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Opular odium and envy which at- 
tended that fpecies of wealth. ‘Thefe 
writers, like the propagators of all 
novelties, pretended to a great zeal 
for the poor, - lower orders, 
whilft in their fatires they rendered, 
hateful, by every exaggeration, the 
faults of courts, of nobility, and 
of prieftheod. They became a fort 
of demagogues. 
link to unite, in favour of one ob- 
ject, obnoxious wealth to reftlefs and 
defperate poverty. 
As thefe two kinds ofmen appear 
principal leaders in all the late 
tranfaétions, their junétion and’ po- 
Jities will ferve to account, not 
upon any principles of law or of 
policy, but 4s a caufe, for the ge- 
neral fury with which all the landed 
property of ecclefiaftical corpora- 
They ferved as a ° 
‘ment of debts, comparatively re-_ 
‘ment? 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1790. 
tions has béen attacked ; and the © 
great care which, contrary to'their — 
pretended principles, has been taken, — 
of a moniéd intereft originating — 
from the authority of the crown, — 
All the énvy againft wealth and — 
power, was artificially directed a- — 
gainft other defcriptions of riches, 
On what other principles than that 
which I have flated can we account 
for an appearance fo extraordinary — 
and unnatural as that of the eccle- 
fiaftical poffeffions, which had ftood 
fo many fucceffions of ages and — 
fhocks of civil violences, and were 
guardéd at once by juftice, and by 
prejudice, being applied to the pay- 
cent, invidious, and contratted by 
a decried and fubyerted govern; 
