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refuse to submit to our rules , but who deny any authority of the civil power over their Church , to legislate for the Established Church , which must be the case if they should be admitted to seats in either House of Parliament . The other point to which his Royal Highness had to advert was one he felt to be of a more delicate nature . He must , therefore , begin b y stating to their Lordships , that he spoke only his own
individual sentiments ; as he must not be supposed to utter in that House the sentiments of any other person . He was sensible that , by what lie was about to say , he should ; subject himself to the scoffs and jeers of some , and to the animadversions of others ; but from speaking conscientiously his own feelings and sentiments , he would by no apprehension whatever be appalled or deterred .
That he wished to ask whether their Lordships had considered the . situation in which they might place the King , or whether they recollected the oath which his Majesty had taken at the altar , to his people , upon his Coronation . He begged to read the words of that oath : — " 1 will , to the utmost of my power , maintain the laws of God , the true
profession of the Gospel , and the Protestant Reformed Religion established by law —and I will preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of this realm , and to the Churches committed to their charge , all such rights and privileges as by law do or shall appertain to them , or any of
them ; and I will maintain and preserve inviolably the settlement of the Church of England , and the doctrine , worship , discipline and government thereof as by law established , within the kingdoms of England and Ireland , the dominion of Wales , and town of Berwick-upon-Tweed , and the territories thereunto
belonging . Their Lordships must remember that ours is a Protestant King , who knows no mental reservation , and whose situation
release him ; but the King was the third part of the State , without whose voluntary consent no Act of the Legislature could be valid , and he could not relieve liimself from the obligation of an oath . His Royal Highness feared that he had already trespassed too loug upon their Lordships , aiid hv thanked them for the r . 'ittirnoc with which they had heard him .
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is different from that of any other person in this country . That his Royal Highness and every other individual in this country could be released from his oath by the authority of Parliament ; but the King could not . The oath , as he had always understood , is a solemn obligation entered into by the person who took it , from which no act of his own could
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If he had expressed himself too warmly especially in the latter part of what he had said , he must appeal to their libera . lity . That he felt the subject most forcibly , and that it affected him yet mort deeply when he remembered that to its
agitation must be ascribed that severe illness , and ten years of misery , which had clouded the existence of his illustrious and beloved father . That he should therefore conclude with assuring their Lordships thart ; he had uttered ^ his honest and conscientious sentiments , founded upon principles which he had imbibed
from his earliest youth ; to the justice of which he had subscribed , after serious consideration , when he attained more mature years ; and that these were the principles to which he would adhere , and which he would maintain and act up to to the latest moment of his existence , whatever might be his situation of life—So help him God !
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June 3 , 1824 . Unitarian Marriage Bill . The Marquis of Lansdown rose to move the second reading of this bill . He reminded their Lordships , that last year he had the honour to propose to them a bill to the same effect as the present , which had this session been brought uij
from the Commons . That bill had been thrown out on the second reading ; but now a bill for the same object had not only been agreed to by the other House of Parliament , but had passed that House without a division on any of its stages . The present bill differed in some respects from that which he had introduced last
session . Much pains had been taken to improve it . Ministers of the Established Church had given their advice , and lent their assistance in framing it . He did not state this fact with the view of thereby obtaining any improper influence over the minds of their Lordships , but to induce those who were disposed to object to it
to consider the . subject well before they opposed a measure which came before them under such a sanction , and which , was fortified by the approbation of the House of Commons . The bill related to a grievance not very difficult of remedy , but not the less felt by those whom it affected . The object of the measure wjw to remove the difficulties which stood u »
the way of the performance of the marriage ceremony with regard to certai n individuals . That ceremony should b « open to persons of all opinions ; but from the manner in which it had been h itherto ¦ ¦ ¦ * i ¦
^* ^™ ^^ ^**^ " ^ ™ ^ V ^ V ^ B n ^^ 4 ^ k ^^^ I ^ V ^^ b ^ B flft ^ ^^ ^^ f ^ K *^^^ ^ B ^^ ^ " ^ ^^ — treated , it , would appear that giving t ) u means of marriage ' was regarded aB a boon-Every individual , however , whateve r h ^ opinicrrrs might be , was entitle ! W h : 'v (
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434 Intelligence . —Parliamentary : Unitarian Marriage BilL
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1825, page 434, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2538/page/50/
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