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


squeeze down.
re gods, annhiiaie both space and time
Ana make two lovers happy
may nave been called not over modest re-
quest; but can youch for at least oae-half
OIL ITS being the daily prayer Of some thou
SANDS OF the best dressed people that the sun
ever summoned to day oftwcnty-iour hours
long.
On feeling the symptoms Of u hoary yisi-
tation regularly rushed into the streets. ON
the principle that some alienation of misery
IS always to be found in fellow suffering
This maxim | invariably found false, ike
every other piece of the boosted wisdom of
mankind ! found the suffering infinitely
increased by the association with my fellow
iashionables. A man might as well have
lied from his chamber 10 enjoy comfort in
the wards of an hospital.
In one OF my marches up and down the
pave OF ST. James's-street, that treadmill of
gentlemen convicted in the penalty of hav-
ing nothing to do, lounged into the little
hotel OF the guards, that stand beside the
great hotel of the gamblers, like Il babe I'M
der It's mammals wlng-the likeness admi-
rable, though the scale diminutive. That
: hour too many cost me three games of
billiards, my bachelors house, and one thou
sand pounds. This price of sixty minutes
startled me little, and for a week meoii-
lated with some seriousness on the superior
galety OF life spent in paving the streets,
driving wagon, or answering the knocker
Of door
But the " hour again oyerfowed me.
was walking il off in the Regent-street, when
an old fellow victim met me and prescribed
a trot to Newmarket. The prescription was
taken, and the hour was certainly got rid OF.
But the remedy was costly, for my betting
book LETT me minus ten thousand pounds.
L returned to town like patient from a
watering place, relieved Of every thing but
the disease which took me there Ny last
shilling remained among the noble black
legs; but nothing could rob me of frag-
mcnt OF my superfiuous time, and brought
even tentold allowance Of il back But
every disease has Il crisis; and when lounge
through the street became ut once useless
and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the novelty of be-
(ng cut by all my noble friends, and of being
sedulously followed by that generation, who.
unlike the tickle world, reserve their tipstafi
attentions Tor the day of adversely had lost
ITS ZeSt, and was thinking whether time had
better be fought oft by plunge to the bot.
tom OF the Thames, or by the muzzle of one
OF MantonS HAIR trIggerS-I was saved by Il
plunge INTO the Kings bench.
There lIfc was new, friendship was undis-
guiScd, my coat was not an object OF scorn,
my exploits were fashion, my duns were in
admissible, and my very captorS were turn
cd into my humble servants. There too.
my nature, always social, had lis full indul-
gcRce, for there | found, rather to nv sur
PRISE, ninc-tenths of NY most accomplished
acquaintance. But the enemy still made
his way, and had learned TO ylwn, in spite
of billiards and ball playing, when the Act
lot me loose into the great world again
| Good luck too had prepared surprise for
my debut. | had scarcely exhibited myself
III the streets, when / disco,e cred that every
wag OF my set was grown utterly blind when
ever happened 10 walk on the same side Of
the way, and that might as well have been
buried a century. | was absurd enough To
bc indignant; for nothing can be moro child
ish than any dcicacy when a man cannot
bet on the rubber. But one morning knock
came TO my attic door, which startled Inc NV
lis professional vigor. An attorney entered.
had now nothing TO fear, for the man whom
no one will trust cannot we'll be i'm debt. and
for once faced an attorney without palpi-
tatlon. His intelligence was fattering. An
old uncle of mine, who had worn out all that
was human about him IN amasSIng fifty thou
sand pounds, and finally died of starving
himself, had expired with his pen in his hand
in the very act of leaving his thousands to
pay the national debt But fate, propitious
to me, had dried up his ink bottle; the OK.
pensc Of rcplcnlshing it world have broken
his heart Of itself; and the attorneys an.
nounccmcnt to me was, that the will, after
binding the solicitor to the treasury and
three OF his clerks, was pronounced to be
altogether illegiblc.
The fact that was nearest of kin cot
into tie newspapers; and in my first drive
down st. james had the pleasure Of dis
covering that had cured a vast number ot
my friends of their caamitous defect of vi
sion. But, if the "post cquitem sedet atrs
cura was the maxim in the days of Angus
tus, the man who drives the slower cabrio
let i'll the days Of George the Fourth cannot
expect to escape. The "hour too many
overlook me in the first week. On on,