hon. Gentleman concluded his speech by reading an extract from Blackstone's Commentaries, in which, after citing the opinion of Montesquieu, he observed, that if there should at any time be no longer a popish pretender, and the power of the Pope become frivolous and contemptible, the laws against the Catholics might be greatly softened, or repealed. He wanted no new laws, but only to give effect to the old.

Mr. Leslie Foster maintained that the relief given by the Indemnity Act was not meant to operate in favour of Catholicks. He was adverse to going into a Committee, from which no practical benefit could result. Let the House look to the strong Protestant feeling which had been manifested in England, Scotland, and Ireland. He was satisfied that a Committee could produce nothing conciliatory as to the Protestant or Catholic clergy of Ireland. In 1792 the Catholicks only asked for four concessions; that they should be allowed to become grand jurymen, should rise at the bar, become magistrates, or vote at county elections, when holding freeholds to the amount of 20/. a year. The desires of men were not to be satisfied, for that which is granted them to-day would only make them ask for more to-morrow. the time should come that three-fourths of the influence in Ireland should become Roman Catholic, he would ask what might be expected? For one, therefore, he thought the thing was fraught with danger to the interests of the Established Church' in Ireland. Besides, there was another danger he apprehended from fürther concessions to the Catholicks of Ireland, which was, the chance of its separating the two islands. This was still more to be dreaded, when it was to be considered that the Catholic religion, of all others, would not bear a rival.

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In the sequel of the discussion the motion was supported by Lord Normanby, Mr. Becher, and Sir R. Wilson; and opposed by Mr. Brownlow and Lord Lowther. Amidst a general cry of Question, Mr. Plunkett and Mr. Peel rose at the same time, but during a pause the question was put, and the Speaker determined that the

Noes had it." A division then took

place, when the numbers appeared to be

For the Committee, 242-Against `it, 248.-Some Members having entered the House who were not present when the question was put, their votes were disallowed. The state of the numbers then was-For the motion, 241-Against it, 243-Majority against the Claims Tuo.

May 4.

Mr. Lyttleton addressed the House at great length against the continuance of State Lotteries, and moved a resolution," importing that they promoted a spirit of gambling; that that spirit weakened the habits of industry, and diminished the permanent resources of the public revenue; that it had occasioned other and extensive systems of gambling; and that the House, convinced of the impolicy of state lotteries, would no longer authorize them by its votes, under any system of regulation.

The motion was supported by Mr. Ellice, Mr. F. Buxton, Mr. W. Parnell, Mr. Alderman Wood, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Plunkett, Mr. F. Douglas, and Mr. Tierney; and opposed by Mr. Vansittart, Mr. Canning, Lord Castlereagh, and Mr. Huskisson. On a division, it was negatived by 133 to 84.

May 5.

Mr. Bennet, after detailing the griev ances experienced by publicans under the existing system of licensing, obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend it.

A motion by Mr. Shaw for a Committee to consider of the expediency of repealing so much of the Act of the 56th of the King as respects the tax on windows in Ireland, was, after a long debate, negatived, on a division, by 150 to 73.

Mr. Peel brought up the Report of the Secret Committee on the affairs of the Bank.

HOUSE OF LORDS, May 6.

The Abp. of Canterbury introduced a Bill to secure spiritual persons in their benefices. A doubt had arisen under the following circumstances: If a Clergyman who possessed a living (called A) and who obtained a second (called B), was offered a third (C), which he might prefer to either of the former; it was supposed, he could not accept C, without vacating both A and B. The object of the Bill was, to remove all doubts on this point.

In the Commons, the same day, Lord A. Hamilton addressed the House at some length on the grievances under which the Scotch burghs laboured from the present systein of electing their magistrates. It had been truly said by the burgesses of Irvine,

Irvine, that they had no more concern in electing a magistrate than in electing anEmperor of Morocco. Yet for the debts contracted by these self-elected and uncontrolled magistrates the burgesses were made liable. All that was wanted was, to give to the whole of the burghs such a constitution as

to the limited time necessary to give a settlement. He suggested that five years should be substituted for three, in conferring a right to a settlement for all persons who were natives of England, and seven for foreigners. He would extend the

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to Montrose. He concluded by moving, That the several petitions presented during the present Session of Parliament, from the royal burghs of Scotland, be referred to a Committee to examine the matter thereof, and to report their opinion thereon accordingly.ne Sona . Mr. W. Dundas, Mr. Boswell, Lord Binning, Mr. Forbes, and Mr. Canning, opposed the motion, as in reality involving the question of Parliamentary Reform. Mr. Primrose, Mr. W. Douglas, Mr. J. P, Grant, and Mr. W. Wynn, supported it, being of opinion that the petitioners bad no other object in view than what they professed a reform in the mode of electing their magistrates. On a division, the motion was carried by 149 to 144.

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regulate the payments of the revenue into the Exche quer; and another to render available for the public service the 90001. a year given up by Marquis Camden out of the profits of his Tellership.

» Mr. Williams Itaving moved the committal of the Efectors Oaths Bill, Mr. D. Gilbert opposed it, as tending to apnibilate bargage tenures, which he contended to be an essential part of the Constitution," He moved that, instead of now, the Bill be committed this day six months, which was carried by 127 to 46.

In a Committee of Supply, Lord Palmersion brought forward the Army Esti mates. It appeared, that since 1817 the reduction was in men 41,298, and in money 1,336,000/.

After some observations on particular items by Col. Davies, Mr. Hume, Mr. Bennet, and others; the resolutions were agreed to; and grants were also voted for New South Wales and other colonies; and for an issue of 8,000,000 in Exchequer Bills. 13. J 4.

people, who claimed a settlement in port-towns. He moved that the bill be re-committed.

Col. Wood, Mr. Geo. Lambe, aud Mr. C. Phillips, objected to the proposed alterations. Mr. Huskisson, Mr. Canning, and Lord Milton, spoke in favour of the bill. Messrs. IV. Smith, A. Wright, and Mr. Mildmay against it. On a division the re-commitment was negatived by 92 to 62. The question that the report be read this day six months was then carried without a division.

In the Commons, the same day, Sir Francis Burdett presented a petition from George Crooke, late a seaman in the Mutine brig of war under the command of Sir Wm. Hoste. The petitioner complained, that while on board he had been severely punished, contrary to the rules of the service.

Sir Isaac Cofin said, that it was seventeen years since the punishment had been inflicted, and during that period the individual had never dared an inquiry. It was believed that the man had been guilty of infamous practices.

Sir George Cockburn said that all the signet officers of the Mutine, at the pe riod alluded to, were dead, except Sir Wm. Hoste, who being abroad, had been written to, and the Admiralty was waiting his answer. If it could be proved that the petitioner had not deserted, he would give him his wages, though it would be impos sible to give him a character.

On a division, the bringing up of the petition was negatived by 206 to two.

Mr. Stuart Wortley presented petitions from various parts of the country, signed by shopkeepers, praying that the laws for collecting the Assessed Taxes might be duly executed, or amended.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer said, that the law, as it now stood, afforded a remedy in case the children of a shopkeeper were assessed for assisting him in his bu siness. That part of the petitions which related to the house and window duty, was of more difficult decision: in London, shops had always been assessed as a part of the house, and the windows were numbered with those of the house; but in the country a contrary practice had prevailed, and perhaps some revision of the law might be expedient: whenever a counting houseTM formed part of the dwelling house, it was assessed.

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who served with him recount many instances of his cruelty. ITALY.

Sir Thomas Lawrence arrived at Rome in the beginnings of last month. He went there charged by the Prince Regent to take a whole-length portrait of the Pope. The artist is lodged in the Quirinal Palace, and has been presented to his Holiness. GERMANY. 1

A student of Vienna, a native of Prus. sia, lately blew out his brains in a tavern at Leopoldstadt, under the following extraordinary circumstances: This young man arrived at Vienna, accompanied by an intimate friend, and fell in love with a young lady, who also engaged the affections of his friend. A challenge ensued ; but each felt a strong repugnance to take the life of his friend. It was, therefore, agreed to decide the affair by a party at picquet; on an undertaking, that the party who lost should blow out his brains, The game was accordingly played; and the loser, a youth of 19, instantly payed the forfeit by shooting himself through the head.

..On the 10th instant, at Stutgard, the Count de Trautmansdorff, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria, had an audience of the King of Wurtemberg, to make a formal demand of the hand of the Princess Maria of Wurtemberg, daughter of the Duchess Louisa, for the Archduke Joseph of Austria, Palatine of Hungary.

A singular rescript of the Grand Duke of Darmstadt is said to have excited a lively sensation throughout Germany. He finds the lawyers in his territory too stiff-necked and refractory; and, to reduce them to better order, declares, that they shall for a specific time be incorporated with the regiments of his army, under the same duty and discipline, until they become sufficiently obedient. The gentlemen of the long robe are loud and vehement in their remonstrances, and the echo of their complaints rings through Germany....

The whole Jew population, rich and poor, young and old, were lately driven like wild beasts from the city of Meinin gen, in virtue of a certain privilege claimed by the citizens of that town, as having been enjoyed by their ancestors.

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PRUSSIA.

The King of Prussia, lately amusing himself at Berlin by sliding down what is called a Prussian mountain, fell out of the sledge, and literally broke his nose!

A dreadful crime has spread consternation in Berlin: it has made the greatest impression, as people think they recog nize in it the same kind of delusion which placed in the hand of Sandt the dagger of

an assassin, Dr. Neuman, Physician to the Hospital La Chanté, had just lain down in bed with his wife, when the latter, seizing a kitchen knife, which she had concealed under the bed-clothes, stabbed him in the breast. The Doctor leaped out of bed, and called for help. His servant came; but, being terrified, lost all presence of mind, and ran away. Mrs. Neuman pursued her husband, and in spite of his resistance, wounded him in 17 places. One wonnd only is thought to be mortal. The guard at last mastered this fary. She merely said to the Magistrate who interrogated her, " What I have done it was my duty to do." This deliberate cruelty is the more astonishing, because, till this time, the woman had lived on very good terms with her husband, by whom she had several children. She earnestly desires that she may not be supposed to be mad; however, from the nature of her conversation, and the choice of her books, an opinion seems to be entertained, that this unhappy woman indulged in intricate speculations, which may have disordered her brain, after having depraved her moral character.

SWEDEN.

The Paris papers contain an assurance from Stockholm that the negociations which have been carrying on in London, for the adjustment of the long agitated differences between the Swedish and Danish Courts, are brought to a successful termination. The instrument drawn up by the several Plenipotentiaries had been laid before the King of Sweden, who, it was presumed, would immediately ratify it. RUSSIA. *

The Russian Privy Counsellor, D'Engel, who is governor of Theodosia, is said to have found in the Crimea the true breed of the goats of Kirguis, whose wool, according to the testimony of French manufacturers, particularly M. Terneaux, is the same as that of the goats of Thibet, M. Joubert, during the journey which be made into the Crimea, discovered that the goats there were the same as those which he had purchased among the Kir guis; the breed had, in fact, at an anterior period, been imported from the Kir guis into the Crimea. This discovery is expected to have a great influence on the fabrication of tine shawls in Europe.

A little prior to the failure of the house of Zuckerbecker, Klein, and Co. of Riga, the Emperor, with that readiness for which he has ever been conspicuous in render. ing his powerful assistance where he thinks it will be of general benefit, on an appl cation being made to him, granted this house a loan of one million of roubles about fifty thousand pounds) —According to the custom generally prevalent through

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It appears by accounts from Constantinople, that frequent and bloody conflicts have taken place between the Janissaries and the Bostangis. The Aga of the Janisaries, who attempted to restrain those unruly ruffians, was forced to fly from their resentment; but afterwards, having seized and strangled a number of the ringleaders, he was rewarded by Govern ment with the loss of his command, and banished to a distance from the capital. The tumults, however, were not appeased by the severity of the Aga, nor by his subsequent sacrifice to the vengeance of the exasperated soldiery.-When the accounts left Constantinople on the 20th of April, the different corps of the garrison were cutting each other's throats. The inhabitants were in extreme consternation; and all the efforts of the Capitan Pacha and of the other Chiefs had failed to restore tranquillity.

The notorious Savary has been banished from Smyrna, at the instance of the French Consul: his offence was, attacking an unarmed French naval officer, who reminded him when in company, of the share he took in assassinating the Duke d'Enghien.

Letters from the Cape of Good Hope, to the 21st of March, state, that all the men that could be spared, amounting to about 3,000, had been embarked for the corn districts, to quell an insurrection of the Caffrees. Capt. Gethin, of the 72d regiment, and Ensign Hunt, of the African corps, had been killed in two separate affairs with the insurgents. "The former (says one of the letters) of these valuable officers was pursuing some marauders in the vicinity of bis station, at De Bruin's Drift, with seven men of the regiment, whom he had mounted, when he was surrounded by a vast number of the savages, and fell gallantly defending himself, pierced with upwards of thirty wounds. Ensign Hunt, in like manner, having discovered towards evening traces of stolen cattle, thought it best to halt in the plains till day-light to pursue them; but was attacked in the night by a very numerous

By letters from New York it appears, that upwards of forty houses in the cotton oline failed in the course of seven days; and the greatest distress prevailed throughout all the great towns in America.

The New York papers state, that the mansion-house, called Hyde Park, at Hampstead Plains, occupied by William Cobbett, was burnt to the ground on Thursday, the 20th May,

It is stated, on the authority of a letter from America, that a steam-boat, on board of which were 34 French persons, including General Rigaud and his family, had been overset, and the whole of the passengers drowned.

A report, via America, that Ferdinand cedes to England 'the island of Cuba, is not altogether discredited. Sir Home Popham, it is said, has arrived there with two ships of the line and some frigates. It is stated, that there is no effectual means of putting an end to the Slave Trade, but by obtaining the possession of Cuba; since it is from thence that the contraband traffic is carried on to all the West India colonies.

Intelligence to the 8th of last month has been received from Jamaica. The Patriots in Spanish South America have captured Porto Bello, a sea-port on the North coast of the Isthmus of Darien. This event took place on the 10th of April, by the troops under the command of Sir Gregor McGregor.

We have received a Buends Gazette of the 26th of February. The Sovereign Congress opened their Session on the 25th of February; and the supreme Director, Pueyrredon, delivered an address, which gives rather an unfavourable picture of the internal condition of that Republic. He congratulates the Congress upon the commencement of their sittings; expresses his hope that their proceedings will put an end to the "vacillation on which the State fluctuates," and defeat the designs of its enemies, who dread to see the day in which order and the empire of the laws are for ever consolidated ;" and concludes with requesting Congress to appoint a Supreme Director in his place, who will be better able to apply their military energies than himself. It was understood that Congress were busily employed in framing the Constitution.

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