§ Mr. Lennardsaid, that he had little to say in introducing his motion for leave to bring in a bill "To alter and amend the Laws relating to the Interment of the Remains of Persons felo de se," as he understood no opposition was intended to be made to it. As the law now stood, a person felo de se was deprived of the rites of burial, and exposed to the indignity of having a stake driven through his body. The infliction of this odious and disgusting ceremony was not, he believed, enjoined by any written enactment, but by an old custom. By the canon law, three classes of person's were deprived of Christian burial; these were, persons who had been guilty of felo de se, excommunicated persons, and those who had not received baptism. It was only in the case of felo de se that he wished to interfere, to abolish the practice of running a stake through the body, &c.; for he meant to leave the burial to be performed in private wherever it might be thought proper.
§ Leave was given to bring in the bill.