HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
duty-he hadi to perform, but by the 
yalue of the living in which he 
served ‘The bill was objectionable 
in another point of view, On account 
of the additional power which it 
conferred. on bishops over the in- 
ferior clergy. - It was, therefore, 
most deservedly thrown out by the 
house of commons. 
A motion of lord Henry Petty, 
towards the close of the session, on 
vaccine inoculation, was received 
with approbation by all sides of the 
house. The motion was in the fol- 
lowing words; ‘* that an humble 
address be presented to his majesty, 
to request that his majesty will be 
graciously pleased to direct his royal 
college of physicians to inquire into 
the state of vaccine inoculation ia 
the united kingdom. and to report 
their opinion and observations on 
that practice. the evidence which 
has been adduced in its support, and 
the causes which have hitherto re- 
- tarded its general adoption; and 
that his majesty will be graciously 
pleased to direct, that the said re- 
port, when made. may be laid be- 
fore this house.’ The odject of 
this motion was, in the first place, 
to quiet the public apprehensions on 
the subject of vaccination, and to 
remove the uneasiness and alarm 
which rash, ignorant, and designing 
men had excited in the minds of 
Many persons, by false or exagge- 
rated statements of the failure of 
yaceination, and of the bad conse. 
quences following that practice ; 3 
and, in the second place, it was in- 
tended, if the report of the college 
of physicians should be favourable 
"to vaccination, to vote am additional 
reward to Dr. Jenner for his valua- 
ble discovery and disinterestéd con- 
duct, in-freely imparting it to the 
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97 
Towards the close of the formet 
session of parliament, charges of a 
most serious nature, urged in terms 
of singular acrimony and virulence, 
had been brought against earl St. 
Vincent by Mr. Jeffery (member fot 
Poole), at the instigation, as it was 
commosily believed, of the navy 
board; and voluminous papers, some 
of them moved for by Mr. Jeffery, © 
and others by admiral Markham in 
defence of earl St. Vincent, had 
been ordered to be laid before the 
house. These papers were presented 
by Mr. Dickenson, on the second 
day of the present session, and or- 
dered to be printed ; but, a few days 
afterwards, a motion was made by 
Mr. Jetiery to discharge the order 
for printing them. The pretence for 
this motion was, that printing so 
large a collection of papers would 
occasion much unnecessary delay, 
and Mr. Jeffery scrupled not to say. 
that to gain time was the sole ob- 
ject of the friends of the noble lord, 
in all their motions, according to the 
system of procrastination, which, he 
asserted, they had studiously pure 
sued from the beginning. It was 
unnecessary, he contended, to print 
the whole of the papers laid be» 
fore the house, because many of 
them were irrelevant to the charges ; 
and useless to incur $0 great an exe 
pence, for no one would take the 
trouble toread them. He proposed, 
therefore, if his present mofticn 
should be adopted, to follow it up 
by another for referring the papers 
before the house to a select com. 
mittee, who should examine them, 
deterinine what ought to be printed, 
and reject the rest. But whaterer 
might be the détermination of the 
house upon this pot, he pledged 
himself to persist in his accusation 
of the noble lord, to which he pro. 
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