The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith, etc

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THE WORKS OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH A NEW EDITION. LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 1850. London : Sfottiswoodes and Shaw, New-street- Square. CONTENTS. articles originally published in the "edinburgh review." Page Dr. Parr .....

I Dr. Rennel - - - - - 5 John Bowles - - - - - 10 Dr. Langford - - - - 12 PubUc Characters of 1801, 1802 - - 12 Archdeacon Nares - - - - 13 Matthew Lewis - - - 15 Necker'a Last Views - - - 17 Australia - - - - 26 Fieve'e's Letters on England - - 34 Island of Ceylon - - - - 37 Delphine - - - - -44 Thoughts on the Residence of the Clergy - 47 Catteau, Tableau des Etats Danois - 49 Wittman's Travels - - - - 63 Edgeworth on Bulls - - - - 67 Account of Sierra Leone - - 70 Trimmer and Lancaster - - - 74 Parnell and Ireland ■• - - - 79 Travels from Palestine - - - 83 Methodism - - - - - Indian Missions - 100 Letter on the Curate's Salary Bill - - 118 Catholics - - - - - 124 Proceedings of the Society for the Suppression ofVice 128 Methodism ----- 135 Hannah More - - - - 142 Characters of Fox - - - - 145 Observations on the Historical Work of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox - - 150 Professional Education ... 162 Female Education ... - 171 Public Schools - - - - 181 Disturbances at Madras . - - 187 Toleration - - - ■ - 196 Charles Fox 202 Bishop of Lincoln's Charge - - - 213 Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Tear 1809 - - - - 219 Mad Quakers - - ** ***> - 222 ££__I£L-__--_ Page Madame D'Epinay - - - - 228 America ----- 233 Game Laws - - - - - 244 Botany Bay - - - - - 253 Chimney Sweepers - - - - 265 Mission to Ashantee - - - - 272 America 278 Poor-Laws ----- 285 Ireland ----- 296 Anastasius ----- 307 Spring Guns ----- 313 Prisons ----- 321 Man Traps and Spring Guns - - 331 Scarlett's Poor-Bill - - - - 338 Prisons ----- 344 Persecuting Bishops - - - - 35G Botany Bay - - - - - 367 Game Laws - - - - - 379 Cruel Treatment of Untried Prisoners - 387 America - - - - - 397 Memoirs of Captain Rock - - - 407 Bentham on Fallacies - - - 413 Waterton - - - - - 427 Granby 438 Hamilton's Method of teaching Languages - 445 Counsel for Prisoners - - - 458 Catholics - - - - - 472 Peter Plymley's Letters - - 489 r£,HE jUDGE THAT smites contrary to THE j_AW.

A Sermon - - - 535 The Lawyer that tempted Christ : A Sermon 541 SPEECHES Speech at a Meeting of the Clergy of Cleve land 547 Speech on the Catholic Claims - - 551 Speech at the Taunton Reform Meeting - 557 Speech at Taunton at a Meeting to celebrate the Accession of King William IV. - CONTENTS. Page Lettee on the Character of Sir James Mackintosh - - - 649 Ballot - - - - - 652 Letter to Leonard Horner, Esq. - 665 Letters on Railways — " Locking in " on Railways - - 667 " Locking in " on Railways - - 669 Burning alive on Railroads - - 671 Letters on American Debts — The Humble Petition of the Rev. Sydney Smith to the House of Congress at Washington - - - - 672 Letter I. - - - - - 673 Letter II. 670 Modern Changes - 678 A Fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church - - - - 679 | Index ..... 680 Page Speech at Taunton in 1831 on the Reform Bill not being passed ... 564 Speech respecting the Reform Bill - - 565 A A Letter to the Electors upon the Catholic Question - 572 A Sermon on the Rules of Christian Charity ----- 591 Sermon on the Duties of the Queen - 598 A Prayer - - - - - 602 First Letter to Archdeacon Singleton - - - - - 603 Second ditto ... - 622 Third ditto - - • - 634 Letter to Lord John Russell - -