Bristol Channel south, and varying in distance from 20 to 100 miles;
so that the subjugation of Ireland would compel us to guard with
ships and soldiers a new line of coast, certainly amounting, with
all its sinuosities, to more than 700 miles--an addition of
polemics, in our present state of hostility with all the world,
which must highly gratify the vigorists, and give them an ample
opportunity of displaying that foolish energy upon which their
claims to distinction are founded. Such is the country which the
Right Reverend the Chancellor of the Exchequer would drive into the
arms of France, and for the conciliation of which we are requested
to wait, as if it were one of those sinecure places which were given
to Mr. Perceval snarling at the breast, and which cannot be
abolished till his decease.

How sincerely and fervently have I often wished that the Emperor of
the French had thought as Mr. Spencer Perceval does upon the subject
of government; that he had entertained doubts and scruples upon the
propriety of admitting the Protestants to an equality of rights with
the Catholics, and that he had left in the middle of his empire
these vigorous seeds of hatred and disaffection! But the world was
never yet conquered by a blockhead. One of the very first measures
we saw him recurring to was the complete establishment of religious
liberty: if his subjects fought and paid as he pleased, he allowed
them to believe as they pleased: the moment I saw this, my best
hopes were lost. I perceived in a moment the kind of man we had to
do with. I was well aware of the miserable ignorance and folly of
this country upon the subject of toleration; and every year has been
adding to the success of that game, which it was clear he had the
will and the ability to play against us.