S’ & FikMMERS’ JOURWAIi,
PUUMSIIED EVEItY HATlJUnAY. IIY THOMAS J.
J win. TKAOII you TO yiKucB TUB iowiiji OP Tirr; r,A»TH and •*7i«rouT from tiik
jrOLTON...X'HAaLOTTE, .HFX'KI-E\HirilG COUNTY, NORTII-CAUOLINAr
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t-AVKRWB OF TKK tlOl’NTAIN^ WHICII Will, CITK .T«N«T.^O ouiTllANDSAND wimiTAND VwASniE.—D*. JOHNib^
SATURDAY, AIJGITS r 31, 1833. ' ===
Wihningtm, 7.
An atrocious attempt was made on Afori-
di>y nittht last lo fire tbo town. The occu
pant of a Htoro opposite our otl'ice, on enter-
iog il on Tuesday niorning, found the key
hole filled with naili, the cracks of the doors
and windows stufliid with strips of cloth,
the rash over the front door darkened hy a
piece of woollen fastened with forks, and
another piece hanging like a curtain over
one of the largo openings under the shelves,
NO. 153.
_ ^ behind w hich he discovered a picceoflM>ard,
^H7u«crip(t Of ^ continued until i *0 which had Iteen lx>red three auger holes
bid, and charged accordingly. as receptaclfs for bits of candle—around
• All roniniunicationa to the Editor mu»t come I this was scattered a quantity of paper, and
*fi»eof"’•y 1*” render the destruction nioro curtain, a
. lift. I sweet oil was pouriid upon the niasj
from the Ktchmona ttnig. j —und the escape was almost by a miracle ;
From the New. York Commetcial AdvertUer.
JOIIV RANDOmj, OF ROANOKE.
j it,) of Lord Botetourt’s statue, 1 had com-
j mitted the Westminister grammar to memo.
Hie lollowinjr i.tho auto-biographical letter of '>'• to repeat every word of
1, of R.«nokc-omittii.g “• * pendulum of the great clock which
vibrated ovor my head, seemed to concen
trate my attention on my bijok.—My Ber
mudian tutor, Ewmg, had no Greek clast,
the late John Randolph, of Roanoke—omitting
some few expretsiona of harshncBK, which might,
perha|M, wound the fcelinga of Rurviring relations
in Viririnia. It was written in 18].% to hi» ii«?-
plicw, who nflerwardii ditd—wo btlieve, in Eiij;f-1 would not take the trouble of teaching
land. It wa« never intended for the public eye by a single boy.
the writer; but with the very few omi*Bioni we | Alter our return, we went back to Wil-
have made, we cannot iH-rceivo the Ica.t objection ' Hamsburg; your father continuing to board
toit«p«bhcation. Tl.cflingatUr.WUher.poon,:vvith Murray, but attending Mr. Wythe in
will ,n o w.^ udect tha great and good n,an « Mathematics, and I think 1 Jmalso.
f. u wa. obvioiwly tho malignant petu. , U .
in 110
memory
cnro fa j .^1r h n F'u* • Soon afterwards he entered college. We
ICDCC ol a (licsoliitc (■chooiboy, tiiwartcd iii Inn I „ ... i. , , . ■ .l u
purpo«.. by bcine restrained in h,., ,KKk. t n.oney;! "“f. f '"/he
-it i. a flaunt daily repeated i„ the of .-Jv I
«... I *'• wTTvwfc VI • WU9 u^fii iiiu iijuu - -- - — dtiily repealed in tlic crh8 of every i. .1 ••■-iin
From the Richmond U htg, —anfj i|ip almost by a miracle ; guardian. Probably the charpc* ■{lainsi j |he expense of re[>ainng iho hall,
Rimobkd Dkatiiof Mb. Clay—We for two «f the candles seem to have rone -Mr. Tucker and Ldnmud Randolph ure no better where Henry spoke and n.dependence was
Lri f"""- „
; L'nion for the justness of its senti- j burnt bUmjI half atT inch around the hole,
, ■;!, sud a* some evidence of the e.ttent. and was no doubt extinguished by the over
public good feeling towards Mr. Clay, quantity oi'oil spread up.>n tlio board. The
report uf his death, coming both from I ijtoro was doubtless entered through a cham- • -
•intMlle and Lexington, we lowked into the 1 her window, by the aid of a ladder near at j ““‘l'" ^ devoid of inten.-st or events.
Dr.;i:’.ii;i;n !•*?, 181H.
\ ou f,ha\l “ know something of my life,”
nay, every thing rny dear son, that it can
1)0 drwirable or |irofitnblc for you to know.
Vulungtoo papers with great apprchnnsiiin {i,a„d Vrvta.
fuidisg it confinned, but happily did not.
u Ml. Clay.—A rumour reached us a
V da/i ago, under such imposing circum-
■vt4 as to produce the belief, that this
Rail Rond Prosi>rctt Brightnini;.—Tlie
reader will find on the pre‘efiiug imj'c, an
interesting nddref^ from the Coinmittec of
Kinguikhed patriot and statesman was no ' CorrrspfHideuce of Wilmiogton; from which
A respectsble stage p«!iieng*'r, who j •* '^ill be seen that the handsome sum of
through this place, ou Saturday last, \*he hvmlrcd and thirtrm 'ihoumnd Dul-
ing tjartiarity
ray towards my brother Theodorick, drove
him from the school, (our mother was then
in New Y'ork for her health,) and soon
lifter, I left it. Having spent some months
ut home, w'c (Thcf>dorick and nijself) were
and might be wrought up :ito a more en^ 17S7 to I’riuceton, where we
gaging iinrrativo than ninety-nine out of a ; ‘^e summer by your father,
hundred of the hasty volniiies which minis-1 "'ittierspoon, in order to make t.ho
tor to the menlargrecn.sickness of curand myself
misses atnl inastors. LiI;o vourself, I was : '"*® “‘e gramu,ar school, althongh wc were
left by my fiither an orphan, when too 'urther advanced than any of the freshmen
yrKing to be sensible of rny loss. 'I'hc firbt j "*■ ‘^e Sophomores. In this subter-
oB.uruaTia.. , -. n-rn.,... j «l'a‘• cnn remcml«r is, nndmg my-'and misrule, I was
days froiii .Mayivillc,*Utrd that he heard ; lai» has nlrrady been subscribed bv the cit- > tm.iher s family, the jnn baxktt i
place thm Mr.CUy died »l Ashland .'zens of that town for the cotWruction of ^ * can was trar^slerred to the collegi., with habits
P . ^ 1.1 * . recolioct some circtiinstiiiices that must that school by no means pro-
hnvo happened in 177«; but I diftioctlv i Christmas,'Iheodor-
rcmemb'T events which took place in the ‘ spend what
vwr following. I than-d mv mother’s! ■“'>c money wo bad hoaided lor tlie purpose;
day before. *he contemplated Rail Rond from thence to
" Wo hare never before wijnesscd, in any | *l*i» place; and that it is confidently exjiec-
flimuuily, a higher degree of anxiety ar^ ‘ ♦«‘d that the suUcriptions in the town of
ling for the arrival of succeeding mails, j W.lmiugton sikI c.ninty of Xew-IIanovcr , - was 7hc t,es‘lin-\7 berIW ithcrspoon’snecessities
i,,rhwere locOTfirinordisa|i«ourle«r»,i*^>ll anM..m to the sum of Ju^o Hundred L ^ve y ,„„htafter iVasunVris^^^ »‘im to embezzle our funds;) and
-a .a* eyinccd iMsre— leelin* .lloge.h-; Ik^.u lUlar: , , anTm the ,. m nf1 osJ 1 kiKC ed ' "cre recalle.l in a few days by a letter
• boo«»r«Wc to the beirts awl undentaml- In additiun to the above, wo learn from , , o^iort i rose, t ku eieu , f.ii,pr pnoir^inir ntJi'mm onr
of a community in which arc the ele-, the la>eiteMl!e Observer, that 5U,0U(. dol-! f«P mv htt le I wh Jh ^mtnmS ^
« of .11 .h, f,„™, p.r..« «... .bar.. to h..„ bc.„ &n^n cu„. T I”' H r": t I .„,VL »JS
-icriied '
' lits patriotism and diMingnisbed tbih- i through Clinton.—lialtigh Hu.r.
, the unequalled aervicea h«* rendered j
rcountrj in TWO rrRiL» w hich shook oiir I A dreadrul occurrence took place in
stituti'MW to their foundation*. were re. ^ QuiiKe street, (I’hiladelphia.) on Satunlay
ffuiberrd by all «ith deep and unrestrain-j‘’'•'HUtg la.-rt. A boy, s'ln of .Mrs. John
graiitude. j «ii«ncr, alxiut three years of age, w;is put
“ II'.w often wa* heard fr«m diflereot lips, **» bed by hii mother c arly in the evening. ^
at .Mr. riay could ool have died at a mere A candli* wus left burning in tho room,;.'
my present ■
•'pinions. I say inrcscnt, b^cau>‘3 they lav •
long dormant, and as if extinguished with
in inc.*
In tho autumn of the vear 17f;3, mv
'i he sun rose and set; the river
flowed ; the order of nature went on. This
seemed to me at lirst unnatural and shock
ing. My niotlier had l>eeu a fjithl’ul execu-
mother nmrrie.l St. Jcor^re 'l ucker. From | lather’s will, a faithful steward
that d;iv there uH-a chnn^e in my situation.' committed to her charge, in
riin lirst blow that I ever receive,I « n. ‘rust of her children. She left clear ac-
it r. I lay could oot have (tied at a more a canui.« wus lett bnrmng m tho ;,Vjm the hand of this man and ,.rt « founts, and nK.i«>v (not a small sum) m
-i-itiwuamornent'-lhotnowjiisticecould ^hich, attracting the notice of the Ix.y, in-j p ^ . ’ i.jailiand. In Mav, 178«, Theodorick and I
du,K> to him ;-th.t no patriot had ever ;JucH him to rise. In s,x>rting w„h tho j to eollo™ m New Vork; and
to all twirrnt^.
urnh, that the ruoMKir was true. But h
I li» s—live*, we tnurt, to exert in behalf
& beloved country, a master spirit w hich
savcil, and may again save, that c«un-
frum new aod coming dangers.’’
: arc in H>tcd to a commercial friend
^ the folicwing extract of a letter, dated
•GrVAMA,(l*. K.) JI LV 15.—Our
of Sugar IS (inishej and rhiped; there
not hvK hhds. to be sold in this place ; a
nik for Amcrica this evening ballast-
vith wit water. Molaws ih also all
s; the last cargo (‘.2*i,0U0 galluit^) mhUhI
tMfoiiig for the Lnited Slates, which!
I kougbt at 917 per 1 lU gallons, without.
•^k«, and nothing more than ordinary ■■
'ulity. Oirfj planter la uow prrparmg .'»0 j
^d». of eoflre for Franco, which will finish I
»uvk of that aUo; tbcrctbrn you ace ;
• art alio">t out of busiiieM, must j
UMioioduriag tae Hurricane montiis. *
[Ct/ui. Ill raid. i
m:nY MAN I)r>roTK. i
Ambition is a passioa dreptv engrafted
to tbe uind of man; it colls forth all that
i\i:\V l200K.«i
rt'.'T rrri i\«l, ol them \cry luitabK' fi>r
Kundi}- .S:h.»>l I.ibrancs.
.M> inoirs of N. \V. I>i« iriiian
do of JJiii M. Mca.1
do of n.rr«tii . Kidd* r
do of fVli* ,N. (T
d> of John Kiiill
tlo of I' iVvlla Campbell
I>i of Ui-inhardt
S. oural’' ronip!- !r '.lutki
lit I Works of .Vrchliithrip I.’j];liton
Tarlnr's l{'>ly I.ivini; and Ihiiig
tlwrn oil Spiritual ^ll^.d^'in^ la
.Adiice to Voiiiig (.'biiituui
I.., Miuionary
HhH'--I -turr-i-- f’ri-'itn IMne^iion
Hall’i IxKlurca o«Scho»j| Keeping
l.etlt r> loa N owntr Stuiti nt
l!i'v;rapliy of Sel,‘‘.tiii^ht .Men
1‘oitlKal
Moral Oais Hook
i'arkir
litniffin''^ (iru k and I'tiglikh I.oxiotm
(•ould'ii V’lrifil
(•o'ild't l.atin >ramraar, Latin Reader, Greek
K idt r. \r. ic.
>'or S«lr Ity I).
l^'i3. i'hartfJtr.
' o(K^n, d to me. Our scIioj1 kIIow.s (y. ur | eighteen months afterwards,
jl'dihor and uncle 'riieudorc «ere ut the: Vour father joined us in New-YoHc.
;«ine si hool.'i were, witii the erpi!!)liMi was in his nineto>:itb \ear. nnd llir? most
Pi:.^ voi K mw s
of amusement only, enervating and almost
destroying my intellectual powers, and vi»
tiating my taste. Your father was niarried
on the last day of the year 1789: and, ia
the summer following Theodorick and I left
New-York for Virginia.
In consequence of my mothers deaths
her husband left .Matoax, to reside in Wil
liamsburg, where Kdmund Randolph, just
appointed Attorney General of the United
States, at that time lived. He proposed to
Mr. Tucker that I should study law under
him ; accordingly I went to Philadelphia in
the mouth of ^ptemher, 1790, the year of
tho removal of Congress from New York.
I had seen the old Congress expire, and the
new one rise like a pluenix from its ashes.
1 saw the coronation (such in fact it was)
of (General Washington, in 1789, and heard
Ames and .Madison, when they first took
their seats on the floor of the House of
Representatives. Congress met at Phila
delphia, and Mr Randolph was too nmch
engrossed by politics and his own necessi
ties, to think of me.—He too embezzled
the funds which .Mr. Tucker entrusted lo
him for my use. Had they been faithtuliy
applied they were inadequate to my decent
support—only $100 per annum. For what
cause I know not Mr Randolph put into my
hands by way of prepartion for a course of
law, Hume’s metaphysical works. I had
a great propensity for that sort of reading.
The conduct and conversation of Mr. Tuck
er and his friends, such as Col. Jones and
Beverly Randol|)b, (every other word au
oath) had early in life led me to regard re
ligion as the imposition of priestcraft. I
soon became a deist, and, by consequencc,
an atheist. (1 shudder whilst I write it;
although my intentions were pure, and I
was honestly seeking after truth.) I say
“ hy consequence,” because I am convinced
that deism, necessarily leads, the fairest
induction, to that conclusion. My late friend
.Joseph Byran, was placed by Major Pierca
Butler, then in the Senate from South Ca
rolina, also under the direction of Mr.
Randolph, to read law. The Attorney
(leneral hcd no ojice, and we were to read
at our rooms such books as he pointed out.
After getting almogt through the f.r»t book
of Blaclcstone, Bn>an and myself abandoned
a profession for which neither of us had
been qualified by a regular education, and
commenced men of pleasure,—plunging in
to the “ gaiety thut fills the mouth with
bla.«pheaiy, the heart with woe.” In July,
1792, 1 returned to Virginia, from want of
means for remaining in Philadelphia. In
this town, on ray way to W illiamsburg, I
was taken ill with the scarlet fever, and
brought to tho brink of the grave. So few
charms had life for me, so strong was tho
to the socicly of the fondest of brothers-
Thc events that soon followed, are those
which I have already related to you, and
wliich you say most truly, can never ba
V\ e had Karccly the n(;cesi>.irics of life ;, to that city to them !—Yet be was neither [
without an opportunity to acquire any ’liiij^ | deluiuehtd nor di .sipated. He was regular, i I shall never forget the chilling coldness
more tliim ns much I/atin, a^ sutliced to situdious, alyjve low company of any sort, i of my reception. In a few days I set out
liiriiish out a Iwld translation of the ordinary the great vuljiar or the small“ his ap- for Bizarre, and was once more restored
school books. Indignatjl at his troa'ment,! parel,” .iccording to I^ord Burleigh’s advice,
your t'utlier, h.Tidly thirteen years old, de- was “cot^tly not fineand you nnght see
tt rminrd to dcM^rt and go home. I'runi in his old attendant, Syphax, wliotn he car-
our fctep fatlier, we looked for notiiing like ' ried with him lo New-York, that his master
••vmpiiilij or trndertiess. My brother was was a gentleman, t'oiumbia College was I forgotten. In July, 1793,1 again returned
ikterred by hij ex|M)«tulatiuns from e.xe-j not yet recovered from the shock of the Rev-j to Philadelphia, at my guardian’s instance
cuttng his piir|>ose. .Murray transferred his! olution, it was just emerging out of chaos. I to while away the time of my minority;
strhiM'l to iliianiJ^burp, and we were trans-i'I'ho I’rolessor of iluinanity, (Cochrane, j and after encountering the horrors of tho
yellow fever, (which broke out a few days
after my arrival, and drove my friend
Bryan to Georgia,) 1 passed the winter less
unpleasantly than the two former which 1
had spent there, and left tlve right angled
:nt*viT (wwer and influence ho may poa- ; the ^iri  U a(\er b oVlock at nijht. arti r th«- :J6th
It! full extent, nml net unfrequentlv in»« mxv expert to ha»r Uicm f nm d and iJ a.^n.
»ill aminie a power to which he baa no , aeeoni,.,jj to an
I . X 1 orUiHMJce of tno ( oinmiK^ioncra wi>srd in
t'errcfi along with it. In 17S1, the t>tate ofl now in the college of Nova Scotui.) was an
my health induced my mother to send me to Irishman, educated at Trinity College, Dub-
Bi'rmuda, where 1 arrived in the niaiith ol lin, and a most accomplished scholar. With
July; and ju»t twelve months afterwards him 1 entered as a private pupil, paying
site came o^er with her whole family, and eight dollars a month, (out of my own al-
remained till Nov. 17^5; when she en- lowance for clothes, &c.) for the privilege,
countered h long and boisterous passage, in I had devoted the fiill vacation at Princeton,
*a w retchel sloop to Virginia. This laid, (17t*7,) to an attempt at regaining my
*nUr and great; all that 19 debasing >ml I) l7/^^|. the foundation of that disease, which de- Greek; and now, (July, 1768,) burning with
W; “ by that sin angels fell.” Kverj- , . j prrwna o»nii>c«'anlo m the Town ofatterwards, of the thirst of knowledge, (which I was not per-
w natural!^ dcitpotic, and will exerciw t hnrlote, and allowlns ih iii to rtmain in ' mother that ever man had. , mitted to slake at the tbuntain of Nassau,)
.>l\ sojourn in Bermuda was of essential and emulous of literary distinction, I sat
service to mo in many rts|iects. It was a seriously to work, and was greatly encour-
respite from the austere rule of my step-fa- aged by ray tutor, who was, or ailected to
tiitr, and tho tyranny, hardly tolerable, of be, amazed, at the rapidity of my progress.
Murray ; and 1 acquired a temper not to 'I’o my irreparable loss, he left college about
brook tam’ly their unn*asonable exactions.! two or three tnonths after 1 Imd entered
There was a good country-grntleman’s li-. my.self as his private pupil. Your father’s
hrary in old .Mr. Tucker’s house, where I return to Virgima left me without a friend,
staid; and here I read many sterling Kn- “Where,” you will ask, “was my uncle
qlish authors. Your father and niysi'lf Theodorick?” Alas! my poor brother dil-
were always book-xvorms. It was a sort fered in every respect from your noble ta-
of l>ond to the allwtion that united us. Our ther. Of all things in the world, ho detes-
first question nt meeting, was, generally,, ted most a book. Devoted to pleasure and
“ W hat have you read ?—Have you seen: » fun,” as he termed it, he not only set me
this or that work T’ By going to Bermuda, a bad example, but, w ith his dissolute com-
however, I lost my Gieek; I had just ma- ]ianions, absolutely prevented me from read-
stered the grammar jHrfccily, when 1 leftling. Oficu have they foiced the door of
\V illiamsburg.—Walking round the base,, my study, and tossed the books over the lloor,
(it was a circular iron railing that protected sometimes out of the window. In two years,
ho undermined his constitution, and destroy-
p*>s
N. I’F.liUOIlTll. 7’oirn iaustaUc.
Aus.>i, 1'33.
•iim. Instaocea of this may be sron every
■n amoDg all claiuwaof citi7.enB, fnini the
»f a merchant sbip to the com- . .... ^ „
rnlrr 01 a 74-from the ,«=tty prdngogne !
* vilia^ Nch(N*l to the Preaidcut of the ; .. , — jV
"'•''d Suiut.
Machiavel, whose authority on this sub-I
i» Ko«d, sayn, that w hen men rise to a |
'«rp*mcr, It iH natural to graap at more, i "’‘“T
*1 Ihur-fote thoM who w.nild fairly . a- j ^« ^rrtk (in.i back, hftircrn
‘i-l'Mi their liberties must form their go- I ('omdrn, S. C
.n a ,r they «... •
all meo by nature more iiK-lmcd to * coach^^ ai.d hr hopi that he mil noir he en-
*' than to good, confining their rulers allied to remler »;iliMl»clion to ihwo who may Ira-
*^'»in#uch bounds, as not evrn tolrarc it in '*^^1 l‘>" leave* charioiir rvcry
'«'• povtr to do mwhtrf.—LmtxH Jour. ■ n.orningRai.d return, ev-.
; ery .Monday and rhiiriday e»cnui(;i. I erioiiti
y , . , wiithiiig () make an exiH-ditiou* trip to N. w.York,
^ !*/■• Spfcm(Uion,—\ pedlar from | are intbrnud ih«t by Charleston tin ihorteat paR-
'^•nRcficut lately trnvelled through Vir- | "»ce can be maH-, a Heain boat atartinjj for New
"••Ol shaking hands heartily with every “' fy "d'f-r Niiurday—the i«is«i:e tK-ine
« r„et, whether they purchaMod or re- 'T'':’.;'"''.'* I" ", ‘'"y"- /r'”" '"‘f .nter.. ci. with
^IL- , (liL-l harlectun lineat ( anuUn.
Ilia gooils. Uirectlv It was discovered, THO. IK)YD.
|>at toevery one with whom he had shaken i Chari«Hf, ,tMg.
- riendly hand, he had communicated the I ^ ,
Jrnmediately af\er this discovery,! W nfiS*ni lor S;iU
''»^ller nr-ill.., I „ . uim,o> r),j M;\V WAtiGO.N f^r .ale. Ap-
good Btoek of sovereign itch onit- ; /tuf. i),
“ • II is, perhaps, needlnss to nay, that [ .
fnadolargii «alc8at a good jwr ctiileg.'.' Warrantee Dads for sale at this OJicc.
he
fofcvcr; and, after lingerin
Itffore Mr. I*ufidoi(»h«>*»ipjK>«rd cou>cr8ioi). Ae » i * a' i • i^.' i
illuBlrat»vi‘ of tli« gcnrral facts al>ov(' i.tatt'd, we * time, H mere skeleton ot lliniStMl, h
quote tlie fbllowinir uneeilotc from the t. S Jourii«l died at Bizarre, just bcfoie the birth of your
—•* The I«fe John Kandolph, some years since ad-' l)|-other St. ticorge. .My guardian—for
dre**ed l.inueU* to an inlimate tru-nd lu ter,... i,„pu|s«. of tho aSi’etldancy hc
»oinelhinjr like tlie following l iiM'd to t>e call- > j ' i u...j „.
ed a Ft iiehii.an, bc>:ausc I tiwk the French aide
in politii' -; and thoii;»l. t!ii» wn,-; ....just, yet the
truth i% 1 should have t.ee.1 a Kieiieh atheist, it'it
hud not been for one reeolU-etio.i, and that wus
the iiiem*ry of the limn whe.i my departi'd moth
er used to tuke iny liUlc hands in liers, and eau.se
me on my kncts to b:iy, Uur I'ati.i-r wljith ait m
hcave.1.”
city in April or May, 1794. In June f
came of age. The crop of that year wag
destroyed, and also that of 1795, by tha
flood. My guardian showed me no ac
counts, paid me nothing for the profits of
my estate during a minority of nineteen
years and I found myself overwhelmed with
overseers’, blacksmiths’, and sherifls’ claims
of several years standing. I'his reconciled
me to the sale of .Motoax, urged by your
father. I made his house (at his request)
my home, and lived the life of a mere louQ-
gJr.
The society of your father, tho conTCr-
?ation and company of J. Thompson, (for
I was half my time in Petersburg,) did not
rouse niy literary ambition. I rode out
from one race field to :inother: and whilst
at New-.Market races, my earliest friend,
(your father excepted,) Ilenry Middleton
Kutlcd^e, and nephew of the celebrated
John Rutledge, of South-Cnrolina, called
at Bizarre, on his way to Charleston, and
not finding me at home, left a letter, inform
ing me of his intended voyage to Europe.
1 knew Rutledge in New-York; wo were in
college together, and I burned with desire
to see him ouco more. My guardian had
always frowned upon my wisii to travel;
and uow 1 had not tho nseans of indulging
t!ie inclination to any extent. 1 borrowed,
however, as much n.oncy as; w.~.;:!d defray
the expense of my ivMirney; and in Janua-
had acquired over mo. I had chosen .Mr.
Tucker as such—was so scanty in his sup
plies, that I became necessitous ; of couise, | ry, 179(5, went to Ci.arlesfoii, (leaving you
unhappy ; and (why should I conceal it ?) i an infant in tho cmdle,) and then to Sjivan-
gradually fell into the habits and w.ny of lile ' ntih, to see Bryan. 1 returned in .May;
of iny unfortunate brother,—with this dif- j and a fow weeks afterwards, whilst 1 lay ill
ference, tlinl I continued to rcu'! l'i;t boc'c« c f I'ilio'.:': '' vrr :rL'. your futher.