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already granted out oi the Public lie * venue far the building of Chucches ; th # t it appe ^ s that the number of frwUvjh duals accojiimodaxed thereby was only 15 , 3 , 88 £ ; that it aaptears to tb&s
Committee that , a further sum of £ 500 , 000 has bee # demanded by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the same purpose ; that iq 179 places mentioned more tha » three millions of persons art ; unprovided with Church accommodation : and that
in consequence a sum of £ 3 * 000 , 000 and upwards would he recmired for the $ o ~ com mod action of ( he three b 411 hmis already mentioned > tliat k appear to this Committee tfcat so ^ ae other mode ought to be employed to effect the object ; and * that it is inexpedient to make any further gwit for the purpose . "
Mjr . Secretary T ? vpM , m qoukj . uat thmk oj ? l ^ pjjupg ta all th&j ; bad been , advance d b # ihk flrpj ^ purabte Gep ; tie ni a . u ,, ^ tfjoi # & 4-mitting that tithing coujld be mor , e fa , iif t * h an the , principle ou wl ^ c fy the Honourable GeuMei # a , n , founded his argumenta and amendment-, and nothing m , Qre liberal tb&n . Vheir application , lt » vy $ § , adjnitted
by the Honojjjrable Gent ^ nian that the Rational Religion w ^ s , and ought to be Q& object of pavamoimt inteirest and Im ^ XprtapcQ , to the Legislature ; and he ha 4 also declared ^ iba ^ if necessary , ^ should be BC 9 W 4 lP * uPBOr . t H ; but tb ^ * Hoooiuable Geni ; lemaa M h&fL opposed the a , rgxu ^ ejp ^ s of lpii ^ ( jr , P e ^ lV ) utebjt Ho ^
nouliable Frien 4 ^ w Qh ^ n \ pe ^ lpi ; o ^ thQ , ^ q ^ uer ,,, oa g ^^ a 43 , wlji ^ b we * 9 no ^ altogether , knable . The first argument ; af tj ^ e E ^ onoupable Gentleman yt ^^ ,, thi ^ the jrant wasi not , pajjed foj ; by u ^ cessity ^ o ^ by . any general ex ^ prqs ^ i ^ of tjhe public voice . Bmt i ^ ^ portion af ^ population
differed in i ^ gioiv ^ om tl ^ Established Cbuich , anil tl ^ aX a n ^ thjer portion wa ^ indifferent to religion ^ these were rather an arguxuent hi favour of than agains | t ; the proposition of hi ^ Iligl ^ t Honourable : Friend , as pioving tl ^ \ y # n t of proper instruction evinced by su ^ diffeirenc ^ of
opinion or indifference . Tl ? e Committee would recollect th ^ t in the year 1 $ 1 7 a < Commisfiion had been instituted , to which ; all complaints on the subject aliQuld be forwarded ; hut let not th § honourable Gentleman suppose that if that Commis ^ sion had never existed there would be no
complaints on the subject . The Honourable Gentleman argued that in Westnakxeter there was no deficiency of accom ~ njodatiou , for tbat lie had gone to several Churches and Chapels , in which be fouud abuudancc of accommodation ; but h $ would ask the Honourable Gentleman
vyas there free admission to those Churches ajud Chapels ? And if not , tlie yonoiir ^ able Gentleraan could not argue thence that there was . no Siece ^ ity for $ um ) Jying
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fre ^ ^ dRxissipn for tke poor in > io places oi Wor ^ Hip . The Return % 9 which the Bonoujable GentleB > Hii ; had so frequently referred , w a * ^ nl y a RetMm of places m which there were 4000 inhabitants and upwards . If the Honourable Gentleman should $% y % il You have expended your monty—there is sufficient accommod a-
tion for the people , and consequently no necessity foy the preseat grant , he ( Mr . Secretary Peel ) would concur with him ; hut such , an argument could not be naaiutaiped * 1 $ the Honourable Gentleman w&xe % tt r ^ fcr to the Returns , he would fin 4 that in the parish of St . Margaret ,
Westminster , there was ^ deficiency o £ accommodation for 19 , OG 0 t persons and upwards , and that not a Srbilli ^ g had bee a expen 4 ^ d there by the Commls ^ iou ; indeeda , in all the paristies of Westminster the ComipissiQn kad not provided for the accom ^ iQcIatiou of more than 4000
persons . Mr ; . F ^ rhouse—I do not abject to 'moderate expenditure . Mp . Secretary P ^ EL .-r-The Honourable Geutleman does not object ta moderate expeiKlittt ^ e > Would it be said by the Hcaourabte Qentlemaji that because there heul been ; no ^ n ? o re expeaditui'e ia
We&t-mmster , and that there was ao want oi accQUimodatiorfe in that district , that therefore tbeie vya $ no want of < Chjurch accommodation iu Bkmittgkam and else-^ hev ^? -r ^ Another i ^ guineut o € tJ 3 e Wion » . GeHtJ ^^ ian was , ic Ther ^ ace upwards oi tb ^ ee n , Ullrons of pei-son& unaccomnaodatyet you uld vote
ed ^ a ^ B ^ wo only ^ 500 ^ 000 to , provide for that wan t * " Was it then because we could not do every thiaag that M *; as desirable — every thing called for- ^ that , we should do nothing ? Was it no adventagt th ; U evei ^ tlie attendance of one iiulividuaJ shoi ^ Jd be secured ?
lion mquiry it sjiayld be foujid that one man of yiciouis habits b ^ d beeu cha stened aja& purified by the religious dispositions \ y , bich ( a 4 ; tendajnce at Church would necessarily create ^—should the Honounable Member rind that when children were
religiously educated a , nd brought up , they had fi : equei ^ tlyt succeeded in shaming their parents from vicious courses and U ^ re by recalled them to the path of virtue , surely it could : not be said' that the money voted by Parliament had been expended ia vain . —It was quite clear , where a parish contained 6 U 00
inhabitants and only afforded Church acconimodatiou for 1000 ^ that the remaining 5000 must be deprive of religiotis instructiou . In this free couniry God forbid that every inan should < uofc be allowed ! to follow any mode of religious worship he should , prefer ; but could it be coutended tfeat the more the religious worship wh&h wq professed wa ^ follo we d the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/50/
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