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queens's, or for tiny other parties, their only view
ought to be to do jhetice betteten thentseltes ; for
after all their eodessmira they had at lilt found out
'hot they had no airecees in the 4nanufacOuriug of
sins cuociliatOry Hilt; their ineelliqe had totolly
laded, and they had thaeovered tis selves to he
nothing better 'Bum • bankrupt adventurers. The
"pianists which lie lied long ago formed on the iliiii.
ji•et of the clods's% were not a little heietteswd in the
estimation iti which he helot them by the very pro.-
cattle and ground of she Bill before the House. He
reasoned (es we epprehended the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman) against the Bill firr regulating tlio inter-
course with the Sre of Rome, oral the unfairireLs of
imposiag relltrictsons ors the Clergy to faeititate the
toratioa m WC laity of rights of which they *ere
sopping& m breve been deprived ; no one sidr'Ehere
•sset•wn•• otrtinds fertriarietitoph•.ell to eohnifl.ritri
the increasing pr. satire of demands from the odor.
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No one felt more stroiney than he dull the uteri: s
of those illustrious and dratioqoished iittlivide it,
whom the Bill was intended to relieve. They 1,4
often been sold of the degree of credit which iiiitAtt
or might slot be put lii the fools of Catholics, ;Aid
with triprtrt to Ilsowe individuals whom he had jolt
noticed, 1w did not attempt to deny that they w. re
proper persons to n pose confidence in. lint
they (the House) were not at a loss for informutioti
on the scope and tendency of the Catholic relig too.
The Catholics 16111.4-Ives had offered works of
their own writing for the exposition of their false,
arid the House host col • s opportunity for forming
an opinion on tile effects of that fool), from the
writings of Catholic historians, and from the re-
MAI k t made upon those histories by Prroestaot
contemporary writers. He had not to look it. art
rissersibly of nobles and great nien, however highly
lie respected them, for oily explanation of the
ordure and tendency of their religious belief, to
determining on the qfiestioto of allowing them to
come Lack to those privileges from which they snp-
eased themselves to be improperly excluded. He
was not obliged to place any dependairce on the
description which Catholics gave of she fifth
of thin co ttttt 'union. The only questions for
the House were, first—That was- their opiitien
of that communion ? Arid, secondly, Whot
were they disposed to surrender to the cLinis
of the cromminicaniv ? He learnt that the
principles of the Bill were not at all coeform-
able to the established tenets of the Cathclic
Church ; in Ireland diooeirt, almost to unattiiintY,
was declared against die 8011. He adverted to one
meeting, which hatell‘Wri called by an eminent
ecclesiastic, whose some had been treated with a
eionsiderable deeree of freedom in that House. He
knew not the Right Reveres:lf Gentleman; but fie
respected) the learning, zeal, and integrity which
he had ,hewn in defesiding the doctrines sod
tenets of his Church; 01111 lie wished that he
could have Peen that learning successfully com-
bated on the other side by souse of Ins conci-
littoly adverostries. He was compelled to say that
the atgurnents offered in refutation of that lest-lied
anti revered !meson did not at all affect the matter
in dispute according to any opinions which lie had
been entbleil to form on the subject. In looking
over the Bull, lie found out how unfairly the purities
to be benefited had been dealt with. At. attempt
hod been made to chew that the doctrine upon
which the Bill was founded was coeval with the
Reformation ; hut with all the scot...nos ~i),l
orenching to rxplan an old authority be
text, he thought the project a very bad
great number of Bills had been iiitrodto
that House for a similar purpose with
seat, which, though less ohjectionable,
been swept away. He hoped and trusted,
honour of Parliament, that this would he
which would ever be attempted. lie had r
more surprised at the manner of explanati
to the oath of supremacy by the Bill iv
the extraordinary ...promote which hi
use of so convince the House that oho
the State in framing the oath was not t
thirties. The very authority to whiel
11.1. r. and Learned framer of the Bill
was against him. &shop Burnet detail
sines tof Queen Elizabeth's Court as '
ed to separate the Church front the
goiter, and as having with that tiew t
weight of the question of difference
diesice exacted from Catholics to the
the Pope. Another argument had
strew how much Catholics, as well as
were delighted with the inearures of ~
bells, namely, that both parties reset
same churches to worship. He begget „se I.
to observe the remarks made upon this circinu-
sotoce by Dodd, an eminent Catholic histoilaii,
and by Mr. Charles Butler, a writer of some (Tie-
b ity, now living. Dodd said, that daring the first
years of Queen Elisabeth's reign a great diet-
-moo arose among the Catholics. litany of
them, under appreheusiots of danger, attend-
ed the Protestant churches, in order to secure
themselves from the rigour of the laws peased
opting them. Here was not one word of nutittn..
Imo on the part of the Catlsohcs. The historian
went on to my, that several tracts were published
on the sulqect, and it was argued in different Coun-
cils, until it was proposed as a question of 'propriety
to the Council of Trent, and they declared the
practice to be unlawful. Mr. Butler, slier re. ititig
various convictions which took place among Ca-
tholics for not attending service at the parish
churches, and stating that the tines extorted
amounted to the suns of 20,000/. wen: on thus :
" It is to be observed, that during the first ten years
of her reign a great number of Catholics, en order
to avoid the rigour of the laws enforced swittost
them, resorted to the Pronstent churches." Why,
then, it was not from satisfseor tttt , but oil account
of the rigour of the laws, that they resorted to the
Protestant churches : it was to ovoid the
t. 45/. to the Queen for not attenditig the Pi
parish churches. Ile looked at the hitter
the Bill es the most discordant port of it;
that with deference to those iniociplos .r

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