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HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAT, Ana 23.
Their Lordships MI t at ilye o'clock.
OATH OF ABJURATION BILL.

Lord LYNDHURST—My lords, lam pieced in a eiht-
ation of some difficulty with respect to the second reading
of this bill, which has been so frequently debated by your
lordships that hardly any new facts or arguments can be
brought forward revisiting it. Were Ito go Into details, I
fear I should be listened to with impatience ; bet, oa the
other hand, if I were to treat the suljeet merely in
general terms, I should perhaps be charged with neglect-
ing the duty which I have undertaken to perform.
I shall endeavour, therefore, my lords, u far as possible, to
steer • middle course on the present occasion, end diaesrding
everything that does not bear materially on the subject,
bring before you those facts, those arguments, and those
considerations that appear to me most essential to the right
sppreciation of this bill. I em relieved from one very me-
siderable difficulty in this ere, because no attempt hoe been
made by this bill to repeal the oath of supremacy, as at-
tempt which, oa a former omission, proved fatal to the bill.
I feel also relieved from another digitally, sad, byes' SNOW,
en issesterlal out. When two years ago I brought In • bill
kr the repeal of the oath of abjuration, I was met by the
ebservstion that I was repealing also the oaths relating to
the settlement of the crows. On the present occasion I
cannot be met by arguments of that kind, because there is •
elanse in the bill by which patens are bound to maintain
the suecesson to the crone as It was established by the Act
of Settlement. Should the present bill pass three oaths will
require to be taken, the oath of allegiance, the oath el mi•
primacy, and the oath to maintain the succession to the
crown as established by the Act of Settlement. Now, my
lords, what objections there can be to • bill of this
description it is namely difficult to understand. My
table friend who sits near me on the era' Omaha
mesas, I understated, to move lie rejection, a course whieh I
mast say I hardly expected from him ; but I have endea-
veered to ascertain the grounds upon which he means to
premed, end I am told that it is la consequence of some
words being omitted, namely, the words "On the true
faith of a Christian." That lam told is the ground upon
which my noble friend means to move the rejection of the
bill; but let it be remembered that these words ere no longer
seed for the purpose originally intended. Is it not singular
that they should be attempted to be introduced into this
bill for • purpose never contemplated by the persons by
wh-im the act was peered ? (Hear.) But pausing that over
let me ask my noble friend what is the object at which he
aims ? The regular course would be to allow this bill to be
read a emceed time and to mole the Insertion of the words
he advocates in the committee; but my noble friend is
pursuing • different course, end as. what the cease-
queues will be, should be be suateseful In procuring
the rejection of the bill. The coasequence will be that
every one of your lordships, and every member of the
House of Commons will be obliged to matinee to take
teat oath which all consider ought cot to be taken—
namely, to swear that no descendant of the person pre-
tending to he the Prince of Wale., has any right or title
to the crown of these realms, while all obedience to him
or his heirs is abjured. (Hier, bear.) Most of your lord
ships deem that oath impertinent and idle; sad give me
leave to add, that for a lama to take an oath which is •
mere set of fogy must be designated an act of frep'ety also.
(Hear, beer) But this must be the consequence should
my noble friend's motion be maccessfal. (Hear, hear.)
Another noble friend of mice, for whose .pinion I have the
greatest possible respect, foreseeing the difficalty, bee
emend to avoid it—end no man has more resources
in a ease of difficulty than the noble !Mead to
whom I allude—by proposing, as be Warmed me
the other night, that if this bill be rejected, he
should move the second reading of • bill now oa the
table, the object of which is to strike out of the oath, all
words relating to the Pretender, and to retain the words
"es the true faith of a Christian." Bet what would be the
consequence provided that bill should pose your lordships'
home ? It wuad go down to the other house of parlia-
ment, and the cares there would obviously be at ones to
strike out the words. (Hear, hear.) The bill would than
come bask to your Imelehips Ia that shape, and of course
would be lat. (Hear, hear.) We shall then be precisely
in the situation in which we now stand, obliged to abjure
the Pretender, and to swear Shot no descendant of
his shall have say title to the crows of these
realms, which is the absurdity to which I have
before reform'. Let it not be understood that in these pre
lissioary observations lam endeavouring to anticipate and
prevent any arguments that may be adduced. Far other-
wise. I am papered to disease end defend the principles of
tee bill now, as at any other time ; but let me tint in • few
words true the history of this oath. When William 111.
came to the throne, in the Si at year of his reign thine were
no
oaths administered except those of allegiance and seen-
'Bay. Two or three years after, an attempt was made in the
Haase of Commons to hamlets the oath of abjaratioa, •
"wailer attempt being mate in rue lordships' house. Bat
Wilhite the Third, with that liberality which was the peels
Rarity of his character, declared that be did not wish to
impose an additienal tests on his people, and the bill wee
lost ie both homes. Thus the matter rested until the last
year of the reign of William sad Mary, when, as your
pwdabicw are aware, in consequence of the Pretender having
mewed the title of Kit g of England, and having been
recognised as such by Louis the Fourteenth, tee oath of
abjuration war introduced and became law. But let us look
at the origin of this oath, not es • matter of his-
tory but of term. It had Its origin long before the
reign of William, at • period immediately enbesqueat
to the discovery of the popish plot, when a pots of writing
came through the heads of Garnet and ethers concerned in
the plot, to the effect that the only mode of dewing the
equivo-ations of the it man catholic' was to frame as oath
of • maids shape, and to insert the words, "On the true
faith of • Christian." They were introduced, and were
afterward' copied into the rattled abjuration for the same
purpose, sod every one acquainted with the history of the
period, knows that the oath was too framed with the
ale *eject of gaudier/ erraost the Raman cstbilier.
(Hear.) If any doubt should remain In the mind of any
noble lord, let him read the clauses of the act of paella-
meet, may more. I implore my noble friend to refer to
the debate' which took place, and thee I say that the o s-
cission to which my noble friend and your lordships most
inevitably come, and which I City any en* to reject, to that
the oath was intended to apply solely to the eoeseimose of
Roman ettholies. Parliameat bed no idea whatever of
applying the words to member" of the Jewish religion, I.
feet there is nothing to show that they were at all eon
templated in the oath of abjurations. I have
new strictly given the his'ory of the oath of
abjantion, sad the objects for which it was introduced,
bet there bas been brought to my recollection within the
last two days what appears to me to be • seat isztraordinary
argument on the subject, or rather I should say • 'Meters
of statement, history, and argument, to which I must for a
moment advert. A most rev. prelate in Ireland has pub-
lished a collation of rearipte and bells of the Pore, and
among these documents are several relating to the Pre-
tinder, merely matters of history, sad obviously intended to
be so. Corals documents are referred to by the prelate is
question, sad he is supposed to have stated, or to have
quoted, • pumps in which it was asserted that there was
'fly Roman catholic prisms on the eontioent of Europe
who were nearer in blood to James 11. and the Pretender
than mar peseta most ermines sovereign, Qua*. Victoria.
Now the hireable' drawn from these statements is the meet
sztreordiaary that ens be eemaived, namely, that the
Roman catholic' still hare hop., that at some future peeled
• Popish sovereign may be placed oa the throe, of these
realms. The argonaut is Glenda, that you ought not to
teach this oath, and not reader It leas effective than at pre-
seat for the purpose to which it was originally intended. I
am ate loss to know how to describe this argument. (Hoer.)
I have read it with much attention and believe the OM-
o/sat made to be perfectly correct, but what is the argu-
ment ? No Raman atholie is now bound to take the oath
of abjuration, and why ? Because It was rescinded in
1839, when the Roman Catholic Relief Bill paned,
sad soother oath was substituted in lieu of it. (Hear,
beer.) The argsmeat I bays stated, therefore, slassagh
g from high authority, a wholly itsapplCable to
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Bill, the ward' " Oa the true faith of a Christer", are
abashed. Tee oath the Ron an catholic. are obliged
to take has no mob words is it. So that yes 'bone& them
words which were intended to apply to the Roman tratlio-
lies, and retain them, for what purpose ?—to apply them
to a clam of the Queen's subjects for whom they were ari-
gladly never lataaded. (Hear, beer.) I believe thee •
mere lacouisteat argument was sever dreamt of. I task
the liberty on • former mesiiies to lay down a position mita
I repeat new, and that is, that no British bora ea** eight
te be disfresehised unless by some legislative pooillits
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