New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-03-10
MR. THU Y,s tECTURES+

MIR THAClNERAX IL ECTURES+
Il Afr W. NJ. Tlackeray delivered the second Of his
series of lectures at the Odd Fellows Hall, on Satur
i day evening last The attendance was much larger
than on the previous night and, as then, comprised
the most intelligent and intellectual portion OF our
Il society.
Mr.. Thackeray was received with much applause
and taking his stand, said:
Il We may commence our remarks this evening aiter
Il the manner of a late English novelist: sometime,
towards the close of the til century, two horsemen
might be seen riding slowly forward. The foremost
was dressed in plain clothes and wore big boots. He
was a illy broad faced and good.ookng man bold
and skiul rider indeed, no fox-hunter could ride
more boldly He speedily. reached Richmond Lodge
and applied there for admission and was answered by
a lady, who said he could not see the masters he was
asleep as was his usual afterdnner custom. Never
theess the stranger opened the door and knelt down
in his jack-boots and horseman's apparel. A man
sprang up and demanded who he was and why he
was there He replies that his name is Robert Wal
poe and that he comes to announce the death of his
royal highness father, which had occurred at Osna-
i burg. 5'. "MM ga s~ -g1 -
"Dat is one great le, is the gentle and courteous
response roared out in reply but the thing is fact,
and the speaker is now George Second! Of that
4 monarch how he stormed and how he swore how
he drankand rioted; how he abused every one and
how he called every one thieves and liars is known
to all. Yetfor many years he was served with
l5sWerving integrity by this same Robert Walpole.
i But for Walpoles wisdom England would have had
Il war, German despotism and anarchy, instead of peace
and prosperity such as the country never knew since
that great man died Walpoe himself was in public
life and affairs great and sagacious; in private igno
rant-drinking3 and carousing- Judging meany of
every mans virtue and principle. Yet he defended
his country and protected religion he gave England
peace; and he supported and encouraged both agri
, culture and commerce.
1t was fortunate for England that the Georges were
no wiser, ambitious men than they were that
they sought no fame from war and battles The
troubles of the country commenced when the third
George began to seek for glory-a more fit to
govern State than his dull ancestry. At the time
when he to the throne everything backward
! and slow, and George Edward, the pretender, was
e just dying off:
Those curious in the learning of the last century
know concerning the court of Berlin. The father OF
Frederick the Great, rough cross prince kidnapped
men for soldiers from all quarters account of their
size, and was a sort of regal Jonathan Wild. George
was a little like both Frederick and Jonathan. He
was "a great ntimentaist-which he kept for his
queen and German friends; never becoming familiar
with the English. He did not love the fine arts
did he pretend to, and was much such a man in his
manners and tastes as his father was before him
He detected lies and fattery very quickly, but was
surrounded by liars and hatterels 1t was boon tc
him to be keen-sighted in this respect. What coulG
Walpole tell him concerning his court and courers
but that they were all venal? So he came to doubt
the existence of such thing as virtue in woman, OIL
: honor in man.
The electoral prince proved himself, under Marl
boro to be good and brave soldier In Flanders the
Preender James shew no courage but George, wher
offended with the King of Prussia challenged him tc
single combat-to a real, royal duel-which never
came off, though it is to be wished that it had as il
would have shown some amount of real blood. Al
= Dettngen the Kings horse ran away and came very
near carrying his royal rider into captivity. When he
returned he drew his sword and said, Now, know
that Ishall never away" Neither business nor
pleasures were ever allowed to disturb him at home
and he went about wearing the hat and coat he had
worn at Dettingen, and was everywhere cheered and
applauded- for honor and courage never go out of
fashion. (Applause9
In l705 he married good, kind, loving and tender
wife, who always loved him, as in his rough, course
way, he did her. She was a true woman in all re-
it spects, and gave up her religion although
customary for Prncesses then do 50 and take
that Of their husbands when they married. She re
fused to do it married George when he was an Elec
I'd oral Prince, and continued to love him. with all h
IS faults, to the end. When George went to visit home
w. in -----, a regular royal row occurred The prince
called his minister q id rascal" but cried whe1
they parted although he shed tears when Freder
Id lex, his heir died. He called his sons wife 'deyil
10 ish prince of France" She was very clever woman
had keen sense Of the humorous and ridiculous
wrote savage letters, and when driven out of the roya
residence, she and the prince set up for themselves
- Leicester House and Richmond where the poet Pope
5. Dean Swift and Bellinghaml-a the great men aut
pretty women Of the ACCUSED to so to do them hon
= or. On one occasion the prince pulled chair fron
under lady Deloraine, at one of these meetings anj
n she, in return, pulled his from under him. He is
lie queer fellow throughout his whole history even n
d. Dettingen, and Walpole describes him happy-fddes
s stories, plate and equpage glitter through his whole
career The coffin containing his remains was opened
ID not long since, and the contents looked horribly k
ID the monarch.
n Of all the people ofsthat time, have freouentl,
asked to have one pointed out whom I could rea]l,
l. like-but there is not one. There was bringing
;, Hoadey, dapper little Mr.. Pope from TwickerEam
r. with his Irish King and many Others Who of then
!, all can be really esteemed? Mr.. Pope, PERTAINS
might be respected but all the other portraits should
: be turned with their faces to the wall The Queen
too might be esteemed, but how singular is it, that
for such man as her royal husband she would give
If up everything! For him she would cut up all he,
children, inch by inch for him she would walk out
" though suffering from.rheumatic PAIN and compelled
to take cold water baths at the risk of her life. jr
ordert to do So What was there in the little kings
character to render him deserving of such love? VIZ
cannot see and yet his wife killed herself for it. AL
who have read herlite remember her expressed wisl
thather husband should not marry again There nevc
was such scene before nor since as when that heroic
loving woman lay there, dying with that brutal hus
q band near by. We cannot but laugh, however, ever
r at that, when contemplating his character Was.
h for such a man-oh, woman such brutal c oil
hearted, stunted, gross rascal that you made tn
sacrifice What picture of those times is pres ente
in this one! What strange idols do women axe t
+ themselves
The terrible verses of Pope about Bolinbr ike, al
true to history and the time when the Quee,a DYING
urged npon her husband to pray-pray-- and he
kissing her, went off to sin afresh. What a life his
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