Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-07-11
A sLAsmING REVIEW.
pIAoKwoop 81 NAoAuIAY.


a history of Europe, from the outbreak ofaths.E
French Revolution down to the peace of 1873. !
We spbjoin specimen Of the way in which
the article opens:
Ihe exgeQan6iSsEqnd hs defects Of Lord Ma
capaY, rs an historian arise from the same cause.
He lives among those whose portraits he paints.
His'charaoters arc not cold distinctions slim
lIIGRGd up froin2tlIs past tolrc6eive ludgmenttor
deeds donein the flesh; they 7aresliving and
women, beings To- bs loYet, feared or de-
Spised, e:witna the sfgrvency which belongs to
Lord Macauay's character. Hence the charm
of!his writings, HENCE. alsQ,F their YoTthI-
ness. The attention of the reader is excited,
his IintefeS5tiss kept awake, Ehts passions are
aroused, he devOurs rpage,after page and volume
afcrsVolutne, with All appetite isimlarstO4 that
which" attends upon the, perisai of the most
stirring fiction; he closes the book with regret,
and then and not ill then, coiiIes the feiieetion
that he has bee listening to the impassioned
haranguc of the advocate, MOTTO thechirn SOM
ming up of the Judge. Itwould be we'll if this
were tho worst Wv arc Eel4ct dGtly conyipcg1
that LORD Macaul9y y not TQp ired9 gently EXCEEDS
even the privileges of the advocate; thdt when
he arraignS a culPtit at the tar Of public opiH
ion, and showers. down upon hin that terrible
invectiye dr which he is So accomplished a mas:
ter, evidence sometimes meets Mitha treatment
at his hands from (which the most unScrupulous
practitioner at the Old Bailey would ishrnk;no
onlNWarea documents Suppressed or garbled,
dates transposed, half sentences read as whole
ones, witnesses of the most Infamous character:
pafaded as pure and nnimpeachable but tho very
cutters Of Grub street and st. Giles are ralSed
for anonymous filth Of the fouleSt description to!
cast on the unhappy object Of the wrath of the
| historian q z7a -''ta 1ia.L Of as9s ~
tits often difficult, and Sometimes impossible,
to divine what particular qualities will arouse.
this anitnoSitY. The virtues which receive, the
tribute Of admiration and respectstwhen they!
exist in this man. appear to excite nothing but
Icontcmpt when they 1re found in that; the ,yi-i
ces which are venial. transgressons ich0rgcableI
rather ON the ageL than on the individuatin.
one character, arc foul and indcllible <blots on
Eanotheral ssar7.e us,ssgsr4 sats.-i as5f
James and William were alike unfaithful 10
their wives. Lord Macaulay records the SFhigh-
lily criminal passion of james for Arabela.
Churchill and for ,Gatharine Sedlcy, speeripg
EdohtemptuouSly Attic plain features Of the dhe, !
and the lean.forrn and lIaggGrJ c6urdenance of
the other, but forgetting the charms recorded
lin the memories Of Grammont as those to which
the former owed her power; and while admitting
the talents which the latter inherited from her
father, denying any capacity in the king TO APP
Eprecdte them. WILLIAMS On the other hand
Inarried to young, beautiful, and faithful wife,
to whose devotion he owed a crown, in return
for WHICH sh6 oqlN asked the affection which he
had withheld for years, maintained during the
whole of his married life, an Illicit connection
with Elizabeth Yillicrs (@ho Sdunted ahomina-
bly) upon whom he settled an estate Of 225, 900
n year1making her bFothcr;a peer, and iDtrodu-
cling his wife to the confidence of the queen;
and Lord Mdcaulay passes it over as the COM
m6rce- Of superior minaS! In james, conjdgal
inlidelity is coarse and degrading vice; in
William, ii is an intellectual INDULGENCE, ardly
nef;tut' Tht0aifs p6GpllE;FpAeplS9 In iks man:
under the mask Of n regard for the rights of
conscience, ejuStly and unsparingly denonn7
tGcd, while the ambition which urged William,
by. the cruel means of domestic unkindncSS to
fix his grasp proSpectively on the crown of Eng
land, long before any necessity for such an inva-
sion of the Constitution had arisen is wise fore
FSlght regard for religious freedom the interests
of Professionalism, and The attainment Of tho
great object of his fc-curbng the eXot bitant
power of France i.8. ts.g..
b I4ordsAIacauIay's wel-known WhEisln some.
times affords clue to his historical prcdilec
tons 1t is easy to understand why he should
take pleasure in perpetuating, in the most cxag
gcratcd form of hostile tradition every story
that can tarnish itGez gdllantry and fidelity Of
jDundee, and intrepeating, after reiterated, coz
iutation, every groundless SANDER upon Penn
I, But this is not always a safe, guide, In one
instance, and that the most remarkable or all !
! the case Is the very reverse. BY strange ca.
price the man whom Lord Macaulay especially
! delights to dishonor,A is the very one whose
genius shed most honor on the Wing party.
PGIIlitllS ,lltIl any Ottler
to pace William upon the thfone r6utifor whom
the landing at Torbay might not itnprobablv
have been followed bysa similar result TO- that at
Lyme, and whose imHerishable. glory a glory
which has made his5n1tne second only, if.inrleetl
F.! 1t be second, to that OF Wellington in the annals
of England) is derived fromlhis long and sue
cesstul contest with that power, to curb which
William had devotcdze every energy of his mind
The whole sgtielesisIa slashing z;.blp=and
knowing one, aud we would advise such OF our
i,readerSus have access>to BldcRad0oa 70 read lit,
faltirough wcawould not, zbyoany means, be sun-
derstood as saying tiat we endorse the Views of
the writers We, think that all histories. should
be taken with many grains of allowance. i we
rec0lIect of hearing a deeply read writer once
observe, that he had very little confidence in
history outside of chronology, and had many
doubts even concernipglth that The remark has
often, occurred toius snco.as9. being "a very legit
innate conviction fora man to come to, especial
ly as regards the history running back of the
18th century. s-i.@F szssn-
EIcresy In the North west
Extract from Editorial III the Richmond Whis1
~ ~ z. 81 .