right; feeling that if the Spirit of God | it. Still, in looking back I see no had called him to that high office, he reason to repent. What I have said was called for no mean purpose, but rather that, seeing clearly, and acting boldly, and intending purely, he might confer lasting benefits upon mankind.
ought to be done, generally has been done, but always twenty or thirty years too late; done, not of course because I have said it, but because it was no longer possible to avoid doing it. Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies, and to their exquisite nonsense, like a drunkard to his bottle, and go on till death stares them in the face. The monstrous state of the Catholic Church in Ireland will probably remain till some monstrous ruin threatens the very existence of the Empire, and Lambeth and Fulham are cursed by the affrighted people.
We consider the Irish clergy as factious, and as encouraging the bad antiBritish spirit of the people. How can it be otherwise? They live by the people; they have nothing to live upon but the voluntary oblations of the people; and they must fall into the same spirit as the people, or they would be starved to death. No marriage; no mortuary masses; no unctions to the priest who preached against O'Connell! Give the clergy a maintenance se- I have always compared the Proparate from the will of the people, and testant Church in Ireland (and I believe you will then enable them to oppose my friend Thomas Moore stole the the folly and madness of the people. simile from me) to the institution of The objection to the State provision butchers' shops in all the villages of does not really come from the clergy, our Indian empire. "We will have a but from the agitators and repealers: butchers' shop in every village, and these men see the immense advantage you, Hindoos, shall pay for it. We of carrying the clergy with them in know that many of you do not eat their agitation, and of giving the sanc-meat at all, and that the sight of beef tion of religion to political hatred; they know that the clergy, moving in the same direction with the people, have an immense influence over them; and they are very wisely afraid, not only of losing this co-operating power, but of seeing it, by a state provision, arrayed against them. I am fully convinced that a State payment to the Catholic clergy, by leaving to that laborious and useful body of men the exercise of their free judgment, would be the severest blow that Irish agitation could receive.
For advancing these opinions, I have no doubt I shall be assailed by Sacerdos, Vindex, Latimer, Vates, Clericus, Aruspex, and be called atheist, deist, democrat, smuggler, poacher, highwayman, Unitarian, and Edinburgh reviewer! Still, I am in the right,
and what I say, requires excuse for being trite and obvious, not for being mischievous and paradoxical. I write for three reasons: first, because I really wish to do good; secondly, because if I don't write, I know nobody else will; and thirdly, because it is the nature of the animal to write, and I cannot help
steaks is particularly offensive to you; but still, a stray European may pass through your village, and want a steak or a chop: the shop shall be established; and you shall pay for it." This is English legislation for Ireland!! There is no abuse like it in all Europe, in all Asia, in all the discovered parts of Africa, and in all we have heard of Timbuctoo! It is an error that requires 20,000 armed men for its protection in time of peace; which costs more than a million a year; and which, in the first French war, in spite of the puffing and panting of fighting steamers, will and must break out into desperate rebellion.
It is commonly said, if the Roman Catholic priests are paid by the State, they will lose their influence over their flocks ;-) not their fair influence-not that influence which any wise and good man would wish to see in all religions -not the dependence of humble ignorance upon prudence and piety-only fellowship in faction, and fraternity in rebellion;-all that will be lost. A peep-of-day clergyman will no longer preach to a peep-of-day congregation
342 FRAGMENT ON THE IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
a Whiteboy vicar will no longer lead the psalm to Whiteboy vocalists; but everything that is good and wholesome will remain. This, however, is not what the anti-British faction want; they want all the animation which piety can breathe into sedition, and all the fury which the priesthood can preach to diversity of faith: and this is what they mean by a clergy losing their influence over the people! The less a clergyman exacts of his people, the more his payments are kept out of sight, the less will be the friction with which he exercises the functions of his office. A poor Catholic may respect a priest the more who marries, baptizes, and anoints; but he respects him because he associates with his name and character the performance of sacred duties, not because he exacts heavy fees for doing sɔ. Double fees would
be a very doubtful cure for scepticism; and though we have often seen the tenth of the earth's produce carted away for the benefit of the clergymen, we do not remember any very lively marks of satisfaction and delight which it produced in the countenance of the decimated person. I am thoroughly. convinced that State payments to the Catholic clergy would remove a thousand causes of hatred between the priest and his flock, and would be as favourable to the increase of his useful authority, as it would be fatal to his factious influence over the people.
Arts and sciences, mankind much happier for
discoveries in, i. 183.
ABBOTT, Chief Justice, his opinions on the le- Ashantee, review of Bowdich's work on, i. 280-
gality of using spring-guns, i. 324.
Abraham, apologue of, ii. 248.
Absenteeism in Ireland, i. 308; its consequences,
315.
Accomplishments, female, i. 181.
Advertising system of, ii. 99.
Africa, agriculture in, i. 72; refinement among
barbarous tribes in, 73; trial by ordeal in, 74;
Purra Society in, 74; natives of. in the neigh-
bourhood of Sierra Leone, 71-75; best mode
of becoming acquainted with the interior of,
Alarmists in 1802, note on, i. 10.
Alfonso, Lewis's Tragedy of, reviewed, i. 15—
Almshouses, likened to church property, ii. 290.
America, United States of; review of Travels
in, i. 240-250; of Seybert's work on, 286-
292; of Duncan's Travels in, ii. 443-450; their
statistics, i. 286-292; cheapness of their go-
vernment, 241. ii. 43; their religious tolera-
tion, 43; their attention to education, 45;
cause of their exemption from taxes, 49;
their navy, 51.
American debts, Letters on, ii. 326-332.
Americans, their sensitiveness, ii. 46; their
curiosity, 48; their fanaticism 51; their dislike
of games, 51; their system of slavery de-
nounced, 52.
Amusements, objections to them by the Me-
thodists, i. 98; of the poor, interference with,
136. 140; evangelical objections to them, 148;
of the rich, 252-255.
Anabaptists, their missions in India, i. 96-114.
Anastasius, Hope's, review of, i. 316-322.
Angling, description of, i. 135.
Anglomania, Necker and the Encyclopédists
charged with, by M. Fievée, i. 36.
Animals, cruelty to, i. 135
feræ Naturæ, 251.
Ant-bears, their habits, ii. 79.
Auticatholics, their addresses to the Govern-
ment, i. 224.
Antiquity, superior wisdom of modern times
over, ii. 60.
Arcadian cant described, i. 47.
Archdeacons, their extravagant pay, ii. 259. 291.
Arians, burnt as heretics in 1612, i. 215.
Aristocracy, their habits in reference to the
game laws, i 251; amusements, 252-255 259.
French, their probable restoration, i.
Arminians and Calvinists, neutrality of Church
of England between, ii. 8.
Army, Turkish, its want of discipline, i. 67;
American, 289.
Articles of the Church, relaxation of, i. 101.
Australia, review of Collins's Account of, i.
27-34.
Authors, one lesson to be drawn from the
Deluge by them, i. 151.
Bail, justification of the law of, i. 56.
Bailey, Mr. Justice, his opinion on the legality
of using spring-guns, i. 326.
Bakers, fraudulent, custom at Constantinople
towards, ii. 114.
Ballot, ii. 305-318; its alleged necessity to
prevent intimidation, 305-307; would not
put an end to canvassing, 308; its tyranny in
compelling a concealment of votes, 308; its
tendency to sow universal distrust and ex-
terminate natural leaders, 308; members of
Parliament may claim an equal right to it
with the electors, 309; a dangerous innova-
tion for a temporary evil, 309; renders scru-
tiny impossible, 310; takes away all interest
in watching the registrations, 310; its effect
on petitions, 311; on the communications
between the representative and the con-
stituent, 311; its inefficiency for concealment
of opinion, 312; leads to deceit and vil-
lany, 313; would not prevent the disfran-
chisement of voters, 314; Randolph's opinion
of it, 314; its abolition in Virginia, 314; would
disseminate hatred among classes in Eng-
land, 314; stronger objections to its adoption
in Ireland, 314; utterly inefficient against the
abuses of power, 315; its operation in America,
315; in clubs, 315; would not prevent bribery,
315; would lead to universal suffrage, 316;
would not be accepted without it, 316; picture
of a balloto-Grotical family, 316; a mere illu-
sion, 317; folly of regarding it as harmless,
317; or as an experiment, 317.
Baltic Powers, brief picture,of their forces, i. 57.
Baltimore, its increase, i. 240.
Bankes, Mr., his Act against buying game, ii.
28.
Bar, the English, its respectability preserved
by its inequality of income, ii. 257.
Barbarians, their tendency to form secret so-
cieties, i. 74.
Barillon, his testimony as to the English court
being in the pay of the French, i. 164; his
letters to Louis XIV. referred to, 213-214.
Barlow, Sir George, his conduct at Madras, i.
191-201.
Barristers of six years' standing, the great
primum mobile of human affairs, i. 214.
Barrow, his eloquence, i. 5.
Bass's Straits, discovery of, i. 33.
Bathurst, New South Wales, i. 264.
Bear-baiting, proceedings against the practice
of, i. 136.
Beggary, encouraged by the Poor-Laws, i. 348.
Bell, Dr., character and saying of, ii. 99.
Benevolence, universal, a principle of ethics, i.
2; Mr. Godwin's principle of, 3; particular
and universal, contrasted, 3.
Bengal, missionary proceedings in, i. 106. 120.
Bennet, Hon. H. G., his pamphlet upon New
Holland, i. 270.
Bentham, Jeremy, on the promulgation of laws,
i. 153; review of his Book of Fallacies, ii.
59-74;
his faults and merits, 60; his fol-
lowers advocate the ballot and new scheme
of registration, 310.
Bernstorff, the great minister of Denmark, i.
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Bishops, their power of making laws, i. 23; ob-
jections to investing them with power to
enforce ecclesiastical residence, 48; subjec-
tion of the clergy to them, 122; objections to
increasing their power, 123; councils to,
suggested, 123, their privileges, 124; Catholic,
refusal to give the Crown a veto upon their
nomination, 224; persecuting, 367. ii. 12;
their duties not enforced, 259; the law never
suspects, 260; their nepotism, 262; their in-
justice, 267; illustration of their bestowal of
patronage, 263, 264. 270; their differences in
doctrinal requirements 263: their impecca.
bility, 266. 270, 271. 286. 288; their inquisitive
practices, 266. 270. 297; their promotion, 265;
their power over the clergy, 271, 272. 297, 298;
their taking oaths by proxy, 335; "Their
Saturday Night," 284; their repentance, 286;
their duty to the Church, 295; their incomes,
as compared with deans and canons, 300;
Catholic contrasted with Protestant, 339.
Blair, Dr., his merits, i. 5.
Bligh, Governor, his appointment to New South
Wales, i. 266.
Blomfield, Bishop. See London, Bishop of.
Books, improvement in their publication, i.
Bore, description of the, ii. 88.
Boroughmongers, their unfair influence, ii. 216;
their peculiar position, 221.
Boroughs, rotten, the alleged cause of our
wealth and power, ii. 209; plea for compen-
sation on their disfranchisement, 211; ob-
jection to them, 217.
Botany Bay, objections to it as a penal settle-
ment, i. 28; review of works upon, 260-272.,
ii. 12-24.
Bourbons, a weak race, ii. 202.
Bourne, Mr. Sturges, eulogium on, i. 296., ii.
Bowdich, Mr., review of his work on Ashantee,
i. 280-285.
Bowles, John, review of his Reflections at the
Conclusion of the War, i. 10-12.
Bradbury, Mr., review of his Travels in Ame-
rica, i. 240-250.
Brahmans, their opposition to the missionaries,
i. 114.
Bravery of medical men, i. 66.
Brawn, process of making, i. 136.
Brazil, the birds of, ii. 77.
Brehon law of property in Ireland, i. 82.
Bristol, sermon preached before the Mayor of,
ii. 242-248; ruin and alarm occasioned by
the mob at, 307; cathedral of, an instance of
the benefits of prebendary estates, 376.
British people. See English.
Broadhurst, Thomas, his work on Female Edu-
cation reviewed, i. 175-186.
Brougham, Lord, ii. 217. 281.
Broughton's Letters from a Mahratta Camp
reviewed, i. 225-228.
Brown, Mr. Isaac Hawkins, ii. 147.
Bulls, Irish, review of Edgeworth's Essay on,
i. 69-71; pleasure arising from, compared
with that arising from wit, 69; one source
of the pleasure experienced from them, 70.
Buonaparte, apprehensions entertained of, i. 10.
26; his conduct to Madame de Staël, 44; his
massacre and poisoning at Jaffa, 64-66; his
threats and intentions, ii. 146; his toleration,
151. 153; his government, 156. 164.
Bury jail, i. 335.
Buxton, Mr., his efforts for the improvement of
prisons, ii. 330; his book on prisons, 337. note.
Calvinism, supported by the early reformers,
ii. 5; and by the articles of the Irish Church,
5; does not disqualify for preferment in the
Church of England, 6; neutrality of the
Church on the doctrines of, 8.
Calvinists in Denmark, i. 61.
Campanero, account of the, ii. 77.
Canada, its injudicious treatment by England,
ii. 44.
Canal, Holstein, advantages of, i. 68.
Candia, situation of the king of, i. 38. 41.
Canning, George, a frivolous jester, ii. 142.
Cant, Arcadian, described, i. 47.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, his exorbitant in-
come, ii. 257. 323. 290. 300; his consecration
oath, 258. 280; his practice of option on the
consecration of a bishop, 263; loan for the
improvement of his palace, 271; his high
character, 273; his first feelings on the pro-
posed innovation upon cathedrals, 290.
Cape Coast Castle, description of, i. 279.
Capital punishment, necessity of, i. 152.
Capital punishments in Denmark, i. 152.
Cashel, Archbishop of, notice of his charge in
favour of the Catholics, ii. 121.
Caste in India, system of, i. 116, 117; conse-
quences of loss of, 107.
Castes, institution of, the curb of ambition, i.
143.
Castlereagh, Lord, i. 315.
Cathedrals, injustice of conferring the patron-
age of upon bishops, ii. 260. 263. 265. 272. 285.
288; benefits of the preferments of, 275-277;
management of the estates of, 276; four pre-
bends to each insufficient, 277. 292; folly of
sacrificing the Crown patronage in, 278;
danger from the committee of, 279; oppor-
tunity of improvement opened by the Chap-
ters of, 281; treatment of, by the Commission,
281. 238, 289; clergy of, compared with
parochial clergy, 288.
Catholic Church of Ireland, its revenue, ii. 334;
its places of worship contrasted with the
Protestant, 334; payment of the priests,
335, 336; no chance of its being converted,
336; injustice of its position, 337; sum re-
quired to pay its priesthood, 338; a state
Christian Charity, Sermon on the rules of, ii.
Christian Observer, reprobation of the, i. 121.
Christianity, the greatest ornament and greatest
blessing, i. 77; difficulty attending its pro-
gress in the East, 108; its introduction into
India, 142.
Chronology among the Greenlanders dated
from their conversion to Christianity, i. 61.
Church of England (the), state of endowment
in, i. 49; how affected by Lancaster's system
of education, 75; relaxation of its articles, 101;
privileges of Dissenters over its members,
101; its income, 122; its disadvantages as
compared with dissent, 203. 206., ii. 257. 293;
hardship and injustice caused by, in Ireland,
178. 186; a gregarious profession, 237; charity
and wisdom of its policy, 241; its neutrality
between Arminians and Calvinists, 242; its
pacific spirit, 243; right mode of defending it,
193; encomium on, 230; improvements in it,
252; its respectability preserved by the un-
equal division of its revenues, 257. 282. 292.
300; unjust reasoning of laymen concerning
it, 257. 290; evil of extinguishing its Cathe-
dral preferments, 276. 279; its emoluments
open to the lowest ranks, 276; inexpediency
of lessening its power, 279. 290; treatment of,
by the Whig government, 284; by Lord John
Russell, 286; by the public, 289. 301; fatal
consequences to, should the government mea-
sures pass into law, 297. 300; its improve-
ment as an institution, 300.
payment to it would be the heaviest blow to | Chartism, formed by the Poor Laws, i. 295.
agitation, 342.
Children, natural, in Denmark, i. 57.
Catholics, their emancipation, i. 9; review of Chimney sweepers, i. 272-279; their miseries,
Parnell's History of the Penal Laws against 273, 274; their peculiar diseases, 274; their
them, 127-131 Dissenters' opposition to peculiar dangers, 275; their inhuman treat-
their emancipation, 207. 224; persecution ment, 277, 278.
how exercised against them, 219; unreason.
able apprehensions entertained from their
emancipation, 220. et seq.; statement of their
disabilities, 305., ii. 169; their proportion
to Protestants, i. 306. 306; their early mar-
riages, 306; their rooted antipathy to Eng-
land, 308. 310; their superstition, 314; meri-
torious patronage of, by the Whigs, 315;
question of their emancipation will perhaps
be settled by the navies of France and
America, 51; never be settled but from fear,
58; notice of Archbishop of Cashel's charge
in favour of their claims, 120; their earnest-
ness in the cause of emancipation, 130; their
alliance with the democratic party, 127; re-
view of Lord Nugent's statement in their
support, 120-128; imputation on them by
University of Oxford, 154; their divided
allegiance, 130. 234; discrepancies of opinion
in their church, 132; small diversity from, in
many Protestant sects, 133; advice to, 134;
delusions respecting the power and influence
of the Pope over them, 135; their persecu-
tions compared with those of Protestants,
138; their alleged want of regard to an oath,
139; easy to obtain the nomination of their
dignitaries. 140; date of their exclusion from
the Irish House of Commons, 148; treatment
of, by Mr. Perceval, 151; Catholics not op
posed to liberty, 155: indulgences granted
them, 157; their increase of wealth, 172;
proposal for payment of their clergy, 173, 174;
no hope for their emancipation if the peace of
Europe be restored, 185; alleged unchange-
ableness of their religion, 198. et seq.; pro-
gress of arguments used against them, 203.
226; oath prescribed to them in 1793, 224;
complaints of their importunity, 229. 231;
precedents in their favour, 232; policy to be
pursued towards them, 233; their intolerance,
234; causes of the clamour against them, 235.
See also Emancipation, Catholic.
Catteau, review of his Tableau des Etats Dan-
ois, i. 50. 63.
Caucus in America, i. 239.
Cayenne, the forest of, ii. 78.
Census in Denmark, i. 58.
Ceylon, review of Percival's account of, i. 37—
44; snakes of, 44; leeches of, 44; cocoa-nut
tree of, 44; talipot tree of, 44; success of the
missionaries in, 117.
Chancery, one of the great uncorrected evils of
the country, i. 243; Court of, compared to a
boa constrictor, ii. 80.
Changes, modern, Letter on, ii. 332.
Character of Dr. Bell, ii. 98; Lord Brougham,
i 247; the Archbishop of Canterbury, ii.
273; Lord Eldon, 191; Earl Grey, 218. 221;
Mr. Grote, 309; Lord Hawkesbury, 149. et
seq.; Francis Horner, 319; the Bishop of
London, 297; Sir James Mackintosh, 302-
305; Lord Melbourne, 278. 281; Gen. Monk,
306; Dr. Parr, i. 4; Rt. Hon. Spencer
Perceval, ii. 142; William IV., 212, 222;
Lord John Russell, 286. 301; the Bishop of
Gloucester, 295, 296. note.
Character of the English in matters of charity,
i. 355.
Charitable institutions, M. Turgot's objections
to, combated, i. 3.
Charles I., conduct of Cromwell to, i. 209;
remarks on his execution, 159.
Church establishment, its nature and object
ii. 137; real danger to, in Ireland, 140; cir-
cumscription of, 275.
Church establishments, their fatal disease, i.
205.
Church-rates, argument in support of, ii. 54;
ministerial error about, 73.
Cingalese, notice of the, i. 40.
Cinnamon wood, remarks on, i. 43.
Civilisation, on what it depends, ii. 43, 44.
Clapham, patent Christians of, ii. 147.
Clarence, Duke of, expectations from him, ii.
Classical learning, its abuse in England, i. 167.
Classification of patients in lunatic asylums, i.
231; of prisoners, 332.
Clergy, English, their want of eloquence, i. 5;
parochial, unrepresented in Parliament, 23;
evangelical, notice of, 88; their education,
101;
their subjection to the bishops, 122;
residence of, may be too hardly exacted, 127;
Orthodox, Methodists' war against, 140; in
Ireland allowed to have private prisons, ii.
55; their difficult position, 57; unfairly
treated by ministers, 269. 271. 281; by the
bishops, 271, 272. 281; how affected by the
Plurality and Residence Bill, 287. 298; by the
Dean and Chapter Bill, 292; picture of a
poor member, 294; of cathedrals compared
with parochial clergy, 288; speech at the
meeting of, at Cleveland, 197. 201; at Be-
verley, 201. 207; remarks on their political
meetings, 200, 201..
Cleveland, speech at, on the Catholic Question,
ii. 154. 201.
Climate of New South Wales, i. 260.
Climbing-boys, Society for superseding the
Necessity for, its proceedings, i. 272–279.
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