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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith
Letters 1836
Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 6 January 1836
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Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
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January 6th, 1836.
My dear Murray,

It seems a long while since we have heard anything about you and yours, in which matters we always take a very affectionate concern. I saw a good deal of the Ministers in the month of November, which I passed (as I always do pass it) in London. I see no reason why they should go out, and I do not in the least believe they are going. I think they have done more for the country than all the Administrations since the Revolution. The Poor-law Bill alone would immortalize them. It is working extremely well.

I see you are destroying the Scotch Church. I

* A house Mr. Smith had purchased in Charles-street, Berkeley-square.

384MEMOIR OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH.
think we are a little more popular in England than we were. Before I form any opinion on Establishments, I should like to know the effects they produce on vegetables. Many of our clergy suppose that if there was no Church of England, cucumbers and celery would not grow; that mustard and cress could not be raised. If Establishments are connected so much with the great laws of nature, this makes all the difference; but I cannot believe it.

God bless you, dear Murray!

Sydney Smith.