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contract , c < Misan ^ i « ity car impotence * The BiU gives to Dissenters all the ad * vantages without any of the disadvan * tages of Charch matriages . 3 rdly . Because it may lead to celebra * tion of marriages , by persons falsely call- ? ing themselves Dissenting ministers .
4 thly . Because it validates , first marriages not conStimtttated , against second marriages consummated , and bastardized } he issue of the latter . 5 thly . Because those who opposed the Bill did repeatedly declare themselves wifo ling to vote for another BUI , renderiog
all matrimonial contr ^ ts heretofore con * tracted between Protqstant Dissenters * and celebrated by Dissenting ministers , as good and valid to all intents and purposes , as such contracts would ba ?« been if
celebrated by , the clergy mf the Established Church ; and also rendering all &UGh contracts kerectfier to foe entered into a * good and valid , as if they bad been entered into by the clergy of the Established Church . .
Richd . Armagh , Tt . Dublin , Clonfert ^ Bel more ,, H . Meath , Cashel , Shannon , W . Waterford , Fefnfc , L . Cdrk & Ross , Baphoe , Down , Cloyne , Kildare , Elphin .
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HOOSB OF COMMONS . Mah . 29 ^—The bill for regulating Bit . kials in Ireland , in order to provide for Catholics and Dissenters the right of Sepulture in Church yards , with their own religious service , was read a second time
wem % con ., on the niotion of Mr . Plvnxett , who ma < Je a very able and liberal speech upon the occasion . He complimented very highly Sir John Nevyport , who had first brought this matter before the House * and explained that in taking the measure out of his hands , the
Government meant only to make his own proposal more effectual by giving to it the sanction of administration . He stated that the BilL allowed the Profcefctant clergyman t < o # ive permission of burial ; which be would , according to usage in like cases , be bound to give , unless he could shew reasonable grounds of refusal ; to be In
such ^ ouihIh stated writing to the Dissenting clergyman making the application , and & © ojiy 4 * f ~ the paper to be foi warded to liis Ordhiary , and thence to he transmitted -jfco rh © laOrd Lieutenant . With regard w Mte € aibuliea # their whole li « ml Service ^ jEOto ^ ehending High Mais « , was not to be allowed-.. to h& peiformed , hut merely the Giave Seirvicc ; the rest of
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the service to be gone through , as' it is now , in the houses of the Oatht ) lics ; - ~ Tbe present Bill repe ^ ala the Act of : ihe 9 th of Wot . 111 . cap . 7 , prohibiting Roman Catholic Burials in certain consecrated places : in speaking of th&t Act .
Mr . Plunkett said , " The Act was framed , and it feJl still-born ; it had never been acted on for a single hour- * -it inet the fate of all Acts which had been passed , in defiance of the wishes * the feelings , the dispositions of the people . There was no person found wild euough to
invade the established practice * But if mi A& was to be fotmd on our Statute Booh , the eomplktnce with "which mas considered a crime , and of which the negligence wm esteemed a dutyy such an stct ought no longer to be allowed to remain mf&rce ~* it f
was a deformityto our law—it could only induce a disrespect to the laws' of the country 3 and therefore ought to be r& ~ peaJed »" - <—The speaker shewed great ten > dei ness to the Prelates and Clergy , * yhose vexatious interfeieuce has had the good effect of suggesting this liberal measure ..
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Intelligence . r ^ PQrliame& ltiry \ --i 4 rmh 4 * ii 4 AeiUfc * Burial Btlt * 315
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Mar . 31 . Mr . Hutchinson presented a petition from two individuals , Mi * . Be ^ - vereux , a gentleman of great fortune in the county of Wexford , and Mr . Lucas Macdonnell , of the county of Maya ,
against the Irish Catholics' andI > i&se-n 4 era ' Burial BilL In piesenting it , the H ;<> siourable Gentleman expressed his regirat at its being offered to the House , because whatever were the defects of the Bill , he had no doubt of the kind intentions of
Mr . Plimkett atid of the Irish Govern * - luent on the subject ; aud he felt it his duty , as an Irish gentleman , to say that he considered Ireland deeply indebted to Lord Wellesley for lm unceasing anxiety to promote the welfare of Ireland , and that he was persuaded , that if his
Excellency ' s administration Jiad not succeeded to the extent of his Excellency ' s wishes in restoring peace and quiet , it Was not for waiit of lib earnest ekertk ) ji 3 . The petitioners complain , " 'Vhw , although the principle of loie ^ atioh ¦ -. » & distinctly recogu !^ ed in this terms olf ^ aill
BJU ^ nevertheless its ptoitisions not onl ^ render such principle kiojperai : ive r Imt introduce ue \ V enactments-more inf . olerablb and obnoxious than those which t / h ^ ey affect to rentedy * That the op&Y&tian of said BUV if passed into : : a iaw , would-be to t ^ mpt and , excite bhe clergy of d 4 e
Estubiiiilied > Church tovtbe exercisetof&h odious jurjgdiccioo , to talint itho giteet body of the people &f Inland , both lay and jecc 4 eei * atKialy daily and faoucly ^ upon the ^ degradation to which the law proscribe t \* && \ on account of thdu ^ p ^ ofes &ing the Cttthplic fa \ th > to produce coil-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1824, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2524/page/59/
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