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Catholic Question . Parliamentary Proceedings . In our notes of the Proceedings in Parliament on this subject , last month , the presentation of the Petition of the Dissenting Ministers of London and its neighbourhood to the House of Commons , was , by mistake , omitted . We insert it now , and continue our journal from the 20 th of February , at which day our limits then compelled us to break
off . On Wednesday evening , Feb . 12 th , Lord John Russell presented the petition to tlie House of Commons , when , having described the character of the body from which ifc came , he stated , there were to this petition the names of sixty-nine of the most eminent Dissenting Ministers in London and its vicinity . The petitioners were not , indeed , rich in revenues from the profession of their religion , but they were accustomed to the deep and earnest study of that religion , and they objected to the Church of England because it approximated to the Church of Rome . No man , therefore , could be farther than the petitioners
were from inclining to the Roman Catholic faith ; but considering that every man had a right to the free exercise of his conscience in matters of religion , they thought it incumbent upon them to express their conscientious opinion that religious tenets should be no bar to civil employment . To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled .
The Petition of the undersigned , the Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations residing in and about the Cities of London and Westminster , Humbly sheweth . That the Petitioners are thankful to
the providence of the Supreme Ruler , by whom kings reign and princes decree justice , for the signal benefit conferred upon the Protestant Dissenters of Great Britain hy the late repeal of so much of the Corporation and Test Acts as imposed the Sacramental Test . That deeply impressed with a sense of the importance of this measure to the
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interests of true religion , and the peace and prosperity of the kingdom , your Petitioners cannot refrain from expressing to your Honourable House their earnest desire of the repeal of all the remaining Statutes that attach civil disabilities to religious opinions .
That at the present crisis , your Petitioners feel it to be their duty to declare their loyal confidence in the conciliatory spirit of your Honourable House , and of His Majesty ' s Government . And that your Petitioners entreat your Honourable House to take into your early consideration such measures as may . unite all the subjects of the realm in the enjoyment of equal religious liberty .
And your Petitioners shall ever pray , &c . F . A . Cox , LL . D ., Chairman ; Thomas Rees , LL . D ., Secretary . Robert Aspland . John Scott Porter . Benjamin Mardon , M . A . Archibald Barclay , L . L . D , William Orme .
William Broadfoot . Dav . Davidson , Robert Winter , D . D . W . J . Fox . Juo . Morrison , J . Fletcher , A . M . William Walford . Thomas Cooper . Jas . Robertson , A . M . George Evans . John Coates .
Thomas Jervis . T . Belsham . John S . Geary . Eben . Miller , A . M . Thomas Russell , A . M , Jos . Turnbull , A . B . Thomas James . Robert Vaughan .
George Clayton . Thomas Wood . Charles Hyatt . Daniel Bishop . John Yockney . George Moase . Caleb Morris . W . Wilson . Jos . Barrett . Robert Halby . Johu Pye Smith , D . D .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 290, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/66/
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