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of Great Britain , the kings of the House of Brunswick were perhaps afraid of the competition 3 and were satisfied with haying been elevated from an arbitrary dominion over a petty principality in Germany , to the possession of a limited monarchy over the most enlightened and the most commercial nation in the world . —That competition being now extinguished ^ it could not be thought unnatural , xoere they to indulge a desire of emancipating themselves from the restraints of Parliament ; but there is no way of effecting * this , so secret , safe and obvious , as by corrupting it . When Rome possessed the empire of the world , its Emperor had ample means of corrupting * the integrity of the whole Senate , and it soon became subservient to his will ; public liberty was swallowed up by private profligacy . The first Lord Chatham was a Cato , when he declared that Hanover was a mill-stone about the neck of Great Britain ; but he became a supple courtier , when he boasted of having conquered America in Germany ; and he forfeited the esteem of g-o © d men , when he attempted to adorn the sepulchre of his patriotism by a pension and a peerage . Since his time , for one Cato , one ilockingham , one Saville , one Chatham , ( in his honourable days , ) we have had , and have , and probabl \ always shall have , ( as ) ong as we remain an opulent and luxurious
nation , ) hundreds resemblinghim in the decline of his political virtue . "—Pp . 459 —461 . < c The new ministers , with the Duke of Portland at their head , artfully for themselves , but improvidently for the country , raised the cry of u AIo Popery ^ and cc The Church is in danger 3 " without bestowing a single thought on the danger of the state . The Church is in no danger from Popery ; but the state must ever be in danger from discontent , whilst a large portion of its members is looked upon by government with a jealous and a repulsive eye . To suspect a Catholic or a Dissenter of disaffection , what is it but to suggest to him a cause for it but to excite in him a wish for an opportunity of shewing it ? Little does he know of human nature , and less of gospel charity , who expects to root out the prejudices either of individuals or of societies by unkind ness , to extinguish animosity by violence , or a spirit of revenge by want of confidence . " * " * —P . 463 .
In answer to ; i clergyman who called upon tin . ! Bishop to answer Mr . Malthus , liis lordship replied , that he had looked into the booh referred to , but had laid it aside on perceiving that the author wais endeavouring to shew the utility of bringing down the population of the earth to the level of
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the subsistence requisite for the support of man , ( a proposition wanting no proof , since where there is no food man must die , ) for he thought that his time and talents would have been better employed in the investi gation
of the means of increasing the subsistence to the level of the population . He adds , that he thought himself justified in neglecting to peruse a book thwarting the strongest propensity of human nature , and contradicting the moist express command of God , "Increase and multiply ; " especially as he
was persuaded that the earth had not , in the course of six thousand years from the creation , ever been replenished with any thing like one half the number of inhabitants it would sustain . But , in our judgment , this is treating the subject more like a Westmoreland farmer than a
Cambridge philosopher . We corne now to another passage , relating to the neglect of the Bishop at Court , which would be amusing , if the subject had not become tiresome : we quote it , in order to dismiss the topic .
" I had long * suspected that I was , from 1 know not what just cause , obnoxious to the court ; but I did not , till after the archbishoprick of York had been gi ven to the Bishop of Carlisle , know that I had been proscribed many years before . B y a letter from a noble friend , the Duke of Giafton , dated 10 th of December , 1807 , I was informed that one of the most
respectable earls in the kingdom , wlio had long known my manner of life , on a vacancy of the mastership of Trinity College , had gone of his own accord ( and without his ever nieutioning- the circumstance to me ) to Mr . Pitt , stating what just pietensions I had to the offer of it 5 that Mr . Pitt concurred with him . but
said that a certain person would not hear of it . Ought I to question the veracity of Mr . Pitt ? No , I cannot do it . What then ought I to say of a certain person who had repeatedly signified to me his high approbation of my publications , and
had been repeatedly heard to say to others ^ that the Bishop of Lanrlaft ' had done more in support of religion than any bishop on the bench ? I ought to say with St . Paul , Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people . 6 t Notwithstanding this anecdote , I cannot bring myself to believe that the King * was either the first projector or the principal actor in the sorry farce of neglecting a man whom they could not dishonour * of
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758 Review . — Life of the Bishop of Ldndaff .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1818, page 758, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2483/page/30/
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