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* ipon to say a few words in reply Ao so \ H-founded , so injurious a charge : a charge , however , to which I shall always very willingly ^ expose myself , whenever a proper " opportp . ni . ty occurs , of expressing my sentiments in favour of tlie claims , or so numerous and respectable a bod y of men as the Catholics of Ireland ; claims , which if grant d r would I conceive , £ ive additional energy to the State ; and to the Estabiished C&it / c / t
additional safety nnd duration ; claims which in many other countries , 1 roight say in most countries , woulu he rta < ii ! y admitted , without any « f that narrow bigotry , that unreasonable distrubt and
jealousy which they have excited in this United Kingdom . I should "be sorry to have it thought that I ana hardy enough to make an assertion like this , in buch an
assembly , without having , what appears Jto me at least , sufficient authority for so doing , I could wish that those who entertain a contrary opinion , would turn their eyes towards the continent of America ;
I could wish those to recollect , that Marshal Saxe was a Protestant , and , that Neckar was a Pro-Jtestaju ; I could wish them to call to mind , that the Austrian General Alvinay was aProtestant ? and that General Wurmser was a
Protestant ; and it is not long si nee 1 read jvith great pleasure , in a publication" by a very intelligent and active membir | of the other Hojusefto wb ojT } I -am much indebted for i nformation on the present subject )
jfrn j edict , promulgated by the late je ^ pe ror of Austria , Joseph II . jnyvjbich jt is Jaid down nsamax-|* n , # evit . r to be departed from , that taje ^ ts for the due discharge of the tsutipjjks rfulies *> f civil atud military *;¦ - ' . t <>;¦• \* " t ¦ [ , £ .. ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - •¦
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employments , and not the peculiar religious opinions , are the only qualifications for such appointments . —When I read an English Act of Parliament which breathes a portion of the same spirit , I shall
be ha }> py to retract nay assertion . But what is our conduct towards the Catholics of Ireland ? Not conrrht with turning a deaf ear , year after year , . to the reasonable prayer of ihe petitioners ; there are many who censure them ^ and seven Jy too , for expressing those feelings of resentment and disappointment , which they cannot but
have , in a language ( as it is said ) not sufficiency temperate ; and they have been particularly blamed for applying the terms intolerant and penal , to those restrictive statutes which still continue ia
force against them , and of which they have , in . my opinion , just cause to complain , as harsh , oppressive , unnecessary and unmerited . I do not , however , wish to aggravate their wrongs by a vague and angry declamation against intolerance ; still less do I wish to
weary your Lordships' -attention , by a tedious common-place disquisition , upon so trite and so tevolting a subject . With respect to the term penal , it appears to me a mere mockery , a downright
quibble , an insult to the common sense and feelings of a man , to tell him that it is no penalty , to be debarred from the privilege of sitting iji this House , and from many other object * of a fair ahd
honourable ambition , which nien of ardent minds and great abilities naturally aspire to in every state , and to which , in every free state , they have , I conceive , a right to aspire , ( whatever denomination of Qiwisjtiarjs ibey may b&oflg t ° i )
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706 Speech of the Bishop of Norwich , on the Catholic Petition .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1811, page 706, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2423/page/2/
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