Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-12-01
miscellaneous.
MR.. T~HAoKERAY's LECTURE.

nothing could be easier than to draw a picture Of
such a brute as George ~, and nothing full of
keener delight than to hunt down and fix on such
an animal; when he approached nearer he found
he had nothing to deal Sith, nothing but a coat
frogged and fur-collared, a star, a whig, and a
countenanee ever simmering with silly shipper.
Such game was unworthy OF a noble hound, such
aGelcrt of the literary pack, as Mr.. Thackeray,
and he confessed he sbruuk from it, We can per-
fectly imagine this. The exquisite and delicate
lance of such a high bred anatomist as MIR. Thack-
cray was never intended TO be soiled in the dissec-
tion of a hog. Such work belongs to some coarse
butcher.
But though this lecture was to us the less inter.
csting by SO much as there was the less Of Thuck-
cray and more of Wraxall and old magazines and
such t%attlers,' it afforded, as far as we could learn
undiminished delight to a most crowded and cult
waited audience. Indeed, there is in the gay viva
city and pleasant interspersion Of wit with which
Mr.. Thackeray unpacks his basket Of bright spark
ling gossip, an inexpressible charm and there is
i'll his voice an unccasing delight to us which we
can hardly describe, but which brings ever to
our mind those lines applied to another British
worthy
yet who not listens with delightful smile,
TO the pure music Of the silver style.
In the clear style a heart as clear is seen,
True to the brave, revolving from the mean"
With n slate and a piece of chalk Mr.. Thackerav
thought he could form n respectable likeness Of
George ~. SO far as the external form of his fat
friend went but when he came to look into his
history he found rothing but Il coat with a star on
it, II Trueft brown wiz reekinr with oil. and n
mask smiling under il, under.waistcoat and more
u"nder-waistcoats under them, all false, nothing
but n corpulent simulcarum. All was Crins, pad
dings. parasites and pu t]relaction. lie signed his
name with a steady, sometimes with an unsteady
hand as George Z. or George II. to state papers.
This was the highest mental effort. Others wrote
them. Within five days after his illustrious birth,
he wa dubbed Prince of Wales, Marquis of this
in England, Lord of the other in Scotland, and
Lord knows what in many other places. The era
die OF the royal infant was encountered with lOyai
gifts. Among others there were wise men in
America to hail the appearance Of this star in the
East, and q curious Indian bow and arrow were
sent to the prince from his fhthe-'s faithful sub
iocts in New York. Before he could sneak. states
men, not men. were busy kissing his little feet.
AS he grew up, this young lulus Of England had
more pictures taken Of him than half England,
even than Prince Albert, who has a considerable
weakness in that line and Mr.. Thackeray said
that he RENE bored when young there was hardly
a dining parlor in any respectable house in Eng
land from whose wainscot the countenance Of this
sweet prince did not look down.
Still the little fairy, pleasure will steal in through
the key-hole of the most carefully guarded door,
where she finds fit subjects in hot passions and q
strong frame, and in spite Of the coed care Of old
George and all the yigilaut watching of his moth
or, Young George became the most enormous prodi-
gal the world had ever seen.
But he was such an ACCOMPLISHED Youth When
yet young, when his tutor, Lord Bruce, made a
mistake in a false quantity, the Prince corrected
him. Bruce could Of course, when caught in this
flaw, no longer retain his tutorship, but to soothe
his wounded feelings, he was made an earl. We
presume Lord Derby must have had him in his
eye when he announced some weeks since at Liver
pool that merit was the only passport to the peer
age. Lord Bruce was made an earl; Nelson never
rose beyond n viscount. Exhibiting these and sim.
liar gratifying proofs of early proficiency, this
model prince grew up to the great joy of his king
dom. He was lovely to look on, and his coat cost
ten thousand pounds, with everything else to cor
reseond. To calculate the millions that were Civ
en- by the English people to feed this brute's lusts
and luxuries would be appalling. Had lie been a
manufacturing town or a rural district, or a detach-
ment of an army, he could not have cost more.
Yet this man shared with the Count DArtois, if
not as depra we'd in his appetites as ridiculous in
his G xtravagance and tastes, the honor of being the
first gentleman Of Europe. And Sir Walter Scott
absolutely carried away the glass out of which he
drunk and vowed it should be an heirloom in his
family. Having placed it in his pocket, we are
happy to record, he sat down on it and gave him
self "a cut, which we only regret was not severer.
Of course this young Prince and all his brothers,
hot Tor pleasure, ran away from old George III,
porting over his books, and Queen Charlotte with
her snuff and sewing, When he got free he took
lull ming, and his great person accommodated it's
elf to a stupenduous amount of hot meats and re-
bellious liquors and the passions to which they
give birth. The only intellectual feat Mr.. Thack-
cray could discover that he accomplished was the
ihNcHtlOu VI NlifaoCnlnOD punch and shoe buckles
an inch long and five inches broad. The latter
were a sweet invention worthy of the Prince whom
1T adorned. Occasionally he might have kent more
brilliant company and talked dice with Fox or
drank with Sheridan, but there was nothing more
an common, and as a rule the com panions he most
loved and which were most natural to him were
courtlers. No one could trust his friendship for
an hour. His friends speedily threw them off. The
Wings must have expected his base desertion. In
the middle age his friends were table comranions.
AS he rrdw old ln profarra1 vOurr c,orler-o, onJ
poys whose sprlghtliness tiekled his senile sensu-
alsty. As he YVES to men, so was he to woman
3ut from this dark portion Of the picture Mr..
1hackeray did not draw the curtain. OF what
purpose would it be to tell how The beautiful Pc.
dita Mrs ROBINSON was pursued and deserted.
OF what object to say that be married Mrs. Fitz-
herbert according to the Roman Catholic church,
that the witnesses could be named and the settle
ments produced? And that the frs. gentlemen in
Europe and King of England pledged his honor as
kings and emperors can do in our day with un.
blushing front to n black lie. All the pleasant
devils came eoaxingly round, and he sold himself
TO them all.
Still, Notwithstanding dark traits sufficient to
have doomed any man but a king to in(amy, men
OF some honorable place in the land were found as
guests at his table. The table of Princes is
doubtless tempting, and it is wonderful the aroma
which with most men their presence leads TO vino
Fox, and Sheridan, and Scott were often there, and
little Tommy Moore twittered about for awhile,
and then took wing and attacked him with beak
and wing and claw. Indeed most people are will
ling for grand" company to take n headache the
next day. But the wine itself. apart from the
company, was not unpleasant to many great men
OF the time. Pitt used to take a bottle of mort
after dinner, and then, on his way to the House,
stalk into Bellamy's, with Dumas, and throw on
top a couple Of bottles more.
but let us not omit to recount the Princes yir-
sues. They will not occupy much space. He was
Kind, 1t Is said to his servants, a brief founded on
a pleasant story told Of an Irish servant maid,
Molly something, who cried when about 10 leave
Charlton House because he was such a sweet-spo.
ken gentleman. But Irish women are tender.
especially in their tears. Then he sent some mon
ey to Sheridan on his death he'd, and if his dying