Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1851-04-16

city of Paris, but j, as against his will, and
he refused to sit. He was forced to 60 to
the Chamber nevertheless. He went one day
but would not 60 again. He then wrote
letter to the papers, from his garfet, excus-
ing himself, and declaring ,ha, to address
more than six people would disconcer, him,
tha, his vocation was TO he ballad maker,
not law-maker. With the grace Of Lsfon-
tsine, and the phlosophic wit Of V"llaire,
the old man Is as shy as Dominic Sampson,
and IL those who did no, know him would
seem "to have a great genius for silence"
as the saving is. Etskine, the grea, lawyer,
was painfully unready Of speech, and so ex
tremelv embarrassed that he would have
given up the attempt to be an orator, if he
did moi think he felt, as he says himself, his
lille children ,ugging a, his gown, and urg-
ing on, in spite of his boggling and SIAM
mering. Sheridan was, al frs, poor hand
q, speech-making. Bu, he said, ~ knew
it was in me, and was determined it should
come out" Currsn was almos, knocked
down by The sound Of his own voice when
he first addressed his ''genlemen,'' in q lit
tie room .! a tavern.
Sir Philip F'ancis (beleved to be The real
Stat .Nominis Umbra-lhe genuine Junius)
was hesi,a'ing and unready in speech. He
said on one occasion in the House of Com
mons, 81 am not accustomed to speak in
public, and very much fear, that, although
wha, have Ia say is clear enough in nv
own mind, it will appear in great disorder"
On another he says :-'l am thoroughly
conscious Of my own infrmalies. Even
81; so,o
cert mer' He often spoke in that manner.
And yet Francis was certainly the Junius
who terrified king and his ministers by the
boldness and vig"r of his printed WORDS
II is very curious 10 see how well that
ere. authorship has been guarded against
discovery. Nnlhing positive has ever been
stated respecting it; and surmise has ever
been expaliatlng IN very wide field for the
last eighty years. ], was said Lord Chat
ham was Junius, then Burke, ,hen Horne
Tonke, then Lord George Germaine, then
Wilkes. then a crowd Of lesser men, and
we lately saw very striking case made on.
! for Col. Barre, by NJ. Brlllon an English
man. Blu, most inqurers seem 10 pu, 'helr
Fundamentally upon Sir Philip Francis,
and So Thou art The man." II is remark
ahle that the Junius' letters appeared in the
space Of time between 1868 and l772-and
then suddenly ceased-nnt TO be renewed.
During E,a. time Francis was employed in
the war office; al the end Of it he was sent
to India with o salary Of 10000 pounds pei
annum. IL somehow lessons The patriotism
of Junus, in our ideas, TO think he should
give up his voc lion so suddenly-as if there
were no bad ministers 10 warn or 10 lash
any more, and all the grievances of the na-
,on had been completely and satisfactorily
done away with. il is curious tina, the let
,ers should cease from the time Francis
went off to India. At that time, too, Cen
erol DessguIers, who was in attendance on
George The Third at Winsor, heard the King
say-"We are done with Junius-we shall
have no more letters from this man." Bul
We did not mean to talk
! OF the epislatory Iron Mask;
| Our business was with the unresdiness Of
speech shown by such powerful writer as
Francis showed himself to be.
C"wper is another instance Of extreme
bashfuness and want of presence Of mind
or whsIever this infrmily may be termed
In ea,ly life. his aristocraic family connec-
tions had influence to procure for him the
place of clerk in the House OF Lords, where
his duties would have been liule more than
TO stand up and read parliamentary notices
or documents to the House on occasion.
Such was his 'midilv of disposition .ha, the
idea of being obliged TO speak before large
audience, terrified him extremely, and the
thing SO worked on his Imagination, as the
time drew near when he should begin his
attendance, that he gave way TO an agony
Of apprehension, and absolutely attempted
10 hang himself. Rather than make figure
in the eye Of the public, he deliberately got
q rope, and tried TO put an end 10 his men
tai suffering. A servant entering his room
as he was about this dreadful business, hIn-
dered The design His friends were inform
ed of his condition aud the cause Of it-andl
his mind was restored by the assurance that
of course he was not expected to do wha, af-
fecled him with SD much repugnance. But
for the old servant, the world had wanted
some immortal songs. it was so during
the future life of This great poet. While he
lived in reliremen, with Mrs. Unwin, her
son and daughter, he rather avoided the COM
pany Of strangers; aud he was often known
in his rural walks, TO leave the road and
conceal himself inside the the hedge, if he
saw any one-a lady especial y-comingI
to meet him When the danger was past,
he would come out and proceed on his
rambe.
Therefore-and this is the moral-let all
stammerers and scatlerbrained members of