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...
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The lonely and the mated—all sustain."
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THE MAGAZINES.
BLACK WOOD'S MAGAZINE.
The history of the eighteenth century is yet to be
written. Sint e the days of Hume, no English writer has
arisen,that deserves the title of historian. Smollett is a
mere inanimate compileKofevents—a drudge that copied
accounts of battles, and treaties, and rebellions, and
political facts, from annual registers, newspapers, and
dispatches, without infusing into his narration either
argument or philosophical disquisition, or a particle
of that divine spirit which re resents the great actors
on the human Jiving,Atsge xis beings, renders
;their character . to the reader, and points
out, as if by intuition, the mainspring of
their actions and policy. We have scraps of
history and memoirs without number. Walpole,
Fox, Russell, M'lntosh and many others have made
attempts to give historical delineations of the more
remarkable incidents of the period, nut they seemed
overwhelmed with the magnitude of the task, and have
left little or nothing that will descend to posterity. A
writer in the present number of Blackwood has also
tried his hand, and furnished an excellent sketch, at
least for Tory readers, of the main features which
distinguished the British history during the eighteenth
century of the principles. of Whigs and Tories, and
their respective capabilities for conducting the affairs
of a great country. To the latter, of course, he gives
the preference, not that they are abler or better men,
not that they are less addicted to corruption and
other great faults inherent in human nature, but be-
cause the basis of their government is property, which
necessarily is vested comparatively in few hands, be-
cause they are opposed and narrowly watched by
numbers, and are thus deterred from doing evil from
the dread of the consequences recoiling on themselves.
The Whigs when out of place are all honourable men
—useful in their calling, excellent watchers, and most
determined enemies of those political vices which in
power they are more guilty of than their opponents,
but they are bad rulers and unlucky statesmen.
This, however, is put forth merely as an opinion
and may be passed over, but there are some maxims
laid down by the writer of a different character,
which sound strangely in the ears of impartial
men. " The Whigs (says the writer) had brought the
country to the brink of ruin, about the year 1760,
but fortunately George 111. and his advisers (meaning
Bute and the Princess), from the first moment of his
accession to the throne, set his face against the party.
This was the turning point of English history; upon
the success of that attempt the future character of the
Government and of the people mainly depended. It
for the first time since the Revolution restored the
Government to its proper position—it rested it en
property, and put numbers in opposition. This is
the only true basis of good government." A tree is
judged by its fruit—so are good governments; and
what fruit was produced between 1763 and
liO3 may be learned from the history of the American
war and the mad policy of interfering with the in-
ternal government of France to prop up an imbecile
and falling dynasty. It would be difficult—
nay, impossible, to find in the whole annals
of the country a time so full of disgrace,
so many ignominious disasters, such a loss
of territory, and such a general prostration of British
power, while during all that long and dismal period
the great specific was in operation—the Govern-
ment rested on property, and put numbers in opposi-
tion. Yet this remedy for bad government, which
had been tried for forty years, and was found wanting,
is still maintained to be the real cause of the glori-
ous struggle made against the French Revolution
and the gigantic efforts of Bonaparte. The ul-
timate victory must be attributed to other causes.
The old system was persevered in till actual
destruction threatened the country. The Duke of
York was sent to Holland ; favourites or men who
could command patronage were placed in command
of our armies, and disaster was the natural re-
sult. The French Revolution, not the " proper basis
of good government," roused the country to energy ;
the nobles and the clergy took warning from
the fate of their French brethren, and energy
was infused into our rulers by the fear-
ful destruction of the strongholds of despotism.
These were the true causes of the great change which
took place about the commencement of the present
century, and which carried the country triumphantly
through so fearful a crisis. We have only space to
advert to another Tory doctrine. That party, of
course, hated the revolution of 1688, while they
admit that, "we owe to it many of our greatest
blessings.' And these blessings are " a national
debt, a standing army, and a stable foreign policy."
" Had Charles 1.," says the writer, " possessed five
thousand guards, he would at once have crushed the
Great Rebellion." That is, he would have carried
into effect the dangerous plans of the renegade Straf-
ford,with the assistance of Laud,
abrogarteesdtoredopry,
Parliaments,
e
and established a pure des-
potism. Such are the aspirations of a genuine old
Tory. Occasionally, however, the Whigs are allowed
some merit. They carried on one great war with
spirit and success, they brought about the revolution,
though they did not carry it out with proper spirit;
and justice is done to a few of their leaders. High
praise is bestowed on Sir James Mackintosh, and
regret expressed that he did not live to complete his
history, which " would, unquestionably, have taken!
its place with those of Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon.
The following character, too, of Horace Walpole is
use •

" Horace Walpole was a man of the world and a
courtier ; he had quick natural parts and much acquired
discernment. He was a good scholar, was fond of anti-
quities, and a passionate admirer of curiosities, which
he collected with indefatigable industry, and no small
success, from every quarter. He had lived too long in
the political and great world not to have learned its sel-
fishness and appreciated its heartlessness; not to have
become acquainted with many political secrets, and seen
enough of political baseness. He had considerable

powers of observation, and occasionally makes a profound
remark, especially on the selfish tendencies and the se-
cret springs of the human heart. His characters are all
drawn from the life ; and often with great power both of
observation and expression. But he had not sufficient
steadiness of thought or purpose to achieve anything
considerable, or draw any important conclusions even
from the multifarious information of which he was
roaster, or the powers of observation which he possessed.
There was nothing grand or generous in his composition.
No elevated thoughts, no lofty aspirations, no patriotic
resolves, are visible in his writings."
There is another article, on a somewhat similar
subject, "Lord Malmesbury's Diaries and Corres-
pondence ;" but it is occasionally enlivened by remarks
on his unlucky mission to the Court of Brunswick,
and the character of the Prince and Princess of Wales,
in which the former is not spared. The following
sentence closes the animadversions on his barbarous
treatment of his future wife, when first introduced to
her. " An interview of a minute's duration, brandy
and an oath ; rare prospects_ for the felicity and con-
tinuance of the future Hymen !" North returns to
his "Specimens of the British Critics" with his wonted
vigour and display of classical knowledge. Dryden
and Pope form the subjects of the second series,
which, though extending to great length, will appear
sufficiently short to the admirers of those eminent
poets. We subjoin a sketch of their peculiarities :
" Pope had a gentleness of spirit, which showed itself
in his filial offices to his father and mother—to her the
most, in the prolonged wearing out of a beloved life. It
appears in kindly relations to his friends, in charities, in
the scheme of his life—contentedness in a bounded,
quiet existence, a seclusion among books, and trees, and
flowers. His life flowed on peaceably and gently, like
the noble river upon which his modest dwelling looked.
constitutionallllhealth, a
as we
feebleness said
from which he suffered, might, often dedicates a student. The
doubly favour his mind ; as often the more delicate
frame harbours the greater spirit ; and as inaptitude for
active and rough sports, throws the solitary boy upon
the companionship of books, and upon the energies, avo-
cations, and pleasures of his own intelligence and fancy.
The little poem of his boyhood, and the first of his man-
hood, prophesy his tenor of life, and his literary career.
" A commanding power, a predominant star in Eng-
ish literature—you might say that the last century be-
onged to him. Dryden reigned over his contempo-
raries. Pope, succeeding, took dominion over his own
time and the following. The pupil of Dryden, and
gratefully proud to proclaim the greatness of his master,
and to own all obligations, he moulded himself never-
theless upon a type w his MA 'gilds In the school of

Dryden he is an original master. Dryden is, properly
sseaking, without imitators. His manner proceeds from
his own genius, and baffles transcribers. But Pope com-
pleted an art which could be learned, and he left a world
full of copyists.
_ _

" A remarkable feature is the early acknowledgment
of Pope by his contemporaries. At sixteen he is a poet
for the world by his Pastorals, and at that age he has a
literary adviser in Walsh and a literary patron in Trum-
bull. He does not seem to court. He is courted. He
is the intimate friend, we do not know how soon, of
scholars and polite writers, of men and women high in
birth, in education, in station. Scarce twenty, by his
Essay on Criticism' he assumes a chair in the school of
the Muses. At five-and-twenty, he is an acknowledged
dictator of polite letters. So early, rapid, untroubled an
ascension to fame, it would require some research to find
a parallel to. Our literature has it not. And this ac-
knowledgment, gratulation, triumph, which friends and
circles, and the confined literary world of that day in
this country could furnish, a whole age, and a whole
country, and a whole world, the extended republic of
letters, confirm.

" In the judgment of England, in the eighteenth cen-
tury, the reputation of Pope may be called the most
dazzling in English literature. It was a nearer sun than
Dryden, Milton, Shakspeare ; as for Spenser and Chau-
cer, they were little better than fixed stars."

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.
Mr. Albert Smith's tale, " The Marchioness of
Brinvilliers," has reached its ninth chapter; it is
well told, and the snatches of description given of the
indoor and outdoor life of Paris in the FevetWElßWr

tury are natural and picturesque, though the subject-
matter of the story is very different from the adven-
tures of Mr. Ledbury. This old acquaintance of the
readers of this periodical turns up again in the present
Number, and figures in a Polka party in one of the new
villa residences " which cabmen never can find out,"
in the neighbourhood of Primrose-hill, whereby he
a.rnost brings the house itself—and a lawsuit, on the
head of his respeeted parent. The paper on " Crock-
ford's" should be read by all as an expose of the utter
folly of gaming. The "Bank" is as certai❑ to re-
ceive the fortune of the player in the long run, as the
river's-bed would absorb the contents of a bag of gold
poured from the parapet of Waterloo-bridge. After
giving numerous instances of members of the aristo-
cracy, whose property was all transferred to the
pockets of the owner of that splendid den, the writer
says :

Where, on the other hand, is to be discovered that
wonder of a man, who by indulgence in play has bene-
fitted his estate, increased his means, or added one jot
to his reputation, or to the peace and happiness of those
connected with him I Echo answers—' Where ?' One
of the most steady, temperate, and prudent speculators
at Crockford's was the late Lord S— ; but with all
his calm and imperturbable disposition and bold enter-
prise, the game conquered him, and he could no more
controul or defeat the certain pull or per tentage against
him than he could have accelerated or retarded the
earth's revolutionary motion. He was passionately fond
of French hazard ; but he had the prudence, and with it
the resolution, to confine his risk within legitimate
bounds, and yet he contributed annually to increase the
mound of Crockford's profits. The late Marquis of
H—, who :was deeply and practically skilled in the
speculative science of play, and who had little love of
any game that afforded not advantage to those best ac-
quainted with its principles, was once or twice induced to
try his hand at French hazard, but very soon discovered
that the only certainty it embraced was loss to the
player, and profit to the banker. He himself was a loser
on the occasion allUded to, an event so unusual in his
Lordship's practice, that it gave rise to the following
ouplet :
Say, holy prophet, who can hope to win,
Where men like H— can be taken in ?"
The sketch of "Monmouth," by Miss Costello, is
interesting, full of antiquarian research, and recom-
mended by recent observation. The " Anecdotal
Gatherings," by Mr. Peake, are trivial, and not
worthy of his reputation. The remainin? articles
are, " A Memoir of Boruwlaski," the Polish dwarf,
who died in 1837, at the extreme age of ninety-eight.
The " Retreat to Corunna," from the " Recollections
of Rifleman Harris ;" a chapter from the sad volume
opened by the "Gaol Chaplain," and several minor
pieces in prose and verse, which we need not
particularise.

DOUGLAS JERROLD'S SHILLING
MAGAZINE.

We have two more chapters of the " History of
St. Giles and St. James." Young St. Giles is taken
to the watchhouse and locked up for the night, on the
charge of stealing the hat of young St. James. He is,
however, released the next morning through the inter-
vention of Bright Jem and Capstick, the muffin-man.
The latter is a voter of the borough of Liquorish, the
pocket borough of the Marquis of St. James, and the
muffin-man goes to the Marquis to solicit the release
of young St. Giles :
" Now it oddly enough happened that, at the time
when Capstick sought to approach the Marquis, Parlia-
ment was near its dissolution. The wicked old hag was
all but breathing her last, yet—case-hardened old
sinner !—she expressed no contrition, showed no touch
of conscience for her past life of iniquity ; for her wrongs
she had committed upon the weak and poor ; for the
nightly robberies upon them who toiled for the especial
luxury of those who, like the tenants of a cheese, lived
and crawled upon unearned pensions ; she repented not
of the blood she had shed in the wickedness of war ;
never called about her soft-hearted, tearful, most ortho-
dox bishops, to assuage the agony of her remorse, and
to cause her to make a clean breast of all her hidden
iniquity. No. Parliament was about to expire—about
to follow her sinful predecessors (what horrid epitaphs
has History written upon some of them !) and she
heard no voice of conscience; all she heard was the
chink of guineas pursed by bribery for her successor."
tinder such Orcurnstances, a refusal was not to be
'-expecta, and accordingly St. Giles is discharged by
the.magistrate fbr want Gf a prosecutor. The iniquity
and injustice of the window-tax is the subject of an
admirable paper, entitled " The Luxury of Light."
This article will henceforth become the manual of all
who are engaged in the agitation against this typhus-
producing impost. Patmore's " Recollections of
Hazlitt" are continued ; they relate chiefly to Haz-
litt's connexion with Northcote. Juniper Hedgehog,
too, continues his " Correspondence of Sir James
Graham,"—" the sealing-wax Jack Sheppard," as
Hedgehog calls him. Master Juniper, we think,
prophecies correctly—" The fun is not over yet,"
sayeth he; "meantime, if you write, don't either use
wax or wafers, it's only wasting property." The re-
maining papers in this number are all good. Douglas
Jerrold this month gives us an excellent shilling's-
worth.