The improved antidote, supposed to be more active in expelling poison, than a late invention, by the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart. in which the Catholics are vindicated from his abuse, and their claims for unrestricted emancipation, consideredPhilodemus
Religion
The improved antidote, supposed to be more active in expelling poison, than a late invention, by the Rev. Sir Harcourt Lees, Bart. in which the Catholics are vindicated from his abuse, and their claims for unrestricted emancipation, considered
An Antidote has been already prescribed by a Revd. Baronet, we
presume with the same view; the application of which, however, in our
opinion, would tend to cherish the malignancy of the disease, rather
than to eradicate its cause:—Wherefore, alarmed for the constitution
of the patient, should it be adopted, and at the same time, though
we acknowledge and applaud the Revd. Author’s anxiety in this case,
suspecting that he would prefer a partial to a complete Restoration, we
humbly beg leave to state our reasons for differing in sentiment with
a man of his consummate knowledge and experience, together with our
objections to his Antidote.
That the present crisis is an alarming one, every man capable of
reflection, will readily admit, that, however, every artifice of audacity
and craft has been exerted (and with success exerted) to undermine the
religious, moral, and political sentiments of the great mass of the
manufacturing and agricultural orders of Society in England, seems to
require some farther proof, than the mere assertion of the Author, before
we can assent to it, with an equal degree of conviction:—Is it probable
that, notwithstanding the firmness which has so eminently distinguished
the present Administration, such artifices should be resorted to with
impunity? Is it possible that success should attend such artifices,
notwithstanding the vigilance of Ministers, so unhesitatingly displayed
in the removal of Lord Fitzwilliam? Perhaps, the Revd. Author meant
obliquely to censure Administration, for overlooking such attempts in the
first instance, and subsequently, for not foreseeing and guarding against
their pernicious effects, for not suppressing tumultuous assemblies,
when, (according to his assertion) the then existing laws, were of
sufficient force to stamp the greater part of them with the Seal of
illegality.
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