Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-09-30
IA NJ Els Gu ] HIKE,
Secretary of the Treasury.

About three weeks ago, very interesting event
took place in England, which was of The nature OF a
common place, every day occurrence, but which is
suggestive Of the grandeSt associations, and calculated
IN awaken lively emotion in the mind of every read.
Or of English history. The affair conducted
der the red flag, and the chief actor III II the
tioneer The late George Robins ought TO have lived
long enough 10 conduct remarkable sale 1t was
that of the furniture and effects of the mansion Of
Dayesford, well known the seat Of the celebrated
WARREN HASTINGS
At the bare mention of such circumstance as this
how powerful does the past rush upon us, bringing
back the recollections of much of Eng lands great
ness and glory during the long and chequered
of that remarkable man Doubtless many articles
were put under the hammer which were brought by
the first of Nabobs from the India he had subdued 10
decorate the homestead which it vas ever the dearest
wish Of his heart 10 purchase and re build For it
will be remembered that Dayesford had passed ont of
possession of the family at early dav, and the spot
where the young WARREN had gamboled in infancy
had become the property of London merchant, in the
melancholy decline of It's former propretors.
How unremlttngly and fxedy the design of REIN
vestlng the estate with magnihcence worthy of the
proud name OF Hastings, kept in view by the
greatest man that bore that name, NacauIay has
told us In that eloquent essay in which the pomp and
spendor of the East wildly represented in
necijon with all of pictorial effect that belonged to
the impeachment. In this mansion house of Dayes-
ford resided, until within twenty years past the part
ner of Warren Hastings the Madame lmhotf whom he
espouSed under circumstances romantic and peCu-
liar. This parsonage seems 10 belong 10 so remote a
period of history, in view Of the changes which have
taken place in the Indian Empire since she set sail
from its shores with her future husband, that ii is diff
fcult 10 recognise that she alive at day within
the recollection of many living. Yet is this true
and the immediate effect of one of her acts has only
been within the last revolving moon, for it under
clause of her will that the late sale took place,
whereby the Females of the "onqueror of India have
been taken down from their dusty pedesas and scat
tered abroad The mansion after having been reStor-
ed TO the Hastings family, and worhy repaired, has
al last become again the abode of strangers, and all
that remains of that once prncey House is the hsto.
rc fame of its latest representative. SIC transit gloria
mundii
Notwithstanding the oboquy which Hastings had
10 endure, and the grand combination of eoquence
and learning with which he assaulted before the
British Senate the opinion of the world has at length
settled down into estimate of his character,
which if not altogether favorable is by no means
harsh. That he INSCRIPTIONS cannot be
doubted that he possessed in superemnen degree that
doggedness of purpose which distinguished Jackson
afterwards. and which rocked not of consequences
where any cherished object 10 be accomplished,
is most certain but with all his faults lie was man
of a stature that rarely see in the men whom ma
tons reverence great and the results Of his life
were, perhaps more important TO England than those
of any other man, Wellington not excepted-who has
illustrated her annals during the eighteenth and nine.
tenth centuries.