Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-08
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time or other of our lives, do not meet with
occurrences calculated to cross our hopes,
and mar our visionary prospects OF bliss, ior
indeed all our prospects this side OF the
grave are at best bat visionary -Sometlmes
poverty, when least expected, overwheIms
us with ruin, but it does not always break
the heart, nor cause the spirits to droop.-'
An honest mind will soon recover itself from
such disaster. Perhaps near relation IS
seized with malady rapid in lis career Of
destruction, which tears him with remorse
less fury from US forever; but IN this there
lisa whole train OF circumstances which act
as a prelude TO the event, bending the mind
little BY little, softening by degrees, until
time, the agsuager OF grief, puts in his agen-
ey and effects cure. There are some few
CAGES however, which burstupon US like the
mighty blasts ofthe whlrlwind o ersetting in
their course, aud irving the 6rmesthearts.-
It was one of these that beiel this unhappy
lady she bad risen on the Inflated morn,
with all that gaiety and narcotic for which she
was so remarkably characteristic, not dream
ing OF what bad transpired the first intlma-
ton she had OF the mournfui catastrophe was
from messenger, who was despatched 10
prepare her, by informing her, the Commo-
dore was badty bur, rushing out TO the car
risge to receive MIN, and administer, what
She deemed necessary, she found him NOR
tally wounaed--the shock was too mucn for
her, she sunk from that moment INTO state
OF stupor anu dependency, iron. which It is
feared she viii not SOON recover. The grand
MANSION Ia which she resides, now presents
mournful contrast with ITS burner state
once The cheerful welcome, the winning
manners OF lis inhabitants, the magnhcenee
and r,chuess OF its decorations, made il a
place, where learning, VIII, beauty and lash
ion, all resorted as 10 kind oil earthly Ely
stun. Alas alas how changed the once
Joyous scene, the rich crimson has given
place to ,nourntul black no sounds are heard
hut Of woe, no feelings INDUCED in, save
those OF greet and despair. Many fabulous
taies have been tolius OF the tragical effects
of dueiling calculated 10 prejudice the mind
agsInst ssch prsctlce, but here is one real,
which in its fatal consequences, outstrips
them all.
From the same.
Mr. Editor Perhaps there IS no circum-
stances IN lie better qualified toquench all
those little animosi,ies and chickering's Incl
dental TO humanity, thanthe closing tomb of
departed worth At such moments. who
does not teel in spite OF all the Establishments
by winch they may De surrounded, or the
slosc preiensons in which we may encase
ourselves, that Man was made to mourn.' -
was just returning from the tomb of the
brave Decatur, INDUCING IN painful revere,
STRIVING to reconcile the mind to the mystic
rious dispensations OF that providence
Who plants his footsteps the sea,
|" And rides upon the storm"
The sound of the music had died gradually
away---lhe last rays of the sun just fingered
above the horizon. and nousht was heard but
the distant hum OF the dispensing popp, in
which we had sought to HUE our grief
THREE or four times would ask myself, is it
possible that him who but few days ago
was The pride and honor of the circle in
which be moved. should now be a clay cold
corse ?---and Tor what p hat was the Sc
verest pang ofal--the partner of bis bosom
too---it istrying enough when we lose all we
bold dear, by the common course .ofnature---
the approach of death is always sufficiently