The Sun.
London, England, 1852-09-15 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEIVIBER 15,

et London, and absolutely struck it dumb. Its effect ,phis successor in the Commandership-in-Chief, andtinever passed his lips, even in his addresses to his sol-
on reality. He lived to soe thin -s as they were. His
• , ee
the 10 glance and cool judgensnt pierced at ones thrown:. I
, _.., ~11,.: caul of the ()eel-ling ailes of We'-erloci, a a,...alonei of the let Grenadier Gu ads. In March ),,,:,,diers. His entire nature and character were moulded
.h j. the surface which entanele
,the sympathy of the feelings.
t' Brustels, for there were
ea to be reached by a roux I*
e
itiiwas appointed Constable of the Tower, with a:01
OF THE 1
f.,; ' Gathering tears and trembliegs of distress, P?. salary of 1,0001. per annum, and Cuetos of the TowerAamte
NIK E ll And lips all pale- 1-latailets, with a yet larger ssiary. Oa
„.. , .
in war, in politics,
the, DuPke oif
;4most precise correctness in
~..- s the imagination or kindles'
OF WELLINGTON '-,
,- ~zinevery household to which the heavy tidings arriyed.ge April Lord Liverpool died, and the king havin Truth, as he loved her, it'
tta)
meet abhorred disguises ellington adhered intioxibly to the
3i,vandeinerthpeatheeamnmd
ebny
tsrtaenrnsaeertie.mniand,;l.
named Canning as his successor, the Duke arid stir
.-FaTo-day the journals will be perused by many a sor4fother old members of the Cabinet retired, his Gracellifa,
In a •
Sixth Edition of The Sun last evening, werowlog and an awe-struck man. When the ashes of.lresigning the command of the army on the 30th.
peblithtword
_and deed. His tempera
d, exclusively, the ofthe death "'the• mighty deadshall ' found
announcement
• itl Lord Goderich, introducing Mr. Canning's Corn •
. and despised exaggerations. Ttit
of his Grace - Bill into the Upper House, it was firmly opposed by,l fearlessness of his actions
the Duke tf ' '''' lace then it will be oue tim n
ehnie- , Wellington, which
.melan-t p , t ea d our duty, as jourewas never the result of specula-
h Duke, hamendment was carried by ame 'tltivo conf d
']gritst e w. ose ,,.." i ence or foolhardy
yai:vent took place at his marine residence, nalists, sadly, but impartially, to trace the life, s presumption, but it lay
feleven. Canning died on the Bth ofnamainly in a just
as o
,perception of the true relation in which
the
r Castle, yesterday afternoon. gothe character, and the exploits, both in thegAugust, and Lord Goderich, with Huskisson ast/hz! stood to his antagoniets in the field or in the Senate.
J-°e Previou- t
te t,„ . t state of the Noble Duke's health uprfield and in the senate, of the great Duke of WelColonial Secretary, succeeded him ; the DukerTh
thel realestgf exploits of his life, such as the passage 01
4 morning .
g of the day of his death had not been ''• lington.” , ' once more, becoming Commander-in-Chief, but with t,oef
Waterloo
ollowed by the march on Madrid, the battle,
suchas to i .k. out a seat in the Cabinet. Lord Goderich soontti , and the passing tho Catholic Relief Bill,'I;
alai g ve any warning of so serious a result,
ttwere performed under no circu
Arthur Wellesley, fourth son of the ,
second Earl oP,a, resigned, and the Duke was called on to form aa s • .
Instances that could ine
s
none of his immediate circle entertained e a pre enthusiasm. Nothin .
to t_
r,.. . Mornington, who married the eldest daughter of the Cabinet. He resigned his command to Lord Hill!?g but the coolness of the la 'I
could have won the '
app'ro7P ,hension of the painful event that was fastr
, first Viscount Dungannon, was born at MorningtonelMr. Huskisson was dismissed abruptly, and his tftt'rently so adverse to mhiisghty stakes upon a cast appai
to
all
Yesterday morning his Grace roseae House, Merrion-street, in the city of Dublin, on theqfriends, Lord Dudley, Mr. Charles Grant, and Lord t,sthave attained the highest success. Other commander,.
14, aPPearance, in his usual good health, and 29,h of April, 1769. The year is memorable asipaimerston seceded also His His late majesty, WilliamVposed of the colossal resourcespitch of glory when tdhheyeaddiesd-
for" no complaint of any indisposition. In the .having given birth to his great rival in the field, V., too, taking offence at a remonstrance, made searmies already flushed with the of
ofemPires'athe world.
'B"n he walkedtake his t
out to cus ,omary;Napoleon Bonaparte, to his atter opponent and subse-4by the Duke of Wellington upon the expensivenessA:rhe Duke of Wellington found neoncitihest aura ,thent
sze„ • quent guest and friend, Marshal Soult, to George` of his habits, also resigned his office of Lord High in anyt.t part of his career. no such eao
tots, inAt no the mean:
fhottl the grounds attached to the Castle, buts Canning, and to envier. At an early age the future".iAdmiral. His Grace's mode of life as Prime fat his disposal adequate to tbe readylmedwocreertain execui
satha Y after his return home he was seized with a=: conqueror of the "child of destiny, the arbiter oflMinister was such as might have been expected from tion of his designs. His steady an
in the 13 .
• f,,, . tiller campaigns wentprogress - ,
that r violent epileptic fit. It was thought, however;_ nations, and councillor of Sovereigns, came to Eng-phis previous career. He slept on a mattress spread,
lilt that currenton against the current of fortune,
14 the attack arose from some temporary disorder land. After a few years of domestic instruction heoton an iron camp bedstead ; rose regularly at seven • 't.
a resolution. He washad iatself turned by perseverance and;
#.., wss sent to Eton College, and from thence proceeded,eenbreakfasted at eight, and immediately commenced 'A
clear and complete perception of _
the steMach, which the set would soon throw
ye ern eet the dangers he encountered, but
01; a_ .
uo his being intended for the military profession, to Angierselhis official duties. He was the terror of the idlerOlatent ewer whi h b he saw and grasped the
%liar,
_, Grace's medical attendants, Dr. Maear- g:" (Maine-et-Loire), and entered at the Military Collegeti;at Downing-street. On cite occasion, when the Iresistapnces a :rent
alffied those dangers, and surmounted§
basin " Weimer, and Mr. Hulke, surgeon, of Deal, ' there as a pupil of Pignerol, to whom French engi-! Treasury clerks told him that some mode of making fahighest degreepof
courage, for
That is precisely the
g • their • i ~, for it ,
tile,. been immediately sent for, on arrival," neers have applied the epithet of " the modern up the accounts was impracticable, they were enlightened, and determined. is courage conscious,
riai:. prescribed an emetic. This, however, was ad-:'{,', Vaubon." A t this period Napoleon was pursuing.lmet with the curt reply, " Never mind, if you can'tk, Clearness of discernment ,correctnessof judgment,
efts rwithout producing the desired effect, are; " similar studies at the School of Brienne. At,,,,:: do it I'll send you half-a-dozen pay sergeants thats and rectitude in action were, veithentdoubt, the rinci•
.r ...tee . ' the age of eighteen the name of "Arthurtete will"-a hint that they did not fail to take. His
,_ pal elements of the Duke's brilliant . P .
si, hit.7,o.ii ring from a rapid succession of convulsions of Wesley „
was gazetted as ensign in the'trfpolicy has always been to cling to the old in t' t N war, and of his vast auth • - achievements
in
4 8 1 ulcount ()my in the councils of his
pit_ ,e'lar violence to the first, the Noble Duke ex 73d Reiment, and in December following,promoted atations and systems so long as they could safely be ry, as well as in the confer They
lat a ,ia t in the afternoon '',' r Lieutenancy 'C$l4 •t • a ,be country, to his determination an • conferences of Europe.
.
tefot cl rer past three o'clock afternoon. 0 a in the 76th Foot. In January, hisnain eine , and then to accept the new. Thus he originality and vigour akin
,to that of genius, and sometime
allils 'a his death his Grace appeared to be insen• r a 1778, he exchanged into the 41st, and in June of they opposed Catholic Emancipation, which he lived to tt
etas, imparted to his lan- '4
gunge in debate a pith and si
Nat' 4113 was unable to articulate. About nine :. tante year was appointed to the 12th Light Dragoons•AoarrY• This latter feat reduced the number of hisEbrilliant orators failed to arrive, His
at which more
Ina: ao his Grace experienced an attack of the', He received his company and commission in June,Zsupporters, and he was unable to resist the agitation less of obstacles and of effect, traeeiellmind, equally catre-,
' 1791, and in October of the following year was ap-4for a measure of Reform, of which he could never: road to its end; and he retained, even'd by. the shor esq .
se„- tlature, but his system was then better able to 'l` in his latest years,
eLeed au , pointed to a 'troop in the 18th Hussars. In 1790 the aa'approve. On the 15th November Ministers were de- ?atilt the precision with which he was
1.4 ccessfully against the malady. . wit handle the..
vaunt to
f er`l Charles S family influence of the Morningtons sent him into theafeated on Sir Henry Parnell's amendment, appointingV
s;3 enbjects that came before him, or had at any time en.'
!laity a and Lady Charles Wellesley and •-• Commons' House at the general election, where he sae Select Committee to inquire into the Civil List, and,
grossed his attention. This was the secret of that un-
star thethat Noble Duke had breathed his last, a nies-*. 461 30, 1793, contains his name as Major of the 33d,:=dHouse of Peers that he had resigned office. Thes were amidst idesotilthetiovnarioedt. chaisres-iasPnadtehes, written as the);;
of' b was dispatched to the Marquis and Marchioness !), Foot, and live months afterwards he became Lieu -r passing of the Reform Bill may be said to have, of that lucid and appropriate mod:motions of war; anti
bet °um wh
0 are now staying at Frankfort for the •• tenant-Colonel of that regiment. In 1794 the 33d,'., formed the termination of' his active political life, al- never failed to leave a clear
of exposition which •
„,, 4t of , 9, under orders for Lord Moira's expedition to the coast a though his name is more or less heard in every politi- those whom headdressed.Other
impressionu 00 the minds of
'1 tb,i. , tne waters, to apprise them of the decease;a
If France, wits embarked, when counter-orders sentrcal crisis. During the late Sir Robert Peel's life he aven in this age,m revird f
men have enjoyed.
lilt, it; Illustrious parent. The painful tidings were - the troops to reinforce the Duke of York, then making always acted with him, and stood by him on both his ~: contrivance, a more extended adcurltaines of ;
-- tnvention and
to her vprilediately transmitted by telegraphic dispatea " cis blundering coup d'essai in the Netherlands. The two corn-law policies. His acceptance and retention s more subtle comprehension of the changing
foresight, a
1„ Lijesty and to the Earl of Derby at Balmoral. .; future Field-Marshal here saw the deadly shock 0f64, of the command-in-chief under Lord John Russell.. society and the world. But the valuehaging laws of '
yaks folio • •;',` battle; the fate of the war was decided, and Lieu- k shows, however, that his first thought was of his:Parceptions, and of the policy founded of these finer .
lilts wing are additional particulars of the a,
a• tenant-Colobell Wellesley, in command of three bat- '';`Sovereign. On the 10th of April, 1848, when the ties never been mere assured than when npon them,
s of W •leadmitted by en it was tried and •
oaarta ellington's death, which will be found to et anions, covered the retreat. On the 6th of July,t:
.Chartists were to overturn the empire, the defences •7bl mind. the wisdom and patriotism of
ittrieilt area reports already circulated concerning tht t. 1794, at Alost, he repulsed the advanced guard of they of London were entrusted to the Duke. The special"'
raatheeriHis superiority over other men that v!ntert
ti. ea occurrence • ea French, and on the 10th, at Mechlin, he checked : constables' baton, however, were amply sufficient. • n the perfection of those qualities whichcohns consisted
• ° ind• • *--• their forward • t with much loss. In March, ' A distinguishedmember of the Governmentt
,movemen - eminently possessed than in the variety or extent he pre-
land f 'cations whatever had prepared the public -other faculties. of his
at Bremen for En 1 d I '
ss 1795, the regiment embarked
____ g aln , , tug several. points of military arrangement, received
sat, for so sudden anevent, and the lancholy oc-These powers, which were unerrin
.eti
sey, in each instance the reply, " Done already," " Done ' definite and certain facts, sometim g when applied to
Or ens
05 tails •
he was entirely unexpected by those persons iil [tad reorganised his regiment, and reported it fit for: three hours ago."
'elation of causes which had not hithertod in the appre-
INWere •
q Immediately attached to the Duke's person. '1 service. In October, 1795, he embarked at Souther' After the battle of Chillianwallah, in which Lord ' Lheir observation. It is, perhaps, less come under
%Net 'see took his customary walk in the grounth ' ampton for the. West Indies, but the transport was i Gough was accused of indiscretion and superse,ded,e that the soldier and the statesman of 1815, be wondered at
N° d to the C l mornin 'f-i...
2. shattered by atormy weather, and driven back torithe Duke was asked to furnish three names from: bred in.the highest school of Tory politics
born and
he BYnapto e astle ear y
yesterday • "' wort. In April, 1796, the 83d sailed for India, andt which Lord Gough's successor might be selected. He miscarried in his opinion of those , should have
e asi
°h le had appeared up to that time, and 1 eventful times
6 °°le ees ey, gazotted as its colonel, on the 3d of May a. wrote-" Sir Charles Napier, Sir Charles Napier, Sir a
tV 11 1 which followed the accession of William
N Duke even inspected the stables, and ,1 •
$ . , joined his regiment at the Cape.
In 1797 his a Charles Napier." Sir Charles declined the '
post. •
than that the defeated opponent IV-
to ordersl' ; that arrangements should be made ~ brother, the Earl of Mornington, now known to his-'t .' Then," said the Duke laconically, " I must go my- in 1831 should have risen into
... reform ii 4
senator of 1846 and 1851. Yet v the patriott
to taeerilraeY to Dover, where he intended gory as the Marquis Wellesley, was appointed to the ' self." Space fails for innumerable illustrations of this% the
1828, in which r Administrationi
ete,l v° Lady Westmoreland, who was ex- 1 Governor-Generalship of India, whilst French in- ' simple and noble idea of public duty superseding all first and most rs tehnesihDleu elof Welling occupied the',
sit Q•-• t° arrive there in the afternoon. On'`: gigue, French aid, French officers, pervaded and agi-se questions of difficulty or danger. In proclamations, li Emancipation Act, and therebypace, passed the Catholic
orders orthe d and dispatches, the Duke formed
0. -ated the court, and camp
.of the Sultan of the Mysore, . ay, a 1 rupture in gave the -
signal of a
tar] race's return to Castle h he the Tory party, never aft
~ en], . the, however wa
, the renowned _fippoo Stub. That portion of his life . style equally unostentatious nod void of display.;; healed, and struck the heaviest blow naerwards entirely
'''W .7 seized w',llfit M'Arthur, • L fth h. t f h * If I'' E ' ' • I d •
elint - It an epileptic . Dr. is but so muc t o e is ory ot e nations wic 3 , nglishmen admire simp e wor s, and great, simple, k• :he growing energies of the a system which
tarae 1., and Messrs. William and John Hulk, • , 'orested for the time the theatre of his exploits. Mal- and correspondent deeds. The bombastic and melo- 7.: and condemned. Resolute to oppose
ever
resented
th °asof Deal *," at he conceived'
'qt 4 )4: -1,4, were immediately sent for, and on k. avelly and Seringapatam were followed by Conaglat dramatic tone of our neighbours is not popular here, .to be popular clamour, no man ever recognised
Nelerval an ene t•prescribed, but unfortu-'
* eall, and by th e Mahratta wars in 1803, where at and though Wellington was often opposed to the 7 nore fidelity the claims of a free nation to the
with
e lc was
Q 01), without Even
then,s Assays he crushed the fierce and hitherto in 'n people, he never failed to command respect and not -.
development of its interests and its rights • n
et,tt . ut any favourable result.a• services to the cause of liberty and improv el' were his
k; ".3 it W *'.
vjneible Cava of central India. Honours - unfrequently elicited the admiration of his political ement the less
asat as not anticipated that danger was im- et- were now showered on the victorious General, opponents. ~ ;Teat because they usually consisted in b
sad disarming the prejudices ofending the will
Isala hopes were entertained that the attack;.
o• Wellesley. The inhabitants of Calcutta presented 4 The titles of the deceased are perhaps the most oft 'a.)rtt hed by birth, by their fiercest opponents.
;vie t:PeedllY pass away. Unhappily these favour.
..t. tine with a sword of the value of 1,000 guineas, : numerous and varied ever bestowed on an individual. kl; ordeaPr and tlie ause
ef
the character,iiritial and by opinion to the
`tlati, -Peetations were doomed to disappointment ; 7 a gold vase and services of plate, and in 1805 thel‘ Duke of Wellington, and of Ciudad Rodrigo, and de fof Wellington knew that the true aproiwstocracy, the Duke
to drePidly succeeded attack, and his Grace finally la ;hanks of the -King and Parliament were voted for :Vittoria, Prince of Waterloo, Marquis of Torres \re- l'. nobles lies, in this ago of the world,
ieurtobf that race of .
'is services in. ►the Deccan ; the same year he re- ,dras, Conde de Vimiera, and Field-Marshal of Eng- i attachment to constitutional principles, and
deir inviolable.
.4 thtb,- from exhaustion at quarter-past 3 P.M. Up es
serve6'44l:lent •
of his death the Duke
4,, ~ tarried Catherine, the third daughter of the second,. of Russia, Prussia, Portugal, and the Netherlands; ' resolution and his military experience
It ....g3eloilsness, though unable to speak. a
a tearl of Longford. In the same year he commanded 4if Captain-General of Spain, and Grandee of the First . qualified •
: better than any other men to be the them • him
a will ispion of resist-
illtee 1 be gratifying to the public to learn that hie, t brigade in Lord Cathcart's Hanoverian expedition ;:i Class; Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifle Brigade; Con- •• diche.to popular turbulence and sedition, as he showed
IN as 4aBt moments and that he passed s nut the battle of Austerlitz had crushed all hope of a ,%.3 stable of the Tower and Dover Castle; Lord-Lieu-;}.l,Yt
wisdom
sispreparations in May, 1832, and :
in April, 1848,
Ile . were calm,
f junction with the Austrian and Russian armies, and; tenant of Hampshire and of the Tower Hamlets ;
0)'
fe
his
chnonmra and forbearance were ever the handmaidens
h Without suffering or pain.•'it 4Press - A.ugereau was hastening with 40,000 men to meet us. • Chancellor of the University of Oxford ; Lord War- ' . if n ge, and while most firmly determined to do-
'it es Were immediately dispatched to Lord 1. end, necessary, the authority of the State,h h
Its YSo '" Cathcart called a council of war, whereat the youne den of the Cinque Ports • Master of the Trinity
,4 far 0 reerset, his Grace's Military Secretary, .. Indian general was almost the junior officer. He, fil- House; President of the Ports;
Academy ; Go- f•' reasonable claims of he nation. Ise sacrifice to the
coo
her, Parkinson, his Grace's solicitor, pending i' •he face of all the older officers, delivered his opinion,i vernor of King's College, &c., &c. ; Commander or s our Senate,after
havinge been oureewas the Catulus of •
sarlowt"rtival no steps can be taken. It is not yet;` hat beating the enemy was practicable, at a minimum Knight of 17 foreign orders, and D.C.L. His'' and, if the commonwealth of England sar in the field;
A, ", therefo .the funeral will take place. )f risk, with the sea open. His rashness was cen- 7 Grace completed his 83d year, on the Ist of , one of her citizens with the Roman had over saluted
ioe4 °lily re) when .
cured, and his advice rejected. Soon afterwards he I May last.
title of Patens
4 Patna), that touching honour would have been added
i Persons, in addition to the medical gentle- „
la '4 att & Afas returned for Newport. In 1807 his administra- •g:s His death may be said to have been sudden. He:, the peerage and the baton of Arthur Wellesley bytheto
a a ?„,. eiadance, who witnessed the Duke's death, a
I ive career opened by his appointment to the Chief a",;', died after a "succession of fits." It is known that 't respectful gratitude and faith of the people,
'II '''''
qra,Collins, butler, and Mr. Kendall, valet to , •
4 Secretaryship for Ireland. In the same year, '1 for some years he had been subject to brain attacks, t. Though singularly free from every trace of cant, his
bli
e.,,,, oiled was no stranger
• t, in the expedition against Copenhagen, under Lord 2$ snd had undergone the inconvenience of using ;to the sublime influence of mil-
k Plitch, ,ions truth and he
t • Queen,
-es were also forwarded to her Majesty es Cathcart, he was second in command. The results " counter irritants" to repel them. The cause of his 'i
le public ritual, ewas assiduous in the observances of
AA 'ten, and to Lord Derby • and to the Mar-at vas, after an attack planned in the most strategic s. death was natural decay, but the immediate agency '' even in the of the Church of England. At times,
1111c1M -
of Douro, ' '
hitt Marchioness - , even in the extreme period of his age, some accident
abd Marchioness of Douro, who are staying at nanner, the complete overthrow of the Dames and described in the word "fins" was doubtless an eflu. vould betraythexdtreme period of his age, some accident
It surrender of their fleet, of 16 sail of the line, 9 fri- •.e sion of water upon his brain. Gradual stupefaction M leased to enterteaineteopwcaurrdrsent of feeling which he never
,All Mort,
all that was chivalrous and,
di. th I, -rates, 14 sloops, and numerous smaller vessels, with '4 would be the result, and also convulsions, but •i, eenevolent. His I
i ta charities were unostentatious but ex
'itq e shops in Deal and Walmer were imme- • ;,'
00 transports filled with naval stores. sis probable that his death was without pain. He ••:ensive, and he bestowed hi interest life'.
pigY s throughout
I, closed upon the announcement of this de- , In 1808 Sir Arthur Wellesley again received the •expired at half-past three in the afternoon. a open an incredible number of persons and things which
uie
,Poti result, and a perfect stupor appeared to seize -.t, ;hanks of Parliament, and on this occasion made aA. The Duke is succeeded by his son Arthur, Marquis ~, claimed his notice and solicited his aid. Every social
451' the inhabitantswho did not seem able to is orief and manly reply. After a f®w months of ad- --
of Doure, who was born in 1807. He is a colonel in !, laty, every solemnity, every ceremony every merry-
,,lss a, 4: ,ninistrative activity in Ireland, the Government, , the army,.
and married in 1839 a daughter of the , making, found him to take h* ~ .
He has
ready
Is art in it.
isa e a unfortunate and important an occurrence. • • . . a smile for
44 qel' determined,though •
I, considering the ill-conducted re- . Marquis of Tweeddale. , the youngest child, a compliment for the
(I Ing also prevails in the immediate house- ••• dstance of the Spaniards to the French i • d ''. e prettiest face, an answer to the readiest tongue, and a
invasion de -
ass St Wellesley lively interest in every • •
01, `Valmer Castle. Lord Charles a terved assistance, dispatched Sir Arthur to Corunnah (From the Times.) .A. _ incident of life, which it seemed
1 adbeyond the power of use to chill.
° Grace Wellesle and family were on a visit tot with a.n auxiliary force. The conceited and silly Junta. ts?.al If aught can lessen this day the grief of England .ia what relaxed the sterner mould When time had some-
Y 2 • ' 'intoxicated by the news of Dupont's •ss of his manhood its effects
114'd ' and ding day his Lordship as. •
.surrender at death of hergreatest son, it is the rec • e
etiupon the
.. ,
recollection s were chiefly indicated b ' for h
the' , ~,,d n on the prece te 3aylen, fancied themselves able to cope with B ^that the life which has just closed leaves no duty incom- - amusements of yan unabated taste t e
illustrious . ona-
ser frequently conversed, with his _
ais • '
•e 1\ ° unusual • • •appeared then, and oarte, and rejected his co-operation. He departed .
, plete and no honour unbestowed, The Duke of Wei. W. mith the dignity of fashionable society, incongruous at times
had exhausted nature and exhausted glory. His ',- • extreme old age, and the recollec.
t) n indications ior the Tagus, and landed at Monde goßay on Au '
0. i lint on • -o,ions
,of so virile a career. But it seemed a part of the
far b Pto tae nothing what-T 3, where he was joined by General S P'' '4'l- reer was ono unclouded longest day, filled from dawn '
la, -ad ha, ° moment of the attack t, . Spencer. He tiea . t
.. ti Duke s character that everthing th presented'
'tself
`t°• 'Pen d alarm or feeling of
.1.• marched with , t • 20 000 men rapidly along the hf 11 with renowned actions animated by
Ito nig t a . . r . annul- , vas equally welcome, for had - at 'of
coast. - in the public service, guided by unswerving '° he become a part every- ,
Mess eto cause anyling energy thing, and it was foreign to
' e, without waiting for his superior officer, Sir John ,' d 4 d f h H -
-lorinciples of con ue an o state!mans ip. e rose by from any his nature to stand aloof
Ss a /Vora • following t ,]Toole fought a fierce battle with General Laborde at ' ' • ,. •ofachievements which had
a rapid series
;tibiae. Ho seems never •
is presence
at site eh zng Chronicle contains the 1 goleia, and was hastening to confront Junot, whose to a position which no other man in this nation ever en- - , to have felt the flagging spirit
°bßst ,„ servations on the sudden removal from 4: nission, was declared to be, "to drive these English joyed. The place occupied by the Duke of Wellington n• the reluctant step of '
recoiled fro
. indolence or ennui, or to have
s e es of the ,t. into the sea," when he was superseded in the com- in the councils of the country and in the life of England ; lis complete from any.thing that remained to be done; and
i The great Captain of the age :- 4 performance of ever sever small,
leti - sudd Barnard, an old, cautious,
t eland by Sir Harry There is none left in the army ''
do- can no more be filled.
en tidings of the departure of the great ,ss . - ..which had
was the same Quality
Ilhiti,,"ar and st , = . nothing disciplinarian,_ .on ,
h valour and the worth f la• .
ate 4e1.1) i 'Leaman, which will to-day fall like Of his way out from England. Sir narry arrived in .. i! none with whom t o ot is na- th raised him to be one of the •
his
Q.• 0 t oVimiera, andnon were so i p
ncor orate. Yet, when we consider the t•
, and an • arbiter of the fate of E
chief Ministers of England
t wins . 4 Europe, are of so overwhelming and 4 time to see the victory of prevented - abundance has been said
rasa titleoccupation of Lisbon The fulness of his years and the of his incessant 5 t,hat in the most active and • (trope. It
'mats g a nature-so powerfully calculated, for its being followed by the . . e
}services,
learn to say with the Roman illustrious lives there c 011305
tli, -) to Wellington at the contemptible convention -4, we may„ . orator, , at last some inevitable
td that th benumb the faculties and agitate the soul disgust of
to the etiquette ts" Satis diu vixisse dicito, since, being mortal, nothing -, Upon th e Duke of hour of melancholy and of satiety.
8 ,44 e wisest If Cintra, to which, from respect of should:either to our veneration or to his fame. * Wellington that hour left no imp
res•
abe added
to 'lost seat and the calmest, the most clear and . . . followed. Amain • s eon, and probably it
.it seniority he reluctantly assented,. I .
...
- af Nature herself had seemed for a time to expand her';` titnever shed its influence over
‘l3 Sbh intellects, m• for
.he never rested
kilt. her of naturally demand time ..,
f• ,ice applied himself to his duties as nsh Secretary, . inex h„. . d the infirmities of age to lay a 4. on his former achieve
late fully. ora le limits, an ments or his length of da a
ttt , are 2 to weigh, and fully to grasp the- and won respect from his r.igid punctuality, untiring 'Vighter burden on that honoured head. Generations of the end, still headin ys, ,bat marched onwards to;
1'414 ta they proceed to study and to analyst , assiduity, and business habits. Ana had the first exploits of his "t had
enpassed away between sprung into life around h'
g the youthful now which
genera
less intent!
•1/41, '-e character ofthe Illustrious tt Sir John Moore's disastrous campaign intervened. ' arms and the last counsels of his ago, until, by a lot' )n their pursuits than lna, and scarcely
cter, and the fame they aro themselves. It was a
11,1,ieW Portugal fell, and in 1809, Sir Arthur Wellesley, astmexampled in history, the men who, had played the ' finely balanced mind
Ilt .krtle,
A it t ' ' h. I' h secretaryship, and making a sti-
A resigning is ris ;racist conspicuous part in the annals of. more than half a : „yell.-
When menin atfot have worn 50 bravely and so
back to the
tury became the last survivor of his. contemporaries . after tames shall look
14% tie : may be said, his end was to be expected.
' eulation against the then ridiculous jobbery of fre- s' "n annals of England forpublic,
d carries with him to the grave all living memory of • • amles of energy and
k eoa .111 his eighty fourthlron as was
-ear.y quent supercessions, took the command of the army alfvirtue among who have• a to hell
what .
his own achievements. To what a century, to a , reused this country
aßte stitutiwhich landed at Lisbon on the 22d of station 6 those
It, ha orlon,
°D) it had to bear the weight of a af liberation, country, to what achievements was that life successfully*.
te,caous on the earth, no name will remain more conspi•
at - 1-be an that brilliantseries
)11 . s assa 4, passed in the extremest mental April, 1809. And now. g of. dedicated! For its prodigious duration-for the multi. e.' etWellesley 1
or morn unsullied.than that of Arthur his . a
C 'bt "L' the military exploits which have rendered the name Oil.
t ofaplicity of contemporary changes and events, far out.' -le great Duke of Wellington. life'
The actions of ,
tilpeare, most harrowing of anxieties-firs t
' Wellington imperishable. Soult retreated after hev numbering the course of its days and years-for the in- is were extraordinary, but his character was equal to his'
100 la tc-next, and only in a small degree dimi
t had captured Oporto and Galicia, with 25,000 men,re, variable and unbroken stream of success which attended .; ashlonlaas* He was the very type and model of an Eng-1
kis den; a Senate Of late years, too, it was not
~
.vithout
n cannon, baggage, or stores. Marshal Victorte it from its commencement to its close, from the first flash *chic, r_l4
former and though men are Prone to invest tho wor-
e, .ed a . •
h and Jourdan, joined Sault in e, of triumphant valour in Indian war to that senatorial wis- of ages with a dignity and merit they come
l'a toks,,, 'Qat his frame, both physical and mental, ',, with King Josep %only withv Id f
,hi tokens ep • .ior '•1
army of vastly super , done on which the Sovereign and the nation hung for none f ao rem their contemporaries, we can seleet;
ape:llaa "L submission to the inevitable and um- 11; Jane, with a reorganised f
, so, ••• rrL With 17,000 men Telavery was won, counsel to its latest hour-for the unbending firmness of 71- who rem the long array of our captains and our nobles,
,`ltitt,"hetstitt,'"e unsteady gait and the faltering gi aumbers.
le. A peerage, by the style of .Icharacter which bore alike all labour and all prospe-'l,
who is
for all in all, can claim a rivalry.with him
ofter a terrific strugg and for unalterable attachment to the same ob- gone from amongst usalan inheritor of insperish-
lyas of 0, the occasional, though momentary, dim- 'a Wellington was con - IFitY- "•'• able a
~ te, •sosa 0 - Baron Douro and Viscount jects, the same principles, the same duties, undisturbed ..
fame.
'll " had ' 'acuities which overthrew the greatest 4' , ,
d him. The defence of Lisbon by the liness a
tin der e„ erred onthe passions ofyouth the h ''
soy
and unrelaxeci by onours
mouths')
1/). these s, -.tom prostrate Europe ever groaned-
of Torres Vedras are " familiar in men's
.i. eeseed enjoyments of peace and of age-the life of the
,etkat,"ROS told, from time time,
of the dual
to
is ouse o by all min-r,,,lDuke of Wellington stands alone in history. In him, atj
ale, 'Of ising effort of sci-tteLleast. posterity will trace a character superior to the)
h. der those cold fingers which have closed at t• tary authorities as the most surprising
od h '''''' ' gifts -
Ise as ta
s mh -sea'closed - Yet the blank .;' -nee which tbe art of war, ancient or m ;..,
~ & .
~
ern, as hi ,hest and most abundant of fortune. If the word
,N, , 4 Cobe in St. Helena.
• produced.
Massena, with 85,000 men, advanced to t heroism can be not unfairly applied to him, it is be.,
'et 1,-"er ~,,t1 raade -the change which has, as it were, ~,
S. drive the British to their ships; alas for "the spoiltf cause he remained greater than his own prosperity, and,
kjirose. above the temptations by which other men of equal
litig has Cr ordinary every-day ideas-the blow
'childof Victory, " his fortune had deserted him.
-7 0 emus, but less self-government, have fallen below heir)
11'411.' War`h struck at our councils, both of peacee,
tigainst that impregnable rampart his skill availedleg
et•l destinies. His life has nothing to gain from the 1
an-
a
''ti C,faao b a infinite social significance-its vast .:. nought, and he retreated after several months, put-el
aeguage of panegyric, which would compare his military
4t tks h t -lice-. interest to every : sued by the reinforced Wellington across the frontier,-
exploits or his civil statesmanship with the prowess of an
~ k ta„,. its deep emotional
Albuera, were •
fo, Ivilt• "---ca f the moment, - of Spain. Fuentes d'Onor, fought. Alexander or a Omar, or with the astonishing career of
et - en_ nnot but render Us, or
was recalled, and Marshal Marmont, withhim who saw his empire overthrown by the British
It
tilY 6 thanusually to treat at once, • Alassena
tti the . and We are 70,000 men, came up with e ing on
W 11. t and 14 000#G lat Waterloo. They were the offspring of
, ea General
ihistorically,
littl" " the life and the reputation • who effected " a masterly retreat," says theft passion and of genius, flung from the volcanic depths of
_e s,riou ',.,,) ,roops,
revolutions and of civil war to sweep with meteoric,
,11(1 at b,,,_ s Man who has just left us. Wune a French historian of the Peninsular war-Foy.
bee IVII '4" of Wyet hard) il ellington's ashes are 51;1 The marvellous campaign of 1812-wherein a ;:a•plendonr across the earth, and to collapse in
darkness before half the work of life was done. Theirj
11, 4,, e the eat! . ss often dinnerless army of bravo,
mkt Jet b greatest life which was amongst uses penniless,
hshle
violence, their ambition, their romantic existence, their!
t,
11 4 sae
but • to se men fonwhileprofligate Admini trat. fp
t, the s ions 0,.
ITtN afall ut barely offered up-it seems u. t. .
4dlPercival and Co. were raising enormous subsidies,4 and their crimes will for ever fascinate the '
'reverses,
at , Y and e serest of mankind, and constitute the secret of their
t and ungenerously premature, ande,
s''and consuming the substance of unborn generations fame, t if not of their greatness. To such attractions the life'
lilsite frig.a
,SSio set.l aii,,ef 2 to treat the career which has li°
son wretched foreign mercenaries-followed. Not-sand character of the Duke of Wellington present no ana-
-41 41440., "4 the hurried and impromptu literary t.... withstanding this damning record, perpetuated on the§,llo_ et
gy If he rose to scarce inferior renown, it was by non©
tiltt la, hlci Which befits an ordinary great man j•'Il
k., indignant, terse, and always lucid communicational
k of the passions or the arts which they indulged or em-
•
t'S,olat ead• n ' has '''' f Wellington, Soult and Marmont were baffiecl, ployed. Unvanquished in the field, his sword was never I
ki it hp 11° ordi 0 common event, and it oc- :,,,)Rodrigo,Badajoz ,'
deceived or conquered at Ciudad
)2.;: drawn for territorial conquest,
h. but for the independence
~sr, wa hQu,,►tar-
e period. Our loss is grievous, .deceived country. Raised
Salamanca. Again and again public thanks of Europe and the salvation of is
.by I
% tlNtli t• 'len us in dark -land
his year a more solid testi- ~..'lthe ersal gratitude of Europe and of this nation toi
th, 0,4,4 times'
At , unsettled,
.and stormy ~,,
•awere awarded him, and t
,which a subject of
)Lt,lt 44 than „
' this moment we think more or )
'-kMonial of 9 . highest *t of rank and power
100,000/. for an estate,,and -,000/. per an-M he g orn .
.•''`the itish monarchy could attain, he wore. those digni-
ot the life of the statesman-hero. We litifollowed. In 1813, came the victories of Vit-a, Br .
h the
lit'''h i th' ex . „mum, . the
and he used that influence wit In strictest
tne . Sebastian, and the passage of Nivelle ; it At
‘, .
s duty. No law was ever twisted to
, ass,: -a th ntion of that vast military genius on ' ' •
ttorre San Se 4 i!eite
.of a subject_
41 ' s ° Pos •1, - ;1 . , and Toulouse. 400.0001. from Par- • i by one hair's!
•e ri ata e. el le event of a European war wei'lBl4 Orthez, -3 tits will, no right was 'ever sacrificed
he ttit nigh, , ~t ,
to
former
grants, and the ap- ,'
breadth for h. aggrandizement There lived not a man
is .
104th eei2 such fond reliance. We think of elliament, in addition
to the Court of France ea .his antagonists who,
``) everg of that • in • •'''' ointment f ambassador , . anther among his countrymen or
brain which, civil , ',Pob the nation of j-...; wronged him; for'
kt) m%t Y Well matters
,roved" the high estimation taken y teleould say that this great Duke had ,
ltela blab 'spring of the shrewdest seas® and .tP... . a
Acommander' his entire existence was devoted
to the cause of legal:
'r tt '" of"."Bonied he d, in the immediate'
titheir tustinguisnee Elba and the 100 dayspeuthority and regulated power. You seek in it in vain tor
honest ; an Napoleon's escape from
11,1 el)._ the
be,...t,
h d" D 1e.,:l ori of Wellington, email-lose strokes or audacious enterprise which in otherl
, F.t
05404
as
:e velment, when t e wor s eat
,once more called for the s.ve
mhave sometimes w
Mara looked over nAgreat captains, his rivals in fame, on,
Illt 4, wellington" are asyet strange, and a!for the last time the Corsican a .
''.h prize of turned the fate of nations. Bat
th, 4%8 thalld terrible last eclipse of hissed e
in 0 ears we naturally con-'lfield destined at sunset to see the .
w ii• t a,74his whole career shines with the steady light of day.l
to, ee toe_ur ,
''', lor and • July Paris .
capitulated to e ing on .-4
1, has nothing to conceal, it has nothing to interpeeti
Lh. thriiirlanful tenor of our thoughts around ,g Blucher
.t...and 1
• dt. by the flexible organs of history. Everything in it,
ti '
al, btli, ag catastrophe. as aeponate al
i 4 e at In 1815 the English field-marshal w t• 113 manly, compact, and clear; shaped to one rule of!
11 bee Of wellington •
eon died as suddenly as thoughHito command the army of observation, and on the finala
r public duty, animated by one passion-the love of Eng-i
/V aRI• 4 struck down- •„ the Duke7aa land,and theservice of the
t,4 at - bairn at the head of his conquer- evacuation of France in November, 1818,
restof rhea) 1
40 -ttttz, en on the fieldofbattle. P haps iteaof Wellington returned to England. 'the
Iv Isßa so, , er He ~disdainful aversion'
Yillustrious Duke's career b 1 to civil history, sewativerned in unconscious indifference or
ell. ar, de
t 4 suffered no illness-he languished . e ongs 'on which are'
Ile laBt sad netassisted at the Congress of Vienna and of that of Aixetaito those common incentives of human eon.,
It. eit adarkening of the soul. Thank Godlasla-Cbapelle, and entered Lord Liverpool's Cabinet as::lderived from the powers of imagination and sentiment.'
clf "le ahl •
held them cheap, both in their weakness and in
la aof • not die as Mlb h died. Like !atialaster-General of the Ordnance.ln 1826, be ent- ED
tl s 11,, 0 er oroug
• ' ,heir strength. The force and weight of his character)
lles, soda, 141•1 great vieto • ries, came the tidings s,to St. Petersburgh on a speciral embassy ; and in; - , ,
\h. ,e 1 sudden' stooped to no such adventitious influences. He might
lt A ti.i. -.overwhelming-but, alas, un . busily engaged in
jaB27 was Parliamentary affairs. t.
t. have kindled more enthusiasm, especially in the early
death - ' conquests were n
s, , ever public rises'surpi
fast night the news flew thrOtlgn'
He was also appointed with Sir Robert Peel one ofk,
, the Commissioners for India. On the death of thels and
Duke of York in January, the Duke
was appointed ' - doubtful days of his Peninsular career; but in his
t successful and triumphant pursuit of glory ,her name)

livingranks
lam° is now the property of history. Arthurl
ton
c a p
tiasind ebaidi:
nceraent tells us all that to know. Full
of years as e we care
0. honour, with eye undimned and natural
otEheWGelrleinat
,i_e he mode of his death as in the details of his career.
as
happyl
He has. been reserved for a calm and almost painless ex-
wt. cotir ; and Death has laid his hand lightly upon one
theh as been singularly exempt, throughout life, from
whatcommon weaknesses and sorrows of humanity.. ,
death the
—to
world calls the highest form of a solcherdsi
, —to be cut off in the ve hour of victory
,sin
bele':
triumph—has been denied to "our own Wellington,' yet,
we have been spared . great man sinking into
childishness.dotage Nelson, Neither the splendid death of
. of Marlborough, has been the lot of the last,
andE in some sense the greatest, of the tri.ad. of our lhater,
beegnisa heroes. If we have lost the
It ared the painful spectacle.
i
this were superfluous and in some brilliant, we evil
sort impertinent, in
anal place and at this ' detail the career, or to
moment, to
Yee the character of the Duke of Wellington. The!
one ia a matter of household words—the other has long
'been set We
tled in household thoughts. have all formed]
conception and moral judgment of the Duke of Wel-
i
tin ton as complete and familiar to every child pos.
senses in the written records of his achievements as Ge-
aeral and Statesman. We should underrate that cha-
racter were we to attribute his military Successes to a
fortunate position and influence in the outset of his ea.l
reer; and we should equally lose the lesson to be,'
ilearned from his discharge of civic duties, if we con-1
4,.iderej his elevation in the State as an accidental orl
;formal
re w
sult of his military renon. Both as Coin i
auder of her Armies and as First Minister of State,'
A die Duke of Wellington has deserved well of his'
•ilountry; and we much mistake the feelings of that
f!ountry, if a unanimity unparalleled, or nearly so, in'
I.ocial history, does not salute his tomb with words and;
,-ithoughts of blessing and gratitude. And this chiefly'
;faultless
the key-note of his character—one by no means'
and, from the nature of the case, complex-_:
11,vas that which after all addresses itself to the highest'
estimate. of humanity— was, in short, in all the substa,n-
-4: nil relations of public life, his unwavering recognition;
rof duty. Prejudice and obstinacy are, of course, the!
-;forms under which we may expect a straightforward and
~elf-reliant mind occasionally to exhibit itself to partial:
)bs er vers. But the Duke of Wellington's reluctance tol
`'hangs with, or to acknowledge, the advancing spirit of
, r.he times, must not be set down to a hard and sullen re-1
liance upon himself. When a man has achieved un-'
~ ,xampled successes—when, as a general, he:
!ever fought a battle but to win it—when,
rom experience, he knew both the apparent
,veakness and the eventual victory of the arms,'
,;' ,lh,e men, and the principles which were indentified with
ntrnsel£—.w® may attribute to a higher motive than un-',

those features of his public conduct—which command re-; tural that England should rest with thorough confi
d.nr-b,-, -aQ 1
;peat. If by birth, education, conviction, he was a Tory.;ei upon the soldier who had driven the best armies x -
oY. e was at least honest, high-minded, and open to fair': France before him in the Peninsula, and had finallya
trgutnent in ;he discussion of his principles. Ho roai!l. overthrown Napoleon at Waterloo.
;rained his opinions as he would have defended a for-le The knell that tolls for this great man's death
tress, precisely as long as they were tenable—and no ' :oils also the death of a remarkable period of history.
'onge
r. He gave up the defence of his position in tiny a. Ho was one great
spirit in this period, and
to make an honourable retreat; and while his friends he leaves us to a future in which
we may want such
could not with justice complain, his enemies were eon- peen as ho. He leaves us to the working out of princi-
i
:strained to respect him. pies which he once vainly sough to oppose, but which
The Duke of Wellington's life affords one of thee. , ha had the wisdom afterwards to recognise.
He leaves
!few specimens in history—a career thoroughly devea,e us to the development of serious
problems, i
loped ;—a thread spun out to its full and natural lengtb.7e, n
al which have been prepari dtuh ring his solutions
eventful life.
Many great and original men have been cut off in their; We shall have our solutionsgof problems opposed
activity—thwarted by extraordinary obstacles—and sot, by our adversaries. Would that they se
ywere all like him—
compelled, in divers ways, to leave imperfect images of. grave, courteous, earnest, honest.
themselves in their deeds and in their personal memoirsee His death will occasion a great chasm in
Wellington leaves a full-length portrait of himself ie ,:e to which public admiration is directed. .that world
With the ex-
human history. He had his due and his entire influence,' caption of the Sovereign, no one has for yearslis enjoyed so
in his generation, at every stage of his life. Het: .great a share of the national respect. impossible
grief which
ientered early in the course for which Nature. not to be in some measure affected by the
Ipeculiarly intended him; had, in due time, his taske. will take so firm a hold on the minds of thousands. His
put upon bins; achieved everything that he under-, brothers in arms will have lost the
great lodestone
took, and WAS in the best sense a successful man.' which has enchained their admiration for
His reputation to the last, was the paramount repute- political friends and enemies will each moumrnoutrt
onisee
de-
tion of his day. When he fought a battle, he generally•eVarture of one who has commanded the irrepressible it, and always made a successful campaign; when deference of both. The universal public will
he spoke in the House of Lords, his words were re-'e who has carried the military glory of England to a
.ceived and repeated throughout the country with a pe-4.
height
which has seldom been equalled, never exceeded.
.
collar interest and authority such as attached to few:•: Peace to his ashes.
other men. As " the Duke" he was in himself an in- - (From the Morning Advertiser.)
stitution; and to praise him on all due occasions, was The whole country will participate in the profound
one of the natural ways in which many men shOwecie regret with which we have this day to announce the
their patriotism. 4 melancholy death of the Duke of Wellington. His
It has been very commonly—perhaps too invidiously„ Grace expired yesterday at half-past three o'clock, at
—dwelt on, that he was pre-emineutly a great soldier. : Weimer Castle.
For the distinctness and uniqueness with which his per. Though the death of the illustrious Duke, considering
sonality stamped itself on all he said and did, show te his very advanced age, ought not to excite surprise, the
clearly enough his originality of character. When ',- public mind will be startled at the announcement, inas-
he spoke or wrote, as well as when he acted, s much as no previous intimation of his illness had been
he stamped his image on the work as on a egiven. Until within the last few days, the public jour-
Dumedal.ue As General Conqueror Conservative .—lr eals contained the usual brief paragraphs respecting his
D" Noble Lord " addressing the Peers, : movements, and nothing had transpired to indicate that
eequally made a distinct, personal impression, sui ge• he was comp (aiming, even in the slightest degree, of in-
neris. So that, even when dealing with political ideas, disposition. For the
particulars of the circumstances
earthly career, we refer
which wen the ideas of a party, he gave them an en-` coder which his Grace closed his long and eventful
tirely new force
People concluded th
fromat giving them his approbatioe.as
A great man has to another part of our paper.
he had found something more ites.in the person of the Duke.
them than they had been As a general, hisr fallen
able to discover. There was. ereputation is too well established, and
!force of moral integrity ab n ,r too wide spread, to
Ito everything he did, and Invested which extended itselloo
ion the subject. His
selumire that we should say a word
mili-
Jas great ones with veneration. invested smaller things as we.,. *
tart' genius of the age, will asb be
not most successful
not so ready as other nations to vvor eglishpeople ar.
''' aiotest posterity. As " the transmitted to the re-
ar s worship a soldier merely hero of a hundred fights,"
a great military commander. ,11 name of Wellington can
Wellington showed that the predo et everything abou4 - o
.. . never perish so long as the
military career was that of the d - I- page of history exists. Nor was it
minant feeling in his . •only as compared
uty wh' which was being.. with
4r-- his contemporaries, that the Duke of Wellington
performed by the work in progressreputation of
mired and respected him for that. The English ad- - enjoyed& military
element, more, even, As a general, he has seldom been surpassed in any age or
than for his commander's qualities. They
was a great man among them, he had a feltan, that if he 1' country.
,In a genuine_ But it was not in the field alone that the illustrious
Iright to be so; and that it ws because he was ss
a great I-deceased played a prominent part, and acquired a rept:l-
- that he was a great soldier
cation which has seldom fallen to the lot of man. On
He had—combined in himself—in a singular
degree,;. the political stage also he has, for mere than a quarter
the national qualities on which the English
people pride of a century, been one of the moat influential and era.
themselves—clear practical honesty of intellect, patience,.. wont men of his day. Though to the character of a
'probity, fidelity of character. Ile had the qtlalitit statesman, in the highest acceptation of the term, he
'which make Englishmen, not perhaps more personal s '''
Yee had no pretensions yet he possessed a masculine under-
lattractive at first sight, but which make them h'
a isto- A standing him '
a fund of solid practical information, which
ideal people, and will keep their name alive in the latest rendered
:annals of the world. He had the qualities which found :e =he Legislature.
!colonies—establish commerce—which make great towns, s^ minister, and For a time he filled the office of Prime
and roads, and canals—which make men suffer hardships at his conceptions „h never displaying any brilliancy in
eloquence of a lofty order in the
!submit to labour, and which make them " pay." Yon is exposition of hisnv?r
!could calculate him like a planet. The compare- '.'' portant office in a
miews, he acquitted himself in that im-
tively trivial circumstance which we all felt to dons of his warmest and
far exceeding the expecte-
be so characteristic of him—we mean his formal "- There was one feature 1.).
mosttl sanguine friends.
Political character of the
punctuality in answering all manner of notes, andse Noble Duke which commaned
which people smiled at as the characteristic ways of •'l, ['hough a Conservative, as the commanded universal admiration.
sonic old and loved friend—was itself a significant T;etood, he could never be regardeSrma is generally under-
symbol of his whole life. He always did what ought l', .vas thoroughly honest, though doubtlessrty man. He
often mistaken
to be done, because it was his business. He destroyed ".n his conduct. He never adopted a
an army or took a town with the same punctuality with 4'' simply because it was proposed and followedchular course,
, which he arrived at a dinner party, and marched into a ' eith whom he usually acted. So far from thathyo the
party
teritory as he would have done into the Horse Guards. , )n. various occasions to sacrifice his party to pirleforred
What else was he there for?—you may fancy to be his ee ,cientious convictions of what was most conducive is
con-
to the
first question. It has been admitted that war was hest interests of the country, and the stability of the
never conducted so purely, so decently, with so much - Dame. Two memorable instances of this will occur to
regard to the considerations of the social rectitude of e' the mind of the reader. The bold and tearless manner
civilization, as under him. Who has done such work in in which he gave practical effect to his altered views on
and come away with hands so clean? What soldier the question of Catholic emancipation, though thereby
!could you ever be so safe in expecting to achieve the;:_. incurring much odium from the Tory party, and even
!" came, saw, and conquered"—with the most perfect severing for ever some long-existing and warmly che-
certainty? The work to be done was with him the;-. rished personal friendships, constituted an instance of
;primary consideration, for the sake of duty and '. .elf-sacrifice to his convictions of what was right, which
!England; and he expected rigid subordination in others - will nut be forgotten by the present generation, nor fail
to him, as he acted with rigid subordination to principles le :o be remembered with admiration by generations to
himself. He had less of the showy and graceful quali-` _come. The same may be predicated of the course which
ties, which attach romantic interest to great names, than >e he Noble Duke adopted in refereaco to the corn-laws.
most famous men. But all work in the main is an earnest . , dis opieions on that great and vital question changed
and grave thing; and fighting, the most earnest and „eoutemporaneously with those of Sir Robert Peel, whom
grave species of work. His war bulletins do not read s ao has so soon followed to the grave, and with that dis-
as if' they had been written by a novelist; but one may, anguished statesman he had the moral courage to avow
be sure that they are true; and there is no baseness to '• ana act on the change, altogether irrespective of
record. He having done the work—others might let off A personal consequences. He zealously and ably
the fireworks. •s supported, in the House of Lords, the measure
He was thus, from his position, his successes, his; , ) or the repeal of the corn-laws. We well re-
wealth, and his character, essentially a moral force in feateember hearing him address the Peers in favour of
!this country; and we see accordingly, that after a long t: the second reading of the Bill between four and five
peace had removed great prospect of his being again:i ~'clock in the morning; and nevtr did he speak with
employed in war, the national interest in him, far from greater energy, or with a seemingly deeper sense of the
abating, was ever on the increase. He had not the anportance of the question, than he did on that memor-
!dubious fame, the clouded glory, of so many finei able occasion. His appeal to their Lordships was power-
'soldiers. In the days of Radetekys and Haynaus, not .1 el, as well as earnest, not to jeopardise their own legis-
shudder occurred at the mention of the name of Wel- '' ';:lative position by rejecting a measure which the inter-
qingtou! No priest shrank from associating it with o.:sts of justice, and considerations of expediency, alike
prayer—no woman from mentioning it with honour. called upon them to sanction.
For we know that what he had to do had been done in And here let us do the memory of the illustrious de-
al sincerity, and in a cause which he had at heart fully ceased an act of justice, which, so far as we know, was
as much as a mau as a soldier. His terrible battles were never rendered to him during his life. We say advisedly,
remembered as necessary, if awful, events—and the crop that but for the support which the free. trade measures
of fame he reaped from his battle-fields was as stainless of Sir Robert Peel received from the Duke of Wellington,
es the waving grain that now grows on the plains of those measures would not have been carried. That the
Waterloo. corn-laws would sooner or later have been repealed,

reasoning bigotry that confidence in his own system, and
in his own views, which he was never backward in pre-
claiming. If a system, as a fact. Produces the glorio,
lof a Peninsular war and of a Waterloo campaign, o
Wellington's individual confidence in it justifies itself.
bEear European opp
Peel
ea
In
'Nor can we be surprised—nay, we can deeply appreciate
the loyal sentiment—if, after seeing the social, and ma-
of little, if of any improvement. terial, and commercial energies of the State arise from'
the, depression consequent upon the cessation of the les,l
political traditions which had raised himself and Sir Re !
towatrh'etGheovsearmnme enrtacaticSatlatmeinpdolvici:seudsCeipntitlehl:l
lington's celebrated declarationroyement.
is usually pointed out as his cardinal
self at least, inspire a confidoncod. all.
may be understood and estimated,
But, as we have said, the i
Cher justified, by thei
temporis acti was also considerationthel
of " the Duke's" mind was the sense -And that fact was one whicha
1
against allreform, which
blunder
in
.. politics..
1
Thebut
implicit.
But, Wel-I
in that the laudatur)
if it cannot be ttito.
illustrious actor temporis acti.l
might reasonably, in him-1
common meaning of the word, these
of prejudice. He might have a distincta a
*gain a bad one, and he might say so ingn
oable personal sense of what Was right
t• he always accepted facts and a chanan
1
tic and intelligible to a fault; but he al-wrae.
and pervading idea"
Duke
ekof duty. In the
thinly the bar.
sad
not. a ma
yassonin.aabdlee,
tbhuet. 14
adn very impreg-1
pikoesliytioton,hanavec:
, worked in deference to them. igadt ti
,'best of the bargain. Ho was just language idioms-
served under Richard Cobden, had the Quee '
,'demanded it, as he did serve with the worthless a a snedr v
ii
nc e 1
Aigenous generals of Spain. He asked, and with no.
.
little bitterness, the famous question, How was the:
Queen's Government to be carried on? and yet he kneveP
it to be right, and honest, and loyal to help to carry il
on, and to keep in office the very men whose principles '
had, as he considered, made all government an impossi-
bility.' And shallow talkers think this an evidence of in-
consistency or they point to it as a proof of the Duke of
Wellington's selfish desire to appropriate power. The
`nobler, and we believe the truer, view—the reconciling I
and the mellowing estimate—is to believe that, in all
such cases, Arthur Wellesley saw but plain intelligible;
duty. If the University of Oxford deemed him likely WI
be a good and useful Chancellor, ho accepted the o(fice,
because it was, or because he thought it was, his duty.
So with his Premiership—so with his various offices and;
commands, subordinate or paramount. He would have;
defended London against the Chartists, or have taken an
Affghan command, or have mustered the Kentish Fen.P
cibles, or have bored through the drudgery and foppery t
of the Trinity Board, or have presided at an uncongenial
Oxford Enccenia—or, if nobody else had been ready, he
would have sailed in the Channel fleet, or have become a
Poor-law Guardian—all on the same simple, if uninquir- ,
ing, principle of duty. He fought the Spanish cam- ,
paigns, not because he had confidence in Down-
ing-street or in his commissariat, or in his ,
recruits or allies, but because it was his definite
personal work. He went to the Chapel Royal in the'
grey morning, because he knew it to be right; mad he
was present at every levee—and was ever the earlieet'e
and the foremost at every ceremonial and pageant, atn
drawing-room, and at opera and wedding—because it f 4
'was expected of him, and he thought it his duty not to
(disappoint legitimate expectation. In others, this apii
'parent love of the monstrari digito would have easily de-
generated into the common-place passion for distinction; .
'bat in the Duke of Wellington it was sustained by a highg
and elevating principle. The Duke was above vulgar]
vanity. One who recognises duty in minute particulars,
and who answers all calls, however trifling or onerous,
on that true-hearted, sell devoting sense of duty, must
obviously make himself prominent, and fill the public
eye. And never did he fill it too largely. Never were
chose grey hairs unwelcome to any assemblage of Eng-
kishmee. Never was that stately presence, even when
;overcast by the shadow of toil and anxiety, seen in
`public, but it was cheered as that of our common friend.
and councillor, and defender. Can those who witnessed
lit ever forget his ovation at the opening of the Great
l
Exhibition? And it is no small praise to recollect
that, to flattery as to misunderstanding, his iron character
was alike invulnerable.
Such solidity and singleness of aim in the Duke of
Wellington were eminently happy in securing popular
appreciation. If the Duke did not win the lower and
• the common feeling of love, he commanded the very
highest universal respect and reverence. The character
we have attempted to analyze, so rigorous and large in'
its own appreciation of personal calls for exertion until
work, was not likely to be other than imperious and ex-
act in demanding duty from others. A worker will ad-
mit no standard of excellence but work. He can sym-
pathise with but a single order of character—but that the'
out generous. A disciplinarian does not attract the,
m
mere affections. The Duke was too inflexible, too severe,
too exacting, to be, in the vulgar sense, popular. Thel
conqueror of Napoleon could afford to move in a some-
what solitary sphere. And, as years did their inevitable
work, and gnarled what was always angular in the Dnke
)f Wellington's mental and moral conformation, the
3ritish public had the good sense and the good feeling
to go below the surface, and to view that great inner
heart of the true man beating and animated with patriot-
ism, and, beneath the ice of character, to detect the fires
of genuine and self-sacrificing principle.
A nation's tears will bedew the hearse of Wellington,
even though not from the same causes which poured
them on that of Nelson. The Great Duke—the Iron
Duke—was not the man to feel, nor to call oat mere

sensibility. But he will be appreciated. His fame is a
;rowing one. The Hero of Waterloo had neither the

', plendid
weaknesses nor the warm emotional spirit of
the Hero of Trafalgar. But the Duke's is a higher, a
more complete, and a nobler character. If less amiable,
tt possesses the consistent, cohesive, solid elements on
which philosophy and history will delight to dwell. For
some years the Duke of Wellington's influence has sur-
lived as a great tradition—he has lived as the witness of a
memorable, if imperfect, past, Now that he has actually
been removed, we may, perhaps, have occasion to,
judge of the actual power and influence of
ais presence, when it is finally taken away. A sort
of tacit truce has perhaps been submitted to upon
301115,, and not unimportant, questions of policy and ad.
name
estarbad words could
a ulddec never orous
might possibly, on some occasions, have been] ustly
ee bdeefe lightly,rence to one whose
questioned. But are we wrong in forecastitnhgnaghstetrhneeyr
strife of politics, and a more developed application of
liberal views, now that the last and noblest representa•
ti.ve of an older policy no longer controls even the
highest sources of legislation by the resistless magic of
his mighty name? Yet, to repel evil, the sword and the
name of Arthur will, we trust, ever prevail, in the Se-
nate which he dignified with his wisdom, and in the
IState which his military skill preserved in the very crisis
llof its fate, even when its great owner sleeps in Avalon.
Be this as it may, let us conclude with words of good
,omen—in a sentiment which we are assured will be
that of the whole British nation: Peace to the memory,
and blessings on the name, of Arthur, Duke of Wel-
lington.

;:-1I He was a Conservative by instinct and habit, rathal
than theoretically or speculatively a Conservative poli-
ricien. Theorising regarding mankind was not his torte.
- He was not a thinker proper, so much as a man of ac-
tion, and he acted in politics, from the instinct of
_ " holding fast by the good,"—(or what he believed good)
' —hilt with regard to political changes, he disliked them
; rather instinctively as changes, than from insight into
, ;heir ultimate tendencies and significance. However,
military life had early brought him into contact with •
feet, and hence when changes became inevitable, no man
1 more decisively conceded to them. His invaluable intel. '
tectual sincerity made him see, what dances could not
ice, and knaves would not see, to have become part and
, parcel of the life of England. Hence, he knew when to
, concede—and conceded, when
the time was right and
,j
;,,, rho concession honourable. He bowed to Catholic
Emancipation, and Reform, and Free Trade; and it
. would, indeed, be a pity, and something worse, to
- confound this great man, with such " Tories"—as
t the knot of shufil?rs and dullards, impostors and quacks,
1 who are now allowed to play at governing the country.
1
,-, The comparison between the Duke and the great Sir
I,Robert holds with remarkable force when we consider
the nature of the political creed with which each entered
upon public life, and the mental power which each pos
i sesaed to correct and modify his creed. Each of thew
remarkable men had the faculty of reading the great
book of the present, and marking accurately where new
phases of moral and political life were on the point of
appearing. Each recognised the fact that the world is
not a dull mechanism to be explained by some few rigid
formula), and to be kept eternally dependent upon the
revolution of the same wheel:'. Each recognised a prin-
cipal of growth in the world, a necessity for develop- '
oaent. Each was prepared to adapt himself to the change
which the fulness of life in the world determined and
;brought forth. Sir Robert probably, and the Duke .
certainly, would have preferred the old Tory adjust-
, went. Both would very possibly have been content
at one time to wind up the old machine, and provide
' for its easy working, by a little oiling of the parts. Both
however, saw clearly when the old mechanism must''
/
lgive place to a new form of life. Neither of
i .. them was
, mad enough to suppose that an oak planted inp
Vain vase would be less certain to d e v e 1 o p e
theitself a
pi
ot9styseeoesul ' i 1
changed the porcelain for cast iron. It was
of mind in common'
ision by the two of this quality
which enabled them to be powerful agents in the most
r xtensive reforms recently
.both were en
carried out 'n
this country.,
I Nurtured in the aristocratical faith, I
command the sympathies of the ari abled tol
!which the one by his intellectual s'"racY—ts sympathy
capabilities, the other ley the great force of his character, converted into a
source of practical power.
Opposedagainst the
ob-
stinately and ignorantly The oligarchy kicking
mere publicwall, as long as the •
ibefore the oppositi them, crouched penitently ,
IDuke explained to orl, when Sir Robert and the t,
which they, inthem the nature of that
their dull
bad .
resisted. ignorance of its magnitude,
...
It is the co power s
har le acter which
cam and steadiness of Wellington's i'
marks him as one of the true great
`characters of his age. His rival, Napoleon, Iva? perl
Pettlally losing his balance. Bonaparte allowed his be-
llief
in himself and his star to degenerate i
'stition. I into aassupeerr: ~
Oaring the later years of his life be was
if
,s,
his
giving way to the most passio;2l:l7p_al
i d His e'en-
-1 ,is Plans—however wildly more like that :7;.,
Pict during the retreat from"Aincoesi:d--waasi
great ;general. He issued 4
il a spoiled child than of a g"--- Id bewailed his fate '
i
Oorders impossible to be executed,
at their ill-success,—the same timee
overwhelming his
officers with bitter reproaches-
He forgot also, what
Wellington never forgo—
that the greatest genius, in -
)Rproportion as the materialt masses upon which it acts
I'becomes enlarged, loses its power faster and faster as
materials stretch
away from its own immediate opera-

" (From the Morning Herald.)
The foremost man of all our age" is gathered to '
his,
fathers. The Duke of Wellingtoa sole founder of a,'
name and title which will never be forgotten while;
England itself shall remain, is now numbered with the'
dead. With his removal from amongst us wo have this,
~olace—no one could desire that he should occupy ai
lipace in such lines as those which tell us how

"From Marlborough's eyes the tears of dotage flow;
And Swift expires a driveller and a show."

All the service which one man, during a long public
life, could render to his Sovereign and his country, the
Duke of Wellington had rendered. Nothing remained
hut a peaceful death, which has now closed the mostl
,important life which any man of modern times has been]
!permitted to spend. It was peculiarly an English lite—l
!the life of an English soldier and statesman. A brieflcontrast with that of his mighty rival in arms will ex-'
'plain our meaning.
The governing principle in the career of Napoleon
Bonaparte was that of selfish ambition. Tho greater
warrior, who at last subdued and bound him, owned a
,higher motive. Duty was the guiding star of his career.
His ambition was to serve, net himself, but his country
Land his Sovereign. Naturally a grateful nation so-
knowledged his services; but there is not a trace of sor-
klid self-seeking in the whole of the Duke of Wellington's
[history.

_. rept ~,
cven had Sir Robert Peel never proposed the extine-
don of the bread monopoly, no reflecting person will
deny ; but that the duties on the people's tood would
not have been remitted, when Sir Robert Peel in-
.rodueed his measure with that view in 1846, had
it not been for the zealous support of the Duke
of Wellington, is a point about which there
lean be no doubt. As it was, the measure was only car-
Iried by a small majority. Had the Duke been neutral,
it would not have been carried at all. Had ho been ad-
verse, the second reading would have been rejected by a
Large majority. It is due, therefore, to the memory of
Lhe illustrious man who has just been snatched away
from an admiring country, that the fact should be
known—that but for him Sir Robert Peel would have
:ailed in his efforts to carry his free-trade measures.
In thus rapidly glancing at the political career, as well
as the military character of him whose loss the country
has been so suddenly and unexpectedly called to deplore,
it would be an unpardonable oversight were we to
omit
a reference to the exalted sense of duty by whichhe
5
was invariably inspired with regard to
everything cot;
1
iaected with the public service. Thera was
no man the branch of the Legislature of which he
was so bright
in ornament who was more regular in his attendance
than the Duke. He was uniformly among the first of
;: he Peers to take his seat, and among the
last to leave the Roe
in the Upper . }louse se. Nor was any one
more closely
conti-
nuouely attentive to and
more
watchful ' with regard towas done. He
what
invariably acted from a
what was said, or
being a member f ' _ sense
branch of the Legis•
Mature,o Le hereditary to his own
ho was laid
of duty.
under obligations which,, • n to those
He felt that,
. mind, were imperative, to give his best attention
House
;
-questions and
ltin the dia-
laud he was accordingly scrupulously fttithu
es ect the
chari.;o of his Parliamentary duties. In this
matters which came before
A illustrious deceased may, i
legislators, whether they
propriety,r respect
held
rt.: up apresent
Ibel s a model to all our w-th
r ong to the Upper cr Lower House of Parliament.
that we should proceed any
But it is not necessary
tch the character of the Noble
great
‘ further in the effort to
'j
Duke.
highly aePreca He held
i ted, by his country. was
I esteem. His name was never
'Duke. No man's char:ckteer wa.s better known, and none
mentioned but
in profound anduniver"
public regar
seldom than
personal
from-
No one ever•
spoke of his Grace with other feelings
greatest respect. He was without a
close
be cherished
men
which for ever over
enemy.tbe And now that the grave is about to
his earthly remains his memory will
hedwith an amount of reverence which has
thoseeen displayed on the departure of distinguished
the scones of earth to that invisible world into
all shall sooner or later be ushered.

I This noble principle led him even to self-sacrifice, andj
that of no ordinary kind. Called, in times of peace, WI
!serve his Sovereign at the Council Board, ho would, ifl
'left to the guidance of his own noble heart, have left as
!splendid and as unblemished a fame in civil as in military
(history. That he did not ought rather to command our
greater admiration. Twice controlled by the devices of
!the tempter, he surrendered his own unerring judgment
land consented to give up his own convictions, because
he thought that duty commanded the sacrifice. In 1828,
and in 1846 the same evil influence twice prevailed. He,l,
!knew that Romish emancipation ought not to have
!been granted, and that the corn-laws ought not to
'have been repealed. But the associate on whose aid he
!most relied each time contrived to place him in such a.
office, he sue-
position as to make it appear that duty required him)
Ito surrender his own opinions. Thus, in 18461
!the Duke explained to the House of Lords that his own,
!opinion had been, " That it was desirable to avoid mak-;
ing any alteration which was essential in the presentt
corn-laws." And that he had preferred seeing Sir R.
Peel resign, rather than make such a proposal. But!
not he '
lein ethen,ee nd te , whenda
nilctd ms Liarko
Robertri
ndgJ tohhe JohnPeelpßusselluk Duke
returned
believe,
elie v failede,d
t‘ato, formaonTgherto
at
Govern-
theexist
forma-
tionist that
"
of a Government in which her Majesty would have'
confidence was of much greater importance than thel
;opinions of any individual on the corn-laws." And so,
;Is in 1828, his Grace preferred surrendering his own
the Queen's
p redi 1e ct ions, rather
Government than
could
allow
any
carried on."
Sucn characters as those of Wellington and Coiling-
iwood are thoroughly English. An avoidance of glitter
[and show, an indomitable perseverance, au unhesitating
loyalty, and a constant reference of everything to the
,lietatei of duty. Long may thew) ualities be well
F'known among us. And that they may be let us not
rail to do all duo honour to the groat names of such as
IWellington.
._

NEW CRYSTAL PALACE COMPANY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TRIES.Sir,—I am requested by the directors of the Crystal
Palace Company to beg that you will be so good as to
correct a misstatement that appears in your article
upon the Crystal Palace this morning, and which is
calculated to leave an erroneous impression on the minds
of the shareholders of the Crystal Palace Co
rtohbeabdli-
yny.
The article in questionstateasntheaxt
rtehnedpitluarnmp
rectors " already contemplate
!not much under 1,000,000/. sterling." :of
So far from this being the case, I am authorised to
kitate that all the estimates of the company are eom-
pteted, that all the larger contracts (with one exception)
tare let, and that the whole of the works will be finished
'within the subscribed capital of 500,000/.
11 Begging you to bo so good as to insert this correction
of an involuntary error, I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
G. GRoVE, Secretary.
3, Adelaide-place, London-bridge, Sept. 14.

don. 1 n..s mission to carry out the revolution. ~$
. It was Nap ° "
and by miscalculation of his resources
acceptede it,
.511 e stifled revolution—and ruined himself. It wes i CHAMBER BUSINESS OF TIIE CouRT OF CHANCERY.
found - will be quite a
He also
the
mission to oppose the revolution.
;business
willcommencement;
--Proua the
Wellington 5 . .
Chancery.ngs. This
andperformed it as far as the .. accepted the mission .
permit him. When he that... , be
newtransacted e inin the
By the
spirit of the age would
26th section of the new Act abolishing the . 'Ace of Masters
he could achieve no more, he bowed to circumstances.
No man everequityCl'uritiroofceedi
knew so well the extreme capabilities ef. -.b •
ever halal
:vice Chancellors• respectively,._
;1,, , loth and 16th Victoria, cap., 80), it is porfovidedtha t the
t tainess to be disposed
. the forces which he had to manage. No man.__
while sitting at chambers,
'died those fore:3 with more consummate skill.
, 1,- consist of . The Duke of Wellington has passed away,
withenoi at a; shall from time to time
-hall • such of the following matters as the Judge
think may be more conveniently
mingled
8" ' ' „is posed of in chambers than
time when regret for his loss will be
... ~ pose
answer, or demur; for leave to
in open court, viz., applies.
{anxiety. For though the Duke had passed that time or'-',tions for time toaiPlsea;d,
for enlarging publication, and a'so
'life when any very active military service could be ex.. ,lamend bills
for
ctlhein
production of documents; applications
'life
from him, he was yet known to possess—elnioni,,applicationsthe
conduct of suits or matters; applications as to
in its original clearness and power—that strong er:ninon/ ::.,relating to
guardianship and maintenance of infants; matters con -
Sense—that ability for
sagacious prudence and separatine
•'
netted
guar
management
of nro ert such other
olAiected with the
.- P y, and
_t
essentials from non-essentials which become invaluab:er:
—mutters as each such Judge may. from time to time see ad
at times of danger, emergency, or confusion. 0 i
wa,m, clear,,,?oe as may from time to time be directed by any generalorde;
1
his mind e 4
Chancellor.
iself-reliant, and full of experience, was of anr of the Lord
order that secured the confidence of those with whom he , rowEE, OF LETTERS.Wh. h three letters in the
IC.. .
l,acted, and on each occasion_ when of late years this English alphabet are the most forcible? NR G (energy).
eonntry has been told that danger surrounded her—the. Which twoare the most hateful? N V (envy). Which two
nation always turned with confidence tovvarda "F. M. :'contain._
least? M T (empty), Which four the most
The Duke," as one whose judgment in any hour of corpulent? the 0
B C T (obesity). Which two the most faded?
'peril was sure to be equal to the Occasion and whose .1? K (decay). Which four have a title of honour?
ripe military genius would successfully direct those
x L N C (excellency).
, Which three are most wearisome?
younger and more active ]EnglishmenN U E (ennui). Which five are a popular doctrine? ever ready to sus- -
XPDNC (expediency), Which three are a mourn
'fainthe weight of any
personal conflict. To secure this
poem ? LEG (elegy).
confidence his whole career had tended, and it was Mk

rtakperwnaieaslesi
even of his
_
The Duke of Wellington
(From the Daily News.) 1
Napoleon the First is removed from the world, just as
,Napoleon the Second is entering upon the scene. The
event is the closing one of the greatest cycle of events
is dead! The conqueror of
!verdict
that has yet been completed in modern history. The
pall of the " Great Duke" covers a terrible past, and the;
future may now develop itself undisturbed by the shadowy!
loresence of the great soldier who influenced so largely
,the destinies of the generation just gone by.
It may be said of the Duke with more truth than
aPffmlo;
(Peel, that ho has been fortunate in living. so long that
fc ah
ni his life,
n 00
Eth® world had time to merge any adverse judgments on
reat political friend, the late Sir Robert
[some features of his political career in one unanimous
is whole. As his uncompromising political op-
dfitsutopo on n
swardth manye wonderful
I occasions,i the
e grandeurf u lwel
measureo
for those qualities of his mind and spirit—andl