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bendary Dennis ' s petition to the Convocation , agreed to by the Exonians : 64 his Grace the most Reverend Charles , by Divine Providence , Lord Archbishop of Canterbury , Primate of aJl England , and Metropolitan ; to the Right Reverend the Bishops ; and to the Reverend the Clergy of the Province of Canterbury , in Convocation assembled .
" The humble Petition of , &c . u Humbly sheweth , —That your petitioners are apprehensive that the most alarming' danger will unavoidably result to the Church from the admission of Roman Catholics , who recognize spiritual
submission toafoieign power , into the possession . of secular authority , whether by taking- a share in the legislative assembly , or in any other branch of the national councils , in the administration of justice and construction of the laws , or in the higher branches of military and naval commissions .
u That they feel that the most serious objections may be urged against the proposed exercise of a veto , in the appointment of Romish bishops on the part of the sovereign of a Protestant country , inasmuch as the authoritative appointment of a second independent bishop in a diocese , where one is already regularly constituted , is a destruction of the unity of the Christian Church , and a subversion of its lejntmiate constitution , and changes the hitherto ' Defender of the Faith * into the author and prime mover of schism .
u That , for the foregoing * reasons , your petitioners humbly implore that , in the event of the proposed concessions beingacceded to by both Houses of Parliament , your sacred Synod , in the capacity of one of the three estates of the realm , will be pleased , by a regular synodical act , to protest against the constitutional authority
of any such parliamentary statute beingstrictly in re ecclesiastica , which may be passed without your previous consent and concurrence : and that you wilt , likewise , # s constit-Htirig the Church of England , by representation , be pleased to address his Royal Highness the Prince Regent , in the name and on the behalf of the clergy of
England , for the purpose of respectfully di&suacding his Royal Highness from granting the royal assent , in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty our most gracious Sovereign , to any bill which militates in the smallest degree against the spirit of the Coronation Oath , the Bill of Rights , ftfagiia-Charta , and the Act of Settlement ; of ull and every of wttieli securities of the
national church we humbly submit that the proposed concessions will amount to a decided violation , either by its immediate or iudirect operation . k < And yaux petitioners will ever may , &e"
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274 Intelligence . —Miscellaneous .
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Parish Clerks' Bill . —The Parish Clerks of London , an incorporated company , are imitating the " Fire-Act Clergy , " and applying to parliament for an increase of their powers and emoluments . Their object seems to be to bring fifteen new parishes adjacent to the bills of mortality , under
ilieir jurisdiction ; to compel returns of burials to them from ail burial grounds , under heavy penalties ; to make new appointments and regulations with regard to searchers , which will be burdensome to the parishes ; and to exact salaries from the parochial rates . Many of the parishes have commenced an active opposition to
the bill , as have also the several bodies of Dissenters . Muck praise is due to Mr . Wilks for summoning ; public attention to the project ; though the worshipful company characterize the St . Luke ' s resolutions , which appeared with his signature , as a u bombast advertisement . " They say iiJ
vindication of themselves , that " they are stimulated by the high authorities to bring tliis bill ; " and moreover declaie , for the satisfaction of the public , that " they have always moved in life as a subordinate
society , ' * that they are " bound in duty to support the characters of just and honest men , ' * and that , " when required , " they are " doing their diligence " In the pi « - se-nt instance , we suspect , they will soon be convinced that they have been overdoing-
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Tin ? Provisional Commit tee for Encouragement of Industry , and Reduction oj Poofs Hates , report that the following facts are most fully ascertained :
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Emigration *—Almost all the letters from the outports describe the melancholy scene of the departure of emigrants for America , chiefly the United-States . In some districts the emigration is so excessive , that a strang-er to Great Britain would imagine its inhabitants were fleeing * from the plague .
Hundreds of these fugitives are said to , be at Havre , waiting for a passage across the Atlantic , which they obtain at an easier rate from a French port . Upwards of 1000 are computed to have sailed already tliis season from Plymouth : and last year it is
stated that 11 , 000 departed from Belfast . We call this a melancholy scene , because the majority of the emigrants must endure great miseries in a foreign land , but particularly because extreme must have been the wretchedness that has driven them from the land of their fathers . Whose
heart , indeed , does not ache at the comparison of Great Britain thirty years ago and now , when the consequences of an uajust and profligate svstem of public policy are , that the population of the country can go long'er subsist at home , but must wander by thousands to seek their bread in distant realms !
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1819, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1771/page/62/
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