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tion which the House had to consider wsis , nQt whether a Parliamentary Grant should be made / but iVhtetiuSr alftInstitution , founded for the purpose' df sjijfpiying the Prfesbyteriaa Church of Ireland * vith Ministers of the Gospel , was or
was n 6 ( i 3 fit and legitimate subject for inquiry ; and if the Right Honourable Gentleman ( Mr . Goulbiirn ) should be of opinion that it was a fit subject of inquiry , he could hot see hOwr he could resist the motion which had been . Just made by his Honourable Friend ( Mr . S . Kice ) .
Mr . Govlbvrs said , it would seem that he had been misunderstood in what he had stated to the House . Whut he did say was this ; not that this subject was not a : fit subject for investigation , but . that it would be inexpedient to divert the attention of the Commissioners from
other subjects of paramount Importance , and to -occupy them with a question , now , for the first time 3 introduced to the House . He could never have- supposed that the Honourable Gentleman ( Mr .
lUce ) would , on the occasion of presenting a petition , have , without any previous notice , moved for an Address to * the Crown . This was certainty neither the most ordinary nor the most convenient
course ; it was a course , although within the orders of the House , yet by no means conformable to its practice . He was quite sure that when the Right Hon . Baronet ( Sir J . -Newport ) -had proposed the appointment of the Commissioners , if he ( Mr . Goulburfi ) had risen
and proposed , that when they should be appointed , the first subject of their inquiry should be the Belfast Institution , the Right Honourable » Baronet would have been the first to state , and he would have been supported by all his friends , that the object of such a proposition was
to render nugatory the exertions of the Commissioners , and to divert ; their . attention from the great object of their inquiry . The Honourable and Learned Gentleman ( Mr . Abercrombie ) had said , that the support of Government had been withdrawn from this Institution , and that the reason Of it was that they wished to
obtain some- patronage in its management . He could only say , that whatever occurred , took place before he had any connexion with the Irish Government ; and if the Hon . and Learned Gentleman would inquire into the matter , he would
find that the Government had proceeded upon very different grounds . He was quite aware that there was no situation in which a responsible servant of the Crown could be placed , more disagreeable to himself , more unpalateabJe to his friends , or which laid . him more open t 6
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the attacks of his ettemies ^ l ^ ii to refuse . money when < & £$ il !^^ sa ^ ae ^ tiaie ^ w ^ MgA ^^ well whether the raoney ? wa « demanded on a found principler ; |^ he wa ^ stu-e the House would agree with him that it Wpttkk )>^ m& % xm&poitej& tcr clSyfcrfethe atten tion of the Comrmsdoners from the
more important inquiries upon : which they werfe ^ o ^ ld % iter ! . - r M r * - SpiiikG ' -Rk ^ sai d , th £ Right Hon . Gentleman had misunderstood / him in supposing that ! he meant the Gominissioners should eoter ^ U |^ vj ; il&te ^ iii ( M 4 | ry first ; the expression used in the Address was earlyy and it contained not one word at all about a-money grant / ' -u \ ' m&v-:- ^
Mr . C . HuTCHiNJSON said , the | M | $ ht Honourable Secretary ^ had . tneatedi : die qnestion as if he had been taken by surprise . He talked about paramount Importance ; but he would ask hitn , what subject could be more important than the education of Ireland ? He could not
« ee how the Right Honourable Gentleman could justify to himself his opposition to the motion ; for the simple question was , whether the Commissioners should inquire into this Institution ?^
. Mr . Goulborn said , he thought the main object of the motion was a Parliamentary grant . His object was not to oppose Presbyterian education ,: but to avoid the interruption of the inquiries of the . Commissioners . v : v
Mr . Abercroi \ ibie said , he had distinctly understood the Bight Honourable Gentleman to say , that the Commissioners could not , aud would not , inquire into the subject . Sir John Newport said , that when he
had moved for the appointment of the Commissioners , he had stated , over and over again , that they should embrace all institutions relating to education ; and if he had not so expressed himself , he had fallen very short of the object he had in
. Mr . Peel said , a charge had been made against the Government of Ireland , at the period when he was connected with it , to which he pleaded not guilty . He
must disclaim altogether , on the part of the Government , any view of patronage , if by patronage were meant any desire to have the nomination of th £ professors or ministers . It was about nine
or ten years since the transaction had occurred which had been alluded to , and not expecting this discussion this evening , he had not refreshed his , memory with the circumstances . Formerly the Presbyterian clergy of the North of Ireland received their education and obtained degrees in the Scottish Universities ; the practical result of which system had been ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1824, page 637, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2529/page/61/
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