But, Sir, if the Protestant prayer-book, and the Protestant religion, be such a monstrous compound of inconsistencies and errors, as you would fain lead us to suppose, pray tell us, why England, was so foolish, as to renounce the Catholic, and embrace the Protestant faith? The answer to this objection I would most willingly waive, as it would lead me into a field of persecution, and _cruelty_, over which my feelings would not wish to travel. But as the answer to the above objection, has been so ably given, by a _Protestant_ member of Parliament, to a _Protestant_ Lord, I think I cannot do _better_, than give it in his own words. And _mind_, when you read this letter, you must not imagine, that you are reading the _mere_ opinions of _this_ writer; no, the opinions which he there states, are _incontestible facts_, which stand, almost as large as life, in our English Statute-Book; and are there, recorded so plainly, that no man in his senses, can have the presumption to deny them. I beg leave, therefore, to lay before you, the following letter, of a _Protestant_ member of Parliament, to a _Protestant_ lord, on the present subject; and I am sure, that the incontestible facts, _facts of our own English Statute-book_, there stated, will convince you, how England once Catholic, was brought over to Protestantism. A LETTER TO LORD TENTERDEN, LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF ENGLAND. _April 6th, 1829._ "MY LORD, "I have read the report of your Lordship's speech, made on the 4th instant, on the second reading of the Catholic Bill, and there is one passage of it on which I think it my duty thus publicly to remark. The passage to which I allude relates to the character of the _Law-established Church_, and also to the probable fate that will, in consequence of this bill, attend her in Ireland.[O]