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the Catholic body before, and I 
now repeat it, that unless they 
.adopt a spirit of conciliation, they 
will never succeed. I will say 
further, that conciliation is not 
only necessary to their interest, 
but essential to their duty, both 
to the state and to one another. 
If Catholic emancipation should 
not finally be carried, it will be 
owing, not to the want of candour 
and consideration on the part of 
the legislature, but to the want of 
prudence and discretion on the 
part of some Catholics, who do 
not assist the Protestant friends of 
their cause by expressing their 
-ready concurrence in the adoption 
by parliament of such securities 
-as to its feelings may appear ne- 
cessary, and which at the same 
time may not be inconsistent with 
the Catholic religion.” 
The House at length divided, 
-when the votes were, for going 
into a committee 147; against it 
‘228; majority, 81. 
In the House of Lords, Lord 
Donoughmore who had presented 
a petition from the Roman Ca- 
tholics of Ireland, rose on June 
the 8th, to make a motion on its 
-subject.. After an introductory 
speech, in which he discussed the 
several points of the causes de- 
manding an inquiry at the present 
time;: the relief which ought to be 
given to the Catholics; the addi- 
tional securities that had been 
thought necessary; and the ob- 
jections arising from the inflamed 
-state of the Catholic body; he 
-moved for a committee of the 
whole House to take the matter 
into consideration. In the suc- 
‘ceeding debate, some of the op- 
posers of the motion having inti- 
mated a willingness to enter upon 
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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1815. 
the question at a future period, 
rather than at so advanced a time 
in the Session, Lord Donoughmore 
proposed as an amendment of his 
motion, that the House should 
resolve into a committee on the 
question at an early period of the 
next Session. The House dividing 
upon it in the amended form, the 
votes were Non-contents 86; Con- 
tents 60: Majority against the 
motion 26. 
On May 22, a message was 
delivered to both Houses of Par- 
liament from the Prince Regent 
to the following effect: ‘« That 
in consequence of theevents which 
had occurred in France, in direct 
contravention of the treaties con- 
cluded at Paris in the course of 
the last year, his royal highness 
had judged it necessary to enter 
into engagements with his ma- 
jesty’s allies, for the purpose of 
forming such a concert as present 
circumstances indispensably ‘re- 
quire; and as may prevent the 
revival of a system which expe- 
rience has proved to be incom- 
patible with the peace and inde- 
pendence of the nations of Europe.” 
It was then said, that copies of 
the treaties concluded would be 
laid before the two Houses, and 
that the Prince Regent confidently 
relied on their support in all the 
measures which it might be ne- 
cessary for him to adopt, in con- 
junction with his allies, against 
the common enemy, at this im- 
portant crisis, 
The papers produced before 
parliament were, treaties signed 
at Vienna, on March 25, 1815, 
between his Britannic majesty, 
the emperor of Russia, and the 
By their tenor, 
each of the contracting patties, 
