The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-06 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1852.

JACK Slew the giant BLUNDERBORE. Why, there.
fore, should not Mt. MACAULAY auceumb to the
prowess of Lord MAIDSTONE ? Why, indeed ! It is
only necessary to draw the sword of irony, and to
take the shield of impudence, and to " lay on" with
the audacity of MACEETll—shouting "damned he he
who first cries hold, enough"—and down must come
toppling the colossus of modern literature. People
have before now been made to sleep soundly enough
under the influence of a few hexameters. Why,
then, should not the historian be laid low by an
abusive letter—like the order .book of Mr. MOULD,
the undertaker, carried to its long home in the iron
safe by his children. Acting upon this notion,
Viscount MAIDSTONE has forthwith penned a com-
munication, addressed in the vulgarist spirit, to T. B.
MACAULAY, Esquire, M.P. for Edinburgh, instead of
to the Right lion. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY,
the ex-Paymaster of the Forces under the Whig
Government. As well might the latter retaliate by a
note directed to GEORGE JAMES FINCH-HATTON,
Esquire, commonly called Viscount MAIDSTONE, he
posse Earl of NOTTINGHAM, Baron FINCH of Daven-
try, and Earl of WINCUELSEA. But the noble cor-
respondent is not content with twitting the statesman
with that Esquire. which has in reality long since
lapsed into the Right Honourable. He delicately
reminds Mr. MACAULAY to his face that he has be-
foreT now been designated a " book in breeches."
'laving taken upon himself the forlorn hope of an
onslaught upon the elected of the capital of Scotland,
Lord m
his
oizAwIDSTONE appears in truth to have adopted as
the
Bear-shout the rallying cry of the Bloomers,
" To
ech !
Therefore, naturally enough, he
calls to mind the
circumstance that his antagonist
"book in breeches," just as the
Duke of WalaaN a
PUT
OR horse::: was called the other day " a
or as
Doctor JOHNSON was
spoken of as the "walking
Eocyclopesdia," or as Mrs.
SOMERVILLE was, once
upon a time, depicted by
our ingenious Lawn Hu...asa sort of scientific
at'tended
Goddess of womanhood, not b little Loves
We don't
but " by little Knowledgesl" know that
the epithet quoted by Viscount MAIDSTONE
way so discreditable to Mr. MAcmuLt is in any
.
T It implies
that that gentleman talks, as the saying is,
somewhat more ea
book"--a propensitycommendable,
by the way, than writing books in the slip-deppery
of
conversation. It intimates, moreover, that the illustri-
ous author is rather more modernized in
appearance
than a Highlander. Viscount MAIDSTONE, however,
does not by any means content himself with this same
rhetorical brickbat of a " book is breeches." Not
he. The "Esquire" is not eno ,
ugh. The "book in
breeches" is not enough. There must b© something
totnach of his
great
more to satisfy the cravings of "the s
see
—Oh ! there
revenge." What shall it be ? Let us
" JAMES
is a misprint in the " History of England.
GRAHAM is spoken of, inadvertently, by the annalist'
EIS JOHN GRAHAM. That surely gives room for
something like an accusation ! It reads to us rather
like the sorrows of poor Tom HOOD'S veteran, who
found on his return from the wars, that his lady love
" Had got another BEN
\Those Christian name was Joint."

Here, however, Mr. MACAULAY has had the atrocity
to mention mother Joss whose chzistiert, came was