Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1854-06-30
Our Foreign Correspondence.
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LONDON, June /, 1854.
To the Editor IF the Free Press -
Although must leave this city before have de-
spatched all its lions indeed before having fair hit
at more than few of the biggest Of them and shall
defer much that have to say till return here la
ter in the season. when hope to go through this
great jangc more at my leisure, must, novcrthe-
less, say some things about Londcn even now.
said it was wonderful place. / did not use the
words in any common place sense. Every one knows
that as mere city, great hive Of men, n great
settlement, London is wonderful 1t stands alone.
But in other senses and aspects, those in which you
and |, and such we, have been used to look it,
when enter it and look at it and feel it, how it
breaches of the past and prophecies of the future
We went to Morley's well known hotel at the
West End 1t looks out upon Trafalgar Square, as
| said in my last. That is a small square, aboutas
large as Hudson Square in New York, only spcck
ON the map of the city, From my window | look
upon Northumberland House ON one side of the
square.
Still proudly Ger its lofty gate
Their houses lion stands in state
As in his proud departed hours.
We shall never again such times
when Earl Percy "with twice ten thou sand
men, Those hours departed, but the pride of
Observation-Disclosures power and the bravery of
Percy will never depart from the history and menu
DRY of England-''Lord Stafford mines for coal and
salt, the Duke of Norfolk deals in malt, the
Douglass in red herring " but Percy and North
cumberland did no such thing. Their names are in
dissolubly connected in all their relations with the
pride, the glory, the bravery, the exclusive
ness the antiquity Of the highest arstocracy and
there in the busy hum of London their story is told
from day to day, and from year to year.
Another striking object, which gives the name to
the square, is the great monument to Nelson. that
reaches to the sky and is surmounted by statue of
the hero. Three of the four sides of the base
of the column sculptured with his deeds of glory
in the bronze of the guns he captured the trophies
and the heralds of his bravery "England expects
every man to do his duty" the simple words
under which he won his final triumph. From the
admiral down to the smallest ship boy, the sailor
between decks at his gun or in the Imminent deadly
breach with his boarding pike, all thought only of
their country and their duty. That battle and its
motto, that monument and its story cannot fail to
teach lessons that sink deep into the heart, and do
much to form the character of Englishmen
And there is also the beautiful monument to King
Charles the lst equestrian statue Blind loyalty,
the divine right of Kings, pure legitimacy, claim
him 5 their martyr, and have sought TO rescue his
memory from the degradation of his end. But the
English nation know and most Of all, every monarch
that has succeeded to him has known and felt as he
pas ed by that monument that Charles the first was
indeed traitor to royalty and to England. He dis
pcnscd with the law He was faithle., coward
! pI tI,;r r;,,bt
King as he was, cgitimately and by divine right ON
the throne, his head rolled from the scaTold like
that Of a common traitor and since that day no
monarch of England would think of walking in his
royal footsteps without instinctvcly and convul-
sively putting his head to his neck to feel whether
his head was safe on his shoulders. What an i'm
mense gain for liberty and right. There is no
monument to Cromwell, but the time will come,
though you and may not live to it, when the
name of Oliver Cromwell will call up again the
spirit of those brave old patriots of the common
wealth, who did much for England and for free
dom.
There is another statue in the square, that of
George the 18th. Cicero said he would much prefer
| that postcrity should wonder why monument was
not raised to his memory, than that they should
wonder why was. / never looked upon that
. monument to George the ith, without wondering
why it reared to one of the most worthless and
contemplate monarchs that rcigncd certainly
in England, But really the very litteness of com
mcmorating him there helps to point the moral of the
whole scene, full of instruction and interest Il
republican eyes. There j. great fitness too, in plac
| ing the man of deeds, matter what may hay,
been his parenage, above tho prince aud the peer
in the scale of grateful commemoration.
A step down Whitehall from the statue of Charlie
| the LIST, is the place where he beheaded, the
Of an immense step in the progress of England
At Runnynedc the sturdy barons dictated the great
Charter to King John. With a wisdom not vouch
safed to Charles, John submitted, and the arlstoc
racy, the first class of the people, triumphed owe
the throne but the King preserved his life and his
! crown. At Whitehall, the people-the English POO
ple-dictatcd their wishes to the King ana aristoc
racy. It was too humilatinp 90 submit, ana tht
KING ar.l went down together, and the
people were henceforward power in the State
permanent and growing power.