curses of Europe, and then regain a lost character at pleasure, by
the parliamentary perspirations of the Foreign Secretary, or the
solemn asseverations of the pecuniary Rose? Believe me, Abraham, it
is not under such ministers as these that the dexterity of honest
Englishmen will ever equal the dexterity of French knaves; it is not
in their presence that the serpent of Moses will ever swallow up the
serpents of the magician.

Lord Hawkesbury says that nothing is to be granted to the Catholics
from fear. What! not even justice? Why not? There are four
millions of disaffected people within twenty miles of your own
coast. I fairly confess that the dread which I have of their
physical power is with me a very strong motive for listening to
their claims. To talk of not acting from fear, is mere
parliamentary cant. From what motive but fear, I should be glad to
know, have all the improvements in our constitution proceeded? I
question if any justice has ever been done to large masses of
mankind from any other motive. By what other motives can the
plunderers of the Baltic suppose nations to be governed in their
intercourse WITH EACH OTHER? If I say, Give this people what they
ask because it is just, do you think I should get ten people to
listen to me? Would not the lesser of the two Jenkinsons be the
first to treat me with contempt? The only true way to make the mass
of mankind see the beauty of justice is by showing to them, in
pretty plain terms, the consequences of injustice. If any body of
French troops land in Ireland, the whole population of that country
will rise against you to a man, and you could not possibly survive
such an event three years. Such, from the bottom of my soul, do I
believe to be the present state of that country; and so far does it
appear to me to be impolitic and unstatesman-like to concede