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    mcnt to insert the words " I am a Protestant , " in the declaration . - The Lord Chancellor stated that he had considered Lord Kldon ' s objections ; that he found Catholics never did take the oath of supiemacy , and , therefore , while it remained , no fresh barrier was

    necessary as to corporate offices ; and moreover , after considering the Test Act he was of opinion that it included corporate offices . He characterized the course pursued by Lord Eldou as mischievous . Afier a debate , in which many joined , a divisiou took place *

    For the amendment .. 55 . Against it 117 . Lord Kooen , in the course of the dis «> cussion iu supporting the amendment , levelled a blow at the Bench of Bishops , by declaring his opinion that , as far as the bill had goue , Christianity had been altogether overlooked , while the riches , the temporalities , the rights , the

    privileges , and the immunities of the Established Church had been carefully attended to . This brought upon the luckless Earl such a casrigation from the Right Reverend Prelates of : Lincoln aud Chester , that he eagerly ate his own words , and protested that he never meant to say the bishops regarded only the temporalities of the church *

    . The House divided a second time on an amendment moved by the Earl of Wiuchelsea , to insert the words— ** I believe the doctrines of the Old and New Testament , as set forth by authority in this realm , to be the revealed word of God . "—Negatived by 70 to 22 .

    The Ear , l of Falmouth afterwards proposed a clause for preventing any members of corporations from voting iu the disposal of church patronage * belonging to such corporations , without declaring their entire conformity with the book of Common Prayer . He rested his argument chiefly on the restraint at present imposed on Catholics on this head .

    The Bishop of Chester was of opinion that the present restriction on the Catholics , in respect of church patronage , was an unjustifiable interference with the rights of property , which he would not carry further . . The amendment was negatived without a division ;

    Monday , April 28 . The bill was read a third time . Upon tfoe second clause ( containing the declaration )*—

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    . Lord Holland ( for the purpose of marking his individual opinion , and * entering his protest on the Journals against any religious test ) moved the omission of the words— " on the true faith of a Christian . " His Lordship objected to them generally as needless in the way of

    security to the Establishment , and as tending to defeat the conciliating character of the bill ; aud more particularly as operating unjustly against the Jews , who at least ought not to be placed in a worse situation than they stood in at present , by a measure intended to relieve Dissenters .

    The Bishop of Landafp aud Lord Bexley deemed the words—* ' on the faith of a Christian "—an important testimony in behalf of the established faith , but were not unwilling to exempt the Jews from the necessity of adopting those words .

    The Earl of Eldon said that if Parliament interfered in favour of the Jews , it would be reversing all that had been done at the Revolution and since . As the Jews were here , there , and everywhere , he believed that in law they were nowhere ( a laugh ); the fact was , that the Jews were a body of persons who

    were not acknowledged . The Learned Lord , after pursuing this line of remark , declared before God , that though he had gone through many painful scenes in his life , never had he been previously placed in so painful a one as in the opposition which he had felt himself obliged to make to the progress of this bill .

    The Barl of Winchelsea observed , that he was far from thinking the words " on the true faith of a Christian" sufficient , as he did not see why a Jew could not conscientiously say as much . For his own part , he should not feel the slightest objection to make a declaration on " the true faith of a Jew . " ( A

    laugh . ) He looked upon this bill as an attempt to leave the country without any security for the rock of the Christian religion . The Reverend Bench had not thought proper to support the amendment he had moved last week ; but he could assure them that their opposition to his measure had not given satisfaction either to the members of the Established

    Church or the majority of Dissenters themselves . The Bishop of Durham vindicated the conduct of the prelates . He declared that he would have preferred that the question should have continued to slumber , which it might have done if the matter had rested entirely with the more res ' pectable Dissenters / as he had reason to

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    424 Inietttgence--Corporation and Test Ach .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 424, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/64/