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pression hastily uttered , he found himself , without any allegation against him , ( heary hmfj ^ itfiotfi ahy opportunity afforded him of establishing the contrary of the fact , ( hear , Jidar , ) on the allegation of which his chkraettef Was tabfc ruined , and his Was
to be debarred from all promotion in his profession . But the most * remarkable pkrt of tl $ learned Prelate ^ spe&ett was that in which he accounted for not having stated to the petitioner the grounds on which he felt himself bound to reftlse his
signature ; ftrr he wtiuld give the learned Prelate the credit of supposing that nothing but an imperious sense of duty could have led to a transaction so paiuful as depriving a brother of present employment and future honour . When asked
why he had hot given Mr . Jones an opportunity of vindicating his conduct in a spiritu&l court , especially as the * learned Prelate had the means of preventing that individual front misinforming or misleading the court s the Right Reverend Prelate told them that' his good nature prevented
him . f Hie Bishop 6 f Exeter . — -I said it was a matter of feeling . ] Had the learned Prelate then wasted his feelings in the previous part of the transaction ? His good feelings > operated r upon the Right Reverend Prelate With respect to the
people of hi ^ 'iown diocese , but he had not the same consideration for the people of Bovey . Me indulged in a curate of SdL * a-year , ib&t which he would not tolerate in the incumbent of a living of 500 / . a-Veur , as if the importance of his
belief defended upon the amount of his income ' . ? Hte ; Was allowed to hold and disseminate that opinion in one parish , for the expression of which he was not permitted to hold a living in another . The parisl * vv < here hehad 80 / . a ^ -year , for aught their Lordships knew , might have contained a much greater number of
inhabitants than that iii which was the living of 500 / . a-year : for , as their Lordships knew , the / amount of the living did not always depend upon the number of inhabitants . In ' the former they might have believed as they pleased , for aught the
Right Reverend Prelate seemed to care ; but in the latter , particular anxiety was evinced in preserving them from the influence of certain opinions * . In looking at the whole of the case then , it appeared to him that oine of two conclusions must
be inferred— -either that the proceeding was instituted without just cause , or 'that the Right ! Reverend Prelate had not discharged that duty which he was bound to do tow&rds those committed to his
care ; for , if jhe had' jjist ' cafasie' to refuse the countersigning " of » < the petitioners certificate on the ground < of his religious opinionyUhe ' same reason should have operated in ^ reveuting him from disse-
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minating the' same ^ doctrines in another place . The questibd ^ ^ was ) ; not « o urach whether this . individual had suflBcred or not , as whether the Ri ^ ht Heverend Prelate had discharged his diity ; and , havingat aU fouiid it necessary tonact ^ ih the manner he had dofte , - whether he had done all that hie oughts to have done . He
would 1 not go into the question of what legal remedy remained to the individual ; for on that subject he I did not f possess sufficient information ; and , indeed , he had gained but little on that point from the speech of the noble and learned Lord ( the Lord Chancellor ); but this he would
say , that , whether there was a legal remedy or not , the House were bound to pay particular attention to the situation of the inferior classes of the clergy in the country . 'Fhey were placed by the constitution Without any representatives in that House . ' He did not . wish for any alteration of the Constitution in this
respect . It was not the effect of any particular law , but the work of time . But , so circumstanced , he thought they were a class of persons who ought to be most particularly attended to in that House . They were subject to great discretionalhe would not say arbitrary—controul of their superiors ; and he , therefore ,
thought their Lordships should always feel disposed to listen with attention to their complaints . Setting all that had been stated by the reverend gentleman ( the petitioner ) aside , but , taking the statement of the Bight Reverend Prelate
himself , he conceived the conduct of that Right Reverend Prelate was not strictly justifiable in havarig refused to sign the testimonials , for th ^ s . gentleman , and afterwards cpn ^ m ^ tt ^ pg ^ a , hi 8 cure a parish where hemustliave knovra m&i he would
disseminatethose very doctrkies ; whose unsoundness ; he- had himself alleged < as > the cause of his refusal so to sign * Under these circumstances-. ( hcf thought that this question ought to be taken into the consideration of their Lordships . The Bishop ' of Landa ^ ff then addressed their Lordships , but in so low a tone as to be seldom audible below the bar . We
understood him to say ,-that giving credit to the feelings of the noble ¦ Lords opposite , upon this subject , he could not still be insensible to the arduous task of those Who had ; the care mid government ? "of ecclesiastical districts . From all hie had heard , he did not think that any cUse of heard , he did not think that any case w <> f
misgovernitient was made out against the Right Reverend Prelate . What he ^ had ddnd appeared to him to be only in the strict discharge of his duty , i With respect * 6 the alleged opinions * of Mhfe / clergy on the subject alluded to ^ t he hfid passed through all ranks , and Ike Jboked upon the' statement as a groas libel upon ; that
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Intelligence . —Parliumentarg . 441
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1820, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2490/page/61/
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