§ THE EARL OF DEVON, on presenting a Petition of the Clergy, &c, of the Archdeaconry of Exeter against, the Irish Church Bill said, it would be disingenuous in me if I did not explain that I cannot agree with the prayer of the Petition. To some portions of the Bill I entertain strong objections, while with others I agree; but I am firmly convinced that it would be a matter of very serious 1280 public misfortune if your Lordships should refuse to give a second reading to the Bill, and should thereby place yourselves in such a position that you could not make such Amendments in it as may be necessary. I think it right, in presenting the Petition, to guard myself against being supposed to concur in it