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OBSERVATIONS

AND

REFLECTIONS,

On an ACT, paffed in the Year,

1774,

For the SETTLEMENT,

Of the Province of QUEBEC.

Intended to have been then printed for
the Ufe of the ELECTORS of GREAT
BRITAIN, but now firft Published.

By A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN,

LONDON:

Sold by J. STOCKDALE, oppofite Burlington House,

Piccadilly. 1782.

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HE following Obfervations on an Act of Parliament, paffed in June, 1, entitled,

"An Act for making ore effectual Provifion for the Go-rnment of Quebec, in North Ameriwere wrote in the latter End of Summer; and intended for Publion previous to the Breaking up of Parliament.

UT that Parliament being fuddenly lved, and much fooner than was cted; the Publication was at first red, and afterwards, for very obviReasons, entirely laid afide.

HE Reader will please to carry

with

the Roman Catholick Perfuaghly conducive to the Adtheir Dominions

to the

of their Subjects and-fo he Honour of Human Na.

uft apologize for any Stricregard to Popery, which may fevere to fome Perfons ; as ne, with the Recollection of es planned and executed by th the Hiftories of SIRVEN fresh in the Memory; with at diabolical Office of the In

Man poffeffed of the leaft umanity, could write on fuch vithout Expreffions of ReproAbhorrence; and without

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aders,

May we not be too fanguine in form5 our Expectations, of what may folw, from the generous, humane, and ly Christian Efforts, of a very Few, ough undoubtedly auguft and most werful Perfonages; and fhould we

t, with the most interested Attention, it the Reception their Measures will eet with, not only from the Priests, t also from the Laity of the Romish urch?

Should we not be cautious of fuffer

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our Minds to be fo far dazzled with e Splendor, furrounding these great d beneficent Actions, as to lofe Sight

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