The Sun.
London, England, 1810-05-12 00:00:00

THE CLERGY.

itok4 HOLLAND, after moving the Order of the.
Day, rose-to submit certain resolutiims to their Lord-
ships' House, of which he had given notice. He
conceived, that this, his intention, -must have been,
misconceived by many Noble Lords. He had been
represented as bringing lorward a most mons.rous
poppotioa, as intruding,'. in some measure, •nn the
sanctum sant:torn:4.—ll: h.id no suet.

Nu man respe(ted more than he did the sacred right
of'Property, whether vested in an individual, or in
my general body of men. But when the country
laboured upder such severe burthens.,, he thought
that every class of his Majesty's subjects should take
their share.in them, and thus alleviate' the general
pressure. it had been solemnly recommended in
his Majesty's Speech .at. The conclusion of the last,
and the beginning of the prbsent Session, to make a
...provision. tor the. infcior, Clergy. He was ready
to,allow that no description of men, were_more me-
ritorious. , But • were there no other means of re-.
lieving their- distresses than by increasing the
load ot taxes which already pressed so bald upon
.• the people Was there'. not a. fund in the First
Fruits and Tenths, originally destined for their use,
,Which might now be made available fgr that
pow wi-thimit laying any additional burthen on the
shoukli.ri of the people at large ? The Noble Lulu
then. entered .into an historical eX,amination of the
drigin'aod destination of the First Fruits.end Tenths
from the time of Henry Viii, down almost to the
present times. He particularly- insisted on ati Amt of
that
,Prince, which.authorised- the issuing of a comis-
sion whose duty it was to,re-survey, and re-value annu-
ally the clear 'inipreved amount of the First Fruits and
Tenths of benefices. This law had never been repeal-
ed, and might therefere Wpm in force. By enforeirig
that Act, au ample Lund Tight be provided fur re-.
lieving the distressed state of the poorer Clergy, a
lurid to which indeed. they were originally entitled,
alihough of late years it was DossesSed and enjoyed
by the 'superior Clergy almost exclusively. The
&tile Lord then traced down the history of this
fund through the reigns of Henry the Eighth, Ed-
wait! the Sixth, Elizabeth, Anne, and George 'the
First, inferring from all these different Amts a might
of the interior Clergy to the full enjoyment of these
funds. The Noble Lord concluded by moving eight
resolutions,, five of which were merely historicalpo.
sitions resting-on the ACts he had quoted, and three
more as practical deduaions being Lobe interred from
these Acts.

The Ar6bishop of CANTERBURY could pot help
referring to some observations which had dropped
twin the Noble Baron on a former occasion. They
were certaink,' expressed in very strong and energetic
language. The inferior Clergy were
:represented as
defrauded ar.d 'robbed of what really belonged to
theen by the superior Clergy—but where
.was the
proof ? The Noble Baron -has.quoted a variety of
fcids to prove his assertions; but, of the most ma-
terial of theSe ath, he had omitted (unintentional-
ly flo-doubo the most material clause. He alluded
to the Ad of 1704, and to the clause which provid-
ed; that in all revisions:of the property arising from
the First Fruits and the Tenths, the amount should be
taken from what it
,was originally stated at. '
:If this
ground then wag to be taken away, as justly it.
should be taken away, from the, assertions' ot: the
Noble Baron, the 'whole of his propositions must
tall to the ground—they have nothing else to stand
upon.

The LORD CkiliNcei.L4.)a ar4u:d at length against

EPRICt SIXEhNCE HAI.FisEtTNy.

the 'positions and interpretations put upon. Atis
Parli4ment by the Noble Baron, and contended, that
if •in fact such an A 6.1 as the (.;Gth of Henry VIII.
could be Considered as still in force, it should be re-
Lord GRENVILLI3 differed from his Noble Friend
in the deduetiOns drawn by him from the Acts he
had referred to, and contended• that it was not only
for the interest. of the individuals who ;:ad ern
braced a certain profession, • that all .the advantage 4
attached to that profession shout t. h preset-Fed ;
but that it was also the interest of tho country in
which that profession-'was exercised.
_.... •

. .
'Lords HA a aowaY and RnoEsnALE embrcico.i
the same opinions.
Lord HOLLAND made a short reply, and in ac-
quieSeence with the optniOri of his Noble l' iencl,
.Lord Grenville, proposed withdrawing his resoii.k
tions. _ • •

After some observations from the 'Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishops of London and Winches-
ter, two of the resolutions were-withdrawn, and the
motion on the third resolution was negatived.—Ad-
journed.,