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Baron Mscaulay, says the London Post,
now lies close at the foot of Westmacott's
statue Of Addison, whom he once so hap.
PLY described as the unsullied statesman,
the accomplished scholar, the master ofpuro
English eloqueuce, the consummate painter
OF life and mauners, and the great satiristt
who alone knew who to use rdicule with.
out abusing it; who without infiictine a
wound, effected a great social reform; and
who reconciled wit and virtue, after long
and disastrous separation, during which wit
had been led astray by profligacy, andsvir-
tue by fanaticism.' The remains Of Addi.
son, however. are at some distance from the
spot on which the monument siane,-they
are in the chapel Of Henry VII, and sit was;
not until three generations had laughed and
went over his pages that any tablet MAS
raised to his memory in the. Abbey. Ma.
.caulay said Of the statue which now s-keeps
watch oysf the newly closed gravs. 20 Z: ~ 8
1T represents Addition, as NE can con-,
ceire him, clad in bis dressing gown, and
freed from bis wig, stepping from the parlor
at Chelsea into his trim little gar Zen, With
the account Of the Everlasting Club, Of the
loves of Hilpa and shalum just finished for
the next days Spectator in his hand
Thickly strewn :uearsthe grave of Ma:
caulay are tho relics Of men whose names
are still held in reverence and whose works
adorn the literature Of ourcouutry. A. a
poet not less than :. brilliant essayist, Ma.
ceulay has earned q place among the great
men of thepast andspresent, and in death
the author Of the Lays Of Ancient Rome,
and the bslladsson' the Spanish Armada,
will face Thomas Campbell, who VIC won, a
poets fame by the Pleasures Of Hops.-A
few feet from the grave ofthe enpobied poet
OF the nineteenth century, stands the fiue
old piece Of Gothic 'sculpture,wkich marks
the resting place Of Chaucer-father of Eng
lish poetry:
Just opposite to the tomb of Chaucer, the
day starre' of English poetry, is the. mon
unent Of .Eairie spenser,' the sunrise of our.
poetry, whoFdied, 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, Herets lies
the body Of Edmund spenser, the prince Of
poets Of bis time, whose divinesspirit needs
no other witness than the words which he
has LEFT behind him. Beaumont, the drama.
tist, sleeps here, toos but no memorial or in
'cription marks bis resting place; It is, how.
ever, Immediately behind Cbaucers tomb.
A marble, much defaced, erected by the
Countess Of Dorset, bears in very ,iilsgible,
charactarsy yans inscription written by Ben
JonsoRtoftbs tomb Of Drayton. s,illnears,
rer Macaulaysasgrave there is the small
pavement,stone with the inscription, % rare
Ben Jonson,' which Aubrey tells US was
done at the charge of Jack. Young, who
walking there when thegrave was covering
gave the fellow ls pence to cut it. At the
srecsntrelaying Of thepayement ofthe Abbey
tue original stone was removed and des,.
troyed. A few feet distant is the monu.;
ment of Cowley raised BY George, Duke of
Buckingham. A monumentraised BY shef.s
field, Duke of Buckingham, marks the,
sgravepf Dsydep, Glorious Jebn,. who was
tsliowsd 70 lis resting place by nnourusr.'
jntwenty mourning coache each .ara~n BY
six hosass, and asswhose requiem an ode Of
Horace wss-suug with an; accompanies. of,
tsumpess and bau.boys.
i ThesohIy titled poet that, sleeps in this
part Of the Abbey il the Earl Of Roscom.
mon, the famous master OF tbesbo1r,se u the
Duchess of q sYorksatthe Rastor.sion.s An.
'o.ber companion Macauiaysis Nichola.
Rowe. There are also Matthew Prior and
John Gay, and. .he whose tofib Bore the in.
scription, 10 imitation of thatsof Jonson. %
rare Sir William Dayenaut = and Samuel
Jobnsoo, David Garriek and Richard B,in
sey Sheridan; ahd Camden, the father Of.
English history May ihs Historian Of the
long Parliament Giaonds iBss editor of. The
Tory ousftsIly Rssisss; IN Pau, aud "a ,us i 4
Issfoussc.ben ihs. oppusi,sSE fiortt,
end of the .trapsept BE { towers 81 3 ssbo7ass
iothsxa memorable sgEssss the statelS4mosd-
ny - - ter-s t,t- =