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and took an active part in the debate upon it, stating 

 tliat " lie should feel it to be his duty as a peer of 

 that House to give every possible opposition to the 

 measure now in progress, which in his opinion was 

 decidedly hostile to the best interest of the country, 

 and he trusted that his opposition would be found 

 manly, fair, and open. He would not call to his aid, 

 in opposing the Roman Catholic claims, any other 

 weapon but the regular Parliamentary practice, and 

 he wished it most particularly to be understood that 

 if these measures, unfortunately in his opinion, should 

 be carried, no man would be more anxious than him- 

 self to see them produce a good effect ; and no man 

 would feel greater gratification than he should do, if 

 he found they answered the expectations which had 

 been formed as to their efficacy ; but he felt convinced 

 that if unhappily the noble Duke (Wellington) should 

 gain the victory upon this occasion, he would, for 

 the first time in his life, be compelled to deplore the 



success." 



His Grace presented a petition from the county of 

 Sussex against the Catholic Emancipation Bill, also 

 one from Brighton, signed by nearly four thousand 

 of the inhabitants, remarking that it was with sincere 

 satisfaction that he had heard that a certain noble 

 Lord had declared that the clergy of the Church of 

 England were opposed to the contemplated measure. 

 " It was generally acknowledged that the clergy were 



