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THE GAZETTE As PRANCE, DATED APRIL 16. lave received by express a letter from Vienna, ,pril7. .ing is talked of in that capital but a movement advance, which the Russian army is stated to have . The first corps, composed of the Bth and 14th 'itions, are decidedly to pass the Pruth on the 14th, ' morning. Distributions have been thlde in consequence to the .of the third corps. The hest spirit animates the Russian soldier, who marches with the certainty of vie -1017. A Proclamation of the Emperor Nicholas to his army is announced in the camp. Preparations ware nuking to receive his Imperial Majesty. A Russian Journal states that Ibrahim Pacha is gone to tare the fottificrions of Patras, as he has done those o f TliPolieu, and as he intends to do with all the other fortresses which are in his hands, after which he 11 4th tenon to Egypt. The same Paper says, that the squadron coming from Alexandria bad suffered "'troy in a tempest, and that twelve vessels had foundered. Many others that sought refuge in the ports of the Mores fell into the hands of the Greeks, who have Sent the crews to Candia. A Turkish frigate, which yolk not obey the injunctions (it is not said what they e we) of the Captain of the Aimide, French frigate, is lePosted to have been sunk, after an action of two hOlllll. _The Minister of Finance has submitted to the Chao. wr il * Deputies a proposition f or ra i s i ng a Loan, sleet the possible exigencies of affairs, of four millions 4 Renter, amounting at par to 3,1684164 15.5. 7d. Tho M llli stet 1. to h ave perm i ss i on to negotiate the Loan M occasion requires, which, it is said, will not be befor e the expiration of two or three months. 4 new law has been passed upon the periodical Press. hoer Pews—Penn, Ana. 15.—P1ve per Cents. 101 f. SOe. ,lie. Sk. 10c. 35c. 30c. 35e. 101 f. 40c. 115c.--.Tbree per Cents. A - 7.Se• 30e. 35e. Me. 35c. 40c.--Bank Actione..l,llllof.-11ente s "",,_ 'aPles (Cer. 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In s Idgel'lNG or ASSEMBLY of the MAYOR, ALDER 31EN, end LIVERYMEN, of the several COMPANIES of tilt CITY of LONDON, in COMMON HALL assembled, at the GUILDHALL of the said CITY, on THURSDAY, the 17th day of April, 18211, !Immo UNA wimoustr, THAT this HALL cannot separate without record ing the honourable manner in which their late worthy Sheriff, CHARLES STABLE, Esq. upheld the Privileges and Dignity tf this City—by his constant and assiduous attention to the Duties o f the Office, as well as by the dignified and honourable manner in which be supported its Hospitality and its various Charities—and the humane attention he uniformly paid to the unfortunate Pei ones in the several Gaols under the jurisdiction and management af this City. WOODTHORPE. CONTRACT FOR TIMBER, MASTS. YARDS, BOWSPRITS. AND RAFTERS. IvArr amcg,4l l wir sat, INC THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS and COMMIS- A- SIMMS of hie ildlifirrs NA rir do hereby give Notice, Tim on THIMDAY, the tot► Instant, at One o'Clock, they will b e rea dy to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Con tent for supplying ►is Majesty's several Dock Yards with CA• NADA YELLOW PINE INCH MASTS, YARDS. BOW. IpftlTS, and ASH OAR RAFTERS, and RED PINE and YELLOW PINE TIMBRII. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 17. Sir E. °wax, and others from the Horse of Commons, Weight up a Private BiLi, which was read a first time. The Earl of DUDLEY laid on the table Returns from his Ma. jest's Consuls abroad, respecting the Price of Grain in Foreign Countries. The Fire Insurance Stamp Duty's Bill went through a Committee. The Earl of ELDON presented a Petition from the Scotch Presbyterian Church in Londou in union with the Church of Scot land. The Petitioners prayed their Lordships, that whenever they should think proper to pan a Bill to repeal the Sacramental Test, it would never be snob a Bill as the one now presented to the House. The Earl of ROSSLYN objected to the Petition being received, as that of the whole congregation, as the name of only one dual, the Minister, was attached to it. The Earl of LAUDERDALE remarked, that Petitions had often been presented from different congregations in Scotland, and received as the Petitions of the whole congregations, though signed only by the Moderator or the Clergyman at the bead of the Pres bytety ; but until that day be never heard that there existed in this country a legal institution of the Presbytery, or that the Moderator of the Presbytery in London, ha communion with the Church cat Scotland, was a legal designation under w►ich any petition could be received by their Lordships. The Noble and Learned Lord (Eldon) would extremely illuminate him and the Right Rev. Bench, by showing that there existed in this country a legal description of men who could act through their Moderator. The Earl of ELDON always understood that the Presbyterian Church in England formed part of the Church of Scotland, and he apiirebended that all the petitions presented from Presbyterians in England had been presented in the name of the Moderators of the respective congregations. With respect to the present Petition, he would take care that its contents should be fully understood by their Lordships before the general question should be decided. As to illuminating the Right Reverend Bench respecting the Bill which was now in their Lordships House, be would leave that for the Noble Earl himself to do. The Bishop of LICHFIELD presented a Petition from Derby, against the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. • The Bishop of GLOUCESTER presented a Petition from the city of Gloucester, against the unqualified repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. The Bishop of CHESTER presented a Petition from a Clergy man, against the Bill to repeal the Test and Corporation Acts, on the ground that the effect of that Bill would be to admit the Ro man Catholics to power. The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a Petition against the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, from the Reverend Sir Harcourt Lees. Earl GREY presented a Petition in favour of the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts from Chalford, in Gloucestershire; from Sion Chapel, Harmon ; and from Odibam. Lord DAC RE presented Petidons to the same effect from Fetter lane Chapel; from Huntingdon and its vicinity; from the Society for the protection of Religious Liberty ; from Bath ; and from Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars.road. Petitions to the same effect as the foregoing were presented by 'Earl Firm:Lusts from Ebenezer Chapel, Leeds ; by the Earl of Camino, from Sutton In Ashton. Nottinghamshire; and by Lord CALTIIIOIII%, from Woodbridge and Sutton, Suffolk. The Marquis of LA NSDOWN said, that he had . a fteat number of Petitions to present to the House in avour of the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts ; and be was unwilling to enter into any arguments now, or in any manner anticipate the important discussion which was fixed for that evening. To one of the Peti tions be wished to call their Lordships' attention.--thet from the Presbytery of Annan. The Petitioners were most Jumbos to approach the House, in the character in which they conceived themselves entitled to, as an Established Church, in the same manner as the Church of England was recognised by the &we. They humbly conceived, that the Church of England did not requite those Acts as a support which the Church of Scotland never insisted upon, nor ever sought to possess. They conceived that species of Test, more particularly the Sacramental Test, to remove which was the object of the Bill, produced a stigma en the Church. This stigma , they were anxious to see removed. They expressed the greatest degree of satisfaction under the happy Govern. incur of this country, and they humbly believed that no , injury to the Established Chinch could possibly follow, if those obnoxious Acts were repealed. He had another! Petition, among the many which he had to,present, that was particularly worthy the attention of the House.— ,It was signed by 4,000 persons in Glasgow, among I whom were many Episcopalians. These Petitioners were anxious that the Bill should pass without the substitution of any declaration. They stated that they were advocates, not only for persons of their own religions persuasions, but hoped that the whole community would thereby receive the advantages of the measure. The Earl of ELDON considered that the people of Scotland had been misled by a clause which was found in the Bill ; and that they, by the Act of Union, were not required to take the Test 04th. The Narciois of LANSDO W N believed that the pe ritioners were precluded by the law from holding office in England, unless they complied with the obligation, The Earl of ELDON spoke in the presence of a per son whom he would call a friend of his, to whom he could appeal. and who would ray that they had no authority to impose any Test in Scotland. Earl ROSSLYN said, that if it were not for the In• demnity Bill, the Presbyterians of Scotland would not I be able to serve the country in the Army and Navy. Was it nothing for the Presbyterians of Scotland to have all military and naval employments closed against them it The Earl of ELDON would not now state what he had to offer in the shape of objections, as he should have an opportunity by and by of entering into the policy of the measure. The Mirquis of LANSDOWN begged to call the attention of the House to a clause in the Petition, pray ing to be relieved, from the operation of the law on qualifying for office. The Noble Marquis presented similar Petitions from the fol lowing places, in addition to the two from Anoan and Glasgow : From the Unitarian Congregation of Warrington, the Scotch Bap tists of Lothbury, the Magistrates of Paisley; front Dissenting Congregations at Leighton Bossard, Brickstop, and other places in Nortbasiptonshire ; Bromsgrove, in Worcestershire; and other places in the counties Of Montgomery, Carenattben, Den bigh, and Carnarvon ; from a place near Pembroke; Sbardwell, in the county of Bedford; High Wycomb I Stone, in Staffordshire; Missister, in Ozford ; Glynd, in Kent; St. Leonard's, tlisoroditch; Barking, in sues; from Uzbridge, Mile-end, Stepney, Bloaham, Billinghurst, Chatham, Seven Qaks; a parish in Northamptondilre ; from Burnham ; from the town of Cardiff; from a Congregation In the vicinity of Brunswick-square, &. Pancras; from Thllield, and other places in Snows ; Braintree, in Saga ; and a (lapel la Mary la-bonne parish; all of which were coedited to be laid on the table. CORPORATION AND TUT REPRAL BILL. Lord HOLLAND moved the ()tiler of the Day for the second reading of the Bill for repealing the Corporation and Test Acts. His Lordship then moved that the Acts of the 15th and 25th of Charles H. be read, which was accordingly done. The Lord Noble addressed , their Lordships at some length. He observed that the Bill now before the House was most anxiously desired by a numerous part of the population of the country, as was proved by the immense number of Petitions presented in "favour of it. The Bill bad passed the other House almost unanimously. The proposition now made was never more distinctly stated than at the present moment, since the accession of King William to the Throne, who recommended a measure similar in effect.ln the reign of George 1. Earl Stanhope, then Secretary of State, suggested a clause in the Bill then before Parliament, which was not adopted. It was extraordinary that since that period alluded to. nothing really adverse had been shown to the relief now prayed for, which at the present moment, he considered, stood, in a most auspicious point of view. Be hoped that the Bill would be allowed to pass; for, by so doing, the future historian would have to congratulate his country upon the event ; and to show, by a train of reasoning. that the Parliament had evinced so much light as to destroy a barrier wh ch impeded the march of reason, and proscribed so tnany loyal subjects of the realm.— The Noble Lora, after some further prefatory re. marks, proceeded to comment upon the Bill, and noticed the provisions of the Acts of Charles 11. which provided the Sacramental Test for persons appointed to office. The two Acts, however, formed a contrast, in stead of a parallel; fur the Corporation Act did not exact any test of the kind alluded to. It was passed in the heigh-day of loyalty and zeal of the Corporation on the restoration of the Monarch.' In addition to this, the greater part of it was temporary, and all had been repealed except the Sacramental Test. The first object of this test was to clear the Corporation of Presbyterians, to restrain the operation of the solemn league and cove. , mint, and to expel all who refused to comply with that test. It came up to this House, and then the clause was introduced of which he had spoken. What was the state of the Church then ? The Act of Uniformity had not passed, so that it was idle to say that the persons who introduced the Act ever intended to exclude Presby terians or Dissenters from the Corporations of this coun try. The Earl of Southampton at that time took a most active part. When this clause was moved, Lord Cla rendon, he found from the Journals, was not present; the Duke of Ormond had discovered that Charles was a confirmed Roman Catholic; he kept the secret from Lord Clarendon until they came to England, and then, when he found that the Monarch was contracting a marriage with the Infanta of Spain, he did disclose his knowledge of the fact to Lord Clarendon and Lord Southampton. A Bill was then introduced to make it a penalty of forfeiture of goods for any person to say that the King was a Papist. Now, what was the consequence of this Act ?-....why, driving out numbers of persons from filling Corporate offices. What was the consequence of the Act ?—it led to the Act of Unifor mity. These Acts never have been in full force since their passing up to the present time, except for about three years—viz. 1718, and during the passing of the Act of Uniformity. The penalty of the Corporation Act does not insist that a person taking office should take the Sacrament then, it only provides that he should show that Fe actually had taken it one year before. If the Act of Uniformity had been rejected, then the party taking office would have been at the mercy of the palish Priest. With respect to the Test Act, it was at complete variance with the other Acts. The Test Act was passed in complete distrust of the Wing on the Throne, for a money Bill was held back until it passed, so jealous was the Parliament of the prerogatives of the Throne. History completely proved that fact. Indeed, the Bill itself furnished the strongest proof, for it pro- fessed to allay the suspicions which then existed us to the designs of the Court. All the Dissenters in the other House of Parliament voted for the Bill—he was not sure whether the Bench of Bishops sent that length. Among the most eminent men of that day, of which Baxter was one, there was a Mr. Love, a Member of the House of Commons, who strenuously supported the Bill. It went part pa= with the Corporation Act. The real fact was, that those great and wise men who passed the law, in the reign of Charles 11. took it for want of a better. Many sincere Church of England men were willing to concede in the limitations which, went to exclude a Popish succession., That distrust did not exist at the present moment, con sequently all the apprehensions which existed when it passed being done away with, it was idle to continue 'the restrictions. The Act has no other effect than to distrust a Protestant Prince, which, thank God ! there was no reason to do now. 'With respect to the pre rogatives of the Crown, they were given to the Monarch for the benefit of the people, and were part of their privileges. They could not be infringed upon without injury to the people. Every Prince of the House of Brunswick must love the prerogative on that ac count. The principle recognised by this Act was con trary to justice, to liberty, and to humanity. It bound the conscience, and deprived the subject of his right. It was in fact an accursed law. The principle was therefore abominable, because the refusal of political power was nothing abort of persecution. Though the subjects professing religious sentiments opposed to the Church were stigmatised ; and though called upon for taxes, and to contribute by other means for the preservation of the State, they were yet held up as enemies to the State. The consequence of the Acts way to let in the unprin. cipled, who not feeling the stings of conscience, would be tempted to take the Sacrament to obtain place, and thereby he seals his own damnation. The Act therefore was in its operation not only cruel, but legally so.— By the laws of the land, he understood that an action would lie against any Clergyman whq refused to administer the Sacrament to a perm' on taking office. What the Ecclesiastical law was in that respect he did not knoir. The Noble Lord supposed a case, in which a Clergyman refused the Sacrament to a Lao yer, on account of his immoral life, the lawyer would be at liberty to commence,his action. Their Lordships would see, therefore, the extreme hardships of these Acts.— He referred to the opinion of Luther on this subject, who declared that lawyers in their profession were s. next neighbours to the Devil himself." Their Lordships would see that the poor Clergyman was placed in an awkward situation. The Noble Lord then alluded to the clause proposed byEarl Stanhope for the relief of Clergy men in respect of this sort of prosecution. But to look at the question in the other point of view,the Dissenter wish. ing a t 7 a was placed at the mercy of the Clergy " who ke o m ih ig ce lit tefuse to administer the Sacrament, ncr t then,see the injury which was iollicted upon the subjects of the realm in consequence of this refusal. It might be said this Act was an imaginary grievance. Thts the Noble Lord denied--it was a great griev ance, for it left the badge and sting behind. It placed the administrator of the law in a degraded state. He wished to know what dank could aria*: from repealing such a law, which had not limb operative for years? He contended that the grievance was great to every person, not merely Dissenters, but other persons connected with the Church of England, by placing them in a state of inferiority. He was sore the Legislature would not desire to refuse those rewards to which every sect were entitled, but which these Acts denied. With respect to the Indemnity Acts, they provided for the relief of those persons who neglected to qualify. The Corporation of London, In the early part of the last century, looked out for per. sons as Sheriff those who would not qualify, and the Mansion House was built from the fines which were imposed in consequence. At length Mr. Evans with stood the infringement upon the rights of the subject, and the decision of Lord Mansfield confirmed the appeal which that person made to the laws of his country,— The consequence was, that as the decision of that Learned Lord had removed the pressure which fell upon Dissenters in that respect, yet it fell with great severity upon the Church of England men who were called to fill the office of Sheriff. The Noble Lord then recapitulated the principal points of his speech, and contended, that be had shown enough to_ satisfy their Lordships that the repeal of the Acts in question would be nothing less than an act of justice to an immense part of the population of the empire. They were no longer necessary to preserve the Establishments in Church and State, and, consequently, onght to be erased from the Statute Book. The arguments grhich be had used were brought forward on former occasions. with much weight by Dean Swift, in 1703. repub. fished in a pamphlet in 1726, as the subject of Sacra.. mental Tests in Ireland. He quoted the opinions of , that celebrated man, which were afterwards used in 1780, when the Test Act was repealed in Ireland. That Act had been repealed for nearly half a century, and none of the dreadful consequences apprehended had followed. He therefore was justified in conceiving that nothing could follow now, if the Acts in question were repealed. Two objections had been stated to the repeal —the one that it would propel Catholic Emancipation, and the other that it would retard the emancipation of that sect. Now, the Catholics were not desirous of ob taining their rights, if the attainment operated to the prejudice of that class of Dissenters more immediately connected with the Establishment is Church. With respect to persons taking office, he saw no objection to a declaration being demanded, which would secure the safety of the Church Establishment. But he would not wish to bind or fetter any future L eg i s l ature , by any provisions which the Bill now before the House were calculated to provide. The Archbishop of YORK—My Lards, I cannot feel satisfied to give a silent vote on the Bill now before . your Lordships ; and I feel it the snore incumbent upon me to state my sentiments now, because the Most Reverend Prelate, with whom upon this question I per fectly agree, is prevented by severe indisposition from attending his duty at the House. My Lords, it is scarcely necessary for me to assure your Lordships that nothing but severe indisposition would have deprived my Most Rev. Friend of the opportunity to state his own feelings upon this subject to your Lordships. Your Lordships who have so long witnessed the zeal with which he di-charges his Parliamentary duties, will, I am sure, readily believe than his absence could have arisen from no other cause. My Lords, I will trespass upon your attention only for few minutes, and upon this Bill 1 will confine my self to a single point. I have no hesitation in declaring that I feel bound to give my vote for the repeal of an Act which has led, in too many instances, to the pro fanation of our Holy Religion, My Lords. I consider religious tests imposed for political object•, as in their nature calculated to endanger religion, and that nothing but paramount necessity—a necessity nothing short of danger to the State—could justify their imposition. It cannot, of course, be forgotten that the causes which led to their being imposed, no longer exist. At the same time I will confidently affirm, notwithstanding what the Noble_Lord has said, that those Acts were origi nally designed expressly for the protection of the &tab. fished Church. The Church has therefore, I think, a right to expect and to claim that somethiqg shall be substituted for this test, avowedly and in 1,114. as far as possible, to retain the same object. Whether or net ' the provisions of the present Bill will produce this effect, will be best ascertained when the Bill goes into Committee. In the earnest hope that such nsay be the case, I cordially give my vote for its second reading. The Earl of WINCHELSEA thought it imperative upon their Lordships to insert in this measure some clause rendering the support and maintenance of ortho dozy necessary on the part of those Dissenters who were appointed to public offices. The Church oughs to be protected against the machinations of persons who avowedly professed Deists and Infidelity. It was not his intention to oppose the second reading of the Bill ; but when it went into a Committee, he should propose such alterations in the preamble as would, in his opi. nion, have this effect. Was:it:not, he asked, right to have some provisions made against blasphemy and 'irreligion? He hoped that if he should have the honour to propose any such clauses, he should receive the support both of their Lordships and the country at large. They had been told by the Noble Baron near him. that the period of danger which caused the enactment of these laws bad gone by ; but let their Lordships take care that a wise and vigilant Legislature was not, even at this moment, called upon to watch 'and counteract the machinations of a set of persons who were striking at the root, not only of the Church, 'but of Christianity. He alluded to what they had all witnessed within a few years amongst what were deno minated Freethinking Christians. Their Lordships had upon their table Petitions from that denomination of persons, which not only contained blasphemy, but struck st the root of the Church and of Christianity. It was against such persons as these, and not against the con scientious Dissenter, that he directed his charges of immorality and infidelity. If the Legislature did nct take care to repel such attacks, they would soots see the alarming results which would follow. By allow ing these people to go on in their efforts to overturn Christianity, they would open a door to the greatest 'evils. He, for one, was opposed to receiving Petitions from persons who were not only opposed to Christianity, but even denied the existence of an hereafter. He re• peated. that he was anxious to support every conscien tious Dissenter ; but he was its decidedly determined to oppose theinnovations of Freethinkers and Other slobs:. heves'. who treated Christianity with derision, contempt, l and ignominy. The s e o pi n i ons h e w i she d to go forth; andla further wished it to be known, that he looked upon thriatiapity as part and parcel of the law of the Pieith- -- •,, I .4°‘ / . ... i I • ' ,r. I Lee 1 t , I il I ; . 7i , .11‘. 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