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INTRODUCTORY LETTER, TO THE RIGHT HON.
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON IX
THE MORAL RESULTS OP THE ROMISH SYSTEM. xiii
Dedication
tion of one, in whose political principles generally I have long participated ; and I rejoiced to think you had attained that enviable distinction in these times, that while your name was hailed with enthusiasm by the popular feeling of foreign nations, you were proclaimed by a voice which finds an echo in every land in Europe, to be essentially a British Minister.
My earnest hope — and pardon me, if indeed it needs pardon, when I add, my earnest prayer, to Him whose I am, and whom I serve — is, that one who proved himself a British Minister in the Foreign Office, may be found also a British Minister in the Home Office ; and that no foreign — especially no Italian power — shall obtain with your sanction, an undue influence in the affairs of this nation.
I have desired to extend not only toleration, but every civil privilege to all religious denominations. Whatever be the rights, privileges, or liberties which I myself enjoy, I would freely extend to others ; whether they are Episcopalian or Presbyterian, Churchmen or Nonconformists, Protestant or Romanist. But this desire does not involve the wish to patronize, encourage, multiply, befriend with a special and peculiar favour an Italian priesthood, over and beyond the ministries of the other non-conforming communons, or to sanction the introduction of Italian institutions into this country. I wish to see your Lordship, in religious as well as political matters, essentially a British Minister.
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