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London, England, 1812-10-23 00:00:00

otinly think that this maybe done -+without clan-
g.er. I think that ttie circumstances of the times
rec,.•n,rnentl, it.

Pnethough these
.are my opinions upon that
question.,-.1 know very well that many respectable,
pious and worthy persons differ from me ; and
there is no opinion that I hold more strongly than
Ibis,—that to be settled happily,this great question
must he settled peaceably, and with the full con-
cnrrence and good will of all classes of the -Pro-
testant - community... I -atn „sanguine enough to
believe, that upon full, deliberate, and temperate
discus ;ion, such a concurrence may be obtained.
I am sanguine enough to think I see my way to
such arrangements es might allay the discontent:of
one party, and quiet the scruples -of the other.—
To give one party a triumph over the other has
never entered into my contemplation.
This is not the place nor the time to enter into
the very delicate and difficult discussion of the ar-
rangements which might be necessary for a final
and amicable adjustment but whey I have said
that I think it desirable, that I think it possible,
to effect such an arrangement, of that desirable-
ness, and even of that possibility, the-mature con-
viction and assent of - the Protestant community
form, in my view, one essential part.
Gentlemen, these opinions are not new opini-
ons of mine, though I hear also that I am accused
of having recently -adopted their. Gentlemen,
this accusation is false. These opinions I imbib-
ed, inherited front Mr. Pitt. Had be lived, I have
no doubt he would now have been acting -upon
them—l say now, because from Mr. Pitt. tinherit-
ed the determination never myself to stir, and to
resist any attempt on the part of -othe'rs.to4tiiyhe.
Catholic Question, during the life-timetlie'
liv-
itt; reign of our beloved and venerated S4eteignr:.
While he lived to the cares and duties .of:his,'sta-
tion, I did resist all attempts to force.: that flues-
tioninto discussion as earnestly as if I had myself
thought differently upon it : and I exhorted the •
Catholics themselves to abstain from pressing their
.claims, during that period.
After a reign of fifty years, and such a reign, so
fraught with advantages and blessings to this na-
tion, we owe, and none owed more deeply than the
Catholics themselves, the utmost deference to the
feelings, to the scruples of a Sovereign—the father
of all his people.
If the Catholics looked to recover their fran-
chises at'a future tint.., it behoved them to look
forward, not as a prodigal and unnatural heir to
the decease of the relative whose estate he is to in-
herit, but with that trembling anxiety, that pious
apprehension. with whicha dutiful and affectionate
son hangs over the sick couch of a beloved parent
deprecating the inheritance which that parent's
death is to transfer to him, and praying for the
protraction even of his decay. In this spirit, and
with, these feelings, I certainly had resisted hi-
therto even the discussion of the question, which
this year I have seen no obstacle to discussing
fully, deliberately, and with a view to the settle-
ment of it for ever.

Gentlemen, I am therefore falsely accused of
aiming at-changes in the Constitution, or of hay.
ing changed my own opinions upon this important
subject. lam persuaded—it is my deliberate., and
settled, and uninfluenced judgment and conviction
-.—that this question may be so settled as not to
hazard, but to confirm and strengthen the Consti-
tution both in Church and State. It is in that
view, Gentlemen, I entertain and have supported
it. And, Gentlemen, if the testimony of those
with whom, and among whenn I have acted for
now near twenty years -if the testimony of the
House of (-commons can be my guarantee to you
for the soundness of my opinions and the rectitude
of my intentions on this momentous question, I
beg leave to 'remind you of a fact, which I state
-not boastingly, but simply as a fact which, ques-
tioned as I have beep, I ought not to suffer to be
forgotten, that, while every opposition motion
upon the Catholic subject has been uniformly
rejected by large majorities, that which I had
the honour of bringing forward a few months
ago, was carried by no less a majority than one
.hundred and twenty-nine.

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