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Excerpt from Monastic and Conventual Institutions: Speech Delivered in the House of Commons by C. N. Newdegate, Esq., M. P., On the 3rd of March, 1865
The annexed Correspondence originated in the motion, made by Mr. Newdegate, in the House of Commons, on 3rd of March, 1865, for a Committee to inquire into the Existence, Character, and Increase of Monastic and Conventual Establishments or Societies in Great Britain. Mr. Newdegate used striking facts and forcible arguments in favour of the Inquiry; his speech was afterwards printed and widely circulated in Great Britain and the Colonies, by the Scottish Reformation Society; and it has been considered that this Corre spondence ought likewise to be circulated, as illustrat ing the tactics of the Ultramontane party.
Romish Institutions are still rapidly increasing in this Country, while the arrogant pretensions constantly advanced by the agents of the Church Of Rome, and the seeming anxiety of governments to grant conces sion after concession, may well afford reason for uneasiness as to the future of these realms. The Ultramontane party now rule the councils of the Church Of Rome. Their tactics are no less multi farious than dangerous. They would, if possible, crush all freedom of discussion touching their esta blishments, and for this purpose, when any Member Of the House of Commons cannot be silenced by clamour within the House, adopt other means Of annoyance, and thus endeavour to deter anyone from attempting to investigate their system and institu tions, seeking, the while, to create sympathy in, the minds of those who have not studied the subject.
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