[57] Letter iii.

[58] Ibid. vi.

[59] Sydney Smith put very ingeniously the advantages of what he called the 'lottery' system: of giving, that is, a few great prizes, instead of equalising the incomes of the clergy. Things look so different from opposite points of views.

[60] Church of Englandism, ii. 199.

[61] See especially his review of Southey's Book of the Church.

[62] Romilly's Memoirs, iii. 33.

[63] 57 George iii. caps. 60-67.

[64] Edition of 1828, p. 24.

[65] Ibid. p. 10.

[66] A Mr. Gray proposed at a county meeting in 1816 that the cry of 'retrenchment and reform' should be raised in every corner of the island (Henry Jephson's Platform, p. 378). I do not know whether this was the first appearance of the formula.