Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1826-04-29
FROM the ITaVeI1er.
The ReparatiOn.

From the Traveller.
The NeparatiOn.
HoNoRIUs, one day received from'hi'
brother the following letters -" desir
ed to have your son; you entrusted him
TO me from his earliest years. Before
constituted him my heir, ! was anxiou:
to make him my friend. Endued viii
the sensibility of father, l was DESTROYS
to produce by adoption, son whom
could love. l wished to have him witt
me quite young, that l might have tn.
pleasure
To rear his tender thoughts,
To teach his young ideas how to shoot.
"And by early and increasing benefits
/ wished him to behold IN me, not rich
uncle, bu, tender father. You consent
ed to my wishes, you tore yourself from
the dearest object in the world, and ba-
nished him as it were, three hundred
miles from yourself, you thought, at least,
that you had given happiness to bro
ther. But ali, my brother, my friend,
your hopes have been disappointed
This is confession that have postpon-
cd tor many years, because | was sensi-
Bile what grief it would occasion. But l
can no longer defer it. Frederick is I'M
worthy both of you and me j; and his past
conduct has rendered me quite hopeless
OF the future. do not speak of the fol-
lies Of infancy; the faults OF that period
are 10 be attributed less to the character
than to tender and thoughtless years.
What do | say His extreme vivaci,y
appeared to me the pledge and first
iruis OF his understanding in bis indo-
ci'ny ! bebeld nothing but noble pride;
and 10 adopting the title, had contract
cd The weakness of the father. must
confess, moreover, that even in the faults
OF Frederick, there was kind of splen-
dor tba, was calculated to deceive. |
ws- blind. Alas why cannot BIO so
now He no sooner leaves me than |
am prey TO the most alarming appre.
tensions. Abandoned to all the passions
OF this age, they are marked in him by
the effervescence that reason nor autho-
rity cannot assuage. In word, not a
day passes but his health and his for
tune are endangered. Neither my grief,
nor the sufferings that frequently result
from his own conduct, can affect him in
the least, he is every moment punished
without being corrected. know how
much wound your heart; but mine
bled for many years before could de-
termne to break silence. have but
ono hope remaining; it is in you. Write
to him, speak to him with the feelings
and the authority Of father. II this
last effort should net succeed, abandon
all my hopes. l restore to you pre-
sent tina, will be fatal to US both :-if the
bear. is not reformed by change OF si,ua-
ton; and / shall still have the misfor.
tune Of not being able to rid myself Of an
ungrateful nephew, without being almost
certain Of loading you with an unnatural
son
This letter plunged Honorious into
the most violent grief. He possessed at
Lyons amoderate fortune, which vas all
embarked in commerce. Frederick was
his only son, whom he tenderly loved !;
and to secure rich inheritance to him,
he had sen. him to Paris to be brought
Nd by his brother. This sacrifice en-
bi,icred still more the sensation OF calam-
ity. And perhaps some traces OF illus
irasion that hardly ever quit the parental
bosom, persuaded him, that if bis son
bad remained under his own inspection,
he wound have been faithful to his duty.
1t cost him much less to accuse his fate
than to condemn his son.
In this situation, however, he found
VIVA, blessing was the hear, to which he
could impart his grief. He repaired to
Florio, who was not so much his partner
in trade as his friend. They lived to.
gether; and were moro united by their
sentiment than their commerce. After
lamenting misfortune which friendship
had rendered mutual. Honorius vrose to
his. son. Frederick read the letter
went, perhaps, in reading it. and persist.
ed in his conduct. The entreaties and
the menaces Of his uncle were but empty
noise; and his fathers letters we're soon
treated as ridiculous defamation. The
house Of every virtuous family was shut
agaips, him: and by si' who would pre-
serve character his acquaintance Was con-