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deavqWjtoj ^ aeevin ^ parochial offices jgfeQQ n ^ f ^ 0 s 0 ^ ^ m f ^ ffi&ifvr f ^ imigite and l ^ mm 0 ^ M v . » 1 $ & *** 4 ^^^»^ # e conduct whiq ^ e the Dissenters in Wiltshire recently displayed . I * was understood , that a candidate , who expended scores of thousands of pounds , ta tmmpm . seat in
Parliament , hadi as ^ magistrate , $$ <* . vented relief being afforded to j ^ me persons who were guilty of daring Jto be Protestant Dissenters * Justi y huMgnan £ at a wrong done \ eve » to th # poorest c | f their people—at a wrong * $ , toleration 4
the Dissenters resolved , # jf * t 4 < £ Should not make their * laws who could so ill execute the tafU ^ lu . They , 1 united their strength ; they sjappgrteci theMrival' candidate ; they obtamed for hhn ^ success ( Loud applause . ) ' .
The attention of the Committee to the Parliamentary proceedings qf the past year ought not to . be unnotjced . On a former occasion he had directed the attention of the Society to a Bill then depending , under the specious title , of " A Bill to prevent the misapplication of
Poor ' s Rates /* By that Bill , parochial officers were enabled to take from parents all children whose parents were unable completely to support them , to seclude them in workhouses , or to remove them to some distant dwellings where their religious instruction might be either
wholly neglected , 9 ^ religious freedom be violated by the education of the children of Catholics , Jews , Quakers or Prptestant Dissenters , all according to the tenets of the Established Church . Since the ; celebrated Schism Bill in the reign of Queen Anne , no similar measure equally offensive had been conceived . ( Wear , heard
Applications to Government , and tfeb efforts ^ f £ jr James Mackintosh an 4 AW * Wood , ^ the House of Commons , had not prevented its prpgress > although it was as hostile tq political economy and the reduction of the poor ' s rates , as to religious freedom ... Although averse ^ to piiblic . meetings , an 4 att . aypidal ^ le
excitement pf the public mind , the Committee then determined to apfrfy to ^ ome illustnoijs me ^ q ^ q £ th $ House ^ of tPpe $ f or , flnatyy , . $$ c ^ j ^ ypne meetings in every ^ l !? ^ W ^ ?* $ fiwifc * mw&m $ n of : |!^^ WSH | Wt flW ^ t ?^ W ttm 4 l ^ - h m * m elhRence oil& 4 » Iffi ^ Mz tr ¦«« &
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House of Lord * F , riday > Muy \ 2 . Jt ^ im tftfiefthtl j ^^ t e ^^ The Bishop of Exeter said , he would not follow the noble Lord into all the topics introduced into his speech . He felt himself bound only to take notice of the allegations of the petitioner , and to them he would strictly adhere . He felt it unpleasant , little as he was accustomed
to address their lordships ^ to occupy their attention with himseH , but lie trusted their usual indulgence would be extended to him . As to the ordination of the petitioner , which he stated to have taken place hi the diocese of Exeter , and as to the speech he made at a county meeting ,
they were entirely beside the question . He could not , however , hut animadvert on the allegation of the petitioner , countenanced by the noble mover , that he ( the Bishop of Exeter ) had refused to countersign the certificate , because the petitioner had made a speech at a county meeting In favour of additional privileges
to the . Roman Catholics . This he ( the Reverend Prelate ) unequivocally denied . The circumstances of jthe case were the following : —The petitioner having , as stated in his petition , been presented to two livings , which , by-the-bye , were only
to be held for seven years ( as we understood the Reverend Prelate ) , applied to him to countersign his certificate of character . This practice of applying to ^ the diocesan for such signature was very ancient , and he believed never departed
from . When the petitioner applied , and presented : his certificate , he ( the Bishop of Exeter ) had some conversation with him * lie told him that their opinions differed widely on what was called the Catholic question , but he desired him particularly to understand that this difference had nothing to do with the refusal
to sign his certificate * He ( the Bishop of Exeter ) professed to allow him ( the petitioner ) th ^ utmost latitude of opinion on this question , and claimed a similar freedom for himself . And here h * --Amgfl leave to make an ob ^ emtiwm ^ «^ BPt > JkMlm- f ** m the nobte MUH » « he rthe RevPrelate ! entertainettlMiimn
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IntelUgmee . ^ Parliamentar ^ 437
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 437, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/57/
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