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Index which they dreaded violating, and therefore betook themselves to an intelligible fiction or evasion. I quote the words of the extraordinary apology of these editors, from the justly celebrated Speech of Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bart. on the Roman Catholic Question, May 10th, 1825, — a speech eminently harmonising with the subject of the present humble pages, and which, had it succeeded, as its merit and cogency entitled it to do, perjury would not have obtained legislative power, and the purified Christian Church established in these realms would not have suffered the actual damage which she has sustained, nor have to dread the future increasing assaults for which she must now prepare. We do, indeed, looking above the things in our little orb, wrap up all in submission to His will, who cannot be otherwise than just, and to those who humble themselves under His hand will be merciful. The quotation which is to be laid before the reader is the following: — P. P. Le Seur et Jacquier Declaratio. Newtonus in hoc tertio Libro telluris motæ hypothesim assumit. Autoris propositiones aliter explicari non poterant, nisi eâdem quoque factâ hypothesi. Hinc alienam coacti
