Befîerlioiis, pp. 148 sqq. — Cf., p. l'A

25. Thowjhtson Frencli Affairs, 1791. Works, vol. VII, p. 19: ...levclling ail conditions of men (except v\here muney nniM inake a diiference).

26. IbUL, p. 20 : The East Indians almost to a man, wjio cannot bear to find that tiieir présent importance does not bear a proportion to their wealtl). — Correspondence, vui. 111, p. 140 : 1 should agrée with you about the vileness of the controversy with such miscreants as the « Révolution Society » and the « National Assembly »; and I know very well that they, as ^vell as their allies, the Indian délinquants, Avill darken tlir air with their arro\vs. — VA'. Bagehot, Parlianienldri/ Refonii, p. 185. — Cette obsession de la suprématie d'une oligarchie financière conduit Burke tout droit à l'antisémitisme. La vive imagination iiistorique de Burke associe étroitement ces trois faits récents : l'émancipation des Juifs, la confiscation des biens du clergé, et l'émission d'un papier-monnaie (jni rc|ii'ésente les biens du clergé redevenus biens nationaux. Voici le passage le plus caractéristique {Bélier to a memhcr oflhc ikiUuikiI Assembly. Works vol. V(, pp. 17 18] : Have not men (if they deserve the name)... been £ made bisiiops, 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 order to gorge the whole gang of nsiirers, pedlars and itinérant Jew discountcrs at the corners of sireets, starxcd the pour of their Christian flocks, and tiieir own brother pastors? Have not such men been naïade bisiiops to administer in li'ni])les, in Avhicii (if liie patriotic donations have not aiready stripped tiieni of tiieir vessels) tiic churrhwardens ought to take seeurity for the aitar plate, and not so much as to trust tlie clialice in their sacrilegiuus liands, so long as Jews have assignats ot ecclesiastical plunder, to exchange for the silver stolen from the churches? — l ani told, that tiie very sons of such .Tew-jobljers have been made

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bishops : persons not to be suspected of any sort of Christian superstition, fit colleaiJfues to the holy prelate of Aiitun ; and bred at the feet of thaï Gamaliel.Weknow Avho it \vas tliat drove tiie nioncy-ciiangers out of the temple. We see too Avho it is tliat brings them in again. AVe hâve in London very respectable persons of the Jewish nation, whom we \vill keep : but we liave of the same tribf others of a différent description, — house-breakers, and receivers of stolen goods, and forgers of paper currency, more than we can conveniently hang. Thèse we can spare to France, to fill tiie new episcopal thrones; men well versed in swearing; and wiio will siruple no oath which the fertile genius of any of your refonners can devise. — Mais v. égaleuKMit : Rcfleclions, pp. 102, 103, 113, 161. 196. 424, et Lelter to a memher oftlw nnllonul Asscmhly, p. ô.