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Memoir of Francis Hodgson
Bishop Samuel Butler to Francis Hodgson, [1832]
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Preface
Vol. 1 Contents
Chapter I.
Chapter II. 1794-1807.
Chapter III. 1807-1808.
Chapter IV. 1808.
Chapter V. 1808-1809.
Chapter VI. 1810.
Chapter VII. 1811.
Chapter VIII. 1811.
Chapter IX. 1811.
Chapter X. 1811-12.
Chapter XI. 1812.
Chapter XII. 1812-13.
Chapter XIII. 1813-14.
Vol. 2 Contents
Chapter XIV. 1815-16.
Chapter XV. 1816-18.
Chapter XVI. 1815-22.
Chapter XVII. 1820.
Chapter XVIII. 1824-27.
Chapter XIX. 1827-1830
Chapter XX. 1830-36.
Chapter XXI. 1837-40.
Chapter XXII. 1840-47.
Chapter XXIII. 1840-52.
Index
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I had an invitation to dine with Drury at Harrow to-day. Next Tuesday I hope we shall meet; and the next day, as soon as ever I have shown my face at the levée, I shall be off for Beaumaris, where all my family are, and where I long to be catching mermaids and bobbing for whale.

It is thought that the country at large will be disappointed in the effect of the Reform Bill. They who have no right to expect anything always expect the most, and must always be disappointed.

All the world concur in abhorrence of the attack on the Duke of Wellington yesterday.1 I was in Holborn and Lincoln’s Inn Fields about half-an-hour after, but saw nothing of it. His windows are barricaded with iron, musket proof. What a horrible sign of the times in England!

The Church, I think, is more than in danger. Some more sanguine than myself are not so desponding. But I see no hope. For when any rational plan of reform is brought forward, Lord

1 June 18, the anniversary of Waterloo.

216 MEMOIR OF REV. F. HODGSON.
King and Dan O’Connell will start up in their respective Houses and knock it on the head. It is their interest to stop all rational and moderate plans, in order to effect a total overthrow. Therefore happy they who, like me, have been pluralists without ever receiving a clear £150 a year from the Church, in any year save one, when a lucky fine nearly doubled the average clear income.