New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-12-26
FROM BOSTON.
r,o-. an Occasional Correspondent

ing kept up to the last. Every practicable and
place 10 the Melodeon was filed
throughout, and in great measure with 80 audi
cpce that delights not usually in the dr'ary diver
zion Of lecture going and certainly bis lectures
will not increase their appetite for anybody else
I think could "see il in the eyes OF en- that
the delicate, volatile, inef1able grace OF genius
which so peryaded and informed these admirable
di,ceur,es. wa, perceived, inhaled and enjoyed By
the hnlk of his audience with keen relish of de-
6oht Not hut that there were critical objections
made. Syeps aud sund;y. Every flimsy profdc-
tions - ssys one. " He'd il not been Mr. Thacte-
raw He shoold have called all this stuf tUadfte :"
,sys another. don't you sup pose We could get
I'D something as good as this at h0nel" asks
third, d, ub,less firm friend to tue "Americ IN
y,tem." But, o, Trbunitan College, frieods Of
Native Industry, | fesr that even ye c01ld not
devise tariff that world foster precisely such an
article Of domestic manufacture Would ye
could I" have not heard single new fact" OBJ
serves fourth cage, a pursuer Of knowledge un
der difficulties. "Wby," exclaiDs fifth I've
r, sd all Use stories about the Georges in books
/ have at hOme!' Have you. indeed" pat in q
witty bystaLder; " bless ms, l thought rhackeray
had iprenfed them all :"
Ofcnurse there was room enough for diversity
OF opinions on many points Of bis lectures Eeea
could not quite warm myself up to share the ad-
miration Mr.. Thackersy seemed to feel Tor Car
oiss of Apspacb George ITs QueS n, nor 10 believe
that abe felt any real affection for " the cid
Heathep,' htr husband. Al least one csnaot iesl
spy profound sympathy for the sentimsn;al sor-
rows OF O wife who vas the coDddante OF her nus
bands am ours, who associated with his mstresses,
invited one OF them Madame de w 1lm )den) over
from Hanover, and sas earnestly arged by him 10
act a. the prOcuTess Of anOtaer, as appears fro
hut Dzss iOa
one OF his letters, Lord HeIvey's Memoirs, vol l.,
D 5O2) and wbich solicitation we have NJ reason
to suppose she resented, If she did not comply
with IL. From the same authority we learn that
the dying ipiunctions Of this model wife and Queen
to her royal spouse were marked by the same in
du]esnt consider alton for his comforts that had
characterized her life. she advised him as nr.
Tbackeray tells us to marry saaio bat he did eOt
fpish the sfoIy-as, indeed, he hardly could in
the lecture room. When the old Pagaa" cried
out blnboeJips, in reply, Non, non, janrai des
q" mattresses - bis easy minded wife, coas,derate
even in death, exclaimed Ah, mon Dieu, celia
"nemptche pas :" No, no, Mr.. Tbackeray, tue Sc.
verest thin that can be said of Queen Caroline is
that ,be really loved her stupid, deblu,he6 little
husband, or snytbiDg indeed but Pc yer, of which
she IL gard-d bin az a necessary tool II 1t she
m.Dsced rim 80 well that there is every reason to
believe that he do love her better than ythiug
else he had, even his mistresses. Indeed, no gave
the stroDets evidence of it 6y his declaration, at
ter her death, that such We're her virtues, he
should rather have had her for his mistress, had
she not been bis wife, than any woman he had
ever known.
And / cannot but think that Prinee Posterity
will show little more mercy 10 poor George w.,
ard rather e,s to his roy al father than Mr.. Thacke-
ray seems Inclined to do. Fun the Fourth. that
Royal Bird" wss the splendid mummy swathed 10
fold within fold of purple and fine lioen Mr.
Tbacker,y tells Of; he was sensual self induIgent
and vain, VI questiOnsbly. But VINO wrapped hin
up in tbose magnificent baLdsges VINO knelt
and wOrshiped him and poured adulatiOn and
wealth at his feet They that made " that scep-
tered thing" should not find fault with him for
being 90 made His vices we're not dangerous
10 the pt neral veal as those of his father Gal
hntry, glattoDy ami vanity are vrsues in King
compared to psssi n for enslaving his subjects,
and for building up his prerogative at the expense
of their rights. And all tue sums that toe sou
fqusndeJed on bis pO Dps aud pleasures duriog ms
whole life would not haze footed up to the half OF
a cir gle years expenditure Of the father for crush
ing out the rising rpirt ioeJty ON this continent
or that. I imagine that while future ages Will
spend but little time over George w. ana care
little about him, they will psy George III tne
complime Mt of looking narrowly az him ana ours
ing bi0 as the worst King that ever SAY On tue
BIi,ith throne.
And /, seems 10 ms rather hard tost Mr.. Thsck-
ersy should DENY to George Nv. the Vulgar qu4llfy
OF ps rsoDal coUraee-whlch can or cou sn3n)
he ooupbt in the ma ket at shluiDg cay lie
certainis begged with all apparent earnestiess, to
he permitted to sarve abroad with his regi nept,
the famous euth dussars, aud was refused. And
The AGITATION he showed to Lord Edon, at the tune
Catholic Emancipation was impending, might be
attributed to ether feelings THAI cowardice in a
monarch brought face to face with such revolu
ton. He was good natured @here his own pleas
uIes or csprices were not touched. Moores de-
scriptiOn Of tie Regents breakiasttsble vas much
more true of bis fathers:
"Ths bcud was laid With tea aai toast,
Deots Warass and The Morning Post"
The old king bad no compunction in signing
death xarrants by Il score. George Nv. hated to
do il and was always ipclinable 10 the side Of
mercy He was slso accomplished, after the su-
peIicia nsnner of the pIoces OF his ii ne as good
8 scholar and as well read a man the average OF
the gentry Of England, not withou; conversational
powers an admir- able raeOReur, as Sic Walter Scott
testsfes, and say or OF good things. think that
he was some hing more than cODeeries OF waist
coats with a frOgged coat and blue ribbon on the
outside, aud withdrawing
DO y0u recollsct his reply to the Duke Of York
at the time that favorite son Of his father took
Nrs. Clarke under his protection -toat cele'
brs'ed lady who sold her interest with she Duks,
then CoDmandtr-n Cnief, who was examined be-
fore the House Of COmmocs, and who has but
very recently ended her long aud well spent life,
in virtuous retirement If you doa't here il is:
The Luke Was expatistiDg to the Prince of Wales
on the manifold excellences, ifnot virtues, of his
lew treasure. Among other things 40 exclaimed,
"Atd do you know that she has n reserves with
"me She has told me The nam-s OF all the
"lovers che has ever had. What iogenuousness
"what candor" ayes, indeed" replied the
Prince, Z" And nkat memory" This reminds
one OF the reply Of the Due de Luynes q think it
Was) 10 LOUIS XIV when that sOn of St Louis en-