THE KING'S DECLARATION.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] must own that I am surprised that the intolerance of Roman Catholicism, whatever may be said on that subject, should be thought any justification, or even palliation, of the Declaration that we exact from successive Kings. It is for the sake of Protestantism far more than out of any considera- tion for Roman Catholics that I would have it abolished. Just think of what we require our Kings to say I do not believe in transubstantiation ; I consider the Mass idolatry; and I protest I have not applied to Rome for a dispensation to allow me to tell a lie in making these statements' ! Is not that the most shameful indignity to which we could subject a Sovereign? Would any gentleman stand it, merely as a gentleman, unless high public considerations induced him to swallow his disgust P—I am, Sir, &e., G. We agree. It is, as we have said repeatedly, in the highest interests of Protestantism that the Declaration should be abolished or cleared of its insulting phrases.—En. Spectator.]
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