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s predecessor was not in being; because men are confined in prison, in Madrid, twelve degrees more south than Murphy has ever been in his life; all ages, all climates, are ransacked to perpetuate the slavery of Murphy, the ill-fated victim of political anachronisms. * * * * * "When are mercy and justice, in fact, ever to return upon the earth, if the sins of the elders are to be for ever visited on those who are not even their children! Should the first act of liberated Greece be to recommence the Trojan war? Are the French never to forget the Sicilian Vespers; or the Americans the long war waged against their liberties? Is any rule wise, which may set the Irish to recollect what they have suffered? * * * * * "It is no part of my province to defend every error of the Catholic Church; I believe it has many errors, though I am sure these errors are grievously exaggerated and misrepresented.... But, if you will take a long view instead of a confined view, and look generally to the increase of human happiness, _the best check upon the increase of Popery, the best security for the establishment of the Protestant Church is, that the British empire shall be preserved in a state of the greatest strength, union, and opulence_. My cry then is, _No Popery_; therefore emancipate the Catholics, that they may not join with foreign Papists in time of war. _Church, for ever_; therefore emancipate the Catholics, that they may not help to pull it down. _King for ever_; therefore emancipate the Catholics, that they may become his loyal subjects. _Great Britain for ever_; therefore emancipate the Catholics, that they may not put an end to its perpetuity. _Our Government is essentially Protestant_; therefore, by emancipating the Catholics, give up a few circumstances which have nothing to do with the essence. _The Catholics are disguised enemies_; therefore, by emancipation, turn them into open friends. _They have a double allegiance_; therefore, by emancipation, make their allegiance to their King so grateful, that they will never confound it with the spiritual allegiance to their Pope. It is very difficult for electors, who are much occupied by other matters, to choose the right path amid the rage and fury of faction: but I give you one
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