Lord Suffieldpresented a Petition in favour of an alteration in the Tithe-laws. The petitioners complained of the injustice of taking tithes in kind, but professed that they were staunch supporters of the Church of England, and they wished that tithes should be commuted for a money-rent. The noble Lord thought, that the best mode of regulating tithe would be, by making it depend on the rental. He could but express his regret at the delusion and imposition, he might call it, which existed on the subject of tithes; for it was nothing less than an imposition, to tell the farmers that they would be benefited to the full extension of the tithes if they were abolished. He had been surprised at some of the observations which, on former occasions had been made by some noble Lords against his noble friend near him (Lord King), whose aim was, as he professed, 467 only to improve the Church. But giving his noble friend credit for being influenced only by a desire to correct the abuses and promote the interests of the Church, still he would ask him whether, in the present excited times, when so much mischief might result from his motives being mistaken, he had better not, at present, abstain from such a course of proceeding. In that House his remarks could not be mistaken, but out of doors they might, and might produce dissatisfaction and discontent.