Excerpt from A Short View of the Chief Arguments Against the Catholic Petition: Now Before Parliament, and of Answers to Them, in a Letter to a Member of the House of Commons Will not take up your time, nor trifle with your understanding, by entering at large into. The political necessity there is at the present time, of stifling, as much as possible, all civil and religious dissensions amongst the inha bitants of this empire, and particularly amongst those of the. Sister island. So far back as the year 1778' his Majesty, and the then Parliament of the kingdom in question, solemnly declared, 'f that it must tend to the prosperity and strength Of his Majesty's dominions, that his subjects of alldenominations should enjoy the benefits of a free constitution, and, be bound to each other by mutual ties of interest and affection 'the same principle was the avowed basis of that u'nion, on which the present Minister so em. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.