A COMPARATIVE DISPLAY, &c. Reformation of the Ecclefiaftical Eftablishment in MR. BURKE. on the Re volution in France,&c. HE prefent ruling power has fhewn a difpo- Reflections THE fition only to plunder the church. It has punished all prelates, which is to favour the vicious, at least in point of reputation. It has made a degrading penfionary establishment, to which no man of liberal ideas, or liberal condition, will deftine his children. It muft fettle into the lowest claffes of the people.-As with you the inferior clergy are not numerous enough for their duties; as thefe duties are, beyond meafure, minute and toilfome; as you have left no middle claffes of clergy at their ease, in future nothing of science VOL. II. B or |