The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-11 00:00:00

No. 14.821.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1840..

QTQT. PATRICK'S DAY.—On TUESDAY
.
NEXT, the Festival of St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland,
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LITERATURF.:.

VICTORIA AND HER PEOPLE.
Saunders and Otley, London, 1840.
The chief recommendation of this outburst of poesy
is the spirit of loyalty that pervades it. In every other
respect it is a very grotesque affair, and is only to he dis-
tinguished from prose by the circumstance of every line
being printed in capital letters. The poem professes to
he of a dramatic character, and commences with a set
speech addressed by the People to Victoria; in the
course of which, alter expressing their desire that the
Queen may live for ever, and giving it as their fixed
opinion that it is perfectly useless
" to counsel such an one as thou 1"
the grateful and affectionate People proceed to exhort
her Majesty as follows :
" Be loyal to your God, and then shall all
As loyal be to thee as thou to him.
Fear nothing, but forgetting to fear God,
And then no cause to fear shall come from matt
For man shall fear to vex thy godly rule."
This must be very encouraging to the Queen, who
is still further assured that
" If 'mong the million honest hearts and true,
A heart or two less loyal should be found,
We'll bid 'em pass to realms the Godless rule,
Where Discontent may find her proper food,
Where none can be obedient but the bad,
Where none can be rebellious but the good."
Having but very imperfect notions on the subject of
geography, we cannot undertake to say in what lati-
tude or longitude lies the " penal settlement" to which
the author would banish the disloyal. We are not,
however, without a dim suspicion that by the words,
" realms the Godless rule," he means that mysterious,
subterranean kingdom, where so many kings and priests
are to be found after death, and—as a matter of course
—all lawyers ! If so, we cannot but think that he is
rather too hard upon the disloyal. Seven years' trans-
portation would surely be quite severe enough punish-
ment, without consigning them for ever to the Devil.
Having exhausted his stock of benedictions on the
Queen, the poet next proceeds to bless Prince Albert,
which he does in this highly imaginative style :
" blessing first Victoria and her reign,
Now let us bless the partner of her da, s :
Thou favoured one of all the sons of men,
For Kings, and sons of Kings, yea, Emperors
Shall veil their honours, now, to envy thine—
Rejoice, oh, Albert I happy Prince, rejoice 1"
Of course, her Majesty cannot do less than acknow-
ledge this compliment ; and accordingly, when the
People have concluded their speech, she thus replies to
them :

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" Thanks—thahks ; and be you sure, the band I wave,
To welcome and to greet each Briton hero ;
My own, my true, my loyal, and my brave !
With British wrongs shall never stained appear.
Thanks—thanks; and, be sure, Victoria first
Must bless her people ere their Queen be blessed."
This is handsome enough, so far as it Foes ; but we
Should have been better pleased if, instead of indulging
in courteous generalities, the author had made her
Majesty express her intention to take off a tax or two
—say the Malt Duty, for instance—which would have
had a very agreeable effect, and greatly elevated
the poetical character of the Royal Speech ; for, as
the Utilitarians justly observe, there is nothing
like mixing up business with poetry, as has
bee.n so successfully done in the case of that spirited
lyr" Thirty days hath September." To resume :
Immediately her Majesty has finished her oration, the
People sing a song, whereupon Victoria, resolved not
to be outdone in politeness, sings another ; and the
poem concludes with these touching words, which are
printed in italics, in order that the reader may
be impressed with a becoming sense of their
importance : " Here the Queen retires, and
the People once more shout, ' Victoria, live for
ever ! God save the Queen!'" In addition to the
exuberant loyalty that breathes through this poem—for
such, we suppose, we must call it—it is remarkable,
also, for its exceeding piety, which passes even that of a
Bishop ; but alas, to be pious is one thing, to be poeti-
cal another ; and this the author should have borne in
mind, before he ventured upon the perilous task of
committing his thoughts to print.

LONDON AND WESTMINSTER REVIEW.

LXV.
Hooper, London, 1840.
For the last ten or twenty years of his life, few au-
thors of the day were seldomer heard of than Cole-
ridge ; but now that he has passed from among us,
there really seems to be no end to the " Io Penns"
that are chaunted in his hononr. Mr. Heraud led
the way by his public Lecture at the Russell Institu-
tion ; then followed the Quarterly Review ; then Barry
Cornwall, De Quincey, Hartley Coleridge, and Gill-
man, with their respective Reminiscences ; and now
comes the London and Westminster Review, with the
sweeping assertion that " Bentham excepted, no En-
glishman of recent date has left his impress so deeply in
the opini,ins and mental tendencies of those among us
who attempt to enlighten their practice by philossphieal
meditation, as Coleridge." This is boldly said, but as.
suredly there is little foundation for it. What additions
to our philosophical stores has the author of Christabel
made ? What new lights has he suggested ? What
comprehensive work calculated to mould, modify, and
leave a durable impress on the age, owns him as its
author ? That he has put forth many ingenious specula-
tions ; hinted many subtle—and not a few fantastic—
thoughts, we readily admit ; but this is the amount
of the praise to which he is entitled as a philosopher.
What is his " Friend" but a rambling series of dreamy,
metaphysical essays without aim or object, vague and
wordy, where the author's meaning glimmers dimly
through a cloud of transcendental jargon ? What his
" Biographia Literari a" but a cumbrous apology—we
except the purely critical portions—for a sort of philo-
sophical system which he intended one time or other to
write, but never did write ? The truth is, Coleridge
was a man of fine capacity, but of no steadiness of pur-
pose—no fixed, resolute habits of thought. He was
everything by turas, and nothing long ; and possessed
every sense, but common sense. His genius was first-
rate, but, from his ignorance of the means of practically
applying it, became useless to himself and to the world.
Paley, who possessed not half his knowledge, and not
one-tenth part of his capacity, has yet left a philosophical
reputation that will endure, when Coleridge—except as
a poet—will be forgotten. We have alluded to the
latter's fine natural capacity. He had one of the highest
and rarest order. His imagination was such as Spencer
only has surpassed ; his critical faculties were acute,
graceful, and profound—his remarks on Shakspeare, in
particular, are the finest in the language ; and he ac-
cumulated knowledge almost without effort, and,
as it would seem, by intuition. To the sur-
prising extent and fertility of his conversational
powers all the most illustrious men of his time have
borne willing testimony ; and Lamb, Hazlitt, and
Byron—acute judges—have left it on record that he
was the only one they ever met, who answered to their
idea of a man of genius. Yet who talks of Coleridge
now—who ever thinks of him—save as the author of
the " Ancient Mariner ;" of " Genevieve"—a poem
wherein the delicacy and spiritual refinement of the
passion of Love are blended with its more material
instincts, with a felicity to which we may vainly seek
elsewhere a parallel—and of the noble translation, or
rather paraphrase, of Schiller's " Wallenstein ?" As
for Coleridge's philosophy, the utmost praise we can
accord him is that of having furnished stray thoughts
and suggestions for the guidance of some future philo-
sopher. So much for a man who might have topped all
his contemporaries, and been one of the shining lights of
the age, had he taken common sense and perseverance
to his aid, and allowed his genius fair play, instead of
engulphing it in the muddy quicksands of German
Transcendentalism—a fine sounding word, but which,
translated into the vernacular, means neither more nor
less than Humbuss
" Lockhart's Spanish Ballads" is a notice of a new
edition that has lately appeared, of a delightful little vo-
lume of translations from the Spanish, by the editor of
the " Quarterly Review." In this notice there are some
curious details respecting the rise and progress of ballad
literature in the Peninsula. " Demosthenes" is an in-
genious and elaborate essay on the character of the great
Greek orator, and is prefaced by several sound remarks
on the subject of biography, in the course of which
the Reviewer says :—" for the man himself, biogra-
phers are but too apt to impose on us the outward
form of the man—his comings here and goings
there—his speeches and performances—his failures and
successes. Now all these things, it is clear, are but
consequences—denotements of a foregone conclusion—
mere outward effects, for the most part, of au inward
spirit. The spirit, then, is the thing. We would know
his propensities, his conceptions, his plans ; his motive
force, his springs of action." In the graphic pages of
Boswell, we meet with most of these biographical requi-
sites, but in no other work of the kind that we remem-
ber to have read. Alluding to the character of
Demosthenes's eloquence, the Reviewer justly
observes : "He offers nothing to the judgment
but sound, strong food. And this, children on the one
hand, and men of depraved palates on the other, cannot
away with. He has his mark before him, and his eyes
are always fixed on it, and never on anything else. He
feels the essential dignity of his subject ; he knows its
sterling worth ; and he disdains to trick it out with 1
trinkets. He marches right up to the position of bis
antagonist, and never pauses a pom,,ot, our looks to the
right or left, mail rocs ,:as demolished it." Ili the speeches ,
of Lord Chatham, we find touch of this simple,
„nergatie,gsaiglitial ward. oratory ;-and accord:l44-110 one

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