1829.
You ask for my opinion on the Roman Catholic Question.
I dare scarcely trust my pen to the notice of the question which the Duke of Wellington tells us is about to be _settled_.

One thing no rational person will deny, that the experiment is hazardous.

Equally obvious is it that the timidity, supineness, and other unworthy qualities of the government for many years past have produced the danger, the extent of which they now affirm imposes a necessity of granting all that the Romanists demand.

Now, it is rather too much that the country should be called upon to take the measure of this danger from the very men who may almost be said to have created it.

Danger is a relative thing, and the first requisite for judging of what we have to dread from the physical force of the Roman Catholics is to be in sympathy with the Protestants.