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d and Europe still exist. By the one he is still revered as a demigod; the other reduce him to the level of quite an ordinary man. Both, we think, are wrong, and truth, as usual, lies in the middle. The man who, at the age of twenty-four, could triumph in the British Parliament over the most powerful opposition that had ever banded itself within the walls of St. Stephen's to pull down a Ministry --who could, almost single handed, resist the united efforts of Fox, Burke, Sheridan, Enskine, Windham, Grey, and a host of others, and resist it with success --who could retain power almost uninterruptedly for the space of twenty-three years, in the face of such a combination, was surely no ordinary man.--On the other side, we see nothing in his life to entitle him to that lofty praise which his partizans still continue to lavish on him.--That he was a great declaimer, we have no doubt; for O' Connel, who surely was a competent judge, and was certainly not a very friendly one, declared he