An Historical Letter to Sir John Cox Hippesley, Bart. and M.P.; Being an Historical Portrait Taken of Him from the Life, Whilst Acting in the Catholic Cause, Occasioned by His Letters to the Earl of Fingal, on the Subject of the Catholic Claims (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1814 Excerpt: ...the Irish Catholics, it was morally impossible that the Irish prelates synodically assembled on the 26th of February, 1810, should have thanked Dr. Milner (Hist, of Ireland, 3 vol. 871.) "for thfe faithful discharge "of his duty, as agent tp the Roman Catholic bishops of "this part of the United Kingdom; and more particularly f for his late apostolical firmness, m dissenting from and "opposing a vague, indefinite declaration, or resolution, ' pledging Roman Catholics (mark indefinitely), to an f eventual acquiescence in arrangements, possibly prejudir cial to the integrity and safety of our Church discipline." Had that resolution, then intended tp have been put into Parliament, been meant or understood to have been confined to the English Catholics, the Irish prelates could not have expected their agent to interfere about it, arid consequently, they cquld not have thanked him for dissenting from and opposing it, . The synodical vote of thanks, proves that the fifth resolution, of which the above resolution was the original -i)d spirit, though said to be a resolution of the English Catholics, certainly did, and Was intended to effect the Catholic (that is the Irish Catholic) Question; and I offet to you, Sir John, the words of your friend and instructor, VJr. Butler, as irrefragable and conclusive evidence, that an English influence was then in action, distinct from, in few things coinciding with, in many controvening, Irish interest and Irish wishes. In his letter to an Irish Catholic Gen tleman upon this subject, he avows that "he had several conferences jvith Lords Grey and Grenville, at which the ' different forms of the English Roman Catholic Resolir"tions were framed; arid he invokes the parties present to testify...