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    repent , the friend M toleration , hut ttcrt of « k & % this Bitt professed to support ; and would willingly next session , if his life were spared , ^ ve the subject bi & be * t attention . , . .

    Lord I / ivfittM ) Oii . If fbeque «& iGi ^ wereao * ri * l *^^ should pass , he should concur with the leorneid aiid noW © JUord ia giving it a decided negative . At the sairte time b & co & ld boI help stating that the object of it was one to ti certain extent expedient mid necessary * Hetfmst differ from that nobie and learned Lrord , and contend that , even at tfeJa period of the

    session , they ought to send it to a Committee , to see whether this Bill , or some other mode , could not be adopted to relieve the complaii * a & t 3 . He daid some other mode , because be fairly confessed that this dhJ not seem to him the best , There was another plan which suggested itself ta his inindr though he mentioned it only as a suggestion , and admitted that th ^ Legislatu re should not force it on the Cfaarah unless it t $ ok it t * p * tf Itself . Whafc he meant * v » at *

    an alteration of her ritual aa to marriage , but the fenuati ^ a ^> f a nei ^ oriey of so compmhensive a nature th & t none caiikl ^ bje if , to be teed iti tbe ^ as ^ of persons objecting- to tne present getviee . Hfe Sfiftd tBis > because he must

    confess , that the object and argument of tMs Bill Wete tiiWimvverftble . After admitting Jews and QuakeFS , he * oi $ L & & e' & nd principle xw ¥ which the relief ^ should be refused ^ he did not » ay to ally but at aay raw M tfce respeetabte ciagses of Dissenters ,, ut *< fer proper provisions . Whk tk »« y knew that

    there were conscientious objections ta the service ^ say ,. ** We Will forcfe you to conform to our doctrines and rites , or you shall mot eater into the state which is erf the highest importance to society , and most conducive to your own welfare mid rifftne / ' was piittitig a case which could not be aitpported .

    8 o « ne relief , therefbrey was indispensably DeeesBary . This he / wwild grant , if possible , without the inconveniencies which they Wmddi find woutd meet them when ia the Committee . Except bi tbe case of Cathoti <& , to which it would not apply , it seemed to him ., in truth , more arfvisahle (! f the CJnirch sa ^ r no objection ) that it should ! grant tbe requisite relief by naakii ^ a service fdr alL

    to which none could object . The subject had been under reflect ion wHh hhti some years * H 6 had received various canmranicationff from $ > $$ 8 eiitef $ ^ tmA he should himself probably have brought the subject before Parliament before this , but his difficulty was , that he never saw his Tray td the bcH ra <* te of accomplishing his object . Though he thought the pfeaa he had siiggteitwi the best , he did not think that the Legislature oughl to forice It upon the Gtiv & tM .

    .... . .. . I ' ,.. ' » -. ' v As to the Bill , before them , ( if the plaiih © suggested Wtore Jiot acceded t ^) Ue would , not withstanding any objectious to it , » etid it to a ( Joimriittee , To One leading feature of it he decidedly ob ^ cted > Which altowed th © relief not only to the case where both parties diflferod ir ^ m the GhurDh ^ b *& vthottr ordy % mv did . Wiry eoukl not such partiee od ' diflfer ^ at perattaeitefc , ati any rate rbe foamed in the church of each ? Why ahonld tbePrBteBteilt n 5 rl € Hlitectotiim be called vpon W bead to tfa « t € ftludia or . UaitariH ^ jDttoii ? tiun ^ hb nt # fenM «

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/54/