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Vicars to Tes;de in %elf pnrkihts. coastistneatiee
was, many curates were laced frture their cures,
and he had hiniszli had ap 'cations made to hem by
d.sgosessed citrates for livings, in terms that no than,
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who professed hinisel.; as be did most conscientiously
tee he A ~;11:Cre friend of the Church. could read
esithont feeling the most painful regret that he could
Best always relieve se.-.11 applicant:- A Lord Chan-
ceVeir, his I,,rilship said, had but few livings in
his ; bat curates who had been dismissed from
cum, which they hail served for thirty years faith-
fully and diligently, had been obliged to tell him,
ti, cost).) not give them livings, they should
tit ink him if he would pu: his hind in his pocket,
a. 4 gis' them a guinea. for that they knew net
u here their wives and children, as well as their..
selves, should lay their heads. His Lordship very
pathetically enlarged on the cruel situation in which
the inferior clergy were pieced, and with great
energy and emphasis defended his brother (Sir
‘Villiem Scott) from any possible imptuation on
his condua, that might be inferred from the Right
WY. Prelate's reasoning upon the tardiness which
had attended the introduction and progress of the
of lest Session, to explain and amend the Ailt
of Henry the EighLh.
11w Bishop of ST. ASAPH rose agaid, for the
purpose of explaining and exculpating biniself from
the supposed idea of his wish to treat the Learned
Civilian, who was the author of the Bill of last
Session, wieh any the slightest disrespea. No man
could entertain a higher opinion of that lion. and
Learned (lentleman's charaCter. He knew the pre-
foundnrei of his wis.lom, the great extent of his ta-
lents, and the excellent issentions which ;satiated
him on this as well as every other important °cc...-
3nm. lb. should, therefore, the Bishop said, be ex-
tremely sorry to have any thing that fell from him
• so tsar misconstrued, as to have an idee prevail that
he imp fate), or meant to impute, any blame to the
Learned Civilian, to whom the public in general, and
the Clergy in particular, weer highly indebted for
the muesle he had taken.
The Earl of CAiILISI.F. rose, to remind the
House, that his Noble Friend, who was absent
(T. Grenville) had been the Peer, whose argu-
meet Neel the Rill of last year, so fiequently al-
Le lei to, had, by anticipation, prevalel on that
}louse to suspend the further consideration of the
general Bill ; but that the Noble end Learned Lord
had not taken any notice of the preliaiinecy ground
which his Noble Friend had laid, as the indispen-
bible basis of any legislative regulation as to the
residence of the Clergy, viz. the establishment of a
previous ttitc! fre eneliorating the incomes of the in-
terior Clergy. His Nonle iend, if he recollected
cot-re:lle, had stated, that more than one-half of the
Clergy of England had not a greater income than
fifty pounds a year, and thence he had deduced must
cogent arguments to prove, that without such a
peel:min:try fund being provided to change the
condition of the lower orders of the Clergy, all re-
gulations respecting residence must 1w incfficaLions
and uninst. His Lordship said, he had as much
objeltion to Bills for suspending existing statutes as
the Right Reverend Prelate, and he agreed with,
h:m, that they were had Legisletive measures ; hut
on the present occasion, where the subject vas of
such inhnite importance, he thought deliberate and
every tardy proceeding would be preferable.
Lord AUCKLAND rose again to repeat his
wishes, that his Ilev. Friend would restrain front
making any amendment in the Committee, which
could net hut prove fatal to the Bill, end would
drive the Howse into the dilemma of either suffer-
ing all the hardships to fall upon the Clergy, which
the rat of I lenry the Eighth subjected them to, and
many of the cases were such as were entitled to
teat lenity, or exposed the House to the danger of
having another Bill brought up towards the dose of
the Session, when the Reverend Bench was left va.
cant by the Bishops being obliged to go noon their
Visitations to their respeetive Dioceses, or other du-
ies belonging to their sacred profession, and when
he House was usualle very thinly atter.ded.
The LORD CI tANcr.u.oß said, while it was
their Lordships dory to legislate for others, and
make regulations f a. them, it behoved them to look
a little to themselves. He did net think it quite
Parliamentary to argue on the poesible thinness of
attendance toward. the &se of a Session ; their
Leriships all knee.. that nine times Al much business
cone upon their Table towards the close of a Set-
s,on as in the preceding periods of it, and they must
all confess that it was their indiseensible duty to at-
tend regularly to give discussion and dispatch to
that business; he could not, therefore, for a moment
lend his assent to the idea that Nol,le Lords would
oot faithfUlly discharge the important duties entrust-
ed to their care.
The Bill was read a second time, and committed
fur to-morrow.
A variety of papers front the Court of Chancery
in Ireland, relative to an appeal, were brought up,
attested, and presented by tne proper Ageot.
The seveval tills on the '!'able passed a stage
each, and Dr. II WS Divorce Bill WiLl preseut-
cd, and read a tirst time.
Adjourned at a quarter before seven.

110 USE OF COMMONS.

L:DNESDAr, MARCU 30.
The SPE 11...F.R informed the House, that he
had received a letter from Admiral RAN li.R, in
'answer to the Letter of Thanks, voted by the
' for hi's. en-operation with the army of Egypt.
itt the Red ;,ea. The Admiml had communicated
the same to the officers and men, under his corn-
riand, excepting Adiniral Bi. %Y.:KETT, who tlied.
h: fore the letter came to h ;71(1, and he 'begged
hare to express, for himself, the officers and men
under his command, the grateful sense they enter-
tam of the high honour couf:rred on them by the
House ; and he more particulaily begged leave to
assure trio) (the StrAkta) of his sincere acknove.
led meats for the very handsome manner in winch
be had c(,mmunicarvdthe same.
Mr. KuICIIT brought up the Report of the Com-
Mittee appointed to enquire into the merits of a Pe-
tition cfArnplaining of an undue Eledion for Glas-
,ose, %Olen it appeared to the said Selkt ommittce
that Alexander Heustonn, Esq. was not elected,
n;.l that Boyd A1...A-andel-, Esq. ought to have been
returned to f•erve in Parliament for the same ; and
that neither the Petitieat nor oppodtion to it were
tiivoknes or vexatious,
The I)eputy Clerk of theernsvn was then order-
ed to attend and amend the return according to the
said report, by erasing • the name of Ale:aankft:.

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