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informed at the act Emitting' £ 360 curreticy as salary for curates he made inqtri ry among morchants acquaiated with Jumaica , as tq the propriety of that sum ^ an d they assured him that it was : not sufficient to maintain any person in the character of a gentleman . In consequence of his
representations on the subject , the salary had been increased to £ 500 currency , which lie understood amounted to something between £ 250 and £ 260 sterling . This it was expected would be found sufficient , and thus one great difficulty as to the appointments was removed . He did not
y 6 t , however , know what conditions would be proposed along- with the salary . What the noble Secretary of State Tiad said on the subject of the appointments was correct . It had been found , after an inquiry made by the law-officers of the crown , that the Bishop of London had no jurisdiction
over the colonies . They bad , however , from- the necessity of the case * continued to act , and had corresponded on the subject of appointments with the governors of the West-India islands . The learned prelate proceeded to detail at great length
measures which have been adopted for the religious instruction of the negroes , and observed , that that instruction was best confided in the hands of the clergy of the Established Church . —* - * Lord
Holland explained that in using the words temporal inducements , he meant what w « s admitted , that the salary was thought insufficient for persons educated for the Church of England : he had , therefore , recommended the Moravian Brethren as
a- m « ans of removing that difficulty . Th % noble Secretary * of State was not correct m saying that he thought a competent knowledge in the Christian religion necessary to "the admission of negroes to give evidence in courts of justice . He ¦ wished it to be distinctly understood , that he had given no opinion on that question .
He had merely said , that many persons were of opinion , that a considerable degree of religious instruction must precede any improvement in the condition of the slaves , and it was with the view of conciliating tlmt opinion he had suggested the plan "which he had briefly described .
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204 InteHigence + ^ Parliamentary . JSfygrftsfi \ Catholics .
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English Catholics . House of Commons . March 4 * Lord NtJGENT rose to present a petition from the English Catholics ^ praying for relief from certain grievous citil disabilities to' which they were well known to be
subject ; The petition was signed- by upwards of 10 , 300 ' persons , many of whom represeiHed families of the highest rank andi antiquity in the kingdom ; At the head of this likt , whioh contained eleven p <* ers and thirteen bat ort&te , wan hfc Grace thfc Duke of Norfolk ^ hereditary Etfrl Mar-
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shal of the kingdom . The statements in the petition bad undergone such ample and frequest d iscnssioa , ; that the mi ads of members must be sufficiently informed as to them . The prayer was for a reltef to which that House would think the petitioners highly and peculiarly entitled . He
felt happy to be assured , that the general feeling' on this question was fair , good and candid . When he contemplated the memory of the great and good men in whose hands such a petition had been formerly placed j he acknowledged , with unaffected dismay , that he felt himself unfit for the task . It was natural also that he should
feel diffident in coming forward as the advocate of a question which for so long-, b , time had the support of that man whose loss the House bad so recently to deplore , ( the late Mr . Elliot , Member for Peterborough , ) aman whose whole life had been spent in the strict and able discharge of
those high duties which his situation as a statesman and a senator had requi red , and who died , leaving the bright example of so many public and private virtues , among * "which his zeal and perseverance in behalf of his long-suffering fellow-countrymen ( the Roman Catholics ) stood cminently conspicuous . When this question
had engaged the attention and employed the talents of such a man as Wyndham , and of so many other distinguished senators , from Elliot up to Burke and Saville , up to that period when the first repeal of that bloody and unnatural code , the penal laws , took place , it was natural that be should be elfin dent at the conscious ness of
his own inability to follow in their path , and to take upon liimrself the advocacy of a cause in which they had acquired such deserved celebrity . It was , however ^ a relief to him , that this subject would * be presumed ^ be brought forward at an early period , by a right honourable member ,
( Mr . If . Graf , tan , ) who had ever stood foremost in advocating- the rights of his Roman Catholic countrymen—a man , whose presence alone ( Mr . Grattan was then inhitf seat ) forbade him from saying "what he felt with respect to his powerful talents and incessant exertions , as the first and the last
in the great and glorious causeo $ religious liberty . ( Here the noble Lord entered * nt <> a detail of the great severity with which the penal laws pressed upon the Romart Catholics , and commented at some length upon the patience and the uniformly steady
conduct with which they bore their privations . ) He would not enter into the question , liow far the House ought ) to make the grant which thf > Catholic * sought for , the subject of negotiation 1 ; but his ownopinion \ v « s that it would- do * m >; good . It would tend to create ¦ differences and divisions amongst the CatholicsXhemneWea ? and wonld , certainly lestnen the value of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 204, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/66/
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