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able timeline*. It was due is the Petitioner to stale,
. that Ibis delay wits not imputable to hie,. So fdr
• -111bek es hilt Novernber,the hid applied to a Noble
tood, as much distingsn.hed by Inseloquence ov by
his ardent love of liberty, and generous sympathy
-Myth all who were siffering under wriii.g—he meant
1111 i Noble Friend Earl Grey, who had readily con.
- r..1P41..-et 4oritiepetitinsc.:aud -anarcat:ialilin•iiet -
. 'before the tiptoe. illues., however, tio4l prevent-
.esitirit from' keeping his promise, and had caused
,iittsraffsur. to-be teanelbrillfrikffve (laertratili4vhf's) ..
..,isageinent ; and t4t,e,,,,disoflutitoi of: Parliament,
',., ....veil, lit.persaual ivii‘volititropitmeitirealioni of
'..tie addifinnal del..y. . As lothe.evpinktpaiii,..lho
orklitioner was. drivels lorlitheic I.i. '..5., Ornier lite
soiponitletatieit:of OnollitotscliiippingillicClAthliffdir.
. • ...lOU' frail periwig teeltf 'on ;the 'CA
.40alttOe *l4 ne rellifyibiguli_i!:!; a dame* tarsi
arilraleifi
• (14 the present occastbn,.iiri • ,Iltat S.sylitels sue.
:. !110.,P940.4htet1i tiglit. tos.,,tmosue., Ailoold,./wre
Ere
. . _. a te.sutroduce- the retithio-to-the noticiet O.
liptsse. ond, 111 Cleft it , illou Id be. laid an the table,
~,a. found snub motion thereon .s under,illeAietAim.
s:onces of the dove 'night. iii.em tnoper. „put he
hod thought it more
.fair ond c0n414 to adopt the.
Saone he was following. In dpipit, So burros acting
li.tirely according to the ,liiikktio.of theinalitioner,
who had 'hewn the atmost,.desshr to .proceed in the
%mai fair, candid, temperate. and upright man.
oar, and had so condocted. hitnvelf in, relation
• • Ito• the Reverend Pieletes, whose . proccediogs
Crete canvassed in the. Petition. He shook!
,00w. . proceed lei she allegations. of the Peti-
tion itself. In substance •it stated 1 hat the Pe-
-Witt/net was a Clergymen of the Church of Eft-
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hod, regularly ordenied, sod, that, he kid held
a curacy in the diocese of Exeter ; that some few
months before a meeting hail hens publicly con. '
vetted in the &utty of Exeter; for the purpose
tit presenting a Petition' tis.the .Eitig.esel both
houses of Parliament *grime the elitism of the
Roman Catholics. The Petitioner Stated. that has.
Aisle beets charitably inclined towards that body of
people, he had attended at the same meeinsg, sod
bed delivered • speech in. smote to one made
"fie a Rey. Brother, in supprot of the object intend-
Some time after, through the .Isindnees of a
Piend. lie weepresented with.* we livings, one in the
diocese of Peteelowough, the other in that of Lincoln ;
that begot tesjiluonials from three neighbouring
beneficed clergymen, who stated,. that he had lor
three precedisig.years led a niurel,orderly, pious"
Me, and had net. diarists: that *pore of Moe, or
before, so fee ow they knew, held. professed-. or
Itionghiviefrefkions opinems contrary to the dec.
titAkfrei of the Church of England. That he sob..-
.40A these regimenia,ls. accueding to the nominee:
„ ,Fitetops suchcoles, ,to the Bishop of the diocese'
lui.whiell his clerical duty was to he performed, in,
order to have them cousterragootl, bat that he con-
stantly refused its to do. He then wrote to the two
reverend and very respectable Prelates who pre-
sided over the dioceses in which the beings
tee. to know whether they would be willing
to institute . him without the couuter-signature..
They replied, that on loch testimonials they would.
havinable, though their determinotius proceeded
im teases. hot different ground*. He then request-
sd•ao interview with his own ,Diocesan to know the
,resioris why be had refused his counter-signature,
.ocrl in the interview grouted, that Irv. Prelate as-
.attened a right to refuse, without accounting for tired
Lapse. The Pelitiorwr affirmed. that the decision
irmi tint fitilllded on any incompetency or hint-
.peoity to discharge the functions of Ins order, be-
caws the Bishop had at hi, request mode a distinct,
siseelrimer cf that. Subsequently, however, the.
jammed Bishop allowed that the refuwl was.
Vitrified on the fact of his having made nee
of certain words in a speech delivered in the
.hewing of the public. Whir the words were al-
leged to be, the Noble Lord said, woe Id presently
be seen, whether they were ever spoken, sod what
the effect of them would lie, if they had been
spoken. The Petitioner .elfire•ed he had never
spoken them. He was caswervil that siersons who
r.rej heard hint said otherwise. 'His Lordship, afire
commentisie on the severity of proceeding on evi.
desce "Inch there vrao no possible opportunity to
niaut, said that the Petitioner went on to state that
but may hope of remedy was grounded on their
conrickratiun of the Petition. es he was
instructed that the law atiOrded none. The Poi.
limier. the Noble Lord continued, riot only had
various documents to produce in covroboratten of
the farts on the face of the Petition, hut thought
tR necemory to state all the farts winch had come to
hislppopiedge that might serve to ex plain,ne account
Ise the proceedings of the Rev. Bishop. He, there.
kw, set forth thethia °tension had most eandidly, at
her request, informed the two other Prelates that
he had no objection whatever to hip,. on the score
of 'mend character. Hr 1114 even gorse a step far-
ther than he desired, and described to those learned
aid reverend iedividualeslie.: piasoaw of his with.
balding hieouaiter-iigiaatpre. The Petitioner lastly
elieged, tlie consequences' of this step had
fallen most heavily on him. and had. destroyed
fop prospects in hie Prefeeenrit.• He still. how.
eget. held his avocet, which woe . mom, of
surprise, became if he bad. committed oily co.
remind offence which rendered the cottater.44.
itiktore improper, that abould also bit a nemess•
iew kir. being deprived of the curacy. iLasntg mid
re lunch oe the allegstiona of the Petitairo. be.
;Mould observe that it. wee, he supposed, no great
ttkeCtiOn to a went tp tine cossomy, that he was*
wapn
.goliticiere-,-(A'./quak.)-,-Tbe inquiries he
Inek, spade intp Ilse lulu. swill celiversetion of this
iaftkidual,. primed loupe siedateldo, to him.. He
bed letiPW d that, elootll,. qfer,,heintr ordained
(we belie se the feat 18441..14,4nel been ap-
pointed to a, curacy ?II: the cootity of Devon,
itin.cnivs of RI!. 41). lie eitomptionly.
fdrstufttllfu-riltsl ;he Dever ;tem, ahamet. from it
week or Seto.4:ll/14:41,11d io Coo" qtterssi ge •
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• and exercised on this occasion would has*, if al-
lowed, the• preposterous effect of --miabling a
1 Bishop to preveut prefernient io.stiorliet Siorese in
a way he could not iu•his own. Insuch se! ease a .
Shop should be compelled by proviso or law to
Mate his moults of refusal before another 114)010,
and if he did not give his reasons. there should be
Mate
.f another. power to eavoliet. the • intaitsoto a . : 'ffirelllte 1
was mid that there was no superintending jortsdits.
lion in case of a refusal of counter-signature, and'.
..eaten 'ttspnweing• that it vow einiscientiomily • and .
justly execwted. yet this. win :on etiorinona and
• arbitrary diarrebonary peer.' ;If it oat to can.
time, it should be comadereil what injury, sti.hout
mean' of prevention yr redress, might iii Aar
way Are done, not only to a great number of re-
',el.:we :individual.;but to the rights of flair •
LottEoliipa' own property in livings, as pimp*. :Poi,
thtlumb Mr. Jonas houttorably- surrentlered the tore,
• sentation to the porous, yet the law did tot oblige.:
hidi,and if lie had traratieeingty Insisted on the rights
with which 110 had bees iovested, the 'Mien; have
nig had oo opportuisity.lo•present anew, she blinks
• would have lapsed to the Bishops event/lolly. • eta.
he could Hot refrain from expressing other observe.
tions to which the Petition rive rise. The diorite
•lion had been -harshly and intudicintaltesecutell ;
the reason alleged for its exeittoi. was she •delsvdry
of.the words to this ett-ct by she petitioner, in •
speech at a county meeting :.-Nme.waths arf the
clergvnien of the church of England, in sigoing
the eighth article of that church, which contains an
approbation of • the Admission Creed, sod its
.illaronahle causes, rigned What they did not believe.
The petitimier affirmed he had not wed this I.iii-
gunge ; sod, indeed, judging from the context and,
the tenor of the whole address, the words must
have been incorrectly r;.ported ; and instead of
damnable, the word &mutt/tory should be inserted
in the passage. The petitioner offered proof of hi*,
assertion, and referred to these there nwp..rtant
points : He said,look at the newspopirs iii which the
speech was reported at the time, and you will fled
no inch thing—look to the evidence of rooms
who were pre.ent, and they will say that they did not
hear the words—look also to the whole tenor of the.
argument, and you will find that this• would MK '
afire out of it. The Noble Lord then referred to
the statements of three getitlemen a. hearing out
the denial of the petitimer, our of whom hid 1
wit neat him at the meeting ; the pecond was
Mr. tferjeant Pell. rho had attended it;. and 1
.
the third wasa elergetnasi (as we undeollood)
and a relative of Sir I/waxy Gibbs. •He stated
hie impressions of Mr. JOl4C.'O conduct in .a let-
ter, and appeared to be rather against the .COs
tholies than for them. He did mention one" ratt
which was not in favour of Mr. Jones, hot ohisilt
was very far from justifying a proceeding winch corn.
pletely stopped a roan in his carer, to the Atatioe-
ii(Mb sod emoluments which his profession afforded.'
The Noble Lord then read an extract from the •
letter, which. he said, had been submitted to the
Bishop of Exeter, without producing any effect.
Ile then described the general nature of the,
speech which had called forth Mr. Junes's, the main
argument of which was. that coniiiissing the,dsrao.:l
bailie' of the.Rootan Cstlsolies was javtillettliy ills
intolerant doctrines which their etergyergned; and'
by the exclusive creed of their church. Mr. Jot*
replied, that he could not deny thew stihoCribing
such doctrines, bat thot was tin proof of their reel
opinions or practical intolerance. Here the Noble
Lord begged leave to remind the House of lire •
10:11001 of the chinch of Semisolid, nor/la eetra re-
eksiane tales. The came argument, Mr. Jones pro-
ceeded, might be used against the church of Eno-,
Mid. All the members of that church sub- .
scribed the eighth article, which moo/lined an alb
-fiemance of the doctrines of St. Athemoius`s Creed. '
But it would he an erroneous inference that the
whole or them believed it, for iiiiie-tenths of illoole
who signed it did not believe in it. Some of the
,brightest (moments of the church of Englend, the
Made Lord oliserved, had formally and deltbovettly
delivered the same opinion, among whom lie quoted
the names of bishop IVilkins, Archbishop Teeny.
6011, mid Archbishop Tillotson. Burnet had said des.
tinutiy In The History of his Own Time,. a taro
portion. sixty oat of a hundred, signed the articles
*Oboist reading. without understanding, without
caring for them, sod others sign them hccause
they must do so. Archdeacon Paley said the moue
thing over and over. Mr. Jones did not soy. that '
he disbelieved the Athanision Creed, but that i ine.
tenths of the clergymen who subscribed is-did not
believe in it, or at least believed it in a sense dare.
rent from that commonly received. But how, he
asked, would the Reverend Prelate himself like tot
be judged by a report ? Lord Hollaiid here read
an extract frown a report of an address deliver.
ed, we believe, to the clergy of his thocere, at
a' visitation by the Bishop of Exeter, refeiling
to the Coronation Oath. and that taken by the
Prince Regent, in their differeot effects ow the Coe
tholic qitestion—which, with another eacctrilies.
immerge. as reported. he 'dinned to be I Pao
sod deliberate breach of the privilege* of• that
House. Bishop Horsley had once said in the
Howe; on en ',pest from The Court of Chiricerv.
where the question turned on the conversion of
a misaor front the Catholic fairb—s• I do not
. Amen to my that he entered into the qtwatioas
of the invocation of saints. and transubstatitiatiotio
sund such. eannadrams."—(A laugh.)—Bat would it
Sot be ridiculous of any one who bad heard dim&
. words to go and tell the King that Bishop Horsley!
wars • man not to be preferred, for that he looked
upon all the cittetitions which had so mach ogi•
need the•religious world as so many coasixdreinkr OP
He thought that the couuter-signature was gene-
rally looked on merely as a testitnosiy to the
lowly. end testiorawy Of the teatimouial itself—as a
coofirmasion of the substance of the testintdeiy.
With respect to the obscure of soother irsteerly,
follows he should be told that the poor curate Might
have brought his gnate impedit against the Billups
'fused institution; and if they. put boa ripe-
, he was entitled ton demurrer, snot that if
determined in his favour, he criold hove a
maridemmi from •the King's Bench, to compel moth.
Whether that could or could not be done.
not take it on himself to say. but he 'said
milting web a remedy was open, it was so
a beyond the meow of. a poor cosine,. rho it
ao weal to. nurse. After. e variety of other ots-
aervatious. she Noble Lord said. that after Mb :
4atini - should have been read.. and laid on'
(if it ',Mold br). be semi to NW.

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