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G ^ lis tian ipaxiru pi pi ng to one ' s neighbour what we wish to be dowe to ourselves , than any that art * maintained at present , in either Catholic or Protestant states . - The other point resulting from ihe Catholic Question is lrkely to occupy the early attention of Parliament , at its next meeting . The Speaker , in addressing the throne at the close of the sessions-
alluded , among ether subjects , to the proposed Catholic bill , and speaking of it , he said , — Other momentous chauges have been
proposed for our consideration . Adhering , however , to those laws by which the throne , the parliament and the government of this country are made fundamentally Protestant , we have not consented
to allow that those who acknow * ledgea foreign jurisdiction should be authorised to administer the powers and jurisdiction of this realm ; willing as we are , nevertheless , and willing as 1 trust we > ever shall be , to allow the largest scope to religious - toleration . " Now
a question arises here , whether the Speaker has given , in these words , a fair statement to the sovereign pf \ vj * at occurred ia , the House of Commons . A bifi was proposed for relief to the Catholics , and all parties allowed that something should be done . In the
discussion of the clauses , a difference of opinion took place , and a clause having beeri rejected by a very small majority ., the proposers of the bill declined to go farther with it , intending , at the next sessions , to renew the sub .
j « ct . Nothing , therefore , can be said to have been done , bui a disposi tion has appeared to make * great alteration m the laws , which
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are at present in force against the Catholics , fs ihe Speaker itietr right in his assertion , that the throne , the Parliament and the government of this country , B . t $ made fundamentally Protestant ? Dots he mean to say , that the legislature of this country is buuhd
by any law ^ or by any controulin ^ force , which shall prevent anjf decision on this head ? It is to be recollected ihat the throne , Parliamtrit and government of thfe country were , for many centuries , Catholic , —that they changed the religion then by law established ,
and introduced something between the then Catholic and present Protestant , which fixed 'by degrees nearer to the present opiriiohs : and it was scarcely fixed , when the Parliament abolished all the
new opinions , and re-established the Catholic religion . This fasted , however , only during a short re ign , when , by the authorityrpf Parliament * it was again rembtfed ^ and the Protestant religion , a& | t , in
established , by the same authority , has remained , with occasional variations in its faith and worstvip , the established religion 6 T the country . But in these chai | ges we see nothing fundamentally ^ estab ) ished nothing , in short , established that the legislature of this country cannot alter ; and ' the
Parliament of this country is as competent to establish bylaw any iel » gi «> n it pleases , as were the Parliaments of Henfry * tbfe Eighth , Edward the Sixth , Alary
and Elizabeth . Should ' the nextj sessioo j >« rc ^ iye that ifie fofe ign j ^ iriddi ^ ti 6 ii al I v ^ Aed , ' [ to ' by Ilie iSpeaker ^ dot's not ii | teriipr ^ % vith th P *\ 'J J y fl * # f %$ k , i ? ~ F ** m i tm £ ^ JhS& % s ? we to
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 557, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/69/
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