The National Register.
London, England, 1815-06-11 00:00:00

JUNE 11.

preicple, as much generosity, frankness and since-
rity in Catholics, as in any others. What Protestant,
-who knows him, does not respect in Sir John Throgmor-
ton, every quality, that dignifies the gentleman and adorns
the man ? The Protestant landlord, farmer, merchant,
and tradesman, finds the Catholic as fair, as punctual and
as honest as the Protestant in his dealing. The criminal
actions of Dublin, for the most part a Catholic city, are
to those of London, for the most part a Protestant city,
bat as one to thirty, though the population is as one to
fire. Now the fullest Catholic emancipation would not
alter the criminal laws of the country, and of course
would not make the Catholics an atom less under the re-
straint
of those laws. Then, as the conduct of the Ca-
tholics, the third security from them towards their fellow
sehjects.. is such as has been described, even under their
present jealousies and exasperations, is it in the least
reasonable to suppose that it would be at all worst When
those jealousies and exasperatiens would. be done away
by the removal of their exclusions and disabilities ?
Now let us see how the necessity of additional secu-
rities towards the government stands. What are the
only real securities towards a government, and who
gives them ? Why, it is government themselves give
their own securities ; and the only real security for
any government, is the love or fear of the governed.
Oath of allegiance, test oaths and such like resources
have never been found of any avail. Protestant sub-
jects broke them to Protestant. Kings, and Catholic
subjects to Catholic Kings. Ofir Charles the First
was a Protestant King, and had oaths of allegiance
from Protestant subjects
w •' and yet by those seine Pro-
testant subjects as he beheaded. The late King of
Sweden was a Protestant King, and had oaths of allegiance
from Frotestant subjects ; and yet, by those same Pro-
testant subjects- was he driven from his throne. We see at
present in France the strength of oaths of allegiance.
Beonaparte and Louis had oaths of allegiance in turn from
thesaw people, yet they both in turn lost the throne of that
same people. ikonaparte will be again trying the same se-
curities, and he w 14.1 again, in all probability, if they be
his dependence, find the same security from them. Fear
is a real security for a government, while it has no
formidable external enemy, and can keep the governed
in such a state of awe as will overcome every other
sentiment and passion. But as fear is never produced
but by a sense of comparative weakness, if the go-
verned cannot be always kept so fully impressed with
their own want of strength, as to preclude every im-
pulse of the sanguineness .of hope and the madness
o detperstion, and if there is not a certainty of not
having a formidable external enemy, fear, at best a secu-
rity of feebleness, is no longer a security at all. Every
moinent threatens it with destruction. The most acci-
dental circumstance; the most unlooked for occurrence,
every gust of passion, every impulse of hope, anger,
vengeance, disgust or hatred, menaces its dissolution.
Love, always the best, is then the only security ; and,
of coeuse, the greater or the less the love, the stronger or
the weaker the security. But jealous restraints and nn-
steces,ary securities; are the very worst means of either
increasing or obtaining love. On the contrary they are
the surest .means of nliennting it, where it before ex-
isted. The hushaad is never so near the wife's infidelity,
as when he his her see that Le :suspects her. 'Suspicion
begets suspicion, and disgust or hatred soon follows.
The only sure means for a goner hares:{ to gain ami rte.