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BUI neither calculated to pacify Ireland ? nor to secure the Church . The ingenuity of man could scarcely have demised a measure less likely to accomplish their ends . It merely rewarded the Catholic Association . ? The Marquis of Lansoowne supported the Bill , in a fluent speech .
The Bishop of London thought the Catholics had something beyond emancipation it ) their view . The Catholic clergy would not be benefited by the meksare ; and they would strife to obtain those ulterior objects . Strongly a * he opposed the Bitty liowever , he concluded by say
* ' If this measure should pass into a law , of which scarcely a doubt exists , I will-da all in my power to impress on the minds of the clergy with whom I am eonuected , the propriety of giving a cheerful acquiescence to the act of the Legislature—to urge them , in cousequence of it , to a more vigilant attention to their duties , and to furnish , by their zeal , their learning , and energy , new bulwarks to fhe Church in place of those which have "been removed . "
, The Marquis of Sali&bury and the Earl of Enniskilled thought the Bill the death-warrant of the Church of Ireland . The Earl of Wicklow , ofr the other band , considered the opposition to the Rill as tbe result of prejudice , and prejudice alone .
The debate was then adjourned to Friday , 'When the discussion was opened bf the Archbishop of York , who in moderate language opposed the measure , because the securities did not appear to him atall sufficient to protect the Protestant Church of Ireland ; for he admitted that
the measure would be amended with no danger to the Church of England . But with reference to the Established Church of Ireland there was nothing to prevent that conflict between the Church established bylaw and the Roman Catholic Church supported by numbers , tvhieb there was too much reason to fear would
follow this system of yielding to the utmost the claims of the Catholics of Ireland . - The Bishop of Durham -was more deeided in the tone of his opposition , which partook more of a religious tlfan a political character .
** The few observations , ' * he said , ** which I have ventured ta submit to your Lordships are such as , a" short tinie hence , might not be so patently listened \ o in thia House ; for I fear the time is not distant when a Proteetarit bishop may not nave it in his power to deliver - 'Yds sentiments in this Hbiiae with the
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saline freedom which on thfs occasion , ai on former occasions , I have been permit ted to enjoy . " TW Duke of Sussex , along ; with inach good temper and considerable tact as a debater ( in a sldrmish wfth l < 6 rd Renyon ) , exhibited a familiar acquaintance with some points of theology a ' ud of constitutional law . £ )» the oath of allegiance :
" It has been contended that the Tib * man Catholic , by virtue of Bis connexion with th 6 Pope , is io a condition hi which he ifirritlfr' his allegiance is beces&rifr mvfded . < 5 lve me leave to s £ y ; my liordsthat this term •« allegiance' is * i thVrvt » iy inuch misunderstood or very grossly rfrfoi fnt ' eit > reted ; The tcirm * allegiance'is oiie of civil import only , and meains a fafrrhftti
adherence to all the civil daties owing by subjects to the laws , and to that authority by which they are governed . No \* % I take upon myself to ss ^ y , 0 * 1 their bebaMv that the English and Irish Roman Catholics are a « ready to fsake this obligation , and have proved It xrnder as trying circumstances , as any otBer portion Of hte Majesty's subjects . " On the oath of stipremacy :
< c If I uBderseaiid any thing of the oaHi of supremacy , it grants to the Cro ^ ii fufl and complete predomrn ^ nfcy ^ in all eccle L siastical affairs and tlie temporal go ^ riinient of the Cbnrch j but it confers rib spirituality '; and fn these is contained uothmg ^ rlhich « je Roman CaftioficS feel any difficulty in coucedin ^ . f Wish both parties to recollecfc , that * he . stfprenracy belonging io the Crown of England , and the - supremacy of the first bishops of the Chrktrau church , Widely differ . The one confers , a $ I hafe already said , J > ower over alf t * he ecclesiastical affairs aud
temporal government of tlie chiircn ; and the other is strictly limited to matters of faith and doctrine ^ and can onty be e * ei - cised by ecciesiaafricg . The King of England assumes no spiritual attributes which the Catholics feel boiitid to resist . In these they submit to the Pope , and no other . "
But the jgFeat speech of the night was delivered by the Lo « i > Chancellor ; vrfco addressed himself not only to every branch of the-general queftftfoi ) , but rooi ^ e particularly to a defence df 'hfo own character from the Assaults © f Sir Charles Wetherell , and the insinuations of Lord Eldon . Towards , the close he spoke of the church's securities . " If I am aaked after this , What do I consider the * eeiiri * y whic'h the Prdteataiit religion pdsee ' sse ^ ft ^ a inst the atta ^ b s and -the hostility of -Popery , I du » wer ,
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3 &i * Int € ftigen < : er- ~ Cutholfc Question .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1829, page 364, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2572/page/68/
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