Réfections, pp. 148 sqq. — Cf., p

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

26. Ibid., p. 20 : The East Indians almost to a man, who cannot bear to find that their présent importance does not bear a proportion to their wealth. — Correspondent, vol. III, p. 140 : 1 should agrée with you about the vileness of the controversy with sucli miscreants as the « Révolution Society » and the « National Assembly » ; and I know very well that Ihey, as well as their allies, the Indian délinquants, will darken the air with their arrows. — Cf. Bagehot, Parliamentary Reform, 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 l'émission d'un papier-monnaie qui représente les biens du clergé redevenus biens nationaux. Voici le passage le plus caractéristique (Lelter to a member oflhe national Assembly. Works vol. VI, pp. 17-18) : Hâve not men (if they deserve the name)... 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 order to gorge the whoie gang of usurers, pedlars and itinérant Jew discountcrs at the corners of streets, starved the poor of their Christian flocks, and their own brother pastors? Hâve not such men been made bishops to administer in temples, in which (if the patriotic donations hâve not already stripped thein of their vessels) the churchwardens ought to take security for the altar plate, and not so much as to trust the chalice in their sacrilegious hands, so long as Jews hâve assignats of ecclesiastical plunder, to exchange for the silver stolen from the churches ? — I am told, that the very sons of such Jew-jobbers hâve been made

bishops ; persons not lo be suspectcd of any sort of Christian superstition, fit colleagucs to the holy prelate of Autun ; and bred at the feet of that Gamaliel.Weknow who it was that drove the money-changers out of 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 will keep : but we hâve of the same tribe 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 the new episcopal thrones; men weli versed in swearing; and who will se ru pie no oath which the fertile genius of any of your reformera can devise. — Mais v. également : Réfections, pp. 102, 103, 113, 161, 196, 424, et Letter to a member ofthe national Assembly, p. 5.