New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-06


digueo in it nAusuoes OF aes to deal with the lead
irg sguIes Of history than with the little worms who
crawl about IN society. We hare 10 doubt that Mr..
Tba,iersy wi Dcesse in srvOT aud FIRE IS be comes
to the remaining two Georges, and we promise our
selves still more abundant crop OF enjoyment. With
these few rsmsrks we present NJ. rhsekeray himself
who ope1ed his lecture by Stating that If certain
novelist who hai for some time resided in this country,
was about TO picture the period on which be was
that evening to dwell, lie would describe trav-
eIsr. booted as was tie fashion of the period
and Of good broad shoulders ard burly frame dash
ing ere evening slong the cheerful lanes and byways
which Iced from London to Richmond. On reaching
tie lodge so Pleasantly placed in Richmond park, the
rider reired in his steed and, dsmounting, asked t.
see tie occupant. The mistress answered that her
mas er always went to bed after dinner, and no one
da.e to disturb him in his sleep. The ri Ter
accustomed to bis will Sir Robert Walpole, AMI boldly
entering he brske the sIumber ot the sleeper and told
him his father had died at Osnsburg, AMI he was
Euglands king. "Dst is Won pig He,' was the ex-
clsmation of the second Of the German kings. 1t
would be weary to dwell on how he was choleric--
called all who ever differed from him liar, Scout
drel, and so fur,h-srd became reconciled to
and al obedent tool Of the minister ne once had hstei
go well. That minister, according to Mr.. Thackersys
picture had gross vices and CREST su IS but for his
love of peace England would have had wsr before
she was strong enough. In religion he was little bet
ter than heahen passed his time in the coarsest de-
bauch and drunkenness, and judged of human nature
so meanly as to make one ashamed to own that be
was right Still, With his hiTeliDg parliamentary pack
he gave England peace checked the schemes ofpriesr
crs az maintained consos close 10 the neghbobood
of par TWAS, perhaps, lucky Cor Eoglaud her Georges
were such IN ambitious brutes. By the time George III
came TO the throne the contest between liberty and
royalty was at an end. In comparison with the other
European soveregns, i ranncsl or dissoue, George
H. dull little fellow as he was, might hold his plsce.
He wrote sentimental letters OF thirty pages from Ger
many TO the Queen, and from London on his return to
the German friends he lefs and If be judged men by
a low standard, dismal experience told him he was
right. and there was nothing minister like Wapole
could tell him calculated 10 alter this estimate. The
Germans used to say CT him when young, "Er ut
wild; aber schlagh. sch gut He is wild, but
e. hts like man, So he did at Oudenard, where
ike dapper little hero, be brandshed his sword In
the face of the whole French army Upon public fes
rivals ever after he wore the suit he had on at Dude
nard, and the peope-te whom such honest pride Is
plessant-laughed kindly when they saw the odd old
gsrmeots for bravery never out OF fashion.
OF his wife, Caroline of Anstadt, Mr.. Thackeray
drew most favorable picture, indeed OF far more
ha,terrg color than any we have hitherto seen. In
her youth, though offered the hand of an emperor If
she consented to change her religion, she adhered to
her Professionalism nO5ly-at time and in land
iu which princes and p!inceses changed their religion
with the same easy unConcern they DO their caps She
routed he Jesuit who was set at her, and marded the
little Elector Of Hanover whom to her last hour she
loved right Loyalty and well. George IL and hts
father fell out after the in which most fathers
fall out with their hes, aud the old King used 10 call
his daughter.in-lsw, "Cette dabltsse, Madame la
"Princesse.p Caroline was, however, clever wo-
man, with bitter womans tongue, and ridiculed tho
old Sultan and bis harem.
Mr.. Tbackersy then rev some pleasant figures of
the character of the cou and is social habits There
Iose in successive review the msshapsn form of Pope,
with his bushy brow, who would stab you for some
su all slight, and Mary Beenden, the most beautiful
Of women, who used to fold her arms across her
breast ard bid the prince off when inclined to be too
free. Then we have the drawing room ronps with
TIE processes pulling away the chairs from under the
princess of Deorsiue and she in turn ON under the
hing, who is made ridiculous in evey posture.
Through all Mr.. Thsckersy pictures Caroline moving
kind and sable but with enc cscrutabe attachment,
which be sole and absolute dominion her heart
She loved her children. but she would chop them TO
PIECES for him. When suffering from govt she used to
battle her feet in cold water at risk Of her fe TO walk
with him. ard accompanied him through Life with one
unbroken, uuselfsh, accompanying love- Why was
this? Who can unravel the inscrutabe mystery Of q
womaD's heart Few can forget the dreadful death
bed scene, as told by Herveys Memoiis-more dark
and hideous in its dreadful humor than the gloonlest
painting of Swit-more terrible in its satire than the
bhterest page of Fieldins-with Bishops hanging
around and amounting her, while her thought was
for that wretched little foul mouthed corporal who,
after kissing her and crying over her. went of to sin
yet more. But--as was remarked by Mr.. Thsckeray,
in period of beauty which we wish we could remeni
berthe state parson must bring out his common
places-his apparatus Of black hanging-and whether
the King be dead or alive, pronounce him good
" and gracious" as scoundrel kings have been pro-
nounced in England for the last three hundred yeas
II would hardly be credited il this country that Dr.
Young the celebl atsd author OF "Eight Thoughts"
absolutely bust into tears in the pulpit because the
defender Of the faith and dispenser Of bishoprics fell
aseep during of his long about the heavens
and stars and other things Of that class. What with
shoals Of cassocked hapes, ever hanging around the
bsck stairs Of the palace ready to fawn or bride them
selves into bhboprics and women intriguing and
courters bowpg down in solemn reverence before the
picture Of TIE King and the Queen sneering at her
lsdy.n waiting holding the basin to her on her knees
the very air was sick. "What contrast" said NJ
with manly emoti n, 50 does such court
. and such a queen present TO that in England now
" where reigns one who is at once the good mother,
the accomplished LADY, the enlightened friend Of art,
and tender sJmpathizer with the gOries ard gries of