This appeal was one which no honest man, though inflamed by national and religious animosity, could resist.

The Commons reconsidered the subject, and, after hearing the Treaty read, agreed, with some slight modifications, to what the Lords had proposed.

[151] The bill became a law.

It attracted, at the time, little notice, but was, after the lapse of several generations, the subject of a very acrimonious controversy.

Many of us can well remember how strongly the public mind was stirred, in the days of George the Third and George the Fourth, by the question whether Roman Catholics should be permitted to sit in Parliament.