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mind. . With tripe& to the ;Aileen:taut subjen
of tythes. his Grace observed,. that finding the
:ew in that tespett coeval in this country, with
the laws for the conservation of every other kind
of property, he considered them as entitled to
~,ual regard. They were the property of the
church, to be respeCted as such, and involved consi-
derations affetlting the union of church and state,
which, he trusted, would always continue to support
each other. With respeß to what had been said as
arising from the topic of Catholic emancipation, he
fully agreed that that important suht had been
fairly, fully, and coolly discussed by tie I louse, and
thoty,li he filmed one of a comparatively small mi-
nom-j, who thought it WAS proper their Lordships
should go into a committee on that subjeCt, yet, he
bowed to the decision of the majority of their Lord-
ships, and pradically must consider such decision
as rightly made. Yet he seemed to think that,
trom those discussions, matter transpired, which
tended to shew the expediency of such an
enquiry as his Noble Friend proposed. In some
points of view, he disapproved of partial quota-
tions fr,un authors ; they required a great portion
of the context, in order fully to ascertain the sense
of the writer ; and one particularly, whom his No-
bls Friend had mole than once quote 3 that evening,
cotrealy, no doubt, one with whom lie ltd the
happiness and the honour to be long acquainted,
the late Archdeacon Paley, went on to say, speak-
ing of the subjea of tythes, that which, in his
mind, operated in a different way from what his
Noble Friend seemed to understand it. Advert-
ing to the state of the established religion in
Ireland, he observed, there existed, some years
ago, that which should induce him to think
the superior clergy of that country highly iv-
ory:tensible. He alluded to the circumstances
of many parishes of considerable extent, and
which paid all the clerical dues, being not only
without a clergyman, bat even without a chute).
He thought the most favourable epoch for re-
dressing many of the grievances adverted to by
his Noble Friend, as affecting Ireland, was the
occasion of the adjustment in 1742. when Ire-
land was relieved from the commercial fetters of
this country. A peculierlr favourable opportunity
was then presented. With respeek to the question
before the House, lie thought it was one that de-
l
mended an opinion from some of His Majesty's
Ministers. . . . .

Lord HAWKESBURV observed, the motion
uncle: consideration was one which he should feel it
hi: duty to resist, were it o:ly upon the ground of
its being very ill-timed: it also involved con-
siderations, which, under the present circumstances
and situation, not only of Ireland, but of the Em-
pire at lags, which would induce him to objet to
it. NVith a Noble Earl, he tlicught it would be
produaire at present of misci..eeoas effefts. With
him, he thought that a gm .t deal c:f the Noble
mover's speech was applo—ible to the question of
Catholic Emancipation; which, with the Noble
Duke, he thought had been most fully, fairly, and
temperately considered in that House, as much
SA as any topic that ever carne before Paws-
anent ; and that being solemnly decided upin,
by a very large majority, not only of that,
but of the other branch of the legislature ; he
felt it unnecessary to offer a single observation
upon all the relevant part of the Noble Earl's
speech. With respell to the im,sortant consideration
of tythes, on whirls the Nob:e siecretary, in the
course of his observations, laid considerable stress;
he most cordially agreed with the position of the
Noble Duke, that they coasti:uted property, and
that of the most sacred kind. Indeed, the Gen-
tlemen alluded to by the Noble Earl, bUssrs.
Emmett and (*Nevin, when they were exaniined
on the part of the government of Ireland, seemed
to have given their evidence very ingenuously
upon that subjeft ; they. after giving their opi-
nions as to the wishes of the Irish peasantry, for
the abolition of tythes; went on to admit, that
were those abolished, the rents would be imme-
diately raised by the landlords, in a proportionate
degree, so that the relevant situation of the
peasantry would, so far, remain the URIC -••••
In Ltd, to abolish the tythe, would be to rob the
Clergy; they were their property, and, in the eye
of the law, equally sacred with every other descrip-
tion of property. The benefits of them were, an
Taft, equally experienced, and enjoyed by the land-
owners, as it was obvious that these, from the
consideration of their lands being liable to
tythe, purchased them proportionably at a less
rate; and this was a consideration, indepen-
dent of the political and religious points of view
in which the subjeet may be considered, which
should place them, equally with every other species
of property, under the proteEtion of the laws, and
such, he trusted, they would for ever remain. In
concluding, his Lordship alluded to the very ad-
vanced period of the Session, and the consequence
of their attendance as highly improper for the con-
sideration of a subjes2 of a nature equally general
anti important, and which branched out into such a
variety of interesting details, and which additionally
operated upon his mind in inducing him to decide
against the Motion.
The Earl of SIIFI'OLIi spoke in explanation,
and stated that his ideas did nut go to the abolition
of tythes, which, he agreed, should be considered as
the property of tee church. He adverted and en-
forced some of the propositionf he had in the first
instance advanced, and referred to the aft of Eli-
zabeth, which recognised the principle, end en-
joined enquiries of the kind, as we understood Isis
Lordship, through the medium of the Judges, who
were to report the result of their enquiries to the
Crown, and which be thought it would be well to
aft uf.on. After some farther observations, the
question was put, and decided in the negative, with-
out a division.

The Committee of the whole House on the case
of Mr. Justice Fox and also that on Meore's Di-
vorce Ball. was ordered to sit tomorrow.
Mr. Rickman (Secretary to the Speaker of the
Huse of Commons) presented certain accounts
from the Commissioners of roads and bridges us the
Highlands of Scotland, which were ordered to lie
on the table.—Adjourned.