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its interest. From Archbishop Wake it appeared,
that. the Clergy in Ireland held this privilege,
until the latter' end of this reign, when an Ad
passed, prohibiting the Irish, Clergy from gieing
their vote in any temporal affair whatever : anti
from the period - that the Clergy renouoced the
Pope's judsdidion, and. recognised the 'Supre-
macy of King,lleory VIII. mig,hr. be dated their
extinaion as a Legislative Body -ioethe
From that period the Parliamentaryeßight of the.
Clew, remained dormant,: la& the. Convocation
corittnued to- be summoned, and to meet, and their
privileges remained dormant, although continuing
to exist. "In the reign of Charles I. an Apt passed
prohibiting- -the Clergy from the exercise of any
TemporatpOwer whatever. In the year 1666 the
right of sitting in Parliament was given up,
:when
in lied of it, they had the right.granted them of
voting for 11(lembers'.Of
.Parliament. From that
period the Clergy had been taxed bx the Coonnonse
When the' Clergy were ir the plenitude of their
power, they 'always -felt themselves . interested. in
opposing Taxation, because their own wealth was
affeded; whilst, wherever they possessed lands, the
Commons always•exercised the. right of taxing their
lands in common with those of others. This appear-
ed to be the case in many
,instances during the reigns
of Edward 11. andlll. unless where the clergy
taxed themselves to raise their own Subsidies.. After
this Historical dedudion, Earl Teeir LE called the
attention of the House to -examine how the fad
stood with regard to the.. Clergy's having ever sat'
in that House. In no period of the English History
had the Clergy- in any one instance' claiMed the
light of sitting as Representatives of the CoMmons.
He made a difference between sitting as Represen-
tatives of the Commons, and as Prodors of the.
Clergy. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth the
Clergy presented a Petition, praying to Sit as
Members ofthe House of Commons. In this Peti-
tion they expressed themselves as the fittest persons
to maintain the Queen's prerogative, &e.-e-The Rev.
Gentleman on the opposite side, was the best
judge whether, in presenting himself to the choice
of the EledorS of Old. Sarum, he laid his claim upon
the same ground of supporting the Privileges and
Prerogatives.' of the Crown, in contradistinction
to the Liberties .of the People. A similar Pe.
tition was renewed by the Clergy in
,the reign
of James 11. and was again reje6led. Thus it ap-
peared that they twice petitioned as a boon, for
what he expeded the House would be told that
.night existed as their right. But this privilege had
never been claimed or exercised by them as a right,
Adverting co the Report of the Committee, it ap-
peared, that after a Member's name the term Cleri-
ens sometimes appeared; but then in the old Grants
this term sometimes denoted Lawyers and men of
learning.; it was therefore no proof, because this
word was added to the name, that the persons were
4ti Hcily Orders. Sir Thomas Maxey's name did
not, appear. The case 'of the Dean of Carlisle
(Christopher Perkins) was peculiar : it appeared
that he had received this benefice under a particular
diSpensation, and that he was still a Layman. There'
- was a case existing somewhat similar even at pee-
, sent, of a. Layman, and a Member of that. House;-:
enjoying a Church Benefice.. He meant the ,Pro-
fessor Civil LaW at Oicfdrtl, who was, ex officio,
Prebend of-Salisbury, and, as such, had even the-pri-
vilege of preaching. That be did not exercise it, was
'doubtless to the loss of the good peiple of Salisbury.
The Report of the Committee stated, that in every
case wheie the House had taken this subjed into
consideration, they had uniformly declared the in-
ability of the Clergy to a scat in Parliament, and
. that Clergymen, when:returned, had been obliged
to vacate their seat. Here his Lordship 'quoted in
illustration the cases of Alexander Newell, Preben.
dary of Westminster; and of Robson, Clerk
in Orders. Sir Edward Coke stated, that in his
time a Clergyman was.turned out from his seat, viz.
Dr. Craddock. Besides these; there w,as the case of
Mr. Rushworth.- This Gentleman was returned,
.as not wearing the badge of a Clergyman, and took
his scat unnoticed, and unknown in that charatler.
The Eleaion Committee returned that John Rush-
worth, Esq. was duly eleftedl but there awas no
record of Parliament
.before the House, nor reason
stated why this Gentleman was thus returned.—
But the Learned Counsel upon that oceasion.rested,
his claim upon the. ground that his Client was
• only in Deacon's Orders, and therefore eligible.
, But, after all, this was only the Report of a Com.
mittee liable :to :error; and he contended that the.
naked unsupported decision of one Committee was
no ground for the direction of another, when it
stood in opposition to the Usage and -uniform Deci-
,-sions of Parliament ; he contended that in every in-
stance where the House had taken notice of the
fad, the principle of the Ineligibility of Clergymen
to.a Seat had been heid down and confirmed. -In Aid
of this opinion his Lordship quoted. the sentiments
of Judge Blackstone and Sir Edward Coke, and ie_
leered 'to Ludees Reports.. The Master of the
Rolla, he observed,.liad never sat in Parliament till
of.late yearsrbecause formerly that office had been
holden by Clergymen. " But," said his Lordshio,
I maybe told that the Clergy have a eight to
sit in the House, because the Convocation is no
-more.'' But this is not the faa ;—thc Convocation
still tuber, though their powers are dormant. In
forming a decision on this subjeCt, the House had
t o look to the dry which they owed to Posterity,
es well as to their Constituents. The. Clergy now
knew too well
.What belonged to theM, and that
to the purity of their manners, and the example
whichetheet, the People were more beholden than
to all the iotrigues of a former turbulent Priesthood.
At the saris tinie the House ought to recoiled what
had passed in former periods of History, not What
it had now to fear. He believed the Country at
large was now as completely reprdented as 'circum-
stances would admit ; but if the eligibility of the
Clerma to sit in it were admitted, the douse Would
have half its number filled by Clergymen. It would
give 'tUnethe right of a double, taxation, of them-
selves in Convocation, and also es' taxing Members
and others in Parliament. This, if once conceded
to the Clergy, might be carried to an extreme,
dangerous to the Constitution in Church and State.
:c slid not grudge to the Clergy the influence
eel,ich, Clergymen they deserved, but he never
would consent to give them a right to voto,in the
.1-ieuse of Cummoo, or to allow them to deka

their Pulpits in order to wansier in the crooked
paths of Politics, ,and to degrade their Clerical
character into that of the agents of prejudice
and radios'. But he might be :told that his
argdment equally tnilititted agaiust Clergymen's
filing up any temporal office, such as that of justice.
of the Peace. But the cases were differeet, for to
whom could the petty disputes. in a Parish be better
referred than to those who had every inducement
to maintain its pe:tee ? Or by' ivlsbm could justice. l•
more-impartially administered than by those who,
by their habits and inclination, were peculiarly fit-
ted fur the due adMinistrAion of it r " But it Might
be said that his argument went to the exclusion of
beneficed Clergymen from Parliament, but not of
the unneneficed—There was no just ground for the
distinction: He might also be told that the Rev.
Gentleman opposite. to .him. was no longer a Clergy,:
man, having divested himself of 1-loly Orders. But
here he would defy that. Rev. Gentleman to ,bring
forward any Law, Civil or Ecclesiastical, any Au-
thority or Precedent, to prove that in any one case,
the Clergy have the right of divesting themselves
voluntarily of their office. • By the 66th Canon it
was expressly declared, that neither Priest nor Dea.
con could divest himself voluntarily of his. office ;
and this, with the other Canons, 'still bound the
Clergy. Such a voluntary divestiture was contrary
to Law as well as to the solemn engagements
which the Rev. Gentleman had entered into at his
ordinatiOn,- and, in consequence of which, he was.
put in possession of certain privileges. No case nor
form existed of the resignation of 'the office of
Priesthood. But it might be said that, by the Canon
Law, such an abdication involved the sentence of
Excommunication, and that an excommunicated Lay 7
min was not incapable of a scat in that House. It
was a sufficient answer to say, that the Canon treat-
ed such an one as a Clergyman, and not as a Lay-
man. It was a matter of doubt whether the Spi-
ritual Court could divest a man of Holy Orders by
any sentence of its own, much less'could a man do
so by any voluntary an. The Rev. Gentleman
might, indeed, tell the House that he lead cast off his
gown. But if any Patron were to present bhn with
a-benefice, unquestionably he would be under no
necessity of a fresh ordination. He would say
then, that no person .was capable of the peculiar
privileges attached to two distill& situations. -The
•present must be considered, and should be treated
as one conncaed with Religion. Let the Reverend
Gentleman call to mind the 'Oath which he 'swore
at his Ordination,. to give up his life to God. and
the Service of the Ministry, and to fulfil the vari-
ous duties of the Clerical Office—and let him also
recoiled the words of tlfe Bishop when he' imposed
hands upon him and .ordained him—and let him •
pause, before he again ventures to say that he hopes
he has got rid, by a quarantine of many years,
of the infedion of the Priesthoe' d. Let him recol.
lea that it has been proved at the Bar, how" he
has soleinnly administered the Sacraments, tecess—
Upon the whole, his 'Lordship said, lie must con-
tend, that this Gentleman could not take his Seat
in that House; as a Clergyman he could not do so;
and as a Layman lie cannot, for a Layman he can-
not be. Earl TEMP LS then concluded with mov-
ing a that the Sr EAxna do issue his Warrant to
the Clerk of the Crown, for a new Writ for the
-Borough of Old Sarum, in the room of the Reverend
JOHN HORNE TOOKt, who being .at the time of
his Eledion in Holy Orders, was incapable at the
time of his Ele'tion to a Seat in that House."
Mr. Fox and the CHANCELLOR of the EX,CHE.
QUER rose at the same time, but Mr. Fox sat down
again immediately, and
Mr, ADDINGTON proceeded ; understand_
ing, he said, that the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Fox)
did not wish to speak at present, he should offer his
sentiments upon the subject now before the House,
but he should not enter,much into the detail of it.—
He said he was bound to acknowledge to the House,
that he felt some embarrassment upon this subjed,
from the manner in which the Noble Lord had pro.
posed it in the Motion now before the HOuse.-Llt
would have been a satisfedion to him, if the Noble
Lord, instead of coming forward with the question
in , its present shape, had solicited the attention of
the House, and asked it to form an opinion on the
abstraa question of the eligibility of persons in
Holy Orders, having a Scat in the .House Of Com-
mons ; and, if the House bad fanned an opinion,
that a person in Holy Order's was ineligible, then*
the course to be pursued watild be plain ; but finding
`the question
.as it, was,. it was his duty to -say, that
to one part of the proposition he was ready to ac-
cede; but he dissented from the other. Before he
proceeded further,' however, he begged to make his
acknowledgment to the Noble Lord for the informa-
tion he had received 'from' the speech= he had just,
heard. The-subjea was of extreme' importance,
and the Noble Lord , had taken it up with great.
care, and had 'bestowed upon 'it much attention,
proceeded through it with considerable. labour,.
and displayed uncommon ability in its discussion.'
With rtsped to the latter' part' of the 'Motion;
namely, that which stated that the Honouseble
Gentleman, at the time of his Eledion, in;
Priest's Orders, and therefore incapable, 'of skiing,
in the House" of Commons, he owned,. he felt a dif-
ficulty, not with tespca to the princijile of- that
proposition, for he' had no doubt whatever, that a
person in Holy Orders was ineligibfe to,aSeat in
that-House, but upon the form Ot the propOsitien.
In, going to ancient times, when the wholeisegisla-
rive, Body of this Country sat together, we should
find that they were composed of ilfainater,
Ceres, "Clerici, and' Optinats, it was thus once the
whole body of Parliament was composed, of which]
the Clergy formed an integral part; but afterwards
the Magnates separated froM the Optinistes.,,- and
then the Clergy separated from both, and consti-
tuted a House of Convocation. s It appedrede that
-0 low' down as the time of HE r a r VIII: the
Clergy sat in Parliament, but did not vote in cases
in which the Laity were.concerned ; but it was to
his mind evident, from the whole histOry of the'
Parliamews of this Country, that persons in Iloly
Orders ucler sat in the House of Commons' as indi-'
vidual Members of Parliament, hul as part olthe,
Clergy, the Procuratores Clerici. 'The Noble,
Lord had referred to a Petition which was presented'
onbehalf of the'Clergy toQueen ANN, and certainl},
the,Noble Lord had quoted that mattercorredly';'
there were also Petitions presented to EDWARD the

Sixth, and to Pam the First.--Now the round
on which it appeared to him-that the-Clergy never
did sit in Parliauient, otherwise than as he had
stated, he need not dwell upon, because it was mi-
nutely detailed is the Report of the Committee now
before the HnuF.P, and ' had "'been ably commented
upon by the Noble Lord.---There were four promi-
nentpoints in the Report, to which he would refer
the attention of the-flouse7=-- the-casr of The-Pt.
. of.NWstinlnsiietvin the reign of JANt es ; the case of
.Mr. Roil•ON ; the car of Dr.. CaAnuoic ; and,
the case of Mr. Rits,H,WORTH ; by all -whitir—in-:-.
I stances, the "coinpetency:of -persons in-Holy Orders
sitting in that House 'was. denied. He then took
notice of the Law as, laid ,down by' Lo id -Co tc,c, -
. supported as it was by the wisest men afterwards,
and 'maintained by the highest Constitutional 'Au-
thorities-known to, this Country, down to,:the days
of BLACKSTONE,' by all which it appeared, -that
persons in Holy Orders were not eligible to a Scat
in the .1
-rouse .of Commons. A material :mint,
however, for the House to consider was this—in
the.year 1664 an important change took plate with.
regard to the Clergy, for they ceased to tax them.'
selves, and the 1-lOuse taxed them as well as the
Laity. It should be recolle&d, that the clergy
were exempted- in ancient times froM taxes Only in
reference to certain spiritual matters, although they
had at this day no exemption whatever in taxation,
and when the change took place, it was not pre-
cisely .as the Noble Lord had stated, for, although
the Clergy taxed themselves previous -to that pe-
riod, yet when they did so, their power, even upon
that subjea, was ,not cemplete, for their rules and
orders were -not. efficacious until they had received
. the sanction of Parliament, and therefore the Clergy
could not, striffly speaking, be said to tax them-

betimi-

selves.—The question then came • to this, and it
made a very material feature in the case itself, Whe-
ther that which had been stated by Sir ED W. CDR E

agteeing with the whole proceedings to be foltnd on
the Journals of Parliament—whether, when the

ground of the exclusion cf the Clergy had been
taken away, the exclusion gone with it ? Whe-
the?, f the grounds on which it appeared the Clergy
were excluded, had ceased, the exclusion itself
had ceased also ? He said- this, because he knew it
was a favourite doetfine with some Gentlemen in
that House,, that if the reason for which a Lam: was

ena6ed was at an end, the Law was at an end also
this was a maxim to wlich he did, not subscribe.
In louking down from the period of 164, there oc.

curred no instance to the present time, in which
the Legislature had recogniLed the Clergy as sitting
in that House ; and he thought, it the principle
were admitted, that the Clergy were eligible to

Seats in that liouse, it might diminish the purity,
and impair the .independence of the House.: This
he did not utter with any irreverence for that class
of-persons, but with views purely political ;. for .it
should be remembered that a great part of the Be-
nefices of the Clergy were from the immediate gift
of the Crown, and therefore a fit °Ned of the jea.
lousy of that House: a great part also from the
Nobility, which wits also a fit objeCt of the jealousy
of that House. One-third of the Livings of the
Clergy were disposable at the will of the Crown,
and this of itself was an objeEtion of great weight ;
and it had always been the policy of the House to
oppose a principle of, this kind; becatise• whatever
tended to introduce into the House Influence froth
the Crown, or the Nobility, Mast tend to degrade
tire House. by the ditnintition of its Independence :
it was therefore inconsistent for The House to allow
such a principle to be established. now, if such prin-
ciple had never yet been admitted,. and it certainly
had not. It did not appear, either in the Votes of
the House,- nor .ia_any accounts we .6a.of the De-
bates since the year 1664., where the attention of
the House had been called to the subjed, that a
person in Holy Orders was ever declared capable; of .
sitting in that House—not .one person was returned
of. the description of one in Holy Orders. The
Books in the possession of the. Clerks contained no
such precedent—pp one had ever appeared in that .
House in the.dress, or with those appendages which
belonged to that chariiaer—there was no instance
in which the Eledors.hacl given their suffrages to a
person so calling himself: he therefore was entitled
to say, there was' no instance in which the House
itself had declared the eligibility, nor. any in which
the Eleaors had given their. franchises to a person
in Holy Orders, stating himself to them to be such :
they had been returned', and they had- sat in other
charaelers. He then must contend, -that a person
in Holy Orders was not eligible to. a Seat in that.
House.---The difficulty,- then, which he felt, was
not on the Eligibility of Clergymen sitting in the
louse of Commons, for he was convinced they were
not eligible ; 'but his difficulty was upon another
point,.which he would_presently explain. He Con-
ceived it to.be a fundamental principle, and founded •
oo the wisest-policy this Country. could adopt, to
prevent the Clergy, as.rouch as possible, from in.
terferink in temporal concerns, -except -when called'
on in a speciahmanner. There were instances in-
deed, where the .1(1 rqc .had been pleased to appoint
persons of the Clerical funliun, in- some cases,
judges-41f others, 'Ainbassatiars ; 'but in the ordi_
nary course or_ things, if they were Appointed to
Secular offices,- they were relieved from the burthen
of the duttes -of them;
_of which there was a strik_
ing instance of a Gentlemen' at Romney
BuCtite'difficultyiwiliCh he had hinted sit was this:
Whether, under the-present circumstances the -Haase!
could,, consistently with certain. Ya cii.tmcnt v Pro-
visions now in forci,:ortier a.tteV.Writ to.6e issued!
--for another Member in the place 'Of it9en t ng
in Holy Orders.-:-.4ie admitied,- that Chet
Hon. Gentleman-over- the
.way (Yfr.sTbox4 Witsti
proved. to be_in Holy4).oeis. There ryas no prin.l
ciple clearer than this,. that the,'House had divested
itself of all distretion iit -tryitig the merits of a 'eon-
ofi Metriber to S-Crye ;
that was the great Qkjecl of Mr..GAPNVILLO
and the 'wisdom of-which- had not etr,.he believed,
been dispUted.—Thele.Were,-indeq,-some cases din;
which 'the House had retained its .rower,-frotri die
necessity of-things.---IW,here a Petition was pre- -
s&ted agalnst a pe.rioh, Who Offended a Poitive
rule of law, in becoming a Member of Parliament,
he might be Voted out of the House upon proof of:
the fitet--such, for instance, as thai of a person hay_.
lug a Contract, or being a Minor, or an Alien ; in
such case:, nothing was necessary but to prove •the

faa, either that saw Contra& existed, eiat ti c
party, was a Minor, or an •Aliet,, and thellou=
ordered the new Wt it to be issued immediately,
because there being ri o other mode, a now Writ must
necessarily issue; hilt the difficulty 'irith him, was
owing to the great t ::spett he had for the authority
of those Who enters ained doubts on the question
now before the House, as to the eligibility of per-
• T T • _, _IT 'T.

case was not doubttlil in his own mind, but it WAS
doubtful in the minds of those whose °pillions he

whOse opinions were won record in a recent deei-
.sioll.:—.llli case of Mr. Ru.saw 0 itjti was this—he
Orders, .was petiti6ned 'against, as-
!being incapable: of 'being elected or sitting in that',
I-louse; and he 'was declated duly cletted, and he was
described as Fa) NV AR. D RU S R Ili, Esquire. The
'HOtise declared Rustr*o-rit; being a Deaeoli7
',was capable of: sitting in the House., A distinction
n Ddeasenp '
that of a Prieson.-hts.t•he was convinced, upon pert.
isal of thellistanthorities, and upon a good de:d of
irefleaion •upon the:csubjett, shat there was no. suck .
fdistinaion in reality—the Clerical charaaer, he was .
persuaded,. was the same in both. - The case in this
• restteCt was not- at all doubtful in his own mind, but
it was so in the minds of others, to whose senti-
ments he was disposed, and he was indeed bound to-
pay respell-. The difficulty, then, he had was this :
A policy' had been now some years adopted, frcius
which he•could not -advise
.the House to depart ; he
meant the enactment of Mr.Gßtiivi lAA's Bill ; to
that were Contested EleCtions referred in general.--
Within a few years a question had occurred,. re-
speeting, whether a person who held the °Hide-of
Secretary of State was held a Member of- that'
House : Mr. BURKE'S Bill aided those who were
concerned in the disposal of that point ; and, indeed,
the true question in that case was, who was to be
called the Third Secretary of State? So the other
day a doubt had been started, respecting the Eligibi-
lity of his Noble Friend (Lord IlAn.x.tsatiaTii It •
was not a doubtful pint of Law—a -language not
tolerated in some places ; and he should endeavour
to speak in a manner that shOuld not offend.tbe
•
chastest cars upon this subjea; and say, it was .a.
point on which doubts had been entertained;.-and-
his; Noble Friend took a course which the House
knew, and which set that question at rest. He
therefore should wish that the question' now before'
the House should not be adopted, because it satinet}
to call 'upon the House to incroach upon the provi- •
sion of Nil-. GRENVILLEIS.BiII... He knew theit
was a disposition to exclude every thing that was-
very inconvenient. The ars-upreattqn al ioecovue-.
n;ent; had been pushed too far, ancLit might be,
made to go so far, -as to do away a great deal old •
the good sense of many of the Laws by which-we
were governed. There were poio:s, however, on
which the Inconvenience was an answer to a propo-
sition, although it•was liable to no ether obje&idu:,-
Suppose the Hotise were to agree to the. Motion of
the Noble Lord, what would be. the pray ioal drat
of it ? Was there any thing. binding on those who:
had elated the Hein. Gentleman not to 'return him
:again ?- Could they by any Vote, like that pro..
posed by 'the Noble-Lord, be precluded from re ":
. turning him again ?, If he was again returned, and
a. Petition were to be presented against him, that
Petition.mUst„ under _the authority or Mr. GR. EX.:
V ILL E'S Bill, be referred' to a Commiitee, which
Committee, he hoped, would not differ froni th
House yet, without anv.'contumacy, they-might
differ :from the Resolution of the
louse, sup_
posing- the House to form -one, according to the
.tenor of the Motion now before it ; and that,
of itself, would create much embarrassment in thq •
proceedings of - Parliament. If' ,no Petition 'wall
presented, the ca.le- would come again in the shape,i
it now stood in, and so be perpetually, unless.
the Legislature were to apply a remedy to remov,e
the whole of the evil. at once. His wish was, CO
save the House the disgrace into which it would-be
thrown by such .a coUrse.' He looked at the ino,x.
'pedieney of allowing-persons in Holy Orders to sit
in that House : and, to obviate the whole of it, a
Bill, in his opinion, - should be • prepared; for that
purpose, and, he verilY believed, if such a Bill was
brought forward,. there was no measure, on the ge.
irrai Principle of ivhich there -was more agreement
of opinion, although-perhaps there might be some (lit.
ficulty in the detail. He bad no difficulty in saying,
'nor had he any. objection to hisdeclaration being re.
corded,_ t hat a person in Holy Orders was not eligible
to a seat in that House, that the, Clerical Chirac-let
was indelible, and that the Canon, of isso3,.built
on another- a little while preceding, was one of
sufficient authority to he hinding-on the opinion of
thaflioose, and to he of the best authority—That
Canon had declared, that no
person in-Holy Orders
could interfere in' temporallatFairs under the penalty
of Excommnnication.—He, would. ir:deed` remain a
Deacon or a Priest as before, but it would be a
great deal too Mitch .to say, that he could thereby
so divest himself of the Clerical Character, as to be
entitled •to take up. other privileges which that
charaaer Was not entitled' to.-=Could any body
say, that if such a- person•'was presented With any
Church, preferment, he Would not rake it ?—Cer.
vainly -be- could not ; and lie Wished it to-be im.
pressed- upon 'the -House, that the charaaer ob.
mined l'e'by Holy Qtders was indelible; he had
stated Abe:ground .an which that- opinion was
foUodedi'and-therefore, -he'did not-feel it, necessary
to- detain..thell-16u-se much farther : Ile :oust how..
-ever, oWe'r re; that those. io might hoot opinion
• that a new- Writ.ought..to:isSue, in consequence of
:the ncligi hilitY of Vie. Hon. Memi:Ser;' might also be
the subjej
•., , .
.of opinion,. that. an.A4ofl arlooncot.would be nee
cessary -to set the uuestion re:q ; and it was
.
put :tn
'posterity,..as 'well as the present generation, byoile
It't'riat-tuthteh7;l_4i'cis'i-lia'tuunre°tshould bind
House more_of • than discretion which ttn,. always
be n:trlded by unternlinty. Those who thought
a4saleta°a.bgrecett:}l:ert paitjeular,, aritt Vto (nt
that the ineligibil4 was iocont.eitible, and on&14
okbesoon'principle, if it were not 'anon prt:cecieut,
for the supporcof the indei:.en.3.ence •tl:e
well as to•preserve the spirit of Mr. s I.;itio
Art must also desire that an A shouia tae put.
Fo°rseheofhPadrenvoe ndti ifEtl icna sscay. firnogra4 4 c:.
his occuermn,
again,
Was contrary to the Let-et C,;;;l:setk,../;.Paritaw.,.,„.;.