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~~ a double advantage when thee toad a new field cpened to them, without Come check being given to them by Legiflative provitton t on this account it became necefary to fcreen the Clergy. In cafes Where Clergymen were obliged tb take their Tithes in kind, he would ant, whether Clergymen were liable to a penalty for felling the produce ?—[He was anfwered by the Speaker, It No."—The AQ was for buying and felling.]—Mr. Cotlrtehay thought it was no degradation in the Clergyman's i m p rov ing his land; the contrary pr ejudice . took its rife from former times of fuperftwon. It was upon the fame ground it had been raid in former times, that Clergymen mutt not marry, in order to preferve the purity of their charther. In Scot land, he obferved, a portion of land was allotted to every ClergyMaaa to cultivate, and in nocountry Were better morals, or better examples of induftry inculcated than by the Clergy there. And why, he would ark, Mould a Curate with a (mall-allow. ante, and prefed with poverty, be prevented from taking means to fupp ort r7i his family ? It was im portant to put the on a refpe&able footing, and where their income from the Church was but (mall, they were rather to be commended than difcountenanced for improving it in a way not re pugnant to their funetion. Sir Wistaars Scorr fated, he believed that he exprefed the unanimous fentiments of the Houfe, where he dated, that for a Clergyman to engage in farming to any extent, was a meafure very unadvilable„ inafmuch as it would debate theie habits of life, and engage them in unfeemly com petition with thole who ought to look up-to them with confederation and refpeEt. It would divert their attention from the ftudies of religion and literature, and by degrading that elevation of tharafter which belonged to their station, dimi nitli the utility derived from their order. The an cient and immemorial policy of this country, and not only of this country but of Europe, had gone upon this principle. It had enfured to the Clergy a certain proportion of the produdions of the earth to their ufe, without any share in that attention and inchiltry necerary to thofe produdions. He meant in tythes. At the fame time, the policy of this and other countries had thought proper that Be -414/Laical perfons should hold a certain proper -don of land attached to their livings, under the name of glebe or Domain. By this wife policy, the firlt of the provifioni fecund him froth want, and by the fecond, he wan enabled to exercife 12ofpitality and kindnefs incident to his libation. It was intended that the Glebe should be large enough 'for the purpofes of hofpitality, but not fo much as to convert the Parfon into the Peafant. With relied to the flatute of Henry VIII. he had heard many panegyrics pronounced upon it, in which he could not in. He could not, forget that it was pared in t he firft year of the quarrel between the Pope and Henry VIII. and as Burn had juftly laid, was intended to ihew the Pope what the Xing could do, if he delayed gratifying him in the matter of his Divorce. He could not forget alfo that it hood next door to another ftatute which was the molt difgraceful for the Engiiit: Legiflatare of say that ever appeared upon the Statute Book. The Statute to which he alluded recites, in molt terms, the advantages derived to the re alm from the care and attention of his Majcfty, and that his faithful Commons know ing that his Highnefs had borrowed large nuns of money from many of his fubjeas, they did what ? enabled him to pay them I No—but they declared all thbfe debts extinguifhed, and every feenrity for them void'. He mentioned this to thew that there Ads, which paired in an accommodating Parlia ment, under a prince - moll tenacious of his rights, Were not entitled to that charaaer of pale& equity and wifdom which had bon bellowed upon them. —With refpeet to the jorecife Statute before the Houle, it was not very eddy or equitably framed. It impofes an equal penalty of ten pounds per month for nmeefidence in the cafe of all livings, teimerrer the value might be, imam a time when no living fcarce in the King's books exceeded in take mil. a year, and gave to every informer the means of gratifying private malice, and hunt ing down the clergyman it his malignant plea fure. This, he thought, did not entitle the ta me to the pabegyries pronounced in its favour. It ago paged at a time when it was vary nnufual to fnbjett the church to regulations by the laity; not that he meant to deny the propriety of filch inter ference on the part of the .giflamre ' but of that he would not at prefent fay more,but addrefs him kV to the &Nett propofa. in the clause. The operation of the datum was not levelled at vicars or retort, die abufe levelled at was the great ab ties and monalteries. Thole perfons who knew the hiaory of the country must know , _ that at the time of the palling of the ft atute of Henry VIII. they were the great agriculturills, the artifts, the civil engineers, and the embankers and drainers of lands. - Many of the great monafteries, Inch as Romney, Glaitonbury, &c. were fitnated in the starches, and the country owed many obligations to them for draining tho‘ lands, and =abutting =defrays over them. They were alto the ggnnaatt agrictikurilts of the constry, and held &Item farms which the 'called Grants, the direaion of which was idbally conmeitisd to one or two monks depeted from the abbey. They thus became Wut farmers. sad the Itattue was le gilled againft than. They were act to build farm lionfes, brew.hoefes. analt-bonfes, Itc. but the private clergy was not at all Jetted by the provi foes of the aa. To hew the Inifchisvous areas of the Ratute, as the leiter of it would new operate, he begged leave to read as part of his Meech a let ter written by a very intelligent Clergyman upon this fubjeCt. The Honourable and Lenned•Mans ber accordingly _mad a letter, in which the dialer eat manners arms times, and the gareatime= of life in the airier in peed= 6111111111 with the days of Henry 'VIM erdis casealy tailed. In conclufion, he Paid, to avert the of the letter of the law be humbly Feria tie cl.aufe should be a Mr. N i c uox =het the divine this!!! might be read. He then olahreed. that the DM in his opinion, should be divided, sad that the part relating to far b* Erma" which r e l ate d a d t 4 in Rridnefs the regdence• of the Clergy diould be enforced. There were organized meetings of Me thodills, he was well aimed, in feveral of the coun ties, and the progrefs of there could only be check ed by compelling the refidence of the Clergyman of the Eftablifhecl Church: Mn SNatuDAw Paid, that the laft Member who had, for the firft time, fpoken from tht oppofite ftde of the Haile, appeared to him to have imbi bed a new air, and with it a different fet of opi nions. When that Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Nicholls, who fate kkiad the lrouyer), was on his fide of the Houfe, he ftoutly oppofed what he now ftiongly demanded, namely, a divifien of this Bill. That Hon. Gentleman was lately againft all plots, and all organization • but now from fome new infor mation, no doubt, he had found a Methodift plot, ready organized to his hand. Mr. Sheridan pro ceeded to obferve, that it was a fubjed of general complaint that the Ad of Henry VIII. was not fufficiently underftood. The Learned and Hon. Gentleman who had made this complant appeared, however, to under ft and the Bill as little as any other Gentleman, iq the Houfe. The objed of that Bill, in the firrinflance was by enforcing rcfidence to deftroy the rich plu ralities. If this were not done, the Committee mull be aware that they were not ftriking at the root of the evil. It would be idle, if this were palled over in the Houk, to enforc ties on fi ngly-bene fi ced pallor:, or sr fubjed e rl i to a pecuniary mule., for not reading where there was, in fad, no Houle for their re ception, or perhaps fuch a houfe as they might let to a labouring cottager for aos. or sos. per annum. The only proper mode of enforcing re faience was, in his opinion, by deftroying the plu ralities. The fecond object of the Aft of Henry VIII. was to prevent the Clergy from becoming merchants or traders. This, however, did not go to prevent them from buying a flieep for their farm, or from cultivating a farm for the ufe of their families. The fad was, that the Ad was not di reeled againft the Clergy, but againft the great re ligions honfes which exifted at the period of its palf in& If a Clergyman cultivated his own grounds, it could not be Paid that there was any moral tur pitude in the Ad, or that he was doing any thing incompatible with his facred protection. There was a Bilhop (Dr. Watfon), whom he mentioned but to honour, and who had received (even premiums from the Agricultural Society. It could not be Paid of fuch a man, that he had not ferved the State, or that he had degraded himfelf. Very high complaints were paid on this occafion to the Clergy as a body ; and yet what was the meaning of all the arguments which they had heard, if it was not this, that they were a let of men who could not be tied down by any moral fenfe of duty, and that they mull of courfe be pinned down by Penal Sta tutes ? The grand argument for this Bill appeared to him to be, that if Clergymen were fuffered to ad as farmers on a large kale, they would be in clined, as having greater facilities, to exact their tythes in kind. The bell remedy agi!infl the fup pofition, which might weigh in the minds of lonic country Gentlemen would be by an alteration in the mode of levying t ythes. It was lately raid (by Mr. Windham), that this was a fubjed which it would be mifchievous to He confidered it however as one which was already afloat in the public mind, and which mould, of courfe, be let at reft. He therefore gave notice, that he mould, early in the next Seflion, bring forward a propofition on that fubjed, unlefs fomething of the kind was prev;oufly taken up by fome perfons in an official fituation. Mr. Sisson renewed his objections to the Bill in general, and more particularly to the Clank now moved. He Rated the Law as it now (lands, and compared it with the propofed Provifions of this Bill, in order that the Houfe might be made aware, which he did not think it was, of the full ' extent of the propofed alteration of the Law. His great objection to the Claofe under confideration, relative to the taking of farms, was, that it does not merely go to the protection of a particular clefs of perfons in certain circurn (lances, from vexations under the Law as it ftands, which is the profelfed objeet of the Bill, but that is alters the Law, and gives a power to all Spiritual perfons, Curates, and not having Glebes, to take farms and to them for profit. Mr. WINDHAM alledged that the great error of the Bill is what teems to be a general - error in theft days, that becaufe a principle may be right under certain reßrietions, it may be pufhed to its full extent in all cafes and arcumftanca. The pro feffed of the Bill is, to prated a certain clefs of men from vexations profecutions under the Law as it now Rands. This may be right, but it may be extremelrwrong to alter the general provifions of the Law. Indeed he wilted that in the mean time the meaftwe were to be confined to fufpending the profecutions which are the Allied of complaint, till the Legillature !hall, upon more mature confi deration, be enabled to revile the eziding Law. The SOLICITOR GIIIRRAL (poke in fupport of the Bill, and of the Clanfe moved by Mr. Gregor. He contended that, as the Law now Rands, the Clergy cannot even farm their own Glebes, and that in many cafes a (mall Farm, limited as it is in the Clau4, may be neceffary in addition to their Glebes, for their comfortable refidence in the coun try. Some Gentlemen teem to think that the Clank goes too far, others that it does net go fro enough, and this difference of opinion was a proof to him that it had juft buck the proper medium, and he•hoped that each fide wooW lb far concede to the other as to agree to it. Mr. SHIRIDAN find, that, from every fyllable be had heard on the fubjed, he was the more con vinced that the objections to the chinks of the Ili were infuperable. He mould therefore propofe to move, " that the chutes relative to the licences to be granted by Biala,* and the reßrietions as as =on the part of Clergymen,' be iwhellp I" and that after the prelalible, the only chudhlhould be, " that this Ad be pleadable lD her so any adios." 'rho Comics:Loa of the Escalope% agreed to dais amendment. lie thought that did Saying:Pr, fafpending of the NW - centime would bf highlynid vicable at the r•et period. The policy of Some of do dears was, is *egoism, fonewhat more 11,1100, kla o Mint + drat _ - it would be harct and unjull to let* the Clergt expofed to there vexatious profecutions. Mr. Jov Es raid, that be could never countenance the non-refidence of the Clergy. Another circum ftance which Braley occurred to him was, that e4ery member of the eftablithed Church fbould find room in the Churches. It was his intention to offer a Bill to this at& Mr. 8111210 LS having, in concert with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, methodized his motion, moved, that after the words of the pre amble, " that certain provifions of the Ad of Henry VIII. have been found inconvepient," the following words ihould be inferted ; " that all anions which were, or may be, commenced againft Clersymen, for the recovery of penalties on infor mations upon the faid Statute, fhall be fufpended until the Isth of March 1802 ; and that this Ad be pleadable in bar of fuch anions." The re maining part of the Bill he propored to be com pletely omitted. The 80LICIT011-011111RAL was againft rufpend ing the Statute. He obferved, that where 800 anions were brought, it mutt follow that there was Come grievance to be complained o£ Mr. SHUMAN, who (poke from the Treafury Bench, Paid, that on canvaffing all fides of the Honfe, he found that the objedions to the Bill were confidered as infupaable. He could not, how ever, wiped that the Hon. Gentleman, or indeed any Gentleman of the Long Robe, would concur in a vote by which 800 Cults at law were, though for a time, to be extinguifhed. Mr, Slams was of opinion, that the defendants, if this claafe was puffed, fhoald be liable to the payment of colts. Mr. Hoawa Toots rifutg, raid, he had a very few words to addrefs to the Committee. He did not feel hbnfelf authorized to enter fully into the slircuffion of the Bill, but he wished to apprize the Honourable Member, that as tbe Bill flood, this power was in full force ; the Bill only empowered defendants, if they were fo difpofed, to claim fuch a rufpanfion, but if they walled the adions to go forward, this was left to their own option, without any r eftraint. The claufe propo(ed by Mr. Dickenfon was then withdrawn, and the one propofed by Mr. Sheridan agreed to. The other clanfes of the Bill were then gone through, and the Houle adjourned. LONDON. TUESDAY. JUNE 13. PRICE OF STOCKS This DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK: Confab for on. 6s}}#--Boasced 64....4 per Can. ypf So. News per Cent. pjf—Omolon tof PIKS Or STOCKS TSITSIDAT Bank Steck Lent Ann. af 1-16 3 per C. Red. 61 Sol St Siert Ana. 3f 3-16 3 per CKSIL Conf. 6th{ Imp. 3 per Cent. Ai do 4 Per C.K. Cool 791 10 Imp. Area... 3 per C. Navy fast *mien 1O 1010} 5 per C. 1 • 0 1. 954 I Coil for Act. 64 Yefterday their Majtsriss with the Duke of Karr, Prince ADOLPHUS, and the Princefes Au- OVITA, ELIZASITH, MART, SOPHIA, and Ass- Lin, vifited Frogmore Houfe.—Soon after the ar rival of the Rorer. Faulty, they - went to view the alterations making in the Palace, Wolfey's Chapel, where they continued near two hours— after which they retnited to Frogmore Houfe, where they dined, and at a quarter before (even in the evening, fet off for Kew. The Panics of Wet as's regimental Band played in the Gardens hoc e the entertainment of the ROYAL FAXILT.— Kum drove hirnfelf in his pheton from Kew, and looks very much improved in his health. • The ROYAL FAMILY will vifit Plymouth, and path, during their exeurrion into the Weft—the by at the latter place will be about a fortnight, *Oft which time they will make occafional virus 1. A Council was yefterday held at Lord Hamra.. scar's Office, in Downing-ftreet, on the reedit of the fait difpatches from the Continent. Mr. PITT attended on Sunday at the Treatiwy for frreral hours. The principal Clerks were hu. fly employed under his direition, in fitperintaul , i . riff the financial ftatementa brought forward by TIRRIIRT. At a very full and rerpettable meeting of t Freeholders of the count of Banff, held on th.• tyth infant, the Right le Sir Wittiati Guar of Beldorney, Mafter of the Rolls, was unanimoufly re.cle&ed to reprefent that county, for the fifth time, during the prefent Parliament. Mr. Muir, who was fume time ago our at Coperthagen . , is appointed to go to Paris *stri a:l ;g Amt there, in the roots a n Corns. Mr. Muir we believe feta off immediately, and carries with him difpatches from Lord HAWICSISUNT. The difpatches which Government received on Sunday from St. Peterfhorgh are dated on the even inAtthe is inftant, 'three days after the arrival o d Br. Hats's, who bad experienced a very tedious pelage from Copenhagen. The !host period of his refidence at the Court of the new Empalme has only enabled his Lartifiiip to give an account of his favourable reception from his Mai* 'Tv, and of the friendly afrarances of Counts Nieto and Pantry ' who had exprefed the cornea &fire of their Mailer to renew the former connexions tit amity with the Kum of GRRAT BRITAIN. Loud Sr. HSLIIIS propored to difpatch another Mean. ger in the sourfe . of a week. Lord Sr. Ricans has hired a very magnificent Hotel, funned on the Nava, belonging to Count SOLTIROPT. In our Paper of ytierday, we Rated the arrival of Capt. &mane of the DORIS frigate, at the Admiralty, on Sunday afternoon. The difpatches of whirls he was the bearer, from Admiral Coati wassail, are dated the i6th init. and contain inky. mation that,the enemy had twenty-five fail of the litre and eight frigates in the outer harbour of Brea, ;milady equipped, the whole of which were hour ly tapeited to pet to fea.—The DORIS, as the ad vanced frigate, is Rationed about three miles, and het watch b oat within half that diftance, of the timmy's vannsoft !hips; fo that it is impoffible they ton get nada weigh without twins dikovcaw4 0011 - tIArG INrittakweli BIBURY MISTING, FRIbAlr, Pk! AO; sweepitakes of asgs. eAch, twp mile& Sir W. W. Wyone's Alexander the Grim, Wt. z Ld.Mllfintown's Lady Bab, nit. Sib; - . s Mr. Chobnandeley's brother to C , raft Slb. 3 Fifty pounds by horfes of all enominations heats, the lail mile. His IL H. the Pr. of Rebel, y yn. old, is Mr. Haworth's Telegraph, 6 yrs old. loft. nib. 1 2 Mr. Milles's Sir Charles, aged roil Slb 3 A Race took place of which the following was the refult. Mr. .B4ltles't Sir Charles . Lord Milfintown's 'Lady Bab Mr. Smith's Spardcus - -I0 1 I 1 0 I a SATURDAY, 3111! 20 Mr. Cox's Pet, soft. was beat by Colonel drofve. nor's Lady Katherine, New Courfe, sogs. h. ft. A Handicap Sweepftakes of sgs. each, to which will be added ssgs. by the Club, for horfes of all denominations, to ftart at the diftance port and run once round.—Five Subfcribers, or no race. Sir R. Ldghtotes Telegraph, 6 yrs.old. soft. 71b. • • I Mr. Millen Sir Charles, aged yft. Sib. - • • - * Mr. Howarth's Souff-bos, 4 yrs. old. Yft. sot& - - 3 Sir W. W. Wynne Ales. the Orest,6 yrs. old, soil. 31b. dr: Mr. Co: Pet, yrs. old, ult. - - a 41. NAUrICAL INTELLIGENCE. MAILS THIS DAY.-6Wlnd N. L &WIPED_ tral • o Hambural -- - a • Dublin a a Waterford • Donagbades Letters are received from Captain Hauttfdi Dampers a, of the Emu. Tataor Eaft•lndiamart, about which !hip great appreheaLons were enter tained, timing, that they were all fafe, though the !hip had been difmafied, and that the was gone to Malacca to repair. Cora, Jena 16.—Yellerdaimorning the Gum.- MILANO, of 68 guns, Capt. TIILLICIIIIII ANTHid TRITE of 44, Capt. MAY . ,_" GALATIA, Of 16, Cape. VANIPINGIR, Dutch Ships of War, an ived at Cove, for the parpofe of taking Troops on board. Jena i7.—His Majedy's Mips Goaoon and Goon Dastou faded this day for Egypt, with troops SNISIMIBBB, lONA sa.—Arrived the COBOURO cutter from a cruize.—Sailed on a cruize the gEaassoftoven cutter, Lieut. FABIAN ; and the /AEI. GRAVElltlf% JUN/ a 2 by the London, Snor t , from Smyrna: Drie Gebroders, —, from Embden: Franklyn,FLlT it war, ftom Gottenburg, and Sally, Marv, from Rotterdam.—Sailed the Upton Cagle, Pawn, for India: Friends, Bott om:I, for Virginia; Tace, Lsowaaa, for Peter!: burgh ; and St. John Baptift, VaLLIa, for Rot. terdam. HARWICH, JONI t.—Patted this .harbour, his Majelly's (hi p la It Ist STIIILE, Capt. &tom, to join the Fleet in Yarmouth Roads; and yeßerday paffed to the Nore, a (hip of the line with the lots of her fore and mizen topmafts. The (hip Triton, S. M Blacsiann, from Stralfund, in Sweden, with wheat, arrived here this morning for a market+ Yefterday the Swedilh (hip Pelican, lately under detention at this Port, failed from hence for Stral fund. The Goed Hope, Balm, from London to Embden, in ballall; Vrow Genna, Ptaazz, from London to Leer, in - 1=11A; Gede Broders, Kits* $ Vyf ge Broders, HARENt aid De Jonge Gerrit, Ham, from Lon don to Embden, in ballail, are pus into this harbour by contrary winds. The Frederick Wilhem, Tn.-mow, froth Dam. tick to Dublin, is Branded on the coall of Jutland. DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZE MONEY. The crew of the MILIAGSR, for the capture of the Kereftein, will be paid their proportions of the proceeds of the raid prize at Salter's• Hall Court, London, on Thurfday the syth infant. The unpaid dares of the fum of fifty thoufaad viz dollars, on account of the Spanifh brig Neuftra Senhora del Carmen, and the French rails le Benjamin and le Bienfait, captured by the Tea r amootrt and ADAMANT, and of the cargo and hull of the Spanith brig, Neultra Senhora dcl Car men el Diligente, captured by the Demeans, will be recalled at Cecil every Friday. Diftribution of the felvage arifing from the re. capture of the brig Benevolence and her cargo, by the cutter SIGNET, will be made on board the Paid cutter at Deal. The crew of the HELM( ' for the re-capture of the brigs Yare and Swallow, will be paid their re fpetEtive proportions of the falvme of the Paid ref fell and their cargoes, oa board the }hum' at Deal, on the a6th Whist. Some of the pelinees,.iiim are to be executed oitiosorrow, attempted yefterday to make their ef. saps from Newgate through the common fewer , and had nearly effelted their pwpofe, when thei; defign was difcovered and framed. Ofn Tuefday laft an explofion took place in one gibe drying Roves at the Powder Mills, Waltham Abbey, when is perfons were very much fcorcbed s hut, we are happy to fay, no lives were loft. Monday fe'n night afire broke out in the Rev. Mr. lortnis's houfe in Dumfries, which by the timely aid of the Maigiftrates, military, and a numerous body of the inhabitants, waaprevented from fpread. ing to the houfes adjoining, and the fire was es. ungnillsed with little kis, eadept a frnalrhisufe which was entirely conlmncd. A completer gratification was never obtained at any place of public amufeznent than what the new Grand Ballet of Aftion at the Royal Circus, St. George's Fields, named the Fin ; Ab bort mod Refabr, aff o rds . The furpri fi ng (plen dour of the fcenery, dreffes, and decorations, combined with fituations of the greateft intereft, and the moit charming mufic, e _ draw forth the londeft plaudits. th The Palace of the Fire King. the Chrifan Camp before Jerufalem, and the fall fee, have a woo. derful effea, an d are particularly admired ; and we have no doubt of its proving, in conjundiou with the Nartieris an flav an ,za r theur; oni nce tiornethcelf;be priotors for a groat capeace is bringing it au.