account of Rich's practising on More in the Tower, and of the evidence thereby obtained; after which, he sums up with, 'This was 'the substance of the indictment.' 16. The historian can hardly be warranted in dispensing with the evidence of a fair trial in the case of Cromwell, because the reviewer rejects the evidence of what he maintains to have been an unfair trial in the case of Anne Boleyn. 17. We still think Mr. Froude's language respecting the evidence against Surrey loose in the extreme, especially if all is given that we gave in the review. And we still think it no part of the duty of a historian to be stopping the gaps in a government indictment with speculative political consequences which were not in the mind of the Government themselves. 18. But for Mr. Froude's arrangement' of our criticisms, it would appear that in our words 'they (the Parliament) impeached Wolsey, [among other things, for checking the persecution of Lutherans at Cambridge,'] no very material inaccuracy is involved. The point of the sentence is that which Mr. Froude omits, viz., that checking the persecution of Lutherans was one of the articles of impeachment in a Parliament which Mr. Froude represents as Protestant. 19. To prove that the debasement of the currency in 1546 was occasioned by a temporary loan from the Mint, and was 'a proceed'ing not distinguishable, except in form, from the suspension of specie 'payments in 1797,' Mr. Froude cites two letters of Lord Chancellor Wriothesley (State Papers, vol. i. pp. 835. 839.). Wriothesley speaks of a loan, among other sources, from the Mint, that is, practically from those who brought bullion to the Mint; but we do not see that he says any thing to connect this with the debasement of the currency, much less to identify either proceeding in principle with the suspension of cash payments to stop a panic run on the Bank in 1797. 20. If Mr. Froude thinks it impossible that the Earl of Wiltshire can have done so unnatural a thing as to take part in the proceedings which led to the condemnation of his own children under the influence of terrorism, he should read the history of other reigns of terror. 21. Mr. Froude may, or may not, be able (we think he is not able) to repel the effect of Constantyne's statements as to the extortion of Smeton's confession by racking, and the 'much muttering' of the people at the Queen's trial; but these important statements should not have been, the first suppressed, the second either suppressed, or thrust down into a note and there strangely disguised and perverted. We did observe-we were not called upon to repeat-the quotation which Mr. Froude does give from Constantyne. Mr. Froude's quotation is 'in a manner all confessed but Mr. Norris, who said almost nothing at all.' Constantyne's Memorial (in the form of a dialogue) runs, D. How died the others? G. Many in a manner confessed all 'but Mr. Norice, who said almost nothing at all.' The others'that is, excepting Brereton, who, by Constantyne's account, did not confess, but 'died worst of all.' If Mr. Froude would give the confessions, it would be seen that it is 'in a manner' indeed. 22. She (Jane Seymour) married the King under circumstances 'peculiarly agitating, without preparation, without attachment, either 'on her part or on his, but under the pressure of a sudden and tra'gical necessity.' By these, to us astonishing words, Mr. Froude now says he meant that the genuineness of the letter in which Anne Boleyn taxes her husband with an attachment to another woman, is very doubtful, and that even if it is genuine, there is nothing to show that the woman meant was Jane Seymour; and he easily leaps from our not knowing there was an attachment to our knowing there was not. Before (Hist. ii. p. 477.) he said 'this letter, which I cannot doubt to 'be authentic, is most affecting;' and (p. 460.) 'she (Anne Boleyn) 'affected herself to be jealous of her husband's attentions to Jane Sey'mour.' 23. We cannot go again over the case of Anne Boleyn. If Mr. Froude can discover no legitimate ground for doubting her guilt,' he ought as a historian to state this plainly in face of the evidence, not slip it in by inuendo a volume off. We may leave it to the acuteness of the propounder to answer the new question, why the Catholic insurgents of the North and the Catholic party abroad did not complain of the unjust execution of the Protestant Queen. Meteren himself may be half a century later,' but the evidence he embodies is contemporary. 24. We asked Mr. Froude, in reference to the trials of the alleged accomplices of Anne Boleyn, whether in the whole course of the reign a judge and jury once acquitted the victim of a crown prosecution. He cites the cases of Lord Dacres of the North, and the Yorkshire insurgent Levening; and on the strength of those two instances proceeds to charge us with rapid statements abounding in every 'page,' and writing which is worse then indefensible.' Lord Dacres of the North was tried, as Mr. Froude himself says, not by a judge and jury, but by the Peers. Levening was not tried at all. The bill against him was thrown out by the grand jury at York; and Mr. Froude (Hist. iii. p. 213.) expressly attributes the conduct of the grand jurymen not to integrity and independence, but to corrupt family influence and complicity with the accused. 25. Our limits compel us to decline another discussion on the Test of Supremacy. We can only say we are sorry for it if Mr. Froude cannot see the difference between shooting mutineers or rebels, and putting to death virtuous men, guilty of no act of treason or even of disloyalty, for refusing to take a test of opinion, the exact contrary of what the imponent himself had been vehemently maintaining a few years before. We were in no haste to criticise Mr. Froude. We suspended our judgment till this portion of his work was complete; and we should have been well content if the task of thorough examination had been undertaken by other hands. We have used no 'personal' taunts, if by 'personal' is meant anything not fairly before us as literary critics. We have paid, and beg again to pay, the tribute of just praise to the beauty of his style and to the interesting character of many parts of his work- an interest in the production of which, however, those who have laboured to prepare him new materials from our public archives and records, must of course claim a considerable share. We should sincerely regret to have done him the slightest injustice, either through error or through the indignation which he must know that certain passages of his book, if they fail to fascinate, cannot fail to excite. But we feel assured, that our main case against him is just; and that in bringing it forward as forcibly as we could, we have done no more than our duty, and the effect which the undoubted literary qualities of his book had produced, as well as the indiscriminate panegyrics which had been lavished upon it, imperatively required at our hands. No. CCXXI. will be published early in January, 1859. INDEX. A Aberdeen, Earl of, successful issue of the great struggle of 1813 Addington, Mr., satirical effusions of Canning on, 128, et seq. Anti-Jacobin, Poetry of the, with notes, by Charles Esmond, re- Army, review of works relating to the health of the, 136, et seq.— Astronomy, spirit and progress of, 96, et seq. B Beranger, Posthumous Memoirs and Songs of, reviewed, 175, et seq. Birch, Samuel, his History of Ancient Pottery, reviewed, 377, et seq. C Canning, George, his literary remains, 104, et seq.-the first eminent Criminal Procedure in Scotland and England, 343, et seq.-case of 356, et seq. copy of indictment and list of witnesses furnished to F Faraday, Professor, on the Conservation of Force, 71. Froude, J. A., his History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to G Gladstone, Rt. Hon. W. E., his Studies on Homer and the Homeric Grenville Administration, its composition, 301-cause of its failure, 306. Grove, W. R., his work on the Correlation of Physical Forces, 80. Guy Livingstone, or Thorough, a novel, review of, 532, et seq. H Hindú drama, its character, 256, et seq.-exemplified in the Sakoon- Holtzmann, Adolf von, his Kelten und Germanen, reviewed, 166, et seq. K Kildare, Marquis of, his Earls of Kildare and their Ancestors, from |