Reflectiom, pp. 148 sqq. — Cf., p

25. Thoughts on French Affairs y 1791. Works, vol. Vil, p. 19 : ...levelling ail conditions of men (except where money mtat make a différence).

26. Ibid., p. 20 : The East Indians ahnost to a man, who cannot bear to find that their présent importance does not bear a proportion to their wealth. — CorresjKHidence, vol. III, p. 140 : 1 should agrée with you a bout tlie vileness of the controversy with such miscreants as the « Révolution Society » and the « National Assembly » ; and I know very well that they, as well as their allies, the Indian délinquants, will darken the air with their arrows. — Cf. Bagehot, ParliamenUtry Refonn, p. 185. — Cette obsession de la suprématie d'une oligarchie financière conduit Burke tout droit à l'antisémitisme. La vive imagination historique de Burke associe étroitement ces trois faits récents : l'émancipation des Juifs, la confiscation des biens du clergé, et rémission d'un papier-monnaie qui représente les biens du clergé redevenus biens nationaux. Voici le passage le plus caractéristique (Bettertoa metnber ofthe national Assembly. Works vol. VI, pp. 17 18) : Hâve not men (if tliey deserve the naine)... been made bishops, for no other merit than having acted as instruments of atheists; for no other merit than having thrown the children's bread to dogs; and in onler to gorge (lie whole gang of usurers, pedlars and itinérant Jew disœunters at tiie corners of streets, starved the poor of their Christian flocks, and their own brother pastors? Hâve not such men been inade bishops to administer in temples, in wliich (if the patriotic donations hâve not already stripped them of their vessels) the ehurchwardens ought to takc security for the altar plate, and not so much as to trust the (Malice in their sacrilegious hands, so long as Jews hâve assignats oî ccclesiastical plunder,to exchange for the silver stolen from the churches? — I am told, that the very sons of such Jew-jobbers hâve been made

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bishops ; persons not to be suspected of any sort of Christian superstition, fit colleagues to the holy prelate of Autun ; and bred at the feet of that Gamaliel.We know who it was that drove the money-changers out oi the temple. We see too who it is that brings them in again. We hâve in London very respectable persons of the Jewish nation, whom we vriU keep : but we hâve of the same tribe others of a différent description, — house-breakers, and reeeivers of stolen goods, and forgers of paper currency, more than we can conveniently hang. Thèse we can spare t» France, to fiil the new episcopal thrones; men well versed in sweariag; and who will scruple no oath which the fertile genius of any of your reformera can devise. — Mais v. également : Réfections, pp. 102, 103, lia, 161, 196, 424, et Lelter to a member oftlte national Assembly, p. 5.