New-York daily tribune., 1844-05-02
nal genius than is at all suspected never {

his offer of hot penny roll and pint Of stout
lor breakfast e. TO any critic who could wiite ono
Of his Imaginary Conversation-an lndigcstibIc
peasantry which horribly enraged more than one
critic of the time. OF Gebr,' however. Cole
ridpe was accustomed TO speak in terms ol great
praise, till one day he heard Southey speak OF u
with equal admiration, after which Co!eIidgc al
tered his mind he did not admire it-he must
nave been mistskcn.'
few bograp phical memoranda Of Nj: Landor
viii be found interesting, previous to offering some
:emarks OF his genius and works. during lHe
time he was studying italian in London, after
LEAVING Trinity, his godfather, General Powell,
was anxious that he should enter the army, Tor
which he seemed peculiarly adapted. excepting
that he entertained republican principles which
would not do there This proposal being ne
ra,iycd, his father offered TO allow him 1iOl per
annum, If he would adopt the law and reside IN
the Temple but nc declared that he woulC a!lo"
him but little more than one-third OF that sum II
he refused. OF course Walter Landor well knew
shat he might have enjoyed gay London lie
$500 per annun, in the Temple, and neglected
the law, as, here and there, young gentleman OF
the Temple is apt TO 10; he, however, preferred
TO aveid false pretcnces, accepted the smaller III
come, ard studied Italian.
Mr.. IanGor wrote verses in Italian at this pc
ROD, which were not very good, yet not perhaps
worse than Milton's. The poetry of Italy did not
cap,ivae his more severely classical taste at iirsi
he saws it seemed to him Ike the juice OF grapes
and melons left on yesterdays plate he had
inst been reading -iIschyus, Sophocles, ana I'm.
dar Blu, his opinion was altered directly ne read
Dante, when he did not do till some years after
wards.
That his unce was not SO far wrong IN think
ing Landor well suited TO a military lie, the iol-
lowing anccdote will serve to attest.-At the
breaking ont of the Spanish war against the
French, he was the frs, Englishman who landed
in Spain. He raised few troops at his own ex-
pense and conducted them from Corunna to Agu-
ar. the head quarters of Gen. Blake, Viccroy Of
Galhcia. For this he received the thanks OF the
Supreme Junta in the Madrid GaSette, together
:viil, an acknowledge cement of the donation o.!
10000 rea!s from MIR. Landor. He returned the
letters and documents, with his commission, 10
Don Pedro Ceyallos, on the su5version OF the
Constitution by Fcrdinand-teng Don Pedro
that he was willing TO aid people in the asser
ton Of its liberties against the antagonist OF Eu
rome, but that nc could have nothing 10 do with
poriurer and traitor.
Mr. Iandor went to Paris in Tie beginning oi
the century, where he witnessed the ceremony Of
Napoleon being made Consul for life, amidst tbc
accIamutions Of multitudcs. He subsequently
saw the dc,hroned and deserted Emperor pass
through Tours on his way TO embark, as nc III.
tended, for America. Napoleon was ATTENDED
only by single servant, and descended at the
Prefecture. unrecognized by any body excepting
Lsndor The people Of Tours were most hostile
to Napoleon Landor had always felt hatred
to him, and now he had but to point one finger at
him, and it would have done what all the artillery
Of twenty years Of war had failed TO do. The
peoplo would have torn him in pieces. Need 1t
he said Landor was too good hater, and too
noble a ,lan, TO avail himself Of such an opfortu.
nity. Hahcld his breath and let the hero pass
Perhaps. after all, there was no need OF any oil
this hatred on the part of Mir. Landor, who, IN
common with many ether excessively wlliul men,
were probably as much exusperatcd at Napoeon's
commanding successes, as at his falling of from
pure republican, principles. Eowbeit, Landor's
great hatred, and yet greater iorbearance are
hereby clronclcd.
In 1906, Mr. Landor sold several estates IN
Warwickshirc which had been in his family
nearly seven hundred years, and purchased Ian.
tony and Cumjoy in Monmoulhshire, where he
laid ont nearly 70,0O0. Here he made cxten-
svc improvements, giving employment daily, ior
many years, TO between twenty and thir'y labor
crs in building and planting. lie made road
at his own expense, Of eight miles long, and plant
cd and fenced half a milliGn Of trees. The mia
nous behavior of some tenants caused hm 10
leave the country AT this time he had million
more trees all ready to plant, which, as nc OBJ
served, "wcre lost 10 the country by driving me
from it. | may speak of their utility II must
not of nv own" The two chief offenders were
r. 4 NJ DIOR 10 tlp
amount Of Ct 500 per annum, and were to INTRO
duce an improved system of Suffolk husbandry
'ir. I.andor got no rent from them, but all man.
ner of atrocious annoyances. They even rooted
ND his trees and DESTROYED whole plantations
They paid nobody When ncighbors and work
people applied for money, Mr.. Landor says, g they
were referred to the Devil, with their wives and
families, while these brothers had their two bottles
of wine upon the table. As for the Suffolk sys
tenn of agriculture, wheat was sown upon the last
of Nav, and cabbages for winter food were plant
ed in August or September" Mr.. Landor event
ually remained master of the field, and drove his
tormcntors across The seas but so great was has
disgust at these circumstances that he resolved TO
leave England. Before his departure he caused
his house, which had cost him some to,nU0, to
be taken down, thathis son might never have The
chance of similar vcXations in that place
In 1911. MIR. Landor married Julia, the daugh
ter of J. 1huillicr dc Malapcfte, descendant and
representative of the Baron de Neuvc-vllle, first
gentleman of the bedchambcr 10 Charles the
Eighth. He wen. to reside in Italy in 1915, and
during several years occupied the Palazzo Medlc'
in Florence Subsequently lie purchased the
beautiful and romantic villa Of Count Gherar
desca at Ficsoe, with its gardens and farms,
scarcely a quarter of an hours walk from the
ancient villa of Lorenzo de- Mcdci, and resided
there many years in comparative solitude
To be Continued.I
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