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    your Lordships , which is in opposition to it * It gives me great concern , that the first vote which I give on my return to England should be opposed to a measure approved of by tny Noble Friend at the head of the Government . No person can feel a more sincere regard or a higher esteem for my Noble Friend than I

    dobut having pursued One course of con * duct , on this measure , for thirty-one years , I cannot now consent to follow a different one . As this is the first , so I hope it may be the only occasion , on which I shall feel it my duty to be op * posed to my Noble Friend . I have only to add , that I shall vote in opposition to the present measure .

    Lord Holland . —The period has now arrived when it becomes my pleasing duty to move that " the Bill do now pass , " and in doing so , I cannot forbear from congratulating the House and the country on the great aud glorious triumph In favour of religious freedom that has been achieved . After Lords Redesdale and Mount Cashel had protested strongly against the Bill , it was passed .

    House of Commons , Friday > May 2 . Lord John Russell moved the order of the day for taking into consideration the Lords' Amendments to the bill for repealing the Test and Corporation Acts » The question being put that the amendments be read a second time , Mr * H . Gurney said , the bill passed through the Commons as a question between the Dissenters and the Church , but came back

    a question between the Church and State . In the bill , as it left that House , there was only a power given to his Majesty to £ oint out suitable parties or offices to whom the declaration should apply . By the amendments , ministers of the crown and privy counsellors must take it . He thought this very Improper , as the time had been , and might come again , when it was the duty of a minister to advise alterations in the church .

    Mr . Perl did not feel the force of the objection . The Church of England was established by law , which declared it permanent and inviolable , and he saw no objection to any one ' s recognizing this . A » to the declaration , he liked it better as it stood before it left that

    House . But still he thought that the alteration in the declaration was of no importance and so far from its being objectionable to any one , the fact was * the very words were in the oath of abjuration , which wan unhesitatingly taken by every one .

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    Mr . Choker said , he regretted the measure had hot come back as it went up to the Lords . He thought the present bill would be most oppressive to the members of the Church of England , and that an Indemnity Bill would be still required . Mr . W . Smith thought the bill ce ** tainly not improved ; but he did not feel the alterations very important , and he was willing to accept it as it stood *

    Lord John Russell was of opinion * that though there wefre objections to the bill , they were not such as would justify its rejection . Mr . Peel coincided in opinion with the Noble Lord , and hoped that it would secure the peace of the country . Lord Eastnor was greatly dissatisfied that the most mischievous sect > the Unitarians , had not been kept out , and should have wished to have added a

    belief in " God the Father , God the Son , and God the Holy Ghost *" Mr . Goulburn was much dissatisfied that the words " and Ireland" were left out in the declaration , after the wortfs " established in England , " Mr . Brougham could not let the bill

    pass without e&pi'essing his disapprobation of the additions , which he feared would exclude both Jews and Quakers . As a confession of faith , it would pk&se no one . It was too much for those who disliked sttch things , and too little for those who wete fond of them . However ^ he was glad to take it such As it was * The amendments were agreed tOj and on 9 th MAy the Royal assent was given .

    Meantime , the Rev . Edward Irving , as a faithful " ordained minister , " with becoming solemnity and fidelity , apprised the King , " anointed by the chtirch in behalf of Christ , and holding his kingdom directly from Christ , " that " Hod will immediately withdraw himself from that nation which hath so dishonoured his Son / ' as to throw open offices of

    trust and magistracy to the " Dissenters from the Church of England ; " a class of men " who do not exhibit any form of doctrine , either upon the subject of the Trinity , or of the Sacraments ; or , indeed , upon any subject Whatever , contenting themselves with verbal profusions

    6 f their belief in the Word of God , and some declarations , also verbal , concerning their views and experience of its truths " That " God would not fail to avenge himself upon the kingdom which should , from such a height ) descend , of its own accord , into such impiety and infidelity . " That tor •< a nation hitherto United for God , against nation ^ confederate for ido-

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    426 Intelligence . * + Comor&tton and T&t Acts ,

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/66/