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4 nft Compels hira to abandon the profession of hi& choice ? He has no protection" or remedy . The law , upon which he relied , becorties * a dead letter . This diffi - culty has been left unprovided for , though certainly not unforeseen .
The number of offices , from which the Catholics are thus excluded , appears pretty fully , fr 6 m the printed lists of the army and navy . The various regiments of cavalry , infantry , marines ,
artillery , invalids , the garrisons in Europe and in all the foreign Colonies , the various ships of war of all rates and sizes , the dockyards , store yards , &c . may be
moderately estimated as compris - ing twenty thousand offices , of power or emolument , from which the Catholics are utterly excluded at this day ( 1811 ) by ihe existing laws of Great Britain .
The Consequential operation of ftiis -exclusion of Oatoolicis from offices in the army and flary , lias been frequently dwelt upon in Parliament , but cannot be exaggerated . It roust render many
military and naval officers personally hostile to Catholics , partly from the want df opportunities of society or acquaintance with them , and partly from the very existence of this exclusion . It inspires them with sentiments of habitual scorn
and coritempt towards the Catholics % and influences their conduct accordingly , when on duty . These impressions have been frequently evinced by generals in command , *( anii particularly on foreign
service ) whose names can be meritipn-* d . It is quite natural that infe - rior officers should adopt the tone and imitate the . practice of their ^ oramaajders . In all lucrative appointments within their disposal ,
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or connected with tine array or navy , they invariably reject the Catholics * The Cotarnisftfafies
agents , contractors , prize Masters , pursers , clerks , treasurers , rrttedical assistants , purveyors , storekeepers , barrack-masters , garrison officers , &c , &c . —are dtmost uhu
versally Protestants . Not only are the Catholics thus excluded from all offices in the army or navy , but even they who by chance or vice or necessity , have been thrown rnto the lowest ranks , the common soldier ^ and sailors—are obstructed in the
free exercise of their religion , and compelled to conform to an opposite worship . This grievance , however loudly complained of , is only the necessary consequerice of the existing laws , and of the gerieral Anti-Catholip system *
The law upon this subject is precisely the same iti Ireland a * in England . It . is cornprvzed In the annual njutiiiy act > the manual of military regulation and
government ffefoughoal this eft > phr& Whence it appears th £ t Vy t # fr n tfH officers and soTa ^ ej s '* fectUqiitfj ; Catholics as well as . others , tfie tcomf ^ ttaUe ' to artettd at and dHi ^ - gently to fre ^ tfetit kitch p fa ^ fSs ^ xnay be appointed for the p ^ rposes of Divine service and stiTinoo . The
-prraces hitherto appointed , ( except m sottffe distances confined to Ireland alone ) have been places of Protestant worship .
CHAP . VI . Of the Laws which disqualify tht GaihoticsJrQm holding varitm * other Offices uf trust ' \ Homur and Emolument , not fitrfadfy < tla $ sed or enumerated * k These laws nearly complete the
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Teti&t hates ivhich aggrieve the Catholic * of Iretothd . 547
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 547, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/15/
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