The National Register.
London, England, 1818-09-14 00:00:00

tilt IgATIONAt. REGIStEIt,

ArTIP.CDOTE or C1P1111N1C...." When Cumin was call-
ed to the bar he was witheut friends, without connec-
tions, without fortune, conscious of talents far above
the mob by which he %vas elbowed, end cursed with
sensibility which rendered hint painfully alive to the
inortificathms he was fitted to experience. Those who
have risen to professional eminence, and tetollect the '
impetliniente of such a commeocement—the neglect
• abroad—the poverty pethaps. at hoest=the &owns of
rivalry—the feats of friendship—the sneer at the first
1 essay— the prophecy that it will be the last—tliscou-
i ragethents as to the present—forebodings as to the fit-.
tore-=-some who arc established endeavouring to crush
the chance of competition, and some who have failed
anxious tsar the wretched consolation of Companionship
—those who recollect the comforts of such airappren-
ticeship may duly apprechite poor Curran's situation.
After toiling Skit. a very inadequate. recompense at the 1
sessions of Carl, and wearing, ai he said himself, his
teeth almost to their stumps, he proceeded to the me-
trope/it; hiking for his wife and young children', tt mi-
serable lodging upon Hog Hill. Term after Term,
without either profit or professibfial reputation', he paced
' the hail of the Four Courts.. Yet even thus he was
not eltotirei her tiudistinguished. If his pocket was not
heavy, his heart was light; he was yottnls and ardent,
buttyed up not kss by the conscioestesS of What he felt
Within, than ty the encouraging compirison with those
who were successful around him, and he took his sta-
tion a'motig the crowd of idlerS, whom he aniuSed With
his wit or amazed by his eloqiiertee. Many even who
, had emerged from that crowd did not disdain occasion-
ally to glean from his conversation the rich and varied
treasures which he did not fail to squander with the
most unsparing pnaligality ; and some there *ere who
obsereed the brightness of the infant luminary drug-
glhig through the obscurity that added its commence-
ment. Amongst thole who had the eicriteihation to
appreciate, and the heart to feel fbr Mn, luckily for
Curran, was Mr. Arthur Wolfe; afterwards the unfor-
tunate but respected Lord Kilwarden. The first fee
of any consequence which he received was through his
recommendation ; and his recital of the incident cannot
be without its interest to the young professional aspir-
ant whom a temporary neglect may have sunk into
dejection. ' I then lived,' said he, ' upon Hog Hill ;
uty wife and children were the chief furniture of my
sipartnienti; and as to my rent, it stood pretty: much the
same chance of its liquidation with the national debt.
Mm Curran, however, was a barrister's lady, and what
was wanted in wealth she was well determined should
be yipplied by dignity. The landlady, on the oilier
hand, hid
.no idea of any gradation except that of
pounds, shillings, and perm. I walked out one
morning to ateld the perpetual altercations on the Sub,
ject, with my mina, you may imagine, in no very
enviable temperament. I fell into the gloom to which
from Ay infancy I had been occasionally subject. I
had a family for whom I had no dinett; and a land-
lady for wham I had no tent. I had gone abroad in
despondencel returned home almost in desperation.
When I opened the door of my studyi- where Lousier
alone could have found a library, the'first object which
presented itself was an intfnense fund brief, tWenty
golden guineas *rapped up beside it, and the name of
Old Lyons marked upon the back of it. I paid my
landlady—bought a good dinner---tave Bob Lyons a
share of it ; and that dinner was the' (fete of my pros-
perity i' . Such Was his•ownexact account of his profes-
sional acivancement.—Phillip's Lji i• of Crirran.
CLEIIKENWELL ScssloNs.-'Mr. Aunt atteeded the
Sessions-house, at Clerkeuwell, on Friday, in order to
try Me: Dowling's indictment ; but the practice of the
Court being, that if d but is found, it cannot be tried
at the same Sessions, he pleaded, traversed, and entered
it first on the list, to be tried the first day of next Ses-
sions, which begins the 26th day of October.

OFFICE OF.- (MO:VANCE, Sep!. Ist, 11118.
Tilt Pr. incipal °fficere of Ilie .Majesty': Ordnonce
do krehmoire Nader. that Proposals be received at their Oilee
in Patl. on or betore Friday, The Intla day of September Nest,
frern sziels Persurs as may be stilling to undertake the supply
of Forage or the Ordmassee Horses stationed in Ihe Pinderne.:ntiont?
Districts, to k delivered a: :he E.rpenee of tha Contractor,
Wtiolwich. Western.
North Britain. Suasex.
Midkihd. Kent. exdulfive *osdwtch.
South Wog. I Eastern.
pr a ikriad gi.e Mote!. s from The Ist Oetober next. The 04• la to
-begoullAsavet.dry.and clear, without any ruistnre of For or Mow •
burnt (Arts. and must real skies kat man 37 poltud; per lirinetiester
Ekshel ; the flay la be stood and dra;-and delivered in Trusses of sr,
pounds 21..-igist—"The Xi tore to good, elean, and dry Wheat orltue
Straw. and delivered in Trusses 0'3014. refiht.
The Prim to be paiddi,r the rospeetive Q stratifies of each Ara&
which may be delivered at the jidicstc,r,g rotes, Vb.
For the OMs at hanared pound.. Avoirdupois weight
ror the Hay at 1> hundred and twelec lantrols.
For the Stftw at if hundred and twelve pounds.

The Primer,le maybe delivered separately or jointly Pr tviinr more
of the said Statism', and it i; ore:teal Mat Me Cmiraetar 11,2 re-
ceipt: the Stable Diutg.mh;rh. ttartirg the Pella! el hie Contraet, may
anwmalat!.,. allowance fir the tame after Me t'ate af
V I tai A' r !reek.
Puraler Particular may be known open application to the Mercer,
Commanding the Itoyal Aitiller# in each District, and also et tile
Secretary's °film in Pall Xfall, aforesaid, any day between the hams
of ten ahtl fottr rrhere the propcstals must be delivered sidled
up and endorscd, " Proptrali fur FORAGE," Mit no propmat tan
be admitted ahem' Vic said Inth of September, at twelve o'clock at
tr.ron of time mrie day, neither will any (ender be noticed unkst the
party maltingit. or an split in his beidp.,l,4l attoid.
By Ortl:;r of Mt:Beard, R. 11. C It F., W, Secraary.

At the flight lion. Lady Curfnprood's. in YOrk-place. the line'.
Mre A. Denny. of a stio.--4kt Cowling Ital. the lady of Jahn Croft.
Esq. Of a dau.—At Wdod.Surrey,.thelady of John Tylrelk
Esq. of a slaughter.
MARRIED.

.1. Parker. Esq. of BroarLstreet. tb Alarianno, dart. of IV. Hodg.
sob, Esq, of Aldermanbury.—.l. Howell. M. II of Clifton, to M..
ria, only dau. of It. Garden. Esq of the same place.—Mr. G. Carr,
jun. of Suunford-street. Sarah, eldest dau. of S. W. Sweet. FA!
of Rasinghall-street.—l. schen. Esq. of Hunter-sweet. Brunswick-
sytiare, to Charlotte Fair by. third dau. of Kenneth Tod. En. of
ICitiningtsn.Mr. J. W. Taylkr, of Cheapside, to Miss .1: Hobbs,
•of Gt. Russell-ofeet. Bloomsbury.—J. H. Johnson, Lietft. R.N.. to
• Eliza, ttlid (-tau. of J. H. Harrington. Esq. of Calcutta.Mr: Low..
well, of Rowipolane, to Amelia, second dau. of T. Pagan. Esq. of
Ely-place.—laeut. E. T. Ellis. of the Royal Welch Fusileers.
Eltra,•only dau. of the late Major 'rasaVs'rtght, of the Royal Ar.
Witty.
DIED.
At his scat. Bedford'!. Essex, J. Heaton. Esq. aged 80.—At leer-
sington, aged 95_, Mrs. ,Mary Gould. widow of the late R. Gould.
Esq. Of Ilanwell.—Aged 77. J. Barter,- Eilf.tbrnterly of Piccadilly.
—J. W. Bramston. Esq: of Somerset.place, auditor of the Duchy
of Lancaster. and Commissiobef or Appeals in the Excise.—Mr. T.
Walker, of Bermondsey.--Caps: Prater. R.N.. aged 56.—W. War-
berton, Esq. of the Strand.—Mrs. Orme, aged 81, of Newby-place;
Poplar, relict of R. Orme. Esq: Historiographer to the Hon. East
India Compatly:—Nl. IL .1. Miller, of the Bank of England.—At
Wiliam House, Mr. J. Tappy, aged 84:—In Carburton-street, ups.
his return from a shooting party. J. Fitzgerald. Esq. aged 58.