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    believe , that they ard much more enlightened upon- the expediency , and even pressing necessity of this great healing measure , than the borough aristocracy of the * land , who are neither able nor willing to

    consider it in any other light than as an innovation * That is enough . It forms a precedent for rfefonri * There is the rub . That it is , fcnd chieiiy , if not altogether , that which agitates their secret souls ,

    not from religious regards , however much they rftay affect thetny to give the best colour to their resistance , but , rfeally and truly , from fears , purely and personally seMsh , respecting the sad

    consequences of new experiments , in the existing order of things , which they accounl excellent , And which , with the help of their good friends , the clergy , they would wish to be accounted too sacred for mortal touch .

    could with any degree of decency , as borough proprietors , or corporators , apply for a compensation from government , for the injuries they are like to suffer through could with anvdeeree of decencv .

    But , like the court of East In * dia Directors , they should consider how to yield up with the best grade some part of their monopoly , for yield they must ; and if they

    Catholic emancipation , these peculators of public weal , would no doubt present such a petition of claims to parliament , and remunerate themselves for the

    enfranchisement of a part , by a tax upon the whole of the people . By bills of compensation the resistance ready to start against the union , was kept down and muffled ; and , perhaps , by other bills of compensation , this second edition of the union , improved and amended , is to be imposed upon the public .

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    lence and abject servility were diffused ^ throughout the ; country , and often combined in the same individual : as in Egypt , none could aspire to become a bey , who had not formerly been a slave . We would then say , notwithstanding the great pressure of

    other business which does not admit of postponement :, let the legislature o £ the empire make haste , as much as is reconcileable . to the important business ; make haste , we say , to atone to this much and long injured land , by large liberality and magnanimous policy , not in a compromising spirit , higgling and bargaining , as it were , in the market , but with a candid aud confidential

    interchange of reciprocal rights and duties before the altar of the Most High . The truth is , that the legislature must , in a great measure , instruct and lesson , and , as it were ,

    convert the mass of the people in Great Britain , upon this question of vital policy , as well as vital Christianity , by the authority of reason , as well as by the enactment of law . We wish to think , that vvhat is called the executive

    government , or at least , the influential portion of it , have pre . served somewhat of an amicable neutrality upon the subject , in most parts of Britain * although

    with many exceptions . A singu - lar exception of this kind has occurred , to illustrate the Isle of Wight , where a petition , sent for signature from authority , found

    only five or six , out of thirty -six clergymen , who could be induced to subscribe it ; and even of those few , the greater part acted under contfouling influence , ' We do the administration the credit to

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    316 Catholic Bill .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1813, page 316, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2428/page/32/