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DOtjH 0 £ could be better than a Sinking Fund . He was ready to consent that the country should make a great effort to get out of debt , but he would be sure that the means taken would effect the object . He would not trust any ministers , no matter who they were , with a lus revenue ; and he should ,
theresurp fore , join in any vote for a remission of taxes that might be proposed , so long as a surplus revenue remained . The taxes on candles and oil' salt had been proposed for reduction , but though that on salt was , undoubtedly , very burthensome , it did not appear to him to be that which
most demanded reduction . The taxes on law—proceedings seemed to him the most abominable that existed in the country , by the subjecting the poor man , and the man of middling fortune , who applied for justice , to the most ruinous expense . Every gentleman had his favourite tax , and this tax , upon justice , was that which he should most desire to see reduced .
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Intelligence . — Parliamentary . 255
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March 22 . Half-pay clerical Military Officers . In a debate on the Army-Estimates , Lord Palmerston said there was no principle more recognised in theory , nor more established in practice , than that
the half-pay ot the British officer was considered as a retaining fee for prospective services . There were a number of orders and proclamations of former times , which summoned the half-pay officer to the service , under pain of losing his halfpay . The British officer received his halfpay on the condition of being amenable to a future service .
Mr . Hume—If the noble Lord was n ' ght in stating , that the British officer received his half-pay not as a remuneration for past exertions , but on the express condition of his being subject to the call for future service , then he must call upon the noble Lord , on his own shewing , to relieve the country from the amount of half-pay given to officers , who since
the peace had speculated in Holy Orders . These numerous clergymen could not divest themselves of their new calling—they could not again join the army ; and if half-pay was not for the past , but a fee for the future , these clergymen were not entitled to it a day longer . It was most shameful to refuse the Returns he called or on that subject . The right
honourab 1 ^ Gentleman ( Sir C . Long ) had the Power to produce it ; and if that power P 1 (* not exist , why did not the noble Lord introd uce a clause in the Mutiny Act , to ( l 8 ( l Ualify these clergymen from longer receiving , that half-pay which was a remcr f ° r future military services ?
Sir C . Long defended himself from-jAe charge of neglect made against him by the honourable member ; and stated , that he could not ask persons coming to receive half-pay , whether they were in Orders or not ; and if he did , he had no power under the Mutiny Bill to enforce an an surer .
Mr . Goulburn observed , that it was a tyrannical principle to inquire into the private affairs of persons coming to receive half-pay , and to ask them whether they were in Orders or not ; or any other matter affecting their private interests .
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April 17 . Marriage of Unitarian Dissenters . Mr . Brougham presented a petition from the Unitarian Dissenters of Kendal , in Westmorland , complaining that certain
parts of the provisions of the Marriage-Act pressed on their consciences , and praying to be placed upon the same footing in that respect with the Jews and Quakers in England , and with the Unitarian Dissenters in Scotland and Ireland .
Read , and ordered to be printed . Mr . W . Smith had brought forward his present measure in consequence of various petitions presented on the subject ( from London , Southwark , Hackney , &c . &c ) . But before he opened his
proposition to the House , he would beg to put in two petitions similar to that presented by the honourable and learned member ( Mr . Brougham )—the one from Sheffield , in Yorkshire , the other from Stopford , ( Stockton ?) in the county of Durham .
The petitions having been read and ordered to be printed , Mr . W . Smith proceeded . In bringing forward the present motio'i , he should begin by stating , as briefly as possible , the grievances of which the petitioners complained . Their complaint was , that
by the regulations of the act of the 25 th George II ., commonly called the Marriage-Act , they were placed in a situation painful to themselves and different from that in which , previous to the passing of that Act , they had been accustomed and permitted to stand . It would scarcely he denied by any one that marriage was
a civil ceremony . It was so considered , not only by the common law , but by the canon law ; and from the period of the year 1753 , up to the passing of the Act now complained of , marriages solemnized by the Dissenters in their own places of worship had been held good and valid . The Act of the 26 th Geo . II ., howevep ,
enacting that every marriage , to be held legal , must be solemnised Jn the church by the ministers of the church , and ac-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1822, page 255, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2511/page/63/
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