Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1856-12-26
ON THE REIGN OF ENG
GEORGE III.

Last night Mr.. Thacksray delivered the third lee.
ture 10 the Music Hall to crowded audience. The
reign of the Third George was his subject, and he in
troduced 1t by observing that, in the long period "i
sixty years over which this reign extended "Engand
had to undergo the revolt of the American colonies;
10 submit 10 defeat to shake under tbs volcano OF the
French revolution; to grnpplu aud fight for the life,
with her gigantic enemy Sapoleoni to gasp ana rally
after that tremendous struggled the old suce'y, with
his courtly spendoys had to pass away; generations
Of statesmen TO rise aud disappear; Pitt 10 follow
Chatham TO the tomb; the memory OF Rodney and
Wolf TO be succeeded by Nelson Gnd Wellington :
,!ory the old poets who unite Us TO Queen Anne )
time sink into their graves johnson 10 di5 ami Scot!
and Byron to arise Garrick 10 delight the world with
bis dazzling dramatic genius, and kean 10 leap on
t!. stage ard tas possession Of tho astonsed hes-
ire. Steam has to be inveDte1, kings 70 be beeaded,
deposed restored Napoleon TO BE- bu: an episode sn'
Georges the Third is &c he alive through all hese va
ried changes to accompany the people through those
revolutions nf thought, government, society, Gnd sur
yIvs ont of the Old world into ours. When hrst saw
England she was in mourning for the young Frlnccs'
Charlottesville hope OF the empire. l came from In
dia as Child and our ship touched az sn STAND GA
the way home, where my black servant took m.
walk over rocks ana hills I'LL we passed garden
where we saw a mau walking. That is be- ssd The
black man that is Bonapare; he eats three sheep
every day, aud all the children on whom he can lay
hands. There were people in the British d9u'inions
besides that poor black who bad and hur'
rOr of the Corscau Ogre.
It's from the correspondence addressed TO George
Selwyn that the fullest and most intimate a'quant
snce with the manners of The time OF tue Third
George j. TO be derived. Selwyn was fne gen.
tc:aau, and witt but there mr.: have been some
thing really attractive about him that made him TIE
correspondent; and con6dan Of 30 many men ri suoh
opposite characters. His letters had not tho hhects
ton of Waipuise and were not so terrible II their
revelations "a Harvey's Memoirs; they were more
natural than "Horaces dandi6ed bic Sporus ma
Lyman, whisper" The "fue gentleman who was
upceasiug gin presented IN them, with more than
hundred of whom We might sill mske acquaintance
through George Sslwyn, is alinos: vanished Oh me
face of he earth. We have rot now children whI
stand ID reveren,ial awe of their parents aud &c
down their knees To beg their blessing, servants
who are saying your honor" aud '.your worship 8
every word, or chaplans who ,sy grace. and retir,
with the pudding. We cannot now fancy Mr.. PIT
Under Secretary not darog 10 stand i'll the prssenc'
OF hi. superior, or the same Dir. Pitt, as Earl o
Chatham, kneeling before the King while transact
ing business with him, and bursting into tears be
cause his Mejesty deignsd 10 be kind. Fancy Lof'
| John Russell or Lord Palmerstou OH their knee
white their sovereign is reading dispatch, bei::
ning 10 cry because Prince Albert has sait some
| thing civil. These letters make US see Charles th
curshg over the cards. Lord Mach calling the ODD
at Newmarket, Burgoyne gaily tripping oil from 81
James to conquer America, and .neaking back some
what absshed without having accomplished tbs
business, the Prince OF Wales stepping into q cla
and hurriediy asking thousand questions abou
other peoples affairs. From these letters he drer
The portrait Of Dr.. Warner, a chaplain, who COZ
fssssd that he did not believe in his religion, br
thanked Heaven hs was not 20 bad as q lawyer wh
1 talked Of having como home from "a hard day
chHsteulng'-a bosteroUs parasite, who revellsd