The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-06-16

t,on from so learned and Respectable a oouy
will be received with the attention winch II
deserves, and therefore, snoula hot nav
troubled your I,ordshps with any oDser,a-
tions in support fit, II did not Ieel thut
this was an occasion OH wh'ch any man NAY
we'll be pcrmittedto address your LorasI'Ps
| | do this more readily on the present oe.a
sion. because feeling that am not ~ the
| habit of taking part IN your discussiohs,
will not interrupt the progress OF the de-
hate or thc bill 10 which the petitioners re-
fer fit should come into this house. II IS
NOW tventy-6ve wears since this measure
was first brought into discussion. cannot
forgot with what events that discussion was
~ that time connected. 1t was connected
with the most serious illness of one how no
moro: Il was connected also with the tempo
rarv removal Of one of the ablest, wiscst,
and honestest Ministers, that this country
ever aL.-Fron that time, when gave my
first vote on this Question, to the present,
have never seen any reason to regret or to
change the line, which then took. have
every wear seen more reason to be satisfied
with nv decision. When the question comes
regularly before your Lordships, 1T VIII be
discussed much more fully and ably than
can do it. But there are two or three sub
iects on which am anxious to touch: one IS,
that you place the Church of England III
situation in which no other Church IN the
world is placed the Roman Catholic will not
allow the Church of England, or Parlimcnt,
to interfere with his Church. and yet he re-
ouires you to allow him to interfere with
your Church, and to legislate for it. There
| is another subject still more delicate, on
which cannot, however, help saying a few
words. | speak Il beg to be understood)
only as an individual desire not to be un-
,lcrstood as speaking for any body else--but
consider, my Lords, the Situation in which
YOU place the Sovereign. BY the Corona
ton Oath, the Sovereign is bound to main
tain the church established in her doctrine,
discipline. and rights inviolate. An act Of
Parliament may release future Sovereigns,
and other men, from this oath, or from any
other oaths to be taken; but can it release an
individual who has already taken it, l
speak, repeat it again, as ali individual; but
I cntreat the House to consider the situation
i'll which the Sovereign is thus placed. !
| feel very strongly on this whole subject: |
cannot forget the deep interest which was
| taken upon j. by one now no more. ! cannot
| here help adverting tothc distressing situa-
ton in which nv ROYAL Father was placed
BY the repeated endeavours which were
cxcrtcd to establish these claims, notwith-
standing the obligations which Ills Corona
ton Oath imposed on him: and cannot help
thinking, that to this was owing the many
vcura' illness which nc suffered fiIcre his
4 ROYAL IIighness was compelled to pause
4 | beg Your l.ordships to understand that
am not speaking for others, but for myself
II have been BROUGHT up from my early wears
Il :, nal. i,J
began to reason for myself, ! have enter
tanned them from conviction; and in every
situation i'll which ! may be placed, am de-
termined, TO what ever censurc or oboquy
may be exposed by making this declara-
4 ton, to perseverc in my opposition to these
claims, SO help me God'
/ This speech, as it might we'll be supposed,
produced a great sensation, particularly the
! concluding part, where his Royal Highncss
hintcd at his situation as heir apparent to the
/ throne.