The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-01-03
Ay.in he would assume his profession Of the

Again he would assume his profession of the
law with an ardor and impetuosity which could
net last, make crack speeches, astonish the
court, gain his suit, pocket his fee, and live like
lord, escbewing every thing but love, wine and
cigars. After this, he would take trip TO
watering place, or some fashionable place OF
folly, and smirk, and polk, and create sensa-
tons, until he was tired. Ofcourse, after this,
he would have severe atteck OF dolce Jar
nisnfe, and then the usual return Of stiuna cum
digHitdte. He did not care fig for money,
because he could generally contrive to make
little when hard pressed He was not called
a dissipated man, or man of bad habits, but
people called him an uncommon man, an as
tonishiug man, psychological riddle, aJack at
all trades and good at none. His varied Ia
Tents, his brlliancy, his powers, ever obedIen''
and ready TO rise equal to any emergency, MS
elOquence, bis intultive knowledge OF almost
every thing, his splendid person, ana heAlbi-
lily OF manner, gave him a position among
men, from which no freak on his part could
displace him. To confess the truth, people
petted his whims, in order TO secure the use OF
his talents. Generally, if fellow citizen hao
very unpromising case on hand, when ne
knew could only be gained by master sp'fi''
or some legerdemai in peculiar 10 lawyers, OF
who, if in the ant Of money at that particular
time, or exactly in the vein, would TAKE noid
of the matter, turn the whole strength oil ms
soul and body upon it, and make such an e.
fort for his client as few men, even In virginia,
could make.
Really, it appears to us, il Eastwood was,
indeed, poet, as the author would have US
believe, he might have taken a much more
&c
A good poem would have done this business
for him far more effectually than all the "idilng
about his rooms "jeweled caps" "em-
broidered slippers" and the other puppy
isms put together. Beyond all doubt, he was,
like hundreds of young men we have seen
in our day, admirers Of Lord Byron, and
his imitators not in writing Childe Haroldes,
or Corsairs, or Manfreds, but in lounging about
in slippers, wearing jewelled caps," &c
We hope Mr.. Eastwood, his biographer, and
the rest of that class, will not feel hurt when
we tell them, that had Lord Byron depended
on these little pecuiarities of which he ought
to have been ashamed, for his reputation, he
would hardly have stood where he now stands,
only grade below Milton in the scale of Bri
fish poets. Amy ass, if his asinine qualities
be dashed off with slight alloy OF the cox
comb, can lounge about his lodgings" and
wear " jeweled caps" but all the asses and
all the tops that ever existed, melted down into
a single EASTWOOD cannot make one man o.
genius.
Those miserable imiators of a great mans
foibles, are to be found in abundance, polish
ing the streets of New York, or lounging
about the hotels with "jewelled caps" on their
heads. We have met one or two of them in
our time, even in our own city. They are al
together unknown TO our country life, as are
the vulgar, underbred, pretentious, New York
Cockneys, whose pictures the author has
drawn, and called Virginia family residing
in the country. As he has evident hopes from
the popularity of "Un,le Tom," that any thing
in the shape Of libel upon Southern people
and Southern manners will sell, and as this is
doubtless TO be very malicious one, we have
only one request to make in reference thereto,
and tina, is, that the author should at least
pay flying trip to Virginia, before he gives
US another instalment. At present, he GER
tainly knows no more of US than he does of
the Chinese. 1t is bad enough 10 be ibelled
by man of genius who knows what he is
writing about. But TO be indebted for the same
favor to Ounce and ignoramus, is very like
getting a remembrance from the heels of a GER
tain guadruped, whose voice is fully as much
noted for strength as for harmony, whose ears
are quite as copious as mis- brains, and which
is SO well known that neither of these agreea-
BILE distinctions can ever be mistaken for the
property of another.