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No. 397, Ootobeb 31,1857.] THE LBADEB. 1...
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. Horace Walpole In 1s57. The Letters Of...
nothing to do with them , and glad you have not much more . When one can do no good , I have no notion of sorrowing oneself for every calamity that happens in' general . On © should lead the life of a coffee-house politician , the most real patriots that I Itnow , who amble out every morning to gather matter for lamenting over their country . ^ . _ It is a supreme silliness that despises public affairs . But there was more pretence than sincei-ity in Walpole's scorn ; lie lived in ' topics of the day . ' Jtn this passage he supplies us with a glance at Naples , as it was last spring , ibr it' ht : s not been heard of since : —
What a blessed life does Count d'CEyras pass , who is forced to lock up himself and « 11 his power at the end of his palace , with guards in every room , and with every door barred and bolted ! As superior power cannot bestow superior wisdom or strength , nor destroy the real equality between man and man , is it not wonderful that any man should stake character , life , and peace of mind , against the odious prerogative of being feared ? Hated alive , and reviled dead , they risk everything for the silly satisfaction of turning voluntary into trembling sycophants . Every minister is sure of flatterers enough : no , those flatterers must be slaves . He returns to his disdain of politics , which he never understood . There is some biting irony in this , however : —
Politics and abuse have totally corrupted our taste . Nobody thinks of writing a line that is to last bej'ond the next fortnight . We might as well be given up to controversial divinity . The times put me in mind of the Constantinopolitan empire ; where , in an age of learning , the subtlest -wits of Greece contrived to leave nothing behind them , but the memory of their follies and acrimony . Milton did not write his ''Paradise Lost' till he had outlived his politics . With all his parts , and noble sentiments of liberty , who would remember him for hia barbarous prose ? Nothing is more true than that extremes meet . The licentiousness of the press makes us as savage as onr Saxon ancestors , who could only set their marks ; and an outrageous pursuit of individual independence , grounded on selfish views , extinguishes genius as much as -despotism does . The public good of our country is never thought of by men that hate half their country . Heroes confine their ambition to be leaders of the mob . Orators seek applause from their faction , not from posterity ; and ministers forget foreign enemies , to defend themselves against a majority in Parliament . When any Camillas conquered Gaul , 1 will excuse him for aiming at the perpetual dictature . If he has only jockeyed somebody out of the borough of Veii or Falernum , it is too impudent to call himself a patriot or a statesman .
The following is not for an hour or a man , but for all t ime and all species of men .: — " It is very lucky , seeing how much of the tiger enters into the human composition , that there should be a good dose of the monkey too . Walpole has his own way of being serious . He would talk in this way of Delhi : — It is amusing too , to live at the crisis of a prodigious empire ' s fate . Consequently , you must take care that Constantinople does not « scape . I do not insist on its being sacked , or that , according to a line of Sir Charles Williams , in a parody of bombast xant of Lord Granville , there
¦ " Should vizirs' heads come rolling down Constantinople ' s streets !" I have no Christian fury to satiate , and wish revolutions could happen with as little bloodshed as in the Rehearsal . As prophets , gentlemen of his class are seldom accurate : —¦ Modern nations are too neighbourly to . quarrel about anything that lies so near * hem as in the same quarter of the globe . Pray , mind ; we dethrone Nabobs in the most north-east corner of the Indies ; the Czarina sends a fleet from the Pole to -besiege Constantinople ; and Spain huffs , and we arm , for one of the extremities of ¦ the southern hemisphere . It takes a twelvemonth for any one of us to arrive at our object , and almost another twelvemonth before we can leavn what we have been about . Your patriarchs , who livel eight or nine hundred years , could afford to wait eighteen -or twenty months for the post coming in , but it is too ridiculous in our post-diluvian circumstances . By next century , I suppose , we shall fight for the Dog Star and the Great Bear .
Not for the Great Bear , or the Dog Star , is ' the next century' lighting , but for the l north-west corner of the Indies , ' exactly in the old-fashioned way . A propos of India , Mr . Malcolm Lewin may take a hint , which we quote for him in extreme good humour : — The East Indies are going to be another spot of contention . Such a scene of tyranny and plunder has been opened as makes one shudder ! The heaven-horn hero , Lord Clive , seams to be Plutus , the demon avIio does not give , but engrosses riched . Thera is a letter from ono of his associates to their Great Mogul , in which our Christian expresses himself with singular tenderness for the interests of the Mahometan religion ! We are Spaniards in our lust for gold , and Dutch in our delicacy of obtaining it . That would be a stroke for a Court of Proprietors . But it is presently surpassed : —
I am almost too indignant to tell you of a mest amusing book in six volumes called ' Histoire Philosophique et Politique du Commerce des Deux Indes . ' It tell one everything in the world ;—how to make conquests , invasions , blunders , settlements , bankruptcies , fortunes , & c . ; tells you the natural and historical history of all nations ; talks commerce , navigation , tea , coffee , china , mines , salt , spices ; of the Portuguese , English , French , Dutch , Danes , Spaniards , Arabs , caravans , Persians , Indians , of Louis XIV . and the King of Prussia ; of La Bourdonnais , Dupleix , and Admiral Saunders ; of rice , and women that dance naked ; of camels , ginghams ,, and muslin ; of millions of millions of livres , pounds , rupees , and cowries ; of iron cables and Circassian women ; of Law and the Mississippi ; and against all governments and religions . This and everything else is in the two first volumes . I cannot conceive
We beat Rome . in eloquence and extravagance ; and Spain in avarice and cruelty - and , likeboth we shall on . j-serve to terrify schoolboys , and for lessons of morality ! "Here stood St . Stephen s Chapel - here young Catiline spoke ; here was Lord Clip ' s diamond-house ; this is Leadenhall-street , and this broken column was part of the palace of a company of merchants who were sovereigns of Bengal ! Thev starved millions in India l > y monopolies and plunder , and almost raised a famine at home bv the luxury occasioned by their opulence , aad b y that opulence raising the price of everything , till the poor could not purchase bread 1 " Conquest , usurpation wealth luxury , famine—one knows how little farther the genealogy ha 3 to go I ' ' We have a criticism on the Abbe Ray rial , which , though false as concerns that writer , should be taken to heart by authors of the exhaustive school-
what is left for the four others . And all is so mixed , that you learn forty new trades , and fifty new histories , in a single chapter . There is spirit , wir , and clearness—aad , if there-were-but less avoirdupois weight in . it , it would be the richest book in the world in materials—but figures to me are so many ciphers , and not only put me in mind of children that say , an hundred hundred hundred millions . However , it has made me learned enough to talk about Mr . Sykes and the Secret Committee . Again , on India : — "We have no public news , but nevi horrors coming out every day against our East India Company and their servants . The latter laid a tax on our Indian subjects , without the knowledge of the former . One article was twenty-four thousand pounds a year—yes—to Mr . Sykes for his table—yes , yes , —and this appeared at the bar of the House pf Commons from a witness he brought tMther himself—ex uno disce omnes Poor Indians ! I fear they will be disaffected . Would you believe , I read that epithet the other day in a Portuguese relation of a meeting among their negroes in the Brazils . Hacked , hewed , lame , maimed , tortured , worked to death , poor Africans do not love their masters . Oil , Tyranny , thy name should henceforth be Impudence ! And again—a paragraph well pointed : —
There is an Eastern empire to be settled , governed , or held in commendam ; and there is a little war , and not a little tyranny , at St . Vincent ' s ; but none of them-will give the Parliament a quarter of the trouble that a turnpike bill has often done . A few bankrupts have hanged themselves ; we , I doubt , shall have hanged many poor Caribbees ; and we shall not hang the East India Company and their servants , who richly deserve it . One more quotation suggested by India : —¦ The House of Commons has embarked itself in a wilderness of perplexities . Though . Lord Clive was so frank and high-spirited as to confess a whole folio of bis
Maclriavelism ; they are so ungenerous as to have a mind to punish him for assassination , forgery , treachery , and plunder , and it makes him very indignant . T ' other night , because the House was very hot , and the young members thought it would melt theic rouge and shrivel their nosegays , they all on a sudden , and the old folks too , voted violent resolutions , and determined the great question of the right of sovereignty , though , till within half an hour of the decision , the whole House had agreed to weight and modify the questions a little more . Being so fickle , Lord Clive has reason to hope that after they have voted his head o % they will vote it on again the dav after he has lost it .
We bave many among us . wlio think with Walpole , and who would settle imperial affairs as easily , if the ink ran so fluently from their pens .
No. 397, Ootobeb 31,1857.] The Lbadeb. 1...
No . 397 , Ootobeb 31 , 1857 . ] THE LBADEB . 105 l
Blackburn Public Paiuc Was Opened On Thu...
Blackburn Public Paiuc was opened on Thursday week with great pomp and ceremony . ^ St . James ' s Pahk Impuovkmicnts . —The iron suspension bridge across the basin in the enclosure in St . James ' s Park was opened to the public last Sunday . ADinnoxAr , Mau .. s to ani > fuom Jkuhhy and Gukh : nhky . —Arrangements have been nuulo for the conveyance of additional mails to and from Jersey and Guernsey by means of packets which at present run between those islands and Weymouth . — leaving Wcymouth on the mornings of Monday , Wednesday , and Friday , and returning from Jersey and Guernsey on the mornings of Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday . The mails from London forwarded by this route will bo despatched ou the evenings of Tuesday , Thursday , and Saturday , on which days there is no mail by way of Southampton . HBA . 1 . T 110 V London . —The total number of deaths registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday October 24 th , Is 988 . In the corresponding weeks tnitT |) ™ i 0 U 8 yciir 8 ' 1847-56 , the averse number w «» 1002 lhc same rato of mortality i » the prcso . it increased popnlnt on would produce 1102 deaths ; and a comparison of tho real with tho estimated result shoW 8 a difference in favour of last week to tho extent of 114 There lmvo been 42 dontlw from di « ri-h « , ; « lx fro . n cholera an , l choleraic d nrrhma . -Lm . t week , ' tho births of 811 boys . and 7 C 8 girls -in . all 1582 children— Woro
registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1817-56 , the average number was 1475 . — From the liegiatrar-General ' s Weakly Return . Dr . Livingstonk addressed a large audience in the Town Hull , Birmingham , on the evening of Friday week . Ho was received with great enthusiasm , aiul a resolution was carried appointing a committee to bring before the townspeople the beat way of aiding the distinguished traveller . A Gkkick . Lkgion pok Ini > ia . —An Ionian gentleman suggests tho forination of a Greek Legion for India . Greeks , ho observesj ^ pould light with peculiar zeal against Mahometans , on account of the atrocities committed by tho Turks on their countrymen nnrt countrywomen during tho war of independence )—atrocities even exceeding those of the rebels at Delhi and Oawnpore . Tiik Bokouuii Manic , Livkki'ool . —Tho following notice was posted on Wednesday morning on the doors of tho Liverpool Borough Hank : — " The arrangements Avith the Bank of England not liuvinjr yet been couiplotcd , tho business of tho bank will not bo reumncd until further notice . " Tina JFiuiiT Snow ok tphio 1 Iohii . oultur . vl . Souiicty . —An exhibition of uutumn l ' ruita took plauis lust iSatur-< Jay in tho Chid wick-grounds . It was opon to foroign competition , but our owu fruita well maintained their reputations .
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. We should do our utmost to encourage the Beautiful , for the "Usefulencourages itself . —Goetus .
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sot as "WitfDa & sspas & Er © ssvka ^ asiBs Being the Letters of Joseph Andrews Wilson , Esq ., from London , to kis friends at Woodspring , Somersetshire , relating the most remarkable events of the day , with incidents and particulars not elseiohere pmblis / icd , Will be commenced in this department of the 'Leader' ou Saturday next ., and will , be continued from week to week .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. K...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . KATTISOM 1 JB . —On tho Kith September , at Hydrabad , Schido , the wife of Lieutenant Battisombe , Bombay Artillery : a son . HO WARD . —On the 26 th inst ., at Glossop Hall , Derbyshire , liiuly Edward Howard : a daughter , PHILLIPS—On the 13 th September , at Socunderabod , tho wil ' o ol Lieutenant P . 1 $ . Pliillina , 'i ' - ind Regiment Madras Native Infantry , a 3011 . MAURI AGES . OHOULES-ANGUS .-O 11 the 27 th iust ., at St . Pancras , by tho Rev . J . Andrews . R . Choules , Ksq ., of Coventry , to 1-oiusa , eldest daughter of tlib Into J . Angus , lisq ., Kcnttah-town , London . PATTEN—JONES .-On tho 2 T . th iust .. at St . Botolph Church , AldKiito , Ciipl . Charles E . Patten , of I 5 at . li Muiiio , U . S . A ., to Miss Jessie J . Jonoa , of lluthia , Denbighshire , Wales . DEATHS . HUNT . —On tho 2 Hlh July last , at Monp ; livi \ or cholera , ( Ja ) itain CJoorpo ILonry Hunt , 7 Slh lLiKliliuiiloi's , uldoslHon of Colonel Rolmrfc limit , Into . tilth lletfimont , duoply and dnscrvodl y lnnioutttil by his allliutcd family ami a immeroiiN circles of friends . KEI-SO . —O 11 Monday , tlio Stlfch insl ,., at SlmiKh . In cousoquonciiof an a «! ci < U : nt , lid ward John FnmoiH Kelso , Ksq ., of Kolsolimd and llorkualey Park , litto Captain m tho 72 nd lliKhlaiulci-N . RAWLINHON .-O 11 tho 23 rd Sept .. at Malabar-hill . Jlombay , the Rw . ( Sk-ow Hiiwlliwoii . IVotoSHor ol Applied JSciojicoa . Jtihjhinatono Oollcfjo , Uombuy , tu his 30 Ui yoar .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 1051, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_31101857/page/19/
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