New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-01-08

les vorgoousy at,ircd than they Al night the hazard
tables were tkronged and the theater ~as h'a 10 's
roof Pine.ly banquets followed one another IN RAPID
uccession The m. ats were served in gold; and, &C
cordng TO that old Teutonc fashion WIN when Shakc
speare had made his coun,rymen familiar as often any
0f the great punces proposed beaitn ~,
and ,rumpets sounded. Some English lords, partlcu-
lery Deyonshire gave entertainments which wed with
those of ovsregs- IL remarked that The Herman
potentates though generally dispoeed to Dc MUCOUS
and punctilous about etiquette, associated, on TINS
oceastop In an uuceremoiOus manner, and seemed 10
tave forpetten their passion for genealogical and
heraldc controversy. The taste Tor "iH", which was
then characteristic Of their nation, they had not forgot
ten AT the table of the Eector OF Bran.snDurg much
ninth was caused by the gravity of the Statesmen
Il Holland who, sober Themselves, confuted out 81
,rtins and Pufiendor the nonsense suffered by the
tipsy mobiles of the Empire. One OF those mobiles
swallowed 20 many bumpers that BE- tnmped INTO we
turf fire. and was not Pul'd OUT VII Ms hno '''''' '
had been burned.
In bi.nreyious volumes Mr. Macaulay made
vehement attempt 10 blacken the fame OF William
p. nm. which has since, however, found able de-
tenders in various quarters. lie continues the
same work in these volumes with unrelentng AMI
mostly He calls in question his moral purity,
accuses him of scandalOus hypocrisy aud of direct
falsehood Indeed, his prejudice against Penn
seems to extend to the Quakers in general. With
an inter obtuseness 10 the noble ethical ideas
which were involved in that movement which led
George Fox TO make TO himself complete SUIT
of leather he regards him as mere vulgar
fanatic. who has less title TO sit tor his portrait
than to sit in the pillory.
While London was agitated by the news that plot
had been discovered George Fox the founder OF the
sect Of Quakers died.
More Than frty wears had elapsed since Fox had be-
oun 10 see ysi, Us and to east ont devils lie was then
youth of pure morals and grave department Win
uery,rse temper with the education OF atornS man,
and with an intellect in the most unhappy OF All STAKES
tLot il 70 saw too much dsoricred for liberty, and
not sufficiently disorlered for Bedlam. he circul-
stances ia which he was placed were such US coulu
scarcely fail TO bring out in the strongest form tne CON
stitut;onal disease Of his mind At the time when his
faculties were ripenng, Epscopalians, Presbyteran-,
Indept ndents Bapsists striving Tor mastery AMI
were in every corner of the realm, reiung ana revIpg
each other. He wandered from congregation To con-
preeaon, he heard priests harangue against Pultans;
lie heard Puritans harangue against priests and he IN
vain applied for spiritual direction and consolation TO
doctors of both parties One Jolly old clergy man oil
the Anglican communion tod MN 10 soAo 'oS% 49,
and sin usalms another advised him TO go ana lose
some blood The young inquirer turned IN disgust
from the Sc advisers TO the Dssenters, and found them
also blind guides. After some time he came 10 the
conclusion that no human beng was compe'ein 10 iu
ruct him in divine things and that the truth had oeeh
communicated TO him by direct inspiration from heaven:
He argued Nat as the division of languages began AT
Babel and as the prosecutors OF Christ put ON the cross
an inscription i'll Latin, Greek ana iieDreT, tc Hno"
ode of languages and more especially of Latin Greek
and Uebr,w must be useless to Christian MINISTER
Indeed h. was so far from knowing many languages
that he knew none; nor can the most corruP' pass
ace in Hebrew be more unlntelispie 10 'he un
learned than bis English often IL to the most acute ana
attentive reader One ofthe precious truths when were
dyiney revealed 20 this new apostle was that II was
fasehood and aduation to use the second person plural
instead ofthe second person singular. AotneI mo-
~ - rob wa n
tI;rstv god Mars and that to talk OF Monday was 10
nav idoiatrous homage to the moon. 10 say Go0o
morning or Good evening was highly reprehenSiole,
for those phrases evidently imported thdt NOd hdd
made had DAYS and bad nights A Christian was
bonnd To face death itself rather than touch his bat to
the greatest of mankind When Fox was challenged
TO produce any Scrptul authority tor tels dogma, ne
ted the massage in which II IL written that Shadracb,
Neshech and AbednegO were thrown into the merry
furnace with their hats on; and II his own narrative
nav be trusted, the ChiefJustce OF England was
altogether unable to answer tins argument 'AcePt ny
ewing out "Take him away, Jahor. FOX INSISTED
much ON the not less wcghty argument that the turks
meyer show their bare heads to their supenos and he
asked, with great animation, whether those VINO bore
the noble name. of Christians ought not 10 surpaSs
Turks in virtue. Bowling he strictly prohibited,
and indeed. seemed to consider IT a. the effect OF
Satanical influence; for, as he observed the
woman in the Gospel, while she had a
spirit Of infrInity, was bowed together, ana
ceased 10 bow as soon Divine power had liberated
her fom the tyranny of the Evil One. His expositlons
ne the sacred writings of very peculiar KIND:
Passages which had BEEN in the apprehension oil al
the readers of the Gospels during sixteen centuries
fquratiye he construed literally Passages, which no
human being before him had ever understood in any
other than literal sense, he construed fguratlVey
THUS from those rhetorical expressions IN whch Tue
duty of patience under injuries Is enIoned, ne
d,duced the doctrine that selt-dCfense against p
rates and assassirs n unlawful. On the other hand,
the plain commands to baptze with water, ana 10
partake of bread and Wi in connemorat'on Oh the
redtmption of mankind, he pronounced 10 DE ahe-
gorica. He long wandered from pace 10 pace'
teaching this strange theology shaking IKE an aspen
eafn bis paroxyss offanacal excitement, forcing MS
way into churches which he nicknamed seepe houses
ntenuptipg prayers aud sermons with clamor ana
scunihy and peiteng ectors ana Mn t dRde,
in which the Hebrew prophets toretold the ca,anltes
of Babylon and Tyre. lille soon acquired great
notorety by these feats His strange face his strange
chant Gis immovabe hat and his leather Dreeches
ere yyn ain over the country and he boasts that,
"a soon AZ the rnor heard, The Man IN Leather
Brecches is coming" terror seized hypocriueai pro
fessors and hireng priests made haste 10 gei OUT oi
ia wav He was repeatedly imprisoned and set III
tro s,ccks sometimes Justly for disturbing the public
worship of congregations, and sometimes guty, ior
merely talking nonsense. He soon gathered rouh1
him a body of disciples, some OF whom went peyVnn
himself in absurdity He has told us that one Oh hi'
friends walked naked through Skipton declaring the
,u,h and that another was diyiney moved naked
dining several years maketpaces and TO the houses
of gentlemen and clergymen. Fox complains bitterly
that these pous acts, prompted BY the h9y spirit
were reuited bv an untowald generation WIN hoetng
peltiag coachwipping and horsewhipping. But,
though he applaudfd the zeal of the sufferers be did
not 90 quite to their lengths: He Sometimes indeed
was impelled to strip elfpartelly Thus he pulled
"a his shoes aud walked barefoot through Llchied,
ewing. Woe to the bloody city, But it does not
appear that he ever thought it his duty to appear
h. lore the public without that decent garment from
which lis popular sppelatiOn was derived.
We will make no comments On the above carl
cature of piols soul, an order of character which