§ SIR J. GRAHAMpresented a petition, which he expressed a wish to present in the presence of the noble Lord at the head of the Government, from two Peers, the Earl of Bradford and the Earl of Clancarty. The petitioners stated that they were entitled to seats in the House of Lords; that one of them, the Earl of Clancarty, had a title to vote in the election of representative Peers in Ireland, and that they 1364 were debarred from the exercise of their privileges by certain conscientious scruples which they entertained with respect to the oath of supremacy. The petitioners stated that they were most willing to attest their own undivided allegiance to the Sovereign of these realms in all matters civil and ecclesiastical; but they objected to the form of the oath of supremacy, as containing allegations which appeared to them inconsistent, and more especially they objected to the statutable recognition of ecclesiastical power in this country other than that of the Sovereign Power of this realm, as contained in an Act recently passed for the regulation of charitable bequests in Ireland. They submitted that the form of oath of supremacy should be made more simple and unambiguous, and that it was not necessary, in their judgment, to maintain a form of words which only under peculiar circumstances would have been proper and expedient. The petitioners went on to say, that their Roman Catholic fellow-subjects having been relieved in this particular—the form to which the petitioners objected not being contained in the oaths taken by Roman Catholics—a like relief ought to be extended to them, and prayed the House to afford such relief as in its wisdom it might think fit to adopt.