The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-09 00:00:00

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' -'----- P -:— .2- Ew S. ~,, ~ ,i d 41 4 ‘14° ''Y,' 'f)?. ............... 4 11. g cc Courts : a History of e . . 11,, y c c q „ keN4,tni Hedge and Roving Englishman." lte t i 1 41 0 and Co. we•e h, ia e of tL, It t J pf ~4 of ',us volume conveys an 4 tki wolla ILB Contents and its objects. eon k i:Nly , , , b , a .er it is not, and in point of 4 44 Nor " 44 any degree of propriety, h t ) ; t to Y at all • 41' 4 i be t ;It is not, however, on 4 at o _4 de.,,treated disdainfully ; on the t ekitNetth'zvitig of ac , i l • t ztl il tea ,of di m Lion consideration as t eof , , rox il a t" walacy as it exists and as l e 41': 11 110 The i t v erY early period. The 4P, et ql 1 O th e civing Engishman's" volume ,N . of v,,l.raihie and frequently dra -1)1Ni:11a atx,pich it is in a great measure ' t hro' l tt ' n , e l ," writing. as well as the ou• Which he views men and AND GENERAL COMMERCI manners, are of too 'caustic a composition to comport with the severe gravity of history, and may to some extent be even ques tioned as means of imparting pictures of which fidelity shall form the chief ingredient. His strokes of satire are scarcely keen enough for irony, while the force of his didactic elaborations is often marred by an affected flippancy of man ner ; yet, on the whole, the book must be admitted to be earnest and full of meaning. A foible in the character of " The Roving English man," is one said to be prevalent among his countrymen—a proneness for giving advice. In the present, as in a former volume with which he a short time ago favoured the public, he tenders to that " pensive public" his authoritative opinion and counsel on all the mysteries of statecraft, including under that comprehensive term every thing from a royal audience to the mixing of a salad. The maxims of great men in reference to the conduct of diplomatic art have occasionally been epigrammatically terse and laconic. " Listen and look, but tell and show nothing," is the sage recommendation of one master in that subtle s chool of ethics. " Ke e p a g ood table, and be civ il to the women," was the erudite counsel of the great Napoleon. Our newly discovered "Young Ambassador's Best Companion" is more prolix, as well as comprehensive in his maxims, as witness his ADVICE TO AMBASSADORS. But I am treating of the art of negotiating, not the his tory of failures. To sum up, then, in a few terse maxims. Do not make a parade of business ; do not appear always in harness —you will get on quite as fast. Understand your mission and pursue it. Learn to appreciate the true character and requirements of the age ; render yourself necessary to improvement and progress. Never get angry. Efface, by your own example, all prejudice against your countrymen. Seek an honest renown. Associate with those from whom you can learn something—how to he better, wiser, or wittier. Learn to suit your subject to your listener. Moderate your imagination. Study charac ter ; not an observation will be thrown away. Have no absurd mysteries and pretensions about you. Seem to all men what you really are—neither more or less. Bump tiousness may impose on silly people for a time, but in the end it is merely ridiculous. See your way out of a wood before yon venture into it. Prepare for emergencies be forehand. Be easy of access. Be always ready to hear useful intelligence, no matter whence it comes. Your own prudence will judge of its value. Accommodate yourself to all sorts of people ; that is, know them, and know all about them. Be merry and wise, genial and sociable. Make friends whenever you can honestly do so. Do not be always in the clouds, a Jove too majestic to be useful. ' Act without being haunted by the fear of failure. Pro pose to yourself right objects, pursue them as justly and wisely as you can, and trust the rest to Providence; it will seldom fail you. Bonne esperance et droit en avant. Do not show your weak point, or everybody will knock against it. If you have a sore place, never complain, or somebody will always contrive to he rubbing it. Your resentment will appear the best joke possible, and malice will delight in stirring you up. Never abuse any favour or influence you may enjoy. Great friends are for great occasions. It is but squandering your interest to use it on little things. Do not be too obsequious ; it is a sort of deceit, and will infallibly make people suspect you of sinister designs. Beware of making promises ; but never break your word when given. You may see the most serious disadvantage in keeping it, but you will reap the benefit of having done so in the end. Have no dealings with bribery and secret service money. They can never be necessary for honest objects. They are the resources of folly—incapacity. A wise man should be ashamed of them. Politeness is a debt due to every one, but excessive subservience is a lie. The man who is guilty of it is not courteous, but slavish. It is an improper homage to mere rank and fortune ; for nobody stoops to flatter the most transcendent merit with out them. If you give, do so gracefully, so as to make the rranner as acceptable as the concession. Strive to be essentially a gentleman. Do not condescend to oppose cunning to cunning ; trick by trick ; learn to acquire that nameless something which gives a grace to all your words, and a sense and spirit to all your actions, which is the last finishing polish to every good quality. Know how to prepare any business of importance, and remember that we cannot sow and reap at the same time. Lastly, a clever, or even a good-natured man will take care to conform to all innocent local customs, and to avoid in any way shocking the religious prejudices of the people among whom he lives. If you cannot acquire all the qualifications of a diplomatist, try to attain as many as possible, or change your profession before you come to public disgrace, and are driven out of it by the curses of a betrayed and indignant people. From the preceding example, it is clear, whether he has taken the trouble to put it in set phrase or not, that " The Roving Englishman" is at least a covert advocate of "Administrative Reform," and is bent, as far as in him lies, on putting the " right men in the right places." In many of his pictures, and those generally the most lively, his causticity of observation stands him in better stead than the grave saws of sedate wisdom. In various places he gives expression to sharp remarks upon the dignity and grace evinced in the bestowal and acceptance of honorary presents," ti me ou t of m i n d an important branch of diplomatic art. He also enlarges to a great extent on the value and im portance of female influence, which he illustrates by numerous and often ludicrous examples. " Ambassadressea" he treats with an especial regard, and offers the following rather ill-natured remarks on the ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUNCTIONS OF AMBASSIDRESSES. The ambassadresses no sooner got their title than they re solved to display it in as public a manner as possible. Quiet, sober, old diplomatists, all tricks and wig, were promptly married by blooming and strong-minded females. Widows of large fortune and a taste for society lay in wait for totter ing elderly gentlemen, who might have been their grand • fathers, and bore them off, in spite of senile struggles, to the nearest clergyman. There was quite a mania for am bassadors among marriageable ladies. Numerous females who had long disappeared miraculously in company with a plate chest and a captain in the Guards, turned up again in the most unexpected and distressing manner. They threatened their husbands with suits in Doctors' Commons and Consistory Courts, unless they were immediately gra tified by the fullest restitution of conjugal rights. Other energetic ladies who had kept their virtue till it was sour, and had hitherto submitted to be stowed away in holes or corners, started off with great decision to the most distant foreign courts ; and ambassadors who were whispering sweet nothings (in the interest of their country, of course,) to the most distinguished beauties of Paris and Madrid were horror-stricken at receiving a well-known box on the ear, and an order to take larger lodgings, from an awful person, with a false front and an anteiluvian bonnet, whom they had not seen these twenty years. Diplomacy, from being rather a jolly profession than otherwise, be came as gloomy as the private life of a comic actor, and most of the small-legged, knock-kneed, dried-up little beaux, in peach-blossom coats, who were among the diplomatic celebrities of those times, thought of the Pope with a bitterness and impotence of anger, which was the laughter of all the pages and equerries in Europe. The wives of envoys and ministers of a lower grade than ambassadors, he tells us, were not re ceived at the old court of France, and some other courts, with the same amount of consideration as ambassadresses ; and this, we learn, occasionally gave rise to misunderstandings of a nature more grave than might at first sight have seemed likely to arise from them. Of this see an illustration in the subjoined COURTLY DISPUTE IT STOCETIOLM. There was a great dispute at Stockholm, in 1782.