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19 Many believed that popery would soon be forced upon the Colonies.

What do you think of New England, New York, etc? queried a letter from Rome to Condon, reprinted at New York; Will they return to the Church ? If you doubt it, we do not, as we have great confidence in the king s friends.

The town of Stamford, in Con necticut, denounced the Act as an attempt not barely to destroy our civil liberties, but as an open declaration that our religious privileges, which our fathers fled their native country to enjoy, were very soon to be abolished.

20 A London letter, gravely published by the Essex Gazette, made bold to say that by establishing the Popish religion in the British dominions by law, they had removed the only objection and impediment to the restora tion of the Stuart family, and pronounced it absolutely impossible to account for the actions of the Ministry except by crediting them with such a design.

Joseph Hawley considered nothing more probable than that the Province of Quebeck, as lately defined, should be ceded or given up to France ; and Josiah Quincy actually received word, indirectly, from what seemed a very respect able authority, that Catholicism had been restored in Canada under a secret treaty with France, and that now it only remained to hand the region back to its old masters.