WADDINGTON". 236 WADE. de philoJof/ic (18G1). The work of Le Bas, Voy- age archculogiqiie en Grece et en Asie Mineure (Paris. 1868-77), was also continued by him. With these should be named his otiier important publications within the same field, Inscriptions grccqiies et latines de Syrie (1870), and his Edit de Dioclcticn (1804). His services to clas- sical scholarship were recognized in 1865 by his election to the Academic des Inscriptions. V addington became prominent in political life in 1871, when he entered the National Assembly; in 1873 he was Minister of Public Instruction under Thiers for six days only: and in 1876 he was chosen Senator. On December 13, 1877, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs in Dufaure's Cabinet, and as such toolc jiart in the Beilin Con- gress (1878). In February. 1870, he was ap- pointed by President Grevy to the presidency of the Council. He resigned in December of that year. From 1883 to 1893 he was the French Ambassador at the Court of Saint .James's. Con- sult ilme. Waddington, Letters of a Diplomat's Wife (London, 1903). WADE, BEK.IAMIN Fr.xklix (I80n-78). An American political leader, born of humble parent- age, near West Springfield, Mass. He removed to Ohio in 1821; largely supported himself, and finally studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1827. and in 1831 became the partner of Joshua E. Giddings (q.v.). He was elected prosecuting attorney of Ashtabula County in 183.5, and State Senator in 1837 and 1841 : and was chosen presid- ing judge of the third judicial district of the State in 1847. From 1851 until ISfif) he was a member of the United States Senate. He was a Whig, and a strong opponent of slavery; voted for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1852; and opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Bill (q.v.) of 1854, the purchase of Cuba, and the admission of Kansas under the Lecompton Con- stitution (q.v.). After the election of Lincoln in 1800 he opposed all compromise between the North and the South ; was chairman of the Com- mittee on the Conduct of the War in 1801-02, and advocated a more vigorous policy, urging a law to confiscate the property of the leading secessionists and to emanciiiate'the slaves. In as- sociation with Henry Winter Davis and other radical Republicans, he caused, in the summer of 1SG4, an open breach with the President upon the proper method and policy of Reconstruction (q.v.), and issued the Wade-Davis ilanifesto, condenming in strong language the policy of the President. H. was he who reported in 1802. as chairman of the Committee on Territories, a bill to abolish slavery in all the Territories, and pro- hibit it in all future Territories. He was elected president of the Senate in 1807, and was sent in 1871 as one of the commission to Santo Domingo to report in regard to its annexation to the United States. Senator Wade was popularly known as 'Ben' or 'Old Ben,' and was greatly ad- mired by his associates for his rugged, fearless manner, his honesty of purpose, and independence of thought. Consult Riddle, Life of ISenjamin I< Wade (Cleveland, 1880). WADE, TiTOArA.s (1805-75). An English poet, born at Woodbridge. in SnlTolk. He went to Lou- don at an early age with a competence, and began to publish remarkable verse tmdcr the inspira- tion of Shelley and Keats. He met with some success in the acting drama; but he eventually turned to journalism, becoming editor and part proprietor of Bell's Weekly Messenger. After losing much by this undertaking, he retired to the Isle of Jersey, where he edited the British Press, and continued to write verse until his death. Wade's first volume of poems, Tasso and the Sisters (1825), displaying rare imaginative qualities, especially in the piece called "The Nuptials of Juno," was followed bv a collection strangely called Mundi et Cordis, dc Rebus tiem- piternis et Tempurariis, Carmina (1835), and re- markable verse pamphlets: The Contention of Death and Love (1837), Helena (1837), The Shadoic Seeker (1837), and Prothanasia and Other Poems (1839). In the meantime, he had written for the stage Woman's Lore (Covent (harden Theatre, 1828), The Phrenologists, a farce (Covent Garden, 1830), and The Jew of Arragon (Covent Garden, 1830). The latter was damned owing to its exaltation of the Jew. Of two other dramas written at this period, Elfrida. is lo.st, and King Henry II. exists only in manu- script. The manuscript of a series of sonnets in- spired by his wife is in the possession of Buxton Forman; and likewise a translation (made in 1845-40) of Dante's Inferno in the original metre. Consult: Miles (ed.), Poets and Poetry of the Century, vol. iii. (London. 1890). which contains an estimate by Forman; Nicoll and Wise (ed.). Literary Anecdotes of the Xineteenth Century, vol. i. (London, 1895), which contains a speci- men of the Dante, fifty sonnets, and the first two verse pamphlets cited above. WADE, Sir Thomas Francis (1818-95). A British diplomat, born in London. He was edu- cated at Harrow, and a year after matricilating at Trinity College, Cambridge, he entered the army (1838). Promoted lieutenant, he went to Hong Kong, becoming regimental interpreter in Chinese (1842) ; and he took part in the attack on Chinkiang. and in the operations near Nan- king during the Opium War. In 1853 he was ap- pointed vice-consul at Shanghai, and was chief of the commission that established the customs ad- ministration which developed into the Imperial Maritime Customs Service. He was attached to Lord Elgin's mission in 1857, and negotiated the treaty of Tien-tsin (1S5S). He assisted in es- tablishing the legation at Peking (1801), where, after experience as charge d'affaires, in which capacity he conducted the difficult negotiations arising from the Tientsin massacre of 1870, he became Minister in 1871. Largely through his efl'ort. audience to Ministers was granted by the Emperor T'ungchih in 1873. As a result of the murder of A. R. Margary in Yun-nan, he ne- gotiated with Li Hung Chang the Chifu conven- tion of 1870. Made C. B. in 1802, Wade was ad- vanced K. C. B. in 188.3, and retired. In 1888 he was appointed first jirofessnr of Chinese at Cambridge. Among his publications, whii'li in- clude several valuable books for the study of Chinese, are : The Jlsin Chinr; Ln. or Book of Experiments (1859); Welleliien Tru-erh Chi (1807), dealing with documentary Chinese: and Vii-yrn Tzu-erh Chi (1807: enharged 1880), a jirogressive course in the colloquial Peking vn- ri<'ty of the Mandarin dialect. Wade bequeathed his large Chinese library to Cambridge Univer- sity.
