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LETTER . OF MB . EVANSOn ' s TO LORD REDESDALE , ON THE . CATHOLIC QUESTION . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . StRj v The following Letter was writtea by the late Mr , Evan-. 5 on , when the correspondence to which it relates occupied pretty much of the public attention , and was sent to me at that time by the author , for insertion in some one of the daily or periodical prints , it was not , however , published , from a circumstance which it would occupy too much
room to -explain , and which cannot now be the least interesting to your readers . But it appears to me , that at this time , when " the public mind is again so much agitated with the Catholic question , the sentiments of a man of so sound a mind and so deservedly respected abilities as Mr . Evanson , cannot fail of being very acceptable to your readers . If you are of the same opinion , the letter is very much at your service , to insert in your valuable Miscellany . I am Sir , yours , &c . Hackney , June 3 , 1807 . J . SPURRELL .
To the Right Honourable Lord Redesdale * My Lori > , Though neither . Papist nor Protestant , yet being one of that much more comprehensive sect , man , like Chremes ia the comedy I feel myself nearly interested in whatever concerns the welfare
and happiness of the human species . With this disposition , yoqr Lordship will not wonder , that my attention should have been strongly attracted by the very extraordinary correspondence which the public prints have given us , as having passed between your Lordship and Lord Fingal ,- and after wards between your Lordship ami the Roman ' Catholic Bishop Coppinger , together with th « narrative and appeal made to the public by the priest O'jNTeil , in vindication of Iris own innocence and the conduct of his
ecclesiastical superior , against the very weighty , and , if not founded in truth , highly culpable charges , which in your letters to Lord F . your Lordship has thought proper to introduce against both . Mr . O'NeiFs narrative is a very important document indeed . By explaining to us what is meant , and what has been so inhumanl y and in more . castes , without doubt , unjustly executed under the
title of martial law ; it has shewn us that the British government which has so long enjoyed the envied honour of being the first to abolish the irrational , ferocious use of the torture in avenging crimes of any kind , and particularly in forcing suspected ' criminals to confess themselves guilty when no satisfactory proof
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 363, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/23/
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