The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Vol. 1 (of 2): Late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc.Fagan, Louis
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The life and correspondence of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., Vol. 1 (of 2): Late principal librarian of the British museum, senator of Italy, etc.
Fagan, Louis
Panizzi, Anthony, Sir, 1797-1879
Je n’ai rien à ajouter à la lettre ci-jointe; je dis là tout ce
que je dirais ici, car je n’ai qu’une manière de penser et de sentir.
Je vous ajoute ces quelques mots pour vous dire que vous ferez de ma
lettre tout ce que vous voudrez: si vous la trouvez de tout point
convenable, et bonne à être envoyée à Lord Clarendon, vous pouvez la
lui envoyer; il s’en servira comme il jugera à propos. J’ai bien le
projet de vous aller revoir, et le plus tôt possible. Adieu; embrassez
Ellice sur le front, comme s’il était jeune, joli et pur autant que
ses charmantes nièces. Adieu; n’excluez pas Cromwell du Parlement, et
faites décréter une expédition Britannique contre les petits tyrans
Italiens. La belle Comtesse Taverna est malade, et seule à Paris;
venez nous aider à la consoler.
A. T.”
Lastly, we add a letter to Rutherfurd, written by Panizzi while staying
at Lord Clarendon’s. This letter seems to treat almost entirely of
English politics, and furnishes an excellent specimen of the acuteness
of the writer’s judgment on this subject, and, as it contains references
to Thiers, this has been thought a not unfit place for its introduction.
It is without date, but the contents show it to have been written early
in January, 1846; and certain passages in it may possibly, after such a
lapse of time, require a few words of explanation. In the previous year,
it will be remembered, the Government of Sir Robert Peel had become
involved in extreme difficulty, and an attempt had been made by Lord
John Russell to form a ministry capable of settling the vexed question
of the Corn Laws. This attempt proved signally unsuccessful, owing to an
unhappy difference, which it is not too much to designate as a quarrel,
that had sprung up between Lord Palmerston and Lord Grey. On the conduct
of the latter in the affair, Lord Macaulay had written to a
correspondent in Edinburgh a letter containing severe animadversions,
which he wished to be strictly private.
Unfortunately, his correspondent, unaware, probably, of the writer’s
wishes, and taking upon himself to think that so decided an expression
of opinion on the part of so important a person was the legitimate
property of the political world at large, sent the letter for
publication to a leading Edinburgh newspaper, wherein it forthwith
appeared, much to the disgust of Macaulay, and the displeasure of all
right-thinking men. Panizzi’s remarks on this gentleman’s course of
action are such as to be fully permissible under the circumstances:—
“The Grove,”
Sunday.
“My Dear Rutherfurd,
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