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vernment; tlieh :persons, thereby excl'ude'd
equally injdred.- Now there are many sad) re-poot-
;:ble persons besides the Roinanists; and yt t
neither bear them petition nor cotuprain, nor do Ns e
find ally' good-natured patriot 'ready to volun t ett hitn-
sell in their behalf. ' "

" In fad-, by such a way of estimating "
every one who is obliged to rake a test, the exalt
terms or propriety of winch lie does not approle;,
injured and Upon such a. principle,. all exclusion;
of what kind soever, is an infringement upon the
rights of free agents, and an injury done to tfie mo,
ral dignity of man.
• " If the Romanist is injured, because he cannot
obtain the object of his political or civil atrubition;
without taking oaths tti which his religious scrupled
ohjetl, and if the statutes enthing those oaths arc;
to be reprobated as obsolete, and founded in injUi-
Lice ; what are we to -think of those statutes u hich
have hedged round the Throne, and not only require
the
,Sovereign to' profess and s'„vear himself a Pro-'
testant, but to'inaintain the same'as established by
law ? •

• " 'Now it is certainly very extraordinary, that.
while all other men are to have the liberty of pro-
fessing what they please, %Vithout being pievented
thereby fioin obtaining places of high (lost and
power in the State; the King, and those who are.
in the line o succession to:the Throne, should be
the only persons excluded from that freedom and
privilege. * ,

" It should seem'as if not only toleration were to
be boundLss, but the right qt power also, with tho'
exCe.ption of the reigning Monarch, who must be
confined to one profession, and to a particular faith,
while his Senators, -his Counsellors, and his Repre-
sentatives may go to a church or a conventicle, "-I
mass-house, or a meeting-house, as'best suits their
sentiment or con;:enienee. •
" If it be,said that these Aes were wisely pros
vided to guard the PriJestatit Interest, by Oligini;
the feigning Sovereign to .6e a member ~of 1410. t Esta-
blished Church, and to Maintain the salue, I confess.
that,fsee not, upon any. fair principle ofreasoning, 71
why similar restraints ought not .to he fixed \and con-
tinued around the Other branches of the Legislature., '
at least so far as to secure, vL hat those Aels were in-
tended to secure, the prepolia:rance of the Protest-,
ant Religion in these rains. Now the assuruptioO
of a lawn. in the Romanists to sit. in our- two
Houses of Parliament, 'is the assumption of a right.
to legislate in that concerns the.-: Established lie- '
ligion.; th-.y are themselves .e,llCalit'S to it;
WbiCh is a power and liberty not isp-anted to the, ✓
KING., himself. If, therefore, that body of men,
however respeaable they may be, are " greatly.in-
Jured" by their present exclusion' from power, and ..
the privilege of legislating for the Established
Church ; the reigning 'Altmann, and- all who are
_the hne- of inheritance, are eciu4y injured, by not
having the liberty to choose their own religion ao3
way Of worship, without a legal forfeiture of their
high station..
" Upon balancing these pretended rights and .
wl'ongS, and weighing all the arguments that have
been urged tOr the'admission olhomanists to.a par—
ticipation of power, there -is, if justice lies Witl!
them, neither consistency nor reason in iniposiog
the ptesent Test' and- Coronation Oath upon the
1-leau-ot the Gov;,.ernment -and with regard to dart
.-get; there '-'lllOl, ;If hrreir----a—ropz6,l -
King than a Popish S:ena-te ; naY, coosidernig huh
narrow and iii it the powers. ofthe li,nglisti
Darcht ate, the one- would'bear no prOpOttiou to 1.10,
of the other.

• " Mtich has been said, and great stress pioced„'
upon 'the liberal oleratiOn of goinan Catlinno iii.
Protestant countries abroad, and of their being etn"%,
ployed. 'in' civil and thilitAry affairs with advalitis ,
_te.theTesPe6tive States in whose service they ita%e
been engaged;
" AlloWing this to -file :utmost extent; i must
beg- lei.o;,e to contend, that the case lia nothiog
to do W;i11:die1:1:litn •it is, bro.ight, for-wind to,stlr,
port and ilittstrate. • • 1',4

.4' In. ail the instances so pompously adduced,
the persons were mere casual individuals, and tl°
4hing more thaii,servants,
,Inred according' to thgc
aollnif-..5, rewarded ii proportion to their merit*
or' da,nlised at the pleasure of Cite
.Prince Ot
Mate who employ-cd them. They were never 10-
corporated with the G-tWertiment,. neither had. Oleic
eVer'that authority which -could enable Ahem
as-a part of the State, and thereby intreduce ine3-
Sure's to affect the established faith aml
.As to a toleration, no nation on the Continent 105
been more liberal in this -respe6t thanour
But with regard to. the question before us, tins ro".
terence to the emplownent i.s—Roman Catholics
other Protestant States is impertinent, unless J.
tan be proved that this ,eniployment has been .
communication of legislative power. •
'' the claim so peremptorily set up here, is qui;tP',
another thing, and has no more to do wilt toio
Lion, than reason has With ccitnpulsion. It is
the Romanists have shapt.ed their pretensions repeX
edly in the form of Petition, tind their advocate'
have piteously pleaded' tOr er a lesion o( to •
leration toosds th,:ni; but the lans•n.gepfsolW,tiv
tiOn soon changed into the vocilet aiing chiniour
detuarid;,and'instead of liberty of cOnsLie:ice,
uni%erta cry of 'theparty- was fur the power .°
making and tilirtinist-erlo.A laws, as well with ra
to the ecclesiotical as'the civil part the Constito"
tion." . .

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On the tzth instant, to llatiorcl-street, May-fair,
Countess'of C:3E1;11211, of a Daughter:
same d_iy, at, her tats er's house, - Brik.krivionb.lo'
Betts, the Lady ot the Rev. Dati,:nr •'-,

Lately, at St, ja!rles's Church, -Nlr. Titomas-Ambrose, °,
the. Foreign Post-Ulf-Le, to ivti:is Susan Stewart, oi z..,erw;t;i4.'.
street. ' ,

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On the 29th ult: Benjamin Cif:arei, Fse. of .ort,
. ,_ Nevr.
Essex,. aged. 78. _
•.41
On th,-.: stil init. at Upton, ner.r Windsor, Rear-Admi—,
Boston. . .

On the 7th inst. Mrs. Dale, mother
,ti,., Mr. Vale, -"'
Eolborn-hill, aged 73, . .
. , .on-So4iday last,. at his house,- Cleinent's-inti, Mr. Tl',°-
Inas Hurnall Sttaw. ' ..
On Monday last, at Ware, Hens, after a few days illnessr
Einrna'..EdwardS, relict of lames Edwards, •Ei,(l. • " ,ji
On Stinday senilight, of -the scarlet fever, Miss 03411''',
.Boger, dangitterof Captain Boger, of the Royal Arttilel'lr;
stationed at NewcasTie. '7V/hat makes this event tile 0,1-',.
-distressing, her sister Miss huger was taken oh' by the 50',
milady a fortnight 40: • I - . -