Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1860-07-14
NUMBER 1S.
From the London chronicle.l
MACAULAY's COMPANIONS.


Baron Macauay now lies entombed close at
the foot Of Wcstmacott's statue Of Addison.
whom he once so happily described rs the
unsuliicd statesman, the accomplished scholar,
the master of pure English clOquence, the
consummate painter Of life and manners, and
"thc great ,atiAist who alone knew how to use
iidcule without abusing il; who, without in.
ilicting ~ wound, effected n great social re-
form and who rcconciled Wit and Virtue
after u long and disastrous separation, during
which Wit had been led astray by Profligacy,
aud Virtue by FanaticisIn." The remains Of
Addison, however, nre at some distance from
the spot on which the monument stands
they are in Henry the Scvcnth's chapel and
it was not until three generations had laughed
and wcpt over his pages that any tablet was
raised TO his memory in tho Abbey. Ma
caulay said Of the statute which now keeps
Match oYer the ncMly. closed grave: - II rep.
rcsentS Addison as we Gun conceive him,
clad in his dressing gown and freed from his
wig stepping from the parlor at Chelsea into
his trim little garden, with the account OF tho
Everlasting Club or the loves Of Hilpa and
ShaluIn, Just finished for the next days Spec.
fdfoy, in his hand" Ihickly strewn near the
grave Of Macaulay are the relics of men whose
names are still held in reverence, and whose
works adofh tic literature Of our country.
As poet, not less than IL brilliant essayist,
Macau'ay has earned place among the great
men of the lnst and present. and in death the
author Of 1.-The Lays Of Ancient Rome" and
the ballad on "rhc Spanish Armadn, will
face Thomas Campbell, who won poets fame
by "The Pleasures of Hope" few feet
from the grave Of the cnnoblcd poet Of the
nineteenth century stands the fine old piece
.,r 18Th L. ot
place OF Chaucer, 1.-THE father Of English
poetry" Just opposite to the tomb Of Chau-
Ger, 1.-THE day Stare" OF English poetry, Is
HE monument Of j" FaeEie Spensern sun.
rise Of our poetry-who died, as Ben Jon.
son tells, Tor lack OF bread, refusing the
twenty pieces sent him by my Lord Of Essex,
as he was sorry lie had no time to spend
them" Partly obliteratcd by the hand Of
lime the lnu4h- of SpGnSer- bears the inScrip.
ton, Here lies the body of Edmund Spen-
ser, the prince Of poets in his time, whose d.
vine spirit needs no other witness than the
works which he left behind him." Beaumont,
the dramatist, sleeps there, too, but no memo
rial or inscription marks his resting place; 1t
is, however, Immediately behind Chaucer's
tomb a marble much dcfaccd, erected by
the Countess. Of Dorset, BEARS in very illegible
characters, an inscription written by Ben
Johnson for the tomb Of Drayton. Still near
cr Mncauay's grave there is the small pave
mcnt stone with the inscription, 90 rare Ben
JonSon," which Aubrey tells us was done at
1.-THE charge of Jack Young, who, walking
there when the grave was covering, gave the
fellow eighteen pence to cut it" At the re-
cent re'laying Of the pavement Of the abbey
the original stone was removed and DESTROYED.
a few feet diStantis the monument Of Cowley,
raised by George, Duke of Buckingham. A
monument raised by Sheffield Duke of Buck
ingham, marks the grave Of Dryden, "glori-
GUS John," who was followed to his resting
place by mourncrs in some twenty mourning
coaches, drawn by six horses, and Of whose
requiem an ode Of Horace was sung, with an
accompaniment Of trumpets and hautboys.
The only titled poet that sleeps in this part of
the abbey is the Earl of Roscommon," the
famous master of the horse to the Duchess of
York at the Restoration Another companion
Of Macaulay is Nicholas Rowe There are
also Matthew Pryor and John Gay, and he
whose tomb bore the inscription, in imitation
of that of Jonson, "Oh, rare Sir William
Daycnant;' and Samuel johnson, David Gar
rick aud Richard Brinslcy Sheridan, and Cam.
den, the father of English history; May, tho
historian of the long parliament; Clifford, the
editor of the Quarterly Rerieac DIR. Parr,
and numerous others. At the opposite, or
north end Of the tranScpt, there towers above
other memorable graves the stately monument
of Chatham, Of whom Macaulay wrote, and
the words are now applicable to himself
" Among the eminent men whose bones lic
near him, scarcely one has left more stain
less, aud none more splendid name"