Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1826-08-01


risk, aid in the face Of the reward offered for
the apprehension of his young friend, instantly
decided, in order to save the character Of the
young lady, to hasten the legal marriage of the
parties. They were accordingly regularly
united in wedlock by the eminent Clergyman
and professor who was the worthy successor Of
the distinguished author Of the Lectures on Rhe-
toric and The Bellies Lettres.
MIR. Wakefcld's father was apprized Of the
match; and the mother Of the young lady, when
she learned the state Of the case, and the re-
spectabliity of the party whom she had before
so much dreaded, not only became reconciled,
but successfully exerled herself to induce the
Lord SChancellor TO withdraw the anathema
which he had pronounced against the young
man. She soon, indeed, became so partial 10
Mr.. Wakefield, that, on his being appointed,
shortly after, 10 high diplomatic situation at
the Court Of Turin, she accompanied the Young
couple on the mission. AT Turin, :hey resided
some years, living in the first style Of elegance
and distinction. There, or IN some part of Italy,
we believe, Mr. Wakefield had the misfortune
to lose his wife, who left him the father of two
children, for whom he holds in trust TIE large
fortune of their mother. The latter eircum.
stance, added 10 the consideration of his fathers
respectable character and station in life, is suf-
cient 70 rebut the charge that MIR. Wakefield
is needy adyen;urcr. His Edinburgh friends
ere in possession o! numerous letters from HIM
and his lady while they were abroad, and which
are pregnant with great interest, and show that
they were highly esteemed ard courted while
at Turin. What Mr.. Wskeiald's movements
have been for some years after the death of his
lady, we cannot stale. The love OF enterprise
and adventure seems all alongto have been his
ruling passion; and it appears that when on
recent visit to his friend, Dr. Davies, the ac-
ambition and excited him to an attempt TO win
the prize-lhe result Of which is now before the
public. Mr.. Wakefield has, we understand, just
turned thirty years Of age.
This statement is given on the authority ola
literary gentleman OF high responsibility, who
was fellow student with Mr.. Wakefield and
who shared in some OF his boyish froics, but
has haG no personal knowledge of him in after
life Many Of the facts rest of course on the
testimony Of Mr.. Wakefield himself al the time,
but there is no reason TO doubt their genoa
correctness. Since we were favored with the
oral account from which we have, trusting
chiefly to memory, drawn up this sketch, we
have heard il stated that the matter bore a more
serious aspect at the zine, than this relation of
an apparently romantic, but real, adventure
would seem 10 imply. But this opinion is best
answered by the fact that the lady's mother be-
came reconcied to the match; that the Lord
Chancellor forbore furnishing the delinquent
and above all that the lady resigned herself into
the hands Of the young man, and lived happily
with him; and whatever magnitude the recent
offence Of MIR Wakefield may assume, it is
surely unfair though we admit II Is natural
enough in those irritated by his present conduct
to permit that conduct to bear With retrospect
tive view upon transaction Of bis earlier life.
The highly respectable persons with whom he
was acquainted when student are 10th to be-
lieve that, in the affair now before the public,
he has entirely forfeited their regard; and we
sincerely, though we cannot sanguinely, hope
with them, that even here circumstances Of
palliation, at least, may arise in the forlhcom-
ing trial
(a) This gentleman is now on his passage TO
India, where he has obtained lucrative APP
pointment.
The following quiz upon the tautology and repet
ton of modern sonssingng, is copedfrom late Lon
don Magazine.
TWO SONGS.
The Music By Mr. HarneA, The Nonsense by Mr.. T.
Campbell
SONG THE rIRsr-THE WORDS RI T. W. CAMPBELL, ESQ.
"Ifa-ny white wing'd power above, My
Joys and griefs survey, The day waen thou wer.
born, my love, He surely surely blessed hat
cay, He surely, surely, blessed that day
I gaz'd and felt upon my lips ih' uOfnsh'd ac-
cents hang One moments bliss, one burning
kiss, one burning kiss to rapture chang'd each
pang, each pang; One moments bliss, one burn
ing kiss, One moments bliss, one burning kiss,
one moments bliss, one burning kiss, to rap,
ture chang'd each pang.
"lf any white wiDg'd power above, MY
joys and griefs survey, The day when thou vert
born, my love, He surely, surely, bless'd that
day, He surely blessed that day. And tho
as swift as lghtning's flash, Those traneed mo-
ments few, Not all the waves Of time shall wash,
not all the waves of time shall wash, not all the
waves of time shall wash, shall wash, thy memo
ry from nv view, thy memory from my view
-, thy memory from--my view
OH MIR. T. Campbell, what shall oash, shall
,cash this stuff, this stuff, from thy memory,
,hy memory, thy-thy me--mo-ry! Oh! Mr..
L. Campbell, Mr.. MIR. Mr.-Mr.-Iommy
Campbell!
SONG THE sEcoSD-THE WORDS BY T. CAMPBELL, esq
"Withdraw not yet those lips and fingers,
Whose touch to mine is rap-ture's spell; Lies
low for us moment fingers, And death seems
,,orI Earewpll cpeme IN the. word Fare