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< yf mankind in instituting and submitting to civil government of any kind , is to ensure the protection of their persons and pro - perties , together with the tranquil inheritance of alJ their equal rights as men and citizens , and the whole history of the world
convinces us , that wherever the people have the free enjoyment of all these advantages , their dutiful obedience and affectionate loyalty to their governors infallibly follow of course ; for having already attained all the civil benefits they can reasonabl y expect or desire , to wish for any change in the government , would ba to wish to run the hazard , by means of a revolution , of finding their situation worse , without a possibility of its being better .
Bishop Watson in his late intended speech ^ has had the liberality to suggest the idea of making a legal provision for the maintenance of the Roman Catholic Clergy of Ireland , with the laudable view of removing one cause of the discontent of the Irish Papists . But the suggestion seems to have been made under some degree of influence of the professional Esprit < lu Corps , because to avoid aay defalcation from the revenues of the present estab - lished Protestant Church , ( which are said to be much larger ia iheir several proportions than those of England , and must be Taiscd chiefly upon the estates and industry of the Papists , whilst in many parishes , for want of Protestant inhabitants the benefices of the ministers of the establishment must be nearly sinecures , ) tht Bishop proposes that their stipends should be paid by
governmeat ; that is , by means of fresh taxes imposed for that purpose upon the already heavily "burthened people . It would surely be much easier and more equitable to ordain by law , that wherever the number of Roman Catholics in any parish of Ireland did not amount to one third of the parishioners , the whole ecclesiastical
revenue , as at present , should appertain to the Hector or other incumbent of the established church , and the Roman Catholic mino ^ rity like their brethren and dissenters of all kinds in England should provide for their particular priest ; that where the number amounted to , or exceeded one third , there , one third of th t * parochial revenue of the church should be allotted for the maintenance of the minister of their religion , and that in all cases where the proportional number of Papists was still greater , the ecclesiastical revenue should be divided equally between the
Protestant incumbent and the parochial minister of the Church of Rome ; and as to the superior orders of the Roman Catholic Clergy , for the becoming maintenance of such a number only as "Would be requisite for a decent observance of the necessary discipline of their Church , proper salaries might easily bo supplied by proportional deductions from the incomes of the several Bishops of the established Irish Church , without making any considerable diminution of their Lordship ' s very ample revenues . If some such flan be soon adopted , if their agriculturists be permitted to oc ~
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Letter of Mr . Evansorfs to " Lord Redesdale . 4 $ 3
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 425, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/29/
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