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Irish Episcopal Incomes . INQUIRIES into the State of thd Irish Church are becoming fcrtofe frequent , more earnest , and ^ we would hope , more effectual . The managers of this huge establishment will not allow the curtain to be drawn , and
the interior to be throwsi open to the public view . As yet , therefore , statements relating to the wealth of this anomalous corporation , must be iii great measure conjectural . If the
conjectures be erroneous , it is easy fbf the Irish prelates t 6 remove error and doubt by some exposition , Oh authority , of the real property of the Establishment .
A correspondent signing himself Lmeus , in the Morning * Chronicle of the 2 nd of June , exhibits the following &s a nearly correct list of the revenues of the Irish Episcopal Sees : " Archbishoprics .
1 . Armagh * . d ! 18 , 0 Q 0 per Ann " 2 . Dublin . . 6 , 500 " 3 . Cashel . . 6 , 500 " 4 . Tuam . . - 8 , 000 " Bishoprics .
" 1 . Derry . . ^ 20 , 000 per Aim . « 2 . Clogher , . 12 , 000 c 3 . Elphin . . 8 , 500 " 4 . Cloyne . . 8 , 000 " 5 . Meath . . 7 , 000 " 6 . Kildare . ? 6 , 500 tc 7- Perns . . 6 , 000 « 8 . Raphoe . . 6 , 000 " 9 . Limerick . 6 , 000 " 10 . Kilmore . 6 , 000 " 11 . Down . . 6 , 000 " 12 . Dromore . 6 , 000 " 13 . Killala . . 5 , 000 " 14 . Waterford . 5 , 000 " 15 . Cork . . . 4 , 000 " 16 . Ossory , . 3 , 500 « 17 . Clonfert . 3 , 500 " 18 . Killaloe . . 2 , 500 " This correspondent proposes that the Archbishop of Armagh as the tYimate should receive ^ 6 , 000 per annum the Archbishop of Dublin
, ^ 5 , 000 ; the two other Archbishops ^ 4 * 000 , and each of the bishops ^ 3 , 000 . There would then remain a surplus of ^ 567 * 000 per annum , " to be applied to the repairs or building of Churches , to Religious Education , or to any other modfe off promoting the interests of Religion in-Ireland . ' ' Their Spiritual Lordships of Ireland
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have smiled , \ ve 'doubt not , at the sight of this cbaritable and evangelical castle-building . Their revenues are safe , so long as they constitute a fund for ministerial patronage and parliamentary jobbing .
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Fraud on the Memory of Anthony Collins , [ From D ' Israeli's Second Series of Curiosities of Literature , Vol . I . p . 386 . ] AMONG the confidential literary friends of Des Maizeaux , he had the honour of ranking Anthony
Collins , a great lover of literature , and a man of fine genius ; and who , in a continued correspondence with our Des Maizeaux , treated him as his friend and employed him as his agent in his literary concerns . These , in the formation of an extensive librarv , were in a state of perpetual activity , and Collins was such a true lover of
his books , that he drew up the catalogue with his own pen . Anthony Collins wrote several well-known works without prefixing his name ; but having pushed too far his curious inquiries on some obscure and polemical points , he incurred the odium of a Free-thinker , a term which then
began to be in vogue , and which the French adapted by translating it in their way , a strong thinker or esprit fort . Whatever tendency to " libera ^ lize" the mind from dogmas and creeds prevails in these works , the talents and learning of Collins were of the first class . His morals were
immaculate , and his personal character independent ; but the odium theologicum of those days contrived every means to stab in the dark , till the taste became hereditary with some . I shall mention a fact of this cruel bigotry , which occurred within my own observation on one of the most
polished men of the age . The late Mr . 'Cumberland , in the romance entitled his " -Life , " gave this extraordinary fact , that Dr . Bentley , who so ably replied by his " Remarks , " under the name of Phileleutherus
Lipsiensis * to Collins e s " Discourse on Free-thinking , ' * when , many years after , he discovered him fallen into igreat distress , conceiving that , by having ruined Collins e s character as a writer for ever , he had been the occ& ~ sum of his personal misery , he libe-
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330 F ^ aud on ( Memory Anthony Oomns .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1824, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2525/page/10/
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