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No. 11,118.

ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.

AGENERAL MEETING of the « So-
ciety for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of
Slavery throughout the British Dominions," will be held
at FREEMASONS' HALL, Great Queen-street, Lin-
coln's-Inn-Fields, on SATURDAY, the 3d of May, 1828,

Ills Royal Highness the Duke of GLOUCESTER in the
Chair.

The Doors will be opened at Twelve o'Clock, and the
Chair taken at One precisely.
THOMAS PRINGLE, Secretary.

„'s Tickets of Admission may be had on application at
the Society's Office, IS, Aldermanbury ; at Messrs. Hat-
chard and Son's, 187, Piccadilly; Mr. Nisbet's, 21,
Berners-street ; Messrs. Seeley's, Fleet-street; and Messrs.
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introduced, he had not abstained from assenting to them,
though he conscientiously conceived that they ought not to
form a test from the principles of any class of persons for
admitting them into office. He had felt a strong objec-
tion to the introduction of these words on principle; and
he now felt disposed to move their Lordships to agree to
omit them, from the effect they were likely to have on all
persons of the Jewish persuasion. lie would not detain
their Lordships by referring to the different forms of words
which had been introduced into other Acts of Parliament
from the inconvenience felt from similar words, and the
measures which had been adopted in former times tel re-
lieve this class of his Majesty's subjects, in eonsequence of
that inconvenience. Nor would he detain their Lordships
by referring to the alterations which had been made at dif-
ferent times in the political situation of the Jews. If he
were to attempt to trace the situation of the Jews itt this
country, after the Restoration of Charles 11. till the reign
of William, he should probably he accused by the Noble
and Learned Lord on the Woolsack of travelling out of that
character which indeed he did not aspire to possess—bat
of travelling out of the character and eneroachieg on
the profession of the Learned Lord. Indeed he would
defy that Learned Lord, with all his ingenuity, to
tell what was their actual condition prior to the reign
of Queen Anne. Iu the reign of Queen Anne, a deci-
sion of the Courts settled their condition in the country,
and from that time up to the reign of George the
Second they were properly regarded as having the same
rights as other persons born in the King's allegiance. At
that period a new law was introduced, which enabled the
Jews to hold offices, and exempted them from taking the
Sacramental Test. By the 30th of Charles the Second,
that Act which exacted from their Lordships the oaths
they took, and the Declaration they made against Tran-
substantiation, was intended to operate against Papists;
and that being its original intention, no oaths of any de-
scription whatever were imposed on- the Jews, nor were
they subject to any Test whatever by the Act of Abjuration
which was subsequently passed. This Act was passed in
the reign of William the Third, and was intended to ope-
rate against the adherents of the Stuarts. It was not in-
tended to keep the Jews out of office, nor did such an in-
tention ever enter the heads of those who planned it. The
single object of that Act was to keep the adherents of the
Stuarts, or rather, he ought to say, as there was then a
Stuart on the throne, it was intended to keep out the ad-
herents of the exiled Prince. It might, perhaps, he said,
from the occupations which the Jews generally followed,
that the Government of King William and of the House of
Hanover had been indulgent to them. There never was
any intention to keep the Jews out of office; and after au
Act had been passed, in which the wards " the true faith of
a Christian" were introduced, an Act of the last year of King
William 111., the Jews complained of being injured by an Act
that never was intended to operate against them, and conse-
quently it had been subsequently proposed to keep these
words out of the Act. It would have been very hard for
them to have been injured by an Act that was not intend-
ed to apply to them, and it would be harder now, were
they, by the introduction of words into an Act intended
to confer a benefit on another class, to be placed in a worse
situation than before. In the reign of George I. when it
became necessary to have recourse to harsher measures, by
inquiring into the state of the property and the residence
of those who were suspected of disaffection towards the
House of llanover, a law was passed, by which it was
enacted that every subject of the King, who had not taken
the oaths of allegiance and abjuration, should register his
name, residence, and estate, besides being subjected to
other inconvenient regulations. This law, however, he
believed, lasted but for one year; and when those who
were of the Jewish persuasion discovered that they could
not take one of those oaths, owing to its containing the words
"on the true faiths of a Christian," they applied to the Go-
vernment on the subject, and the Government made an ap-
plication to Parliament ; the consequence of which was that
an Act was passed in the 10th of George I. for the purpose of
allowing every Jew, who wished to excuse himself from
the burthen of the Act, to take the oath, leaving out
those words which had previously been objected to.—
As that Act was only a temporary measure, and had long
since expired, he supposed that the Amendment in
favour of the Jews had expired also : the spirit of it, how-
ever, had not ; for ten or twelve years afterwards, when it
was thought good policy to encourage opulent and wealthy
persons to settle in the North American Colonies, the Go-
vernment looked towards those of the Jewish persuasion,
and a law passed through Parliament—if he remembered
aright, it was in the 13th of George ll.—for the purpose
of enabling foreign persona, not Papists, to be naturalized
in the colonies—and in taking the oaths of abjuration and
allegiance, the same indulgence had been granted to them
as in the previous Acts he had cited. Tu-e things were
apparent : first, that the introduction of words of this nature
had injurious consequences not within the contemplation of
the Legislature when they were introduced ; and secondly,
that when Parliament had found such to be the case, ithad
exercised the power it possessed in getting rid of the diffi-
culty, and allowing such persons as were aggrieved to dis-
pense with the words in question—(Hear, hear.)—lt was
unnecessary for him to state, that if he were to follow his
own inclination, he should move the omission of the words
altogether ; but if that course should not be approved, there
was another which might be adopted, and that was the in-
troduction of a proviso in favour of those who were of the
Jewish persuasion. For his own part, however—
" Liberare anirnam suam"—
he would rather move for leaving out the clause altogether,
though at the same time he did not feel that there was
any irremediable difficulty as to the words, as they certainly
did not affect the great object of the measure. He knew
that there were some of their Lordships who were of opinion
that the addition of those words were strengthening to the
Declaration, and that they tended to support the interest
of the Established Chureh ; hut he would put it to
those Noble Lords whether it was either fair or just to
avail themselves of this Bill, which was professedly a measure
of peace and of conciliation, to place another badge on the
class of men on whom a badge had already been placed
which had not been intended, and which caused both incon-
venience and degradation.—(Hear, hear !)—He was most
anxious that his Bill, if he might be allowed to call it so,
or, he would rather say, that this great work, should be
dismissed without any such consequence attendant upon it;
and he therefore hoped that their Lordships would accede
to the omission of the words in question ; or if not to that
at least to the introduction of a proviso, which might ex-
cept the Jews from the clause; which, should the former
be rejected, perhaps some Noble Lord, on this suggestion,
would move. He trusted be need not assure their Lord-
ships that he offered these remarks in perfect security, and
only from the strong feeling that the omission of the clause
would be productive of very beneficial effects ; and it was
with that he would conclude by moving, that the words,
" on the true faith of a Christian," should he left out.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF was understood to say, that
he was induced by the reasoning of the Noble Baron, to
see the clause now in a different point of view from that in
which he had originally considered it. It appeared to him
that the clause clearly held forth the doctrine that Christia-
nity was an essential portion of the constitutional system
by the law of the land. He should not, however, support
the proposition until it should come in a more definitive
shape before the House.
Lord BEXLEY was of opinion that the Noble Lord's
proposition ought to be carried into effect, as the prevailing
feeling among their Lordships appeared to be that no class
of subjects ought to be placed by this Bill in a worse situa-
tion than their present. A proviso might be added to the
end of the Bill, allowing Jewa when making the declaration
to omit (as they did at present) the words " on the true
faith of a Christian." To exclude Jews from office by a
Bill intended as an act of conciliation, was pouring bitter-
ness into the cup of gladness. He thought it his duty
therefore to give notice that if no other Noble Lord took ay
the question: he would himself propose a proviso for carry-
ing the Noble Baron's amendment into effect.
The Earl of ELDON could not but think it strange that
after it appeared settled on the preamble of the Bin, and
alter it bad been laid down as an indubitable
all the Noble Lords who spoke on the question, that the
church was an essential part of the Constitution—that a
proposition
should now be made to admit to civil offices not
we. The Nohlf
only Christians of all sects, but even Je
reminded hi of the
Lord, in alluding to the Quakers, remin
by them Noble
Lord Act, and of sentiments expressed
with the
divines Son JesusoriginChrist,
ti
day when the words " religious toleration" would never he.
Now, what the Tuleration Act
heard in the country.
require of the Quakers? Why, a declaration that they be-
Lord last Session; namely, a hope that he should see tbblrye
that is, they were required not only to profess
a belief in Christianity, but is the doctrine of the Trinity.
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