1825.] . 
caleulation, and -foresight,,and,.of, such 
ngeable, maxims, .that,,their jde- 
seendants, of the now.generation, would 
readily, and, gladly, abide ebyy at. o When. 
clr ances,have!;not-changed;;with 
tintes, ‘which commonly they do, ; little 
dogbt vemains.,of| their engaging, in -it, 
precisely upon, the same terms-orginally 
fered, Indeed, the.value of:money is 
greatly,in their favour, now. ; and; as it 
was, Said,) theireffer then: was {scarcely 
credible;!, the same, sum;., whatever. it 
was, swould,bevery liberal, now, with- 
ont kaising upon, them,.and might yery 
well pass to their. adyantage. 
> When.the Jews have.a great point to 
gain, they do, not-follow it out by little 
means.) We, are historically informed, 
that among the many _ projects to raise 
money,|.of the prevailing party over 
Charles the First, was that of introduc- 
ing the Jews from the Netherlands, and 
restoring them to an equality of civil 
and religious rights with the Christians 
of every persuasion; and that Crom- 
well was, actually, said to have been in 
treaty, to..that effect with the Rabbi 
Menassah Ben Israel, who offered two 
hundred thousand pounds as a compen- 
sation for the indulgence. It must be 
observed, however, that the Rabbi Me- 
nassah. Ben Israel had the modesty to 
ask St. Paul’s Church into the bargain 
as,.a deuceur, but that Noll had the 
grace to refuse it. This was the fine 
old building that was burnt in the great 
fire of 1666, which consumed, at the 
same time, the greater portion of the 
city of London. Had Cromwell assented 
to the.proposal, observes Malcolm, the 
Jews, might have boasted of a noble 
synagogue, a second Temple of Solo- 
mon. . Mr, Malcolm might have gone 
furtherwithout much hazard of being 
wrong, He might have said, that they 
would. have possessed a synagogue as 
far superior to their Temple of Solomon 
efolden time, as is the present cathe- 
dralof St. Paul, to’ what that was, and 
as St/'Peter’s, at Rome, is now superior 
toowhat this:is. : 
»/This:-contession to the Rabbi’s de- 
mand-—this; change of proprietary had 
been curious: in another point of view. 
The most correct antiquaries have 
agreed) from. indubitable cireumstan- 
ees; thay the: §t; Paul’s Church which 
his reveverice had so nearly begged in 
with his bargain, not only stood on the 
site, but was)of itselfian addition to the 
romains/of the Temple of Diana‘of the 
Rommaris,when masters of Britain. The 
Jews had then; with some shew of rea- 
son) believed, and felt, that the hand of 
Bed of the Tiber. 
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God: Avas; gathering them together; to. 
the coming of their long-expected,Mes- 
siah;,to reign: over, themy on! earthy and 
subdue! the» world's isince; according to; 
their: [interpretation of the:carsdp:thel; 
Christians) had followeduipon:the |Gen>, 
tiles, and» themselves’ upone they Ghriis=/ 
tians,». What a turh affairs had:taken‘ in} 
England, were it not;that; Cromwell 
was endued with grace: sufficient tore+, 
sist the offer of the crafty. Rabbi;atoa 
season when money was)so, much» 
needed to carry on his public measures 
of patriotism, as well as of) ambition 
and self-elevation. Had the Jew. ‘pre- 
vailed, perchance the great fire of Lon- 
don had never happened, for -Charles 
and James had never been restored;— 
‘and thereby hangs a tale:’ Had theJew, 
prevailed, the Commonwealth had-been; 
for aught any wise man could divine to; 
the contrary, sufficiently, strengthened 
to have caused the Church of England 
to have vanished from the face,of the 
earth ; unless she returned to, the bosom 
of her parent, the Church of Rome: 
how beholden, then, is’ the Church).of 
England to the grace and firmness of 
Cromwell, 
These are, indeed, mere airy, dreams 
and fanciful triflings; which. have little 
weight with reflecting men... Without, 
however, assigning St. Paul’s: Church 
to the Jews, it is clear that they might 
be safely put into possession of civil 
rights and commercial advantages, with 
not the least danger whatever to our 
establishment in Church or State, or in 
any thing appertaining to the common- 
weal. 
In returning to their views.as regard- 
ed the cleansing of the Tiber, it may 
equally be said, that were the Papal 
government’ to enter into a contract 
with them to execute the work, no in- 
jury, no odium, no disgrace could pos- 
sibly attach to the Pope, either in his 
spiritual or temporal capacity. Their 
money will serve for state and worldly 
purposes as well as the money of other 
men, and if the English capitalists will 
not embark in the enterprize, let. the 
Jews be negociated with, upon the terms 
they have aforetime proposed; whatso- 
ever those terms may have been; for 
nothing more has yet been expressed, 
than that they offered a sum scarcely to 
be credited. I would not that their 
being Jews should impede the work, 
but would contract with them: as soon 
asany other body of men. If they 
pleased, on safe and proper conditions, 
they should: drain the bogs in Ireland ; 
and, that performed, remove the God- 
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