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we endure , we beseech you to say , whether the consegufcnces would not be an incessant heartburning , pervading almost the whole of the people ; continual efforts on the part of the domineering faction to repress and degrade , by eyery species of
partiality and injustice , those hy whose subjection it could alone retain its power and emoluments ; unceasing endeavours , on the part of the oppressed , to obtain justice ; and , If that were unattainable , revenge ; and , as a necessary result of these , a flight of the land-owners , and
even of the clergy , from the country , to spend in peace and safety those revenues which ought to be distributed amongst the people ; leaving those to be ground down into bare beggary , by middlemen , titheproctors , drivers , and land-jobbers , the hardest-hearted of «! 1 mankind . You feel
indignant at the mere thought of yourbeiog reduced to this stale . But acknowledge ,, we are sure you will , that this would be your state , if you * like us , were under the domination that we have described . To obtain deliverance from this
intolerable domination , we are how about to make supplication to the Parliament ; and we call on you to join us by your petitions 1 b those supplications . With Englishmen , famed throughout the world for generosity and bravery , it were as unjust as unwise , to make appeals addressed to
sordidness , or to hold the language of menace . But , while justice to you , who have so long been deceived , demands that we tell you , that our degradation now loads you with taxes to the amount of several millions a year ; and that tliat debt , which may yet make England hang
her head in the face of her enemies , has in n 6 small degree proceeded from the same cause ; while justice to you makes us tell you this , that frankness and sincerity , m which alone we are your rivals , feid us beseech you , with a « k ) Jeranity suited to the source of the words , to lead us not into temptation , " nor by in *
difference or neglect to induee us to rest our hopes on any thpag but the justice of the Government , and of the English people ; nor to leave it in the power of any person to Suggest to any portion of the people of this country , tlie possibility <* £ seeing in foreign fleets or bands the deliverers of Ireland , but to see them in a
-moat gracious King t and in a just Parliament , dutifully called upon by us , in conjunction with you , our fellow-subjects of England . Many are the occasions when you have , by your petitions , produced the most salutary effects- In the e ^ ercitse of this right you are obstructed by no impediment ; and never , since the right was heard of , was it exercised in a cause mare closely connected with every
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consideration interesting to the mind of man . We conjure you . therefore , in the nanves of that justice , and of that humanity , wMch , bright as your renown is , are the brightest gems in that renown
—we conjure you tp back our prater for Emancipation from our deplorable state , " That which you would that others should do unto you , do ye so unto them , " is a prexept which all are called on to obey , and to whidb all acknowledge the duty of obedience . While , therefore ^ with this precept in your minds , you lay your heads upon your pillows , think of the miseries of this ill-treated Island ; think of the nakedness , the famine , the < pestilence , think of the manifold pangs , bodily and mental , that your brethren here endure ; and , when you call upon
God for mercy arid protection , be able , we implore you , to say , as we have shewn mercy ami given protection to our fellow-subjects of oppressed and unhappy Ireland . "
NICHOLAS PURCEL O'GQRMAN , Secretary to the dattiolics of Ireland ,
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254 Intelligenee * . ~ -Purtia , mentury ( : Unitarian Marriage-Bill .
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The Unitarian Marriage Bill has been reported and re-committed * It is to be brought on again in a few days . The bishops and ministers have , we believe , agreed upoti the alterations with which
they are willing that it should pass . The present ; Bill takes the ceremony entirely out of the hands of the clergy : both the service ancl the registration are to be performed in the Registered Unitarian Chapels . A few petitions against it have been sent in frotn the clergy .
The Irish Catholic Bill has been read a second time by a majority of 27 in a House of 557 members . Mr . Canning distinguished even himself by a speech of splendid eloquence . Numerous petition ' s
have been poured into the House against the measure . The clergy are the majority , perhaps , of the petitioners , but there are about 30 petitions purporting to proceed from Ifts&enters . This has Occasioned some smart discussion in both
Houses , and especially the Commons . Mr . BuouGiiAM has lectured the Dissenters tipou their inconsistency , bat Mr . W . Smith has shewn that the petitioners are in most instances Scarcely Dissenters 6 and that the denomination is not to be jtidged
by the folly or intolerance of a few insignificant members ! We must hereafter collect and register the debates upon this subject . The charge of intolerance has made a deep impression upon the Dissenters iu general . The 'Protestant , or
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PARLIAMENTARY . Bousjb oar Commons .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1825, page 254, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2535/page/62/
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