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hopes of that country must be placed . Fine intellect , varied knowledge ) energy , fortitude , and unimpeachable integrity , amidst startling changes and temptations , and the good of his country , all have been thrown away and sacrificed to false notions of honour ! Armand Carrel must have
known the value of his life to France , and we cannot hel p mingling our regrets for his loss , and at an age when he might have looked forward to many years of patriotic labours , with a degree of reproach to his want , in this important instance , of that moral courage which characterized his conduct through life , and should have supplied the place of a vain-glorious test , which proves nothing but that want , and has caused his death
The vicious remains of a military education were at bottom of his conduct , and too plainly manifested from the moment he received his wound . There is , however , a strong feeling of this kind in the French nation , owing to similar circumstances , and accordingly we find many of their newspapers speculating on " the warrior " and " the hero " and " the general " he would have made had lie not been " restricted to the simple
province of thought ! " Simple eulogists ! There would have been less moral courage required in not sending or receiving a challenge than he manifested in declaring on his death-bed that he would have " no priest —no church 1 " It was his last blow at the hypocrisy and chicanery of fleecing the people in the name of heaven , and that he made this blow when on the very brink of the grave , proves him more of a hero than if he had successfully arranged the butchery of thousands .
But our literary men , albeit without the " benefit of a military education , " seem disposed to indulge in similar displays . The by-gone affair of Dr Black , however , was by no means so " close a shave" as that of Dr Maginn . The latter gentleman writes a cutting-up review of the novel recently published by the Hon . G . F . Berkeley , and takes upon himself to recommend a certain nobleman to horsewhip the author , coolly assuring
him he may do so with perfect impunity ! G . F . Berkeley accordingly calls on Mr Fraser , in whose magazine the review appeared , and on nis rerftising to give up the name of the writer , administers a sound threshing . Dr Maginn leaves his card at Berkeley House , and a hostile meeting ensues . They fire three times each ; Dr Maginn ' balls wounding the ground at less than half way each fire , those of G . F . Berkeley whizzing so close to his opponent as to make him jump clean up into the air .
We congratulate the Doctor on his very narrow escape ; not only from the pistol of a known " shot , " but from those of his two brothers , who we have not the least doubt would have taken their turn in some way or other , had G . F . Berkeley fallen . As it happened otherwise , the parties leave the field ; G . F . Berkeley joins his brothers , who , in the fullness of gentlemanlike morality , are quite surprised and ashamed that he did not " bring down his man / ' and Dr Maginn dr ives off in a coach , embracing
and embraced by Mr Hugh Fraser ! What is gained by all this ? The statements in the novel and in the review of it remain just the same , and ** go for what they are worth . " If any good can come of such an affair , let us hope that it will teach the publisher of " Fraser * 8 Magazine " not to encourage ( even under pretence of deprecating personality ) scurrilous personalities which are the disgrace of modern literature , and of which that magazine has generally enough in each number to form the solid fproumdwork of half & dozen actions for libel , the results of which would ra store instructive than a dozen good quihing-8 .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1836, page 586, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2661/page/62/
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