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Incentives tp enrae forward in defence of the altar and the throne , the cause of their fathers and of their God . Sir , the atfettors of this measure say triumphantly that the Bill will pass : the triumph is over their former selves—their present countrymen . Sir , we will contend the cause to the last . In this moral battle
we stand at the Thermopylae of Protestantism , secure of immortality eveu in defeat ; nor would it be a defeat but that some recreant Moelian leads the enemies of the institutions of his country through secret passes to their melancholy triumph . Exult them over the still faithful band who remain true to -w-wwv vwvkv ^^ t »»^ w ^ r ^ m ^ m ^*^ t v a ^ ^^ ^ ^ to A ^ k # m' ^ V— »¦• w # ^^ ^^ v ^^
^ their principles and professions ! Boast iu your majority \ Carry up your Bill to the other branch of the Legislature as in a triumphant procession ! Tell us of the honours , the wealth , the influence , you muster in its train ? These , Sir , may be there . But I tell you who will not , Sir . The people of England will not be there ; they will uot assist you to
carry up this nefarious Bill ; they stand aloof ; and , despised and insulted , they pursue it through eveTy stage nif it 9 progress , with curses uot loud but deepbut with curses that may still deepen aud wax louder , till , as they once did , on a like occasion , they break forth in those thunders which shook the very pillars
and foundation of the throne . This Bill you will take up ; Vit it will be received by a noble race , which has hitherto sent its heroes to the defence of tLe cause of England—of a sacred order who have Kone to prison and to death for it . We fix our hopes on them ; but even they , Sir , are not our last hope . We trust in our Mouarch and our God ! Sir , I have
done . I . aiu aware my feeble voice can have ho influence . I am told none would , however powerful , against the phalanx united in hostility to the Protestant cause . Cemented and influenced as it is , reasou , entreaty , remonstrance , are unavailing . All I can do is done . I have laid this last offering upon the altar of my country , humble as it is . My life should be added , could the sacrifice be availing ! — a feeling which 1 partake with millions !"
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answered by Lord Holland , that the search for precedents had been partial for the acts it was now jwoposetl * to repeal had been passed much more rapidly and bills for suspending the habeas corpug had been passed in two or three days . It wa * determined that their Lordships should proceed . Thursday , April 2 nd .
The second reading of the Bill was moved by the Duke of Wellington . His speech lasted above an hour ,: in its general structure it resembled Mr . Peel ' s introductory statement to the . House of Commons ; but it was more concise , and the speaker had evidently made the best use of the debates in the other
House , and a number of his points were extremely well put . The state of Ire - land—the state of the Irish Churchthe state of public opinion—and the impossibility of devising any other remedy for present or future evils—formed his main grounds . The Duke reviewed the
history of Ireland for the last two years . He argu ' ed , that there had been an organization of the people for the purposes of mischief ; proofs of which organization had beei ) afforded by the declarations of its framers and managers—by the effects of such organization on the election ' s of churchwardeus—the electioa
for Clare—the consequences of that election—the proceedings of a person who went , at the head of a body of men , into the North of Ireland—by the simultaneous proceedings of a variety of persons in the South of Ireland—by the events which ensued in other places—by the attack of a town by a body of men from Augher , who were driven out by the inhabitants with arms in their bauds . The evils which had before existed were still
further to be aggravated by the adoption of a measure for putting an end to all dealings of Roman Catholics with Protestants . Such a situation of affairs rendered ihe law almost powerless , and exposed the lives and properties of his
Majesty's subjects to the greatest dauger . Even the King ' s prerogative was clogged , for Ministers could not advise his Majesty to create a Peer , and thus incur the dangers incidental to the election of a member to fill the seat vacated by such creation . There was no law to reach
this state of things , for there was no tangible resistance to ? he laws . Neither could new laws be obtained , owing to the divided opinion of Parliament . ' I am positively certain that this state of things , bordering upon civil war , with nearly all the evils of civil war , might have continued for a year and a
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Tuesday % March 21 */ . The Relief Bill was read a first time . " Lord Bex ley objected to the second ^ reading on Thursday , on the score of want of precedent for such haste ; and tie was Htipported by Lords Malmks-BURY , KLDOtf , FARNHAM , SlDMOl , JTH , LONGFORD , aud WlNCHlLSEA . It WAS
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House op Lords .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/66/
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