Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1843-07-01
STEWART "THE wALKER.v

writer to Madras, and was employed as Sec
rotary to the Nabob of Arcot, and expended a
large sum in giving official entertainments, by |
order of his master. Within two years after !
his arrival in India, at the age of eighteen, he |
determined on leaving his situation in the Com
pany's service, assigning as a reason, that he |
was resolved TO travel, the amor rideHdi being
irresistiblc-that he would see, if he could, the
whole world-tlat he would unlcarn all that
he had learncd-that he would become an Au-
tomathcs, think and act for himself In pur-
suancc of this resolution, he addressed letter
to the Court Of Directors, which from its ju-
venle insolence and audacity, is preserved on
their records to this day in which he tells
them he was born for noble- pursuits, and high
er attainments than to be n COPPER of invoices
and bills of ladng to company of grocers.
haberdashcrs and checsemongers.
Within few weeks after, writing this cpis-
tie, he took his leave of the presidency, and
began his pedestrian life. Some of his friends
lamcnting his abrupt departure, and thinking
he might be involved in pecunary difficulties,
sent after him, begging him to return, and Of
| tering him pecuniary assistance. He replied
to their Invita- on, that he thanked them, that
his resolution was taken, that his finances were
small, but adequate to his wants. lie prose-
cuted his route over Uindostan, and Dalked TO
Delhi, to Persepolis and other parts of Persia
He visited Abyssinia and Ethiopia. He enter
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| Nabob, who conceived an esteem for him,
which eventually in his latter days became the
means of his support, for the Nabob appointed
him his private secretary.
A few years previous to his death, the House
Of Commons, in order to spare Mr. Stewards
feelings, granted him fifteen thousand pounds
to liquidate his demands on the Nabob. Quit.
ting the Carnatc, he adopted the mad resolu-
ton of walking to Seringapatam, which he ef:
fected; when there, Tippoo, hearing that
European had entered his city, ordered him to
be Immediately arrested, and directed him to
appear before him at his durbar. He questioned
him as to his motive for coming 20 his kingdom.
He answered, "Solely desire to see it." Tip
poo told him he must consider himself as his
subject, and as such military one, and he
must be enrolled in his army and that as he
appeared gentleman, he would make him, al.
ter some tactical instruction, a captain of se-
poys. He became one, and was engaged in
several affairs against the Mahrattas and was
wounded in the right arm.
lie continued detenu of Tippoo's several
years, until Sir James Sibbad then at Bombny,
was appointed by that presidency to settle the
terms of peace with Trppoo. Stewart availed
himself Of the opportunity of requesting Sir
James to use his interest with his highness,
to procure his release This, with some diff
Guilty, Sir James Sibbald effected; and Stewart
set forward TO waik to Europe. He crossed the
desert to Arabia, and arrived at Marseilles. He
,ralkcd through the whole kingdom of France,
through Spain, came TO Engand--left England
for America, through every State of which he
walked as he did through Ireland and Scotland.
On his return from Ireland he was nearly
shipwrcckcd and at the moment of being so,
he begged ofsome of the crew, if they survived,
10 take care of book he had written, and in
tended to publish, entitled "Opus Maximum" "
a tavorlte work of his. His mental powers
were of character unique in the extreme, and
perhaps without any approximation OF smli-
tudc To the thoughts orany human being. He
was the atomical philosopher; his defence and
demonstrations oc which singular hypothetical
doctrine was so ably defined and asserted,
that he could almost induce inGdelty 10 be.
come Proseiytc.
lie passed his last ten years in the neigh
borhood of Charng Cross and Cookspur street
to be, he said, in the "full title of human ex-
istence."
4 GrM.-A volume has recently been pub
lished in London, entitled "Seriors Poems" by