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, Yet my land fms treasure keepttb;
thu.e foresti fsr sway,
ray head can rest securely
0114341 subject's breast to-day;"
An Irncomplimentiri Me to Spring
Hail!: goddera whom our tidolc•cent bards—
\yhut time the vernal sap begins To chse— :
,Ilyrhii, through the press, itt focuses! caiscres,t.
' driin
blank thick-set with potnt:blatik lies
itra#!if•thou wilt' or Millie, hailorsioolllo4.,.
ih a th,y East wilids.eesuc.the buds to blow
:Where be ttry girl antis? where the lovely birds—
' shpposedithumpauthuaof illy bower., ear? •
rlVl,Ure,,thaly pee. p.t.tui es nod gro.=g-cropping hert4,
, Jolt-sting him* hesule their mothers'? ,
Veit no wreath., uo meadows verdoro•dresetl,
( tear no bleateug-t =Lave front fun, dir-tressltl.
Thou commonest flowers, thpwoothippersdoelnre. •
'Fteats Idor-etuktethi
Lint for thy suow-drop= see thafteldtt of air!
beretllkliy vloluts, ills leatt . ei of bbols!_,. • '
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•
Thou Itottrot unbleolung In shy lap till Nay.
Green ore thylartoontsitt treloesic ode.,
• r thy feet;
Vet ehiitot tirttb besys wt. the ye mai toads,
dial t4dta-rulthres the ecriumual street,
.ri..ouglisans of slusia tiCelittq'reolut out.p read,
w; plunge elustie tread.
Diplitherinu Nymph, in wito.e, ethereal trob
I.po It such guy eye. da tittecabiont.itudeatemh,
Aerept, I prey thee, tit.. iteMmuna 'wain, •
from tore !goose-4,1d veiy cire r Mey
Oh! goduees damp, I feel es *um Re death,
The ihtleeez!t's iuluenee to my .brentis...
Valuable Counsels for. Young ;.Men
- —. - Letter from Hugh S. Legere.
- • WASIIMITON, Odt.-10, 1841.
" Dart Ste; T wail my'self,:of the first trio
ruent6f leisure I have foundotinee your let
ter was forwarded to me from Charleston,
to 'answer it; -and I will begin by assuring
y6u that' not Only *era 'year apOiOgies for
calling upon mo quite superfluous; but that
have seldoin felt a cochpliinent more than
your referring 4.6 the on such
a subject, and—beiarbrore interested and
even eager. to, comply -with a request,
from the agreeable manner of making it.—
In short, .yottr letter strikes mo as the lan
guage of one who has adecided . voeatlon for
that side he stands ready to undertake; and
I am delighted to offer you eouie of the fruits
of my own experience,
,because I am quite
stue,you will male good , use of them.
• What you aim at is, Ist, to make yourself
master of the groat scientia cevilis, as Quin
tilliun has it—to understand, theoritleallY,
, the philosophy of legislation, andl,he consti
tution of civil society, in the broadest accep
tation of the term—including all the influ
ences, political, judicial and.moral, that of
-feet the 'destinies of mankind, united in
bodies politic;_ and, 2nd, -how best to turn
that knowledge to account• in the actual ser
vices of the State. This ie a.noblo object,
and you will pardon me fur saying, it is the
very ono - I proposed ' to myself in boyhood,
and of rrLichllave ttorer for One moinent
lost sight since, and to. which everything
else in my studies and pursuits has been, in
any 'view; merely subsidiary and lab trumen
tid. It is true, that lieving;from favorable
elromustances„been -eptibled,to pursue ) my
studies with more leisure, and to a greater
extent, than; Americana are usually permit
' ted to do,' I have acquired many thinglsOtat
fare generally reckoned merely . onmmertlak
but I never made any sacrifice to ,attain
them: They riet.e picked uii beCanse I found
them in my path—by the side of the great
- road, I metini; to' trace], and frOm
. tiltiab 1
was determined nuthing,shOtild'aier. . tempt
me to deviate. I never "could reeon'cile
self to the idea of what is called - ri•literary
life"—that is; to a life of emaeniplative and
e'picareiri,"ho'ivever elegabt'shitii,.as contra
distinguished from from the one passed, in. the
midst of the business of men, in . rironroting
the; 'irant actual interesta of-society.: Not
to act 'On. the :niind• of one'sl detain perariee,
seems to me to be living in-vain. • ..
co;RN
Yodr'questions, although'diitingnisked ae
they are distinguishable in speculation, ae
well as in practice; must, foreome purposes,
ho:ao'nsideridtoiether. The idit of educe
'tre:ti,yen.waUldgive.,ireerielf, is that of the
citizen of an ancientcoramonwoalth—which
always' flue& him M "perform ell'the offic es, ,
public' and private; peace and ivar.7
whatever his favorite , tastes -and studies
Might be. -Thes, , in the most palmy state
of .Atha nien kiiiii;alicit the tir,king'oist
of the Peloponesitin War, all their great wits
Itattg;
The Richest Prince.
FROM TII E. GERMAN, ET W. W. catawam
Once in Norm' imperial palace
Many German princes ant,
Eachan glowing language telling
Of Itiakingdom's wealth and stmc.
.vltoyal is my land and mighty,"
Said the King of : , axony,
"Deep within its lofty mountains
Mines of silver hidden lie "
"See my land with plenty smiling!"
:PIA she Elector of the Rhine,
"Golden haryestsin the velley;,
ea the hilksideschweess
•'Stately cities, noble eloktor.i,"
I.udwig. cried, Ravariu's
"Render me so end , ' un equal,
Equal signs of wcieltl: Word?'
Last Spoke Eberhard the Bearded,
Wurtethburtra beloved King,
eon boait no stately cities,
Nor the mines whence riches spring.
Then sad Saxony, Havana.
•
And.the Ituktof the Rhine,
•'.Ucarded Cout, thou net the richest,
And the Rchok Seto is thin,
§itsttiong.
"NO ENTERTAiNMENT IS SO CHEAP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING."
COLUMBIA, PENNSYLVNIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 16,1860
were practical men—Sophocles was a gen
eral, Socrates a• stalwart soldier, &c. Thu
cydides, the historian, ifirt Most notable ex
ample of the same thing. Indeed:l am
firmly convinced that one of the causes of
the surpassing excellence of Greek Litera
ture was the very fact that-genius was al
ways tried in the fierce struggles of public
life, and .constrained to be thoroughly expe
rienced, in the passions and ways of men.
This being assumed, you must begin by
1 making yourself a lawyer, and a thorongh
one, I mean, you must master Blackstone's
CoMmentaries, with Kent's and Story's—
and, not content with that, :you must study
Coke's Institutes—not the Coke Littleton
merely, but all the Institutes. I hold it for
certain, that no man can take a lead, in the
debates of tkie country without this sort of
knowledge, and that his Iced in it will be
pretty nearly proportioned to his stock of it.
Look, ler instsince, to JudgeNarshalrs fa
mous argument in the case of ,ronathan
Robbins—the most triumphant exhibition of
ability ever yet made in Congress, and
which none but a lawyer could- hate made.
And so of all our other great raven-4-all like
the Roman Patricians:--latogeri, 'of con - rte.
Read'Mr. Jefferson's State Papers, wlien'he
was Secretary of State; and See Wow-he-dis
cusses great .principled' of law. 'True they
were,rather of international than tauniCipal
law--zbut that is nothing: - The laurel na
tions is only a- branch ;Nilo , "Common
Law," and it is that mighty • Common Law
of the:English race, that pervades, nay con
stitutes the *hole - body - and' Imlk of our
atitutiotis, and without a thorough . knowl
edge of which, nobody truly understands
those-institutions. These,; as' Illinve 'been
preaching for the last twelve years. , are al:
together historical. If - you want to know
'whit they Mean or are; you Must look to
monuments of the 'past, io Magna charter
((vshTell his.;gerierally, been transcribed into
•our StateCorietitutione,) the Petition of right
in . 'iii32S-ILthd till of Right's in:'ll62.B l the.
Act'e Settlentent in ' l / 7 03, &c. Then the
Le's earlianaet;titLllairsell's Precedents,
he.)
' Then as a branch -of this study, ;xhich;
has never been explored as it deserves to be
mead the history and remains of "the
Commonwealth . of England., the school of our
republican - fathers—White!coke, Prynne,
Harrington and Sidney—together with the
eltanipioas of 'th Divino side, Ifobbes,
(a, man of wonderful.,.abilltres) Clarendon,
&c. Then, the writings of Locke, (he was
the guide and master of our ancestors, and
ills yeti , words are copied, in:the Declaration
of Independence) Madly, &e.
But, although from thesourees, mentioned
ydu will diaw a great deiti of theoretical'
knowledge, you mast add to'it that thorough
Insight into•thehistOry of the times, with
out
_Which, one's views of institutions like
ours meat be very superficial. The history
of England is still to be written. Hume's,
except as mere writing, is triiiha farrago
of prejudice and 'romando. Lingua's . is
very much- better, especially hi doing more
justice to one of the greatest elements of
modern social pr'ogress, the influence of the
fteman - Catholie Church—a subject misera
bly misapprehended by most English wri
ters, liallam's Constitutional History is' a
very good work, but not thorough enough,
neither does it go back far enough.' There
is a work written by a foreigner that, in my
judgeinent, throws more light upon the for
mation of society and government in Eng
hind than anything in the English language
—Thiery's "Histoirede•la Conquele de l' Ang
lelerre liar les Normands," which is, I be
lieve translated—bayou either do or should
by all means, know French—and. I would
recommend to you to read in this connec
tion Meyer's Institutions Judiciares—the
part of it relating to English law is very
striking.
Dike it for granted, as you say you are
a planter, that you have leisure to study
these things thoroughly; and,- if so, then
other things—always, however, with a view
to business, and to oral and written discus
sion. When I say you must be a lawyer, I
do not mean an Attorney, but a Counsellor
and Advocate, and a profound Jurist and
Publicist. Now. this last, no man can be
that does not study the Civil Late- 7 the ba
sis of all European legislation. The Civil
ians aro the greatest masters ofjuridical phi
losophy
-to be found- anywhere. Pothier's
works in practical jurisprudence are scarce
ly rivalled for the unerring judgement with
which ho brings to bear the subtlest meta
physics of law and casuistry upon questions
of meuns and futon. The Institutes of Jus
tinian, with the Commentaries of Ifeinecci
us and (li'inius) the modern school of Ger
many, are still further enlarging the bounds
ofthe science, and clearing up the difficul
ties
left unexplained by the, doctors of past
timer. The celebrated Professor Savigny,
svhese hiktory of the Romeo Law in the
middle ages has altered the whole face of
study, (together with suoh works as M.
'Gluisot's 'History of Civilization 'in Franco,
5 vols.) is 'now publishing a great elementa
ry work, of which I have received four vol.
tunes.
If you could acquire German, you would
find it the most labor-saving contrivance in
,tbe•world. lam quito sure if I had-gone
to,Gottingen, ae I intended, in my youth,
instead of going to Edinborough, I might
hati dispensed with half the books, I have
since found to be unworthy of , notice from
a critical student. The 9ermans.are pow,-
and have for some time past .been treating
this very subject of the philosophy of no-
ciety and legislation in a style peculidr to
themselves, for they distance all other inqui
rers, both in vast and accurate research, - and
in acute criticism. You must at all events,
get Ilereen's works on theflistory of Anti
quity, and his manual of Modern History,
For G reek history let Anacharsis' Travels,
alone—they are good for notking : —
Get 1, Boeckh's Public Economy; 2, Mul
ler's Dorians; 3, Ilerntann's Manual -of
Greek Ilistory; 4, Wachernuth's Greek An
tiquities; 5, Schlosser's Ilistory of the An
cient World.
May I venture to request you to procure
and read a paper of my own, in the 13th
number of the New York Review, on the
Constitutional History of Greece, and espe
cially the democracy of Athens, and ono on
Demosthenes in the 17th number of the
same work. I would send them if I had
copies to spare, as I do send an article from
the same Periodical on Roman Legislation
which will be a suitable supplement to this
letter. It developes more fully Many of the
thoughts expressed here,
. 5 .
li; Order. to pureue your studies without
hi thirtinee and vtith.PeffC'et fruit; sn adequate
kninvladge . ..of Latin-
,by
indispensable,
is any, e .
only
persevere frail da'y to day, little ,by
TAO any Latin `book you. are anist . Carlotta
to lead, Livy!s"Ristary, for instance, and
Study ICiriticaliY7 over and over, ntil you
are familiar with foratti, translating it
first' into English. and then .retranslating
the English into Latin, and:you will soon
hoot,- enough for any . parpoSe.literat:y ,or
practical. 'Nothing is easier, proviii4'you
have
, that 'muse'valuable :;qualify of the
exceptiN courage,) persc
verance.. _
With - Latin, 'French; and German, oae . hai
a IcaLt9,9Ro9, all.. the; treasures of . 9no4ern
learning Greek is indispeniablo'for:49er
renearehL-but that is difficult attainment
—so much so, that T would not recommend
if to any one 7tio :has not already made
e"onSiderahle, progress in it, 'or whose, pur
poses are chiefly practical 7 most of the,
toriens, are translated
—heiter.Or worse. .
English lite,inture is the first:lathe world-,
with the single exception : of, , he,Greek., A
man who has made himself completely mas
ter of SITAKSPERE And. ; Alt vr a N
is, has got them almost by heart—possesses
a treasup of thought, knowledge, and ,sub
lime poetry, to bo equal/ed. by no, other lan
guago over spoken by man. St/As:scree
especially stands a.puhlic,speaker in stead
everywhere. Insomp of, thegreatesteauses
ever argued, I have nsed.passeges of his
by way of illustration in arg meat, :with
an effect-not to be overrated, • Tho : same
thing may be said of our matchless English
Bible. ,
• You see, dear Sir, r am for,theiough work
—at least when I find a subject 'Capable'nf
I it. In most cases when ram applied to for
suggestions about a course of-study, /: say
throw away books and turn nut among'the
I people. The truth is, in this country, above
all others, bookish men are• rather shunned
-by practical ones, and if a man be a student,
he is required to give very strong proofs -of
his efficiency, or it will be taken for granted
that he is good for nothing in affairs. This
is the rock you are to avoid. I have been
consulted repeatedly by young men, even
when I was one myself—l hare-always told
them their studies would stand ittt heir - Aray-
This has been my; own experience at every
step I have taken, although • circumstances
of a pecular kind enabled mete golnto pub
lic life in South Carolina twentyrone,,yeass
ago, that is as soon as I returned from,.my
studies abroad, and,to take a leading past
in the Legislature,-until, when Lwas Aar*
of thirty,-I wow elected Attorney-General•of
the State—was afterwards Minister. abroad
—then Momber.of ; Congressl—and) now. at
length, eleven years after my election to the
same office in South Carolina; I find - myself
Attorney-General of. the United States, so
much occupied with business as to be oblig
ed, to study twelve hours a-day,- and malting I
but law. It is for this reason, I havestearce
ly been able to write you these hurriedlines.
But then there oan be no • great excellence '
without great labor, and great excellence•is
seen to shine forth sooner or later.. .;
I would- advise you at all• events to- prac
tice as much as possible public speaking:- by
goinginto all.assemblies of the - people;-and
never en any occasion to make a parade of.
your attainments. , Show %what , you 'know
by its effects upon your manneiornpeaking
and thinking, rrther than by direct citation
or allusion--as the old philosopher - said,
don't show roe whatyourpigs sal, only let I
me have them fat. Study is precious only
as discipline—knowledge is:valuable only as
the instrument of wisdom, and ' nettling is
really worth the pursuing •
- -
I do not know how far yenwill:fautthese
random hints at all profitable; but .1 will
jest add to them, that you : will of c ourse
study the writings of the; political ;•
„ ecouo
mists, especially the English master s
Adam Smith to Senior and MeCollough,
and that on the subject of politipal.philoso
phy the French writers are werthy Of parties
ular attention,•not so much for the Pas - tics
of their conclusions, na . the boMnesenf their
speculations, and the insight which Benda
•.have given them- into: tba_motives.
Impulses, end
,reanagement.of men was
ses,ln• the absence
.of, any'.acknowledged,
authority- or controling• power.- Besides
Montesquieu (Overrated by the, last, centu-
try, underrated by this) Rlotisseau is entitled
to your special attention. Ills Control
Social, and other political writings, formed
tho terrible school of French Jacobin. So is
Thiers, the Jacobin historian of Jacobin
ism, Tocquevilee, &c. Above all read our
State papers, revolutionary history and
other annals. Mr. Bancroft's admirable
work will afford a good introduction,
I must apologise for not making this letter
what it ought to be—a systematic outline of
a source of study for a young Publicist and
Statesman. My stint of time Would not ad-'
mit of it—but if you find any
_useful hints
dropped in the hasty scrawl which .1• have
been tempted to write, by the pleasure I
have in complying with such a request from
one of whom, though.l haye not the pleas
ure of his acquaintance, yet I have con
ceived a very favorable idea, I shall be fully
compensated for the little trouble I have
been put to in throwing, them : upon paper.
.(Signed) , 1 -iluou
• ASTOR( PrIAT'AVAS-lIIJEIIiED'i72,
A family partY imeitithered• riiand 'a' fire'
-a'leaping, rearing, jovial°coal. ;fire and
indulging in the orthodox atatniernent• of
story-telling. We 'had an anoient--,lacittse ,
keeper Mitonkus:viho - ktiotv - n in:ira t e 'of
us ever sin*) vvei u4in,bortt,.atd; s tlie3apai
and,marnotas of many,atttern , long
thne,before,wOrtvereAsorn. • .
iititarkedjhe.antiont dente, when
one , of' Oar atorjeik&l think it . Was a ghost
4tory-4and come ton conehtAigii; •',4's all
very easy to talk, , but I...suppose there are
other persons who have seen strange' things
—aye. and eari tell strangle things abonte'ere,
• "No doubt, ma'amrone orus answered;
"titetis`witiS , this Veld - woman who wont up to
titenioonv she mist •hava •had some tineenv
monly strange things to'tell." '
' ""Likeiviiie the old woman who lived in a
shoe," another took occasion to, reiliark.;: . _
'To say
_nothing of the., old. nolitrpi.lidtp
fell nsleep•by:the'king's• highway 'third
Observed, "and was so badly treated by•irir.
Stout; the , tinkpi27
dare any!;' the housekeep er rejoined, "that's rightl. Tense -and ,utoek. a
poor lonely, .old 'bOdy, do ! ivery ieher
oui and minty; it?.. It wasn't so whOp
llved wltltSl44umlity." !
~4 1 with whom , did yaw say ; nut7arti7:”.
made bold to inquire. '
"lVith gen qefulks!" - the 'housekeeper 're
torted, snappipilly., very_ first
fontiliesl With., none •of your , . vubbiehing
country.squires: nay; nor with knights nor,
birrow kn igh nOtt4fii`liiifwitli born lords
avid ladies., IYith the very, first npLilitp in
"Indeed,
sr/coda ato as 1: aoahl,6oriinzarid, wish
ing.to conciliate .the worthy but i somewhat
irascible old tidy. , • , .7 •
r`puysuetqhcll9pleke4ier.
I t Sur nothing ? , prt ~' flippant:as
you Are, thatZlivetbseren years and three
months in the service of- Millament."
knew 'his iord4lfip' well;" observed
gravely, "that Way& seen bis'portruits
inlhe print shape, and-iead 'hie:achieve
ments in the devispaPers'vrtfed Visas a boy.
lle.ratpnivay with-and married-Miss Jag
hire,:the great Indian , heiress, didn't he t"
•.- . •
:•"11.o,kilied,Sir,Licrgtetves Grimwood, the
west country baronet, irs.e duel: about-Lady
.griamood, dida!she? Ilrernember-his.trial
andqueuittal i due „though ythey,had,..oecarred
yesterday.?. .;.• 4. N; • .." 1 ; ;•^ l - % kg t•
"Xes,-sir, be,did; bat her4lo ,badly,:pro
yuked. Sir Iliargreavesvotas , . a zsadAnaa—
liyed at the,-brimstone coffee-housemaid ul
.waJs,dranku,pintof ache:Warn before:break
faet., fie „wasn't the -first- talLegentiernan
-who had been shat'stlx!utZadyGrimerood."
~ land : ho-died.. ambassador'• at „Madrid,
: 7 , ~ •• • :: •1.
sir; but that was • lonk after, L left
hie 4ervioe.. It is full forty leers agotthat
I was housekeeper to the; Right i .llonoral)le .
,the Earl ;of„ blillamente I l artl,•Lionynmot , of
Elarltehim and ; Colonel ,of., the ; Darltehlro
:Yeomanry„Caralryi,at
,Uartfoil r Llonpe,.lLty
Sqwqr.74: ; ;
"And was it there you hemmer aecinaint
-0 'Pn9-elrange• c 41,!?", -
Tho housekeeper,nodded,sigoificamtly.,
"What' nia it have ; been. . about. rum—
!eve?". • - •
", got a bitof it "replied the housekeerer..
"I'. never' could abide love, and wouldn't
tr??ble my, head about ene nonsense. ~,,
wjen't the legit in, t.he
~tvorld,abont
,„ , ,
"Murder, now," I, hinted.
"Worse 1" said the housekeeper, emphat
ically. - . , „
"Worse .17 • I repeated. • "What • can be
worse-17, I ,might .have suggested; fire,
thieves, suicide, elopement: , but I ,thoughl
murder. weuld cover a-multitude of crimes.
tl,s.Tow„,.vrhat is it...my ,tlear,,good soul?" •
!.. , Tbere.", resumed..tho ..honsekeeper, now
thoroughly appeased, see you're all, dyin g,
orcurionity to -know-about it, and I won't
keep you -any longer in suspense. Besides,
the story's a yery,short one: It was 1111311-
-al up auti itne v and it- would. have been
-much more, Anus my place wee. worth to
breathe-a word of it to a living soul. But
tbeteldeEpeople. own/treed. in -it areal! dead.
The very dog was,poisoned with two puttees
I of-poisoned. meat by the botcher• the day
afterwards, as if—poor dumb-creature I—he
# •*
; ; . # ; • $2lO I IT ET .DV. ; •
could have N; agged a tali to compromise
!anybody."
"But we haren,t heard who the dog was,
nor the butcher either," I broke in, I am
afraid, somewhat impatiently, "riiny, begin
at the beginning, my dear madam; we're
all impatient to hear."
"Well, then," commenced the bousekeep_
er, setting herself comfuitably in her arm
chair. "You shall hear all about it. Just
draw your chairs closer round me, fur I'm
not very long of breath."
We did as the,old lady desired, and the
went on thus:
"In the year eighteen hundred and nine
teen L was, as I have told you, housekeeper to
my Lord Millamont. The story lam telling
you has to do with the winter of that same
year. A bitter winter it was. Frosts three
weeks-long. and a deluge of mud whenever
there was a thaw. Coal, breaffir and rneat
frightfully dear. ; The : poor. cr,yingonk fit to
ntake„;„xoty Ass 2 rt bleell,., and ~the „ta-xes: as
heavy ne hilyd disnsplipgs.• Our. tax,,esiwerts
ptd : fo r us, tlsank j gondnesa,.eyen. ti tat on
take. hair iqk „ which, e.!-f?o,tmen,
plastered "their- . heiuls. ; ,were alkyroll
fed anAwellicared t9r;,,for my,Lord,
esett,was far too proud or rich a nobleman,
toput-tis on board . wagetwisen. he ;went,
out of town, and alwais said that, he ,liked .
to see his, servants, .phttsfs and prosy- It
didn't matter to him how isstteh,,the , hatek
eF's and baker's.billocnyn.to.,„Thlhad hn
me nee :estates in Darkshire„,and two or three
comfortable thitsgs4sey, used- to, pall ,sine
cures in those
.days : ;-besides„wasts't ,there
his wife, the -late- -Miss -Jaghire's rich In
-; t
MEE
lEEE
=OE
"My TA:id Mliramisitt had Dean ilNinierom
Luidon'tluriiii the thialltig litid
a pack of liottinia t Chitfoirflaltlth
I ly name was "Ctirirciii,riatiihshireivid"liad
been entertaining jtiFiheAStitrk 'tif
iti4'nobilityfrotn
Londciti;iiith z e - teVeratYle':of: •hospi
tality: the'giand furnitdre in thOzian :
Sethi on ha.d'beeri = ctiVire4 luri'ait t ee
gep . teittb7ti,niann his lordship:kill - her ladk
ehinlvniut Outiof carpets -in the
4rand saloons ivqe "initett
Bees vrrapped in yellow gauze;
_the Pi ctu r e s
I ilie::sUne4Alidfal 'gins ,Old. ii,i'ettires they
were, of nolileaien in eut7 y,wt , the
diesies--nnd,ihh rich silver , ainti parcel 'gilt
of Wiiich
I a nobleman, had a vast quantity:" was' Saco
-and•so'und in four - oak :chests' clatnPed‘ with
. Mesirs:l'Douttlon . '47-Bloyder's, - the
'bankers,- irr Fleet. street. _• It 'Was a ';glied
plan to send one's silver to the bankers; for
there were• plenty' of hougeibreakini about
•in'.A.hose..days; and: no police concept , the
ltheezy old eonstables; and thb BoW•streetred
. • ,
' • ".Te lA' the I'l4 •of ` Dieeeaber,
thit se4dant >ecei6ed^a poet
fetter, fr - tilified'fiSt Stf; Tultweir,*e- of • the
:eirittity:frrierateiti gr l Dneltehiferfdi
ahrayiabbikiiierOutr l :eiltribis
• feerticti, tineniverliadQh.tte4pit . fe,fitichTtl-
Tlfeletter•twdii Tin& Kr& tordelii
usettlt 'iny‘citeicy
Ireaeltiffnit3e,'• 'lard - the
',don midst( Vere d eeta i Trfp'tti lend tit tWitts
in L'inilon.'"Alrtfie T . 'hill ''fibehr in
thbir then- to - ur 7 "yeari comet hat
t Christmas "d th ey Va e d •kitpt if at Ca rtftill
IJIM': "ne
`tn.* erd'i Aireetioinr. Wein
himself, her` hulysliili , ilivineher - nieirfry,
wail one of the l'aziein 7 ereicteßS living:arid
nevertdidlitlytitlekt rauelqiefonticfyirigc - en
'h tioft, titedithlkitigt4chierirfe,findeliell &ben
pier/net. to * linVerthb retiifteteLltifd
down; the furraitiire thtiroitgli - dttirtedi
the beds well aif&—for Nihs .* to
bring ;eompanylwitli frererDarkeliite
irndiiras.to plate , :frifini" the itaftlt.
ere; and have it all .
bleatiiefoit'grind
, iianqnet niy, lord iittended . la give on thrift t
,friate day: `• E , nclosed. fn • the'leiter vi;ifiet
of perair;tontaining an order fo • the bank
' ere to-deli - ref the - plate • to' - the, • cir' tir Mr.
Beeirteing; 114'butleri - and'ir•bich, as far as
T can reeelleat: Tun thin • "
" Centroit. rtia, Dec. 10th, 1810.
""11.1essrs: boublori Ilforlor—Please
Aeliver: the , foOr'boxis`Mtliked •A' 11:' C. D.
oontainingtlamplareitleft •in ,, Your' bare, •tol
IVlrs,,--;or r Semueliteeswing,4lllyAervanbcl
bearers of,this. kSigned)
- /Ifaxisiestr.
"Tho t s, s,ignature,,.ear-.
teinlY;* siimeliew rnt ihenaseetnett Writ
ten in a larger a c id more tremulous hand.
tlutq usual., Pc fie t i's were, dottei, nor the
t's crossed in his lordship's general
,style,
bat still,this remainder of the letter was
like.eripagti to him, and. the pover,bore the,
Olinioll;post: : MaTk, I ',ihoWed
,it to, Xt..
Beeawmg who laughed at my do ubts, could
swear 111 e 'fiand 7 writing was my
through4rd, and said li was very likely that
them had bisenlraerry doings it Califon Hall.
•daring-thoweelr„ Shat my. lord • had taken
t'other-bottln over night, and that his' hand
Was intAC'r.strakj; the nest marriing.
"And your:any be sure added Bees wine,
"that his tordShip punished' the snialt beer
if he did baveit.'other: bottle."' The quality
drank.'antatitieer then, the morning after.—
Soda Water was invented, but was thought
bad for the stomach, And wasn't at all the
fashion: - '
. .
."Ilowover, notwithstanding Beetosing's
oonfidetice .itt the 'letter." I wasn't quite
satisfied. "I dare say it's very nervous and
silly of til t ; 13geswilig," I said, Iltit 'it bet
booTesus.all to bo martial. •'I shall_ take
this letter to Wild alr. knows toy
[WHOLE NUMBER 1,556.
lord's hand well enough, and I shall sec
what ho says to it.
"Now, Wild .Mr. Will as we servants,
many of .whom bad known him since he was
a baby in long-clothes, called him. was to
the world in general no other than -the
honorable William Cartfoil, my lord's
young brother. he was a dreadfully wild
young man, Mr. Will. He was fond of wine
and women, and dice, and all sorts of wick
edness. He had. been a captain in the
gorse Guards, but had sold out. 110 had
fought scores of duels, and killed two or
three people. Bat he was one of the merri
est, best tempered fellows you ever knew or
saw. My lord was very fend of him, and
had paid his debts and • set him up again
times out of numter ; but you could do
nothirtg'with• Wild Mr.-Will. He was al
ways getting= into scrapes ;•• and when his
lordship had' got him out again; getting into
new ones: People' said belived mostly now
by playing nt cards -and dice,' and that his
carryings-on -with the actresses at the 'play
housothe 'wicked; painted hussies I•—were
dreadful. , I.knew he had borrowed money
ofßeeswing snore than - once, and had, at
leak, two-thirds' of his sister-in-law's pin
money every quarter; but still, no one could
help-liking him-and 'he was almost adored
by the, soarvtnittai , - •
• "I took thelcotter to Wild• Mr. Will at his
lodgings in "Great "Ryder street, St. James'.
Ile was' drinking hock with 'a captain of
drugodiss and a low wretch of a•fellow that
got his living•by-prize.fighting; - - but ise'came
out on the landiatto speak to me, -I show
ed him the letter and hinted at my- doubM.
fancl'nonserise,"•he --cried, when ho
had- read.the letter ttrico.through„- and held
it.to-tha Jai* CartfiiiPs fist for
five hundred" guineas." • [My , lard's:, name
was John.] • "Nevrmarket to the knocker of
blewgate.that it's my brother!s•hand.. No.
body: makes blots , like; these except.- the.Sarl
of Millament„ Amides,- don't you, tee , that
he spells "swept.".•"swep;" withoat : the "i."
Jack, never could spell. Trot-you away to
the banker's my worthy soul, and -get the
plate, and polish it all up nice and . bright,
for, youlpow how particular my l Lord Mil.
laMiut is, and what a pother there : will be
if the coronet dciian't;consuro woll.outi ou the
spoons, and fork's : : Theree, get along .with
yosi;alSd there's aguinea.ttdrialtny.health.
Stop-rnind; you lock my
ludy,'s boudoir_"
. ,
"Of course ,, after the llonerable William
Cartfoil had gisien his.,opinion, hesitation
was no longer:to' lio . Ahenglit . nf. Bocewing
and I took ,S. isopkiseycoitoit i to ', ; leet !tree,
and tho cashler,..wben : he ordered one of the
perterstocarry_tbaTotir plate chests to the
carringe„said, ‘,`:My.lerd'e losndwriling•was
as plainus4 pike-ataff,..arottbe should like
AocasA.a _cheek 4 furt,ten thousand with such
a, ! . M.illeviientt'..signed tragavosone
—such a.nicegentlesnan as he was, too, :,
goingat odrink the health of the : firm. _Alt,
how liberal people w ere forty years, ago.:.
; 1 9( 31 S9d:?vAr•V 1 q .OW I ;t4lit 'Avefising.
counted, everything. fuyincl all,in accordance
with. tho t lists,, and, ,withAlse,,tissiataxioe of
three house-maids ; l had everything
cleaned and'polisbed up by supper. time.—
' But stilll,feit ispicisyd could ; not, repress
a:dr:4d flit feel isseof terms. ;
„et : synnethiog ;
I knew not what
•; like plate was nl/./ocked
. up ag,ain, : and deposited....necording to, Mr.
'Will's directions, in my,„ledy . 's boudoir,
which, was : at the :. end of a grand suite of
Lopez trnenyt on,•,the firstfloor. • There was no
door to this room, only heavy hangings to
the doorway; but every window in the house
was.kolte4 ; !tnxi harred• up:,
.:"
_...•
,felt onems, .and • towards, ten
o'clock, I ,slipped -our
butcher, Mi.„Psubbyebop r ip Mount street,
resvenor,:square, L borrowed 7 his', well
known , and _fierce bull-dog; .Cowler; from
',him, to keep guard in ,the house .
One of the butcher's boys brought, the .clog
mpzzled to our.house, for-he was;dreadfolly
+savage, and just, bedlam
.he went toz.hed,
Beeswing unmuzzled hitnzand lot, hinslooso
in the hall.: 1 . '1 . 1.! ;11 .°1""
"I. had dreadful --dreams that night; I
dreamed of a .procession of man q esse c yin g
coffins, one after the other. in -a •largo.,pro
eeissicm that never 'en:led. -This" morning
enthe at last; the ynungest honeelmnid ciiitOke
-me, and CAW! down-lo :hrbakfasf, in - the
; still:mom,. when in came. % l%fr.,..Beeewing,
trembling all over,, and with a face as white
I 'as chalk.
"For the Lord Alinighty'i sake; come this
way.' .ho said. : . .• ' •• • "
led,„or raiser dragged mielolthe bou
doir on the first floor', ,aud t r ihcre , I saw n.
sight tshall never to iny'dyin . g,diti forget.
Thetich carpet was dlbbleil'ort Medd; and
on it there lay hislength-along,ithelbody of
.a man, stark, stiff, and deads % l,./Tis. throat
had, bein Literally torn out by . the dog , which
crouched tiy , his side uttering a low growl
now etsd then, andliekinthis lips:
••"ln one-of the dead man's hands was a
bunch of skeleton keys. One of- the plate
chests had been opened, and a portion of
the contents were on the fiber. The men
servants bent over tke body to-raise it, when
there was a cry of horror and astonishment .
"Clod forgive him, and =us all we. reeog
razed flu. body ( ! f the flonorable. ,
'Cart foil
"It was discovered afterwards that the
I letter from the century -was a -forgery. ex
ecuted probably, by the unfortunate And
guilty man, who had died in this miserable
manner. It was found that he• had made
hicentrance- by a• back door. leading into
the Mews, of which be must have had a key.
and* . creeping up a back staircase, had en
tered' the boudoir by's side door be knew
well; bad been- heard- by -the dog. , and se
perished. -
"The story was bushed up, and it was re
ported and believed than young Mr. Will
had gone abroad and died there. The Mil
lament title is extinct."