§ On the question that the Appropriation act be read a third time,
Lord Hollandobjected to it on the ground he had done yesterday, relative to the alteration in the grant to Maynooth College.
§ Lord Hawkesbury, for the reasons he had before assigned, defended the alteration.
§ The Duke of Bedfordcondemned the alteration in the grant.
The Earl of Lauderdaletermed it a narrow-minded, parsimonious saving; and was sorry to find, that after ministers had expressed their wishes that all terms of asperity against the Catholics should be avoided, as well as every thing that might tend to irritation among them, they should have coupled two such transactions, as the sending back to Ireland, loaded with honours, a man, who had in a most illiberal manner always shewn himself a bitter enemy of the Catholics, and this paltry saving of 3,500l. previously granted them for the better educating, at home, priests to superintend the religion of the great mass of the people; which, taken together, could not fail, in his opinion, to cause the greatest irritation.—The Bill was then read a third time.