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    a Bill _cirawmi _ttp crfv _Uiote fepe _^ atiwp p _^ f _^ _fAe _^ _**^ : _mcc _^ s _^ _btitt _^ _wj _^ _omtfajfy _ei _^ anger _^ ai _^ y _,, _^^ p ja _^ _^ _fedi _* sj _^ i } k _>^ _e _^ ermoderate _^ _-l : _m-r ? .: _\>^ ' d * 'r } _dt , _mtnmm $ _? _tli _te

    • i _: * _V ' a _£ _flHb « gi _tfce _foudrfci * p _& _ce , because the Bill _« _0 w _^ boM _^ o p _^ seftj _^ to _P _^ _liammfc _^ appears te _* _fciie € _oaapaJ _|* e _^ td- _^» eQ _^>§^ e _^| plt _^ # < _# _** enjt plated by the Ministers _themselyesy inasmuchas it dote m _$ f _& _£% _^ TeduC _? the Marriage Service to a mere form of publishing and registering a civil _contract , ev _^ ry ti _d ing of the _nature of religious woi _^ _hig being excluded , " while , at the _saiaife tiine _, it provides for tK _^^ _eCunt _^ of E _^ _islenters and of

    society against irregular Marriages , imposes no _, onerou _§ _charge and responsibility on _Dissecting Ministers ,, and , _gvai _^ _ntfees _^ e _'ife l _ipr _^ ant _olg _^ c _^^ re _^^ Ve _^ str _^ _itm and leg _^ l pto of of thd ti _^ _rriafe _# kt _^ _fct y < k _Mt mi , _Whether the _present Bill be _carrfe _# _W nS _^ _^ _Vd _0 _iti _$ m wilt 1 _ne always happy _tb co-operate with the _MiifM _^ ; _b _^^ Th r _^ Denominations in any practicable measure for _tfheddEVatide _& _tTOtrbi r _^ _ti _^ _ibtfs liberty , and the promotion of the civil rights of Protestant Dissenters , i » this or any other particular . "

    The Bill was then urged on as far as the late period of the session , and the delay which this interference hart occasioned , _t _wfoulci _, | ll < J _\^ . f It was read a second time without opposition _; but on the motion for its commitment , though no _objection upon the merits of the question was raised in argument _xtgairist it , it was found too late for atiy hope that the Bill could , under any _circumstances , thea pass , and it was therefore reluctantly ¦ ¦

    _drdpped . _i _•"' ' The short session which _succeeded in the latter end of the last y _£ ar , _furtiidied no opportunity for reviving the measure ; but the Committee h _^ ve ta ken active steps fbr brin ging the Bill oncle inorte before the consideration of the Legislature under the present Parliament . Their last act _hfts been the _^ _appointment of a Deputation to wait on Mi \ Smith and _request his _^ ithmediate revivaiof the subject $ and the Coiiimitteecan only liop _^ t hat that success may attend their efforts , or those of thteir siiccessors , which they are Well xonviticed the justice of their _tratise ftrlly merits : " ' ' " _'• - st \ ¦ ] l rA

    . _TRJkiKlre ar 0 - _several other matters to _wH ch the _attention _of' the Q _^ - mittee ha _^ _tte _^ _i di rected _diiring the yeat . [ l Some of the _cstt _& _es broii _^ ht _before them affected ' the * _geiierkt rights * _$ t Dissentei _^ arid Were _tiiefeforie , in pursuance of _tfhe geneV _^ l rale which _thie _Gbinmitfce _^ ha _^ ve l _^ aid down for _themselves , conformably Svilh _the spi _r it of this _i _« ss _< _jkiiktitnti , referred to _thb _^ e _itistitiitions t _ _winfch _thfey _iriore _l to _hM it in

    _properly _beldiig _^ but the Committee airei _Haj _^ py have th _^ iir power _; rot several cases which were withiti their peculiar _province , to _* givfe _^ _effeqtual _assistance and protection . pFlie _Rejii _^ rt , as re _^ d to th _6 _General Mfeetirig , enters at _considei _^ b _^ e length into the _particulars of thre _^ cases to which t _^ e _^ . _ttebtion' 6 f _% K _^ Committee _^ _ha _^ ti _^ en called . They _haVfe , hovrevei , ih th _^ i _^ _iscrctidtf _giVen themH y the Mfeetiing , _consideted it best _tiot _^ tb pTint tl _& t | part , _lAaSfilu _^ _aV _iVimglitt make _disclosures prejiidteinl _tothe int _^ _reists < _$ _tM fteri _$ _Hi _aV it nug _^ it ttiake _dibelofeures prejiidteinl to the ixit _^ _reists _^ tti _^ _IfeMli

    concerned , as well as create _obstacles in _ttye way of _jdesirable d _^ im _^ i iS _^ _ntai _- ? Fl _^*«« 4 _^ i _* _cWrfud _^ _WfbH _^^ ' ' : ' u ¦ v _^ s * _t _rrff-. P . - - _^^ Si « f _^ df « _ttbsei-ibei % Itid _Cbng _^ _tibn _^ ti 6 w _'^ l _« SWa _WfcPW {A _^ o _« _atmn ; will \ hevv _, > _fIfe _C ommittee ai e happy tb ' _dad _;^ _d 6 _h _si _»^ _bB increase in the numbers and means of this Institution , _arfd _^ 8 _^ _^ e _^ tmm not the pleasure of _seeiffg'"fc _^ _dftod ; in its _^ Wl € _^ _ttt _/^ ll 6 _^

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 29, 1820, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_29051820/page/3/