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    mjight te rvvell ^ to ^ e-if relief icoulckno * be ; gfaetl by the CftmVclf ^^ lfli ^ Ut WHtf change jof the -law . -. ? . Foliostance ; words aH & fitag' to ? tK ^ doctrtfle df * lhe Trit ^ -w- ^ i t did not occur to Mm to be btge 6 tidntibl 6 that the » Minister % litttrid ; ( on affidavit of the party that he conscientiously ; objected to ^ $%Wti£ ki 1 iofrof that doctrine , ) be allowed to omit themvi It might be for the ^ eiic ^ r'df the Church , itself to-open its doors , and the strength of dissent tti % ht be Weakened by such a conciliation . The Chiu ? ch would be benefited and the cause of morality advanced *

    The Marquis of Lansdowne was extremely glad to liave brought on stieh a discussion . He owed it in justice to the persons who prepared this * Bill to state , that the view suggested by Lord Liverpool had not escaped their-attention , ajid he could say , that it was only because it was understbibfti that insuperable objections existed to sttch a plan , that / they ( wishing , to iEfeet such objections ) did , in compliance with them , attempt a new mode of ^ eHfef . From no expression of his , he trusted , could it be supposed that he wished

    to hurry this Bill through the House . He could ; not bring in ^ such an important measure without being aware . that serious amendments would be suggested , and it was for that reason that ( while the general Bill was pfehdhig ) he brought it in to receive the earliest arid fullest cofasideratiori * ; He had , therefore , not been disappointed by the wish of the Lord Chancellor , that it

    should not pass this session ; but he had been disappointed that nobl ^ Lords , admitting the principle , ( which all must admit , seeing that the present system was one which violated conscience , ) should refuse their consent to going into a Committee , to see if the admitted evil could be remedied , and to settle the most mature and judicious plan for meeting the acknowledged defect .

    He did trust that the Right Reverend Archbishop { who had himself put the persons seeking relief into this course , to meet his views and scruples ) would not oppose this motion—an opposition which could only be justified by the opinion , that though a great evil existed , there was no cure for it . Though the Right Reverend Prelate objected on principle to that part of the Bill

    which applies to religious scruples as affecting discipline , that veiy . tfbjectioki could be removed by omitting only two words in the preamble . He wished to commit no one to the Bill as it stood , nor to the passing- of any Bill this session , but to an admission that the evil existed , and to an in ^ iiir ^ bowit could be cured . Though he had heard objections to . the Bill , he had heard

    no argument to shew that it was good , either for the State , the ( 3 burch > or the People , to compel cooformity at a moment when policy , religion , and morality , called for the utmost sincerity , and counselled their Lordships , when wishing to impose a binding religious sanetiort , to seek one whicli wa & cons is tent with the feelings and opinions of the parties whotrt it vvas meant to atfect . . . J . ^ : . . i

    • . . .. ' . . ¦• .. •' .. ¦• - .. ? . .- ¦ . V I .: a ~ . - > The Ar ^ h ^ ishop of Canterbury ras ^ to say ; in explanation , that fee m & de no obje ^ Hpn : ti > tha t pat ^ t of the Bill \ vh ich confiaed ietief u >(^ e ^ i ^ Hbrupmi

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 20, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/60/