Show death of lord macaulay thonmas babington macaulay the eminent historian and essayist died in london on the of december of disease of 0 the heart he was without doubt the most moat eminent literary character of this thia age and probably the most splendid english prose writer that ever lived and his a void in hat at cannot soon again be filled no writer of 0 his day was wag probably so generally read or so BO universally ally admired ilia his writings extorted praise from scholars and men of lette letters reat at the same time they won the plaudits pl audits ot of the million A less eminent literary character has gaii said that the man who wa vias insensible to the witchery of 0 BIaca Maca uleys diction must be either a yahoo or a beautified saint the greatest and most blab elaborate crate worl work of af Macaula mcaulay is his bl history of england commencing with the reigie reign of charles I 1 blien humes history int and extending with the two volumes which are yet unpublished butwich it basald he left iu in manuscript to lo the termination of quen anns II 11 reign no i hi history story that was Lever ever written n is pro probably baby so full of absorbing interest as this tt usand and its ti veness is ia attributable much more to the genius of the historian than to any peculiar or interest in the events or times about which he wrote the miscellaneous writings of macau lay are as unequalled unequal led also as his history and will perpetuate long as the eilish language endures or is it d u A among mong these inin inimitable vita ble productions of lis AS pen chich aich appeared fit st in the Edin edinbargh barg rev review it is difficult to say may i v aich possesses precedence or superiority they all seem perfect in ili kind and j whether extolling the genius and virtues virtue a I 1 i of milton and addison Addi andi and triumphs of chatham and hastings or the perilda and meanness of 0 badere his ti on genius and ability rhines chinca kanally k kir 1 clear |