the State provision does not really come from the clergy, but from the agitators and repealers these men : see the immense advantage of carrying the clergy with them in their agitation, and of giving the sanction 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 it. Still, in looking back I see no reason to repent. What I have said 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.

I have always compared the Protestant church in Ireland (and I believe my friend Thomas Moore stole the simile from me) to the institution of butchers' shops in all the villages of our Indian empire. "We will

have a butcher's shop in every village, and you, Hindoos, shall pay for it. We know that many of you do not eat meat at all, and that the sight of beefsteaks 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-ofday congregation—a Whiteboy vicar will no longer lead the psalm to Whiteboy vocalists; but every thing 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 so. Double fees would be a very doubtful cure for scepticism; and though we have often seen the tenth of the earth's produce carted

A.

ABBOT, Chief Justice, his opinion on the legality of using
spring-guns, 315.

Abraham, apologue of, 597.

Absenteeism in Ireland, 300; its consequences, 306,
Accomplishments, female, 176, 177.

Advertising, system of, 445.

Africa, agriculture in, 71; refinement among barbarous
tribes in, 72; trial by ordeal in, 73; Purra Society in, 73;
natives of, in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone, 70-74;
best mode of becoming acquainted with the interior of,

277.

Alarmists in 1802, note on, 10.

Alfonso, Lewis's Tragedy of, reviewed, 15, 16.
Almshouses, likened to church property, 637.
America, United States of; review of Travels in, 233-
244; of Seybert's work on, 278-282; of Duncan's
Travels in, 398-405. Their statistics, 278-284; cheap-
ness of their government, 234. 397; their religious tole-
ration, 397; their attention to education, 400; cause of
their exemption from taxes, 404; their navy, 405.
American debts, Letters on, 672-679.
Americans, their sensitiveness, 400; their curiosity, 402;
their fanaticism, 405; their dislike of games, 406; their
system of slavery denounced, 406.

Amusements, objections to them by the Methodists, 96;
evangelical objections to them, 144; of the rich, 245-248.
252; of the poor, interference with, 133. 137.
Anabaptists, their missions in India, 104-111.
Anastasius, Hope's, review of, 307-313.

Angling, description of, 132.

Ashantee, review of Bowdich's work on, 272–278.
Australia, review of Collins's Account of, 26-34.
Authors, one lesson to be drawn from the Deluge by them,
148.

B.

Bail, justification of the law of, 55.

Bailey, Mr. Justice, his opinion on the legality of using
spring-guns, 317, 318.

Bakers, fraudulent, custom at Constantinople towards,
466.

Ballot, 652-665. Its alleged necessity to prevent inti-
midation, 652-654; would not put an end to can-
vassing, 654; its tyranny in compelling a concealment
of votes, 655; its tendency to sow universal distrust
and exterminate natural leaders, 655; members of
Parliament may claim an equal right to it with the
electors, 656; a dangerous innovation for a tempo-
rary evil, 656; renders scrutiny impossible, 656; takes
away all interest in watching the registrations, 657;
its effect on petitions, 657; on the communications
between the representative and the constituent, 658;
its inefficiency for concealment of opinion, 658, 659;
leads to deceit and villany, 660; would not prevent the
disfranchisement of voters, 660; Randolph's opinion of
it, 660; its abolition in Virginia, 661; would disseminate
hatred among classes in England, 661; stronger objec-
tions to its adoption in Ireland, 661; utterly inefficient
against the abuses of power, 661; its operation in Ame-
rica, 661; in clubs, 661; would not prevent bribery, 662;
would lead to universal suffrage, 662; would not be ac-
cepted without it, 662; picture of a balloto.Grotical
family, 663; a mere illusion, 663; folly of regarding it
as harmless, 663; or as an experiment, 663.
Baltic Powers, brief picture of their forces, 56.
Baltimore, its increase, 234.

Bankes, Mr., his Act against buying game, 382.

Bar, the English, its respectability preserved by its in-
equality of income, 605.

Barbarians, their tendency to form secret societies, 73.
Barillon, his testimony as to the English court being in
the pay of the French, 160; his letters to Louis XIV.
referred to, 207-209.

Barlow, Sir George, his conduct at Madras, 187-196.
Barristers of six years' standing, the great primum mobile
of human affairs, 657.

Barrow, his eloquence, 5.

Bass's Straits, discovery of, 33.

Bathurst, New South Wales, 257.

Bear-baiting, proceedings against the practice of, 133.

YY

Beggary, encouraged by the Poor-Laws, 339.

Bell, Dr., character and saying of, 451.

Benevolence, universal, a principle of ethics, 3; Mr. God-
win's principle of, 3; particular and universal, con-
trasted, 3.

Bengal, missionary proceedings in, 104-117.

Bennet, Hon. H. G., his pamphlet upon New Holland,

263.

Bentham, Jeremy, on the promulgation of laws, 149;
review of his Book of Fallacies, 413-427; his faults
and merits, 414; his followers advocate the ballot and
new scheme of registration, 657.

Bernstorff, the great minister of Denmark, 50.
Bertrandon de la Brocquière, review of his Travels,
83-86.

Best, Mr. Justice, on the legality of using spring-guns,
318. 331-338.

Bigge, Mr., his report of the colony of New South Wales,
367-379.

Bigotry of the English in reference to Catholic Emanci-
pation, 82.

Birds of Brazil, 431.

Bishops, their power of making laws, 23; objections to
investing them with power to enforce ecclesiastical
residence, 48; subjection of the clergy to them, 120;
objections to increasing their power, 119; councils to,
suggested, 120; their privileges, 121; persecuting, 356
-367; their duties not enforced, 607; the law never
suspects, 608; their nepotism, 608; their injustice, 609.
615. 633; illustration of their bestowal of patronage,
610-612. 617; their differences in doctrinal require-
ments, 611; their impeccability, 613. 618, 619. 633. 635;
their inquisitive practices, 613. 618. 644; their promo-
tion, 613; their power over the clergy, 618, 619. 644,
645; their taking oaths by proxy, 627; "Their Satur-
day Night," 632; their repentance, 634; their duty to
the Church, 642; their incomes, as compared with
deans and canons, 647; Catholic, refusal to give the
Crown a veto upon their nomination, 218; contrasted
with Protestant, 685.

Blair, Dr., his merits, 5.

Bligh, Governor, his appointment to New S. Wales, 259.
Blomfield, Bishop. See London, Bishop of.
Books, improvement in their publication, 222.
Bore, description of the, 441.

Boroughmongers, their unfair influence, 565; their pecu-
liar position, 570.

Boroughs, rotten, the alleged cause of our wealth and
power, 558; plea for compensation on their disfran-
chisement, 561; objection to them, 566, 567.
Botany Bay, objections to it as a penal settlement, 27;
review of works upon, 253–265. 367-379.
Bourbons, a weak race, 552.

Bourne, Mr. Sturges, eulogium on, 288. 506. 515.
Bowdich, Mr., review of his work on Ashantee, 272-278.
Bowles, John, review of his Reflections at the Conclusion
of the War, 10-12.

Bradbury, Mr., review of his Travels in America, 233
-244.

Brahmans, their opposition to the missionaries, 111.
Bravery of medical men, 65.

Brawn, process of making, 132.

Brazil, the birds of, 431.

Brehon law of property in Ireland, 81.

Bristol, sermon preached before the Mayor of, 591-597;
ruin and alarm occasioned by the mob at, 654; cathedral
of, an instance of the benefits of prebendary estates, 624.
British people. See English.

Broadhurst, Thomas, his work on Female Education
reviewed, 171-181.

Brougham, Lord, 566, 628.

Broughton's Letters from a Mahratta Camp reviewed,
-222.

Brown, Mr. Isaac Hawkins, 499.

Bulls, Irish, review of Edgeworth's Essay on, 67-70;
pleasure arising from, compared with that arising from
wit, 68; one source of the pleasure experienced from
them, 69.
Buonaparte, apprehensions entertained of, 10. 26; his
conduct to Madame de Staël, 44; his massacre and
poisoning at Jaffa, 63-65; his threats and intentions,
495. 503; his toleration, 505; his government, 508. 516.

Calvinism, supported by the early reformers, 361; and by
the articles of the Irish Church, 361; does not disqualify
for preferment in the Church of England, 362; neu-
trality of the Church on the doctrines of, 364.
Calvinists in Denmark, 60.

Campanero, account of the, 431.

Canada, its injudicious treatment by England, 399.
Canal, Holstein, advantages of, 59.

Candia, situation of the king of, 37. 40.

Canning, George, 307; a pert London joker, 491; a frivo-
lous jester, 494-496; his conduct as a minister, 499.
507. 509. 512, 513. 515. 517. 519. 533, 534; compared to a
fly in amber, 514.

Cant, Arcadian, described, 46.

Canterbury, Archbishop of, his exorbitant income, 606.
630. 638. 647; his consecration oath, 606. 627; his
practice of option on the consecration of a bishop, 611;
loan for the improvement of his palace, 618; his high
character, 621; his first feelings on the proposed inno-
vation upon cathedrals, 637.

Cape Coast Castle, description of, 272.
Capital punishment, necessity of, 149.
Capital punishments in Denmark, 56.

Cashel, Archbishop of, notice of his charge in favour of
the Catholics, 473.

Caste in India, system of, 113, 114; consequences of loss
of, 105.

Castes, institution of, the curb of ambition, 140.
Castlereagh, Lord, 306, 307.

Cathedrals, injustice of conferring the patronage of upon
bishops, 608. 611. 613. 619. 633. 636; benefits of the pre-
ferments of, 623-625; management of the estates of,
623; four prebends to each insufficient, 624. 639; folly
of sacrificing the Crown patronage in, 626; danger from
the committee of, 626; opportunity of improvement
opened by the Chapters of, 628; treatment of, by the
Commission, 629. 635, 636; clergy of, compared with
parochial clergy, 636.

Catholic Church of Ireland, its revenue, 679; its places of
worship contrasted with the Protestant, 679, 680; pay-
ment of the priests, 681, 682; no chance of its being
converted, 682; injustice of its position, 683; sum re-
quired to pay its priesthood, 684; a state payment to it
would be the heaviest blow to agitation, 687.
Catholics, their emancipation, 9; review of Parnell's
History of the Penal Laws against them, 124-128;
Dissenters' opposition to their emancipation, 201
476; persecution how exercised against them, 214;
unreasonable apprehensions entertained from their
emancipation, 215. 493. 507. 524. 531. 549, 550. 575;
statement of their disabilities, 296, 297. 520; their pro-

portion to Protestants, 297, 298. 492. 519. 525. 531.
548. 572. 682; their early marriages, 298; their rooted
antipathy to England, 300. 514. 682; their superstition,
306; meritorious patronage of by the Whigs, 306;
question of their emancipation will perhaps be settled
by the navies of France and America, 405; never be
settled but from fear, 412; notice of Archbishop of
Cashel's charge in favour of their claims, 473; their
earnestness in the cause of emancipation, 482; their
alliance with the democratic party, 479; review of
Lord Nugent's statement in their support, 473-480;
imputation on them by University of Oxford, 506; their
divided allegiance, 482. 582; discrepancies of opinion in
their church, 484; small diversity from in many Pro-
testant sects, 485; advice to, 486; delusions respecting
the power and influence of the Pope over them, 487;
their persecutions compared with those of Protestants,
490; their alleged want of regard to an oath, 491. 547.
554. 572; easy to obtain the nomination of their digni-
taries, 492. 524; date of their exclusion from the Irish
House of Commons, 500; treatment of by Mr. Perceval,
502; Catholics not opposed to liberty, 507; indulgences
granted them, 509; their increase of wealth, 523; pro-
posal for payment of their clergy, 524. 526; no hope for
their emancipation if the peace of Europe be restored,
527; alleged unchangeableness of their religion, 548.
548. 554. 580. 584. 594. 596; progress of arguments used
against them, 553. 575; oath prescribed to them in
1793, 573; complaints of their importunity, 578 580.
585; precedents in their favour, 581; policy to be pur-
sued towards them, 581; their intolerance, 582. 590;
causes of the clamour against them, 584. See also
Emancipation, Catholic.

Catteau, review of his Tableau des États Danois, 49–63.
Caucus in America, 234.
Cayenne, the forests of, 431.

Census in Denmark, 57.

Ceylon, review of Percival's account of, 37-44; snakes
of, 43; leeches of, 43; cocoa-nut tree of, 43; talipot
tree of, 43; success of the missionaries in, 115.
Chancery, one of the great uncorrected evils of the
country, 237; Court of, compared to a boa constrictor,

434.

Changes, modern, Letter on, 678.

Character of Dr. Bell, 451, Lord Brougham, 566; the
Archbishop of Canterbury, 621; Lord Eldon, 542. 567;
Earl Grey, 567. 570; Mr. Grote, 656; Lord Hawkes-
bury, 500. 508. 513. 522. 527. 530; Francis Horner, 666;
the Bishop of London, 643; Sir James Mackintosh, 649
-651; Lord Melbourne, 625. 628; Gen. Monk, 205, 206;
Dr. Parr, 4; Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval, 494; Wil-
liam IV., 562. 571. 598; Lord John Russell, 633.
648; the Bishop of Gloucester, 642, 643.

Character of the English in matters of charity, 345.
Charitable institutions, M. Turgot's objections to, com-
bated, 3.

Charles I., conduct of Cromwell to, 204; remarks on his
execution, 155.

Chartism, formed by the Poor-Laws, 287.
Children, natural, in Denmark, 56.

Chimney-sweepers, 265-272; their miseries, 265. 267;
their peculiar diseases, 267; their peculiar dangers, 268;
their inhuman treatment, 269, 270.

Christian Charity, Sermon on the rules of, 591-597.
Christian Observer, reprobation of the, 118.
Christianity, the greatest ornament and greatest blessing,
76; difficulty attending its progress in the East, 106;
its introduction into India, 138.

Chronology among the Greenlanders dated from their
conversion to Christianity, 61.

Church of England (the), state of endowment in, 48; how

affected by Lancaster's system of education, 74; re-
laxation of its articles, 99; privileges of Dissenters over
its members, 99; its income, 119; its disadvantages as
compared with dissent, 198-201. 605. 640; hardship and
injustice caused by, in Ireland, 298, 299. 306; a grega-
rious profession, 357; charity and wisdom of its policy,
361; its neutrality between Arminians and Calvinists,
364; its pacific spirit, 365; right mode of defending it,
543. 550; encomium on, 579; improvements in it, 601;
its respectability preserved by the unequal division of
its revenues, 605. 630. 639. 647; unjust reasoning of lay-
men concerning it, 605. 637; evil of extinguishing its
Cathedral preferments, 623. 626; its emoluments open
to the lowest ranks, 624; inexpediency of lessening its
power, 626. 637; treatment of, by the Whig govern-
ment, 631; by Lord John Russell, 633; by the public,
637. 648; fatal consequences to, should the government
measures pass into law, 644. 647; its improvement as
an institution, 647.

Church establishment, its nature and object, 489; real
danger to, in Ireland, 492; circumscription of, 622.
Church establishments, their fatal disease, 200.
Church-rates, argument in support of, 632; ministerial
error about, 648.

Cinglese, notice of the, 40.

Cinnamon wood, remarks on, 42.

Civilisation, on what it depends, 397. 399.
Clapham, patent Christians of, 499. 508. 531.
Clarence, Duke of, expectations from him, 481.
Classical learning, its abuse in England, 163–170.
Classification of patients in lunatic asylums, 225; of pri-
soners, 323.

Clergy, English, their want of eloquence, 5; parochial, un-
represented in Parliament, 23; evangelical, notice of,
86; their education, 99; their subjection to the bishops,
120; residence of, may be too hardly exacted, 124; Or-
thodox, Methodists' war against, 137; in Ireland allowed
to have private prisons, 409; their difficult position, 411;
unfairly treated by ministers, 617-619. 628; by the
bishops, 618, 619. 629; how affected by the Plurality
and Residence Bill, 634. 645; by the Dean and Chapter
Bill, 639; picture of a poor member, 641; of cathedrals
compared with parochial clergy, 636; speech at the
meeting of, at Cleveland, 547-551; at Beverley, 551-
557; remarks on their political meetings, 550, 551.
Cleveland, speech at, on the Catholic Question, 547-551.
Climate of New South Wales, 253.

Climbing-boys, Society for superseding the Necessity for,
its proceedings, 262-272.

Clive, his genius, 37.

Clubs, operation of the ballot in voting at, 661.
Coal, want of, in Ireland, 305.
Cocoa-nut tree of Ceylon, 43.

Colebs in Search of a Wife, review of, 142-145.

Collins, Lieut.-Col., review of his Account of New South
Wales, 26-34.

Colonial secretaries, excuse for their misconduct, 253.
Colonies, English, folly of keeping up some of them, 281;
Danish, 59.

Colony of New Holland, 28, 29. 63; New South Wales,
26-34. 253-265. 367-379; Norfolk Island, 31. 33.
Colquhoun, Mr., his Police of the Metropolis, 47.
Combination, danger of the practice of, 130.
Commerce of America, 279; Denmark, 59.

Commission, Ecclesiastical. See Ecclesiastical Com-
mission.

Common informer likened to the honeybird, 43.
Compensation for abolishing slavery, 609.
Concessions, forced, their danger, 483.
Conciliation, tribunal of, in Denmark, 54.
Congress, payment to members of, 282.