The National Register.
London, England, 1813-05-23 00:00:00

MAY 23.

MONDAY, MAY 17.
Upon the Oder of the Day being read, for taking the Report on
the ('Hewes kill into consideration, the Earl of HARROWBY moved
several Am oulsoynts which were at7reed
LOC, n CHANCELLOR considered the clause• of the Bill, re-
specting the aplwi: •Acat of the Curate .to live in the • Parsonage
House, in case of the incumbent's non-residence, as completely
unfit for hey tin:tined purpose. mid( r the provisions of this
liteasnr'e, if he held pos.,ession, and were required to give it up ac:
cording' to this Bill, lie might refuse, acid it he had au attorney at
his back, he would defy any power nuder such an Act to remove
him for three years.
Lord REtmsnat F. stated, that. the mischiefs which had arisen
from two:residence of the lower Clergy, were experienced in all
parts of the kingdom. This practices on their part had increased
within lute years, and Curates who formerly resided in their parishes,
now lived at a distance in a market town to which they were at-
trameil by their love or card part: 04. On a Sunday he had known
i.nstances, when a Citrate would rill. horn parish to parish, and With
!Hell precipitancy as to render their etinthiet indecent, and to bring
diseriice appit the profession. In an instance of this nature, he
knee it to he a fact, that the Cleveyinan so far neglected his duty
from a ‘visir to proceed and retinn, that he would asceuel the read.
itf.-desk, and. so rapidly di• nose et' the sea vice, that a farmers
el ilk: N.llo preaait, a ose filen her pew, and insr,ted open re-
to the deste, him alonl, that he feel oot discliar7,ed Ills
doty. The Nook, and Learned Lord %las astonished at the present
opne-;liars to tile !!ill ; there seemed au movillnerriess to agree to
Inca- ores which were to call upon the orders of the Clergy
to see il:Lt -;es of the !.Nrofessiort %vele perforieed
The vehbishop of CA IiTEIz nuv said, if the inference to be
dremu ii.om the 'k oble 13,trou's ohscrvatumi were to guide the judie-
meet of then Lord-hips, it would he wr,,eg to p:Bs the present Bill
--it ..NOli!•i It) pale; a law N%:!i(:1 :•111,4111 Idie the power
out et the hands of the Bishops who hail so grossly abused it, and
lodeed it io the hands of the Noble Baron, who had this night ac-
cu•ed the higher orders GI the Clerey with neglect, and the lower
orders with gross miscondnet. It such .were the establishment of
the Church, it had better not exist, but ;;omit other Church be
placed in it- ste•e' He did not agree with the statement of the
Noble Bet n, that curates we're now more absent (tom their pa-
ri.les than they tt,cd to be .20 years ago. indeed-in those dioceses
ith which he was acquaintesl, he knew that thoy were more resi-
slent in their paris,,es now, than they used to be formerly. As to
the higher orders, they were not chargeable %vitt& a neglect of duty,
and as to the particular observation, he should conclude by saying
it was an unfounded slander.
'flue Hi'hops of London, Exeter, and Worcester, also defended
the general conduct of the higher and lower orders of the Clergy.
Lord lier.E.soonoutut considered the Bill altogether a crude
concoction, and thought it %amid he advisable, if the Noble Earl
( Harrow by ) mild accede to ids eeommendatien, that the Bill
should stand over to another Sessian, wheo a mereone might be
framed' more unobjectionable in its pi otision,.
Lord HMI !LO WRY refused to accede to str,:gestion.—The
was then ordered to be reprinted.—Adjourutd.

TUES9AY, MAY 13.
The Smithfield Market Improvement Bill was brought up from
the Commons, and read a first time.
Earl GnosvENOR moved the second reading of the Siorfrure Abo-
lition Bill. The Lord Chancellor, Earl Lauderdale, and Lord El-
lenborough opposed it, from a cohviction that it was utterly im-
practicable, unwise and contrary to the best principles of the Con-
.stitution.—The Bill was then rejected without a dilision. •

WEDNESDAY, TiIAY 19.
The House received several Pctitions in favour of the .propaga-
thin of Christianity in India, aad agaiwit the Catholic Claims.
'The General Inclnsure Bill was brought tip from the Commons
by Mr. Kenrick, and read a first tinie.--Adjiaurned. ,

THURSDAY, MAY ?O.
'rue Smithfield Market BM was read a &tit time.—Acl;ourned.

FRIDAY, MAY 21.
The Royal Assent was given by Commission to he, Exchequer
Debentures, Irish Militia: Brass Importation, naiins Wilms