In the House of Lords, the routine of presenting Anti-Catholic
petitions, has furnished ample employment—enlivened occasionally by interjectional remarks on the tricks by which the zealous Protestants work on the minds of the people to obtain signatures.
Lord de DUNSTANVILLE, from some respectable sources of information, announces that the petitioning mania is on the wane; and that some violent opponents of the Catholics are becoming converts to the necessity of conciliation.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE is to have the Peers called over, in order that all may "judge for themselves, and not allow themselves to be blindly led by an inconsiderate and arbitrary Peer in the attempt to tamper with the liberties, and to subvert the Constitution of the country."
The Bishop of BATH and WELLS reached a heroic altitude. Ile says, that "rather than give his vote for the destruction of the Constitution, he would be content to embrace the fate of one of his great predecessors, and be consigned to the Tower. He looked with fear and with reverence upon the ternis of the oath he had taken to uphold the Constitution, and was determined to abide strictly by its terms—So help him, God."
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