II II ( / was saved by my father of mind, power in itriti:it is in the idea, dt&in,thet - ,1:, _While others-went for widely heleiled - ev , iiire==in iirormfb which the are riefor-it i , . -, eryt mg 'moveable which was , on fire, and ea; as it,is usually taaght, may easily load' `Wrapped imp in woollen blanke a. My stronger headman mine. ' • 1 maternal grandmgther, then of the age of e hty, was sleeping in !Ile room. , S• ~ r; recollect no great changes happening; • L to me -till I was fourteen yyears old. 1 A . great deal of the time I tvissick•, and wheti ,--well mac exceedingly sletiderand,apparent iy of feeble system. freaS what I could get is read, went to school' when I could ; r' ind when - not at schiol was a farm'er's youngest boy, net goal for much fur waist of health and strength, but was expetted -_ to do something; Up to this period,l bad i no pope of any education-beyond what the tyillsge school-house was to afford. lidt :'',t3Etit my 6ither took an important step With . ' me,' On the 25tir day of May, 1796, hp! enolarited his-ehorse;placeeme ,on Snot er,' t "e led • milo Exeter, antlplaced me in - Phillip's Ae , demy, thee and now underl ' theicars of that most' excellent man,' Dr.l . • Berijamin Abbot. I had never been from ! ''. ,horne before,__aid the change overpowered • .. ma- I hardly remained 'master of my sen- 1 .witatmong ninety . c boys who had seen so - ; dlitch.more, and appeared to know so'neneb I Wee ; - than I did. ' I was petite English . grautuar,arikveriting, and Arithusetse• .- 7 .-1 The Ant, Ii lank I may say, I fairly mal, l tered,;lievw „Nay And October ;. in the .1 , d ' .otliersl ma e Skase -progress. In the ant.l _- __ men there 'wpm!_-:...." - val; 1 scut . .. 3 sese, stayed a few days. and returned at. ! • : thc‘totn!acement of the quarter, • and! lbtr. begin the Latin grammar. 'My 'first; -• ',titivates in Latin were i l recited to Joseph! • Stevens Bnekmicste'r. He had, I think,l alrpady joined eelle.ge, but bad returned `to I Eater, perhaps in the college• vaeatiori, i -.,an,d wail acting as usher in'the place pf Dr'..! -Abbot, • th i en absent through indispositiew i '. . It so , happened that within the fe ti 1 ... -months during which I was at the Exe i r ; i - Academy, Mr;.Thacher,' now judge of h t e MUnicipal Court of Boston, and. Mr Ens.; - ery, the distii3gnished counsellor at Port- 1 - ladd, were my instructors. lam proud 1 • to 611 them both - master..' I believe 1; • made :tolerable pr egress in mo , ,t tranlices , -which I attended to while 'in this schoOl; but' there was one Aing I could not du— , •-• I could not, make' a declamation ;' I •conllll •not speak before the nod. - Thq find' and ! excellent Buckusinster' sought espedally to ' : persuade use to perform the ;exercise of ; , deelamatiOn like other boys, but I could -.not dolt. Many a -pie.-e did I commit to . . - I memory, and resit() and rehearse iti'my 4 own room over and over again ; yet when • the ,day carne; when the school colletted - to 'heat dielatnatiodS, when my name was,call-, ; ed and I saw ill-eyes titrued to my seat, I could 'lnch raise - myself, from it. Some- titnes the . iostruetors frowned, sometimes they smiled. Mr. Bedminster always I , • presaed and: entreated most !willingly that ,J I would venture, but I never :, could coin- 1, wand su ffi cient resolution- When the oe• - • i eagle's was' oeer, I went home and wept • bitter tears - el mortification. i At the winter vaeation,December, 1796, nr Jaduary, 1797, my father came fnr me , and took- me home. Sense long-ende- i - ring fzietlshipl, I I formed in the few mouth's I was at 'Exeter. J. We;:lliaeket i , late of Newr-York, deceased, William Gail. land, late or Portsmouth, - deceased, Gnv. I =C os, of• Michigan, Mr S;ltonstall, and ", .Ismes.ll. Bingham, VOW of Claremont, •I,F,ew- Hampshire; are of the number. In ' :February, 1797, mv father' carried me to the Rev. Samuel Wood's, in Boseawen, _ , end placed . - inumnder the tuition -that , . _ - mast benevolent - atitl excellent man. 'lt N. difehatal affair li ;Pomaded considerable was buta half Is•dozen miles from our or . vii 'ittantion. ~[ , • --= : I ' I ' ' ti-eise. 04 - the way to Mr. Wood's, my i i r The Prince of•Pru.sii, now at Paris, is father first, intimated to me his intention of, the bearer of an .antograpli invitation' to the _sending - me to college. 'lnc very lilea.lliiipeior Napoleon to visit Berlin lie the ;;tgrillect my whole frome. t Ile sai I he:then h Sprir.g.. It is, said the Emperor hat alceep , - lived btit for his children, and 'if.l. -- W - citdd red the invitation: , I 1 . -d oall r could for myself, F.e- would do-1 -; A 'deputation of Nfoldo-Wallochian Boy - whit he could for me. I-remember that I I aids in 'Paris"' have presented addleAd; to was quite ''overcome, ;and niy head grew, l the Enipsror in fayor of a ' union', Of the dizzy. , The thing .appeared to me so high,.. Prineiviiiitica. • , . •••• -1- snit the - expense and i sacrifice it was to ! Several of the French papers' are ndvii , ' cost my father se great, I could only . press 1 r l ati [ rig the establishment of a Gi?veriini-•[nt his hands and shed tau, Excellent • ex- ' hue of stentners, The Censtittilional , ' ,0 corker: parent! J canip [ think ot him e- says the pressor suite of the money liiiar .- • . „nen now without turn' g chill again. -- Iket is t4i.= sale harrier• . The Sick ' pivot,- ----"_ l' l ifr. Wood out me upon Virgil and Tel- I ses a Oilyernieent subsidy to the present 15; 'awl I conceived a easure in 'the study ' tranitlautie steamers, oak', aids that Pov ; of them,: especially the tter; which ten- ; eminent is, about tolreconsider the questieri dered application no longer elm& • With of a traii"atl'intic-line—a question that lois . .._ avli7t.,vehruence did I denounce Catiline!-- been adjourned so often, awl Wltieh citai , With what _earnestness struggle fopl ilol—. I traphes, such as • the •steal • rier Pacific ! ' the 1 In the spring I began the,Greek grammar,' City of Philadelphia, and the. Lynaueis, - 'and-at midsummer Mr. Wood said to me: ! render more than ever indispensable. ; 1 "I eipeeted to keep you till next year, but 1 Spain. r 1 tam • tired of you and 1 shell putyou in- I • . -' are to the [ lath of Deeem . to ocillega nep--; month.' • And: ,el be did,-I - 1 :14 4=-rid advices but it was a mere breaking in;' I was in-1 1 " r, - 4 ,:• deed • . , miserably- prepared , both Latin ; . . ; appointing M. Now, Ambassador to!; the and_Greeli • bur Mr: Wood accomplished ; his' premise, and I entered Dartmouth Col: I u P urt of itt ' ult•l ' - - . 11 ..„,__.., lege'ss a - freshmin, -Acigust, 1797. 'At - G rPumuY• • t • Boscawen I hid ' & I Mild another circulating A Berlin letter states that the Prcis r sian . liinery, l atur hiad read many of its iolumis.; note rel-iiive to Neufchatel, :would be read -solei-----•snialiV shat I found Dori 1 to the Ultima= Diet on thes.th of Deactu , Qmixot s - in the ;,.......- [ , emntnen traziala......,, —_ , , 1 _ _ , • -, 'in an edition, as I think, of three orlhur I- . . Pities] --, • 1 -. Lluodecinte volumes.; I•began to read' it,l Prusaia is makint sad it is litterally true that I never closed j t o wore ',against Swt" tris eyes-tillfinishedi nor did I lay [hl In than two al I had - - ~ y Ore t it dawci for five minutes . so _great I was the , i nt ended, will ba„ml3l [ bower of that extraordinary book ; ols my • service.. ---" ' 7 i -, imagination. - - i (./f my college life I l ean say ibut little. ; 1 - . A Paris dispatch 'says that a friendly I '•= l nionglr• , -deati. - has,madel'great havoc in' ' tour elaSal, sc_me yet live who we're intimate Power (no name ) is understood to.have ,morej ,imiggested that - Switzerland! almuld be' re : '.irirdi, me, especially Mr. Bingham, quired ta; accede' to Prussia's deitiandl , for . :mentioned; Rev. 3lr. Jewett, or Gl:m - 0- I the release of the Neufchatel pnsoners . ny :thste= (Sandy Bay;)_Bev. Mr. Tenney', of I s c ' ollectie ,, ;note frairi the Powers[ wineli Weathersfield; Rev. Thomas Abhott alert; •iigued the protocol ~of' London. Tt-r ' h; TB, of Middlebury; Judge Falle,r, of A n . I would enable Switzerland to make 'an lion -1 -- . -1- gusta; 'Mr:" Farrar, . of ,lAncaster Judge; al orame retreat. Kingsbury, of Gardiner' and several oth- I ere of the class, are-still living. , I' • ' ' ' I . gust : lt -4 1 i A Sardinian loan of sixty million lives , ' • -- I was graiiudeti in Au' n • • , ~ring•to some difficulties hoec non ti4nti- ' , ry, 2 1 is talked of. 11 am lehrated at Milenlfor [rinijnecie,