APPENDIX to the CHRONICLE. 
firmed by recent events, and I can- 
not otherwise account for the fact 
so generally asserted by the priests 
of the Romish persuasion, that, 
during the late rebellion, their ex- 
- hortations to loyalty and obedience 
had no effect. I find it also con- 
firmed by the circumstances, that 
those priests were, I presume, ut- 
terly ignorant that those under their 
instructions had ever conceived in 
their minds the horrid purposes 
which they manifested on the 22d of 
July, and which persons came from all 
parts of Ireland with design to effect. 
I have the honour to be, 
With much respect, 
My lord, 
Your lordship’s obedient humble 
Servant, Redesdale. 
The Earl of Fingall, 
Sc. Fe. FC. 
(No. 6.) 
Answer from the Earl of Fingall. 
Great Denmark Street, 
My lord, Sept. 4, 1803. 
I must beg your lordship will be 
kind enough to excuse my not hay- 
ing sooner acknowledged the re- 
ceipt of the last letter you did me 
the honour to address me, which 
has been occasioned by my absence 
from town for some days past. Ho- 
noured as I must feel by your lord- 
ship’s correspondence, and the ex- 
pressions of personal regard towards 
me contained in your letters, Iam 
the more anxious to impress your 
lordship with that favourable opi- 
nion of the persons in this country 
who profess the same religious faith 
I do myself, which it has been my 
endeavour to prove to your lord- 
ship they are deserving of. No- 
thing but my wish to procure for 
them an object so desirable, and 
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my high respect for your lordship, 
would have induced me to touch at 
all on a discussion of religious sub- 
jects: and not having been, I fear, 
fortunate enough to satisfy your 
lordship’s mind, as to the objec- 
tions you make to our religion, I 
should be glad, with your lord- 
ship’s permission, to state them to 
some of our superior clergy, who 
would, I am pretty certain, enable 
me to convince your lordship, that 
our religious doctrine preaches cha- 
rity and brotherly love to al/ man« 
kind, without distinction of reli- 
gion; true and sincere allegiance 
to our good king; inviolable at- 
tachment to the constitution and 
our country; from an honest and 
conscientious conviction that such 
is the duty of a good subject, and a 
good catholic, be the religion of the 
monarch what it may. For my 
own part, my lord, I cannot at- 
tribute the unfortunate situation of 
this country to any thing Zonnected 
with matters of religious faith ; Ja- 
cobinism and French principles and 
politics, the want of morality, and 
the depraved state of the human 
mind, are, I conccive, the sources 
of our misfortunes ; religion may 
have been made a tool by wicked 
and designing people: this has often 
happened in every country, and is 
easily effected when religious dif- 
ferences exist. The distracted and 
melancholy state we are in, every 
body must lament; how it is to be 
mended is a matter for the states- 
man; and surely it would be difii- 
cult to find an object more worthy 
‘of your lordship’s high talents and 
abilities. 
1 have the honour to be, &c. &c. 
Fingall, 
To the Right Hon. 
Lord Redesdale, §c. &e. &e. 
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