{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p2", "byline": ""}
We have perused the debate Of the 18th
ult. in the British House of Commons, ON the
motion to hear the Irish Catholic Associa-
ton, by Couscl, at the bar. 1t was highly
animated, and turned uron nearly the same
topics as those which were used in the dis
cussion OF the bill against the Association.
Mr.. Brougham and MIR. Peel were the prin-
cipal speakers. The former, in the course
of one of his speeches on the occasion, OBJ
served: "1'he aggricved parties are now at
your bar-the negroes from Ireland are now
awaiting your dccision;" alluding to the po


litical slavery ofthc Catholics. He advert
cd to the rejection of American petitions be-
fore our Revolutionary struggle, and the
treatment Of DR.. Franklin in this strain:


"The prayer of the petition of America
was rejected, and an eminent man was mall
treated here. This, with other causes, had
led to the great struggle of that country witt,
this, and it was not until seven or eight years
! afterwards, and after thousands of lives had
/ been lost in the question, that the govern
ment ofthis country awoke to its right senses
and that America, as my honorable friend
the member for Westminster, (Sir +. Bur
dett,) had said, obtained it's brightest jewel


For my part, l cannot but rejoice that Sc


magnaminous spirit was then shewn t
the world en- the other side of the Atl intic


that millions of frecmen were found to b,
unanimously struggling for the glories of lib


crty; and that so noble an instance was thel


put forth of a great community governin!


themselves freely and economically, withou
tyranny, either in church or state--a peopl


uniting a degree of magnanimity with thci
acts of legislation, to be parallel by nothing
to be meet with in modern times, and whcl


went near to wipe off the stains that ha
, blemished the naa,e of Republic"


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