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March 15 . Ty the-System in Ireland . The Duke of Devonshire presented a petition from the corporation of Waterford , praying their Lordships to take into consideration the disordered state of
Ireland , and , in particular , the system of tithes and the mode of their collection , which they regarded as among the principal causes of the disturbances . His Grace enforced the prayer of the petitioners in a judicious and conciliatory speech , which was complimented by the Earl of Liverpool , who stated that the subject was under the consideration of Government .
1 he Marquis of Lansdown said that no man who fairly considered the question , could fail to acknowledge it to be most unfortunate that a species of property already abolished in most parts of Europe , should continue in its very worst state in that part of Europe where its
existence presented the greatest anomaly with the state of society , and was productive of the greatest possible mischief . If the ingenuity of the Legislature had been devoted to the discovery of a particular institution which should present the greatest bar to the success of the
Protestant church in Ireland—which should have the greatest effect in alienating the minds of . the ueople from the established iorm of Worsliip—which should be most successful in sowing discord " , and . encouraging its growth when sowix , no better
means could have beeri devised than the state of the law respecting tithes . Then : was nothing in the ' inquiry proposed which implied any hostility to the Established Church . The only principle to guide their Lordships in legislating on this subject , was to do ample justice to
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those interested in tithe-property . The noble Marquis complimented tire resident and laborious clergy , who , he said , were not benefited by the present system ; it was the indifferent ¦ rector * the absent clergyman , who did nothing , that exacted most , and employed persons wfeo , in forwarding his interests , often outraged the
best feelings of the human heart . la , allusion to the remedy of substituting land for tithes , the objection did not applyjn Ireland which had been made in England , that the clergyman would become too much interested in the cultivation of his estate to attend to the care of his parish ;
for in Ireland the clergyman had frequently no clerical duties to perform , aud was regarded in many places rather as a magistrate and a country gentleman than a religious instructor . He concluded with saying , that he should wait and recommend others to do the same , to see what Government intended to do . The
Earl of Limerick said he was aware thai the present discontents were not wholl y owing to the tithe-system , but they bore a great share in causing them . Those who knew the country as he did , would not hesitate to say that the tithes , which were intended to support a Protestact establishment , acted , by the manner in
which the system of collection was carried into effect , as a bounty for the maintenance of the Catholic religion in Ireland . What do the Catholics in many parts of Ireland know of the Protestant religion , but through the tithe-proctor" ? Whenever they hear of the Piotestaut religion , the tithe-proctor occurs to their
minds . He , therefore , as a Protestant , and he trusted a good one , was anxious to see some change introduced . The existence of the Protestant religion in the South of Ireland , amid the evil passions that the tithe-system provokes , must be regarded as an evidence of its truth . The Karl of Blesinton could declare
that the tithe-system was as obuoxious to the great body of Protestants in the North , as it was to the whole of the Catholics iu the South of Lrclaud . The conduct of those who held college-livings was particularly objected to , and
the statutes of the college he thought should be enforced against them . These gentlemen remained till good livings fell vacant ; and then , in their old age , unable to perform their duties , they came down with 14 or 15 children , to enjoy emoluments for which they did nothing .
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254 Intelligence . —Parliamentary .
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Government for the sake of taxes , the Church for the sake of tithes , and the landlords for the sake of rents . They had not , it was true , yet succeeded ; but it was now probable that their intention jvaa , through the appointment of this
agricultural committee , to secure what they could . These three great bodies of the state had , somehow or other , a most extraordinary fear of plenty . They appeared to be all affected with a strange kind of disorder , which , if he were speaking in another part of the kingdom , he might perhaps be excused for calling a
hydrophobia of abundance . Seeing that this fear prevailed so strongly in the church , and recollecting the willingness which had on a recent occasion been shewn to alter the liturgy , he was surprised that it had not yet been determined to expunge the Prayer for Plenty , which as it now stood was singularly anomalous . "
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HOUSE of COMMONS , March 20 . Liur-Taxes . Mr . Ricakix > took occasion to observe , that he objected to the proposal to raise a surplus revenue . In princip le
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/62/
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