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London, England, 1842-03-26 00:00:00

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"To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain
and Ireland in Parliament assembled.
" The petition of Benjamin Filly, of the parish of St.
Bride, in the City.of London,
HumblyShoweth,—That your petitioner well knows,
that according to the ancient Constitution of Eneand,
every man of sane mind, and not convicted of indcl. ible
crime, has the right to vote for Members of your 2. to-
nourable House ; and, that reason, justice, morality, at'd
Christianity, are set at nought by those who impede thke
exercise of this right.
" That your Honourable House must know, that ib
is a Constitutional maxim of England, that taxation and_
representation are inseparable,; that is to say, that all
who contribute to the taxation should have a voice in
the choosing of those who are to levy the taxes; that,
unless a man's will be consulted in making the laws, he
is a real slave if he be compelled to obey them.
" That, although those who have the ruling power
admit that this is a very fine theory, yet they have
always opposed the practice of it, and have, inthe excess
of their liberality, often declared that the eleetive fran-
chise ought to be restricted to those who pay direct taxes.
" That your petitioner believes that a Bill Is about to be
brought before your Honourable House, which will call
for a direct tax to be imposed on many persons who do
not now pay direct taxes, and who have no votes for
Members of your Honourable House.
" That seeing that it appears, by the premises, to
unconstitutional and unjust to levy a tax on any man
without his consent, your petitioner prays, that in case any
Bill, Ftpvh as that which he has alluded to, be brought
before your Honourable House, you will cause the in-
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"And your petitioner will ever pray.
"March 22, 1842.

" B. TILLY."

THE BISHOPSANDTHE WELSH
LANGUAGE.
A petition was lately presented by Mr. Ormsby
Gore, M.P., from the Welsh inhabitants of the West
Riding of York, praying for bishops that thoroughly
understand Welsh, in which a very striking passage
occurs. The necessity of having bishops that under-
stand -Welsh is generally admitted, but by the sub-
joined passage it appears that the correctness_ of the
ritual in -Welsh depends on the Welsh bishops, and
therefore that not only a common but a deep know-.
ledge of the language is enjoined by the Act, without
which no person is qualified by law to be a Welsh
bishop. The passage is as follows :—" That your
petitioners look upon the practice of appointing
bishops to Welsh-sees, ignorant of the Welsh ]an-
gunge, is diametrically opposed to the Act of
Uniformity, which enjoins that the Bishop of Here-
ford, St. David's, Asaph, Bangor, Llandaft, and their
successors, shall take such order among themselves
for the soul's health of the flocks committed to their
charge within -Wales, that the book hereunto an-
nexed (the book of Common Prayer) be truly and
exactly translated, and being by them pr any three .
of them at the least viewed, perused, and alloived to
be imprinted, and they shall have power to correct
and amend in writing any error committed by the
printer in printing of the same book, or of any thing
therein contained, and shall certify in writing, under
their hands and seals, or the hands and seals of any
three of them, at the end of the same-book, that they
have examined and compared the said book, and find
it to be. a true and perfect copy. Your petitioners
humbly think that if a similar commission were issued
in the present day it would place the prelates of the
Welsh Church in a very painful and disagreeable