relieved from the real onus, or from anything else but the name of
tithe. At present he rents only nine-tenths of the produce of the
land, which is all that belongs to the owner; this he has at the
market price; if the landowner purchase the other tenth of the
Church, of course he has a right to make a correspondent advance
upon his tenant.

I very much doubt, if you were to lay open all civil offices to the
Catholics, and to grant salaries to their clergy, in the manner I
have stated, if the Catholic laity would give themselves much
trouble about the advance of their Church; for they would pay the
same tithes under one system that they do under another. If you
were to bring the Catholics into the daylight of the world, to the
high situations of the army, the navy, and the bar, numbers of them
would come over to the Established Church, and do as other people
do; instead of that, you set a mark of infamy upon them, rouse every
passion of our nature in favour of their creed, and then wonder that
men are blind to the follies of the Catholic religion. There are
hardly any instances of old and rich families among the Protestant
Dissenters: when a man keeps a coach, and lives in good company, he
comes to church, and gets ashamed of the meeting-house; if this is
not the case with the father, it is almost always the case with the
son. These things would never be so if the Dissenters were in
PRACTICE as much excluded from all the concerns of civil life as the
Catholics are. If a rich young Catholic were in Parliament, he
would belong to White's and to Brookes's, would keep race-horses,
would walk up and down Pall Mall, be exonerated of his ready money
and his constitution, become as totally devoid of morality, honesty,
knowledge, and civility as Protestant loungers in Pall Mall, and
return home with a supreme contempt for Father O'Leary and Father