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!!1 PL MEMOIRS of the LIFE of the Right Hon. RICHARD BRINSLBY SHERIDAN. By THOMAS MOORE, Esq. Author of Lana Rooth, Bte. Printed for Lonstnan, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. Du Santos, merchant, formerly . :44 and afterwards of Growalle-street, Brunswick-square, in the County of Middlesex (where he died in of about the month of N e i, 1811, in London), are by their &baton, on or before the Ist 1.4 of December, 11125, to come in before WituawWusaricus,lfhq. v , of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in South avton flu tidings, Chancery-lane, London, and prove their Deists; in default thereof, they will be peremptor il y winded the be rw. of the said Decree. This day was published, price es. Iffili EDINBURGH REVIEW, or CRITICAL JOURNAL; No. LXXXIV. 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BARNETT IN THE RANDS 01 CAPTAIN WILLIAM WADE, MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES AT BATH. On quitting our chaises at the top of Kingsdown, 1 entered into a conversation with Captain Paumier, re lative to some preliminaries I thought ought to be settled in an affair which was likely to end very serf-' ously ;---particularly the method of using their pistols, which Mr. Mathews had repeatedly signified his desire' to use prior to swords, from a conviction that Mr. She.' ridan would run in on him, and an ungentlemanlike scuffle probable' be the COnsequtace. 'lbis, however, was refused by Mr. SL;eticlan, necla•ing that he ha.l no pistols: Captain Paumier replied that he had a br.'ce (which I know were loaded). By my advice, Mr. Mathews's were not P.aded, as I imagined it was always customary to load on the field, which I men tioned to Captain Tawnier, at the White Hart, before we went out, and desiieJ lie would draw his pistols.— He replied, as they were already loaded, and they were' going on a public road at that time of tie morning, he might as well let them remain so, till we got to the place appointed, when he would, on his honour, draw them, which I am convinced he would hare done had there been time; but Mr. Sheridan immediately drew his sword, and, in a vaunting manner, desired Mr. Ma thews to draw (their ground was very uneven, and near the post-chaises). Mr. Mathews chew ; Mr. She. ridan advanced on him at first; Mr. Mathews in turn advanced fast on Mr. Sheridan ; upon which he re treated till he very suddenly ran in upon Mr. Mathews, laying himself exceedingly open, and endeavouring to get bold of Mr. Mathes"s's sword ; Mr. Mathews re ceived him on his point, and, I believe, disengaged his sword from Mr. Sberidan's body, and gave him another wound; which, I suppose . , must have been either against one of his ribs or his breast-bone, as his sword broke, which I imagine happened from the resistance it m 4 with from one of those parts • but whether it was broke from that, or on the slosiag,l cannot aver. Mr. Mathews, I think, on finding his sword broke, laid hold of Mr. Sheridan's sword-arm, and tripped up his heels; they both fell ; Mr. Mathews was uppermost, with the hilt of his sword in his hand, having about sit i or seven inches of the blade to it, with which I saw him give Mr. Sheridan, as I imagined/a skin-wound or two in the neck; for it could be no more, the remaining part of the sword being broad and blunt; he also beat him in the face either with his fist or the hilt of his sword. Upon this I turned from them, and' asked Captain Pall• mier if we should not take them up? but I cannct say whether he heard me or riot, as there was a good deal of noise; however he made . no reply. 'l' again turned to the combatants, a ho were much in the swine situation I found Mr. Sheridan's sward was bent, and he slipped his hand up , the small part, and gave Mr. Mathews a slight wound in the left'part of his belly ; I that instant turned again to Captain Paumier, and proposed a'gairi l our taking them up. He in the same moment called' out, he is killed! he is killed I" las quick as possible turned again, and found Mr. Mathews had re& covered the point of his sword, that was before on the ground, with which he had wounded Mr. Sheridan in the belly; I saw him drawing the point out of the wound. By this time Mr. Sheridan's sword was broke, which he told us. Captain Paurairr called nut to him, " My dear Sheridan, beg your life, and I will be your's for ever." 1 also desired him to ask his life : he replied, " No, by (I—D, 1 won't." I then told Capt. Paurnier it would not do to wait for these punctilios (or words to that effect), and desired he would assist me in taking them up. Mr. Mathews most readily acquiesced first, desiring me to see Mr. Sheridan was disarmed. I de sired him to give me the tuck, which he readily did, as did Mr. Sheridan the broken part of his sword to Capt. Paumier. Mr. Sheridan and Mr. Mathews both got up, the former was helped into one of the chaises, and drove off for Bath, and Mr. Mathews made the best of his way for London. ••• ••• ••• ••• BURKE—PROSECUTION OF WARREN HASTINGS. We cannot follow at length the narrative of Mr. Sheri dan's political career, nor insert Mr. Moore's admirable observations on the Ministry, of which he at first com posed a. part, and on the celebrated coalition of which he disapproved. 64 Burke," says Mr. Moore, a was at this time the ac tuating spirit of the party, as he must have been of any party to which he attached himself. Keeping, as he did, the double engines of his genius and his industry incessantly in play over the minds of his more indolent colleagues, with an intentness of purpose that nothing mild divert, and an impetuosity of temper that nothing could resist, it is not wonderful that he should have gained such an entire mastery over their wills, or that the party who obeyed him should so long have exhibited the mark of his rash spirit imprinted upon their mea sures. The yielding temper of Mr. Fox, together with his unbounded admiration of Ruske, led him easily, in the first instance, to acquiesce in the views of his fi iend, and then the ardour of bis own nature, and the self kindling power of his eloquence, threw an earnestness and file into his public enforcement of those views which made even himself forget that they were but adopted from another, and impressed upon his hearers the conviction that they were all, and from the first`, his own." Mr. Moore describes the state of the prosecution against Mr. Hastings, when Mr. Sheridan established his fame as one ci the noblest orators that ever existed, bJ supporting the charges in a speech which neither h e nor any of his great contemporaries ever excelled. The anecdote about Burke is curious, and not generally known : The feelings of the public were, at the outset of the prosecution, rather for than against the supposed de linquent. *Nor was this tendency co4tateracted by any spite s. , great and zeal, was by no means popular. There was a , tone of dictatorship in his public delleaaoqr against which men naturally rebelled ; and the impetuosity and passion with which he flung himself into every favourite subject, :hewed a want of self-government but little calculated to inspire respect. Even his eloquence, ea: rious and splendid as it was, failed in general to win or command the attention of his hearers, and, in this great essential of public speaking, must be considered inferior to that ordinary but practical kind of oratory, which reaps its harvest at the moment of delivery, and is afterwards remembered less for itself than its effects, There was a something—which those who have but read him can with difficulty conceive—that marred the impression of his most sublime and glowing dis plays. In vain did his genius put forth its superb plumage, glittering all over with the hundred eyes of fancy—the gait of the bird was heavy and awkward, and its voice seemed rather to scare than attract. Accord . *ugly, many of those masterly discourses, which, ill their present form, may proudly challenge comparison • with all the written eloquence upon record, were, at the time when they were pronounced, either coldly listened to, or only welcomed as a signal and excuse for not listening at all. To such a length was this in difference carried, that on the evening when be de livered his great speech on the Nabob of Arcot's debts, so faint was the impression it produced upon the House, that Mr. Pitt and Lord Grenville, as I have heard► not only consulted with each other as to whether it was necessary they should take the trouble of answering it, but decides in the negative. Yet doubtless, at the present moment, if Lord Grenville—master as he is of all the knowledge that belongs to a statesman and a scholar;--were asked to point outirom the stores of his reading the few models of oratorical c tug( ',lion. to the perusal of which he could most frequently and with unwearied admiration, return, this slighted and tom. swered speech would be among the number. From all these combining circumstances, it arose that the prosecuticn of Mr. Hastings, even after the accession of the Minister, excited but- a slight and wavering interest; and, without some extraordinary appeal to the sympathies of the House and the country, some startling touch to the chord of public feeling, .it was questionable whether the inquiry would apt end as abortively as all the other Indian inquests . that had preceded it ? In this state of'the proceeding, Mr. Sheridan brought forward, on the 7th of February, in the House of Com mons, the charge relative to the Begum Princesses of Oude, and delivered that celebrated speech, whose effect upon its hearers has no parallel in the annals of ancient or modern eloquence. When we recollect the men by - whom the House of Commons was at that der adorned, and the conflict of high passions and interests in which they had been so lately engaged—when we see them all, of all parties, brought (as Mr. Pitt ex pressed it) 48 under the wand of the enchanter," and only vying with each other in their deicription of the fascination by which they were bound=when we call ti Mind, too, that be whom the first statesmen of the age thus landed, had but lately descended among them from a more aerial region of intellect, bringing tro . - phies falsely supposed to be incompatible with political prowesi—it is impossible to imagine a moment of t mose entire and intoxicating triumph. The only alloy that could mingle. with such complete success must be the fear that it was too perfect ever to come again ; that his lathe Mad then reached the meridian point, and - from that consummate moment must date its decline. Of this remarkable speech there existino report;' for it would be absurd.to dignify' with time appellation the meagre and lifeless sketch, the Tennem sine eiribus umbiam In fadem £ner, which is given in the Annual 'Registers and Parlia mentary Debates. Ica fame, therefore, remains like an empty shrine—a cenotaph still crowned and honoured, though the inmate is wanting. . - . . . • • .............. . ' ' • ' r - -. . tr'„ J . ,•••• . . -.* . • ..1. 4 •; 4 ±:;;L ; 4' 4 " . . ......, / . i '... .. 471 . -•• . .* .. ' . .. . . .. . ..... • . .. ' . 6 V ...,.......t• - • , • . , . Ift ~ ..„, . ._. ":.. • ... _ . -....._:...,;.......1 ...t.. • • ,4. 1 ,: • . ((;° • /,.. ••;*\• - ....1 - Ni l l';' , - •.1, , _ . t ....- • 1 . 4 14. 4: . • . . 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