"This Church has been no _changeling_; she has been of the same character from the day of her establishment to the present hour; in Ireland her deeds have surpassed those of Mahomet; but it would take a large volume to put down a bare list of her intolerant deeds. She at last, however, seems to be nearly at the end of her tether; the nation has always been making sacrifices to her haughty predominance. Boulogne and Calais were the first sacrifices; _poor-rates_, and an _enormous debt_, and a _standing army_, and a _civil list_ have followed; all, yea all, to be ascribed to the predominance of this Church, and her haughty spirit of ascendancy. But now the nation has made so many and such great sacrifices to her, that _it can make no more_. It cannot venture on _another civil war_ (about the _twentieth_), in order to support the ascendancy of this Church; and be you assured, my Lord, that that hierarchy in Ireland, to uphold which you seem so very anxious, is not much longer to be upheld by any power on earth, seeing that all the miseries of Ireland, all of them, without a single exception, are to be traced directly to that hierarchy: and in these miseries _England sees terrific danger_. "The case is very plain. The opponents of the Catholic Bill say, We dislike it, because it exposes the Church, and especially the _Irish Church_, to imminent _danger_. The answer of the Duke is, I cannot prevent this danger without _risking a civil war_; and the State _cannot afford that_. The Law-Church might reply, Why there have been many, many civil wars carried on for the purpose of upholding my ascendancy; but to that the Duke might rejoin, Very true; but we have now a paper-money-system (also made to uphold you) _which cannot live in civil war_, and the death of which may produce that of the State itself; and, therefore, you must be now left to support your ascendancy by your talents, piety, zeal, charity, humility, and sound doctrine. This is the true state of the case, my Lord, and, therefore, unless the Church can support itself by these means, it is manifestly destined to fall. "I am your Lordship's most humble and most obedient Servant, "WM. COBBETT."