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Observations.
OBSERVATIONS .
Untitled Article
JL HE Committee to whom the application to Parliament for relief on the subject of the Marriage Law was entrusted by the Unitarian Dissenters , have thought it desirable to give circulation to as correct a Report as they could obtain of the Debate in the House of Lords , on the motion for the second reading of the Bill introduced by the Marquis of Lansdowne on their behalf .
They are actuated as well by a desire to communicate the fullest information on the subject , in order to prepare the way for future discussions , as by a wish to express in the most public manner , —their grateful acknowledgments , not only to the Noble Mover whose valuable exertions were engaged in their behalf , but generally for the attention to their case manifested on all
sides of the House , —their entire confidence in the eventual recognition of the justice of their claifns , —and their earnest desire to shew , that ( at the same time as they press their case upon the Legislature , ) they wish neither to put forward a plan of relief which shall be disagreeable to the feelings of others , nor in any way to relax the civil regulations which are and ought fairly to be imposed on all , for the well-being of society .
They trust that they may be indulged in a few observations on the nature and history of their case , particularly as it concerns that branch of Dissenters , on whose behalf more especially , the subject has within the last few years been repeatedly brought before Parliament . Their claims have been introduced by many petitions , which have in
sttbstance stated , —that conscientious objections were entertained to the compulsive conformity with the worship and service of the Church which was produced by the operation of the Marriage Act;—that Dissenters-in general , ( whetfcet differing in doctrine ffom the Church or not , ) objected to bfetrig
obliged to ' become for tfc & t ptitpGse its members '; partaking in the rit & V and joining in the Worship and service , from which "they , on all oth & r ** fcc & - ^ siotisj cerhfccientieusly sepfotfatecl themselves under thie ^ filiietion and pi ^ f < $ 6 ti # a # the Lam ;—¦ that * tfctese objections acquired fe * greater ; force 4 ftft 3 tt the 1
p & tfttefc differed widfcty- from the' doctrines of the Church , but ' vfere ttevefr--tfteMsB ttoMM to * j < fih in a se * vi tefc' 6 f treason of scripture ^ tM ^ pi-eVWilsly ' ^ i ^ Marriage Act of 26 Geo . II . c . 33 , the marriage tfoktrk£ t b $ A Wen , sO ^ Kf as
