The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-12
TODAY IN HISTORY
Death Of the Brilliant BoIInebroke.
MONDAY. DECEMBER II

Death Of the Brilliant sol'neoroke. IL
Whatever else may be thoueht OF sur sur
anout the Viscount Bolngbrokc. VINO sue
ooaSn6 Pobert Harley, carl OF Oxford, as
nrjne minister of England, he was un :
doubtedly the first writer and one OF 'le te
greatest men OF his age. s~itt. S'ow -
end or acknowledge merit In any man
ron sidered himself exalted in 'auuiiS Ht'
John, and Pope hardly stops short oil pa
ing him divine honors. spence says ~ ~
his Anecdotes: II really LINK nn ,vhicb vii
looks as II he were placed here by mis-
take When the comet appeared 10 US d
month or two ago, | had sometimes an
ina sination that ii might possibly come
~ cur world TO carry him home, as
coach comes TO ones door Tor oihef
visitors. 90 ,-.,
Bolinebroke died on December -. lIoi:
and q hiographer saws: when the day
OF darkness fell on the proud philosopher
the sophistry to which he trusted proved
Indeed a broken reed He was oveTcoine ne
with terrors and excessive passion IN ms
last illness. After one OF ms MS OF pas
sIon he was overheard by Sir Henry
Mildmay, complaining 10 himself. and
saying; What will my poor soul undergo
for all these things2
never was a time when the conduct OF
public men was actuated by motives so
paltry as in the reign OF Queen Anne:
Among the majority OF the statesmen % OF
that period vain search is made for
consistent adherence TO principle.
Robert Harley. earl of Oxford. rose &c
power through intrigue alone, and by
employing his relative. Mrs. Mashan, tne
favor,e OF Queen Anne. succeeded In
undermining his former friends and a5so-
ciates and In lifting himself into supreme
control on the ruins OF their fortunes. ltlS
associate and successor Henry st John,
emulated his example and; by unser9Pu-
Mashan and turned her influence against
her relative. Harley.
OF the two men. st. John was by far
the more brilliant. His mother. a daugh-
ter OF the earl OF warwick, conducted h.s
education on strict Purl,anical principles,
but his after life was distinguished oy
reckless misconduct After leaving Ok
| ford university he Travelled married we'll.
and was induced 10 take his fathers scat
in parliament. He became secretary OF
war. with Harley as secretary OF state
Harleys intrigues caused his own dis
.nissnl and st, John retired with him.
When Harley returned TO power as
| chancellor OF the exchequer. st. John
Annes health was uncertain, and the po-
| litical problem OF Harley. st John and
| their associates was how 10 so provide for
] the succession 10 the throne that their
| cause of the house OF Hanover, would
| reap no advantage from IT.
To St John was committed the in
| trigues which involved, among other
| things secret negotiations with the OK
| fled house Of Stuart.
! The Wings were Identified with the
war that prevailed. and people were tired
of war St. John accordingly employed
every kind OF double dealing to bring
about peace and the result was the
| treaty OF Utrecht
This secured the Protestant succession
In England. the separs ton of the French
and Spanish crowns, destruction OF the
works at Dunkirk. enlargement OF the