Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1850-01-31

More lhan year has elapsed since the
occurrence of the events stated in the pre-
cedug narratives and though | have no
further marvellous adventures to record, tie
interval has not been altogether uneventiul.
Godfrey Thorpe, after having run through
his own fine fortune by every species of
wanton extravaganza, lived for some time
upon the fortune, Of others BY running IN
debt, when, beng unable to proiract any
LONGER the smash had anticipated, he abb
seconded from the scat of his ancestors, and
Is at present settled with his family at Bou-
logue
Oakield Hall, with its wide and fair do
mains, is now nine, and ! am writing in
the library of that Elizabethan mansion of
which had So long coveted the possession.
Many of my fond and foolish yearnings
have been chasilsed by my temporary con-
siGnment to the Jaws of death; but this am
bltIon, perhaps the vaInest of my earthly
vanlties, has survived my apparent decease
and real enlombment. and feel daily aud
increasing pleasure as | wander over my
broad acres. Nor are my rides less crafty
ing because take them on my iavorlte
white cob, whose back | never again eXpec-
ted to bestride when | caught glimpse of
him as the undertakers were depositing me
in my coffin.
My daughters marriage was solemniZed
a year ago, and | am already blessed with
little grandson, who bears my name, and
who will become my heir Mr. Mason, for
whom have purchased the advowson of the
living, and who, conformity with his wife,
does the honors of Oakfield Hall, where they
are permanently established, deyotes HIM
self with an exemplary zeal to the the dis
charge of his pastoral duties, and is below
ed bv the whole neighborhood. Their I'M
ion promises to be more than USUALLY bless
ed; aprospect which affords me the purest
and most exquisite OF all pIeasures-the
contemplation of that happiness which we
have been instrumental i'll comforting upon
others.
My poor son, whom | regularly see,
though he no longer recognizes me, is IN Il
private asylum for lunatlcs, where he re-
ceiyes every succor and consolation tina,
his unfortunate state allows. All hopes of
his recovery have long been abandoned.
Though my constitution will never cease
to feel the effects of the trying shocks it has
sustained, am still enabled, thank God to
in most of my customary enjoy
ments; nor am | without hope that my
moral health has been benefited by the or
deals through which have passed, and that
when | am finally called away, ! may give
u better account of my stewardship than
could have done at an earlier period.
An eminent cutler of the Strand, one of
whose relations had been buried alive, left
a legacy of ten guineas to be given to any
surgeon who should pass stiletto through
his heart before his body was committed to
the grave; to facilitate the performance of
which operation, the weapon was tied to
the will. THIS example have followed
Vain and even ridiculous as the precautlon
may be deemed, have too vivid, too har-
lowing a recollection of my pas! sufierings,
10 incur The possibility of their recurrence.
| have no wish to wrIte-and, probably, my
readers would lave as little inclination to
peruse-a second Posthumous Memoir of
Myself"