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Proceedings in Parliament relative to the New Toleration Act * HOUSE OF COMMONS , Ju * y ao . Mr . William Smith , on the question that 4 he Toleration Amendment Bill be read a third time , rose for the purpose of making one or two observations . And first , he could not help congratulating the House and the country on the
singular progress of the present Bill through that House , to this its last stage , without having provoked the eicfr ^ s-* tio n of one sentiment of hostility against it . This he could not help looki ng upon as a most auspicious system of the rapid advance of liberal and enlightened opinion . [ Hear !] The honourable
gentleman then went into a histnHr t %£ the cieman tnen went into a history of the origin rise and progress of the present Bill , which , we forpear giving as the tame has already appeared before the public , in a letter from the honourable member to a noble lord ( Stanhope . )
He . censured tjie measure ' proposed in * former sessions , by another noble lord ( Sidmouth , ) which he thought might t ) ave created the evils it was designed to prevent , though he had no hesitation in acquitting the noble lord of any intole-
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rant intent . He declared it as his opinion , that this Act Would be generally acknowledged- fcy the Dissenters as a great benefit . He tnefi brought up a clause , allowing to the Dissdntera the same exemptions under this act as they enjoyed under that of the 19 th of hit present Majesty . ' Mr . Whitbread said he bad Examined
the Bill , and he found it was the same he had himself intended to have brought in * He drew the same happy infer « toic& front the silent progress of this Bill as wem drawn by his honourable friend ,
and he hcyed it 'Would continue till the great worn of religious freedom receiv ^ t its final consumtnsltlon , because he thought that the strength of the E « tafrlisbed Church rested ifi the > freedom 9 *
religious opinions . 'File claifto * rp then brought up ; and agreed to , and thfc Bill ordered to he reaH a ihird time * pasted and -ordered to * ¦ me Lords . — -Ad jqurned . ' -t- v / - y i' : ' - . ¦ ¦ . ^ ¦ ¦ v HOUSE OF LlORDS ? , : j « ri . T %$ .
The Earl of i . ivcrpo » l moved ^ the sf cond reading of theToleration Bill . H » lordship observed , that in looking into this subject , it iVas found that it could not be properly entered into without
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58 S Proceedings in Pdrliament relative to the New Toleration Act
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£ \ o \ % o o The following additional Benefactions are announced * in case the Subscription should be effective * Samuel Jones , Esq . Greenhill , near Manchester . 100 O o In addition to a former benefaction of iool . Rev John Vates , Toxteth Park , near Liverpool 100 o o In addition to a former benefaction of 105 U T , B . W Sanderson , Chowbent Lancashire , . 100 O o A second benefaction , ¦ ¦¦ £ 131 ^ o o
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/56/
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