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      V June 13 . r Irish Tithes . Mr . Goulburn , the Irish Secretary , obtained leave to bring in a Bill " to enable ecclesiastical and other persons in Ireland to grant leases of Tithes binding

      on their successors . " This Bill is to empower incumbents to lease Tithes for 21 years certain to the proprietor ( not the occupier ) of the soil . To prevent abuses , th& x Tithe is to be given at a fair valuation , and subject to the inspection and

      approbation of the ordinary . The mover aad other ministerial speakers were anxious to support the right of Tithes as private property , better denned and guarded than any other species of property , and to guard against the supposition of the intention or the power of government to interfere with this

      ecclesiastical property , as if it were in any sense national . The measure was opposed by several Irish members as wholly ineffectual : they declared their perfect conviction that nothing would give relief to Ireland but the removal of the Tithe system altogether by a commutation . It was urged by the members of administration , that the proposed Bill would not

      stand in the way of a plan of commutation , but would facilitate such a step , if it should seem fit to be taken ; and that the expediency of a commutation was now under the consideration of government . On the other side , it was objected that the present Bill manifested an intention to abandon every larger and more effectual measure of relief . The Opposition no less than the Ministry maintained in their fullest extent the rights of the clergy .

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      , Idtellqrenee .- —~ Fbreigtii France * 391

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      FRANCE . A very curious document has been just addressed to the Courts of France , by Bellart , the King ' s Attorney-General . It is a profession of the faith of the Ultra Royalists , and it would be hard to say , whether it breathes most of folly or of ferocity .

      He accuses the Liberals of revolts tionary projects . If he mean the projects of 1789 , he is right . France is in the situation it was then , and must be saved by a re-creation or a re-exertion of the spirit that then saved her . Jf he mean that the Liberals would bring about the events of 1793 , he is a calumniator , and

      he knows it . Danton , Marat and Robe ^ spierre aie the very anti-types of the spirit that is now unfortunately dominant in France—a victorious minority too mad to use victory with moderation . There are not so many scaffolds raised , but there are as many victims marked out for destruction .

      rius state of things cannot last . We may take M . Bellart ' s assurance . He has beeu well called the Jefferies of France , —1793 may yet be repeated in

      1822 . The folly of the French Attorney-General ' s address is so great , we should not have noticed it but for its atrocity . It is intended to bring to the scaffold a number of noble spirits who have struggled for liberty—and

      failed" Spirits born to bless , Now crush'd beneath a withering name , Whom but a day ' s—an hour ' s success Had wafted to eternal fame 1 " It is intended to bring them to the scaffold by poisoning the public mind before their trial , by attacking them when they can nnd no defenders , and that in a

      series of most slanderously mendacious accusations . It is a document surpassed by nothing issued during the Iteign of Terror . Its hypocrisy is as hateful as its malignity is unveiled . It confesses , however , that a permanent conspiracy exists

      against the Bourbon government : an important confession—and he might have added , agaiust that mass of arlstocratical oppression and of ecclesiastical bigotry which forms a part of it . He goes farther—} ie says this conspiracy is universal . An universal conpsiracy—a conspiracy of the many against the few—what an

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      June 20 , Mr . Daly , a respectable Irish member , was about to bring forward a motion of which he had given notice , on the subject of Irish Tithes ,

      when , at the request of ministers , he withdrew it , to the evident disappointment of the Irish members . Hereupon Mr Hume inoved a resolution pledging the House , early in the next Session , to take into consideration not only the Tithe system , but also the state of the Established Church in Ireland . The

      motion was seconded by Mr . Ellice , the Member for Coventry . Fearing that the wide scope of the motion would occasion its loss , Sir John Newport moved an amendment , restricting the pledge to the subject of Tithes . Several speakers expressed alarm and abhorrence at the revolutionary aspect of the original motion . This was negatived without a division , but the House divided upon the

      amendment , which was lost by ofcly the small majority of 72 to 65 . ( We . shall probably hereafter return to this interesting debate . )

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/71/