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    cod sequence of what had fallen from the hon . and learned gentleman -who last addressed the House . It had been said that no other portion of his Majesty ' s subjects were subject to the same political disabilities as the Roman Catholics : but , it

    should be recollected , that the Protestant Dissenters , of whom he had ever been one , were exposed to the same test oaths , to the same disabilities , and , with the exception of eligibility to a seat in parliament , of -which he was an instance , were incapable of holding any situation , civil or military . He was a friend to the prayer of the petitioners now before the House . He was as

    anxious as any man that they should be admitted to an equal participation of the benefits of the constitution with their Protestant brethren 5 but at the same time he hoped the House would consider , that when

    they discussed the merits of the Catholic question , they should not omit the claims of the Protestant Dissenters , which were equally founded injustice . The Petition was then read , and ordered to lie on the table , and to be printed .

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    reproved by a humane neighbour , wW said that he might have sent up two ducks . * —The Earl of Harrowby was not able to entertain their lordships with any jokes , either relative to himself , or extracted from Joe Miller , but believed very little was

    necessary to support a measure founded in humanity , and which they had reason to conclude was perfectly practicable . The noble Earl had shifted his ground , and no longer rested on his general principles with regard to free labour . The best argument for the Bill was , that it would

    afford time and opportunity for making the arrangements necessary to the abolition of climbing boys . —On a division , there were for the Bill , contents , 20 ; noncontents , 37 : majority , 17 . Thus the Bill IS lost *

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    House of Lords . March 15 . Lord A uckland moved the order of the day for the commitment of the Chimney-Sweepers ' Bill , designed to supersede after a time the use of climbing-boys . He relied upon the facts that had come out in evidence . The

    inhabitants of the parish of Christ-Church , he said , had met to petition against the bill . In the course of the proceedings , it was suggested that it would be proper in the first place te try how far it was practicable to sweep chimneys by machinery . A machine was produced , and experiments

    made ; and the result was so satisfactory , that the very persons who assembled for the purpose of petitioning against the Bill , actually signed a petition for it . Another fact had occurred in making experiments on the chimneys connected with the House of Commons . In consequence of the directions of the Speaker , a person had

    proceeded to sweep with a machine , and he could only sweep 19 chimneys out of *} 1 . The housekeeper , however , tfas determined to continue the experiment , and under his superintendence no less than 60 out of the 61 were swept . The chimney that remained unswept , required some alteration to make it accessible to the

    machine . —The Earl of Lauderdale contended that no machine that would answer the purpose had been invented ; the Bill would therefore increase the danger of ( ire in the metropolis . With regard to

    this Bill , as in many other cases , mankind were carried away by ideas of humanity . He concluded with telling stories relating to his taking calomel , and to an Irishman who , sending , according to country custom , a goose up his chimney to sweep it , was

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    language , is printed and published at the expense of the society . It is well known tbat in spite of his own positive denial , the late Sir Philip Francis has been asserted to be the author of the Letters of Junius . If indeed

    he were , his threat is fulfilled and the secret has perished with him . Sir Philip ' s will , dated April 28 , IS IB , contains no allusion whatever to Jnnius . A tract is now in the course of publication at

    Edin-* The House of Commons has had some experience of this course of parliamentary tactics , by which a humane proposal is laughed out of doors ; but it may be questioned whether success in this ease will be accounted an honourable triumph by the public and posterity . .

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    Literary . A society has been established at Car ~ martheti ) under the title of The Cambrian Society , for the preservation of the remains of ancient British literature , poetical , historical , antiquarian , sacred and moral , and for the encouragement of the national music . The first object of the Society 5 s , to collect a complete catalogue of all Welsh manuscripts , in the principality and elsewhere . Copies will be taken , as opportu ^ nity serves , of ^ all manuscripts that may be discovered , such copies to be lodged in the British Museum . A complete collection of

    Welsh printed books is also contemplated , to he deposited in the library belonging to the school in Gray ^ s Inn Lane . The Society has requested Mr . JEdward Williams to reside , for a certain portion of the year , at Carmarthen , to superintend the printing

    of the Society ' s publications , and to give instructions to young students in Welsh poetry and literature , Mr . Williatns ' s prospectus of collections for a new History of Wales , collected and translated from ancient historical documents in the Welsh

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    208 Intelligences—Parliamentary . Chimney-Sttieepers ? Bill .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 206, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/68/