expressing and confessing that change? When you quote the decisions
of ancient Catholic councils, are you prepared to defend all the
decrees of English convocations and universities since the reign of
Queen Elizabeth? I could soon make you sick of your uncandid
industry against the Catholics, and bring you to allow that it is
better to forget times past, and to judge and be judged by present
opinions and present practice.

I must beg to be excused from explaining and refuting all the
mistakes about the Catholics made by my Lord Redesdale; and I must
do that nobleman the justice to say, that he has been treated with
great disrespect. Could anything be more indecent than to make it a
morning lounge in Dublin to call upon his Lordship, and to cram him
with Arabian-night stories about the Catholics? Is this proper
behaviour to the representative of Majesty, the child of Themis, and
the keeper of the conscience in West Britain? Whoever reads the
Letters of the Catholic Bishops, in the appendix to Sir John
Hippesly's very sensible book, will see to what an excess this
practice must have been carried with the pleasing and Protestant
nobleman whose name I have mentioned, and from thence I wish you to
receive your answer about excommunication, and all the trash which
is talked against the Catholics.

A sort of notion has, by some means or another, crept into the world
that difference of religion would render men unfit to perform
together the offices of common and civil life: that Brother Wood
and Brother Grose could not travel together the same circuit if they
differed in creed, nor Cockell and Mingay be engaged in the same
cause, if Cockell was a Catholic and Mingay a Muggletonian. It is
supposed that Huskisson and Sir Harry Englefield would squabble