if the bill were permitted to pass both Houses with an appearance of firmness and unanimity, the East India Company would receive reparation for the tea which had been destroyed the preceding autumn; that this would produce measures of lenity and conciliation at this side of the water; that Government meant to relax on certain material points; and that every dispute subsisting between Great Britain and her Colonies would terminate in the most amicable manner, equally for the advantage and honour of both countries. But (continued the Colonel) when this point was gained, administration feeling themselves stronger than they expected, they proceeded to hostilities against the constitutional rights of the Colonies, by following the Boston Port Bill with The Massachusetts Bay Charter Bill, and that for the removal of offenders in America for trial to another Colony or home to Great Britain.’”
[Colonel Barré was a shareholder of the East India Company, and he first met Lord Shelburne at its meetings.]
It was in company with Barre that Dunning was thrown from his horse at a military review at Berlin, Frederic the Great having given him not only an invitation but also the use of a spirited charger, in the belief that his title of Solicitor-General was a military one.
(11.) Page 298. Other M.P.’s. — John La Roche (son of Pierre Crothaire), and his son Sir James Laroche, Bart., Joshua Mauger, William Devaynes.
(12.) Page 298. Sir Samuel Romilly, M.P. (born 1757, died 1818).
(13.) Page 300. The Bosanquet family has made many good and intelligent contributions to literature. I have enumerated the individual authors, including Mary Bosanquet, wife of Rev. John William Fletcher (or De la Flechère). The treatise on the Lord’s Prayer, entitled “How shall I pray?” is by the Rev. Charles Bosanquet; (I erroneously attributed it to C. B. P. Bosanquet, Esq.)
Note.
The veteran author, Samuel Richard Bosanquet, Esq., of Dingestow, continues his labours. I have before me his new book, “The Successive Visions of the Cherubim, distinguished and newly interpreted, showing the progressive revelation through them of the Doctrine of the In- carnation, and of the Gospel of Redemption and Sanctification. London, Hatchards, 1871.” The Preface opens thus:— “At the conclusion of the second edition of my ‘New System of Logic,’ I added that my next, and perhaps final work, would be a treatise on Exegesis, or the right method of interpreting Scripture. That treatise will take long time and much labour to complete. In the meantime, therefore, having had occasion to draw out into form my views respecting the cherubim, I think it right to publish them. And I put them forward partly as an example of my method of interpretation.”
(14.) Page 303. Abraham Portal, a poet, grandson of Rev. Henri Portal.
(15.) Page 303. Rev. Edward Mangin, an author in light literature.
(16.) Page 303. Charles Hastings Collette, Esq., Barrister-at-law, a historical and controversial writer on topics suggested by the Protestant controversy and Popish frauds.
(17.) Page 304. Charles Blacker Vignoles, Esq., F.R.S., a successful veteran civil engineer.
additional names.
(18.) Richard Chevenix, Esq., F.R.SS.L. & E.; some of his works have been noticed in Chapter XXV. He died in 1830, and left for publication under the editorship of his friend Thomas Pery Knox,[1] his most important work, in two volumes 8vo, entitled “An Essay upon National Character, being an inquiry into some of the principal causes which contribute to form and modify the characters of nations in the state of civilisation.” Mr Chenevix does not treat of the nations separately, but different faculties and qualities are brought forward, one by one, in separate chapters, and in each chapter all the nations march past for review. In the Chapter on Morality he finds occasion to remark, “The nation that has retained the largest
- ↑ Mr Knox (born in 1805) is the eldest son of the Right Hon. George Knox, D.C.L., and grandson of Thomas, first Viscount Northland; he is a first cousin of the late Thomas, first Earl of Ranfurly.
