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THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
OF
LORD MACAULAY.
VOLUME III.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
AND
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, INSCRIPTIONS, ETC.

CONTENTS.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.
Francis Atterbury. (December 1853)
John Bunyan. (May 1854)
Oliver Goldsmith. (February 1856)
Samuel Johnson. (December 1856)
William Pitt. (January 1859)
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, INSCRIPTIONS, ETC.
Epitaph on Henry Martyn. (1812)
Lines to the Memory of Pitt. (1813)
A Radical War Song. (1820)
The Battle of Moncontour. (1824)
The Battle of Naseby, by Obadiah Bind-their-kings-in-chains-and-
their-nobles-with-links-of-iron, Serjeant in Ireton's Regiment. (1824)
Sermon in a Churchyard. (1825)
Translation of a Poem by Arnault. (1826)
Dies Irae. (1826)
The Marriage of Tirzah and Ahirad. (1827)
The Country Clergyman's Trip to Cambridge. An Election Ballad.
(1827)

Song. (1827)
Political Georgics. (March 1828)
The Deliverance of Vienna. (1828)
The Last Buccaneer. (1839)
Epitaph on a Jacobite. (1845)
Lines Written in August, 1847.
Translation from Plautus. (1850)
Paraphrase of a Passage in the Chronicle of the Monk of St Gall. (1856)
Inscription on the Statue of Lord Wm. Bentinck, at Calcutta. (1835)
Epitaph on Sir Benjamin Heath Malkin, at Calcutta. (1837)
Epitaph on Lord Metcalfe. (1847)

FRANCIS ATTERBURY.
(December 1853.)
Francis Atterbury, a man who holds a conspicuous place in the political,
ecclesiastical, and literary history of England, was born in the year
1662, at Middleton in Buckinghamshire, a parish of which his father
was rector. Francis was educated at Westminster School, and carried
thence to Christchurch a stock of learning which, though really scanty,
he through life exhibited with such judicious ostentation that superficial
observers believed his attainments to be immense. At Oxford, his parts,
his taste, and his bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit, soon made
him conspicuous. Here he published at twenty, his first work, a
translation of the noble poem of Absalom and Achitophel into Latin
verse. Neither the style nor the versification of the young scholar was
that of the Augustan age. In English composition he succeeded much
better. In 1687 he distinguished himself among many able men who
wrote in defence of the Church of England, then persecuted by James
II., and calumniated by apostates who had for lucre quitted her
communion. Among these apostates none was more active or malignant
than Obadiah Walker, who was master of University College, and who
had set up there, under the royal patronage, a press for printing tracts
against the established religion. In one of these tracts, written
apparently by Walker himself, many aspersions were thrown on Martin
Luther. Atterbury undertook to defend the great Saxon Reformer, and
performed that task in a manner singularly characteristic. Whoever
examines his reply to Walker will be struck by the contrast between the

feebleness of those parts which are argumentative and defensive, and
the vigour of those parts which are rhetorical and aggressive. The
Papists were so much galled by the sarcasms