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them abolished under . hand by some secret arrangement , but openly , and he , by the authority of Parliament , would obviate the gross absurdity . The Earl of Rosslyn said , the Acts of
Charles the Second imposed a duty on certain persons , and those who were bound and did not see it enforced , were guilty of a misdemeanor . —The Act of Indemnity recited certain Acts which had been
violated , and granted for this violation an indemuincation , but he did not understand that It granted any indemnity to those
who had suffered that violation . The Returns moved for by the Noble Marquis were then ordered .
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New Churches * BilL t ( On this Bill , which has passed , there were several debates in the Commonsthe following are accounts of the most interesting of them . ) HOUSE OF COMMONS , April 9 . The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that the House should resolve it-
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May 31 . Lord Liverpool said he rose to introduce a Bill , which circumstances , to which an allusion had been made on a former evening , proved to be indispensable . The Bill lie had to propose was to relieve
Officers of the Excise , indeed of the Revenue in general , with the exception of the Chief Board , from the necessity of taking the Oath of Supremacy . Such a measure he felt called for by a regard to good order as well as the particular circumstances in which by recent arrangements a portion
of the excise officers were placed . No inconvenience or apprehension could arise from its adoption at any time ; but , under existing circumstances , the Bill was indispensable . He should not confine it to tlie officers under the department of
excise , but extend it to all officers of the revenue , with the exception of the Chief Board . Under its operation it would only be necessary for such officers to take the Oaths of Allegiance , and the oaths of office on the acceptance of their
appoint-. The Marquis of Lansdowne expressed his satisfaction at the proposition of the Noble Earl . It was much more desirable to effect thus , in a direct manner , what circumstances compelled them to > do indirectly . Of the three measures which
his ( the Marquis of Lansdowne ' s ) proposition embraced , there were two which the House had expressed no objection to , It was almost unanimously agreed that some legislative measure should be proposed , granting to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk the right to exercise the powers of Earl Marshal . The other part of his
proposition was the very measure now introduced by the Noble Earl ( Liverpool ) . It was to him most satisfactory , that opposed as his motion was , yet , that in the admission of their Lordships two out of three of its objects were still to be accomplished . The necessity of the present Bill was the more obvious in consequence
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of an omission ia the late Bill of Indemnity . Ift that Bill the Act of the 15 th of Charles the Second was omitted . By that omission , the very purpose to which the present measure gave a direct operation , could not be carried into effect even indirectly . Lord King thought his Noble Friend was a little premature in supposing that the Bill just introduced was certain to pass , because it was introduced under the auspices of the Noble Earl at the head of the Treasury . Looking at recent decisions , the probability was rather the other way . There was so much dissension in the
troops , so much anarchy in the camp , that the Commander-in-chief had lost all controuL Who would have expected such a falling off from the redoubtable Minister who had once menaced to march to Paris ?
" Quantum mutatus ab illo !" How must the Noble Earl , on those two memorable motions , have felt , when he found himself not alone deserted by that array of politicians who generally voted with the Treasury , but even by the Swiss of the Household , who hung on to any
Ministry ? The truth was , that the Noble Lord was so defeated even by his own friends , that he could scarcely be looked upon as in possession of any iufluence ; he was not even a fit associate for the Holy Alliance . To talk of the opposition in Parliament , was now absurd ; the only
efficient opposition the Noble Earl had to contend with , was in his own camp . It was in vain for the Noble Earl , from his seat at the Treasury , any longer to indite those once-per . suasive notes , viz . — ct Your attendance is earnestly requested on the second reading of such a Bill . "
" They are false as they are fair , Do not longer say it there /* Policy , however , should have iuduced the Noble Earl to keep these dissensions concealed ; it was not so very beneficial a spectacle to exhibit to the public . The
Romans were a wise people , and they made it a positive ordiuauce , that whatever dissensions might take place between the Augurs , they should be concealed under a penalty . The Bill was then read a first time .
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Intelligence . —Parliamentary ; Revenue Officers * 493
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 493, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/45/
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