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he could easily shew that the damnatory clauses had been condemned by many neverend prelates ou the opposite bench . But he could not help asking the Right Reverend Prelate who had refused to countersign the testimonials for Mr . Jones on the report of words attributed to him , how he would like if that House
were to proceed to pass a vote against himself on the report of language stated . to have come from him . ? He held in his hand an address by a clergyman of the Reverend Prelate ' s diocese , published last year . He wished he could read the whole of it , for it applied to all parties in the House . It began , it ' was true , with his
side , but the fire was speedily directed to the other , and finally at the woolsack . The author observed , that it was little known to what danger the Church had been exposed by an administration who were dismissed for openly advocating Idolatry . ( Laughter . ) But their lordships must hear what was said of the other side . He and his friends were
rebels , but the noble lords opposite were traitors . The author stated that the successors of that administration had taken care so to frame the oath of the Regent , that it should present no bar to the Catholic claims . It was to be hoped
that the noble lord opposite would take warning by this , and satisfy these gentlemen in framing the coronation-oath . ( Laughter . ) But the author continued and asserted that the Regent had authorized the Clerk of the Closet to state to
him , that if both Houses of Parliament should pass a Bill to emancipate the Catholics , he would refuse to give it his assent . It certainly was not a little extraordinary that a dignitary of the
Church should gravely consider himself authorized to declare , on the authority of the first magistrate of the State , that a negative would be put on a certain measure if passed by the two Houses of Parliament . But what would the Reverend Prelate
say , were that House to act upon it as he had done with respect to Mr . Jones , and pass a vote without allowing any opportunity for vindication ? The spirit of Mr . Jones ' s argument : merely was , that he did not impute bad intentions to the Catholics from what they signed , because , by a parity of reasoning , ! the same argument might be applied to the Church of
England . If in that House explanation was allowed to settle' the meaning of words used in debate , ought not a similar opportunity to liave been afforded foiMlrV Janes with regard to words which htfd passed in the confusion of a public meeting ? Here he could not help recollecting words which had fallen from a Reverend Prelate of great learning aud ability , who
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once sat on the bench opposite , ^ a » d who never had been suspected of feeterdd * My . He alluded to the Bishop Hor&feyj * " He remembered tfyat learned prelate , once standing up in his place , and speaking im a question relative to a minor >» a female ward of the Court of Chancery , who was in the custody of Cathtolic relatives . The learned and venerable pirelate said that he did not believe she ever entered into
the distinctions of trahsubstantiation , consubstantiation , or any oif these conundrums . Had that distinguished prelate lived , it was not unlikely that it might have been proposed to promote him to
the see of York , when it became vacant . Now , suppose that , on such a vacancy , some members of that House ,- who had access to his Majesty , had gone to him , and secretly advised , him against the promotion , on the ground that the Reverend Prelate treated the most sacred
ordinances of the Church as rebuses and conondrums : but had this been done , in what would the transaction have differed from the conduct of the clergy of Exeter against the petitioner ? He came now to the last point in the petition—the remedy which the petitioner had in law , and without applying to this House . And
here he must observe , that if , by the exercise of a power conferred by the legislature , an individual received an injury , and if a whole class of men were liable to the same injury , he did not think that he would place the defence of the whole class on that individual . But , in addition to this , great difficulties were
started on the point of law , which any individual might be ruined in contending with . in his ( Lord Holland ' s ) opinion , the counter-signature of the diocesan to a certificate of character signed by the three clergymen merely attested t ^ te identity of the clergyman who demancbed institution , and gave no additional attestation to his
character . He believed this was the prin T ciple on which the counter-signature was required . The practice which prevailed , of not following invariably the rule of refusing institution without a countersignature , countenanced the idea that it was a mere form to attest the identity of the clergyman to whose character the
certificate refe ' rred . Accordingly , he believed , that Where the three attesting clergymen resided in the > diocese where the reverend * person to whose character they bore testimony was to toe instituted , it was not riee ^ sBaify that their certificate
should be countersigned by their diocesan . The counter-sigftaiwrfc' was merely > he believed , ministerialy and ptte&ted * net the chapter of ithe j ipler ^ ymain in quiring in ~ $ { itution , tot the credibility atfd identity of the clergymen wIu *( sig * iJbd > tlie certifi *
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378 fn 4 eili g * eriee +- ± ~ ParHament ( ify .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1820, page 378, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2489/page/54/
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