The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete - 8 Author:Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Volume: 8 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1897 Original Publisher: Longmans, Green, and co. Subjects: Criminal law Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book... more » you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: A SPEECH DELITBIiED IN A Committee Of The Whole House Of Commons On Thh 17ra Of April, 1833. On the seventeenth of April, 1833, the House of Commons resolved itself into a Committee to consider of the civil disabilities of the Jews. Mr. Warburton took the chair. Mr. Robert Grant moved the following resolution: " That it is the opinion of this Committee that it is expedient to remove all civil disabilities at present existing with respect to His Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish religion, with the like exceptions as are provided with respect to Hi a Majesty's subjects professing the Roman Catholic religion." The resolution passed without a division, after a warm debate, in the course of which the following Speech was made. Mr. Warburton, I Recollect, and my honorable friend the Member for the University of Oxford will recollect, that, when this subject was discussed three years ago, it was remarked, by one whom we both loved and whom we both regret, that the strength of the case of the Jews was a serious inconvenience to their advocate, for that it was hardly possible to make a speech for them without wearying the audience by repeating truths which were universally admitted. If Sir James Mackintosh felt this difficulty when the question was first brought forward in this House, I may well despair of being able now to offer any arguments which have a pretence to novelty. My honorable friend, the Member for the University of Oxford, began his speech by declaring that he had no intention of calling...« less