"These respectable sufferers are much greater objects of compassion than soldiers and mariners, men professionally formed to hardships, and the vicissitudes of life our sufferers are men of peaceful, studious, uniform habits; in a course of life entered into upon prospects and provisions held out by the laws, and by all men reputed certain. Perhaps of all persons in the world, they had the least reason to look for imprisonment, exile, and famine. Englishmen will not argue crime from misfortune. They will have an awful feeling of the uncertain nature of all human prosperity. These men had their establishments too; they were protected by laws; they were endowed with revenues. They had houses, they had estates. And it is but the other day that these very persons distributed alms in their own country, for whom, in their extreme necessities, alms are now requested in a foreign land." (The Bishop of St. Pol de Leon is proposed to distribute the subscription, as best acquainted with the wants and claims of the sufferers; and a postscript is added)—" Since the drawing up of this case, many hundred of the clergy have been massacred at Paris, with the venerable Archbishop of Arles, a prelate, the greatest ornament of the Gallican church in virtue and knowledge, and four other eminent and worthy bishops at their head. Some bishops, and a considerable number of the inferior clergy, are arrived, and are daily, and almost hourly arriving, since that horrible slaughter." INDEX. Abdiel, Mr. Burke compared to Abingdon, Earl of Affairs, Heads for consideration on Agency for New York .... America, Mr. Burke meditates going to American conciliation, speech on Taxation, ditto Barry, the painter. letters to 101, 124, 126, 131, 133, 136, 's benevolence 235, 236, 246, 248, 267, 454 559 conversation 488 3, 82, 96, 147, 271, 433 Jun... 59, 244, 296, 405, 414, 441 ...... Charlemont, Lord 3, 483 letters to 196, 265, 323, 324, 325, 335 |