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London, England, 1812-02-04 00:00:00

above all considerations of religion. The
patto be whether the nation •as French
was now, Y.
der
and not whether it was Protestant or Catlas-
orWtaawas when the union of one or two Ca-
lk? ~ .--ors would have produced a league of the
tO'retipowers. But now Bonaparte, the eldest
VIII a eh bore sway in Lutheran Saxony, in
eatt2ll'itee t Germany, Reformed Prussia, Lutheran
11.3.aand Denmark, and over Anti•Catholie na-
; ,ll religions were united in one great mass of
fl Nand political power, and yet it Was not 80.
ut the Pope that was to be apprehended ;
the thunder of the Vatican, not the artillery
"ireaparte that we were to guard against ! (Hear,
IVhen the Pope issued his Bulls, and launched
ga)
ehrila the weapons in heaven's armoury, we were to
P:ed-against this terrible shock, and look upon the
rt-aamyriads asco.he wasntraining thecom powerpanitiv delynut foughtnimpor•
litagitat. Btelyut in support of the Inquisition ? Phis
„Lary' was contending in alliance with Spain and
the two most superstitious and bigotted na-
'` a the woi •ld When fighting by the side of Ca
*ay.: allies, we ought to feel, that our native Cade,
skald not be suspected. The danger which we
J; to apprehend was from an inundation, and yet
° stepped at a rivulet. Ike p.tssed by through the
jof that spread desolation around in the. channels
eana and yet we stopped on the banks of a stream
pet was already run dry, and affected to think it
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aisisla As to the onus of proof, which his Right ;
sao arable Frisnd would throw upon those who ad-
aged the cause of the Catholics, he must contend,
at aby all the other way. It appeared to him
curd to support; that any man could think any t
gnats danger was to be apprehended to a Constitu-
aa in Church and State, cemented by so much
taa, and supported by so much wealth and
ening of ecciesiastics, from a poor, an nninstruct.
toad an uninformed people. The Honourable
Galernin ought to prove what he has advanced
;aims Catholic faith—but in place of such praof he
iiatsla you, that he will not go into the que tion of
keeping faith with heretics—that he will not go into
ta question of transubstantistion, or the deposing
paw tithe Pope—but was it 'fair to refuse the dis-
curi of those topics ? The real or supposed ad-
berme to a belief of such articles was the founda.
tan for those se/critics against them, to the repeal
a:nit:lithe Honourable Gentleman could not yield his
awn:. He should have proved, that supposing Bo-
rearm to possess such a power of reasoning as could
inns over his Holiness to any views of policy the I
Inds Ruler might entertain hostile to the happiness
afsecurity of this country, it was in the power of
de Pope to aid those views by a spiritual influence
shish it was not in the power of Catholic Priesthood
waist, or in their inclination todisobey. By a refusal
apron such influence in the Pope, and such submis-
sion in the Priesthood, he has refused to prove that
danger to the establishment of this country which
sawed to be the found., tion of all the Gentleman's ob-
jections. He did•not prove, he merely asserted, that
the effect of any addititional grant to the Catholics
tilreland would be a revolution that would speedily
step away whatever they were accustomed to re-
vere in religion, or to venerate in the social institu.
lotions of the country. That question of revolution,
;hid) the Hon. Gentleman trembled for upon such
light grounds, divided itself into two—the will and
the power. Had the Catholic Church the will to
Sinter and give birth to revolution ? The domineer-
ing spirit it inclines to was. not denied ; but he was
not aware that any such -attempt had been made by
that Chtuchaa any Protestant country ; even admit-
ting the existence of such a will, they should
meet it either by reason Or by forcea-by reason in
that Noose, or by force on another Theatre, if a
will so perverse, so unfriendly to social intercourse,
so daring and so profligate, should at any time
attempt to break into aCtian. But, supposing,
thee, after putting such power into their hands,
tie Cathel:cs should so far resign every feeling
of every remembrance of a boon against
whth prejudice had long struggled, and fur
whit!) their friends had long fought ; supposiuts
to
net, that such a disposition should arise, and he was ;
aot one who feared it, would the Church of England
kin danger? That Church had been nursed in
Persecution, it was made dear to posterity by the
Wood of thoie who had fallertfor it ; it was surround.
ed with honours, and dignified with emoluments
armed with sufficient power and sufficient learning--
Vita-km-, hcar.)—To suppose, then, that such a
noir, cemented by the blood of martyrs—Wear,
Isit,heard —and hallowed for ever in the memory of
sea, sigficieriiy powerful to secure the reverence
dell oho came within its shelter, to suppose it could
fall by the admission of a few Catholics to the Legis-
htuee was • • a fear too cowardly to be entertained, and
alma too mean for refutation. His Right Honouia
able himi had Said that the DIMS Itratilldi was upon
the Catholics; it vass'upon himself he apprehended
danger, and he shotild have shewn that his appre t.
-
k'nsions were not visionary. 'I he tythes were an-
ether subject upon •which Gentlemen trembled, and
his Right Hon. Fs i ind among the rest. He would
le ashamed to think, that in any part of theological
-sang he should be foiled superior to. his Right
. Friend--(11 Laugh)--but for a re-
his difficulties, upon this point, be w.aild
the 25th article of the same document
had before alluded, in which it wt's
thaLgreat and polite monarch, of whom
tore *ken, that the Catholics of his domi•
Id pay and acqifit the tithes to the notes-
.. Another danger was, th.tt no security
tdmitted by the CathroPcs. They rearsed
. Veto. To bring about a .concession
there were but two ways—reason and force.
would advise having recourse to the lat.
could see no danger to the Catholic prin-
se grant of such a check. In Russia and
:ountries, such a nomination was allowed ;
naid not approve of making those things a
negociation, as if brtween two hostile
Whatever it was thought advisable to give
given upon due deliberation, but not at
lain of right. It was not to be argued in
because every political establishment bad
exclude that from 'which it apprehended
was a questiosaot expediency e and if those
acceded tosithey should be as boons. The
ttholics, as they -knew, had adjourned their
intil the end of Ilex, month. They had
to petition, and he hoped that every

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