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landing churches =ld Ohl limes ii Iceland was
onset objected to.
ift SUM declared his decided oppoeltion to this
• there was already a fund of npviatds of
Vot-,000, applicable to the building of churches in
&land, and he would ceatainly take the sense oftbe
Sous on the vote.—The gallery was accordingly
owed for a division—
To me Itesdatices
issis•
sity foe the Resolution
TORSION. RIILATIONS.
SeJ. MKINTOSH stated,tbat,fot the sake of obtaining
gisopoarateAC information on a point of suck unspeakable
he should postpone his motion.
CHARDS AOAIISST COI;ONNL CROSBIE.
lie BROIJGHAM again presented the petition of
Gosp Gowan, after having enquired into his cha-
sm, and having found that he was a man of vera-
tit! sad good reputation, and one whose statement,
arisifick, he was bound- to consider a, entitled to
t:iedic. He had cautioned the petitioner that in mak-
lir a charge against any Member he was bound to
inae good his charge, or he must prepare to suffer
tberosshrnent which awaited a breach of privilege.
lespeed that the Petition be brought up; and upon
twit motion, for lay ing it upon the table, there
saki he opportunity enough fur discussing the
ctallats of it.
Mr. WYNN did not see what course the House
could take, as it was impossible for the House to en-
miss the inquiry. On the. part of Government
there was no wish to screen any offences of that kind,
and the legal Tribunals were open to the Petitioner
for redress. At the present period of the Session there
would be much injustice in letting the Petition lie
on the table.
Mr. BROUGHAM thought the. House of Com-
mons should not be too cautious in shutting their
doors to complaints against their oon Members. The
ease was not without a precedent, and that of Lord
Melville WAS in point. There was also the case iu
the time of Queen Anne, in 1710, of a Mr. T. Fridge,
who having received the price of 8000 tuns of beer
bad only furnished 5000. This man had been ex-
pelled the Mouse, and afterwards prosecuted crimi-
nally. He did not see why the Petition should not
be broagbr up and a day set apart fir its considera-
tion. The Right Hon. Gentleman might then state
what course he deemed it advisable to pursue.

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Kr. WYNN explained.
Mr. U. FITZGERALD gamed the statement that
bad appeared relative to the information communi-
cated to Mr. Brougham on the subject of the peti-
tioner. He had stated to his Learned Friend what he
hew of the subject. The Honourable Member here
read the letter he had sent to Mr. Brougham, which
concluded with expressing a wish that no use should
be made of his name, and that no corroboration

should be given by his name of the charges made
egoist his colleague. While he did his duty to his
sestituent, the petitioner, he was anxious to take no
part in the discussion. Had he intended to make any
t:s4 he would not have done it in an indirect
When he-heard of the intention of the pe-
*Suer, he abstained from all correspondence with
Lis, and had not answered his letter. No individual
pith the exception of his Honourable Colleague)
said feel more pain than himself, at the charges that
had been brought.
Mr. BROUGHAM said he could confirm all that'
lid been stated by his Right Honourable Friend I at
the same ti:t.e, he had not been aware that his Right
Honourable Friend wished no allusion to be made co-
las letter. It was the duty of the House to guard the
lanky of the distribution of patronage.
Colonel CROSBIE was now fully sensible that his
Honourable Colleague had no hand in the charges
that had been brought against him.
Mr. M. FITZGERALD explained.
Mr. PEEL: had been desirous to givelhe petitioner
every opportunity of exculpating himself.
The Petition was then brought up and read.
Oa the motion that the Fetid-on lie on the table,
the Rouse divided, when there appeared—For the
&solution 26 ; Against it, 51.

RELIGIOC3 tOLEBATINt.
Mr. HUME presented a Petition, sighed by up-
vordsof9ooo persons, of whom 98 were Ministers, and
Of these two were of the Church of England. Before
IN stated the subject of the Petition, he thought pro.
pa to correct an assertion he had made last night on
the discussion of the English Catholics Bill, and which
conveyed an opinion unfavourable to the Dissenters
generally. He had no such intention ; and the Pe-
tition he now presented was a proof that he had him-
self no, such unfavourable opinion. The Petitioners
sated their belief in Christianity, and their conviction
that persecutions against the dissemination of Ants-
Cluistian principles were against its spirit, and
meted as incentives to infidelity. He thought himself
that-Carlile bad taken a wrong course for his own
purpose ; but, on the other hand, he thought the
course pursued against him was most injurious. The
language of the present Petition, which spoke in dis-
approbation of that course, was as sensible and as
Christian-like as any he had ever read; and parti-
cularly noticed the futility of prosecutions of a nature
like those which had been carried on against Car-
111e.- He should, therefore, after bringing. up this Pe-.
*taps, submit a motion to the House, in substance
containing the sentiments of the Petitioners in the.
for, of a Resolution. He had been advised by manr
of his friends not to persevere in this course; but he
had determined to do so, from a conviction that he
eas tight.—The Petition was brought up and teed.
Mr. W. SMITH said, the Petition had been signed
by persons of the most opposite opinions.
Mr. HUME proceeded, and observed, that every
one had a right to express his opinions so hang as they
rtei e not injurious to society. He was satisfied much
thiscluef had arisen from the prosecutions that had
taken place. By freedom of discussion the Reforms-
bpi of the Church had been effected,. and it was
h3ghly impolitic to retrace our steps. The Jews had
received peat toleration, and so had the Quakers,
ugh differing so widely from other sects of Chris-
!lra- He wished that toleration to be universal
ligreeably to the precepts and the practice of'the AV.
74°11 of Christianity. After Christianity had stood
against the attacks of the most able and acute men,
*Nu had she to fear from the attempts of a few low
Ind illiterate individuals? That had been the opt-
-11100 of the. most able and enlightened advocates of
Christianity. The language of Culile was in many
ranee revolting to every man of sense and educa-
IX& If left to themselves such writings most have