The Chancellor of the Exchequermoved for leave to bring in a Bill for exempting from the payment of parochial rates, churches, chapels, and other places exclusively appropriated to the purposes of religious worship, and the gratuitous instruction of the poor.
§ Mr. Whitbreadexpressed his entire approbation of the measure, which, in his opinion, ought to have been adopted long; since, for the satisfaction of those religious persons, who were, he hoped, very numerous in this country; but he could not forbear from saying, that he was sorry to have such a laudable measure preceded by a Resolution so subversive of morality as the continuance of lotteries.
§ The motion was agreed to, the Bill was brought in, read a first, and ordered for a second reading on Friday se'nnight.