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course all the ministers were eager to be let into so advantageous a § ecret , thinking that they person , ally should be relieved of some of
the burdens they were in common compelled to sustain : but the reverse was the fact , and they were not a little disappointed , and it drew down their faces to an
enormous length , when the prelate informed them that he suggested a duty upon adultery and fornication [ laughter ] - His lordship would not detain the House longer , although the question was
of the greatest importance . He conjured the Right Reverend prc lates well to weigh the subject , divested of those prejudices which they naturally cast into the scale ; be addressed them not only on
behalf of the Dissenters * but on behalf of the Protestant religion . And for the Dissenters he might address them in the eloquent words of St . Paul , when before Agrippa , — Would to God that not only
those , but all who hear me , were not only almost but altogether such at one as-1 am *—except these bonds . His lordship e ^ press ^ d bis gratitude to Heaven , that there was now some prospect that" these bonds" would be broken * Be
the consequences whfttthey might , he vvoiild be one df the first to attempt Ifeeir destruction . The question was then put , that the BiM be read a seicond
time-A division took place , when the numbers were ^ Contents - - 10 Non-contents - 31 TheJ&fll was accordingly thrown ° ut 4 On re-entering the House we found
Lord Holland upon his legs *—He begged to * ask the noble Earl opposite ( Liverpool ) whether by
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rejecting the Bill brought in by Earl Stanhope , he meant it to be understood that nothing would be done by government with regard
to the disabilities under which the dissenters laboured ? If so , he should feel it to be his duty , however unequal to the task , to submit to the House some proposition upon the subject .
The Earl of Liverpool replied , that he felt not the least difficulty in informing the noble baron > Ci that he was thoroughly convinced that some alteration of the existing laws is absolutely necessary , and he
would add , that the subject had most seriously occupied the attention of the cabinet , and of himself individually . Kvery [> erson at all acquainted with the subject , would be aware that many
difficulties were to be overeome , but his Lordship hoped in the course of a few days ( although he by no means could pledge himself ) to bring forward a bill to apply a re * medy to the evils How complained of . "
I ^ ord Holland © bserved , that whatever objections he might feel to some of the details of the mea . sure just dismissed , yet no bill to be proposed by the noble earl , would satisfy his mind unless it were founded on the same princu pie .
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Protest on the Rejection of Lord Stanhope ' s Billy in the Hovse of Lordsy on Friday , July 30 . Because the toleration hitherto
granted to Dissenters by law is incomplete , amounting to nothing more than a partial and conditional exemption from penalties and per * secutions , whereas the bill now rejected , by . recognising , the nghf
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Pretest on the Rejection of Lord Stanhope 9 s Bill . 45 &
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1812, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1750/page/47/
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