ever blasted the fame of England to obtain them.  Were the fleets of Holland, France, and Spain destroyed by larceny?  You resisted the power of 150 sail of the line by sheer courage, and violated every principle of morals from the dread of fifteen hulks, while the expedition itself cost you three times more than the value of the larcenous matter brought away.  The French trample on the laws of God and man, not for old cordage, but for kingdoms, and always take care to be well paid for their crimes.  We contrive, under the present administration, to unite moral with intellectual deficiency, and to grow weaker and worse by the same action.  If they had any evidence of the intended hostility of the Danes, why was it not produced?  Why have the nations of Europe been allowed to feel an indignation against this country beyond the reach of all subsequent information?  Are these times, do you imagine, when we can trifle with a year of universal hatred, dally with the curses of Europe, and then regain a lost character at pleasure, by the parliamentary perspirations of the Foreign Secretary, or the solemn asseverations of the pecuniary Rose?  Believe me, Abraham, it is not under such ministers as these that the dexterity of honest Englishmen will ever equal the dexterity of French knaves; it is not in their presence that the serpent of Moses will ever swallow up the serpents of the magician.

Lord Hawkesbury says that nothing is to be granted to the Catholics from fear.  What! not even justice?  Why not?  There are four millions of disaffected people within twenty miles of your own coast.  I fairly confess that the dread which I have of their physical power is with me a very strong motive for listening to their claims.  To talk of not acting from fear is mere parliamentary cant.  From what motive but fear, I should be glad to know, have all the improvements in our constitution proceeded?  I question if any justice has ever been done to large masses of mankind from any other motive.  By what other motives can the plunderers of the Baltic suppose nations to be governed in their intercourse with each other?  If I say, Give this people what they ask because it is just, do you think I should get ten people to listen to me?  Would not the lesser of the two Jenkinsons be the first to treat me with contempt?  The only true way to make the mass of mankind see the beauty of justice is by showing to them, in pretty plain terms, the consequences of injustice.  If any body of French troops land in Ireland, the whole population of that country will rise against you to a man, and you could not possibly survive such an event three years.  Such, from the bottom of my soul, do I believe to be the present state of that country; and so far does it appear to me to be impolitic and unstatesman-like to conceed anything to such a danger, that if the Catholics, in addition to their present just demands, were to petition for the perpetual removal of the said Lord