Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-06-18

HiSncr d3u noOiSC happiness Il IOunu ID private lie
than in the splendour aud circumstance Of Roy
atty. Col. Murat, it is we'll known to our read
ers, is the son of the late king of Naples. and
nephew to Napoleon. The fate ofhis gallant and
accomplished father is also well known. Amidst
the misfortunes of his illustrioas family, young
Murat selected our country for his permanent
residence, and has become a naturalized citizen;
is member Of the Florida Bar. and sugar plan
ter. Such a transition strikes US very strongly,
who have been so long taught to look with won
der and admiration upon the brilliant elevation
of the Napoleon family; but there is true philo-
sophy in the character and department Of this gen.
tleman. He has accommodated himself TO cir
cumstances, and we doubt not but these circum-
stances have added to the real happiness of his life.
He has assimulated himself very happily to our
manners and modes of living, and to the charac-
ter ut our nstitutions-is a modest, unostenta.
tons American gentleman, a scholar, and a man
of talents. May he live through a long life in the
enjoyment, of that respect and kindness from the
citizens Of his adopted country, which his moral
and intellectual worth entitle him to.-Cdmden,
South Caroiiaa Journal, June S.
-ase0s5asa-
Lorenzo Dow.-We stated in Tuesdays GA
Zette that there are two persons itinerating through
the United States, under this name-One genu-
lne and the other of course counterfeit. We
have since seen aletter from the northern part of
this state, dated May 81, from which we have
made an extract, giving authentic informs ton on
this important subject. The extract is as follows:
". Y. Gaz.
"A few weeks since, Lorenzo Dow was at K.
and preached to a large congregation. One DIR.
A. claimed relationship with him, took him to his
house, and gave him seven or eight dollars. The
people of course were highly grati6ed to hear so
great a man; he told them he had preached to
Kings, Princes. SC. put he had never preached a
better sermon than he did to them. Judge T. their
representative to Congress, seeing the account OF
BOWS visit in the Keensville Herald called on
the real Lorenzo Dow who was at that time in
Washington. and asked him 1t he was the man
who was preaching in K. Dow said that he had
not been in that part Of the country for a great
many years; that he vas the real Dow, and that the
other was an impostor. +. called on a gentleman
from Connecticut to ascertain whether the Dow
in Washington is the real Lorenzo Dow-the
answer was satisfactory. The resemblance is
very striking, but the counterfeit Dow isa few
inches shorter than the genuine, aid his beard
black instead Of Grey
~-ne2sNs-
A late English paper states that the Rev. G..
-. NOLtONs tC WV W btt'feTt 40 " Nv
ing at Paris in the most pitiable circumstances
a melancholy example of the vice Of gaming
With a mind ,minently endowed by nature with
the stores Of inexhaustible learnins-with powers
OF conversation OF the highest ordcr-with talents
and AGO lirements fitted to adorn any rank or sta
tion-he now prowls for a subsistence In the viii
est haunts of the French metropolis, and among
the most infamous wretches that infest the Palais
ROYAL. The same paper precedes this statement
with the following account OF the individual al
luded to-
This gentleman. it may be remembered, dis
appeared under very mysterious circumstances
about the time when the murder of Weare, by
Thurte,l and his associates. caused such an extra
ordinary sensation in the public mind. II was
known that the Rev. Mr.. Cotton was in the habit
of carving large sums OF money about his per-
son, and that he was not unacCustOmed TO visit
those dens of iniquity commonly called "helis,'
in some Of which he had met with John Thurtell.
These circumstances, and the reports which OBJ
tanned circulation of that criminals murderols
plans, induced a very general SUSPECT m that the
reyerend gentleman had been i~nveigled and de-
s,royed BY Thqrtell and his companions. Thur
tell. however. on being questioned a short time
prior 10 his execution on the subject OF Mr.. Coi-
tons remarkable absence, denied all knowledge
Ot what had become OF nun, a denial tuldt tulHtu
out to be perfectly true. Mr.. Cotton, by gam
bling and other extravagancies. had become IN
volyed in debt To a very larg" amount. principal
Is for jewellery. and unable 10 meet the demands
Of his creditors. he embarked with the utmost Sc
crecv for the United States. H. continued in
America for a considerable time, and afterwards
returned to Europe, but not to England. lie
took up his abode at Paris, and there became
we'll known to the freauenters OF No. 9, and
other raining saloons of he .Palais Royal. SO
successful was he in his speculations, that in the
course of a wear or two he acquired as much as
6ve-and twenty thousand pounds sterling; and
happy would It have been for hun if he had then
forsworn gambling forever. and invested his mo-
ney, as he often talked of doing, in the American
funds. He collected a considerable number of
valuable paintinus. and his lodgings in the Pa'ais
ROYAL. tho the interior sufficiently marked the
eccentric character of the owner. afforded a great
treat to the admirers of the fine arts. But his
inveterate attachment 20 the gaming table render
ed him some time since a beggar. He became the
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