THE PRINCIPLE OF A TEST LAW IS DEFENDED, AND THE PROPOSED

ALTERATION IN THE EXISTING STATUTES IS CONSIDERED,

“ Licet omnibus, licet etiam mibi, dignitatem patriæ tueri, potestas modo veniendi in

publicum sit, dicendi periculum non recuso.”—Cicero.

“I never thought that it would have been wise or prudent to throw down rudely or

abruptly, the guards and fences of the constitution.”—Mr. Pitt. “ An ordivary mason can calculate upon the exact gap which will be made by the re

moval of a corner stone in an old building, but what architect, not intimately acquainted with the whole editice, can presume to guess bow much of the structure is, or is not, to follow."-Sir W. Scott.

“I wonld have the Established Church open wide her hospitable gates,--but I would

have no breaches in her walls,”- Burke.

LONDON:

C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD AND WATERLOO PLACE,

HOUGH AND JEW, GLOUCESTER.

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