Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-03-27
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Yesterday at this port OF the packer snip Grace
Brown. Captain Higgins, from Liverpool. We
have received, through Mr.. Sanderson, Of the
Coffee House, London dates to the 9th and Liver.
pool to the 9th Of February. inclusive.
Our own files we're also received, through the
post offiee.-U. s. Gazette.
The London papers are almost exclusively oc-
cupied with the discussions in Parliament on the
Kings speech. Mr. Cobbett has been very 10.
euacious, and has not failed to attempt strength
enlng his arguments by facts and assertions rela-
tive to this country, and has made some eyre
yious errors: for instance he declared that Wash
ing,on signed the Declaration OF Independence.
MIR. O'Counell denominated the Kings speech
a 4" brutal and a bloody speech" The debates
are Of the most pigaant kind, if indeed broad.
er and hunter " ord would not be more express
siye.
The London Morning Chronicle Of the Sth
says:--
In the Hpuse of Lords, last night, Lord King.
iu moving for an account Ut the sums paid out oil
the Iivinss held by Ecclesiastical Corporations to
the efficient Clergy, took occasion to deal out
some verv hard blows to the dignitaries OF the
Church. After specifying number OF cases in
which. notwithstanding the enormous increase IN
floating ministers by the Deans and Chapters
lthe Friars and Monks of Professionalism. we're
no, more now than they were two hundred years
ayo-his Lurd.hip confen,led that this was
most scandalous abuse. and ought 70 have been
remeded long ago. But " experience has prov
ed (said his I.ordship) that from the Reformation
down to the present time, the protectorsof the
church had shown the nsei,es more disposed 10
protect the many abuses Of the church, than that
q reformation should take place; and they had
used all their influence and power, as the first
estate of the realm holding seats n that house. To
prevent reform. Ii WAS their daty to see that
there were no abuses; and ii there were. and
they had no. the means to correct them, they ought
TO apply to Parliament. The Kings Speech re-
commended an equitable DESTRUCTION Of the re-
venues He hoped that this equalization would
take place; he hoped that pluralities would be
done away with; and he wished, in addition, in
order that Ecclesiastical PERSONS might not neg
lect their duties, that they might be confined to
their spiritual fune 'ions.o
The Bishnp of London made very naiiUe de-
fence of the Church. :" When (said the Right
Reverend Father in Con- the Noble Lord SAID
that not much had been done,- and referred to rx-
perlence, he seemed to. forget that it was only
of late years that any expectation had been form-
ed fhear! The imperfectons Of the Church had
oniv been discovered within few years; before
that time, attention had not been directed TO the
subject. aad II ,cas only wifhin a fen gears that
an impetus had been giren TO The clergy"
The imper'eciions of the Church have been
often painted out; bat it is only OF late that the
cry has been 50 general that the Government
could not avoid taking up the subject. But the
RI CHIT Reverend Father IN, COP did not take such
strung ground as he ought to have taken. He
ought to have shown that the union of Church
aud State necessarily made the >former what
the State Wished it TO be-,hat when the
Government was carried on by corrup-
: ton, the Bishops and other high Dignita-
ries Of the Church were raised to their elevations
through corrupt means; that they were bound
to uphold the system of corruption, and prevent
all reform in the Church, which might render it
less efficient for performing its part in the grand
copartnership of coerup,ion-that till the govern
ment Of the State was reformed, the Church was
necessarily hostile to reformation, and that it
osed how completely it identified with
corruption by the strenuous opposition made by
the bishops III Parliament to Reform, aud by the
Clergy throughout the kingdom. IN lighting for
Tory Candidates. The Right Reverend Father
in Gop should have reminded Lord King, that as
the b,osr4 pher and disciple OF Locke, he should
have better understood the doctrine OF causa-
tioa, than to expects pure stream from an impure
source. Men do no, gather grapes from ths,les
The Church, having had its origin IN corruption,
is hardly dealt With when it is expected to be 9th
er than corrupt.
The same paper says:-
We have been led, rather prematurely, we
own. to anticipate the relation in which the two
Houses will soon stand towards each other, in or.
der to explain the distrus, naturally entertained
by many. Of the ability of ministers to carry such
Bill, regarding the Church Of IRELAND, as may
really satisfy the Catholic population of Ireland.
We were well pleased to find that there was
last night very general feeling IN the House,
that 1t vas extremely Ill judged to propose the
Address IN manner insulting to Mr.. O'ConnelI,
aud Insulting to the people Of Ireland, struck at
through him.
The speech Of MIR Goblet last night was in
his happest style. He dashed both Mr.. STANLEY
and Mr. Macaulav in a strain Of sarcasm pecu.
lisr'y racy. Mr. Macaulav, indeed. had affor.
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