New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-03

pupil Of John Hunter, and personally al that attracts
ne se1clsssr hand some, yGons anG gay had won
setsle 10 his prsfe in the little Hampshire
where after the death Of both parents she had takea
up her abode, and was easily persuaded BY friends
more worldly. wise than he to address himself TO
iadv who although ten years his senior, had every
RECOMMENDATION that heart could desire-exceps
beauty So they married She, full Of con6ding love,
vsMsed eyery settlement beyond two hundred a.
wear OH. money out Of his own property, on which
he Unlisted and he justified her choice by invarable
kindn efs and affection, On affection that knew
PERMISSION from her wedding Gay 70 inc DAY Of her
excepting that which is 50 necessary 70 stability and
comfort N this work s-tay word-the homely quality
called prudence: Independent to fault frank in
sneech and rash In act. a jealous and unconpronis
IN Whir in those days when Whigsery was some
times called sedsion and sometimes treason, he
6rst ruined his fair professional prospects In place
where he was known and loved, BY plunging into
the feryeLt hatreds of q holly contested county
election and theB. when he had removed into Bsrk.
shire contrived by some similar oube AZ to afront
and ALLEVIATE rieh cousin, OF whom my mother
anerv with her for marrying, ana with me for beir
siri had been propitated By my bearing the magic
name Of Russell and might perhaps have again
YeIented had he not died within few months, Just
after leaving his money to child whom he had
never seen, who had not even the baptismal Russell
to recommend him. Then IN his new residence he
got into some feud with that influential body the
corporation and whether impatient of professional
restraints. or Of the slow progress OF physicians
fortunes he attempted to increase his resources
by the aid of CARDS the was uniuckily one of the
finest whist-players In England) or by that other
terrible gambling, which assumes 80 many forms,
AID bears 80 many Lames, but which, even when
called by its ider name of speculation, is that terri
BILE Thing gambling still whatever might be the
manner OF the loss-Or whether, as after ward hap
pened, bis own large hearted hospitality and too
confding temper were alone to blame-foY the de-
known to my mother he did not tell, and we could
not ask-whateveT the actual cause, 1t seems to me
certain that about this time nearly all his own pater
nal property, except the reserved pin money, and
much of my mothers fortune, was In some way
sunk.
Under these circumstances, just as q remarkable
cure was beginning to mako his medical talent adj
vantageously known, ne resolved to remove to
LYME feeling with characteristic sanguneness that
in fresh place success would be certain. How
often In after life has that sanguine spirit, which
chung to him 10 his last hour, made me rembIe and
SILVER. had seen him so often disappointed, that
il seemed TO me that what he expected could never
come TO pass and such, think, is the natural effect
produced on ali around by an oTer-sansuine spirt.
Even Hope has never been so truly characterized az
by the great poet in HE fine personlhcaten, Fear
and trembling Hope :" and | saw the other day
beautiful copy Of the celebrated picture known as
Guido's Hope, in which the expression Is that OF in
tense melancholy. That lovely face looked II list
eping to prognosiics that were not to be fulfilled
Well, We removed to Lyme Regis. The housemy
father TOOK there was, az commonly happens to
people whose fortunes are declining far more sp!en
did than any we had ever inhabited-ndeed the very
best in the town. 1t was situated about the middle
OF the principal street, and had been during two
three seasons, some twenty years before, rented by
the great Lord Chatham for the use OF his sons
the second Earl and William Pitt. at the time that
we occupied it Prime Minister of England. Hayley
in his Autobiography, mentions having seen the
youths there The house, built OF the beautiful gray
stone of the Isle OF Portland had great extent Of
frontage, Terminating by large gates suYmounted by
spread eagles, probably the crest of some former
proprietor. An old stone porch, with benches on
either side, projected from the center, covered as
was tho whole front OF the house, with tall spread
ing, wide.eafed myrtle, Astounding in blossom, with
moss roses, JessaInine and passion flowers. Behind
the buildings, extended round paved quadrangle,
was the drawing room, q splendid apartment, OF
which the chimney piece was surrounded by copy
in marble Of Shakspere's tomb in Westminster Alb
hey, looking upon little lawn surrounded by choice
evergreens particularly the bay, the cedar and the
house and q flbert-tree walk, from which again
three detached gardens sloped abruptly down TO
OF the clear dancing rvulets OF that western coun.
Try, rejecting in its smaibrok stream 10 hedge
of myrtle and roses. In the steep deciivity Of the
central garden was grotto, overaYching a cool,
sparkling spring, while the slopes on either side
were carpeted with strawberries and dotted with
fruit.tTees One dropping medlax, beneath whose
pendant branches have often hidden, remember
well.
Dearly az have loved my two later homes, have
never eeen any thing like that garden 1t did not
seem place TO be sad in neither did the house,
with its large, lofty rooms, its noble oaken stair
cases, its marble hail. and the long galleries and
corridors, echoing from morning to night with gay
visitors, cousins from the North friends from Hamp-
shire and Berkfhire aAd the ever shifting company
OF the old watering place.
My own nurseries were spacious and airy. But
Eext to the magnificent room IN which my GRANDPA.
theirs fine library was arranged, and which, save
very few favUrlte volumes, remained there, to be
disposed in the chances OF an auction, next to the
bookroom always my favorite haunt In every house.
the place which most affected was dark paneled
chamber on the frat floor, to which descended
through a private door by hall dozen stairs, 80
Steep that still very small and puny child between
eight and half 10 Zine and half, and unable to
down them in the common way, used TO jump from
OF step to the other This chamber was filled with
such fossils as were then known for the great land
slip at Charmoush had not then laid bare the geoog
of the place Sail it rich in spec
linens OF petitac0ns OF various KINDS, In giittering
epafs In pTeclousoOklng ores, IN curious shells and
gigantic seaveeds some the Cherished products OF
my own discoveries, and some broken Tor me oy my
fathers little hammer from portions OF rock thalay
beneath the cliffs under which almost every fine day
We used 10 ramble hand in hand.
Sometimes we would go toward Charmou.h. with
its sweeping bay passing under the church and
church-y ard, perched high above us. and already
undermined by the tide az another, We benz our
steps TO the Pinny cbs the other side OF the har
bor those dark bee,ling cliffs from whose LOFTY tops
little streams OF fresh water fell In slender cascades
fncing their narrow way across the sancs to the sea
the beautiful Plnny cliffs, where, about mile ana
half from the town, All old landsllp had deposited
farm house with its ouihuildngs us garden aud ss
orchard, tossed halfway down among the rocks,
contrasting so strangely It's rich and olossonng veg
citation, its leok OF home and OF comfort with the
caIk rugged masses above, below, and around
Son etimes, at high water, we paced the old pier
called the Cob, TO which Miss Austen has since given
such an interest. And sometimes We turned inland,
and ascended the hill to Up-Lyme with It's lufted
orchards and It's pretty sreAnlets fused to disdain
those slreanleu IN those days with such scorn as
small eamse fresh from the Thames and tho hennett
thIis herself privileged TO display. "Tney call
~ quoth l. In my sauclness. About a month aso
he ara young lady from NewYofk talAisg IN some
such sirain OF Father Thames. "Its pretty Little
stream, sad she, but 10 call il river" and half
expected to hear complete reproduction Of my own
ippeItneLce, and aIequest to be jumped from one
end 10 the other OF Caversham briose.
Once, too from the st story Of our own house,
saw that fine and awful spectacle, great storm.
My father took me from my bed at midnight, tnas