hear from me again. You tell me I am a party man. I hope I shall
always be so, when I see my country in the hands of a pert London
joker and a second-rate lawyer. Of the first, no other good is
known than that he makes pretty Latin verses; the second seems to me
to have the head of a country parson and the tongue of an Old Bailey
lawyer.

If I could see good measures pursued, I care not a farthing who is
in power; but I have a passionate love for common justice, and for
common sense, and I abhor and despise every man who builds up his
political fortune upon their ruin.

God bless you, reverend Abraham, and defend you from the Pope, and
all of us from that administration who seek power by opposing a
measure which Burke, Pitt, and Fox all considered as absolutely
necessary to the existence of the country.



LETTER II.



Dear Abraham,--The Catholic not respect an oath! why not? What upon
earth has kept him out of Parliament, or excluded him from all the
offices whence he is excluded, but his respect for oaths? There is
no law which prohibits a Catholic to sit in Parliament. There could
be no such law; because it is impossible to find out what passes in
the interior of any man's mind. Suppose it were in contemplation to
exclude all men from certain offices who contended for the legality