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meet, shah ahould be attended to with the greatest care. Ile
„,„, am, sin he Awned, hostile to the Hon. 31ember'a plan, but he
tlimight r nboatill co.operate with the grant. Hitherto there was I
but little lueLac. n hint and the lion. 31enther; but when
he ore the no ople the o Mare of their own pastor, he did differ front i
bur. I lid not the lion. 3lember know that it 'night be domr at
present ? lithe Itinhop rail Patron merited, there roe, no difficulty.
No he much dunked the tallier of giving any number oila:voila
this choice, if they did now Tamara% great qualific l
atlons. Ile wan
nuarn alraid party zeal and religiouv acrimony would mix in the
,„oust; the chrome, would he keenly disputed, and the result
satild net be beneficial to religion. Ile therefore would not aanent
0, thin plan, if it were not intiolified to a great deerte. Ile would
crier again tot the manufactering towns, and he would mention
it,,,awitalit, and Prone; and he would ink if
the eapcnottitire of half a million would be thought too much
to promote the ramie of religion in these place.? The population
of loom. wan ahem 12,4110 • there WAS religious aceol iiiii iodation
Ito aan, artl thus there were 1.1,a010 persana without Aryan baton
a: all. The population of %Valenti wan 12,0101; there was relig.
at commudation for 7101. The populatian of Halifax wan le.!,11011;
tut those H. 1,9110 were without accommodation This surely would
not he allowed to remain. When thew parsons were desired by the
lion. 3G-wither to build churches for themselvea, new laws ntiot.hl he
passed ; g would not be done by any local regulation. This state
WAR tohe lamented, especially in thane districts inhabited by the
manufacturers. This clam, the life and soul of the country, had
eat 'rely banished the wealthy proprietors; and it was peculiarly herd
.Ort thew permit,. should labour Rill days, and should not have on
the seventh an opportunity of religious aecommodation.; this was not
put; it could not be the mtention of the legislaturethat this class,
the strength and sinews of the cntintry, and on whom the taxes,
anon the country wan generally taxed, chiefly fell, should he !hint
treated. It was for thew reasons tiddler he nor the Ibitese could have
any objection to the grant ; and inreference to what had past as
to the expenditure at the million, he thought it utterly inipmatible
to make any complaint. In the reign of Queen Anne, when the
yaw pan ved for a sunilae purpose, eleven churches only were built,
:aid by the vote named in our time, 100 churches were erected ;
sail it, by the appropriation of one halt' million, fifty churches were
.11111.11, he knu-w they would noon, from that %pint which be knew
the men who professed the establiehed religion to he actuated by,
and it by that grant one member of 81.0411 families %hook' have the
epportionity of religious a roiiiiiimiatitin, 1114 We Wahl would be done
tan by any vide which would appropriate any sum from the re-
souro...l of thin rich and powerful country. Ile would therefore
vow tow the filename.
Mr, I '4llll'll rose. Ilia accents were almost inaudible.)
lie .:aid education was the Nance and foundation of every
thine good in tatriety, and all modern authors of rexpect-
ahility who had treated of the subject were of the same opinion.
This Vitale of laying out the
ter than expending it in building churches. Ile had taken much
pain% to ascertain the character of the lower orders in this country,
anti lie had 131 hesitation in saying, that the agricultural donates
were mare disposed to reline, and knit ntoral than any other abou-
t...ever. Ile knew several instances of chordal. which Were erected
by the voluntary c iiiii ributitnut of the neighbouring individuals,
and many others which were built for private speculation ; and he
could nut think there was any nurcesrity for coaling with an appli-
cation to Parliament for HO object winch could be so well attained
by public cantributioon or private apectilatioo. Ile was sure that
no man could be ignorant of the depraved and ignorant state of the
lower orders of society ; and he would contend that to leave people
in such a state, a prey to their pasitionn and had habit'', was a ennui:
indeed. The education of the po.wer claws, lie conceived to be
of greater importance than any other, and far more worthy of con-
imb•rat 1111 l than the buildingp, of churches.
Ihictor 1,1 !ail 1 TON could not agree with the Honourable
eh:adman who tool just sat down, although be believed with I
that the subject of education was one of vital importance. There
stood upon the atatute hook Acts which mooch penal on any one
to absent himself from places of worship. And there existed a
power of entorcing in every pariah the enlargement of churches,
tat as to give every inhabitant a place therein. But if churches
were not built Mr them, they must either absent themselves from
plates of wourallip altogether, or take refuge in dissenting meeting-
Liaise& Ile did not make this observation front prejudice, but
because be wait anxious that the Church of England should have
:nir play. Them related a society in London calling themselves
the Home Missionary Society, which was commoned altos:ether of
Mitsenters, Intl he would road a few passages from their third re-
;tort. They alluded to the dark state of the county of %Poetaster.
file report gave an account of the wretched state of the inha-
bitants, wbuhutleh, played halls, and other gammon the Sabbath.
This Sou-iety load gone from house to house, and collected tiamt7
to sprisol the print mica of the dissentent. Ile would be proud to
gore Ins sow lie the prison proposed grant, because it would
Live a diet to this mottle. The House should remember that the
pulite had been always used to have the 4 'hurdles opened to theism
tree of expetoe ; anti that, in the attempt to introduce a new sys-
tem, IllOtigh the tiell Might 11111110Cribe, the poor could not. Ile did
not think that the primaple of sundry clergymen 'toting round Irian
I au e to ho use to ottomans lie emelt, vandal be attended with bene-
lie al results; lour did he think that by such a plan would the
most %lurid perwllis he selected. In IVeniiiinster, where he Went
to rho, .h, I r Was hot only obliged to pay for his own seat, but for
a los for at taunts ; this lie was willing to do, because it was bin
fluty ; but the ease would he far diffirent with the poor, who emilol
riot pay, aed who ought nut. On referring to the Report of the
Canunottee for Building Chun hes, he Road that for 60,00411.
they had procured acconinita!at ion air eighty thousand persona.
Ile meant to prOpOse us an amendment, that none of the churches
which might be built by Parliament should be tenable, with any
other church whatever. The:ant odiservation he should make was,
that the Right llon. 41entletitai. alumnil build those churches with-
out the cement oldie incumbent. The pit use would recollect that
no Incumbent ball a right to interfere with the Kate, sir to receive
profits, .wept from his tithes. Ile (Ih. lashington) was happy
to give hilt vote for this motion, becauw he was sure it would meet
the wishes of the mauple ni large ; because the (motley was in want
ofditm ; and as long as it was so, crime would gut on inereaaing.
Ale. 111 /111101 rSE explained, and %aid, that he haat game Wand
to the homer% of the mople of Weamittiater, and had ascertained
that no complaint exiated of the want cat nano in the doodle,.
Mr.lllll3lE said, that lie had seldom heard a starch from the
Unnamable and Learned He,leuuu ( Ile. lauthington) sot little
applicable to the subjeet. In alluding to the Acts poised in the
reign of Queen Elisabeth, which made it penal not to attend public
worship. the Honourable Gentleman had etuleavoured to apply it
ta the prewat day ; humus he had sturdy forgotten that those .'Sets
would go to prevent perauris Imm attending worship at meeting
houses, or any other place but the church of England, and that
they were intrOdUrell againnt the church of Route only. Ile
(De Lushington) had wild, that he wished the Church of 1•Inglanol
ut have fair play; I.llr. had precisely the tante feeling ;
bat he did not think the oulnervatiou applied to the subjert. lie
not know with what view the llonourable Gentleman hid pro-
duced the pamphlet, Or Whit WAS the author of it; it might be the
Honourable Geod.-omit litliself, at haat he hat nut itifonned the
flonne to Ow coutrary. 1,1 laugh.) ilad the Honourable Gentle-
in: n read Southey's lite of 1% esh y, and will he deny what Mr.
Southey Kays, that much good had arisen to the Eaashlished Church
by the way in which Wt %ley bad brought its abuses before the
country ! In Scott ind the 11 lilt Gentleman would find a
very great objection to playing balls anti other &immanent% on the
Sul day. lie 3lr Mune) could not tell why his Honourable
Friend had introduced the pamphlet, unless it Was to alter that a
class of imlividuals were :muttons to obtain proselytes to their fe-
l:gime oitinions. Ile (Mr. Gimlet would contend that it was ab-
solutely memory that .t missionary al Id he in Wale degree a
zealot ; it' he we're not sot.lic could non leave his cauntredo catatonia r
• crania danger, and sittiost certain sit ntls. lie (Mr. flume) helical,
however, that the llonouttraide Gentleman that not comet-jet abut
he had read to Collitaili the si litinietils of all dissenters. Ile (Mr.
flume) was anxious, before he came down to the !louse, to
know the number of dissenters, iu tinter 11111 s 10 ascertain the
number of persons who we're in want of chat diva. The only
Parliamentary paper he hail been able to procure, on the
subjeet Watts!, mist the 'lumber of pertains wire 1,1181,
and that they contained 2:u.a:t attaches sod chapels of the
fistablished i'litirell ; While tilt her of &awaiting chapels
..mounted to :1311, In-lug one-third mote 111311 the 1111 l bet of
churches. 'Phone chap, la were well tilled, because the peewits who
tulliciateti in Oilcan Weer chosen to phase the potpie they Were to
teach. But hi% lionottrable Frietal (!h. laishington) was an ene-
my tit election, and thurelort• opposed sods a principle as this.
What luul been Mated by the 11011. Mender for 311talluirat, ought
to be aolopttal. There were instances where every cent-holder was
allowed to Vote fOr a Clergyinici, and he iitanitained that the %ratan
of election WAR productive of beneficial Conseoptclices, although it
was sollietinkssi abesed. Ile would ank, wan the I now to esta-
blish a new it) shan ••• In Setil land, the landowners were bound to
keep up the dumb as well as to p -hie for the clergy. This I
was not the case in England ; hut before
the House called on the'
people to pay .100,1141111. in addition to the million they had al-
toady paid, it ought to see *holier there were no other means
of defraying the expense of building churches bonitos that pro-
pool. %Vas the house to be told that the clergy were to keep
tier y flung titre had goo, and 3 large portion of their fun& haul
or] grossly Ifthapproptlided ? Tile unties were originally divided
into tour part", as to their approptintion one part was for the
lergy, another for the poor, a third fir the repairing and building
at churches, and the handl Sir the Bishop, But the Right lion.
o;olitleman had linked of the richt" of the people; hut lie mold
issitre the I louse that sin to the fact. There Were 11111 lions Of
labouring artisans working bur tin., and 7.. a week. Those, he'
would not l'eny. were rich, who, tool the latietiets tor the elinich for
ulnae support, and those a hot lieu 41 on the taao, might also boast of
retail); there might ithattylif Moiler in the money market;
'lot still he asserted that the ma., of the people was in poverty ;
and it was no had criterhat of that. that there were three Com-
mit:et, then sitting um stiloece. connected with this point ; and he
wet sure rant. Id the lot- lb. is of those would say
Shan the people wee; t Ili The Ina.n Of the COM-
awaits, °tight hi he rich, hilt that Certainly was null the ease
"lh tile rlass Of Ilan eolitiltr. ILA 1111. !tight Ilon. Gentlenutn
Ito rail illations r, eil:crlrd I:131 out of the 17 millions whirr he
re;...c.unto ol as Hell, titere ,et. sewn Millions in Ireland who'
re not in the runt eiloittorialWe state % (Gear, hear.) Ile thought 1
'ateol.‘cciation out the Ilia,. 11..tithor tor alcolliturst was pod, !
uts.alting of this grant. Ile cdleJ it all " inipionts proceeding."
'rti.• tooter assail hase lus tt twit,' applied toward% the eoleeat hat
It the sor; still before the lloost s 'lei another million and a half., I
t! behoved tbem to nee has the Alter ninety had been applied. 'The
Of the Eat-levier sato!, had any Minot, beets made with
'ernd to that 'militia % Then. encase ly hail nut; anti he tonk
`l"lie to himself fir hut. rig I,•t it Mort
so quietly : an the Right I
11... i. Gentleman need taut suit innthat point. Ile took credit top
I Mauch' far hating atopmal I he I otitesitilatimial grant and the grant of
it•illion might, he had i••• dotal, !ii., ,•hi.ea stopped in the saute way.
lit* *as Truly to admit il.at there were many of the clergy ill
paid,anti lie fur one acidic, to sere mare equal distributi n of ft-
%emit amongst that bo,ly ; but I e i'..l not sec why 300,110111. in ad-
datum was la he taken rase the ;'u - Sets of the people. The Right
Gentleman had loud the I loth •, could not refuse a funk'