is right, why not mention it? If it is wrong, why should not he who
enjoys the ease of supporting his sisters in this manner bear the
shame of it? Everybody seems hitherto to have spared a man who
never spares anybody.

As for the enormous wax candles, and superstitious mummeries, and
painted jackets of the Catholic priests, I fear them not. Tell me
that the world will return again under the influence of the
smallpox; that Lord Castlereagh will hereafter oppose the power of
the Court; that Lord Howick and Mr. Grattan will do each of them a
mean and dishonourable action; that anybody who has heard Lord
Redesdale speak once will knowingly and willingly hear him again;
that Lord Eldon has assented to the fact of two and two making four,
without shedding tears, or expressing the smallest doubt or scruple;
tell me any other thing absurd or incredible, but, for the love of
common sense, let me hear no more of the danger to be apprehended
from the general diffusion of Popery. It is too absurd to be
reasoned upon; every man feels it is nonsense when he hears it
stated, and so does every man while he is stating it.

I cannot imagine why the friends to the Church Establishment should
enter in such a horror of seeing the doors of Parliament flung open
to the Catholics, and view so passively the enjoyment of that right
by the Presbyterians and by every other species of Dissenter. In
their tenets, in their Church Government, in the nature of their
endowments, the Dissenters are infinitely more distant from the
Church of England than the Catholics are; yet the Dissenters have
never been excluded from Parliament. There are 45 members in one
House, and 16 in the other, who always are Dissenters. There is no
law which would prevent every member of the Lords and Commons from