58 Catholics Seven to One to Protestants. 



ment, trembles for her existence, while the 

 catholics are kept under a constant dread of 

 extirpation. The smallest spark, at ail times, 

 may be apprehended as sufficient to produce 

 an explosion. The nation, says Mr. Burke, 

 " is at present divided into two almost distinct 

 bodies, -with little common interest, sympathy, 

 or connexion one of these possesses all the 

 franchises all the property 'all the education. 

 The other is composed of drawers of water and 

 cutters of turf for them. Ought we to be as- 

 tonished that when they are reduced to a mob, 

 if they happen to act at all, they will act 

 exactly like a mob j without temper, measure, 

 or foresight?" This description, than which 

 nothing could be more correct at the time, 

 would have suited any period equally well, in 

 the one hundred and fifty preceding years. 



Can it be matter of surprise that the ca- 

 tholics, who are perhaps nearly seven to one 

 when compared with the members of the es- 

 tablished church, should consider themselves 

 unjustly and hardly treated, whilst a vestige of 

 their former state of bondage is remaining? 

 Every concession which they have received is in 

 their estimation a recognition of wrong, and a 

 ground for their demand of perfect emancipa- 

 tion. Every measure yielded by government 



