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National Biography, No. 4: Laurence SterneSource: The Dublin Penny Journal, Vol. 1, No. 28 (Jan. 5, 1833), pp. 219-221Published by: Dublin Penny JournalStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/51000055 .

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THE DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL. 219

teagh, haare ye any thing wlth you, for the wallet seems fiull :2t " I have, says I, 4' rour reverence ;" and I pulls out two pair of graziers, (young rabbits,) and a brace of three-pound trouts, fresh from the sea, that I caught that morning in Dhulouoh In these days, I carried a ferret, besides tile trap and fishing-rod, aIId it went hard, if I missed the otters, but I would net rabblts or kill a dish of trout. cs Upon my conscieIlee," says the priest, " ye never were more welcome Antony. The minlster and myself wi§l dine oS the trouts and rabbits, fcor they forgot to kill a sheep for us till an hour so; and you .know, Antony, es- cept the shoulder, there's no part of the mutton cou}d be

touched, so I rather bothered aboutthe dinner. '

'; Well, in.the evening, I was brought illtO the parlour, and thexe were their -reYerenCes as our cudsliogh (comfiort- able3:as -ou please. Father Patt gave me a tembler of rale stiS puneh, and the diaril a better warrant to make the same was within $he provinee of Connauht. We were just as corrnbrtable as we eould be, when a czzrracr (eourier) stops at the door u ith a letter, which he said was br Mr. Carson. Frell, when the minister opens it, he got as pale as a sheetJ and I thought he would ha^re faant- ed. Father Pat erossed himself: " Arnah, Dick,' says hes '< the Lortl stagld between you and evil ! is there any thin:, wron¢'"-" I 'm ruined, says he; '4 for some bad t^ze7?zber has wrote to the Bishop, alld told him that I have no eollgregation, beeause you and I are so intimate, and he's eofrsng down to-morrow with the Dane, to see the state of things. Och, hone 75' says he, " I 'm fairly ruinefl." -is And is tilat a11 that s frettin' ye ?7' says the priest. " Arrah, dear l)ick,"- -- for they called each other by their crgste7z names, ; ls that aJl ? If it s a conglegation ye want, ye shall harre a decent one to-morrc}s, and lave that tome;- -andIlow, ue'll take-our elrink and notmatter t]ze Bishop a fig." '

Wcll, next day, sure enough, down comes the Bishop and a great retinue along with him; and there was Mr. (t,arson ready to receive him. " I hear, says the Bishop mighty stately, '4that you have no congrefflation." "2In Sith) your Holiness,F' savs }eX "you 'll be SOOI1 able to tell that,'--- --and ill he z-atLs him to the chureh, and there were sitting three3core welI-dressed men and womerl, and all of them as devollt as it they were goin to be anoint- cf1; br that blessed mornin Father Patt whipped mas3

over before ye had tixne to bless arourself; ars(l the clallest of the fivck ssras before the Bishop in the church, alld ready for his lIuliness. Tv see that al1 behaved properly Father Patt had hardly put off the srestnlent, till he slipped on a cota ?lore, (a great coat,) and there he sat in a b;Ack sate like any other of the corregatlon. I as near the Bi3hop's reverence; he was seated in an arnl-chair be- losuging to the priest '< Come here, Mr. Carson," says he, ; solse ellemy of youSs," says the sFeet old gentie- mari, 46 wanted to injure youwith me But -I an now fully satisfied." And turnirlg to the I)ane " By this book Its

says he, 2 I didn't see a claner corrreption thls month of Sulld;grs tX Wgld SSorts of the West.

NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY. Nv. 4.

LAURENCB S UVe can hardly claim Stelne as a countryman. He

certainly Fr;ElS born in lreland, and vsas here at intervals durirBg part of his chlldhood; but from the period of his goint1 to school, he never aain -isited this country. His family too was altogether Ell{rlish, beiny origirlully of the county of SufFolk. His great-grandfather was Richard Sterne, A:rchbi3hot) of Yorl;, in the time of Charles Il. havin been elevated to the archiepiscopal see after the Restoration, in reward for his suferings and imprisonment durlno the commonwealth His son settled at Els-ington in Yorl;shlre. Roger Sterne, the seoond son of this 1u- ter gentleman, and the father o{' Lallrence we find in the

mrhich they had to struggle ill maintainint a fanzily on the slender support his fflher's pa- afforded theln, furnlshed Sterne witE some hiIlts for his beautiful eplsode of Le :Fevre. His ither, having {er seseral vears carried his wlfe arld children aboutwith his retiment to various quar- ters in EngIand alld irearld, they at length enjoyed all interral of repose, rernaininz ir sleafly the entsre of 1720 n barracks, in the toBn of Wicklow; from thence thetr removed to the house of a Mr. Betherston? a clergymaIJ, who being related to sterne7S mother, invited them to hs parsonage, at Annamoe? in the same county. :During their stay here, Sterrse relates tha.t he had"amronder- fu} escape in falling throut,h a mill-race whilst the mill was going, and of being taken up unhurt ;" " The story,s' he says, ( might be incredibAe, but was knowls for truth in al1 that part of Ireland, where hundrePds of the comm}n people flocked to see hin.° Now to our humble apprehension, the most ineredlble part of the stortr is, not that he escaped 1lnhurt, but rather that such a mighty astonishment should Ehave been escited by so simple an oecurrence. Abowt the beginnin of 1723, his father put him to School at Hallfas in YolDkshire, pre- slous to lss going out with his regiment to the defellce of Gibraltars During the progress of the siege there, lle re- ceived a severe wound in a dllel v.ith a Captain PhillTps, which oritinated in sume quarrel about agoose. With much difficulty he survived, and shcortly after being order- ed out to 3amaica, whither he went with an impaired COt1- stitutlon llnequal to the hardshis he wm exposed to, in that climate he was attacked with fever, to which he quickly fell a victim, and die{l there in March, 1731.

Sterne has recorded an occurrence srhich took place while he remained at schoo3, ael wllich should not be omitted here. ' His master having had-the ceiling of th+e se.hool room rlewly white-rashed, one unlucky day the lad{1er remainin,: theres he mounted, and- wrote with a brush, in large capital letters,-LAU. STERNE;-for which he got a sourld whlppilg om an usher. The mas- ter however, Bas very much hurt at this, and said beire him, thfdt never should that name be edac.ed} for that he was a boy of genius, and would surely come to prefer ment: this expression made him forget the stripes he had received. We are free tv ccynfess, that to us this story appears to ewllibit somethirlg of that egotlstical turn which develops itself also in his relation of his earlier adventllre atAnlsamoe, and is sti]l giore prepo3terous1y displayed through every part of hos correspondence zsith his friexlds, published afiter his death by his daughter.

To the Universit- of Carnbridge, where he was admit- ted of Jesu3 Collete) in 1732, he was sent by his COUSil1 Mr. Sterne of Elvinvon, who, he saysf acted like a 0a- ther to him; how he occupled himself during his resi- dence there, does notappe34r. In.January? 178G, he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and that of Master, in 1740. In the interval betureen the -two last nlentiolled periods, be was ordained, and by the interest of hls uncle, Dr. 3aques Sterne, Prebendary of Durham, -oUtained the livino of Sutton near York; tllf income arisizlg from ths could not have been very conszzlerable, as his wii, to whom he was about this tmme first introduced7 long ressst- ed his solicitations to llnite hevself to him on theground of the inadequacy of even their uIlited meansf In t741, however, tlley were married, shortly aSter her recovery from a severe illness, duril which she had givezi a most striking pro?f of her affUctionate regard for him,- hanirlg7 at a tixne when she believed her recoveer hopeless; left to him by her will? the entire cf the fortllne at her disposal. About this time, his unele, with uhom he yet corttinued on good terms, got hila a plebendal stall in Tork cathe- dral, but soon after, ('he quarrelled wtith him, and from that period lhecame his bittelest enerny, because, (accortl- ing M Sterne tells the stor>)) I utollid llot utrite palagraphs in the newslxapers, for though he as a party-man, I was not, aIld detested xuch dirWty worli, thillkirlg it beneath Irle." Shortly after, he obtalned by his wite's interest, the livino of Stillington; ande from thfl time br nearly twenty years, lle colltinued to do dut theren and at Sutton, residing at the latter place. Durin? the Sreater part of this period, his pllblications seem to han-e been confined to a Sertnon for the charity schools in York, irl 1747, and another preached befole the JudOes of Assixe, in 1756,

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220 THE DUBLIN PENNY JOURNAL.

In 17o9, a4peared the two first volumes of his Tristram Shalldy, xvhich spee(lily excite(l so Illuch attention, arld hatl such a rapid sale, that the follou-irlo ̂ ear, havillfr takerl a house in York for his ̂ifE and dall"hter, lle ̂sent ul) to Lollcloll for the purpose of I)ul)lishint, a sevolld e(li- tion. (){ this sintulal bool; it is ilnlsossitgle justly to pro- zlowlnce arly general, deci(le(l, or sutnmary ol)illion either ill its faour, or tile colltraly; thfere certainly are Illelll,y parts of it BrhiCtl pO33eSS g reat lzeauty alld eleganot, others colltain tEle IllOSt l)iquallt strolies of uit and hu- sour, alld at the same time esince a thoroufrh knoseledge

of c haracter; solne of tlle episodes ar e exquisitely touchilf, (nd illdicclte a milld tull of the fixlest sellsi- bilitv; t)lt it allOU11(13 ssith passages containirlt, such gross an(1 illdelicate allusions as al e utterly inllefensible, and al)eal to have nlejt nith Inost deserve(l reprehension iln- eeliately orl the ap)earanee of the first xolunles of the

sork. Ret Sterne, thon(>ll {II]y ltl)prized <)t tllis, seelns to have totallv disret,ardeel esely coniii(lel;tioll but tilat of sordid proiit; in olle of his letterz from I,ondoll, he says, " one half the tos n abuse nly book as ritterly as the otller half cry it Ul) to the skies the best is, thesr abwse all(l blly it, aIld at SllCIl a rate, that se are tOiII' on sxith a se- cond edition as fdSt as l)ossilhle." Indeed on one occasion, shen he *sas plainlytold, that"hisssoll; coul(l llOt iJe put into the han(ls of anv mon-lan oi character," his only defence was a misercll)le atteln})t at ril)ald aIld ill(lecellt jocularitv, coupled Bith an a(llllission, thclt he virote "to make his labour of acls alltclge to llilllself." Tristrclln Shclndy carl in truth olily be chalactelise(l as the nlost extlclor(li- nclry melante oi illtellitent allel reflectiye ol)ser^-cltioll of human nature, and of the most protourld al)sululity, of hit,hly ^^rougl1t feelirl^, an(l of the Inost tll1lnealsils^, antl vicious frivolity that eser u-a<, or it is to be ho)e(l, e+er will be preselltf d to the ̂orld.

It has leell reigeate(31y S'ditlS antl some treatises ha^-e been writtel1 to I)ro-e llOt only that Sterne ̂as ill a great measure a copyi,t of the lnanner ot' ]:tabelais, SIol-ltaitne, Bishop Hall, and some other old M riters, ^^ hose ̂ orLs are but little retld, l)ut that uhole passates in his Tristrtlln Shandy, and Selltinlental Jourrley coulcl be )oillte(l out, u hich, with versr little alteration, are tratsscrtl)e(l froIxl Burtoll's Anat()ll1^r of Melallellexly, alld Otilel N orl;s of et relnoter peri()(l. There certtlillly ss-ere ar(ulrlellts t)routht i/)rovard ;llmost arnourltil1(} to proofs of this, vet eVell it \\'e adrnit then1 to their {uliest extent, enou_h of ullat is })llrely hi3 OUI1 \\ill be foull(l in Stertle's ^orl;s to elltitle hiln to the nalne of an oritillal s-riter.

In the c(3tulllellcelllel1t ot 1X6i, ile u as presente(l bsr Lord Faucorll)er< u ith the cllracy of Cox^votlld u hich ro(lu(ed solne illereaGe to l)is illeolne, but ol)lifrel hiln to

kee) a c lrate for tlle I)arishes of Sutton alld Stillill>toll. He nonv came to reside at Coxs olll(l, xvhich lle calls " a sweet retirerrlent ill comparison of Sutt(n." Here too, h( dlas^s a cl1alllliilft l);eture of tlle dolnestic occul)lti)ns of has t:alnily: 54 I dlll scribl)lillg Ul)rcly clt my lristralll, mv Lvdia 11el)s lo cot)y tor nle alld nly mite knits and lis- te.ls, clS I reacl her lny cha)ters."

His 11ealth al)ollt tEliS time, cly)pears to ha^Te beell xerxr precarious; he hst(1 burst a blood-vessel in his ll.lll'rS, arld ssas otheruise so clelicate, that he ̂ras a(lvise(l to try the Soutl1 of France, and from the Archl)isllol) of lorl;, he mitllout difficult^, oUtaine(l perlnission to be al)sellt for 4 year or two. '1'hat he mas all irnprovident lnan, ;ar(l n0t- withstandint the incollle ot lsis ses-eral chur( ll )refferlllellts frequently nluch in sant of money, is a circllrllstane( lxretty e11 kllosll, and a tolerable saml-)le of tllis is exhibite(l in tile follouill(r letteru-hich he rote to Garrick, sllortly b-- fore he set out for the Continellt, the aalt(),ra})tl oi sx hich is preserved ill tile collection of lAIr. Upcott of Lom10ll.

" Dear Garrick, " U})OI1 reYiewing my finances this mornin(r, ssitll

some unforeseen expences, I filld I sllolll(l set out nith it) pounds less, than a l)rutlent rnan ought-sill you 1CI1d me tweltAr pourlds. *' Wrour's >

" t. STERATE." He nollld have the ssorld to believe, thblt uhile at

Paris, sellere he arrixred ill January, 1762, he was courte(l An(l his soCiPty sou"ht ill tl-te ltlost Hatterilsfr manllel, })y a,l the Inen of rank, as wt'll as of wit alld l(-'arIlill(r ttl(r(' b! the Duke os Orleans, (who, he says, got hi:n to sit

' for a portrait for him,) the Count de Choiseul, Baron d'Holbach, Crebillon, and mally others. Although it has

I been very gellerally saitl, tllat his treatlllent ot his wife } throu,,h life, ̂as unkind in tlle extrellxe, -et this is by

I10 lneall3 lNdlUdted })y several letters which he wrote to her troln Paris, })ressillg her to conle oser to him uith his daullter, an(l to accolllpany hiln in his tour to the South. His jourlleAr thither s as h;sstene(l, in consequence ot his haxin;rr beell nearly carried od' I)y a(aill }reakintr a bloo(i-

vessel iIstern.tlly, just betore the alrival of his site anet dauthter, in July. Accor(linoly, about the end of t}lat mOllth, thEv set out for Toulouse, s here they took a house for a year. The winter \\'d3 paSaEd t)y Sterne, very a(rree- al)ly in the societ! ot solne Ensrlish familiee, who were re- Sidellt there, aIld W}lO fOUlld ill ilinl a xaluable auxiliary i gettillg 1ll) solne srivate plays at Christmas. At)out thtj Inonth ot June tollowing, he legan to grow tire(l of Tolz- louse, and he rellloveet to Mont)elier, and took up his resl(lence tlaere durilat, tlle ssillter of 17(j.3. Evllly in the {f)llouill, year, thollrll not much ilnr)ro((l ill hecllth he 4CterlNllled Oll retUrnillg hOItle, bUt his X ite })reterreti re- lllaining after llilll ill i'rclnce. Sollle seol)lesere so inore- nious ctS to re})resellt tllis, esen clt tlle tillle, as a "separa- tion tor lite," t)ut there does not al-)l)ear to have been aIly t,.olln(is for stlch a su)l)osition, es)ecicilly, as they were atsciili totether at Tour<,, ill lititi, cln(l as in 1767, she re- Joil-le(l hlm in Eltcgland. All accusltion of his havin;, sup- lied her mo3t scarltily ^ith lllUllPV seems to be equally UIItOUnded. AI)OUt JUI1e-, 18(s4, }1C returnetl to England, urhele he was fol sollle tillle cllietl encl<red in the l)rint-

I ill; of tlle coneluelill} VO1UII1eS 0 Tristrclm Shall(3y, ansl t110 I)111)11Cat1011 I)!T SU1)RC11I)tiOI1 0{ hXrO \ OlilNleS 0{ Sermons.

! Alsout this tillle, IJ101)CL1)1\ he eat to Sir Joshua Reynol(ls for the l)oltrXlit of s-hicll *^e here ti-e ;n ent,ravintr. His

he(lltll R8iII beCinnin:, to fail, he SlaRtened to Italy ill tl2e latter ell(l of 17ei;a, and sl)ent the sillter at Naples. 1 his jowirll(jxr thith, r, throutrh Frallce, he does not a)pear to has e "One to see hi3 stife or d;uthter, altl-louh they +^ ere tll( ll liN iIX'-^r at Tours; vet llis letters to tlleln irom It.lnr, (lo not shoss any alienatiotI, or eten unusual cold- rless, Al1(1 OI1 }liS retllRlls ill tlle l!FlE1V +0110\\int> he l)aid thelll a sI<ort lisit. His lealtll afier he (rot l)ac}; to EIlg'-

lall(l, I)egall ral)it11sr to sirll;, (Itlil *tse {ind hiln for so¢le tirrle at Scz3rlg0rou¢>11 tI} int, the efficacsr oi tlle maters thel't'. In lt/j7, lle eanle ul) to IJOI1(IOL1 to I)ul)lish his Serltilllental JotlrIleNtS arld Brhile thele, hcl(l a xiolent retrlr of llis ol(l colrllxlclillt ^ 11ich lrove(l ersr nearltr {dtctl. Frorlx this attctel<, he neser l)eArfectlx revover(el. Iiis ̂ ife arlel (lAllghter retllillU(l trOIIl the (v'Olltinellt ill the lllOIlth 0t'

0e tober, arld settle(l ill \ orls, ancl the societ) of h} (l;lu,llter, to ̂\llom he ̂as nluch (lttache(l, seeIIled to zive llilll nexvxitollr tor asshile, but l-lis disor(ler^as too firlnly rooted in llis corlstitutioIl,-llos exlfeel)led by repeated at- tacl;s, and on tlle lSth of o\I.+rch, 17f;E3, atter a sisort but seerestruggle, he died (lt ilis lo(loillts ill Boncl-street, and ̂s-as interred ill the neu burvill^,-<rollll(l belont,illg to the parssh of St. George's, Hanover-s(luare.

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been formed into a brigade, axld stationed at the town of Birr, in the King's County. In the month of Julys thi3 bripde was broken up, and the second companies of +rhich it uras composed were ordered to joln their respectsve regi- ments .Aveeal}ly to this order, four companie6, beingtllose of Derry, Monaghan, Limerick and Sligo regiments marcheel nto Tullamore, where, as has been stated, the first light ba- tahon and one squadron of the first dragoons of the legxon were quarterezl. On their entrance snto the town, the mi}i- tia officers were met by a deputation from those of the legion whoJ wishing to return a similar civility which had be-en paid to one of their battalions t}y the Irish officers at Birr begged that they might be favoured with their company at dillnera The snvitation was declined under the plea of fatigue, and the milit1a proceeded to take up their quarters sn Tullamore for the nighto

About seven o'clock zn the evening a man belonging to the German lioht battalion, who was peaceffily crossing the tJridte which formed one end of the main street of the town, was linocl;ed dowll by one of the mi]itia, who WA8 immedi- ately joined by one of his comrades. Three other C;ermarls who were accidentally paSSillg, and came up to see what was going forward, met with a similar gate.

Major General von Linsingen, who commanded t-he dis_ trict, happening to be at the momelst at}out to leave the offi cer's dinnfer room in the adjoining hotel, was attracted by tbe noise which this outrage occasioned, and seeing from the inn window that two or three of the German light inEantry were surrounded t}y a crowd of militia soldiery, hurried to the spot, and in the best :E:nU,lish he could cotnmand, entreated them to desist. For the moments his illterSerence was effectual, but two of tlle Germans had been a]ready wounded with bayonets and stones, alld a determination to repeat the assault appeared evident on the part of the militia. The Major General, therefore, sending to the barracks *for a patrole, repaired to his quarters and made the officer who commanded the militia acquainted with what had occurred. This officer immedixtely waited llpOn the General, who ordered him to parade his men forthwith for roll-call, and sent similar in- struction3 to Colonel son Alten for the llght snfantry of tEle legion.

The patrole from tlle barrxks now came up and seized one of the militiaf who appeared to be a ringleader in the buslness. About twe^ty of hls comrades then collected for the apparent purpose of rfescuinC him, and were about to charge the Germans with fixed bevonets when Captan von Ousing moxrsd his companv down upon the assailants,-and caused them to retre;t beyond the bridge. Here they faced alsout and fired, and seven of the Gelmans were woundexl. Upon this Captain Dissing pressed forxYardX aEnd drove them into the lanes beyond the bridFrev meantime Colonel von Alten's bazttalion hatd been formed in tlle main street.

The militEa had now nearly all retired from this part of the tfwn; but tal;ing shelter in the houses, and at the corners of streets, they still continued to fire UpOll ths Germans, and Lieutenant Baron Marschalk was dangerously wounded by a musquet ball in the chest.

General Linsingen now appeared with the cavalry, and chargell the only body of the milit}a whsch still held out. The German dr<igoons felt nztturally irritated at the ullpro volied treatment wlsich their comrades had received, and shewed little mercy towards the aggressors. These, how ever received them with a heavy tire; but not besug able to withstand the violent reprisal of the cavalry, sooll dispersed, and here the affair terminated.

Three officers, twenty-two men, and five horses sere wounded on the slde of the iqioll; and Baron AI.rschalk, who lad bt ell Bbot through the lungs, was for a length of time not expected to recover.

Of the milititi, only nine uere wounded, one of whom died afterwards, which small numlser of causa}ltses in proportion to that of the Germans, was oxving to the latter being un- provided with amuntion, while the militia were all loaded with both.

V-<lrious reassons have been given for the hostile feeling of the Irish toxvards the Germans ;- - reYenge ior Pl, punish- ment svhich had been inflicted upon one of their body for stealing a pipe firom one of the legion; a belief that the ar- rival of the lattel in Ireland was the cause of the militea hht brxgade having been broken up; the faithlessness of some former 'sweethearts" of the Irishmen ln Tllllamore} on the arrival of the legion sn tllat town, hEivs been severally stated as the C8U38 0 the aggression, and taken collectively, will probably accoullt for the affray.

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Of Sterlle'3 general character, enough may be gathered from the precedlnC, sketch to enable one to- jllde that his standard ot morMity was not very high. hIany passages in his writings, woultl, ne doubt, tend to the conclusion that he was of a most benevolent tllrn of mind, and had a heart very susceptible of comIJassionate feeling; yet it seems to be the universal opinioll, that the wrhole tenor of hIs life went directly to contradiet all -this. His corres- pondence with Eliza (Mrs. Draper) seeals to tell nothillg to his advantage, or her's, thouth she seems to have been a woman of strict virtue. But x}o defence can be at- tempted for a cler;,yman, writing letters of the kind, to a married woman f(sr the purpose of establisElin what has been amably termed, a Platorlic aticti(3n ! a phrase Ina- nifestly but a cloak for a crimillal passiollB Walpole has given us his opinion with a harshness which we fear is but too justly called for. (Walpoliana, 95.) His frielkd Garrick has taketl him in the best point of view, ln the eitaph which he wrote for his tomb.

cs Shall PIide a heap of sculptured marble raise Some worthless, unmourned? titled fool to praise: And shall we not by one pOOI' graYe-stone learn Where Geniu5, Wit, ;wnd Humour sleep with Sterne?"

-_ O'G.

merits of their foreign guests. With more complete satlsfaction could we dwell upon the

sojourn of the German legion in lreland, did not an unfor tunate event, which about this time occurred, mingie some painfu} recollstions with this ,ueriod of their history.

The light compallies of somg Iris}zmilitia regiments had

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