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550 I am stripped of all my honours; I am torn up by the roots and lie prostrate on the earth. . .. I am alone. I have none to meet my enemies in the gate. . .. I live in an inverted order. They who ought to have succeeded me have gone before me. They who should have been to me as posterity are in the place of ancestors.” A pension of 2500 was all that Burke could now be persuaded to accept. The and made some remarks in  upon this paltry reward to a man who, in conducting a great  on the public behalf, had worked harder for nearly ten years than any  in any  of the reign. But it was not yet safe to kick up heels in face of the dying. The vileness of such criticism was punished, as it deserved to be, in the Letter to a Noble Lord (1796), in which Burke showed the usual of all his compositions in shaking aside the insignificances of a subject. He turned mere personal defence and retaliation into an occasion for a lofty enforcement of al principles, and this, too, with a relevancy and pertinence of consummate skilfulness. There was to be one more great effort before the end. In the of 1796 's constant anxiety for peace had become more earnest than ever. He had found out the instability of the and the power of. Like the thrifty he was, he saw with growing concern the waste of the national resources and the strain upon, with a  swollen to what then seemed the desperate sum of 400,000,000. Burke at the notion of flamed out in the Letters on a Regicide Peace, in some respects the most splendid of all his compositions. They glow with passion, and yet with all their rapidity is such steadfastness, the fervour of is so skilfully tempered by close and plausible ing, and the whole is wrought with such strength and fire, that we hardly know where else to look either in Burke's own writings or elsewhere for such an exhibition of the al resources of. We cannot wonder that was stirred to the very depths, or that they strengthened the aversion of the king, of, and other important personages in , against the plans of. The prudence of their drift must be settled by external considerations. Those who think that the were likely to show a moderation and practical ableness in success, such as they had never shown in the hour of imminent ruin, will find Burke's judgment full of error and mischief. Those, on the contrary, who think that the which was on the very eve of surrendering itself to the ic  was not in a hopeful humour for peace and the an order, will believe that Burke's protests were as perspicacious as they were powerful, and that anything which chilled the energy of the war was as fatal as he declared it to be. When the third and most impressive of these astonishing productions came into the hands of the public, the writer was no more. Burke died on the 8th of 1797., who with all his faults was never wanting in a fine and generous sensibility, proposed that there should be a public, and that the body should lie among the illustrious dead in. Burke, however, had left strict injunctions that his should be private; and he was laid in the little  at. It was the year of. So a black whirl and torment of rapine, violence, and fraud was encircling the Western World, as a life went out which, notwithstanding some eccentricities and some aberrations, had made great s in very luminous. (Author:John Morley)  BURKE, (1821–1861), one of the great of the  of, was born in 1821 at  in,. He left the  where he had been  to enter the  of, but in 1848 returned to , and obtained a post in the. He next went to, and served for some time as -inspector, first in and then in the  of , till the outbreak of the  induced him to return to  to take part in the campaign. Peace was restored, however, before he arrived, and he accordingly went back to and resumed his connection with the. In 1860 he was appointed one of the leaders of a exploring expedition, and in this capacity had the honour of being one of the first  to traverse the  from south to north. A short account of the enterprise—so brilliantly successful in its achievements and so disastrous in its termination—is given in the article,. ; and fuller details will be found in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society for 1862. The remains of the explorer were interred by 's relief party in 28° 20′ S. . and 141° E..  BURLAMAQUI, (1694–1748), a celebrated on, was born at  on the 24th  1694. He received a careful, and while passing through his course devoted himself with such success to the study of  and  of , that at the age of twenty-five he was designated honorary. Before taking possession of his chair he travelled through and, and made the acquaintance of the most eminent  of the period. On his return he began his s, and soon gained a wide reputation, from the simplicity of and the precision of his views. He continued to for fifteen years, when he was compelled to resign from. His fellow-s at once him a member of the, and he gained as high a reputation for his practical sagacity as he had for his theoretical knowledge. He died at on the 3d  1748. His works were Principes du Droit Naturel, 1747, and Principes du Droit Politique, 1751. These have passed through many editions, and were very extensively used as text-books. The most convenient collected edition is that by, in 5 vols., 1820. Burlamaqui's is simple and clear, and his arrangement of the material good. His fundamental principle may be described as, and it in many ways resembles that of.  BURLINGTON, a and of entry of the, capital of Chittenden, in , 38 s N.W. of , in 44° 27′ N. undefined., and 73° 10′ W. undefined. It has a fine situation on the eastern shore of, and is laid out with great regularity around a central square. Its principal are the   (which occupies the summit of the slope on which the  is ), the   Institute, the s, a, a , and a -. The was founded in 1791, and was endowed by the  with 29,000 s of land,—to which in 1865 were added 150,000 s of national grant by the incorporation of the. There is a school attached. Burlington carries on an extensive in, and has the most important share in the  traffic of. Its is defended by a, and a  was erected at the mouth of the  in 1862. To the north of the Onion River, but united to Burlington by a, lies the flourishing of , with  and s. The  of Burlington only dates from 1783; its first  from 1795, and its  as a  from 1864. in 1870, 14,387.  BURLINGTON, a and  of entry of the  in Burlington, , 18 s N.E. of , on , in 40° 5′ N. undefined. and 73°