The Statesman.
London, England, 1811-03-27 00:00:00

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end learning; and wisdom, than he (Earl Stanisoi
premium to pretend to. But where w
they to be kernel Was his humanity to be fur
ip the Abolition of the inhuman Slave Ty
".• Which Abolition he always opposed, till at
Parliament, by a leered law carried it, vie
that to be bitumen and unjust v.:hid' he
always supported I Was his 'foresight to
discerned, .in
,his once projected march to Pm
Was his superior policy to be seen in our cui
mercial ,ceedit; tin his, setting the, world by
tett Arid ills wise management of the par
with tkeaeriea ? Were his liberality. tind his jus
to hi foetid in his refusincto make a laW of
freedom of conscience which he could nut di
ought to be law ? Some good, however, lad
ented
_trete ertileay..uring to get this Matter.
cussed.. The Minister, after what had passed,
what he had been compelled to admit, dare not ,
tome fp se io this respect contrary to the rights, of
conscience; against a fellow subject, lie. begged
the Bight Bee. Prelates' attention to the rights of
conscience. Suppose any of their. Lordships, they
being all Protestants as he himself was, was to
be at CoristAntieople,. where •thol established cell-
gioliwrog Mdhometanisrn, or in Spameinone the Ca.
addict, or in some town inhabited hy Jcws, and
they were ordered to attend it the lifeique, or et the
Mass, or In the Synagogues : how would they like
it I What would they of s4ti oPplbssion ?
.I.ot them, therefore, do as they would be denety !
Suppose many of these great bodies of Diseepters, of
*grim sorts, were to be harassed in their religious
feelings, who could answer for the copse.
quences ? There . were people in this country,
who knew better; when they had cause of coin.
plaints then to assail power.in its strongest places.;
and that was very natural when theie were weak
or sure places to attack. .. It was no Use to attack
Achilles upon hie face or_ his arms, his breast
or his thighs, for there he was invulnerable,
but he could be hit upon the heel, and there
the felow was vulnerable. Now there were
some Mogi ;which, io certaCrt cases; might draw
the oetice of lorn.• people. There were such things
tin tythes, which the farmer and the landed, iutorest
were Dot remarkably fond of. He mentioned such
possibilities as-fit for their Lordships' consideration.
Ile implored all their Lordships to weigh the subject
of this bill, maturely. Let u hem (retire to themselves
the possible case of an Officer having ordered a
pram to a church contrary to the maq's consciente,
the Officer possibly not knowing of the general
der. Suppose the man rettised to go, saying, gg I
strou't." Suppose a scuffle ensued, and either the
°Seer, or the private Should lose his fife in the fray ?
Would it not be a shocking case? Why not make
a law, and provide the best remedy
,they could-against
the possibility of such `alartning'dingers. What a
dresidfol degree of irritation might be occasioned
!ty. our present tryitem Under the forms of Courts.
Martial, the Most deeadful punishments were some.
timed inflicted. he then read a Proclamation 'of
. GOvernor frislop in Trinidad, prociainting Martial,
iate there. $e read aka part of 'an.setueot of a
e rson who Avis
,Oenteheed to. With ears,
lytd to lose his life ir liP Vcierned to the
Attie
.v.i.:l*.us "oho,. obsertr.iLivits, .he ertsset: en

41te4r Lortisb!o""-stil?rtli the
.iniiii)rtanc• of the

subject...,—Toe rip;hts of eon:Masco were e:t
to all: and it did not become them to ju44e
Arot, altd coerie- whers. They were now in t!:eir
sober aeon dry must be in their shrouds.
They should think of the short space of time
allotted to them here—of the small place.they
occupied in this wOrld—of the insignificance of this
"world, and the whole solar system, compared with
that universe swots*, 'us, in which God reigus:
They should reflect ou What they owed to others as
well as themselves, ad part of the duty they owed

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to that Great Being, besides whom there was 'no
'other being worthy of consideration. lie washed
his hands tit all the ill consequences that might
happen. • -
Lord REDESDALE replied •to Earl Stanhope,
and said, the affairs of Trinidad bad no application.
There was sufficient seenrity alreadY.by law for the
desired purpose. The Legislature bad already re-
moved disabilities from Catholics as far as, to its
wisdom seemed prudent.. He believed the Catho-
lics in general were satisfied on the points the Noble
Earl bad spoken to, whose speeches on these sub-
jects had a tendency to brill the Established Church
Into tritium and ridicule, and gave a preference to
the character of Dissenters.
Lord HOLLAND very ably defendeJ the prin-
ciples of girl Stanhope's sill, and declared the
sight 'of conscience .to be one, which no Church,
State, or Kiug had
,a dealt() take away., ,
, The Earltof CARLISLE spoke in favour el the
Bill. . •
Earl S-TANHOPE defended himself from the
charge of ratting imputations on the Church of
England. He complained of the manner in which
his clause and hill had been treated by Noble Lords,
who put him io the situation of the
,butcher with
tivolhaeres, one of whom. stolO the butcher's
•iatat and gave it to the other. When the Man
wanted his 'own, he that took it butit riot, and he
that had it did nut take it. Ed lames.] 'He coo-
eluded with 4 lariat), of arguments.
0,1 the motion of the Eari of LIVERPOOL,
Abe secofittreading wirpostpuned till tkat day six
isonths.—Adjouraed.