§ Viscount Sidmouthrose for the purpose of calling their lordships' attention to a question of considerable importance, as it regarded a fair and true statement of what might in the course of discussion be uttered in that house. It was a standing order (although their lordships very properly did not enforce it) that no report should be given of their debates. Yet if their lordships permitted these reports to be given, still it was incumbent upon every person giving such report, that he should do it in a fair, correct, and impartial manner. His lordship thought himself very much misrepresented in having sentiments attributed to him which he abhorred and detested. The misrepresentation he complained of was contained in 'The British Press' newspaper, published last Saturday, giving an account of what passed in debate in their lordships' house on Friday night, during the 707 discussion of the Roman Catholic Petition. In that paper sentiments were imputed to him the very reverse of those he uttered. His lordship here read the passages to which he had already alluded. The one was where it was said he had uttered the following sentiments:—"The grand object of legislative care should be the body of the Irish population, who are in the habit of looking exclusively to their priests, from whom they derive scarcely any information, and whose interest it is to detach them from their allegiance to the country and king. This is at once the cause of their ignorance and disaffection."—Now, he never did utter such sentiments, and he did not wish that profession in Ireland should have it so understood. He would trouble their lordships with quoting another passage, where he was represented to have, said—"The Protestant Church must be maintained in all its dignity and privileges, if we expect to make proselytes. Without persecution we should make no Protestants in Ireland, without persecution the Established Church would be overwhelmed." Such sentiments he utterly disavowed and detested; he never did express himself to that effect; but, as their lordships would recollect, he had on that occasion spoken language of an opposite meaning. He had contended, that it was impossible for any church to exist with persecution. Thus far he thought it proper to make this statement to their lordships, before whom he might not be disposed to bring any distinct motion, whatever mode of conduct he might think proper to pursue hereafter in regard to this subject.