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15th Lord Somerville, President of the Board of Agriculture. [50] Spencer Perceval. [51] Robert Bankes Jenkinson (1770-1820), 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was Lord Hawkesbury from 1796 to 1808. [52] Lord Hawkesbury was appointed Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports at a salary of L3000 a year. [53] "The allusion is to the Orders in Council under which Mr. Perceval endeavoured to retaliate on Napoleon's Baltic decree by regulating British trade with the Continent. Under these orders the exportation of all goods to France was prohibited which were not carried from this country and had not paid an export-duty here. But there were certain articles which the Minister decided that the Continent should have on no terms, and amongst others quinine, or Jesuit's Bark, as it was called. Sydney Smith, writing as Peter Plymley, said, 'You cannot seriously suppose the people to be so degraded as to look for their safety from a man who proposes to subdue Europe by keeping it without Jesuit's Bark.'"--SIR SPENCER WALPOLE, _Life of Lord John Russell_. [54] In 1839 Sydney Smith pronounced this "a very unjust imputation on Lord Castlereagh." Robert Stewart (1769-1823), Viscount Castlereagh, became Marquis of Londonderry in 1821. [55] Henry Addington (1757-1844), created Viscount Sidmouth in 1805. [56] Spencer Perceval had recently taken a villa on Hampstead Heath, for the benefit of his wife's health. [57] Spencer Perceval's elder brother, Charles George Perceval (1756-1840), was created Lord Arden in 1802. [58] John Archibald Murray (1779-1859), a Judge of the Court of Session. [59] In October 1844 Eugene Robin, reviewing Sydney Smith in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, wrote as follows:--"Cache sous le pseudonyme de Peter Plymley il adresse ces nouvelles _provinciales_ a un reverend pasteur, qui est bien le parfait modele de la sottise protestante, la quintessence des docteurs Bowles et des archidiacres Nares." CHAPTER IV FOSTON--"PERSECUTING BISHOPS"--BENCH AND BAR At the close of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth, the most serious evil which beset the Church of England was the system of Pluralities and Non-Residence. A prosperous clergyman might hold half-a-dozen separate preferments, and, as long as he paid curates to perform the irreducible minimum of public duty, he need never show his face in
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