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Sir John Eliot , a man worthy of all honour , whose true history has hitherto been known to few , has at length found a biogTapher every way worthy of his fine genius and noble character . Mr Foretel l s work is the result of deep appreciation and elaborate research . He ) iH 3 condensed a mass of information , collected from
every valuable authority bearing upon his subject . The journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords ; the Parliamentary history ; the Harleian , Cottonian , and Sloane MSS . ; the Eliot * nd Sydney papers , and many more ; the old historians , and modern authors , are extensively quoted , and every fact is weighed with impartial , accuracy . We are able therefore to receive this Wograpay , and the historical events connected with it , ss perfectly outKentic . There is perhaps no period about which it is more important that we should know the truth , nor any period which lifts been more falsely coloured ; involving , as it does , so many questions of deep interest , and so many rooted prejudices . Amongst the great men who were leaders in those stirring timeg , no one has been more misrepresented than Sir John Eliot . The
whole of his political life has been sedulously blackened by a specious collection of circumstantial evidence , which is proved by the present work to be false , both with reference to his actions and principles . A shadow of doubt can no longer exist upon this subject To rescue and preserve the memory of such men ifif no small honour to a biographer . He thus gives a fine and lasting moral to the world , whose stage is not overstocked with authentic exam p les of genius and integrity . Mr D'lameli , in his ^ Commentari es on the Life and Heiffji
erf Charles I , " has t $ ken pains to show that the character of Sir John Eliot was stained by a perfidious attempt at assassination when he was p . young man ; that he was of so turbulent and unruly a disposition as to have forcibly carried off the lady whom he married ; and that his determined opposition to the Duke of Buckingham , in whose impeachment lie was the prime mover , waa dictated by private pique , not by thorough-going principle .
In this last calumny , which , if established , would mar the complexion of Eliot ' s whole life , Mr D'laraeli hag been followed by a distinguished writer ii | the " ¦ Quarterly Review , " No . 94 , p , 471 . Every one of these accusations is now discovered to be slander . Concerning the last , there is not a shadow of proof . It is true that Eliot and the Duke of Buckingham , then George ViUier * , met oh the continent when young men , and travelled together ; it
is also true , that after the Utter held , among bis many honours , % \ e post of Lord High Admiral of England , Eliot was appointed Vtee-Admiral of Devonshire ; but this proves no particular intimacy , as , without even supposing any acquaintance , his name would U&tumUy present it ^ pt fyr such an office , he being one of the largest landea proprietors of the day ( rather a curious reason ,
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462 Eminent British Statesmen
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1836, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2660/page/2/
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