CHAPTER IV. Burke's Theory of Religious Establishments-Value of Religion to Society-Public Provision for its Teaching-Fruitlessness of the French Revolution, Page 68 CHAPTER V. Opulence of France under the Bourbons-Principle of Jacobinism, CHAPTER VI. Portrait of the true Legislator-Sketch of Rousseau-Burke's ridicule of the meanness of Republicanism-Patriotic Stock-jobbing, 86 111 CHAPTER VII. Illness of Burke's Son-Death-Burke's Dejection-Ridicule of the late Duke of Norfolk-Attack on Burke's Pension-His attack on the Duke of Bedford, 145 CHAPTER VIII. Revolutionary War-Letters on a Regicide Peace-True Principle of British Success-Nature of Party-Policy of the Revolution of 1688, 182 CHAPTER IX. Burke's Maxims of British Policy-Existing Jacobinism-Divorce in Paris-British Charity-Corps of Condé-Foresight of Victory-Last illness of Burke-Criticism by Mackintosh-Burke's Death-bed-His religious resignation-His Will, Page 215 MEMOIR OF THE POLITICAL LIFE OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE. CHAPTER I. Burke's Letters to Mercer-Robbery of the Church of FranceRemarks on the Constitutional Society-Burke's Character of Cromwell. THE publicity of Burke's opinions entailed on him a vast variety of correspondence, frequently frivolous and captious; but even this correspondence assisted that knowledge which his whole life had been spent in cultivating, the knowledge of the public mind. To one of these volunteer writers, an obscure person, of the name of Mercer, who addressed him from that seat of republican politics, the north of Ireland, we probably owe some portions of his great work on the Revolu tion. This person, with the fearlessness of ignorance, had ventured to take Burke to task for his Parliamentary opinions on France, and with only inferior effrontery had proposed his own. But the letter was |