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ford, with a Specimen, 4to., 1849; also. The University 

 Atlas, or Historical Maps of the Middle Ages, London, 

 folio, 1849. There is a copy of the Mappa Blundi, folio, 

 in the British Museum.] 



"■The Taller Revived:' —In Boswell's Life of 

 Johnson (anno 1750), it is said : — 



" A few daj's before the first of his Essays came out, 

 there started another competitor for fame in the same 

 form, under the title of The Tatler Revived, which, I be- 

 lieve, was ' born but to die.' " 



Johnson also, in The Idler, No. 1., alludes to 

 " an effort which was once made to revive The 

 Taller" What is known of this publication ? 



Resupinus. 



[ TAe Tatler Revived ; or the Christian Philosopher and 

 Politician, by Isaac Bickerstaff, half a sheet, price 2d. 

 stamped, to be continued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and 

 Saturdays. The first number appeared on March 13, 

 1750, and seems to have been discontinued with the 

 second number. For a notice of the contents of these 

 two numbers, see the Gentleman's Magazine, xx. 126. 

 There had also been a previous effort made to revive this 

 periodical, namely, The Tatler Revived, by Isaac Bicker- 

 staff", Esq., No. 1., Oct. 16. 1727. — Nichols's Literary 

 Anecdotes, iv, 95.] 



SReplttiS. 



LOBD 8T0WELL. 



(2''<* S. iv. 400.) 



In reply to my Note (p. 292.), expressing 

 pleasure that Lord Stowell's judgments were to 

 appear in a cheaper form — more accessible to 

 students — your correspondent C. (1.) says, that 

 his "Lordship's judgments now can only interest 

 the dilettante lawyer. The practical lawyer will 

 shun them, for they will only mislead him. The 

 aspirant after knowledge in either prize law or 

 matrimonial law must study the judgments of a 

 greater lawyer, and an honester politician, Dr. 

 Lushington." 



To institute any comparison between these 

 two judges would be little acceptable to your 

 readers, — little suited to the pages of " N. & Q. ; " 

 but when a decided superiority is claimed for Sir 

 S. Lushington over Lord Stowell, both in talent 

 and political honesty, may not the living judge ex- 

 claim, " O save me from my friends ! " The re- 

 putation of a great man, numbered with the dead, 

 is a sacred trust ; and I would distinctly ask with 

 " what authority and show of truth " is this sinis- 

 ter imputation of political dishonesty brought 

 against Lord Stowell? In what act of his life, 

 either as a judge or as a politician, did Lord 

 Stowell in word or deed sully that spotless re- 

 putation — precious as it ought to be to every 

 Englishman — which followed Wm to the grave? 

 But enough of this ; let us again turn to C.'s (1.) 

 criticisms on Lord Stowell's judgments. " His 



prize law is now obsolete, and his matrimonial law 

 is superseded." 



Opinions somewhat differ upon this point. As 

 to the former, Lord Stowell's prize law, what says 

 the Admiralty Judge of the United States when 

 writing to the English judge ? 



" On a calm review of your decisions, after a lapse of 

 years, I am bound to express my entire conviction both 

 of their accuracj' and equity. I have taken care that 

 the}'' shall form the basis of the maritime law of the 

 United States, and I have no hesitation in saying that 

 they ought to do so in every country of the civilised world." 



" To strew fresh laurels " on this great man's 

 grave is a task for which I am not fitted, but I can 

 gather them with pleasure from quarters where 

 no question or uncertainty can exist as to the 

 individuals who have planted them, especially as 

 regards one, who was thoroughly opposed to Lord 

 Stowell in politics, but who, from his own splendid 

 talents, is competent to appreciate intellectual 

 power wherever he finds it. 



In his historical sketch of Lord Stowell, among 

 those of Statesmen of the Time of George IIL, 

 Lord Brougham says — 



" It would be easy, but it would be endless, to enumer- 

 ate the causes in which his great powers, both of legal 

 investigation, of accurate reasoning, and of lucid state- 

 ment, were displayed to the admiration, not only of the 

 profession but of the less learned reader of his judgments. 

 They who deal with such causes as occupied the atten- 

 tion of this great judge have one advantage, that the 

 subjects are of a nature connecting them with general 

 principles. 



" The questions which arise in administering the Law of 

 Nations comprehend within their scope the highest na- 

 tional rights, involve the existence of peace itself, define 

 the duties of neutrality, set limits to the prerogatives of 

 war. Accordingly, the volume, which records Sir W. 

 Scott's judgments, is not, like the reports of common-law 

 cases, a book only unsealed to the members of the legal 

 profession ; it may well be in the hands of the general student, 

 and form part of any classical library of English eloquence, 

 or even of national history." — Vol. iii. p. 92. 



But however inferior Lord Stowell may have 

 been in C.'s (I.) opinion as a lawyer, he is said to 

 have been "a joker in the very first line;" and 

 it is recommended that his jests should be chro- 

 nicled for the benefit of posterity. That Lord 

 Stowell was one of the wittiest, as well as one of 

 the wisest of men, is true : but is his name in 

 after times to be coupled only with hon mots ? — a 

 man " so peculiarly endowed with all the learning 

 and capacity which can accomplish, as well as all 

 the graces which can embellish, the judicial cha- 

 racter " (Sketches, p. 91.) : "whose judgment is 

 pronounced to have been of the highest caste ; 

 calm, firm, enlarged, penetrating, profound, — his 

 powers of reasoning were in proportion great " (p. 

 92.), — one who "was amply and accurately en- 

 dowed with a knowledge of all history of all 

 times ; richly provided with the literary and the 

 personal portion of historical lore ; largely fur- 

 nished with sitares of the more curious and, re,? 



