Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-08

DAILY,
BY sNOWDEN & THoRMToN'
,IIsrORrCAL DOCUMENTS.
Correspondence 6et,eses Geofge Sd end Mr. F'1,

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submit 10 your Majesty the result of The best
consideration which your confidential Servants
could give to the Important questions respecting
the Catholics and Disseniers, which mnst natu-
ra,ly- he agi,a,ed in consequence Of the Union
The knowledge Of your Maies,y's general in /.
dtsposition TO any change of the laws on this
subject would have made this a painful task 20
him: aud il is become much more so by learn
ing from one of his colleagues, and nom other
quarters, within these fev days, the extent to
which your Majesty enteriains, and has declar-
ed. :hat sentiment.
lie trusts YOUR Majesty will believe, that every
principle Of duty, gratitude * attachment. must
make him look teeyour Majesty's ease and sd
,isfaetion, in preference to all considerations,
bu, those arising from sense OF wha: IN his
hopes, opinion is due TO the real interest oil your
Majesty and your dominions. Under The i'n-
preston of that opinion, he has concurted Id
what appeared TO be the prevailing sentiments
OF the majority OF the Cahinct--tha, the admls-
sion OF he Catholics and Dissenters 10 offices,
and Of the Catholics TO Parliament Qfrom which
la,,cr the disser,ers are now exclnded) woslc,
undsr certain conditions 10 b. specified, be high
" advisable, with view to the tranquility and
Improvement, Of Ireland, and 10 the general IN
terest of the United Kingdom.
Enr himself, he IS, on full consideration, con-
WINGED that the measure would be attended WIN
no q ,rper ~ IRE Established Church, or 10 the
Protestant interest In G;ea, Britain or Ireland
--,ha, now the Unian has taken place, and with
the new provisions which would make part oil
the plan, i, could never give any such weight IN
Office, or in Parliament, either TO Catholics or
Dissenicrs,as could give them any new means III
isR'T-----==-1isposedl Of attacking The -Es!aRss
Of exclusion COW reHaining were founded. have
ln.cr i,San nar .a.,A 90,
MON removed:-that those principles, formerly
held bvthe Catholics, which made them be con
sidered as politically dangerous, have beer for
course of time gradually declining, *, among
the higher orders particularly, they have ceased
to prevail:--that the obnoxious teneis are dis
claimed in the most positive manner by the
oaihs which have been required In Great ffri
tain, and still more by one of hose required IN
Ireland, as the condition of the Indulgence AREA
dy granted, and which might equaiy be made
the condition OF the new ones:--that II such an
oath, containing, among other provisions, de
NAL Of the power of absolulion from its obliga-
tions, is not security from Catholics, the sac
ramental test is not more .o:-that The politi-
cal circumstances under which the exclusive
laws originated, arising either from the con-
flicting power Of hostile and nearly balanced
sects, from the apprehension Off Popish Queen
or Successor, disputed succession and a For
eigp Pfelender, and division in Europe between
Catholic and Protestant Powers, are no longer
applicable 10 the present state Of things:--that
with respect 10 those of the Dissenters, who, it
is feared, entertain principles dangerous to the
Constitution, distinct political test, pointed
against the doctrine Of modern Jacobinism,
would be much more just and more effectusl
security than that which now exists, which may
operate to the exclusion of conscientious per-
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against those Of an opposite description: that
with respect to the Catholics Of Ireland, another
most important additional security, and one Of
which the effect would continually increase,
might be prov ded, by gradually attaching the
Popish Clergy TO the Government. aud, for this
purpose, making them dependent for a part of
their provision (under proper regu!ations) on
the State, and by also sabjecting them TO super
in,endence and contro:--ihat besides these pro-
visions, the general interests of the Establish
ed Church, and the security of he constitution
and Government, might be effac,ually strength
ened bv requiring the Political Test before re
ferred to, from the preachers Of all Catholic or
Dissenting congregations, and from the teach
ers Of schools every denomination.
1t is on these principles Mr. Pitt humbly con-
crives new security might be obtained for the
Chil and Eoclesasncal Consti,ution>of this
country, more applicable TO the present circum.
stances, more free from objection. and more ef-
fectual in itself, than any which now exists;
and which would, AZ The same tire, admit of
extending such ndalseEces IS mast conciliate
ths higher orders of the Catholics, and by fur
nishing to large class of yoor MAiesly's Irish
subjects proof Of the good win Of the United
r Parliament, affoid the best chance Of giving ef-
feet to the great object Of the Unon-thas of
Ireland, and attachingit to this
country. e
II is with inexpressible regret, after all he /,
now knows of your Majesty's sentiments, that {
Mr. Pitt troubles your Majesty, thus at large, :
With tie general grounds of his opinion, and S
inds himself obliged 10 add, that this opinion a
5 unalierably fixed in his mind 1t must, ihere- Z
nre ultimately xuid. his nnlfical conduct. if I