Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-05-02
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THE HOUR TOO MANY


man is the guardian of the road, the dandy
IS delicate no more, and earns his daily bread;
and the Court of Chancery is unknown
hail to thee, soil Of larceny and love, of
ipick-pockets, and principle of every fraud
under heaven, and prneval virtue daugh-
ter of jails and mother of empires hail TO
thee, New South Wales
In all my years-and am now no boy ::
and IN all my travels-and am now mt the
antiPodes, have never heard any thing so
often, rs that time is short; vet no maxim
that ever dropt from human lips is further
IRON the truth. appeal to the experience
,of mankind--te the three hundred heirs of
the British pecrage, whom their gontv f,-
theirs keep out of their honors and their es-
tates--to the six hundred and sixty-cight
candidates for seats in parliament. which
they must wait for till the present sitters
die, or turn rebellious to- their noble patrons.
or their borough patrons, or their Jew pa
irons; or plunge into Joint stock ruin, and
eXpariate themselves, for the establishment
OF all other countries and the benefit of their
own; to the six thousand five hundred he
roes of the halfpay, longing for tardy war ::
to the hundred thousand promiss6ry cx-
clsemen lying on the soul of the chancellor
NY oil every guager from the Lizard TO the
Orkneys; and, to club the whole discomfort
INTO one, To the entire race of the fine and
superfnc who breathe the vital air, from five
thousand year TO twenty times the rental
the unhappy population of the realms of in
docnce included in Bond-street, st. James.
and the squares.
For my own part, in all my experience of
European deficiencies, have never found
any deficiency of time. Money went like
the wind champagne grew scanty; the
trust of tallors ran down to the dregs the
smiles Of my fair llrts grew as scarce as dia-
monds every thing became as dry, dull. and
stagnant, as the Serpentinc in summer, but
time never failed me. had a perpetual
abundance of commodity which the philo-
sophers told me was beyond price. had
not merely enough for myself, but enough
to give to others, until | discovered the fact,
that 1T was as little Il favorite with others as
myself, and that, whatever the plausible
might say, there was nothing on earth for
which they would not be more obliged to
me than donation of my superfluous time.
But now let me give sketch OF my story.
Il single fact is worth hundred reflections.
Inc hrst CONSCIOUSNESS that ] remember
was mat OF having snpcrabundancc OF
tune; and my first ingenuity was demanded
Tor getting rid OF the ncumbrance. | had
always an hour that pcrpeXed my skill to
know what to do with this treasure. 4
school-boy turn for long excursions in any
direction but that ofmy pedagogue indica-
tive OF Il future general officer; a naturalist
taste Tor bIrd-ncSting, which, in maturer
years, would have made me one of the won
ders of the Lin9an Society passion for i'll
vestSatIng the inside of every thing. from a
Catharlne wheel to China closet. which
would yet have entitled me TO the honors OF
r. IL. 3. and an original yigor in the plum
der of orchards, which undoubtedly might
have laid the foundation of first lord of
the treasury; were natures helps to get rid
Of this oppressive bounty. But though [
fought the enemy with perpetual vigor and
perpetual variety, he was not TO be put to
flight by a STRIPPING, and went TO the uni
vcrsity as far from being conqueror as ever.
AT Oxford found the superabundance of
this great gift acknowledged with an open
ness worthy of English candor, and combat
ted with the deXtcrity of an experience five
hundred years old. Port drinking, Irritation.
lounging, the invention of new tics TO era.
watts, and new tricks on proctors; billiards,
boxing, and bar-maids, seventeen WAYS of
mulling sherry, and as many dozen WAYS of
raising " the supplies" were adopted with
an adrOitness that must have baflied all but
the invinciblc. Yet time was master at last.
and he always INDUCED me with Iberaitv
that would have driven less resolutc spirit
to the bottom Of the Isis
AT length gave way, left the university
with my blessing and my debts, and rushed
up to London, as the grand place d'armcs,
the central spot from which the enemy was
excluded by the united strength, wit, and
wisdom of million and hall of men.
j might as well have stald bird-ncsting i'm
Berkshire. found the happicst coutriyan-
ccs against tho universal invader fail. Pi-
geon matches, public dinners, coffee houses;
blue stocking reunions private morning
quadrlllc practice, with public evening exit
billions of their fruits dilottanti breakfasts
with bronze Herculus standing among the
bread and butter, or a reposng cast OF We.
nus, fresh from Pompcii, as black and rude