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1 ^ T they it could be serviceable to th » t causa uijalx it a ^ with tbe subject now before tfie House ?• As for himself he would say , OU 10 & a& be regarded the Boraaa Catholics , demoted as lie was to their cause , incojw parated as it was wilh his laery nature ,
lABpossibte as it was thai he should slacken in it while life remained , if he thought that ititsuccess would shake the Protestant Establishment in Ireland , he would dhig it to the winds . But one af the strongest grounds on which he advocated that cause
was , that he believed on his conscience , that he was , satisfied on the most mature consideration , that 110 one object was so calculated to strengthen that establishment as tke restoration of the great b © dy of the people to their rights .
Mr . Monck approved of the motion . He would ask whether it was decent that the Irish Church should come year after year to Parliament to demand 3 & or 40 , 000 / . for glebe booses and churches , before it was seen whether a part of the income of it& own hierarchy might be applied to the supply pf those wants ? r QtLATTAit said he should vote for
gomg into the Committee . They should see how the Church worked . They had abaot 4 or 500 , 000 Protestants in Ireland . Ireland had become , in fact , entirely a Catholic country . lie Hums , in rising to reply , put it to
the Right Hott ^ ucabie Gentleman o pposi te if bb ianguage , or if any , thing which he had said , deserved the warmth which the Right . Honourable C * e nXlemau had displayed . An attempt had been made to misrepresent big ^ expressions , aed he owed it to the House- * 4 ie owed it to himself—
he owed it to the cause he was advocating , to meet that attempt as it deserved to be met . The Right Honourable Secretary for Ireland bad grossly misrepresented his Resolutions , by comparing them to the Act of 1640 , which wen * < to sweep away the whole property of the Church , except a peer I 1 OQI . lie would not jouiy say this
waa grossly misrepresenting him , but it was wilfully misrepresenting him , for his Hesitations say , tihat -oa injury shall be dbtte to the vested interests of Any existing iadiridual . The Bight Honourably G * n ~ tlemaw ( Mr . Pltmketi ) seemed to aufftoqe that this Was the nisfc time the questjbh
of Church Property iiad came beforenij » Honae . Bat lost : * essk > n rhe > question hltd beep disoasaed , and he wAs haop ^^ to *^ e diicuJBioxi U ^ d steady dome ; gc * od Last session Members i * ad' ttilked : of catomutatkm of tithes a « a profaolttio «; bit kmhv * hi * measure was to he bmitittU <
Mmmfr- by Ctie Secretary ^ for flM | p Same pr ^ reas ; « tbe ^ toe , ^ d 1 ^^ and be l ^ ted to « ea JD ^ re . Wbst 4 oes % b « AiBM fitonour ^ bkr &cinJe » an ^ say , or
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ratter 411 Ui 0 OKtoe ^ Righfr if ^ o ^ reWt Gebtlemett , a * tji the dfes ^ mtio » of nj , Bfisoiution ^ when they iifi 4 it fe ^ t \ m support of a Bfehop , a ^ a v ^ iy Jeara ^ Bishop ? BJtohap Watsoo , in a teiteF to the Date of B ^ t ^ nd , dated Jamicu-yj 1797 , states , * ' There would be ^ o in ^ josticc in altering the value of a bepefice , when k reyerta to tb ^ State on the death
of an iactunbettt /* This is wbaf nay Resolution spates ^ it h $ s the s ^ niiGtiQii Qf a Bishop , who wa ^ qot only a very leapi . ed , but a ve ^ y ho a ^ &t man , which ge ^ ms to be the reason wb # p # wr roe ^ very high iathe Church . He woald ^ $ k ( the Hob . Member c «? ptinned ) the Ri ** t Hod ,
GeinJemen , who aocu ^ q Ws * ^ ^ poUatiaa ^ wftiy did he set Jus se ^ L to ^ hk Act relative to tb ^ ttth ^ of ^ gfetnjeB t , ? Did h $ < x > 0 $ 1 iii ® w that a court of justice had decided io favour of the clergy ; and did be not know that a Resolution of Parliament declared that mau an enemy to hi& country who should le ^ vy a process on aceaunt of this tithe * r ilie Rigfet Hob . t
Gent . migbtn <^ )^ B beAttQr » ey- € fei > eral , but he took a conspicuous part in the management Of affairs i And how can he charge me with spolia 0 an , when he set hia seal to an Act which despoi l ^ the clergy of 1 refep 4 of 39-4 ^ tto of their property ? Archbishop BonHer fe » 4 declared , that the arable land of frel ^ ai ) consisted only of p « e-fortietb of the whole ,
p . od the tithe from the rGw ^ JfuJ / er was taken from the clergy . Witib i ^ bat assurajjep then coylil the Righ tv ! J #$ Qurabte Gentleman talk of putting me d ^> w « with J * e strongest l ^ pguage ? Bu ^ , U ^^ s the firet resolution tp ^ wbi « b l ; m Big > U Hole
jiour ^ bGeutlenrau so p ^ tiic ^ fwrl y ob » jected . He ( Mr . Hume ) was quite aware that there was a difference of opinion a » to his first Resolution , which h& ^ vas a $ prefienjt disposed to withdraw ; tot or the au ^ ect of the seqon 4 . % « i # Uon h ? should divide the House . The Cfcuxch
EstabJUhment , it wjas « aid , w ^ s |^> e kept up for the sake af morality . We ttiiwt hme Archbishops taJke ^ p nien hpn ^ stl Bat how did it happen tj ? at Scotland was so much ^ up ^ rfor in ma | n y of th « se
pointe to other fouajrwss , wbeu Seotlaod Iwid bo HaQrarchy , jdo ArctUwhpi )^ ? But , ift truth > the clergy <^ J * eJ ^ w ^ re pai 4 10 ^ iuioi »< Ke ri ^ ' «^ & }** pmute , fpr 4 tey w ^ W not to lifi fopnd 1 ^ 1
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1823, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1783/page/62/
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