Irish Union and Church

I am quite sure that no dangers are to be feared by England from the / disannexing and independence of Ireland at all comparable with the evils / which have been, and will yet be, caused to England by the Union. We have / never received one particle of advantage from our association with Ireland, / whilst we have in many most vital particulars violated the principles of / the British constitution solely for the purpose of conciliating the Irish / agitators, and of endeavouring -- a vain endeavour -- to find room for them / under the same government. Mr. Pitt has received great credit for effecting / the Union; but I believe it will sooner or later be discovered that the / manner in which, and the terms upon which, he effected it, made it the most / fatal blow that ever was levelled against the peace and prosperity of / England. From it came the Catholic Bill. From the Catholic Bill has come / this Reform Bill! And what next?

The case of the Irish Church is certainly anomalous, and full of practical / difficulties. On the one hand, it is the only church which the constitution / can admit; on the other, such are the circumstances, it is a church that / cannot act as a church towards five sixths of the persons nominally and / legally within its care.