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(See 11 S. vii. 301, 341, 383, 442, 502; viii. 22, 81, 122, 164, 202, 242, 284, 324.) XVI.-FRENCH EVIDENCE ABOUT HARRISON, CAREW, COOKE, AND PETERS. THE Gazette of Paris published on 12 Nov., 1660, a special number (No. 131, pp. 11031118) giving an account of the trials of the English regicides. This number was reprinted in the Recueil des Gazettes, and is entitled as follows: "Le procez de vingt huit des exceptez par l'amnistie générale que le Roy d'Angleterre a accordée à ses sujets; avec les particularitez de la condamnation & exécution du Major Général Harrison, & des Sieurs Adrian Scroop, John Carew, Thomas Scot, Gregoire Clement, John Jones, John Cook & Henry [sic] Peters; le tout contenu en la lettre d'un gentil'homme Anglois." 66 The 'English gentleman gives the following account of the behaviour of Harrison and Carew : "Le 23, sur les dix heures du matin, ce dernier [Harrison] fut conduit sur un claye, depuis les de barrières où estoit, autresfois, Charing Crosse, prisons de Newgate jusques à la Place enfermée & où l'on avoit dressé un gibet pour son exécution. Après avoir dit plusieurs choses qui ne pouvoyent venir que d'une personne desespérée et tesmoignans son endurcissement dans sa faute, il fut pendu, la face tournée vers la salle des Banquets à Whitehall, où il avait inhumainement versé, avec les autres régicides, le sang précieux de nostre souverain. Lors qu'il fut à demi-estraglé l'on coupa la corde et il fut éventré, ses entrailles brûlées, sa teste séparée et le corps mis en quartiers qu'on remporta, sur la mesme claye, à Newgate, pour en estre disposé ainsi qu'il plaira à sa Majesté. la mesme façon en la place du supplice, apres "Le 24, le sieur Carew, ayant esté amené de avoir confessé qu'il avoit condamné le Roy et le reste de son accusation, fut executé, ainsi que le général Harrison." Mais "Le 26, ils furent conduits au supplice, ou le premier [Cooke] parut beaucoup affligé de son crime, et fit une tres-belle exhortation au peuple sur l'obéissance et la fidélité que les sujets devoyent à leurs souverains, puis demanda pardon et les prières à toute l'assistance. Péters se comporta si indécemment en cette occasion; n'y faisant parestre, qu'une ridicule appréhension de la mort, que tout ce qu'il dist ne servit qu'à exciter à rire les spectateurs, qui regardèrent son exécution comme une farce." The account does not mention the behaviour of any other of the regicides, and is very accurate in its description of the trials. of the behaviour of the regicides executed I have been asked why no official account in 1660 was printed. The answer to this question was given in the printed shorthand report of their trials, entitled An Exact and most impartial Accompt of the Indictment, Arraignment, Trial and Judgment, according to Law, of nine and twenty Regicides,' &c., ascribed by Anthony à Wood to Heneage Finch. This report contains 287 pages, and on p. 285 it is stated:- "For their [the regicides'] last discourses and prayers, as they were made in a crowd, and, therefore, not possible to be taken exactly, so it was thought fit rather to say nothing than give an untrue account thereof, choosing rather to appear lame then to be supported with imperfect assistance." This is one of the pages of this book omitted in 'State Trials,' in order to condone the appearance of the fraud which I have subjected to so lengthy an examination. The spot, now marked by Charles I's statue, was very limited in area. Only Axtell and Hacker were executed at Tyburn. It is much to be hoped that a really critical edition of State Trials' will some day be given to the world, in which not only theSpeeches and Prayers,' 'Depositions about the Fire,' and other impostures will be wanting, but also the prefaces and conclusions of the really genuine documents will be given in their integrity - as, for instance, the long introduction by the Rev. Wm. Hill, the informer, to the trial of Thos. Tonge and the rest, in 1662. There is not a volume but needs overhauling. CHARLES LAMB'S J. B. WILLIAMS. "CANCELLARIUS MAGNUS." I. 66 FOR years students of Lamb have realized the need of an earlier authority for George Dyer's nickname, Cancellarius Magnus," than Southey's letter to Grosvenor Bedford of 22 March. 1817. In W. Carew Hazlitt's Mary and Charles Lamb'* (1874, p. 202) this letter of Southey's is named as the authority, and the year as 1807 (sic). Mr. Lucas in his 'Life of Charles Lamb (1905, i. 155) says that "Lamb called Dyer Cancellarius Major' [sic]"; and, in his 'Works of Charles and Mary Lamb' (1905, vi. 208), that " Southey tells Grosvener [sic] Bedford in one of his letters that Lamb gave Dyer the title of Cancellarius Magnus." Canon Ainger, however, in his 'Letters of Charles Lamb' (1891, i. 326), gives the above reference correctly, and acknowledges his indebtedness for it to that man of accuracy and many findings, J. Dykes Campbell. Canon Ainger's note runs :— Writing to G. C. Bedford, 22d March, 1817, respecting one of his books then printing, Southey says, 'Now, pray, be speedy with the cancels. On such an occasion Lamb gave G. Dyer the title Cancellarius Magnus (Letters of R. S., of i. 428)." In the thin quarto 'Biographical Memoir of John Rickman,' by his son, a few copies of which were made up in 1841 from proofsheets of The Gentleman's Magazine articles, for distribution among friends, mention is made, on the last page, of Rickman's letters to and from Southey; and the recollection of Rickman's friendship for Dyer, and that * Lettered by the binder, in both large-paper and ordinary editions, "Charles and Mary Lamb.' Dyer hal been the means of making Rickman and Lamb known to each other, fitting in, as it does, with this allusion to Rickman's correspondence with Southey, is at least suggestive of a possible source of the information passed on by Southey to Bedford in 1817-that Lamb had dubbed Dyer "Cancellarius Magnus." On 27 Dec., 1800, Lamb, it will be remembered, wrote to Manning: શ "At length George Dyer's phrenesis has come to a crisis; he is raging and furiously mad. I waited upon the heathen, Thursday was se'nnight....he could not maintain his jumping mind in a right line for the tithe of a moment by Clifford's Inn clock. He must go to the printer's immediately-the most unlucky accident-he had struck off five hundred impressions of his Poems, which were ready for delivery to subscribers, and the Preface must be expunged. There were eighty pages of Preface, and not till that morning had he discovered that in the very first page of said Preface he had set out with a principle of Criticism fundamentally wrong, which vitiated all his following reasoning. The 307.-the lowest calculation, taking in paper and Preface must be expunged, although it cost him printing! In vain have his real friends remonstrated against this Midsummer madness. George is as obstinate as a Primitive Christian-and wards and parries off all thrusts with one unanswerable fence ;- Sir, it's of great consequence that the world is not misled !'"' On this same 27 Dec., 1800, Rickman wrote to Southey : "G. Dyer has your letter. He dines with me him not to cancel a long preface of 80 or 90 pages, to-day. I am about to attempt to persuade which he has prefixed to a vol. of poems, printed but not published-and this, because forsooth, he thinks he has committed himself in some opinion given of some poet or other. Thus in this But his exertion of a fanciful literary justice idle punctilio, he is likely to waste 201. or 301..... is honourable to him-I wish it was not expensive. He exhibits an obstinacy on this point, which I fear I shall not conquer.' There days later, in a continuation of the above. Rickman returned to the Dyer episode : "I have a very pleasant neighbour opposite, C. Lamb....G. Dyer is miserable about his unfortunate preface. I am quite vexed at his obstinacy. Lamb calls him Cancellarius Magnus, The Lord High Canceller." The Rickman letter from which I have taken the above extract is to be found in a volume of considerable interest to all lovers of Lamb, 'The Life and Letters of John Rickman,' by Orlo Williams (Constable, 1912); and it gives us what has been so long the List of Subscribers '). Dyer's words in the text (p. 9) are :— wanting, the source of the information as to Dyer's nickname, which Southey passed on to Bedford some seventeen years later. "What was formerly hinted in The Gentleman's It also indicates the rapid growth of the Magazine about liberal terms was said to do justice friendship between Lamb and Rickman, to others, and to prevent inferences, which might and shows a common estimate of the foolish-be drawn, from the insinuations of an admired ness of their over-conscientious friend Dyer, best feelings, and from the purest intentions, but writer, in a popular magazine, under, indeed, the the result clearly of anxious conferences with an imperfect knowledge of the writer's between them on the subject of the poet's engagements, of the motives, by which he has wilfulness. been influenced, and of the circumstances in which he has been placed." II. To the Theological Propositions submitted by him to Coleridge, Lamb should have added this other: Whether a "canceller," inflexible on his own account, can be touched by remorse on finding himself the innocent cause of a "cancel" by another? By the destruction of his Preface, Dyer unwittingly helped to secure for himself immortality in the writings of Charles Lamb. the while his friends were pouring blame upon him for his conduct; but that to him was due a subsequent considerable "cancel" by Lamb himself appears to be unrecognized by students of 'Elia.' Following this, in a foot-note, Dyer continues: "The Essays entitled, Elia, have been since collected, and published in a volume, with the exceptionable, the very incorrect, and some rather too witty passages alluded to, suppressed. By the way, the Essay, entitled Oxford in the Vacation' should evidently be read as a Fiction. It may be questioned, whether the facetious Elia ever saw Oxford in his life. What, however, he says of G. D. and his pursuits there is funny, enough, when not too complimentary." [Dyer's own punctuation is here preserved.] Notwithstanding all this, it is evident that the 1823 Elia volume, when first printed, contained the 'Oxford in the VacaWhen Lamb first published his Oxford tion ' essay in the complete form in which it in the Vacation' in The London Magazine had appeared in The London Magazine, and. for October, 1820, the essay contained some that either Lamb's own second thoughts,. lines beginning, "D. commenced life, after or the suggestion of some friend, caused the. a course of hard study "-too many to print excision of the offending passages just here, but well known to all having a more prior to the binder's putting up the sheets than superficial acquaintance with literary in boards. As a result, in the published matters. Protests were entered volume, as we have it, the greater part of against these passages, which were considered by P. 25 and the whole of p. 26 present an some to be objectionable. The London unworkmanlike stretch of unprinted paper; Magazine gave official heed to complaining and it will be found on computation that pens; and Elia replied with kindly willingness the suppressed matter would have exactly to have "an error of judgment" imputed to filled these unoccupied spaces. him, or to be impeached of having set A copy of the 1823 'Elia' containing the down too hastily "" the anecdote respecting cancelled text would be, indeed, a bibliographical treasure to put the British Museum alongside of the volume of Dyer's 1801 Poems' which contains the half-burnt, suppressed Preface, carrying the certificate "Snatch'd out of in Lamb's handwriting, the fire." J. ROGERS REES. Dr. 66 This, however, is common knowledge, as also is Dyer's letter to William King just after the publication of Oxford in the Vacation.* Not so well known are (a) the 'Letter from Dr. Petre in Blackwood's for May, 1821 (p. 141), with its reference to Elia's "ribald treatment of G. D. (one of the most inoffensive men on the face of the earth) of which, to be sure, he had afterwards grace enough to be ashamed 'THE FREEMAN'S JOURNAL,' 1763-1913. (See ante, pp. 321, 344.) DR. GRAY saw that under Lord Aberdeen's: and (b) what Dyer himself wrote of the Administration nothing was to be expected matter in 1823 in his Address to the Sub- for Ireland from Parliamentary action, and' scribers to the Privileges of the University he accordingly devoted his attention to. of Cambridge,' (in which, by the "Č. way, Lambe [sic], Esq., India House," figures in the reformed Corporation of Dublin in 1852, local affairs. Having become a member of *Printed in The Mirror for 13 Nov., 1841, he put forth all his influence and that of pp. 311-12. his paper to secure pure water for the city.. |