Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-04-24
Macaulay's Companions in the Tomb.

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Baron Macaulay, says the London Post, now
lies close at the foot OF Westmacotts statue o
Addison, whom be once so happily described as
the unsullied statesman, the accomplished schoi-
ar, the master of pure English eioqnence, the
consummate painter of life and manners, and
1.-THE great satirist, who alone knew how to
use ridicule without abusing it.; who, without
inficting wound, effecIed q great social reform
and who reconciled wit and virtue, after long
and disastrous separation, during which wit mad
been led astray by prohIgacy and virtue by IA
! naticsm." The remains of Addison, however,
are at some distance from the spot on which the
monument stands-they are in the chapel OF
Henry VII, and it was not until three genera
! tions had laughed and Wept over his pages that
any tablet was raised to his memory 10 the All
bey. Macaulay said of the statue which now
keeps watch over the nssa ay closed grave:
ut represents Addison as we can conceive
him, clad in his dressing gown, and freed from
his wig, stepping from. his parlor at Chelsea in
to his, trim little garden, with the account of the
Everlasting Club, or the Loves of Hilpa and
Shalum, just finished for the next days Specta-
tor, in his hand"
Thickly strewn near the grave of Macaulay
are the relics of men whose names are still held
in reverence and whose works adorn the liter
ature OF our country. As poet, not less than
brilliant essayist, Macaulay has earned place
among the great men OF the past and preseIt t,
and In death the author of the Lays of Ancient
Rome, and the ballad on the Spanish Armada,
will face Thomas Campbell, who won a poets
fame by the Pleasures of Hope A few feet from
the grave of the ennobled poet of the nineteenth
century, stands the fine old piece Of Gothic sculp.
ture which marks the resting place of Ohaucer
father OF English poetry.
just opposite to the tomb of CHANGER, sthe
day Stare" English poetry, is the monument to
"Fairie Spenser," the sunrise of our poetry, who
died, as Ben Jonson tells, 'for lack of bread,
refusing the twenty pieces sent him by my Lord
Of Essex, as be was sorry he had no time to
spend them" Fairly obliterated by the hand of
Time, the tomb OF Spenser bears the inscription,
"Here lies the body of Edmund Spenser, the
prince Of poets in his time, whose divine spirit
needs no other witness than the works which he
has LETT behind him." Beaumont, the dralnatist,
sleeps here, too, but no memorial or inscription
marks his Resting place; it is, however, iInme-
datey behind Chauser's tomb. A marble, much
detaced, erected by the Countess of Dorset, bears
IN very illegibie Characters an Inscription writ
ten by Ben. Jonson tor the tomb of Drayton-
SJill nearer Macaulay's grave there is the small
pavement stone with the inscription 20 rare
Ben Jonson." which Aubrey tells us was done Al
the charge OF Jack Young, who. walking there
when the grave was covering, gave the fellow
eighteen pence to cut it. At the recent relay-
ing OF the pavement of the Abbey the original
stone was removed and destroyed. few feet
distant is the monument Of Cowley, raised by
George, Duke Of Buckingham. A monument
raised by Sheffield, Duke Of Buckingham, marks
the grave Of Dryden. GLORIOUS John" who
was followed to his resting place by mourners in
twenty mourning coaches, each drawn by six
tIOrses, and at whose requiem an ode of Horace
was sung, with an accompaniment Of trumpets
and hautboys.
| The only titled poet that sleep in this part OF
the Abbey is the Earl OF Roscommon, the ia
| nous master OF the horse to the Duchess Of York
al the Restoration. Another companion of Ma
caulay is Nicholas Rowe. There are also
Matthew Prior and John Gay, and he whose
tomb bore the incription, in imitation of that oi
Jonson, "Ol rare Sir William Davenant," and
Samnel johnson. David Garrick and Richard
Brinesy Sheridan, and Camden, the father Of
English history: May, the historian of the long
Parliament; Clifford, the editor of the Tory
| Qoarterley Review, DR.. Parr, and numerous
| others. At the opposite or north end of the
| transept, there towers above other memorable
graves the stately monument of Chatham, oi
whom Macaulay wrote, and the words are now
not less applicable tu himself, "Among the emf
nent men whose bones lie near him, scarcely one
has left q more stainless, and none q more splen-
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