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The Gaming Table-Vol.2-Part11_Andrew Steinmetz(1816-1877)_English Literature(文学名著)-第2页

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Chatelet, for nearly three months. The case was subsequently



tried in a court of law, and decided in favour of the

accused,--the Jew being adjudged to make reparation and defray



the costs! Against the injustice of this sentence he appealed to

the high court of La Tournelle at Paris, which reversed it. Lord



Taffe and Montagu afterwards appealed, in their turn, but of the

definitive result there is no record.



DR WILLIAM DODD.

Le Sage, in his 'Gil Blas,' says that 'the devil has a particular



spite against private tutors;' and he might have added, against

popular preachers. By popular preachers I do not mean such grand



old things as Bossuet, Massillon, and Bourdaloue. All such men

were proof against the fiery darts of the infernal tempter. From



their earliest days they had been trained to live up to the Non

nobis Domine, 'Not unto us, O Lord, but unto thy name, give



glory.' All of them had only at heart the glory of their church-

cause; though, of course, the Jesuit Bourdaloue worked also for



his great Order, then culminating in glory.

The last-named, too, was another La Fontaine in simplicity,



preparing for his grandest predications by sorrily rasping on an

execrable fiddle. So, if the devil had lifted him up to a high



mountain, showing him all he would give him, he would have simply

invited him to his lonely cell, to have a jig to the tune of his



catguts.

Your popular preachers in England have been, and are, a different



sort of spiritual workers. They have been, and are,

individualities, perpetually reminded of the fact, withal; and



fiercely tempted accordingly. The world, the flesh, and the

devil, incessantly knock at their door. If they fall into the



snare it is but natural, and much to be lamented.

Dr Dodd had many amiable qualities; but his reputation as a



scholar, and his notoriety as a preacher, appear to have entirely

turned his head.



He had presented to him a good living in Bedfordshire; but the

income thereof was of no avail in supplying his wants: he was



vain, pompous, in debt, a gambler. Temptation came upon him. To

relieve himself he tried by indirect means to obtain the rectory



of St George's, Hanover Square, by sending an anonymous letter to

Lady Apsley, offering the sum of L3000 if by her means he could



be presented to the living; the letter was immediately sent to

the chancellor, and, after being traced to the sender, laid



before the king. His name was ordered to be struck out of the

list of chaplains; the press abounded with satire and invective;



Dodd was abused and ridiculed, and even Foote, in one of his

performances at the Haymarket, made him a subject of



entertainment. Dodd then decamped, and went to his former pupil,

Lord Chesterfield, in Switzerland, who gave him another living;



but his extravagance being undiminished, he was driven to schemes

which covered him with infamy. After the most extravagant and



unseemly conduct in France, he returned to England, and forged a

bond as from his pupil, Lord Chesterfield, for the sum of L4200,



and, upon the credit of it, obtained a large sum of money; but

detection instantly following, he was committed to prison, tried



and convicted at the Old Bailey, Feb. 24, and executed at

Tyburn, June 27 (after a delay of four months), exhibiting every



appearance of penitence. The great delay between the sentence

and execution was owing to a doubt for some time respecting the



admissibility of an evidence which had been made use of to

convict him.



Lord Chesterfield has been accused of a cold and relentless

disposition in having deserted his old tutor in his extremity.



But Mr Jesse says that he heard it related by a person who lived

at the period, that at a preliminaryexamination of the



unfortunate divine, Lord Chesterfield, on some pretence, placed

the forged document in Dodd's hands, with the kind intention that






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