§ Earl Stanhopeaddressed their lordships on the great fitness and propriety of enacting, by a separate legislative provision, the proposition he brought forward on a former evening, and proposed as a clause or rider to the Mutiny Bill. The title of the Bill he now proposed to introduce was, "An Act for the better securing Liberty of Conscience."
The Earl of Liverpooldid not object to the first reading of the Bill, but reserved to himself the opportunity of expressing his sentiments with respect to such a measure on a subsequent stage. He continued, however, to think that such a legislative provision was wholly unnecessary.
The Bill being read a first time, the noble mover named an early day for its second reading, which the noble lord on the woolsack thinking too soon,
§ Earl Stanhopeurged, as a reason to the contrary, the extreme brevity of the Bill, which contained but two clauses, and was very unlike those cloak-bags of acts, which the noble and learned lord was used to.—He notified his intention to move the second reading of the Bill on Tuesday.