HL Deb 14 February 1828 vol 18 c350
Lord Clifden

presented a petition from the Catholics of two parishes in Wexford, praying for relief from the existing disabilities. The petitioners complained of the gross breach of the Treaty of Limerick; and he would say that there could not be found a treaty under which the one country gained move, or which had been more unjustly violated by the other. If ever there was a clear and explicit treaty it was that; it ever there was a treaty most shamefully violated it was that. An hon. member of the other House had given notice of motion on the subject; and it was his intention to do the same on an early occasion. In his opinion the day must soon arrive when all tests with regard to religion would be abolished; for never could any thing be more unwise. He hoped that the Dissenters would be successful in their appeal to the other House; but if they were not, then they would unite with the Catholics, and their lordships would have to sing in a very different key.

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