those islands in the South Seas, where they might more exclaiming, "the devil burn you, there's no pleasing numanely learn to become cannibals; it would be less you, flog where one will!" Thus it is, you have flogged disgusting that they were brought up to devour the the Catholic, high, low, here, there, and every where, dead, than persecute the living. Schools do you call and then you wonder he is not pleased. It is true, that them? call them rather dunghills, where the viper of time, experience, and that weariness which attends intolerance deposits her young, that, when their teeth even the exercise of barbarity, have taught you to flog are cut and their poison is mature, they may issue forth, a little more gently, but still you continue to lay on the filthy and venomous, to sting the Catholic. But are lash, and will so continue, till perhaps the rod may be these the doctrines of the Church of England, or of wrested from your hands, and applied to the backs of churchmen? No; the most enlightened churchmen are yourselves and your posterity. of a different opinion. What says Paley? "I perceive no reason why men of different religious persuasions, should not sit upon the same bench, deliberate in the same council, or fight in the same ranks, as well as men of various religious opinions, upon any controverted topic of natural history, philosophy, or ethics." It may be answered that Paley was not strictly orthodox; I know nothing of his orthodoxy, but who will deny that he was an ornament to the church, to human nature, to Christianity?

It was said by somebody in a former debate (I forget by whom, and am not very anxious to remember), if the Catholics are emancipated, why not the Jews? If this sentiment was dictated by compassion for the Jews, it might deserve attention, but as a sneer against the Catholic, what is it but the language of Shylock transferred from his daughter's marriage to Catholic emancipation"Would any of the tribe of Barrabbas Should have it rather than a Christian."

I presume a Catholic is a Christian, even in the opinion of him whose taste only can be called in question for his preference of the Jews.

I shall not dwell upon the grievance of tithes, so severely felt by the peasantry, but it may be proper to ooserve that there is an addition to the burthen, a perIt is a remark often quoted of Dr. Johnson (whom I centage to the gatherer, whose interest it thus becomes take to be almost as good authority as the gentle apostle to rate them as highly as possible, and we know that in of intolerance, Dr. Duigenan), that he who could entermany large livings in Ireland, the only resident Prot-tain serious apprehensions of danger to the Church in estants are the tithe proctor and his family. these times, would have "cried fire in the deluge." Among many causes of irritation, too numerous for This is more than a metaphor, for a remnant of these recapitulation, there is one in the militia not to be antediluvians appear actually to have come down to us, passed over, I mean the existence of Orange lodges with fire in their mouths and water in their brains, to amongst the privates; can the officers deny this? And disturb and perplex mankind with their whimsical outif such lodges do exist, do they, can they tend to pro- cries. And as it is an infallible symptom of that dismote harmony amongst the men, who are thus individually separated in society, although mingled in the ranks? And is this general system of persecution to be permitted, or is it to be believed that with such a system the Catholics can or ought to be contented? If they are, they belie human nature; they are then, indeed, unworthy to be any thing but the slaves you have made them. The facts stated are from most respectable authority, or I should not have dared in this place, or any place, to hazard this avowal. If exaggerated, there are plenty, as willing as I believe them to be unable, to disprove them. Should it be objected that I never was in Ireland, I beg leave to observe, that it is as easy to know something of Ireland without having been there, as it appears with some to have been born, bred, and cherished there, and yet remain ignorant of its best interests.

tressing malady with which I conceive them to be afflicted (so any doctor will inform your Lordships) for the unhappy invalids to perceive a flame perpetually flashing before their eyes, particularly when their eyes are shut (as those of the persons to whom I allude have long been), it is impossible to convince these poor creatures, that the fire against which they are perpetually warning us and themselves, is nothing but an ignis fatuus of their own drivelling imaginations. What rhubarb, senna, or "what purgative drug can scour that fancy thence ?"-It is impossible, they are given

over, theirs is the true

"Caput insanabile tribus Anticyris." These are your true Protestants. Like Bayle, who protested against all sects whatsoever, so do they protest against Catholic petitions, Protestant petitions, all redress, all that reason, humanity, policy, justice, and common sense, can urge against the delusions of their absurd delirium. These are the persons who reverse the fable of the mountain that brought forth a mouse; they are the mice who conceive themselves in labour with mountains.

But there are, who assert that the Catholics have aiready been too much indulged: see (cry they) what has been done: we have given them one entire college, we allow them food and raiment, the full enjoyment of the elements, and leave to fight for us as long as they have limos and lives to offer; and yet they are never to be satisfied! Generous and just declaimers! To this, and to this only, amount the whole of your arguments, To return to the Catholics, suppose the Irish were when stript of their sophistry. These personages re-actually contented under their disabilities, suppose them nind me of the story of a certain drummer, who being capable of such a bull as not to desire deliverance, ought called upon in the course of duty to administer punish- we not to wish it for ourselves? Have we nothing to ment to a friend tied to the halberts, was requested to gain by their emancipation? What resources have been flog high; he did―to flog low, he did-to flog in the wasted! What talents have been lost by the selfish middle, he did-high, low, down the middle, and up system of exclusion! You already know the value of again, but all in vain, the patient continued his com- Irish aid; at this moment the defence of England is paints with the most provoking pertinacity, until the entrusted to the Irish militia; at this moment, while drummer, exhausted and angry, flung down his scourge, the starving people are rising in the fierceness of de

their merits, for that would be superfluous, but on the degree of estimation in which they are held by the people of these realms. The esteem in which they are held has been boasted of in a triumphant tone on a

spair, the Irish are faithful to their trust. But till equal esty's ministers permit me to say a few words, not on energy is imparted throughout by the extension of free, dom, you cannot enjoy the full benefit of the strength which you are glad to interpose between you and destruction. Ireland has done much, but will do more. At this moment the only triumph obtained through late occasion within these walls, and a comparison inlong years of continental disaster has been achieved by an Irish general; it is true he is not a Catholic; had he been so, we should have been deprived of his exertions; but I presume no one will assert that his religion would have impaired his talents or diminished his patriotism, though in that case he must have conquered in the ranks, for he never could have commanded an army.

stituted between their conduct, and that of noble lords on this side of the house.

What portion of popularity may have fallen to the share of my noble friends (if such I may presume to call them), I shall not pretend to ascertain; but that of his majesty's ministers it were vain to deny. It is, to be sure, a little like the wind, "no one knows whence it cometh or whither it goeth," but they feel it, they

But while he is fighting the battles of the Catholics enjoy it, they boast of it. Indeed, modest and unosabroad, his noble brother has this night advocated tentatious as they are, to what part of the kingdom, their cause, with an eloquence which I shall not depre- even the most remote, can they flee to avoid the triciate by the humble tribute of my panegyric, whilst a umph which pursues them? If they plunge into the third of his kindred, as unlike as unequal, has been midland counties, there they will be greeted by the combating against his Catholic brethren in Dublin, with manufacturers, with spurned petitions in their hands, circular letters, edicts, proclamations, arrests, and dis- and those halters round their necks recently voted in persions-all the vexatious implements of petty war- their behalf, imploring blessings on the heads of those fare that could be wielded by the mercenary guerillas who so simply, yet ingeniously contrived to remove of government, clad in the rusty armour of their obso- them from their miseries in this to a better world. If lete statutes. Your lordships will, doubtless, divide new they journey on to Scotland, from Glasgow to Johnny honours between the saviour of Portugal, and the dis- Groat's, every where will they receive similar marks of penser of delegates. It is singular, indeed, to observe approbation. If they take a trip from Fortpatrick to the difference between our foreign and domestic poli- Donaghadee, there will they rush at once into, the emcy; if Catholic Spain, faithful Portugal, or the no less braces of four Catholic millions, to whom their vote Catholic and faithful king of the one Sicily (of which, of this night is about to endear them for ever. When by the by, you have lately deprived him), stand in they return to the metropolis, if they can pass under need of succour, away goes a fleet and an army, an Temple Bar without unpleasant sensations at the sight ambassador and a subsidy, sometimes to fight pretty of the greedy niches over that ominous gateway, they hardly, generally to negotiate very badly, and always cannot escape the acclamations of the livery, and the to pay very dearly for our Popish allies. But let four more tremulous, but not less sincere, applause, the millions of fellow-subjects pray for relief, who fight blessings "not loud but deep" of bankrupt merchants and pay and labour in your behalf, they must be treated and doubting stockholders. If they look to the army, as aliens, and although their " father's house has many what wreaths, not of laurel, but of nightshade, are mansions," there is no resting-place for them. Allow preparing for the heroes of Walcheren! It is true there me to ask, are you not fighting for the emancipation are few living deponents left to testify to their merits of Ferdinand the Seventh, who certainly is a fool, and on that occasion; but a "cloud of witnesses” are gone consequently, in all probability, a bigot; and have you | above from that gallant army which they so generously more regard for a foreign sovereign than your own and piously despatched, to recruit the "noble army of fellow-subjects, who are not fools, for they know your martyrs." interest better than you know your own; who are not

What if, in the course of this triumphal career (m bigots, for they return you good for evil; but who are which they will gather as many pebbles as Caligula's in worse durance than the prison of an usurper, inas-army did on a similar triumph, the prototype of their own), much as the fetters of the mind are more galling than they do not perceive any of those memorials which a those of the body. grateful people erect in honour of their benefactors; what Upon the consequences of your not acceding to the although not even a sign-post will condescend to depose claims of the petitioners, I shall not expatiate; you the Saraceh's head in favour of the likeness of the conknow them, you will feel them, and your children's querors of Walcheren, they will not want a picture children when you are passed away. Adieu to that who can always have a caricature; or regret the omisUnion so called, as "Lucus a non lucendo," a Union sion of a statue who will so often see themselves exalted from never uniting, which, in its first operation, gave in effigy. But their popularity is not limited to the ta death-blow to the independence of Ireland, and in narrow bounds of an island; there are other countries its last may be the cause of her eternal separation from where their measures, and, above all, their conduct to this country. If it must be called a Union, it is the the Catholics, must render them pre-eminently popular union of the shark with his prey; the spoiler swallows | If they are beloved here, in France they must be adored up his victim, and thus they become one and indivis- There is no measure more repugnant to the designs and ble. Thus has Great Britain swallowed up the par-feelings of Buonaparte than Catholic emancipation; no tament, the constitution, the independence of Ireland, line of conduct more propitious to his projects, than and refuses to disgorge even a single privilege, although that which has been pursued, is pursuing, and, I fear, for the relief of her swollen and distempered body will be pursued, towards Ireland. What is England politic. without Ireland, and what is Ireland without the Ca And now, my lords, before I sit down, will his maj- tholics? It is on the basis of your tyranny Napoleon

hopes to build his own.

So grateful must oppression equally mindful of the deference to be paid to this of the Catholics be to his mind, that doubtless (as he House. The petitioner states, amongst other matter nas lately permitted some renewal of intercourse) the of equal, if not greater importance, to all who are next cartel will convey to this country cargoes of Sèvres British in their feelings, as well as blood and birth, china and blue ribands (things in great request, and of that on the 21st January, 1813, at Huddersfield, himequal value at this moment), blue ribands of the legion self and six other persons, who, on hearing of his arof honour for Dr. Duigenan and his ministerial disciples. | rival, had waited on him merely as a testimony of reSuch is that well-earned popularity, the result of those spect, were seized by a military and civil force, and extraordinary expeditions, so expensive to ourselves, kept in close custody for several hours, subjected to gross and so useless to our allies; of those singular inquiries, and abusive insinuations from the commanding officer so exculpatory to the accused, and so dissatisfactory to relative to the character of the petitioner; that he (the the people; of those paradoxical victories, so honour-petitioner) was finally carried before a magistrate; and able, as we are told, to the British name, and so de- not released till an examination of his papers proved structive to the best interests of the British nation: that there was not only no just, but not even statutaabove all, such is the reward of a conduct pursued by ble charge against him; and that, notwithstanding the ministers towards the Catholics. promise and order from the presiding magistrates of a copy of the warrant against your petitioner, it was afterwards withheld on divers pretexts, and has never until this hour been granted. The names and condition of the parties will be found in the petition. To the other topics touched upon in the petition, I shall not now advert, from a wish not to encroach upon the time of the House; but I do most sincerely call the attention of your lordships to its general contents—it is

I have to apologize to the House, who will, I trust, pardon one, not often in the habit of intruding upon their indulgence, for so long attempting to engage their attention. My most decided opinion is, as my vote will be, in favour of the motion.

DEBATE ON MAJOR CARTWRIGHT'S PETITION, in the cause of the parliament and people that the

JUNE 1, 1813.

LORD BYRON rose and said:

to protect and redress him, and not him alone, but the whole body of the people insulted and aggrieved in his person by the interposition of an abused civil, and unlawful military force between them and their right of petition to their own representatives.

rights of this venerable freeman have been violated, and it is, in my opinion, the highest mark of respect that could be paid to the House, that to your justice, MY LORDS, the Petition which I now hold for the rather than by appeal to any inferior court, he now purpose of presenting to the House, is one which I commits himself. Whatever may be the fate of his rehumbly conceive requires the particular attention of monstrance, it is some satisfaction to me, though mixyour lordships, inasmuch as, though signed but by a ed with regret for the occasion, that I have this opporsingle individual, it contains statements which (if not tunity of publicly stating the obstruction to which the disproved) demand most serious investigation. The subject is liable, in the prosecution of the most lawful grievance of which the petitioner complains is neither and imperious of his duties, the obtaining by petition selfish nor imaginary. It is not his own only, for it reform in parliament. I have shortly stated his comhas been, and is still felt by numbers. No one with-plaint; the petitioner has more fully expressed it. out these walls, nor indeed within, but may to-morrow Your lordships will, I hope, adopt some measure fully be made liable to the same insult and obstruction, in the discharge of an imperious duty for the restoration of the true constitution of these realms by petitioning for reform in parliament. The petitioner, my Lords, is a man whose long life has been spent in one unceasing struggle for the liberty of the subject, against that undue influence which has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished; and, whatever difference of opinion may exist as to his political tenets, few will be found to question the integrity of his intentions. Even now, uppressed with years, and not exempt from the infirmities attendant on his age, but still unimpaired in talent, and unshaken in spirit-"frangas non flectes”. LORD BYRON replied, that he had, from motives he has received many a wound in the combat against of duty, presented this petition to their lordships' concorruption; and the new grievance, the fresh insult of sideration. The noble Earl had contended that it was which he complains, may inflict another scar, but no not a petition but a speech; and that, as it contained dishonour. The petition is signed by John Cartwright, no prayer, it should not be received. What was the and it was in behalf of the people and parliament, in necessity of a prayer? If that word were to be used in the lawful pursuit of that reform in the representation its proper sense, their lordships could not expect that which is the best service to be rendered both to parlia- any man should pray to others. He had only to say ment and people, that he encountered the wanton out-that the petition, though in some parts expressed strongly rage which forms the subject matter of his petition to perhaps, did not contain any improper mode of address, your lordships. It is couched in firm, yet respectful but was couched in respectful language towards their anguage in the language of a man, not regardless lordships; he should therefore trust their lordships of what is due to himself, but at the same time, I trust, would allow the petition to be received.

His lordship then presented the petition from Major Cartwright, which was read, complaining of the circumstances at Huddersfield, and of interruptions given to the right of petitioning, in several places in the northern parts of the kingdom, and which his lordship moved should be laid on the table.

Several Lords having spoken on the question,

Don Juan.

Difficile est proprie communia dicere.

HOR. Epist. ad Pison.

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more Cakes and Ale ?—Yes, by St. Anne; and Ginger shall be hot i' the mouth, too.-Twelfth Night; or What you—Will.

Her favourite science was the mathematical,
Her noblest virtue was her magnanimity,
Her wit (she sometimes tried at wit) was Attic all, Who chose to go where'er he had a mind,

He was a mortal of the careless kind,
With no great love for learning, or the learn'd,