. Thackerayana;. ,who was leading the rebels, was a very coura-geous soldier, and worthy of a better causethan figbging against King George. Theimages are at least natural and pretty con-secutive. 1776âthe people of London in I?So76âthe Lords and House of Commons in76âLord NorthâWashingtonâwhat the people thought aboutWashington^âI am thinking about 76. Where, in the nameof common sense, is the insult to 1853? The satire, ifsatire there be, applies to us at home, who called Wash-ington Mr. Washington; as we called Frederick the Great the Protestant Hero/ or Napoleon the Corsican Tyrant, orGene
. Thackerayana;. ,who was leading the rebels, was a very coura-geous soldier, and worthy of a better causethan figbging against King George. Theimages are at least natural and pretty con-secutive. 1776âthe people of London in I?So76âthe Lords and House of Commons in76âLord NorthâWashingtonâwhat the people thought aboutWashington^âI am thinking about 76. Where, in the nameof common sense, is the insult to 1853? The satire, ifsatire there be, applies to us at home, who called Wash-ington Mr. Washington; as we called Frederick the Great the Protestant Hero/ or Napoleon the Corsican Tyrant, orGeneral Bonaparte. Need I say, that our officers were in-structed (until they were taught better manners) to call Wash-ington Mr. Washington? and that the Americans were calledrebels during the whole of that contest ? Rebels ! â of coursethey were rebels; and I should like to know what native Americanwould not have been a rebel in that cause ? As irony is dangerous, and has hurt the feelings of kind N 2. 180 THA CKERA YANA. friends whom I would not wish to offend, let me say, in perfectfaith and gravity, that I think the cause for which Washingtonfought entirely just and right, and the champion the very noblest,purest, bravest, best of Gods men. * Another journey to the United States, equally successful, andequally profitable in a pecuniary sense, was the chief event in hislife in 1856. The lectures delivered were those admirable anec-dotal and reflective discourses on the * Four Georges/ madefamiliar to readers by their publication in the Cornhill Magazine,and since then in a separate form. The subject was not favour-able to the display of the authors more genial qualities. Butwhere in English literature could we find anything more solemnand affecting than his picture of the old king, the third of thatname ? When all light, all reason, all sound of human voices,all the pleasures of this world of God were taken from himâconcluding with the affecting appeal to his American a
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