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    Jl He Marquis <Of Laxsdownk Rose To Move...

    _seifence ; yet this Bill goes to meet the case of _objectors to discipline , and _states the parties to entertain * conscientious objections to the doctrine and discipline of the Church / Confining it to matters of doctrine , I think that relief should be granted , and that some plan , may be devised , . which may be free from some of the objections which apply to the present Bill . "

    The Bishop of _Worcester conceded that there was just ground of objection , on the part of those who are required at present to join in a service that implies a confession of faith repugnant to . their _conscientious feelings and opinions . He objected to any man being called upon , on such an occasion , to profess what on no other occasion he was in any way called on to admit * He

    thought some remedy ought to be applied ; the question was , What , should be the relief ? The Bill was in its present state very imperfect , but it might be altered to meet their views in a Committee . As to the suggestion of Lord Liverpool , he differed from the opinion expressed by the Archbishop of Canterbury . An omission or _abridgement of the service did not appear _^ him to be , properly speaking , an alteration . Did not they all know that the service was every day in practice abridged ?

    Lord RedesdaiiE Act of the present 8 more nor less than to convert all places licensed under the Toleration Act into Gretna Greens , where persons of p . 11 persuasions might go and make irregular marriages : two persons of the Established Church might be married Under it , if they , wished to evade the usual forms . This Bill Was totally _different , in principle from the exception of Jews and Quakers in Lord Hardb . The principle of the Bill session , while it professed not was , in fact , to repeal the ; to do so . It was nothing

    wicke ' s Act . They were two known denominations and customs , were . known , and the exception only bond , fide , and , to bring them within it , it must really Jews or Quakers . If it was enacted , that , between two Catholics or Dissenters , they might marry iu their own _cliurch , the principle would be followed ; but , when it was _allowed , to one of the parties , the principle was deserted . This Bill _was nothing more nor . Ie 3 s than the repeal of an Act which it _pretended not to repeal . It allowed _^ ny person to make irregular marriages , as easily _o & : if at : Gretna Green . Mar-5 their ceremonies , creeds , applied to parties being so be proved that they were in the case of a marriage

    riages of Jews and Quakers , too , were not registered in the parish book , as was proposed , by this Rill : there again , the principle . of their case was deserted . The _BjUl ought to bje founded solely on , that pripciple , if it ; was _« _pugUt to _establish it on the relief granted id that qa _^ e .

    _LoirdHARRowBY thought the Bill would , require great _amendment but the principle _wks to _relieye persons , who objected to the doctrines ; _ol the Church of England , from the difficulty pfbeing compelled to gi _^ e their _assent to them in marriage . He _agreed ; vri _# *< the _Marquislof _Laqadovraie _^ t _^ t _. there wa _* no ground for 4 he State ' s _compelliug such a _conformity _^ _; % _migif _* e _^ a

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 12, 1823, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_12061823/page/16/