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ntzing theic awn marriages . Ik this country , too * Jews and Quakers had been exempted , from the Marriage Act , tand left , toc , solemnize their own . marriages . The only difficulty in the case was , with reference ; to registration ; and fye believed those two sects managed this part of their duty in a manner which the clergymen ; of the Established Church
might sometimes ; very well imitate . One great error which stood in the way of a measure of this kind was , the notion that marriage solemnized before a Magistrate was not a religious ceremony . He considered , however , that the obligation of an oath contracted in the presence of a civil magistrate was , to all intents and purposes , a religious obligation . He
hoped this Bill would not be postponed for forty-eight hours , as desired by an Honourable Member , seeing that it had already been postponed for so many years . r Sir Thomas Acland said , he was merely anxious to have the delay in question for the sake of an amendment in one
clause . Mr . W . Smith said , he felt no disposition to postpone his motion . Sir C . WkTHEREM . explained . The Gallery was partly cleared for a division , when Mr . Canning rose to declare his
concurrence in thei Bill . The various objections which had been urged to this Bill , were of a nature which , supposing the different parties to be sincere , shewed that there was but little objection to the principle of it . The arguments used by some Honourable Members had been
pushed tqo far . Indeed , he had felt his sentiments ; j » Tavour of the Bill had been confirmed by the speech of the Honourable and Learned Member near him ( Sir C . Wetherell ) against it > But when he heard from such high legal authority , that marriages solemnized in any place but a church were illegal , he confessed that his conscience took the alarm ; for
it did so happen that he himself had been married not in a church . He was married , not certainly in a tavern , but in a room , and he had asked himself , how many others there were in that House whose marriages had been contracted in that manner which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman considered as
vitiating the ttoHtracti . » - It certainly didi strike him as rem&r&able > that 1 t ; he Honourable and Learned Gentleman shdultfi argue < so strenuously against aUpteactfce'Which was singular arid ! peculiar ) to > tonei sect * t <> which he > himselfv belongedJ < Rut the Hbiioura * ble and > L&inied ¦ ( Sent } emftm said these wereJ marrittgds » by ) icen « e ^^ iut other
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w ® rds / by the purchase \ of > moneyi > DM , the Honourable and Learried * Gentleman , who was so great an enemy to the abuses of Rome , consider that the man who possessed the accident of riches y was authorized to do that which was denied to the poor man ? Such arguments , he confessed , employed against the measure , could have no other effect than to confirm
those who were favourable to it in their opinions . He could not vote for any farther delay of the measure , because he thought it would not be just to leave the consciences of the parties for whose relief this measure was intended , suspended in doubt and expectation , until a new session obliged them again to run the gauntlet of the old objections , and
perhaps encounter some new one precisely at the moment when they were on the eve of success . If , on the contrary , it was now persisted in , it would pass to another place where he had the satisfaction of knowing that the principle , was entertained by authorities , ecclesi-. tical and legal , of the highest rank . If its provisions were to stand the test
of severe examination , by persons of great learning and piety , it was satisfactory to know that there were talents , piety , and integrity , fully equal , to combat all objections . He voted , there-r fore , for this measure , with the , knowledge that he had with him the preponderating part of the Church of England , which entirely removed all difficulty from his mind .
The gallery was then cleared , but the > Bill was read a third time , without a division . [ The Unitarian Marriage Bill having passed the second reading in the House of Lords without opposition , was , after * an animated debate , on the 26 th of June ,
referred to the Committee by a majority of 61 to 54 . Lord Eldon , as usual , opposed its progress with all his powers and was most ably and energetically an * s we red by the present Lord j Chancellor in a masterly speech of the most liberal character . We shall give a full report in our next . ]
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June 8 th . ' ' ' . Corporation an 4 ! T * kt < $ > & > , i , i . The Marquis of LaV ^ down pr < j » e $ ited petitions from'Mucclesfield ; and > & >!*!«»•* dred ; in the- cottirty of Wilts ;> piftyi&g / for a repeal of the-Test and Cdrporattoii . AcfcSy ( 'j / . hfTMi' ) ) il ) " . ! ! < i'U II > W » M >; ¦ Edrl SpfctieER > rbre 8 ente 4 a petition to . the same effecfrfrbm ttte * own iof > JHoFthu
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Int&iig $ nve ± <~« CorpwtUion and Testv 4 ats . 549
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1827, page 549, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1798/page/77/
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