Reflections, pp. 148 sqq. — C£., p

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

26. Ibid., p. 20 : The East Indians almost to a man, who cannot bear to find that their present importance does not bear a proportion to their wealth. — Correspondence, vol. III, p. 140 : 1 should agree with you about the vileness of the controversy with such miscreants as the « Revolution Society » and the « National Assembly »; and I know very well that they, as well as their allies, the Indian delinquants, 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 (Leller Lo a member of lhe national Assembly. Works vol. VI, pp. 17-18) : Have 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 whole gang of usurers, pedlars and itinerant Jew discounters at the corners of streets, starved the poor of their Christian flocks, and their own brother pastors ? Have not such men been made bishops to administer in temples, in which (if the patriotic donations have not already stripped them 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 have assignats of ecclesiastical plunder, to exchange for the silver stolen from the churches ? — JI'am told, that the very sons of such Jew-jobbers have been made

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 of the temple. We see too who it is that brings them in again. We have in London very respectable persons of the Jewish nation, whom we will keep : but we have of the same tribe others of a different description, — house-breakers, and receivers of stolen goods, and forgers of paper currency, more than we can conveniently hang. These wc can spare to France, to fill the new episcopal thrones; men well versed in swearing; and who will scruple no oath which the fertile genius of any of your reformers can devise. — Mais v. également : Reflections, pp. 102, 103, 113, 161, 196, 424, et Lelter to a member of the national Assembly, p. 5.