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Ireland * ri& * g * tfC # fi $ l | £ Ufait&l Church of Kd ^ ncl aM rTela ^ d ^ ? and itt the Act of * Wfkin- ( ilie > B ^ a ^© T ^ h *» Ijeltfs *^ ti ^ % diWw *;' a ^/ A ^ 8 ^^^^^ « nili itfe ¥ ttf 6 df , atfd thU ^ -ttii&timt M -which they jvere sd ' tafce tfieh ? fftfeef id Parliament settled ' 4 , ¦ ¦ • ' ? f '•• "' - i " ¦ - . " . <• .- ;
r Mri t > jfc « MAN cteifld not consent that the House bf ^ aift t&on s should he d isq ualified , ; hy the gefleral assertions of thfe Right Honourable Secretary * from entertainin # any-proposition which ' , might be laid before them wfth a view to the keitep
fit Of the' cottfmuhity . sAs jo the argu * nient deduced fry the Right Hboourable Secretary ' ( Mr * . Peel ) from the Act of UiHotf , if ttiatAct was to preserve the Establishment froto -any change , it would afford * a rea ^ dn % ainst any change which should originate with the Government , ad well as-against any which should originate with the House . I £ on the other hand
the Act of Unionwas not to stand in the way of Reform , there was no reason why they should not look into the subject , and afford the Government the aid of - their inquiries . The Right Honourable Secretary had spoken of the delicacy which thev should feel in making ably attacks
on the clergy > 6 n account of their peculiarly helpless condition ; as if the clergy of Ireland"had no union with the govern * merit t as if the niode of distributing the patronage of the Charch did not interest the most powerful persons in their behalf ; as if they hiid not Archbishops-and Bishops in Parliament to advocate their cause : as
if they were not great freeholders , and had no representatives ill that House , The Right rTohoiiifetoe Secretary had referred to the Coronation Oath and Magna Charta . " He- ( Mr . D . ) owned the reference to the Coronation Oath was alarming , and not the less so qn account of the quarter from whence it came * It- was theabsurd construction of that
Coronation Oath that * had stood long in the way of a great tneasure of Reform , approved by all enlightened feien ^ -tbe emancipation of the Catholics—without which they could never hope for tfae peace of Ireland . The Ri ^ ht Honourabbe Secretary went back also to Magna 0 harta , where he found the liberties of the Church of
England were secured . The Church , the ttight Honourable Secretary would do well to recollect ^ wtt ' a \*^ fia ^; iCtei |? A- ; and the liberties spoken pf , liberties from the coritroul of the Pope , with no sepa * ration from its doctrines , oflikri UlWrti ^ i ' ) f the Church -v ^ ere At t hat time secured ^ because ^ a « rfrii ^ t « g an indep 6 ^ rit b © df ?« l&b * m % Vttttttf bma active I ^ tahmm
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the I , q i ^ tion : waiy : whether t |^ prdp ^ ty of tiie Church : n ^^ t noi b ^ ^ dtn ^ nistered fortthe benefit of : the Church ? In recent Acts of Parliament the principle now contended for ? had been recbg * nized ; as for instance j ill th 0 r 0 jr ^ te » * Bill , which went back to first principles , and took - from , the beneficed a share of their property to give to the laboritiuB clerffv . ' . ¦ ¦<¦ - * - " ¦ .. : ' , ' - •'" ' •'• . ? . * . ¦*
J ^ r . rPBKtexplained ; that he had never ? made the Coronation Oath ai > argument against the claims of the Catholics . \ * Mr . ; Plunkett could not suffer the first resolution of * the Honourable Mover to pass , without expressing , in terms al ^
strong as the English language would supply , and as the decencies of Parliamentary discussion would allow , his sense of the desperation and utter folly of the principles it contained . If it was true as to . the Church of Ireland , it was true
as to the Church of England ; and if it was adopted , they would sanction the proposition that the property of the hierarchy was public property , and liable tip be disposed of . at the will of Parliament . Such a proposition was preparatory ! p the downfaL of the hierarchy of the ern ^
pire , and the dowufal of the Hierardhy was preparatory , to the downfal . of fhci Throne . He was no advocate for jfche divine right or the sacredness of Church more than any other kvujcl of prdpe ^ tyj But he was-an advocate ror the
sacredness bf all property . He spoke language which came home to the breast of eve ; ry Englishman , when he said that the Church of England was an integral rpart of t | ie Constitution . I The Honourable Mover ; however , would make arrangement as to the Church property without the cousept of the Church ; without the consent even
of . those who had the life interests in its revenues . What was the course he took ? On the ground of the misconduct of £ he individuals , he would * confiscate the property . And how would he give compensation ? Why , to the individuals , while he took away the fee simple from | he Church . * This was " the equitable adjust menf of the Honourable Member , as it
" was the custom td call every plan rpf spoliation and injustice . If he deprecated this as applied to the Protestant Establishment of England ^ lie ; deprecated it the more as applied to jthe Establishment of Ireland . The ptiurth Establishment | n Ireland ; as . in Bttglahd ^ waa an integral part of the Constitution , but in Ireland it was also the bond of connexion with ; this jgijii ^^ Learned
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 253, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/61/
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