It was altered
afterwards, and the clauses reaffirming the incapacities left out; but
they all still exist, and are in full force.
[27] It appears that Mr. Hutchinson meant this only as one of the means
for their relief in point of education.
A
LETTER
TO
SIR HERCULES LANGRISHE, BART., M.P.,
ON THE SUBJECT OF
THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF IRELAND,
THE PROPRIETY OF ADMITTING THEM TO THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE, CONSISTENTLY
WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE CONSTITUTION, AS ESTABLISHED AT THE
REVOLUTION.
1792.
My Dear Sir,--Your remembrance of me, with sentiments of so much
kindness, has given me the most sincere satisfaction. It perfectly
agrees with the friendly and hospitable reception which my son and I
received from you some time since, when, after an absence of twenty-two
years, I had the happiness of embracing you, among my few surviving
friends.
I really imagined that I should not again interest myself in any public
business. I had, to the best of my moderate faculties, paid my club to
the society which I was born in some way or other to serve; and I
thought I had a right to put on my night-gown and slippers, and wish a
cheerful evening to the good company I must leave behind.
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