The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-22 00:00:00

While, with a leafy circlet round his brows,
He reigns the king of lovers and of poets."

hood reader, hush ! We are now about to intro-
duce you to the statesman, the orator, the novelist, the poet,
the historian, the philosopher, the 'dramatist, the magazine
writer, the coxcomb, the dandy, the man of fashion, the man
of the world—THE MAN of all men—the observed of all ob-
servers, the great Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, of No-place,
Nowhere, (as Lady Bulwer says), M.P. for. the borough of
Lincoln, and a distinguished supporter of her Majesty's pre-
sent administration. Be silent, then, and listen with reveren-
tial awe to what we have to discourse of this most exalted
' Bow down, Oh! reader, at the shrine we are about to
—how down with fear and tremblino•r, before the great
Sir Lytton!

elevate

An ill-natured scribbler of our acquaintance once- made
these lines of Mr. Thomas Moore apply to Bulwer

" Of all speculations the market holds forth
The best that I know of, to a lover of pelf,
Is to buy up Sir Lytton at the price he is worth And to sell him at that which he sets on himself.,,

Now, althoug

..e are not prepared to say that Bulwer is
overrated, we cannot admit that he is altogether
. There is some " good stuff" in the man, though
ost lost amongst his affectation and conceit. He is
fellow enough for a whig, perhaps as clever as whig
to be sure, is not saying much ; for the de-
-.s to which any whig can reach is, as com-
a conservative, very trifling. To what
rdinary a circumstance is to be ascribed we
red to say ; all we know is that such is the fact
and pity 'tis 'tis true." But to return :—it
supposed that Sir Lytton Bulwer is by any
play an important part in the manage-
Were you to take his own word for
.iuld believe that lie is one of the must eminent
,f the day, and likely to become one of the great-
very greatest, statesmen that ever lived. But,
Ts, you must not believe nor report anything
Bulwer is no statesman, nor ever will be; he
.d more about statesmanship than Mr. Joseph Hume
s about arithmetic; he has no mind to conceive, and
'n execute, any great national measure. He might
and succeed in passing a hill enacting that a
• a certain play shall or shall not be played
but to expect to see him the author of
higher character, heaven help you!
It to see Mr. Joseph Hume work

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correctly a stun in simple addition. It is hard to conceive
on what grouuds claims to statesmanship rest. His
:is bimstif assert that those claims are of the
4!)tioil ; but with all our indus-

•ongest and very best

t has been great, we have hitherto been unable to
,em. We are not aware of any measure of which
the author, excepting a bill relating to dramatic
as N% as a measure which, although undoubt-
eat advantage to dramatic authors, was not of suffi-
•tanee to prove its concoctor a statesman, or even
'awl-. It seems to us, therefore, that Bulwer
oadow of a claim to any place, however low or
in the ranks of statesmen; and when we hear that
im seriously urged, we have no hesitation in asserting that
s totally unfounded, and that it is preferred merely to sa-
ly the enormous conceit of the hon. baronet.
ks a " Political Character" Bulwer is entirely unknown.
scarcely, we ;lily I,,iy never, takes any part in the discus-
public mnsures. Once upon a time he fancied that
astonisn. the world with his doings in the senate;
Lurk. Madepany attempts to prove that there was some.

ure ; and