New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-09-01

seouently alleged that he took this step ou' .,
resentment at his attainder. but Mr.. i"s'a'
shows that he really acted in tho premises peioie
he WIS attained The feeble, foolish, selhsn piih1''
whose so.called Secretary Of STATIC boiinspioA'
became. was incapable of measuring his V"n
chances. and against the advice OF ST. Jonh rusne'
into the futile Rising Of AS, and having re"peu
ruin therefrom, proceeded TO put the pIiine upon
those who had dissuaded him from the enter
prise. He dismissed Bolingbroke' VINO III 'ru''
yvas entirely out of his element at thao si"n ooui'
o,d amonc the needy and reckless Adventures
who surrounded the Prctender Inc AcV Vi oo,uo
mont was not 10 be upset by such means, and no
~. 10 so,, This soon enough. His next long
STRUGGLE was TO unseat Walpole by coaliuon
- m .1 diseatisHed clements, and for eleven
,,oors no fonoht a stubborn battle, only 10 DC
Jocoo,od ogain. with the new modification ADDED
80 dieooyerinq that those whom he had most
hofrionded Thought his alliance dangerous anu
disro,utoble the moment a prospect oil SUCCESS
annoared At last Walpole fell. but not 10 MAKE
room, for BolinRbrolSe's programme. mat was not
IN sncceed during his life, but when he had nasseu
away his patriot King was to arm ueorse 'ne
Third with the weapons whereby he fought par
lomentarv government so obstinateiy ana WIN ~
dangerous measure of success
Rolinrbrolke was not always CONSISTENT perihps
no politeian can be or ought to be required W pc'
He sought to adapt his policy to changes IN puoho
sentiment. Thus, whereas at one time ne WIS al
for strong parties, at another he was ior govern
mont bv coalition. But ii is to be observed tiaU
he never really abandoned his central prihcipie'
which was the reinforcement OF the royal power
=. clio ovnonse Of Parliament. Mr.. Ilassall says
il is obvious that Bolingbroke either wiiiulV or
pnconsciousv entirely mstoo the real character OF
tho Revolntion of 1683 That event TRANSFERRED
the centre of the governing power from tie mig
IN the House of Commons IL Is not cruioio
that Bolingbroke made any mistake mere, now
ever His whole career shows that ne WAS d ioiS
bv temperament much as cohVlcuoh' 'i'V ho
firmly believed in the desirabihty ana possipillty
of undoing the Revolution settlement; 'hat HIS
nurpose throughout was to brlng pach onr so'oi
ment of the StuartS, if not in the person Oh d
Smart prince at least in the DIG meuhouS' iIo"
ably too much importance has peeh aUu"cue" ~
~. oorro.nondence with the Jacobites while he
WAS in Annes Cabinet Mr.. liaS>ah Justly w
.or,.os that in those days all parties and In TACT
everybody who had any AMBITION coq"e''eu WIZ"
tho p,ctender. II was an era of extremely loose
noIitical ethics. Bribery, since the time oil the
S+uorts when if was favorite royal vice, had
Commonwealth interregnum. Bolingbroke him.
soIr Maid between fifty and sixty thousand dollars
70 the Duchess of Kendall, one Of the Kings
mjstresses to have his attainder removed "alpole
notoriously governed by the most venal methods
and so callous was the general conscience that tne
evposurc of his corruption went on for twenty
- ,,,itbout arousing any marked public In
dignaton.
If this age was corrupt, howeve' it was VIM
dictive and ferocious in its politics, ana the
.badov of the scalfold often Owe hung daring
projects Passion ran high, tn, Degnnlhes Oh
tbo nress were very intemperate and ministers
did NOT bo estate TO asSail one another ANONYMOUSLY
with their own press in fashion which would
a little later have been thought scandalous we
must not. therefore, judge Bolingbrolc by TOO
severe n standard, and yet the fact remains that
he was too much even for his contemporaries
among the Tories. His private life while de was
still young was prodigate TO such an extent lhat
his name was coupled with that OF Rochester
whom he aimed to succeed. In later life his
scepticism, which was not Deism, but rainier inc
crudp Atheism of Helvetius and La Methaic,
eliepated the sober-minded Tory country gentle
men. The truth IS that in many respects
BoIingbrol;e resembed Dsraeli, and particularly
in tbe difficulty he encountered in getting tho
landed interest to believe in him. Understand
him il never could. nor did it trust him far 1T
has been acutely said that he was more Italian
than English: in his subtle intellect, his retne-
mont his love of intrigue and combination. Ills
literary relations and productions Will always
possess interest though that of his work ms al
ready faded TO small proportions. Great Things
were said of his oratory, which must have bech
magnificent but which is beyond judgment, since
no speech of his has been handed down. lie WAS
the friend of Pope the nspircr of Noltaire, whose
anti-religious crusade Mr. John Morley considers
due 10 Bolingbrolles initiative. Thus two ideas
Of St John were carried forward into the french
Revolution and into the programme OF George
the Third who, thus inspired, sought to make
himself an unconstitutional ruler. We cannot In
deed perceive that the brilliant but cratic genius
Of the remarkable subject Of Mr., lIassallS mono
| graph ever led him to eXpend his energies IN
really useful patriotic and beniticent enterprises
, IL WAS not by accident that he chose his course,
| nor were the defeats which punctuated his career
| fortuitous lie arrayed himself in opposition 10
! The spirit of his gre: ne undertook to put the
ment which attends upon such experiments
! Mr. IIasSal's life is fun, clear, and III the main
fair and iudiciouS. lie, however, Is somewhat
| more than Just to Bonbrolc, who aSsuredly did
! not suffer innOcently, and who's; success must
| have been calamitOus at any stage OF hi career.
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