Identifier: macliseportraitg00macl (find matches)
Title: The Maclise portrait-gallery of "illustrious literary characters", with memoirs biographical, critical, bibliographical & anecdotal, illustrative of the literature of the former half of the present century
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Maclise, Daniel, 1806-1870 Bates, William, d. 1884
Subjects: Authors Authors, English Journalists
Publisher: London : Chatto and Windus
Contributing Library: The Centre for 19th Century French Studies - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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d to one or more of the parties implicated, with a threat of furtherinquiry into its truth, and a full exposure of the circumstances whichexcited the senders virtuous indignation. This, if the selected victimwas a man of nervous, timid temperament, often produced the desiredeffect ; and, although possibly entirely innocent of the allegation, he pre-ferred to purchase silence, and escape the suspicion which publicity doesnot fail to attach to a name. If, on the other hand, no notice was takenof the communication, the screw received some further turns. A narrativewas drawn up, and printed off, in the form of a newspaper paragraph ;this was transmitted to the parties concerned, with a letter, intimatingthat it had been received from a correspondent, and that the publisherthought fit, prior to publication, to ascertain whether those whose nameswere mentioned desired to correct, modify, or cancel any part of the state-ment. There is no doubt that very large sums have been extorted by these
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THE EBIITOM. ®)P THE aGE*! CHARLES MOLLOY WESTMACOTT, 237 scoundrelly means, and a vast amount of anxiety and misery occasioned.Not to grope in the mud for forgotten slander, I shall content myself hereby saying that Westmacott became acquainted, in the course of hisexcavations^ with a certain scandalous intrigue, in which members of theCourt, a general officer, and even persons of a loftier station, were impli-cated. The usual means were had recourse to, and the screw put on^;till finally he was induced to deliver up the pieces jiistificatives for theconsideration of a sum amounting, if I am not greatly mistaken, to notmuch less than ;z^5ooo. This, with sundry other pulls, and the morelegitimate gains of his editorship, enabled Westmacott to fit up a classicTtisculamim between Barnes and Richmond, with books and pictureswithin, as befitted an owner of Ciceronian tastes, and surrounded bygrounds, in which might be seen, as in the Groves of Blarney,— All heathen gods, And nymphs so

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