The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1817-05-16

As to wish to be there in his stead"
Royal wisdom has said, that we live
N new crs." The reign Of old suomen
has commenced, and if Johanna South
| coat converts England 10 her creed,
Why should not lreiand, less pious, per.
sps, but at least equally passionate.
| hneel before the shriUe Of the irresist-
bile widow wilkins I! II appears, gen
t'emen, to have been her happy fate &c
lave subdued particularly the death
dealing prele ssions, Indeed in the c.
pistle OF the heather mythology Mars
| and Venus were considered as insepa-
! rable. | know not whether any of you
have ever seen beautiful print repre-
ssnting the fata! glor, cf Quebec, and
the last moments Gifts immortal Coz
queror SO. yen must have observed
The figure Of the staff pGisician, in
whose arms the hero is eXpiving-tha,
lnaeniicai parsonage, my lord was the
happy swain, who, forty or fifty years
ago, received The reward of bio valour
and skill IN the virgin hand IF nay ven.
erable client THE doctor lived some
thing more than a century, during a
greater part of witch Ms Wilkins
was his companion--alas! genilemep
long as he lived, nc lived no, long e.
Hoags 20 behold her beauty
That beauty like the ALICE flower,
But bloomed and blonomed at fourfcore."
He was however so fa fascinated as
TO bequeath to her the legacics of his
parents, when &c found lie was pre- :
doomed 20 follow them 10 this cir
cumsiance. very far be ii from me TO
hint, tia: Mrs. wilkins is indebted for
any OF her attractions. Rich, however,
she undoubtedly was, and rich she still
undoubtedly would have continued, had
il net bcGn Tor her intercourse with the
family OF the plaintiff do not inpute as
a crime 10 them that they happened to
be necessiious, but 90 impute i. as
both criminal and ungraicfu!, that arler
having lived on tho generosity of their
friend, after having literally exhausted
her most prodiga! llbcralily, they should
drag her iniirmi:iss before The public
gaze, vainly supposing that they could
hide their own contemplate ayarice in
P'Sahi'Shk NhljtSuIC OF ECe
melancholy dotaSe. The father OF the
plaintiff, II cannot &c unknown to YOU,
was tor many years IN Inc most indigcnt
situaiion.-Pe:h aps il is not mater
OF concea!ment either that he found in
MS Wilkins a generous beucfactress
She assisted and supported h,,n, until
at i,sl his increasing necessities indu.
ccd him 10 Ike refuge in an act Of in
solYency Daring ih3ir Intimacy, sre
queni 2luston was made TO son whom
Mrs 0hkI0s had never seen since ne
was Child, and who bad risen 10 a
iieGtcRaDcy IN he navy undar tho pas
tron,Fc OF their relation sir BeniamiF
Bloomfield. In parents paDegeric,
the gallant lIcutcRlnt was, of course, All
that even hope could pictuse. Young
gay. heroic, aud Gi 5intereslcd, the
pndc or the navy--lhe prop OF the
countfy-lndeprndent as the gale tna
waited, and bouE;eous as the wave that
OoIe him. am afraid that it is rather
ali anti-ciina& 10 tell goa af;er this, tia,
ne is the present plaintiff. The e;o
qience OF Mrs Blake was not exciu-
siVsiy conaned TO her encomiums on
the lieut., She diver, ed at times into
an episode on the rHa;riinoniai felicttiss;
painted The joy of passion and delights
pt love, AID Obscutely limited Iha. 10y
mea. with his torch, had en- exact per-
5oniiica,ion in her son Peter, bearing
match light in his nIajesty's ship lhe
Hydra - While these cOntriyanc~s
we're practising on Mrs wilkins, by
pot was go' UP on board The HYDRA
and Mr.. Blake returned 10 his mourn
ing country, ilAnenced, as he siYs, BY
his partially for the defendant, bu. il
realty compelled by i'll health and dis
appointments, added, perhaps, to MS
'nuthcr's very absurd and ayaricious
speculatlons. What loss the navy
lad OF him. and what loss he bad OF
he navy ! A'as, conference.-the could
not resist his affection for a female he
never saw. Almighty love ecliDs I'd
The glUsils Of ambilioI-- Tra!alg. At and
, Vincent il"ed from his memory-
he gave up oil for woman, as Mark An
iooy did before hin, and like the Cupid
IL Hudribas, he
Upon widows jointure land
His tender igh and trickling tear
Long'd for five hundred pound; 2 veor-