CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
By Lord Macaulay
With a Memoir and Index
In Six Volumes
Vol. V.
New York: Published by Sheldon and Company.
1860
THE SIX VOLUMES
| VOLUME I. |
| VOLUME II. |
| VOLUME III. |
| VOLUME IV. |
| VOLUME V. |
| VOLUME VI. |
CONTENTS
ESSAYS
WARREN HASTINGS
FREDERIC THE GREAT.
MADAME D’ARBLAY.
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ADDISON.
BARÈRE
ESSAYS
WARREN HASTINGS (1)
(Edinburgh Review), October, 1841.
We 1are inclined to think that we shall best meet the wishes of our readers, if, instead of minutely examining this book, we attempt to give, in a way necessarily hasty and imperfect, our own view of the life and character of Mr. Hastings. Our feeling towards him is not exactly that of the House of Commons which impeached him in 1787; neither is it that of the House of Commons which uncovered and stood up to receive him in 1813. He had great qualities, and he rendered great services to the state. But to represent him as a man of stainless virtue is to make him ridiculous; and from regard for his memory, if from no other feeling, his friends would have done well to lend no countenance to such adulation. We believe that, if he were now living, he would have sufficient judgment and sufficient great