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Commons were proceeding in defiance of all law, on a plea of political expediency; why was not Clarendon to adopt what everybody urged upon him as a measure of political expediency?—to say nothing of the significant hint conveyed in the adoption by the House of Commons of the forms by which Strafford had been murdered. When Seymour appeared with the impeachment at the bar of the Lords, it was found, says Mr. Lister, (after Gray,) that he had, by mistake, carried up the impeachment of Strafford, a copy of which had been lying on the Commons' table as a precedent. We see reason to doubt the fact; but if it was so, such a mistake would have looked very like a menace.

We have now finished our dry and tedious, but, we trust, not unprofitable task, of examining all the cases in which the credit or character of Lord Clarendon have been directly impugned in Mr. Lister's work, omitting an important class in which they are, as we think, imperfectly vindicated. This peculiar object has necessarily made our discussion a series of minute controversies; and the injurious epithets and hostile spirit with which Mr. Lister has assailed characters which we revere, and principles which we approve, may have occasionally given something too much of sharpness to our replies; but these differences cannot prevent our admitting, that, numerous and important as Mr. Lister's errors, both in fact and in taste, undoubtedly are, his work is not altogether without merit: the narrative portion, indeed, is infinitely better than the discussions and investigations' on which he seems to pride himself, and which have afforded the chief objects of our criticism.

If, in a second edition-which, with this view, we hope the work may reach-Mr. Lister could be persuaded to reconsider the evidence on which he has made so many, as we think, unfounded charges-if he would judge for himself the characters of men, with reference to their political constitution and the state of society in their day, with a candour and charity which we believe to be congenial to his own nature-if he would exert as much diligence and ingenuity in explaining the real, as he has thrown away in making fictitious, difficulties-and if, above all, he could screw his courage to the sticking place,' and speak of Lord Clarendon independently and unreservedly as he feels-if, we say, Mr. Lister could be persuaded to make such revision and amendents-his work might be accepted as a useful compilation of all that is known, or, we fear, knowable, of Lord Clarendon, and, so far, a valuable addition to our historical literature. The last chapters of the work, in which Mr. Lister sums up and balances Lord Clarendon's defects and merits as a statesman and as an author, are candid and judicious, conceived with judgment,

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and written with taste, and have left on our mind an impression both of Lord Clarendon and Mr. Lister very different, indeed, from the unsatisfactory and even painful sensations which the sour, captious, disingenuous, and deprecatory spirit of the former pages must, we think, have excited in every reader.

We have not on this occasion taken any general view of Lord Clarendon's life; for Mr. Lister's book, unfortunately, adds little to what is already to be found in a more condensed form in all the biographies; nor any general observations on his character, which has been too long a rich and valued public property to require any illustration from us, beyond the humble duty of defending it from recent aggression; but we should not do justice to our feelings, if we did not solemnly declare that this, like every other examination which we have had occasion to make, has confirmed and increased our respect and admiration for one-considering his combination of qualities of the most illustrious names in British history:-a writer original and unrivalled in his style-an admired orator-a respected judge-an upright minister-who, in the most difficult and vicissitudinous times and circumstances, maintained the innate dignity of his character, and was at once a true patriot, a faithful subject, and an honest man. That such a character should have had enemies, persecutors, and slanderers, can only surprise him

' qui nesciret in armis Quam magnum VIRTUS crimen civilibus esset.'

INDEX.

INDEX

TO THE

SIXTY-SECOND VOLUME OF THE QUARTERLY REVIEW.

Art and Artists in England, by G. F.
Waagen, 131-object of the author's
visit, 133 his reception, ib.
limited number of judges of the
works of the Italian masters, 134-
difficulty of detecting the deviations
of the copyist, or tricks of the restorer,
ib.-the Orleans Raphael, ib.-pro-
cess of acquisition, on the part of
sovereigns and private individuals, in
England, 135-leading features of
our provincial collections, ib.-Pan-
shanger, 136-loss of the Houghton
collection, ib.-influx of works of art
into England, in consequence of the
French revolution, 137-the Barbe-
rini faun, ib.-Elgin marbles, 138
-British Institution, 139-National
Gallery, 140-Sir Joshua Reynolds,
ib-West, 141-Sir David Wilkie,
142-his portraits, 143 Turner,
144-Stanfield, Calcott, and Land-
seer, ib.-Leslie, William Allan, Mar-
tin, 145-Maclise, Etty, Collins, East-
lake, ib.-Somerset House exhibition
of 1836, ib.-low ebb of historical
painting in England, ib.--the per-
fection of the great masters attained
by the study of nature, 148-inferiority
of our best works to those of the
Dutch school, 151-hackneyed cry
of want of encouragement refuted,
ib-the Royal Academy, 152-its
efficacy for good or evil much ex-
aggerated, ib.-Sir Thomas Law-
rence, 153-David, ib.-Le Thierre's

Judgment of Brutus, 154-Paul De-
laroche, ib.-Horace Vernet, ib.-ma-
rine painting, ib.-Stanfield, ib.-Gu-
din, ib.-progress of the French school,
ib.-water-colour, ib.-Fielding-Cat-
termole, 155 - Bonnington - Liver-
sage-Dewint, ib.-modern schools of
Germany, ib.-Thorwaldsen, 157-Ca-
nova, ib.-general soundness and good
sense of M. Waagen's criticisms, ib.-
his visit to the cartoons at Hampton
Court, 159-his criticism on Rubini,
ih.-Haydon's essay on the fine arts,
160-his Judgment of Solomon, ib.-
Wordsworth's sonnet on Bonaparte
at St. Helena, ib.
Atlantic Steam Navigation, 186-pro
gress of our means of transportation
within the last twenty years, ib.-re-
volutions introduced by the use of
steam, 187-first arrival of the Sirius
and Great Western at New York, 189
-extraordinary sensation thereby ex-
cited, 191-extent of our exports to
America, ib.-and of the imports of
cotton, ib.-increasing interest of our
ship-owners in the American trade,
192-movements at Philadelphia, 197
-some of the obvious consequences of
this great achievement, 200.
Ayala, Ignacio Lopez de, his history of
Gibraltar, 43.

Barrow, Sir John, his Life of Howe.
See Howe.

Brenton, Captain, his Life of John Earl
St. Vincent, 424. See St. Vincent.
Butler's Analogy, origin of, 372.
Buttman, M., his essay on the historical
allusions in Horace, 318.

Conversation, good, defined, 309.
Constant, M., his Du Polytheisme
Romain,' quoted, 328.

Craven, Mr. Keppel, his excursion to
Venosa noticed, 293.
Crow, habits of the, 79.

Cæsar's Commentaries, passage in, ex-
plained, 335.

Carmichael, General, governor of Deme-
rara, his character, 75.

Canova, 157.

Charles I., his refined taste, 135.
Charles II., his character, 462.
Chatham, Earl of, his first interview
with Dr. Franklin, 35.
Cherburg, expedition to, 19.
Choumara, T., his Considérations Mi-
litaires sur les Mémoires du Maréchal
Soult, et sur la Bataille de Toulouse,
161.
Clarendon, Edward first Earl of, his Life
and Administration; by T. H. Lister,
Esq., 505-the author's alliance with
the existing house of Clarendon, 507—
absence of any family information, 508
-paucity of new documents, ib.-in-
stances of the disingenuous spirit in
which the work is composed, 509—
personal and political errors of Charles
II., 511-the author's uniform abuse
of Charles I., 512-and of his queen,
ib.-his censure of Evelyn, 513-al-
leged instances of inaccuracy exa-
mined, ib.-circumstances under which
the Earl's life and history were written,
515-an edition of them with explana-
tory notes recommended, 516-the
author's own inaccuracies and hyper-
criticisms exposed, 517-the charge
of the Earl's mis-statement relating
to Montreuil's engagement examined
and refuted, 522-adventures of Dr.
Michael Hudson, 531-case of Sir
Richard Fanshawe's supersession in
the embassy at Madrid, ib.-trial and
execution of M. de Buat, 538- -exa-
mination of the cases in which the
author has adduced against the Earl's
statements the evidence of the jour-
nals of parliament, 540-marriage of
the Duke of York, 551-causes of the
Earl's disgrace, 562.

Cobbett, William, his locust-trees, 340.
Collinson, Peter, his exertions to intro-
duce foreign trees and shrubs into
Britain, 336.

Drinkwater, Colonel, his History of the
Siege of Gibraltar quoted, 45.

Elgin Marbles, observations on. 138.
Elizabeth, Queen, and her Times, 42
See Wright.

Evelyn, John, character of his Sylva, 333.

Flogging in the Navy, remarks on, 63.
Franklin, Dr., his acquaintance and cor-
respondence with Lord Howe, 30-his
first interview with Lord Chatham, 35.

Gibbon, Edward, Esq., his History of
the Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire, with Notes by the Rev. H.
H. Milman, 360-Gibbon's acquaint-
ance with the writings of the Fathers
examined, 363-suppression of the ter
timony they offer, 365-depreciation
of the early Christians, 366-inci-
dental evidence that at the end of
the second century the Christian faith
had made an effectual lodgment
the middle and higher ranks, 370–
writings of Clemens Alexandrizus,
-Tertullian's treatise On the Testi-
mony of the Soul,' 372.—and Athena-
goras's On the Resurrection, -
origin of Butler's Analogy, ib.-the
author's charge of the indiscreet ar-
dour with which the early Christians
courted martyrdom answered, 15.--
his perverse ingenuity in reducing the
number of the martyrs, 373-account
of the banishment and execution of Cy-
prian, 377-Sir James Mackintosh's
observations thereon, 378-instances
of the author's disposition to post-date
whatever relates to the establishment
of Christianity, 380-the Hora Par

line of Paley his masterpiece, 383—
these strictures confined to the infidel
character of Gibbon's work, 384-
special object of this new edition, ib.-
its execution, ib.
Gibraltar, siege of, 43.

Glastonbury thorn, legend of the, 343.
Grecian philosophy, its influence on the
last champions of Roman freedom,
327.

Haydon, R., Esq., see Art and Artists.
Hazlitt, William, his Essay on Painting
and the Fine Arts quoted. 148.
Henry VIII, characterised, 71.
Hora Paulina of Paley, 383.
Horace, Life and Writings of, 287-
Tate's Horatius Restitutus; or, the
Books of Horace arranged in chro-
nological order, ib.-the works of Ho-
race the history of Rome during the
Augustan age, 288-his parentage,
590-effects of enfranchisement on
the political and social state of Rome,
591-function of his father, 293-his
birth-place, ib.-manners of the Sa-
bine population, 294-Horace taken
to Rome for education, 295-his first
turn for satire, ib.-his school-master
Orbilius, 296-leaves Rome for A-
thens, 297-writers, ib.-joins the
army of Brutus, ib.-military tribune,
ib.-battle of Philippi, 299-his mo-
rals and courage defended by Lessing,
ib.-and by Wieland, ib.-Horace finds
his way back to Rome, ib.-his obscure
and hopeless condition, ib.-procures
a place in the treasury, ib.-his habits
of frugality, ib.-state of Roman
poetry when he began to write, 300-
his introduction to Mæcenas, 304-
Wieland and Pope his best commen-
tators, 306-his first published work,
ib.-Horace becomes an inmate in
the palace of Mæcenas, 309-and in-
itiated in the best society of the me-
tropolis, ib.-the first book of Satires,
ib.-origin of the satiric form of poetry,
310-picture of Roman society at this
time, 310 localities of the Hora-
tian poetry, 312-second book of Sa-
tires published, 313-war between
Antony and Cæsar, 314-three books
of Odes published, 316-book of
Epistles, 319-poetical character of
Horace, 320-his later works, 321-
Wieland's theory concerning his Art
of Poetry, ib.
passages from Mr.

Tate's Familiar Day of Horace,
322-the religion of Horace, 326-
influence of the Grecian philosophy
on the last champions of Roman free-
dom, 327-Horace's attachment to
Augustus, ib.-his latter years passed
in ease and retirement, 330-provident
policy of Augustus towards the intel-
lectual class,ib.-general character of
the writings of Horace, 331.
Howe, Richard Earl, Life of, by Sir John
Barrow, 1-birth and education, ib.—
enters the service as midshipman, ib.
-action of the Barford, 2- Howe
appointed to the Comet bomb, ió.-
and to the Baltimore, 3-engagement
with two French frigates, ib.-com-
mands the Glory, and goes on the
African station, 4-appointed to the
Mary yacht, ib.-commissioned to the
Dolphin frigate, ib.-joins Admiral
Boscawen in the Dunkirk, 7-pro-
ceeds off Newfoundland, ib.-attacks
the Alcide and Lys, ib.-commands
a squadron for the protection of
Guernsey and Jersey, 10- takes
Chaussé, ib.-joins the expedition to
the French coast in the Magnanime,
13-his marriage, 24-death of his
brother, ib.-action with Conflans, 26
-dispossesses the French of the island
of Dumet, 28-introduced to George
II., ib.-made first colonel of Marines,
ib.-and treasurer of the navy, ib.-
draws up code of naval instructions,
ib.-nominated to command the Me-
diterranean fleet, 29-gets acquainted
with Franklin, 30-sails for America,
36-writes to Washington, 37-seeks
D'Estaing's fleet to give it battle, 38
-resigns command of the American
station, 39-conduct in parliament,
41-Admiral of the Blue, 43-com-
mands Channel fleet, ib. - relief of
Gibraltar, 51-First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, 53-made vice-admiral of
England, ib.-and again appointed
commander-in-chief of the Channel
fleet, ib.-victory of the 1st of June,
55-royal visit to him, 58-resigns
his command, 60-visits the mutineers
in the fleet, ib.-retires from public
life, 64-his death, ib.-characters of
Howe, St. Vincent, and Nelson, 65.
Hudson, Dr. Michael, his romantic ad-
ventures, 481.

Impressment, remarks on, 63.

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