This growing selection from The Works  of the Rev. Sydney Smith is from the third Edition in three volumes published in 1845 in London by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans of Paternoster Row.

The full list of texts is given below. Those shown in blue are available on the site. Those shown in green will be available shortly. Electronic copies of any others would be most welcome.

Volume 1

Articles originally published in the Edinburgh Review

• Dr Parr

• Dr Rennel

• John Bowles

• Dr Langford

• Archdeacon Nares

• Matthew Lewis

• Australia

• Fievées Letters on England

• Edgeworth on Bulls

• Trimmer and Lancaster

• Parnell and Ireland

• Methodism

• Indian Missions

• Catholics

• Hannah More

• Professional Education

• Female Education

• Public Schools

• Toleration

• Charles Fox

• Mad Quakers

• Game Laws

• Botany Bay

• Chimney Sweepers

• America

• Ireland

• Spring Guns

• Prisons

• Account of Sierra Leone

• Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809

Volume 2

Articles originally published in the Edinburgh Review

• Persecuting Bishops

• Botany Bay

• Game Laws

• Cruel treatment of untried prisoners

• America

• Bentham on fallacies

• Waterton

• Man traps and spring guns

• Hamilton’s method of teaching languages

• Counsel for prisoners *NEW (18/05/2006)*

• Catholics

• Neckar’s last views

• Catteau, tableau des Etats Danois

• Thoughts on the residence of the clergy

• Travels from Palestine

• Letter on gthe curate’s salary bill

• Proceedings for the Society for the Suppression of Vice *NEW (18/05/2006)*

• Characters of Fox

• Observations on the Historical Work of the Right Hon. Charles James Fox

• Disturbances at Madras

• Bishop of Lincoln’s charge

• Madame d’Epinay

• Poor-Laws

• Anastatius

• Scarlett’s Poor-Bill

• Memoirs of Captain Rock

• Granby

Volume 3

Articles originally published in the Edinburgh Review 

• Island of Ceylon

• Delphine

• Mission to Ashantee

• Publich characters of 1801, 1802

• Wittman’s Travels

Speeches

• Speech on the Catholic claims

• Speech at the Taunton Reform Meeting

• Speech at Taunton at a meeting to celebrate the accession of William IV

• Speech at Taunton in 1831 on the Reform Bill not being passed

• Speech respecting the Reform Bill

The ballot

• First Letter to Archdeacon Singleton

• Second Letter to Archdeacon Singleton

• Third Letter to Archdeacon Singleton *NEW (18/05/2006)*

• Letter on the character of Sir James Mackintosh

• Letter to Lord John Russell

• Sermon on the duties of the Queen

• The lawyer that tempted Christ: a sermon

• The judge that smites contrary to the law: a sermon

• A letter to the electors upon the Catholic question

• A sermon on the rules of Christian charity

• Peter Plymley’s letters

• Letter on railways

• Letter to Mr Horner

• Letters on American Debts

• The humble petition of the Rev. Sydney Smith to the House of Congress at Washington

• A prayer

• Changes

• A fragment on the Irish Roman Catholic Church