As one of those who had always been favourable to the concession of the Catholic claims, he answered, that, from passing this bill, the greatest of all benefits would accrue—the benefit of doing justice.

Speech in the House of Lords in favour of the Duke of Portland's Roman Catholic Peers Bill (21 June 1822), quoted in The Parliamentary Debates...Vol. VII. Comprising the Period from the Twenty-Fourth Day of April, to the Sixth Day of August, 1822 (1825), column 1251