I am told that the very sons of such Jew jobbers have been made bishops:  persons not to be suspected of any sort of Christian superstition, fit colleagues to the holy prelate of Autun, and bred at the feet of that Gamaliel.  We know who it was that drove the money-changers out of the temple.  We see, too, who it is that brings them in again.  We have in London very respectable persons of the Jewish nation, whom we will keep; but we have of the same tribe others of a very different description,—­housebreakers, and receivers of stolen goods, and forgers of paper currency, more than we can conveniently hang.  These we can spare to France, to fill the new episcopal thrones:  men well versed in swearing; and who will scruple no oath which the fertile genius of any of your reformers can devise.

In matters so ridiculous it is hard to be grave.  On a view of their consequences, it is almost inhuman to treat them lightly.  To what a state of savage, stupid, servile insensibility must your people be reduced, who can endure such proceedings in their Church, their state, and their judicature, even for a moment!  But the deluded people of France are like other madmen, who, to a miracle, bear hunger, and thirst, and cold, and confinement, and the chains and lash of their keeper, whilst all the while they support themselves by the imagination that they are generals of armies, prophets, kings, and emperors.  As to a change of mind in those men, who consider infamy as honor, degradation as preferment, bondage to low tyrants as liberty, and the practical scorn and contumely of their upstart masters as marks of respect and homage, I look upon it as absolutely impracticable.  These madmen, to be cured, must first, like other madmen, be subdued.  The sound part of the community, which I believe to be large, but by no means the largest part, has been taken by surprise, and is disjointed, terrified, and disarmed.  That sound part of the community must first be put into a better condition, before it can do anything in the way of deliberation or persuasion.  This must be an act of power, as well as of wisdom:  of power in the hands of firm, determined patriots, who can distinguish the misled from traitors, who will regulate the state (if such should be their fortune) with a discriminating, manly, and provident mercy; men who are purged of the surfeit and indigestion of systems, if ever they have been admitted into the habit of their minds; men who will lay the foundation of a real reform in effacing every vestige of that philosophy which pretends to have made discoveries in the Terra Australia of morality; men who will fix the state upon these bases of morals and politics, which are our old and immemorial, and, I hope, will be our eternal possession.