that religion I have no hopes of any other; yet I am not forced to
be silly because I am pious; nor will I ever join in eulogiums on my
faith which every man of common reading and common sense can so
easily refute.

You have either done too much for the Catholics, worthy Abraham, or
too little; if you had intended to refuse them political power, you
should have refused them civil rights. After you had enabled them
to acquire property, after you had conceded to them all that you did
concede in '78 and '93, the rest is wholly out of your power: you
may choose whether you will give the rest in an honourable or a
disgraceful mode, but it is utterly out of your power to withhold
it.

In the last year, land to the amount of EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND
POUNDS was purchased by the Catholics in Ireland. Do you think it
possible to be-Perceval, and be-Canning, and be-Castlereagh, such a
body of men as this out of their common rights, and their common
sense? Mr. George Canning may laugh and joke at the idea of
Protestant bailiffs ravishing Catholic ladies, under the 9th clause
of the Sunset Bill; but if some better remedy be not applied to the
distractions of Ireland than the jocularity of Mr. Canning, they
will soon put an end to his pension, and to the pension of those
"near and dear relatives," for whose eating, drinking, washing, and
clothing, every man in the United Kingdoms now pays his two-pence or
three-pence a year. You may call these observations coarse, if you
please; but I have no idea that the Sophias and Carolines of any man
breathing are to eat national veal, to drink public tea, to wear
Treasury ribands, and then that we are to be told that it is coarse
to animadvert upon this pitiful and eleemosynary splendour. If this