Litchfield enquirer., 1839-08-08

ECHTEEtY
er pops in sight. Trees Ait BY as as IL they
were running for wager. Towns appear
and disappear like phantoms. A country is
scampered across in an hour or so. Ah,
there is another poSt.chariot dashing madly
along in our rear! Go il, We rascals, go it,
or I'll transport We both for aiding and ahet-
ting in abduction! Don't be nice about tri-
les. If you run over an old woman, fling
her shilling. If you find n turnpike-gate
shut, charge like Wellington, and break
through it! IF the fresh horses are Sulky at
Starting, clap lighted wisp of straw to their
refractory tails Bravo! Now we fly again!
" Don't be alarmed Leonora; the little boy
was not hurt the hind wheels just scrunch-
ed in one of the fingers nails-that's all, my
life! What, still agitated 7" ooh, Charles,
we shall break both our necks-Pm sure we
shalt" Sand ifwe're caught. my sweetest,
we shall break both orr hearts-a fdr more
agonizing CATASTROPHE" Behold us now APP
preaching the Border another hour and we
are in Scotland. know it by the farm yard
cocks who are one and all growing in the
Scotch accent. What village is that right
ahead of us! Gretna, as live! And yon-
der's the Blacksmth's! Then Heaven be
praised, Leonora is mine Hip, hip, hurrah |!
Nine times nine, and one cheer more!!
"The scene changes. Loves first delir-
ious transports have subsidized, and ambition
resumes the ascendancy. A little love is
sweet and palatable enough; too much
makes one sick. II is like living on lump
sugar and trcacle. Tired of my honey suck
le cottage, even though it be situated in a
| bring my equally wearied bride with me to
the metropolis. The news of the lions return
spreads far and wide. My late elopement
has, if possible, increased my popularity
i especially, as during my rustication, the
main incidents have been dramatized, and
played with astonishing effect at the Adelphi.
Melted by such indisputable evidences OF my
sterling celebrity, my old father in-law, who
has been sulking, ever since evaporated
with his pet child, sends for ME with a view
to reconciliation, and finging his aged arms
about my neck, formally acknowledges me
as his heir; and. after introducing me to all
his titled and influential acquaintance, dies,
as if on purpose to give me another shove up
ambitions ladder, and leaves me tin-mine
in Cornwall, shares in half-a- dozen London
companies, and upwards of thirty thousand
pounds in the three per cents. Excellent heart
ed old gentleman Here's his health!
"Adieu now to literature. My hopes ex-
| pand with my circumstances. Who would
J creep when he could soar! or content him.
| self with the idle batteries of the drawing
room, when he could electrify senate, and
help on the regeneration of an empire? My
| destiny henceforth is fixed. The spirit of a
| Demosthenes sWells within mel must be-
come member of the imperial legislature.
But how! There are no rotten boroughs
nova days. True, but there are plenty
quite fly blown enough for my purpose-so
hurrah for ST. Stephens! Armed with a
weighty purse, and backed by host of po-
tential friends whom my literary renown and
J handsome fortune has procured me, an
nounce myself as candidate for the borough
of A.; make my appearance there in
a style of BETTING splendour, with ten pounds
worth or so of mob huzzaing at my heels ;
thunder forth patriotic ap-traps on the hust-
ings, with my hand pressed against my heart;
shake hands with the electors, kiss all their
wives and daUghters-and, as q necessary
consequence, am returned by glorious ma
jority to Parliament. 5e4-t .1-
I" Now comes my browning triumph. On
the occasion of some discussion of all-absorb-
ing interest, enter the crowded house, and
catching the Speakers eye, just as am in
the act of getting up on my "eloquent legs
-as Counsellor Philips would say-I pre-
pare for display that shall at once place
me in the front rank of statesmen and ora
tors. "A prodigious sensation is caused by
my assumption of the perpendicular. A
buzz goes round the house that it is the cele-
brated author, Charles Meredith, who is
about to speak. Peel rubs his eyes, which
have been closed Tor the last half hour by
the irresistible rhetoric of Hume--Sheil
trembles for his tropes-and each separate
joint of O'Connell's Tail rattles with visible
uneasiness. Meanwhile, commence my
grafton, "Unaccustomcd, as am, to public
speaking is the modest and ingenious Ian
guage in which supplcate the forbearance
OF honorable members, who, with that gene.
rosity SO characteristic of free-born Britons
apply to my novel appeal with reiterated
cheers. Having thus secured their favorable
opinion, Iplunge unhesitatingly in medias res
put the question in its broadcast and clearest
light; philosopher upon it; am ocular
j upon it; embellish it by some apt Greek
! quotations, infinitely to the delight of Mr.
Baines, who expresses his satisfaction at my
being such ready Latin scholar; and con.
clude with an imprisoned and electrifying
j apostrophe to the genius of British freedom
1 Next day the papers are full Of my praises
Those which approve the principles of my
speech, extol it as q miracle of reasoning
and even those which are adverse, yet frank
W confess that, as a mere matter of elo-
quence, 1t has never been surpassed within
the walls of st. Stephens. A few nights af-
forwards Icreate similar sensation, which
is rendered still more memorable from the
circumstances, that lady of rank and fash.
ion, who happens to be listening to the debate
in the small recess over the roof of the House,
overbalances herself in the ardour of her
feelings, and tumbles head foremost through
the sky-light into the Speakers lap!
SO passes the Session. During the re-
cess the clubs are all busy in speculation as
70 my future course of proceeding. Not a
gossip at the AthenHuln, the Carlton, or the
Reform Clubs, but has an anecdete to relate
about Charles Meredith. The foreign secre-
tary was seen walking arm-in.arm with me