So ends this vivid argument on behalf of political justice and social equality. Lord Grenville saw the resemblance to Swift, and Lord Holland kindly reminded the anonymous satirist that "the only author to whom he could be compared in English, lost a bishopric for his wittiest performance." In later years Lord Murray[58] said, "After Pascal's _Letters_, it is the most instructive piece of wisdom in the form of Irony ever written." Macaulay declared that Sydney Smith was "universally admitted to have been a great reasoner, and the greatest master of ridicule that has appeared among us since Swift." Even now, after a century of publishing, _Peter Plymley's Letters_ retain their preeminence. The unexpurgated edition of the _Apologia_ may rank with the _Provincial Letters_;[59] but the creator of Peter and Abraham Plymley stands alone. [41] Abraham Rees, D.D. (1743-1825), and Andrew Kippis, D.D. (1723-1795), were Presbyterian ministers of great repute. [42] The meeting-house in Old Jewry was built in 1701 and destroyed in 1808. It "covered 2600 square feet, and was lit with six bow windows." Dr. Rees was its last minister. [43] George Canning (1770-1827). [44] Spencer Perceval (1762-1812). [45] When it was proposed to exclude King's College from the re-constituted University of London. [46] Spencer Perceval brought in several bills to compel non-resident incumbents to pay their curates a living wage. [47] Spencer Perceval obtained the sinecure office of Surveyor of the Meltings and Clerk of the Irons in 1791. [48] Spencer Perceval procured the reversion of his brother's office of Registrar to the Court of Admiralty, and burked a parliamentary inquiry into reversions generally. [49] John Southey, 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 £3000 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_.