The Litchfield County post., 1827-04-12

ditiOn. And the worst of all is-that, as hu- man nature is constituted, for nothing of all this is there any remedy!
 And "HOpe" worked strange wonders in the earlier stages of the plague, especially a- mong those who had all to gain and little to lose; sort of persons whose fearlessness, and spirit of reliance, since the world began, has always been proverbial.s There is point to which you civilise mankind but beyond when education cannot go. You seem to tame the wolf, while he sees you hold the whip over him; but-blood will have it's way -he flies at your throat at last, if you give him an opportunity. Mans instinct makes him war on man. The miller, when his gram aries are full, laughs loud, and when he laughs -he buys Iordship-out of the ruined har- vest. When agues thrive, do not sextOn's delve merry? Does not the surgeon fatten on the mseries, the headsman on the vices. of mankind In no general blessing vet did all men ever find contentment; in no c0m- mon atilictiOn have there not always been some who saw good; Battles and blood make soldiers generals. Revolts and revolu- tions peasants princes. Out of broken win- dows, as the adage tells us, do there not arise rich glaziers And he who scarts a for tune, may find one even in the PLAGUE.
 And according ly, among the curious results
 
 its strength in Florence, was the extra Quan- tity ofactual rejoicing,as well as of mourning the great increase of hiIarity in the midst of tears; and the decided immediate gain to in dividuals; which arose out of the thianing in the numbers of the community. Husbands. many, wept for the death of their wives :- wives, often, for the death of their husbands: both, constantly, for the death of their chl- dren; for these were, generally, losses, at least n some sort, of present sources of hap plness: disturbances of long habits and exist ing arrangements and no benefit (to balance) accrulng to the survivor But sons did not always mourn for their fathers-nephews for their uncles--younger brothers, destined to exertlon and poverty, for their elders, who had shut them out from title and estate; those who were the best disposed to do all this, of ten could net do it: their wants in spite of themselves, were relieved, and their desire of pleasure admsnistered to--they thought that they grleved for the fate of the dead-per- haps they did grieVe, but, before the bell had ceased tolsing, they would not have him live again. For even the comparatively poor who died, had something to leave behind them, which was object to those as poor, or poorer. than themselves. Very soon the constant occurrence of such falls of fortune, began to make men expect, and look for them. They could not help recollecting the fact that there was one particular life stood between them and happiness. The possibility of change would just present itsetf--the wish, perhaps not yet. And, among the aboring classes too, the diminished number of hands at work in every calling, soon gave the rernainderaaligh rates of wages, which they spent in idleness and excess. The mere passage of wealth into fresh hands, always unthrifty, created an im- rnense demand, out of the very general mour- ming and distress, for articles of cost and lux. ury. All who had been rich, had not drank choice wines. or maintained brilliant equip pages. All who rose from poverty did sO--- often to the most prodigal dissipation oftheir means--oh the instant. Until even the very same calamity which in few months, made the city an absolute desert, in it's outset actu- ally gave new and increased impulse to its pleasurable, and to it's commercial move ments
 In the mean time, however, the shroud maker applied his needle almost as rapidly as the maker of new robes and, as the fury of the pestilence increased ,all this ollity which at first, had some show of the mirth of madness about it, ran on till, like the merriment pro- duced by wine in company, by degrees, it broke into blOodshed and misrule. In the beginning ofthe scourge, the succession to an estate or title, had not carried with it--as of 1 course--a notice that the inheritor was only tenant for an hour. But when the deaths had risen to more than hundred a-day in the city; and, when the man who became the heir to an estate in one twenty -four hours, left it to somebody else---or perhaps left it without claimant-in the next, this general state of insecurity, added to the extraordina- ry description of hands into which property passed, seemed first to repeal all unity and principle; and soon led to the widest and most unheard of outrages.
 The successor to splendid mansiOn-the fifth or sixth remove, perhaps, within month
 seized possession--it might be with title but certainly without waiting for the forms of law to ratify it.
 Great quantities of personal property, of houses and moveabes especially, were some times left in few hours, without any certain claimants at all; and ru6.n and outcasts- the police of the city being virtually almost extinct-fought and scrambled for the right of rifing such possessions in open day.-An- tonIo MalesPini, the servant of goldsmith who had fled the city and died under the walls of Pisa, produced a will alledged to have been left by his master. bequeath- ing to him the whole of his etfects.-On the very next day, ths title passing un- disputed. there were twenty claimants for