because while on the one hand this measure may be supposed to
exhibit all that improvement which mature reflection and long
deliberation may have suggested, so on the other it may very
reasonably be inferred, that if it be quite as severe in its
provisions, and to the full as partial in its operation, as those
which have preceded it and experienced a similar fate, the disease
under which the honourable Baronet and his friends labour, is
perfectly hopeless, and beyond the reach of cure.

The proposed enactments of the bill are briefly these:- All work is
prohibited on the Lord's day, under heavy penalties, increasing
with every repetition of the offence. There are penalties for
keeping shops open--penalties for drunkenness--penalties for
keeping open houses of entertainment--penalties for being present
at any public meeting or assembly--penalties for letting carriages,
and penalties for hiring them--penalties for travelling in steam-
boats, and penalties for taking passengers--penalties on vessels
commencing their voyage on Sunday--penalties on the owners of
cattle who suffer them to be driven on the Lord's day--penalties on
constables who refuse to act, and penalties for resisting them when
they do. In addition to these trifles, the constables are invested
with arbitrary, vexatious, and most extensive powers; and all this
in a bill which sets out with a hypocritical and canting
declaration that 'nothing is more acceptable to God than the TRUE
AND SINCERE worship of Him according to His holy will, and that it
is the bounden duty of Parliament to promote the observance of the
Lord's day, by protecting every class of society against being
required to sacrifice their comfort, health, religious privileges,
and conscience, for the convenience, enjoyment, or supposed
advantage of any other class on the Lord's day'! The idea of