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    canclpuFj tiie moderation s tl ^ e eon * cilj ^ n ^ jii ^ osi tiaq shewn by this verym ^ u ^ nl pxeUite , are nof : only ividejy d $ fe ; r $ iit from those acri . rnopoiis iijvectives of which we heara g reat deal too much in our

    3 & J ^/ PP W- heated advocate on bt ^ h ^ sicjes , but that they are also Tar" ^ tt ^ r calculated , if not to raafe ^ j ip 3 !< t ) yus at least to prolate j noutuai iorbrarance , mutual low , and mutual esteem , which are pW # 11 hands allowed to be

    objecfe of primary importance , as tK | y most unquestionabl y are vi ^ aea peculiarly Christian . Still $° p&y ? r ** W ^ y be argued , and to a cei ^ in degree fairly , that what . ev ^ jnpay have been the opinion o | t | jclibibhop Wake , or any other divine so many years since , the

    twq ^ JLJnjyerskies and the present cjfergy pt the Established Church ar ^ qeci ^ dly hostile to the . petit ^^ y < iiir lordships' table . That ao $ H ? very respectable members of bur t > vo Umversities , and some

    egji ^ Jl y respectable among the parp ^ Jiial clergy , come und ^ v this descitiption , is unquestionably true ; but is it not also true , that there ^ re ^ many , very many exceptions Mthe truth of this assertion ? Be the assertion . however admitted ypr ^ the sake of argument ) ,, and M ^ iited , in its fullest extei > t ; still , TC | t be brought forward as a reaso ^ against the claims of , the Cathol | c ^» aJtappears to me by no means

    entitled to the stress that has been J Sji jk jHpon it . Considering the ^ fyje . of \ the . . , quf ? sjiiont and how y& 7 f ^ 4 : Son } P ^ y g ? nerally s Pf ^ k ?^ S ? ifl ^ ° f ? t « dipus recluse Habits are tp Jbrm a right jud g * Went pf great complicate and cotn . Jjrehensive : polineal topick : I < ay

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    lordships is not a point of thdology not a difficult passage in either of t he learned languages ^ but . a great question of state : a question therefore not ro be settled by divines . '

    or , by theorists in their studies , howevpj- pious ^ or learned , or wellintentioned ; but by enlightened practical statesmen ; such as many are ,-u ho id I see on bath sides of this Hnme .. But that I mav not

    be thought to ftatier the living , t appeal to the dead ; and I will venture to say , without fear of contradiction ^ that the judgment of four su < rh men as Mr . Burke , Mr . Pitt , Ml . Fox , and Mr .

    Windham , carries far more weight with it ^ upon a question like thu , than the Judgment of both the Universities , and indeed of all the divines who ever sat in convo .

    catiou , under the dome of St . Paurs or in the Jerusalem Cham * her , from the Information to the present hour . There is , my lorils , up man breathing uho lave * « ad

    respects his clerical brethrea more than I do ; nor is there a single bishop on the bench who has cultivated a more general acquaintance , or closer intimacies

    with men of his own profession . Indeed , the far greater part bf my life has been spent among them , and happily spent ; but with all my partiality for them ,. I never for a moment conceive either my *

    self or them to be statesmen or politicians : nor do I believe that the wiser part of this very valuable body wilL be displeased with me , for denying their claim to a char racter which does not belong tous ? a character with which we cannot

    possibly have too little to do . Opinions tike these I shall per ^ Jtaps be told , iridded , I tave b

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    70 S Speech of the Bishop of Normch ^ an the Catholic Petition .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/4/