The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1825-02-17

How well you're looking Eth! What? Dbl
if know where / am Why. it is not posi-
BILE! Good Lord, how people may be de-
ceivcd My dear George, speaking rapid
ly-"I met two fellows, in tandem, IN the
Haymarket, one Of them so like you IN eve
nv particular, that I hailed him at once
The puppy disowned me--affectcd to make
a lest of me, and drove off. On my soul my
hair stood on end, and my blood was III
boil. drove down directly with tour hofses
to tell your tutor, to tell the master, TO tell
the whole College, that ] would have no.
thing more to do with you; that | wouia pc
responsible for your debts no longer TO en-
close you fifty pounds. and disown, you ioreV-
err
My dear sir, how singular
singular, ] wonder at perjury no longer.
For my part. | would have gone INTO any
court of Justice, aud have taken my oatn II
was YOU. never saw such likeness. our
father and the fellows mother were wen ac-
uuaintcd, or am mistakcn.--The air, the
height, the voice all but the manner, ana
Dc that was not yours. No--no-you
never would have treated your old uncle
So
How rejoiced am that
.Rcjoiccd! So ain /. would not but have
/
Nothing but seeing You here SO quiet, SO
studious, so immersed in mathematics, would
have convinced me. Ecod, can not tell you
how was started. / had been told some
queer stories, to be sure, about your Cam
bridge ctiqettc. | heard that two Cam
bridge men, one Of Trinity, the other OF st
Johns had met on the top OF Ncsuvus and
| they thought they knew each other by name
aud reputation, vet never having been for
malv introduced, like two simplctons they
looked at each other in silence, and lett the
mountain separately and without speaking
1 And it was only last week, that cracked iel-
| low-commoner, Meadows, showed me Ca
| ricature, taken from the life representing q
/ Cantab drowning, and another gownsmar
standing on the brink, exclaiming-Oh! that
! | had the honor of being introduced to that
man, that | might have taken the liberty o.
saving him. "But----it, thought l, he
never would carry SO far with his own uncle
4 | never heard that your father was gay
man. continued he musing, but as you ST
| in that light, tie likeness is" moved in
stantly. But it's impossible. Come, my
dear boy come--peopie, though electrified
must dine. Who could he be- Never were
two people so alike We dincd at the Inn
spent the evening together, and instead of thu
/ fifty, the 'ioat ,ffg,' he generously gave m'
a draft for three times the amount. He lef
Cambridge the next morning, AMI his las
words were, as he entered his carriage, M,
brother 7pas d handsom man, and there 7va'
Lady Somebody, who the world said, wa
partial TO him. She may have son. Mos
\ surprising Xix enrss God bless YOU. Reat
hard, YOU young dog read hard. Like a
two brothers Who the ID could he be?
| never saw him again.
His death, which happened few month
afterwards, in consequence of his being III
! in bet contracted when he was "a littl
elcvatcd,a left me the heir of his fine cstat
Il wish could add, to his many and nobl'
\ virtues. | do not attempt to palliatc decep
ton, it is always criminal. But am sure
no severity, rcprimand, orrcproachcs, woulf
have had half the effect which his Kindness
his confidence, and his generosity wrough
on me. 1t reformed me thoroughly, and a
once. did not sec London again till ha'
graduated; aud it my degree was maccom
panied BY brilliant hunors, it did not disgrac
my uncle'S liboraltp or his name. Man
+ years have elapsed since our last interview
but never reflect ON it without pain an,
pleaSurc-pain, that our last intercourse o
earth shall have been marked by circum
stances Of the grossest dcccption--and plea
sure, that the serious reflections it awakened
cured me fer ever of all wish to deceive
and made the open aud straight forwar
path that Of TIE. SEXAGENARIAN.
Il dVge 7ree.-Thc Lexington, (ky.