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« Much. progress was in the Written ‘ evidence of this charge, and atﬁve O'clock, the Court adjourned to Friday.

Aﬁ:

'. ﬁﬁaousn or" coadmonshunacn r.

' h ' nose/tn CATHoucs, , Mtrsonn’ moved theorder of the dayffor the House resolving itself, into a

- Committee“) consider ofvstssrnpeing. un— der certainﬂrestr-ictions‘and“rcgulations, the

pneumonia associations: sets

m and penalties to. Whiclrth'ey were now lia» ,ble. ' ‘ ' a " ' '

. The House immediately resolved itself . ' ,‘ into a Committee, Mr. Stanley via, the: '

chair-v ‘ ,_ '

“Mitthft-‘on n" said,:’he should" not-trouo‘

V ihplrekftlte House at any-length, as he on a former day had an opportunity of fully ex. laining to «the ; «House. his intentignAin {ringing in this 5m: "He’shouldnot‘emer into ~the question how far government. ought to interfere, either with the political

‘ or rﬂigiou‘s opinions afﬁrm-no 'rT-he—rgo.‘ ,

vernment; oi thisescountryehad thought ﬁti

to, interfere both with political andmeligigm

o'tts opinions.. The sdle ground onbwhich-

(“he-thought *the Roman Catholics entitled"

“t6 be relieveéﬁrom‘atnumhcr either Beam penhlties under which. they now laboured,,

Was by giving the inhabitants of this cqzun .5»

try the 7 most {perfect scourity, that they»

. vernment and constitutirﬁi, and that they had the warmest}; attachment to his Majes- ty and‘the Royal Family. It‘w'as for‘i'that' reason thath'is object; was to exempt them:

{mini-those laws which-pressed'most se- -

~vet-elytspon them.. They would be 'bomndT by their oaths and their honour ;-and they must‘be considered as good Christians and - goodssubjeﬂs,akho’ﬁthey thingsﬁonrthe estabiished-church. .

_ He'cbncludéd‘by moving,.That leavebe given 'to.bring._ in abill to relie‘ve, upon- ' conditions-and under. restrictions, persons c’alled ProtestingtCatholic Dissenters, from

certain «striations ‘M‘didlﬂblllﬁ¢8.t.\¥hl€h ‘.

'Papists- persons professing the Pbpislr religion-are law subject to; ' _ .Mr. F oxlamented‘that the-motionsene “tiered.it.neccssary.for:him tomake any ob. jectio‘n to its Being a}: jﬂ‘jpw 'rs't’ood‘ go. as far: as it went,.he réadily admitted it - was good; and just; bug. as on a former "y," " at credit nofto go far enough,- and couldinot-give it his concurrence un- til an amendment should be made, by in- ' serting after the words “ Protesting Ca: tholic Dissenters, “‘ and others.” His gjnion was knoWn to be against all tests

' polities,.except the oath of

,Tmand_ L » froma dread-of " the schemes-of a Preten-

dif‘fered-‘in some, -

tr;

allegiance; for all others appeared to him to be absurd, impolitic, and unwise“ He

admitted though he Was as strongly‘against ., and Test Acts, as many ' ‘ could be, that in-the present applicatiOn

the Corporation

there was a material diﬂ'erenoe'; for the Roman Catholics solicited to he admitted to” no plate of trust ;' they asked only per— mission Lo WQIsliip God ' '

'bloodyand Sanguinary'ilaws g‘ihéj’SoliCitQ

“ed. for ithatﬂolcrat'toh , which was one of . the/greatest rights of man, and of which”

Fught never to It gave inns gpieasure recollecting that in conse- ‘quence of his havingbrought forward a propositibn for- _the repeal of the Tench

‘ in. a former Parliament, the aghast. every

.man-toarihnlimited toleration in religion

country where Assemblies had 'ta en place,

of which, however, he was-tar’fro‘rnf' ape, should‘beagreed' to of ' making, the “relief ~, ‘p'rovih'g'on' the questioner ‘thé"‘r‘€p‘eir off'generabfn-i ‘

the test- ’_ He wished: thenl-to'gfaslc, whether

‘ithWhmahle i,“ , Q “ country, to

r intheummoreorlfss’ " Ohm way, ,without being. subjected. to

Hz...”

~idol.’ When all these reasonswerefwg‘one, ‘ wash, fit for A thelrﬂogisecany_19ngerxtoe . , 4 - maintain on theii‘s‘tatute ,_ s acts’that every man of sense wOuld,,be ashamesl to- maintain before the House, and which could no sooner be stated, than they would . be" scouted; The maxim of toleratiomf

. were now, he was happy to say, acted ﬂu -.

out 3. where V then .msth/ﬁ‘fdangel‘ of adopting them in this?_ ‘,ItWas*true.‘ ‘ that in theyear i380, disgraceful tumulta hadgtaken place" in consequence of a par- tial relief to_the catholics; but,.ifltha't"‘w;as - {candy-anti should ,be urged as a"; reason -- against the general relief danger would‘be' equal in the partial relief proposed,‘for 'thosewho Were, guilt‘yVof the ' tumults, in r 189nm nut aidescr-iption of

had been admitted by thehigheSt authdri: \personsreal‘culat'ed‘ to“ distinguish-{between ~» ' _' H V , . inature'ofmthr- oa ' ‘ » had‘- been also admitted in eVery art ofﬁte»

\ was 'h'On-gwtlcman tMr..Minoid) of wrath that would be taken if hisjropo'sition

I 7 ﬁﬁonghsgnte 'oftheiaws '1 'rwerereps‘ale pundertertatrrmesiriyetions, ’ ; others on seVerer nature 'wcre leftinforcevmi,“ . '«

limit“ so much5.-.-andlt0- ﬂ'lgﬁlitﬂﬁust‘tO: Thﬁ‘ﬂathulrahad. however-yefromthatl“ ‘ _;:::':'7L‘_‘

their. professions, by permitting acts to pre- min-imtmeg which revered‘isg'raceful to

try professing toip'ermit toleration‘ 2 “He de-»

. . . . ., . . . . Melated his‘opinion-to'he that'the acts a: 'srﬂ‘mdm‘z‘t’lmmmmw 80""gsTn’si “are items; "Ciiﬁdiié? we. not.

made for, suppression of religiouts'opi-~ nions,\. but tha’t‘th‘ey had’origin'ated in the‘ time of Queen Elisabeth, from a. fear ot'the- powerof the Pope ;:- in theteign of King' James, from: the fear of arp’opish ‘King_ ’ euand subsequent to that‘time

der. His opinion was, that even were all

thosEi‘i’é‘ais'wen “fool-sea, a wrong made-winger] men’a-mindyghﬁh QJJM’i—Z _7 :- ». had beerr adopted to quiet them; for . as. e

in the two ﬁrst-persecution was ill calcu- lated to defeat either the.intention of the Pope, or of eharles'; and in. \time of James, other means might have been suc- cessfully adopted‘for defeating'theplans‘of

the nation‘,..and unﬁt to until; any couna .

, timertoithe present; bothprotestingand I non-protestinyinvariahl'y shown'_,'theii; ‘ ‘ selvesto be perfectly lOyal'agtl“ godsub; , Jects meritin‘g eVery‘indulgeneet at could A . ', ,be granted them;th partiallabutv aerate; ” lye "For thirteen ears since the! \ing. " " a triﬂinés pm .0 thesriegaticw; , in; boured under, they had behavedi‘thct‘n- T a, selves as the besf‘citizens ;: a- contintia'nce” ' '” of the‘la'ws against them would” therefgre‘ who no encouragement for future goes :2“; haviourt Ina'fewyeaas hem:- c' en‘E‘f a general toleration would befadopted'; for. " the times were much htenedrtoé.

’ “m *‘Plain sadistic ro-dt new“: « r ration to be immediately adopted 3; liking , f .. statiatcbooks be examined I “69 . of“: f L “lth forthcomaintenan‘ee, of my I am K

. blishrnent, and" even ,1:

l _ r. a t : -

is ‘Popish King. But now no was within: brine}; his?” ﬁsmfagdi‘gse; ever existed for a continuancerof- th’os’opiniom, The ‘ mix, m. S Catholics in Irelandwereyjemyﬂtw‘

lawsrtol’eration was admittedto be the.

right of every man, andwe had-nothing to

fear from a Pope, frorj‘ta Popish King, or from the Pretender ; for-the Pope had now no poorer—from the King it was unnece‘s. sary for him to say the people had-winding to dread, forhe was revered and belove '

by all, as a common father toh‘is country a" H'

and as to any fear from' a Pretender, , he knew not where ’one could heiound, nor did he believe the most zealdhs J‘ac'obi‘te would know where to. go in search of his

:6, and noldan er had a: tram tth. ‘ ’esgf 9; , v _. moat substantial proofs of they: diaerﬁg; ICIIChmIiW “3"” {'4‘ ' y ' ' , ed the statutes . « " pious; for who, 1

~.-:-:,

. - - r‘g‘tve,dte'ﬂpm a r right to decrd‘e wartime-religious Opinions e f 0 any man ? 'Some Catholiea'adnmﬂﬂl , Pope to be infalliblowa—ethenthofogg: "‘ ,

CounCIL—and others therapy, .

..Church5+but muzdmvnm-mi “ .

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