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went . The following gentlemen were appointed their Committee for the next year , and will as such form part of the United Committee for prosecuting the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts . William Smith , Esq ., M . P ., Chairman ; Henry Waymouth , Esq , Deputy Chairman ; William Hale , Esq ., Treasurer ; Samuel FavelJ , Benjamin
Hanbury , James Baldwiu Brown-, Edward Busk , James Gibson , John Wilks , William Alers Hankey , Robert H . Marten , Mr . Serjeant Bompas , Richard Taylor , William B . Gurney , Thomas Wilson , Edgar Taylor , Samuel Gale , James Collins , John Bentley , John Cordell , Thomas Pewtres& > Thomas Gibson , Thomas Bickham , and Roger Lee , Esqs .
The Treasurer's account was read , by which it appeared that the Deputies ' funds had paid the expenses of last year ' s proceedings , amounting to upwards of 400 / . Their vested capital is still about 10 , 000 / ., 3 per cent , stock . It was stated , that in order to prevent the
permanent fund being exclusively relred upon in a cause in which so many societies concurred , the United Committee proposed making an appeal to congregations throughout the country for subscriptions , in furtherance of the object immediately before them .
On Jan . 28 , a Deputation of the United Committee had an interview with the Marquis of Lansdowne , having previously had one with Lord Holland , who will probably be the mover , in case of necessity , in the House of Lords . On the same day the United Committee met , and a junction with the Protestant Society was announced .
On Jan . 29 , Lord J . Russell gave notice of his motion for a Repeal of the Sacramental Test for the 21 st Feb . On Feb . 1 , the General Body of the Deputies met , and agreed to their petition to be presented to both Houses . On Feb . 4 , a Deputation of the United Committee had a conference with Lord
J . Russell on the subject of his motion , and on the same day the Committee agreed to resolutions expressing their sense of the proceedings in the Court of Common Council , and thanking the mover and seconder of the petition in that body . They also came to a
resolution which was read by Mr . J . Smith the same night in the House of Commons , declaring that in the exercise of their own judgment and on the advice of their Parliamentary friends , they intended to prosecute their claims independently of those of the Catholics , but disavowing any inference which might
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be drawn therefrom of hostility to the case of that numerous and respectable body . The Committee have sat repeatedly during the subsequent part of the month , and have waited on several distinguished members of Parliament .
A Deputation of the Dissenters of Liverpool waited on Mr . Huskisson , to request him to present to the House of Commons their petitions for the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts . The Right Honourable Gentleman , in the
course of his observations , remarked , — That he did not consider the subjects of complaint as any great practical grievance , except the clause in the Corporation Act : there , it was true , that any member might put his veto upon the nomination of a candidate who had not
previously qualified ; but he did not think that there was now in the kingdom a man to be found so illiberal : and that all the penalties of the Test Act were avoided , if not by the letter , certainly by the liberal construction of the Annual Act of Indemnity : —that the hardships complaiued of were nothing in
comparison with the real grievances of the Catholics : —that he was of opinion , that whatever tests might be thought necessary to secure the allegiance of subjects , they ought all to be of a civil , never of a religious , nature;—and that he hoped , and , from the advance of human intellect ; , believed , that the time would soon come when all disabilities on account of
religious opinions would be removed . The Right Honourable Gentleman concluded his remarks in nearly the following words : — " With every word in the argumeuts of these petitions 1 fully concur , and shall so state to the House ; and if I should vote for the postponement of the question , it will be merely because I think it will be prejudicial to a question of much greater importance /*
From this it would appear that Mr . Huskisson is disposed to find reasons for union on more points than one with his present colleagues .
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Unitarian Marriage BilL This subject is under active consideration . A Deputation has waited on the Marquis of Lausdawne , and subsequently , by permission , on the Duke of Wellington , who received them very politely , and promised that the matter should be taken into immediate consideration .
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2 Q 2 Intelligence .- —Unitarian Marriage Bill
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1828, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2558/page/58/
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