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fnteUig-ence . —Parliamentary : Oaths of Supremacy . 401
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cellor of the Exchequer , that no oaths should be administered , and that the matter should be quietly arranged . By the Act of Indemnity which had been passed this year , a clause had been introduced , providing for this difficulty ; and
the question was by that clause fully decided . In conformity with the altered state of circumstances , he had prepared a Bill for the regulation of the Officers of the Excise , and he should soon bring it under their Lordships' notice .
The Marquis of Lansdowne said , the Act of Indemnity was passed as a matter of course , and he did not know whether the alteration , mentioned by the Noble Earl , would indemnify all the parties concerned . The Earl of Liverpool explained , that there had been no alteration in the Act
of Indemnity . By some chance or other , the 12 and 15 of Charles II . had never been inserted in the Act of Indemnity , and this year that oversight had been remedied , and these acts inserted . Lord King hoped , before the Noble Earl brought in his Bill for the regulation of these offices , he would take care to obtain the consent of the Noble and
Learned Lord ; or , if he did not , the Bill would not pass . Without this necessary precaution , the Noble Earl might suffer another discomfiture . At present , many people were in doubt which , was the strongest side , and many persons were anxious to
know where power and authority were deposited . There were many Irish persons , many Scotch persons , many English , in that House , who were all extremely anxious to know where the power of the Government is deposited . At present he was reminded of a case in mechanics in
which the centres of gravity and of suspension did not coincide , and great alteration might be expected . A Noble Lord had lately made a happy application of a quotation , of which a part he thought would apply equally well to the two Noble Lords — " Divisum imperiurn cum Jove Ccesar habet . " The Learned Lord divided
power with the Caesar on the other side . Now , if he were permitted , he would give Caesar a little advice , which was to make their Lordships render unto Ccesar the votes which were Caesar ' s , or he would find the divider of his power , like a giant refreshe
d , not t ? y sleep and wine , but by * wo victories , act the same th ! ug over and over again—the Ministry-dispelling Chancellor , who had called them together by the stroke of his pen , and he would teach them that by the same pen he could disperse them .
LordCLiFDKN and Lord Darnley each i * a ^ woi"ds which were inaudible below the Bar . We understood the for-B Noble Lord to complain of the ano-
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maly which existed between the officers of different departments . Lord Holland wished to say only a few words ou the question . The Noble Lord ' s motion was to ascertain what instructions had been given to dispense with taking certain oaths . The Noble Lord opposite assured their Lordships
that the irregularity had been corrected by the Indemnity Bill . A clause had been introduced , of which , not only his Noble Friend , but other Noble Lords , seemed to have taken no notice ; a clause , too , for indemnifying thos £ who had
violated the sacred structure which so many efforts were made to preserve untouched . He was surprised that the guardians of the laws in that House and elsewhere , who paid so much attention to preserving that structure entire , who would on no account allow the stones to be
displaced , should have taken no notice when they found the pebbles and the cement carried away by the insects in office , and that they should have allowed in quiet the edifice to be defaced and undermined . The underlings of office were now , in breach of the law , doing that in secrecy
and clandestinely , for doing Which publicly , King James II . was expelled from the Throne . If the law was so bad , as he thought it was , that it ought not to be executed , it would be better openly to amend it than use this dispensing power . He was surprised that the Noble Lord at the head of the Cabinet should have done
something so greatly to alarm the guardians of the Church , and he was still more surprised that ; there were none of those guardians present in the House to take care of the interests of the Church
while statements of so extraordinary a nature were made . It was , as his Noble Friend said , difficult to find where the seat of authority was in that House , as difficult indeed as to find where In the
human body was the seat of the soul . Formerly it was the aristocratical opinion that the power of that House resided in every Member ; he , for his part , was disposed to believe that it was all in the
brains of those who sat on the upper benches of the opposite side . Sometimes it appeared that authority came from those benches which then appeared to be the soul of the House , the divina particulum aurie . On other occasions the
power was in the middle benches , the medid regione . He must say that it was difficult for him to decide where the authority rested ; and though his Noble Friends might not find amusement In this , there might be some people out of doors who would make it a matter of
ridicule arid laughter . For the Noble Earl opposite , indeed , this circumstance should occasion any thing but pleaTsanfry ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/43/
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