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bd _suiafiftted to Hie Mouse of Lords white it _Xvfe _remodelling _ihdi * code _*» t several petitions were _according-ly _presented _tibrtifcgb thfe Maf _^ i _^ _^ i & iis _* _< _fo _^ _tnid l _* ord Holland , t © _whose pt * cra _^ p t _attention as wefl _uS * b _^ _heit very _courteous and liberal _fcommunfratfons _theOotnnrittefc 'feels hi _^ _il _£ _hidfetytett . These _petitfensr _w _^ _ffe referred to _tte Committee _titttag on _ftte _gener _& _l question , ft _& d formed , itifc understood , the _^ abject of _oon & _kJer _& b te < _Jiacufcsion ; _although it appears that so ranch difficulty was fcxperfeiiced by Ifc _6 infeiflbef * of that- _Conamittee _isn _reconciling the various _opinions _^ n the moir e _geheral
topics of their consideration _^ that it was soon determined to _* _fcfef the _& £ _tites of exception from the law _tbeti before them to distinct and future _discwssftfe . A new body of complainants against the policy and practical _operator * _*> f tke _Existing law _appeared _Ttefore t _& e House in ike _petitions _« rf tfa _£ Roman Gatholics to whom the conformity imposed , _ia p _^ rh 4 _pfi _eteu _* n © re o _^ res _^ - _swe than it is to Protestant Dis _^ _enter _^ , inasmuch ias their _religioiiis obiiikm _^
impose _*> n them the necessity of _^ double solemnization , t 0 l _? _otoply first With the rites and ordinances of their own church * and next to _stfhuiitto those of a Protestant _establisiiment _, in order to obtain the _ptcfteciAGfa of tfee _cvfil _liistjtu _^ tions of the country . On inquiry your Committee were equally _suTjprised at _tte _£ _& tfeitt _^ f On _inquirer your Committee were equally _suTjmsed at tm t _& _Xeftt _^ f
irregularity to which the absurd and oppressive _regtilatiotie of the la _^ r < b && given ri _^ e , and the ' ignorance or stipineness ' with _ivliich the _authorities of the country had so ion _^ _pitsded ove r _» o rfarin _g and _diegt _^ c e _^ iil ian anom al y * At length attention has been roused to the subject fey the tnanifest mi _^ _chieft which the _present system occasions _,, and the _Cotnfioittee have lately seen the resolutions at a parish _meetinr of St . Luke ' s , _Middlesex , which'detail the
consequences of the established system in the _following resolutions : _"That this parish , containing 40 , 000 persons , is inhabited by a great number of Irish Catholics , who , from a _coasdtentious _tegatd to _refi _£ iotid principles , prefer to be married by Catholic _clet-gymen _, a _^ d _\\* o from similar principles abstain _^ from any subsequent m atri age , by clergymen _df the Established Church .
" That such marriages of Catholics by Catholic _priests , although valid in Ireland and other parts of the British dominions , are illegal in England 5 that they are dissoluble at the caprice of the parties ; that alt _thfe children bom of such parties are bastards , h _& ve no tiatural guardians in their parents , _derive no settlements from them , _foecome _chargeable to _^ ach of t _^ _hie parishes where they _happens to be born _> and are not _renaoveable _\ Vith their p _^ r € _* its to _IrefajfWl
under a recent Act , but , being legal orphans from theifc- _infancy , and unbte _^ t by relative protection , are _exposed to _pwa _^ _iisioi _, « _fcdudfoa , imtA _& _faSStoy _fth _4 every _antisocial crime . : " That great moral evils , _flaufch _individual _Calamity , and in _& ny pn « J _> _Re _sm _4 parochial injuries result from these _circutostail _^ _efe ; _that _thousands 6 _f _& _t * 6 h
_marriages being _^ annually celebrated , many thousand ba _^ _ttirS _chikBrdn _« _te _annually _botn 5 that those evite aind _injurifeis _-affe fas * more niihiie _^ _ottB _, « i _^ well as distressful , _thxtn J _> e _rsons not _conyeftttit with the _^ _Hbje _6 t _apprfeh _^ _nd or believe ; and that , _fri this _parish , and 1 * 1 all _parishes iiird t _^ _vns where the Irish Catholics chiefly reside , the consequences _« _ft _£ _pftiitful to _tM pool ? , _^ a _& 4 _^ re _, by _tthgom _^ ntiai _^ thfe _tatfes , _|) € _iiculiarly _oppre _^ stve _.
" That all these evils wmild b _^ prevented , _morality Wuld be _iwromoted , _social _Imppinees would be iwjrea « ed , and Just txjleratibri _without _& hf _mereas _^ of politic *! po _^ r _, would _be afibrded , if < 3 atbolte _^ _tofej _^ by _Cithfclifc < _ilfer _^ - men were permiited _, after _rnucU _notice a _^ t With _% 6 di r _^& _tttfftttT _^ _«^ _Erected by law for _Proteatawt _marria _^ s ; _nnds _t _^^^ ch _fre _^ _dcwn M & _kM _^ _b _^ _» _ff pe rmitted to Quakers and Jews , may I ) _£ _« _x _$ 6 tt 4 if * l R -to _Cafl _^^^ _SiBctot any infringement of the _Gotofetitmtio _^ _o _^ a _^ y _p _^ jtt _^^ e to t ! _ya'Ght _i # _eb < _fr State . _Thjst ! a general bill fas to _marriage bein _^ * _fep < _# _« _fittg to P _«» 4 fe 8 fi _^ n t , an _^ pportumty _occurs { for _tile _prompt _tind easy % M k _^^ _ott' of Wk _*& ifef t 6 of &
_^ _atbo lic _^ _, 3 ind _fttr _lim _bestbtvm _^ t a t > _iirodtetU _pOft _®; t _^ _nWt _, _" That * _petition b _^ thdmfore _bms _^ _aterf ft _^ n _tk _4 _yU _»<* # _to _* m , _« _W _^ € _f _^ s _, aud _fuardiarik of thB podr , to both _Hmis _^ _W _Pa _^ _Htt _^^ t , _^ e _^ e _^ _tffl _^ _^ at Cathofic marriages may thus be legalized , _Wffl _&^ mJk _> tl _^* ti & _mW _te >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 4, 1823, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_04061823/page/5/
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