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exit. After repeated calls, which met with {
no attention, they forced their way into the |
house. II
Everything il, the chamber was neat and
comfortable. There sat the poor old man
in his large armchair, dead and alone. or
what value were those riches now which
had closed his heart against all the pleasures
of this beautiful world, against the posses.
sion of a wife, children, kindred. Giends!
There was no will. for he suspected the
moment he made il ia any ones favor, that
would be his last moment OF security
1t therefore spread itself for more evil, and
was split into forty lawsuits, for the benefit |
OF every one but the rightful heirs.
We make some further extracts from the
"Experisnces of Literature and Literary men,"
in JerYOlds Mere:
Among the disgriceful actions Of the
British Government, had been the encour-
agement Of the most unprincipled libellers
Of the people Of France, individually and
collectively. One OF the foremost Of this
race Of unprincipled iorgers was the no
lorious Lewis Goldsmith. He had already
put together the Revolutionary Plu.arch. >"
or history of the different individuals that
figured in public life in France, in two
volumes, in 1904, and of all the characters,
| by the most atrc cious 6ctions, he made mon-
siers to work upon The preludces Of John
Bull. He next forged memoirs Of Talley.
rand, in two volumes, in which he painted
the wary politician as monster of ireach-
cry, lust, cruelty, and hypocrisy, as If from
his personal knowledge, so as to stagger
the most credulous. Not content with at
lacking the mule sex, he libelled the ie-
males in a faTTago which he styled the
"Femsle Revolutionary Plutarch;r and a
'.Secret History of the Court Of Bona
parte," from personal kno,Oledge, out-herod-
ed Herod. The name Of every French
lady connected with any Of the public
characters Of the time was basely maligned.
All WINS written in order TO show English.
men how much it became them To revere
their happy constitution in Church and
State. These books were nominally at
iributed to Mr.. Stewarton.
About this time, or a little before, sp.
peared Beresford's second volume Of the
"Miseiies OF Human Life" This work
speedily ran through four editions. The
second volume was by no means equal TO
the first. While we write, we recall one
OF the miseries, for we are suffering from
lit.-"Compelled all the morning to under
go the iargon OF yells, drays, and screams,
Familiarity termed the cries Of London
dustmen, beggars, muffin-mongers, needy
knife-grinders, bambalio, clangor. stridor.
tarantantara, mmmur!'-one of the espe-
cial calamiries Of editors. At the time to
which we allude every body had a misery
at his tongues end. Beresford was an
Oxford parson, and, as Oxford parsons not
prone 10 Puseyism are sometimes apt TO
do, sooihed the irksomness Of his theolog.
ical students by very silly book, which
had in consequence great run among
silly people.
We remember reading Priestley's me-
moirs, published the year before in Amer
lea, and now, for the first time, in England.
His treatment here was cruel and unjust,
not merely by the rabid Birmingham
Church and King mob, but by those who
knew much better. Thirty years after the
death OF this great man, the Rev. Mr..
Burn, clergyman, there on a public oc-
casion, honorably, and with true Christian
feeling, declared his sincere sorrow for the
spirit Of animosiiy he had previously dis
played towards the illustrious dead. DR..
| PAR dared the same storm. He told US at
fIatton, not six years before his decease,
on asking him if he was not alarmed when
he heard Of the fate Of his friend Priesiley's
house, chapel. and laboratory. al heard
they had set out for Haiton to attack me;
mad they come | should have got off,
They would have burned my house and
library; they might, but that would not
have made me change my friendship for
Presley" The civil authorities and the
Government of that time behaved equally
Ill. Ii was an odious Ministry. 1t hated
free opinion--in fact, all display OF mind
that would not aid in replacing Bourbon
60 hority. Priestley never recovered half
tbs losses, and was literally prosecuted
from our shores-he whose name will be
green when the men Of that time and their |
unworthy bones are forgotten.
Cumbelland's memoirs were also Just
published. He wits prolific writer, bat
his writings were by no means calculated
to endure much beyond his own date OF de-
parlure from the world he so labored 10
irradiate. A fashionable dramatic author
he continued for considerable time. His
works, too, have the merit of tending to
moral end. but .hef exhibit few signs Of
genius. He died in 1911. He projected
q literary work in union with James and
Horace Smith, the authors Of the REFLECTED
Addresses,' with whom he was on init
mate terms. John Wilson Cookers assis.
lance was rendered 10 the work at very
low rate, but Cumberland positively de-
c.ined the cffer. as he could not tolerate a
stalking potato, !, for so he styled the ex.
secretary of the Admiralty. Mrs. Clarke
and the Duke Of York turned out much
better stepping stone to his fortunes.
Speaking Of Colleln, we omitted to men,
ion his Introduction of us to Jno. Stewart,
better known as "Walking Stewart.
This was at the Northumberland Coffee
iouse in the Strand, which has disappear