A letter to the electors of Aylesbury, on the Catholick question |
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Pagina 30 - House that we did feel it an incumbent duty upon us to propose a measure on the part of Government which, under the circumstances of the union so happily effected between the two countries, we thought of great public importance and necessary to complete the benefits likely to result from that measure : we felt this opinion so strongly that, when we met with circumstances which rendered it impossible for us to propose it as a measure of Government, we equally felt it inconsistent with our duty and...
Pagina 1 - I have but one religion — the religion of Christianity. Therefore, as children of the same father, as travellers in the same road, and seekers of the same salvation, why not love each other as brothers ? It is no part of Protestantism to persecute Catholics : and without justice to the Catholics there can be no security for the Protestant Establishment...
Pagina 30 - ... can be given with a prospect of success. They may be assured, that Mr. Pitt will do his utmost to establish their cause in the public favour, and prepare the way for their finally attaining their objects.
Pagina 30 - Government, we equally felt it inconsistent with our duty and our honour any longer to remain a part of that Government. What may be the opinion of others I know not, but I beg to have it understood to be a measure which, if I had remained in Government, I must have proposed.
Pagina 29 - Grattan," from which the following. passage is an extract: " If we were one people with the British Nation, the preponderance of the Protestant interest in the whoJe state would be so great, that it mould be no longer necessary to curb the Roman Catholics by any restraint whatever.
Pagina 1 - Catholic brethren as fellowsubjects and fellow-Christians, as believers in the same God, and partners in the same redemption.! Speculative differences in some points of faith with me are of no account. They and I have but one religion — the religion of Christianity. Therefore, as children of the same Father, as travellers in the same road, and seekers of the same salvation, why not love each other as...
Pagina 30 - On the other hand, should the catholics be " sensible of the benefit they possess, by having so " many characters of eminence pledged not to embark " in the service of government, except on the terms " of the catholic privileges being obtained...
Pagina 34 - Incapable and unwilling to hurt the public, —willing and incapable to serve it, — equally destitute of property, and arms to defend it, our duty is .confined to passive loyalty enforced by religion. Let interest, let liberty, step in as an active principle, and you will not find one Catholic in the kingdom but will be as sanguine as yourself in the defence of his substance and the common cause against Pope or Pretender.
Pagina 18 - Are they free men ? I have always considered the summary of English Freedom to consist in the enjoyment of two rights. The one the right of making laws for ourselves, and of levying taxes, through our Representatives whom we have a voice in sending to Parliament.
Pagina 27 - ... been mistaken, her affections outraged, and her hopes cruelly and foully betrayed. By the treaty of Limerick, 1693, it was stipulated that their Majesties should endeavor to procure from parliament the re-admission of the Irish Catholics to all the privileges they enjoyed under Charles II. ; that they should have their property restored, and should have liberty to keep arms in their houses for their defence. On the faith of this, and other conditions, Limerick surrendered to a general who had...