the blood of that country for these hundred years last past? and the
folly of the Orangemen in playing this game themselves, is almost as
absurd as ours in playing it for them. They ought to have the sense
to see that their business now is to keep quietly the lands and
beeves of which the fathers of the Catholics were robbed in days of
yore; they must give to their descendants the sop of political
power: by contending with them for names, they will lose realities,
and be compelled to beg their potatoes in a foreign land, abhorred
equally by the English, who have witnessed their oppression, and by
the Catholic Irish, who have smarted under them.



LETTER IV.



Then comes Mr. Isaac Hawkins Brown (the gentleman who danced so
badly at the Court of Naples), and asks if it is not an anomaly to
educate men in another religion than your own. It certainly is our
duty to get rid of error, and, above all, of religious error; but
this is not to be done per saltum, or the measure will miscarry,
like the Queen. It may be very easy to dance away the royal embryo
of a great kingdom; but Mr. Hawkins Brown must look before he leaps,
when his object is to crush an opposite sect in religion; false
steps aid the one effect as much as they are fatal to the other: it
will require not only the lapse of Mr. Hawkins Brown, but the lapse
of centuries, before the absurdities of the Catholic religion are
laughed at as much as they deserve to be; but surely, in the
meantime, the Catholic religion is better than none; four millions