LETTERS

E. S. H.:832.

ΤΟ

J. E. GORDON, ESQ. M. P.

SHEWING

I. THE TRUE NATURE OF THE EVILS OF THE COUNTRY.
II. THE INADEQUACY OF THE REMEDY HITHERTO PROPOSED.
III. THE ONLY TRUE REMEDY AND THE MODE OF PROCURING
ITS ADOPTION.

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING A

BRIEF ESTIMATE OF THE COMPARATIVE EFFECTS OF POPERY

AND PROTESTANTISM ON NATIONAL MORALS.

By M. S. G.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED BY L. B. SEELEY AND SON, FLEET-STREET;
AND J. NISBETT, BERNER'S-STREET.

"Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful."

Prov. xxvii. 6.

"He that rebuketh a man, afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue."

Prov. xxviii. 23.

"Si populorum jussis, si principum decretis, si sententiis judicum, jura constituerentur: jus esset latrocinari, jus adulterare, jus testamenta falsa supponere, si hæc suffragiis, aut scitis multitudinis probarentur. Quod si tanta potentia est stultorum sententiis aut jussis, ut eorum suffragiis rerum natura vertatur: cur non sanciunt ut, quæ mala perniciosaque sunt, habeantur pro bonis ac salutaribus? Aut cur, cum jus ex imjuria lex facere possit, bonum eadem facere non possit ex malo? CIC DE LEGG.

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