Power and consideration are more valued than money.
The priests will not be induced to risk their sway over the people for any sums that our Government would venture to afford them out of the exhausted revenues of the empire.

Surely they would prefer to such a scanty hire the hope of carving for themselves from the property of the Protestant Church of their country, or even the gratification of stripping usurpation--for such they deem it--of its gains, though there may be no hope to win what others are deprived of.

Many English favourers of this scheme are reconciled to what they call a modification of the Irish Protestant Establishment in an application of a portion of the revenues to the support of the Romish Church.

This they deem reasonable; shortly it will be openly aimed at, and they will rejoice should they accomplish their purpose.

But your Lordship will agree with me that, if that happen, it would be one of the most calamitous events that ignorance has in our time given birth to.