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    Ae law-officers of the crown to be taken ^ that the feouse might know where it stood- If there is any doubt with ' respect to the law , it ou ^ bt to be removed . Sir John

    New-port was of the same opi . Hion , and he thought that the ^ ex . emptions of the Irish Catholics ought to be provided for by an enactment in the bill ; and Colo *

    ue : l Bastard conceived it to be a great hardship to place a Militia oftieer iR a sitit&tion , where he must alter his engagement , or subject himself to the odium of government . Leave was given to bring in'the bill , in which it remains to be seen how for toleration

    will go ; but we may observe ,. that the State of the established church HMBt . not be taken from the depdt of -the I&te of Wight , which would make Che number of its members

    only about a twentieth part of the population of the empire , when it is really nearer to a third than to tharnim * ber . Leav ^ e was given to bring in a ¦

    bill * for public education in Iretend , and the idea seemed to meet with general approbation . A his * tery of the steps that had hitherto , bat ineffectually , been taken , was given ; and a remarkable

    circumstance was stated , that every clergyman , before he can be inducted to a Jiving in Ireland , must take ^ oath that he ei ther does keep a school , or will keep one in the towti in which he lives ; yet not * single clergyman did keep a school in conformity with this Qatbj but considered himself as « fce from its penalty , by giving lo shillings a year , or same "toll . sum , to a schoolmaster to ^ u cate the poor . To remedy this m th « bill proposed the ap-

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    pointment of persons to superintend education , to make visitations , and to see its regulations carried into effect . We cannot but highly approve the project , and if a similar su peri n tendency were established in England , the

    state of many of bur public schools would be much improved . Longdebates occupied the house for several days on the Report of the Bullion Committee : and such

    a difference of opinion prevailed as seemed to be impossible on such a subject . But prices of bullion , balances of trade , and exchanges , may be talked of for ever ; and it may be averred by some strange subterfuge or another ,-that banknotes retain , at the present mo- < mentj their relative value to coin , that they did before the Bank stopped payment . But it is impossible that a house under a stoppage of payment can be in the same flourishing situation as it

    was before . During the suspension of payments a cloud must hang over it , and that can be dispelled only by paying twenty shillings in the pound . A promise to perform can never be so valuable as the performance ; and the fact

    appears in the value set by every man upon a guinea when he can get it ; for who is there that will part with one , if he has a pound note and a shilling at the same time in his pocket ? The report of the Bullion Committee was

    however thrown out . and no time is assigned for the Bank to resume its payments . - Our account of the House must make us concise upon other sub - jects . The famous question of Sir F . Burdett against the Speaker has been decided against th «

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 313, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/57/