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of the interests < $ f religion , the House was cttll < i ^ apttn to Interfere and to take care that fee basis of the church was as broad and solid as daty to God aud the welfare of * Be state would allow . The Bight Reverend Prelate had done whati till life time , had not been attempted sinee the
Reformation . He strove ro straiten and narrow the basis of the eJufrch , and the speech he had made shewed that those who wished for * the peace ^ and sedttrity of the country , ought either to put au « nd to the practice he had begun , or at least to institute an inquiry into its legality and
policy . The Right Reverend Prelate objected to the extraordinary interference of the House , yet ; he himself , day after day , had sat with exemplary patience to support a Bill * of Pains and Penalties against the first subject of : ~ tbe realm , on the ground that the ordinary law did not reach the case * Here the ordinary law
did not reach the case , yet he contended that there was no remedy but through a Convocation . As to the power of Convocation , it was unquestionably a very pretty power to be read of in books ; but God forbid that ^ he ( Lord Holland ) or any man should live to see the day when it should be again exercised in this kingdom .
• Lord Calthorpe contended that the mode of proceeding adopted by the Right Reverend Ftelate closed aR those openings In the Tldrty-nme Articles purposely left for the scruples of conscientious minds . He thtiugnt it most desirable for the welfare , and most essential to the
p ' eace , of the country and the interests of -the clergy , that this Ho $ &e should expVess its decided reprob&a # p o # the course "which had been pursued ; ^ jy ' the Right Reverend Prelate . ( H ^ art ) tie did hope , ihat their Lordships by their vote of that evthnrigj whatever it might be , would make it clearly understood that they
' would not lend their high sanction to a proceeding , more menacing and more fata ) to the prosperity of the church , than any which hhd ever been ventured on by any other Prelate , since the period at which the reformation of our religion was enacted .- ( Hear !) * 'tlie Earl of Harrowby said , that as
he had , oh the Just occasion of this subject ' s" -being agitated , voted that the petition should not be laid upon the table , he felt anxious now to explain the grounds u | x > n -Which he should -now be disposed
to give a contrary vote . The allegations ifttfitch the petition contained appeared to -he of the gravest character ; and , looking to the high and important interests which ittfgh * bfc in some sort aflfected by them , he- fiW - thttik that some further inquiry
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oughts to be instituted hrto the matter . He wad satisfied , in regard * to the-chtn-cii and its welfare , that to narrow thkbase was not tfce bfest method of se < uj 4 i % : the superstructure . The categories ^( as we understood his Lordship ) of ttih Right
Reverend PrWitfe , he considered to be clearly most hnp&iitie . While he ( Lord &&proWby ) was disjtesed to vote' fe * the reading and laying ou the table of the petition , he was far from ^ edging himseit to support the proposed ad&ress . Thie Lord - Chancellor thought it
would be » most extraordinary course for their Lordships to take , to refuse to allow the petition to lie on the table , aud yet not to reject it , but permit it to be read . If the noble E&rl who had spoken last saw nothing in this petition which made it improper to be received , or to be
allowed to lie 4 ipon the table , ( taking k to be a general representation of the sentiments entertained by the gentlemen who had signed it , ) it appeared to him ( the Lord Chancellor ) that it ought to be permitted so to be read and laid on the table , whether their Lordships should
choose to found any ulterior measure upon it or not . And such a proposition he was himself inclined , therefore , to support . But if it was intended , by laying the petition on their table , to imply any censure on the Right Reverend Prelate , whose conduct it called in question , he ( the Lord Chancellor ) would
vote against it , even m tltfrt stage of the question . He could not see how the Right Reverend Prelate , indeed , could go on to the subscription , without previous examination . In voting that the petition should lie on the table , he ( the Lord Chancellor ) desired not to be understood as imputing any blame to the Right Reverend Prelate . . .
The petition was then read , and ordered to lie on the table . Lord Dacrr then observed , he had intended to have followed up the last motion , by moving , an address to the Crowu on that subject ; but froni what the noble and learned Lord on the woolsack , and
other learned Lords , had said , it was clear that he ( Lord l > i \ erfc ) should find much difficulty and opposition if he persevere * in his intention . He was therefore inclined to substitute for it a motion " that this petition be referred to « a Committee to consider the matter thereof . "
The Lord Chancellor having explained the terms on which he would consent that . the petition be laid on the table , would only say that he couid not consent to this motion * The question being put , The Earl of Carnarvon could not re-
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G&k lfiteUigetice > --P < triiament < try : Peterborough Questions .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1822, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2517/page/70/
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