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land fee ) , towards fhibir -prelates and their priests * the most - 'extthifttastic esteem and sjttachment ; -they Took up to them n 6 t merely as spiritual guides , but , also , aV Confidential friends and faithful advisers . The trials of
persecution created a system of mutual affection and support , which enabled each to > beaT up ag * aiast the severities of sanguinary laws . These mutual services are not forgotten ; the sentiments which they generated remain
unchanged ; and , therefore , we never can consent , that our pure and pious hierarchy should be contaminated by such a connexion , as must endanger their just influence , and render them objects of dislike and distrust among their faithful flocks *
Ihesdare some of the results expected , by the favourers of the proposed measure , to follow its enactmeaty but there are other objects also in their contemplation . They
seek , and 'ardently desire , to < testroy the spiritual authority of the * Holy See in £ his country ; and we are confident , that their expectations would be ultimately fulfilled , if they could establish the desired revolution in our
ecclesiastical system ; because expe-Tience has taught us , that wherever ar > y interference of the ministers of the British crbwn has been allowed , they have ultimately succeeded in obtaining absolute and exclusive controul .
Your Holiness must be sensible of the injustice of the imputations directed against our venerable hierarchy , by those persons who express a desire to provide fifrther securities for their peaceable and loyal conduct . Their correspondence with the Holy See is ,
of course , open to the inspection of your Holiness ; and we entertain no doubt £ > ut they , may , with perfect safety to their . political characters , challenge the most scrutinizing and jealous reference to the communications which constitute that
correspondence . Again , their conduct at home is watched with more than common vigilance j the most trifling instance of disaffection would be gladly exposed , and yet their
chatactersiiot only-remain ummpeadhed , but the highest officers of the crown , iresident in thrs island , have borne testimony to their loyalty , and to their laudable ^ arerciae of that influ-< h ^ e , which tl » eir station and conduct
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had obtaifiSd for theto ; ovfcr theiFVespective flocte . 't he tainis ^ ers of the crotvn are already ihvestefl with ample powers to correct any subject ; or stranger * who may disdbey iJih la ^ s ; and iio instance has occurred ftk fhi&
country , of any matf , of any station , having escaped punishment , in consequence of the insufficiency of the existing laws to provide for his correction . . Neither should it be forgotten , that our venerable prelates are bound , by
most solemn oaths , to observe strictly loyal and peaceable conduct ; of which oaths we annex copies "hereunto , and humbly submit then * to the inspection and consideration of your Holiness . "And we ate , therefore , confident that this demand for
further securities is not founded upon any apprehension of the existence of a necessity for them ; but that iilias originated solely from a x ^ di re to enable the enemies of our holy religion , by the admission of such interference and encroachments , to accomplish the destruction of a Church which
they have so long , ineffectually , assailed . We feel that we should be wanting in the practice of that candour which it is our pride to profess , were we not further to infortn your Holiness , that , we have ever eoAsidered
our claims for political emancipation , to be fbunded upon principles of civil policy . W « secjk to obtain from our government nothing more than the restoration of temporal rights ; and
must , most hutnbly , but most Urmly , protest against the interference of your HolintEss , or any othef foreign prelate , state 1 or potentate , in the edntroul of our temporal coiMiiet , or in the arrangement of our political
concerns . We , thei * efore > deein it unneceissary , Most Holy Father , to state to yotir Holiness , the manifold objections of a political nature which we feel towards ¦ the proposed meaBure . ' We have cotifilied ourselves , in thia
memorial , to the recapitulatioil of - objections , founded upon spiritual c * hv > siderations , because , as , on the one hand , we refuse to submit our tfftligious concerns to the contitoul of * o 4 ir temporal chief ; so , on the other , we cannot adtnit any right , on the ptort of the Holy See , to investigate our political ptinciple ^ Or to direct « uf
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fnteWpeiice x ~ Addfes $ &f the Tfhh Catholics to Pope Pviis Vll . 77 $
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1815, page 773, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1767/page/45/
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