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    cies of persecution . My peace and good name are dearer to me than money ; my power of usefulness than my liberty , or even my life : if you destroy the former , you persecute me more pungently , though with more refined torture , than if you employ the arm of civil authority to inflict on me fines , imprisonment , and death . —P . 2 . Apprehensions of danger unfounded :

    " But suppose the Catholics unchanged , and as much disposed as ever to that intolerant spirit which the Exclusionists manifest , how little is the alarm which you have shared and propagated , supported by the pacts of the case ! Is there any absurdity chargeable on what they call Popery , greater than that of maintaining that at most seventy or eighty Catholic members of the Commons could overpower the remaining mass of Protestants ? And , if they did , that a dozen Catholic noblemen could overpower the bench of Protestant Bishops , —to leave out of reckoning the great bulk of Protestant Peers ? And ,

    if they did , that a Protestant King would forget the rights of the majority of Ms subjects , and the tenure of his crown , and expose himself to that forfeiture of it which , for his now proposing to the Parliament to do justice ta all , has been daringly held up to alarm him by some of the Journals of the day ? And , if all this did take place , that the Protestant influence of the great mass of intelligence , culture , wealth ., and energy of our nation , would not outweigh the whole ? I should rather say , that influence must prevent 'the whole , and renders every part impossible . ' —P . 6 .

    The Report of the Edinburgh Meeting , which the London papers gave but a meagre account of , is exceedingly interesting . It should do something towards putting right the very incorrect notions commonly entertained about the state of opinion in Scotland . The list of distinguished men present , with the addition of Sir Walter Scott and Dr . A . Thomson , who both wrote to express their cordial concurrence in the object of the meeting which they were unable to attend , comprises the intellectual pride of that intellectual city . The meeting was intensely crowded , and the expression of its feelings was most enthusiastic . We give the 4 th Resolution with the commencement and close of Dr . Chalmers' eloquent address :

    " Thaty though we entertain no doubt that the firmness and prudence of the distinguished Statesmen who have united to support this great measure , will speedily carry it into effect , without any considerable impediment , and that the partial clamours which have been excited against it will soon subside in general and permanent satisfaction , we think it right not only to offer our

    humble tribute of thanks for the good we believe it will effect , but earnestly to pray for its speedy and entire consummation , and to express our conviction , that its abandonment , if such a thing were possible after the hopes that have been raised and the pledges that have been given , would be the greatest of all national calamities , and would aggravate tenfold all the evils and dangers from which it promised to deliver us /

    " Dr . Chalmers rose to second the resolution which had just been read , and was received with enthusiastic acclamations . He waved his hand repeatedly to induce silence , which having been at length obtained , he spoke verbatim as follows : —I understand that the present meeting would not have been called , had it not been for certain anterior efforts made in this city , and the object of which was to obtain signatures for a petition against the Catholic

    Emancipation . We should have remained quiet , and this , perhaps , would have been as significant an expression as we could have given of our confidence in the measures proposed by his Majesty ' s Government . Had there been no public exhibition on their part , I understand that there would have tfeen no public exhibition upon ours . And I advert to this simply for the purpose of remarking , how delusive the indication often is of the state of public sentiment , in as far aa it is grounded either on the majority of petitions

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    280 The Catholic Relief Bill .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1829, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2571/page/56/