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-i' be it tnacted, that all such persons shall, before, or
within one calendar month of their being chosen or elected,
make or take such declaration, in such like manner as
persons appointed by his Majesty to places of power are
-required to take and subscribe the above oath by the said
Aet.."

The question was then put upon this amendment, and
negatived.

The question on the original clause (which gave to the
parties elected six months after their election in which to
qualify) was then put.
The Earl of ELDON declined offering further opposi-
tion to it, and the clause was agreed to.
Lord BEXLEY would propose, tkat no person pro-
fessing the Jewish religion shotild he capable of holding any
office to which he was ineligible under the Indemnity, Act.
The Earl,of C.ARNARVON oppo?ccl the clause.

The Egl of WINCHILSEA asked whether the situa-
tion of Lord Chancellor was to be thrown open to the
Jews ?—(Hear.)
Lord HOLLAND said, certainly not. According to
the Constitution such an event was impossible; but the
words which would go to protect (as the Noble Earl
seemed to think) the Protestant religion and establishments
of the country were already in the oath of abjuration, so
-that the proposition of. the Noble Lord was unnecessary.
One observation more. The amendment proposed by the
Noble Baran did not go to give Jews any advantage which
they did not at present enjoy ; it only went to present an
additional bar to their enjoyment of them. •
The Amendment was then put and negatived.

The, next clause was,
" And be it further enacted, that the aforesaid declara-
tion, if the person required to make and subscribe the same
shall reside within the cities of London and Westminster,
or within thirty miles thereof, shall bemade and subscribed
in his. Majesty's High Com t of Chancery, or is the Court
of King's Bench; and, if the person required to make and
subscribe the same shall reside thirtpuiles or upwards from
the said cities 'of, London and Westminster, the same shall
be made and,• subscribed at the Quarter Sessions of the
county or place where the person so required to make the
same shall reside; and the Court in which such, declara-
tion shall be so made and subscribed, shall cause -the same
to be preserved among the records of the said Court."
The Earl' of CARNARVON objected to the clause, and
moved an amendment to enable parties to qualify at the
Quarter Sessions of their respective corporate towns.
The LORD CHANCELLOR saw no abjection to the
amendment proposed by the Noble Earl, which was ac-
cordingly agreed to.

The Duke of WELLINGTON rose to move a clause to
the effect that any naval or military officer, or other person,
'upon whom any place, commission, appointment,.or pro-
motion, should be 'conferred during his absence from this
country,' should 'be at liberty to qualify'for holding the same
by taking, within six months of his return to Great Britain
thelleelaration required by the Act.
After'a few words from the Earl of CARNARVON, the
clause was agreed to.
•.

The LORD CHANCELLOR then put the question,
" That this Bill be now read a third time."

The Bishop of LLANDAFF said, their Lordship's would
do him the justice to recollect that he had from the first
expresded bia dissatisfaction at the contents of the declara-
tion, which he deemed insufficient for their object, While
they unnecessarily multi?lied oaths. [His Lordship hare
proceeded to contend, that the Dissenters being the objects
of the Bill, 'the declaration (which was an oath to all in-
tents and purposes) could not as reapected them be objected
to ; but that as the Ministers of the, Established Church
were equally required to take it, and from' whom no such
declaration being necessary, the declaration in that respect
' was objectionable, being' an unnecessary multiplicationlof
oaths.] He should. therefore prefer leaving the Bill appli-
cable in that respect to the Dissenters only. The objec-
tion to that proposition woe, 'however,that it would be in-
vidious, as it would point out who were and who were
not Dissenters. He, 'however, saw nothing iri that ohje-
tion. No man ought to be ashamed of declaring publitily
the religiouS opinions- which be privately professed. Thpy
knew, to be sure,, that persons who openly held different
doctrines On the subject of religion, frequently exhibited
much displeasure at being rethinded of their free thirikik
—an example of which class was found in the personlof
Mr. Hunie (the historian),:.ashe alWays felt excee.dingly
annoyed at" being' in private accosted as a Deist.'
(The Right Reverend Prelate then proceeded to defend
the Right Reverend Bench against the charges urged
against them.) The Noble' and Learned Lord (the
Earl of Eldon) had expressed his' belief that the Bishops
could not have read the petitions piesented in aid of the
Bill, or they Would "not have concurred. in it. Most ce
tainly he, for one, had net read thoie petitions—he had'nft
time for such study but neither the matter of the petit
tions, nor the manner in which the Noble Earl stated they
had been gotten up, would have produced the slightest al-
teration on his vote. Another Noble Earl (Roden) Iliad
charged the Right Reverend Bench with looking more to
temyoyalities than to the spiritual duties of their high
office." That was the language of persona who , called
themselves High Churchmen. There were, however, two
kinds of High Churchmen—he who looked Upon the
Church as established by the Almighty, and whose sole
care -Was to extend its blessings and its influence over the
mindit of men. There was another High Churchman—ht
who (as the Noble Lord had said) looked only on the tern-
Poralities of the Church—or, as the poet had described
For e'en in heaven his loOks and thoughts
Were always &Williford bent, adniiiing more
The riches of heavea's pavement—trodden. gold,
Thanaught divine or holy e'er enjoyed

_
In vision beatific.
The Right Rev. Prelate hoped it was hardly necessary for
him to state to which of these classes of high churchmen
the Right Rev. Bench belonged, and concluded by moving
that in the declaration, after tke words " I, A. B." should
be inserted, "do declare that I am a member of the Pro-
testant Established Church."

Lord HOLLAND resisted the clause, it being in direct
opposition to the whole principle of the Bill. The Bill had
a healing object—the amendment of the Right Rev. Pre-
late would go to rip up the divisions now partly closed.
To adopt it would be like introducing into a marriage con-
tract a provision for separate maintenance. (A laugh.)
He trusted their Lordships would reject a clause which
went to take away all that was gracious in the Bill.
The Earl of ELDON having, in a former stage of the
Bill, proposed a:clause not unlike that before their Lord-
ships, he should support the amendment of the Right Rev.
Prelate. _

The Bishop of BRISTOL, said a few wards that were
inaudible below the bar. ,

The Duke of WELLINGTON said, it appeared to him
that his Noble and Learned Friend had forgotten whit,
had been said by the Right Rev. Prelates who supported
the Bill, for his objections had been in direct opposition to
theirs for supporting the measure. The amendment would
require of parties to state they were members of the Church
of gngland. That would be going, too far, for he knew
nothing to prevent the Roman Catholics at present to come
forward and say they were members of the Church of Eng-
hear.)—Moreover, the sense of their Lord-
ships' House had already been taken upon the same point.
—(Hear, hear.)—Under these circumstances he should
oppose the clause.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF and the Earl of ELDON
contended that the two propositions were different.
The amendment was then put and negatived.

The Bishop of BATH and WELLS had voted for the
repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, solely because he
felt a religious conviction of the expediency of disconthru-
ing the profanation that arose out of the manner in which
the Sacramental Test had bees in many instances taken.
The Duke of CUMBERLAND was desirous of expres-
sing his sentiments on the subject of the Bill then under
their Lordships' consideration, and trusted that the House
would allow him the liberty of placing his opinion upon
record, which he thought it the more incumbent upon
him to do after his long absence from the country. In
carrying his intention into effect he begged to say—and be
trusted the Noble Duke (Wellington) near him, tvou'd
give him full credit for the sincerity of the declaration—
that it was with great and unfeigned reluctance he found
himself compelled to dissent from that Noble Lord, in the
view which he took of the measure then before the House.
He repeated, he never felt more concerned at any circum-
stance than at that of being obliged to oppose a Bill which
had the advantage of the Noble. Duke's support and appro-
bation. That concern was the greater, as there was no
man professing a sincerer friendship, or who felt a higher
regard for the Noble Duke at the head of his Majesty's
Government, than the humble individual who had then the
honour to address their Lordships. Nothing but a con-
scientious feeling of the rectitude of the course he was then
taking could induce him to pursue it, opposed as it was
to that adopted by the Noble Duke. But having new for
one and thirty years followed one undeviating line of con-
duct, it relation to the es'ablished Constitution and Church
of the country, he found it impossible to depart from it
and considering, as he did, the present measure favourable
to neither, he must be permitted again to 'express his dis-
sent from it. He trusted the Noble Duke would give hint
credit for the sincerity of Vvhat'he had then said, and 116
sincerely hoped and believed that 'that would 'be the onlyoccasion on which it might he necessary for him fniliffer
from an individual for whole charieter he entertained so
sincere an admiration. His Royal Highness' Concluded by j