ON ELOCUTION. 
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those who were unable to pronounce certain letters, or to put 
aspirates in their right places. 
Of their shortcomings he gave examples. He also mentioned 
individuals who spoke pompously, or feebly, or with a provincial 
accent, declaring it to be his belief that stammering and mispro- 
nunciation might be curable, while the last-mentioned defect was 
so, to his certain knowledge, as he had heard a young clergyman 
preach with an extraordinary brogue and manner, very many 
years ago, and also, at a later date, without the least remnant of 
those peculiarities being perceptible. Having given an imitation 
of his first style, he added that the energetic minister in question 
had subsequently become famous as a preacher, and eventually 
obtained a bishopric. 
Here the lecturer, remarking that, if he had had time, he could 
have named other things that went to the completion of a good 
elocutionist (such as a feeling heart, a pleasing personal appear- 
ance, &c), brought his main address to a close, and proceeded to 
support his positions by various examples of prose and poetry, 
ushered in by appropriate remarks. 
His prose examples were : 
1. Sir William Napier's description of the last charge of the British 
troops at the battle of Albuera. 
2. An extract from Lord Brougham's anti-slavery speech of 1838. 
3. An extract from the peroration of the same celebrated advocate's last 
pleading for Queen Caroline. 
4. The distressing account of the inebriety of Mr. Pecksniff, at Todgers' ; 
extracted from the " Martin Chuzzlewit " of Charles Dickens. 
The poetical examples were : 
1. Adam's Morning Hymn, from "Paradise Lost." 
2. An ode of Collins, called "The Passions." 
3. Byron's beautiful piece, without a name, but which might be called 
" Satiety," beginning — 
" There's not a joy this world can give like that it takes away." 
4. A portion of the fourth scene of the second act of the same poet's 
" Manfred," in which the hero has converse with the spirit of his sister 
Astarte. 
5. Walter Scott's description of the combat between Fitzjames and 
Roderick Dhu, at Coilantogle ford, from " The Lady of the Lake." 
6. Croly's "Thermopylae" (a lyric piece) ; and 
7. The second scene of the first act of Shakespeare's play of " Richard III." 
in which he persuades the Princess Anne to marry him. 
