Letters to W. Wilberforce, Esq. M. P: To Which Is Added an Answer to Melancthon, His Vindicator; Demonstrating the Inconsistency of a Protestant Christian, and the Impolicy of a British Legislator, in Advocating the Roman Catholic Claims

Excerpt from Letters to W. Wilberforce, Esq. M. P: To Which Is Added an Answer to Melancthon, His Vindicator; Demonstrating the Inconsistency of a Protestant Christian, and the Impolicy of a British Legislator, in Advocating the Roman Catholic Claims

To redeem that ple'dge is the object of the present publication the delay which has arisen in its appearance is referable to circumstances, 'over which the Writer had no controul, and the detail of which, would be unlikely to interest the Public. He can conscientiously declare, that Controversy, on any subject, is not an atmosphere congenial either with his feelings, or his habits, and if he know any thing of himself, he be lieves he may adopt the language of montes-v quieu, J e n'ai point naturellement l'esprit desapprobateur. It 18 not, however, merely in reference to the arena, and the dust, of any particular Controversy, that he: would apply to himself the observation, of that celebrated Wri tei'; but he wishes to adopt it more especially with regard to Him, with whom he, unhappily, finds himself chiefly in collision upon this im portant subject. Not only does he feel that Disputation in general, is at best a painful, and frequently a useless thing; but least, and last, did he ever expect to find himself in the Lists with the excellent and amiable Man to whom these Letters are addressed. He will yield to no one living - not even to the most personal friend, or the warmest eulogist, of that distin guished character - in the veneration with which he regards him as a Christian, and the esteem inrunes.

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