Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-03-18
WOMAN.
The BOURBON.

II.
Elcazer Williams lately l"ctured on his claims to
descent from the Bourbons and the Boston Adver-
tiser furnishes the following report of the lecture:
g DR. Lothrop, after speaking briefly of several
cases of impnsture in England and France. ana al
luding to the recent article Putnams Magazine.
entitled Have we Bourbon among Us 2! went on
to consider he matter and the claims OF MIR " IL
lams to be that person. He stated that he had
himself been well acquainted with Mr.. Williams tor
several years, and had five years ago heard
from his own lips his story. which, though In the
main the same as given in the Magazine article dIf
fered in some of the important details from the re-
cent statement. in one or two instances the printed
statement less favora lie to the claim OF MI
Williams than his story as related by him i've years
since After having carefully examined the whole
matter, DIR. Lothrop to the conclusion that
there was evidence to establish this claim but
what came directly through he testimony OF Mr..
! Williams himself and that it would be proved, If
the facts were ever settled, to have proceeded from
m nomania, brought on by dwelling much on some
not important circumstances and his reputed re-
semhlance to the Bourbon family.
s:A At the close of his lecture. he read letter he
had lust received from lady living in Wood
stock, whose husband civil engineer, as we under
stand. had met with Williams mother. ana heard
from her his whole story. She stated that he was
bern near Whitehall: where she had gone with her
husband hunting expedition and that she could
fully prove his birth That she had heard the story
of the French claims before but that there not
the slightest foundation for it, except that he hac
been told on occasion by a Frenchman. that
he very much resemb!ed French boy who had beer
brought up among the Indians
g DR.. Lothrop concluded his lecture by giving i
as his opinion, after very careful examination o
the whole matter, that the Rev. Eleazer Williams
must give up all claims to the throne of France anc
the lecturer oil the hopes that might have arlseI
from the promise of MIR. W. that when he was es
tablished there he would send out frgate to taxi
DR.. L. and his family to visit him in the Tuieres
LITERATURE AS PROFESSIONAL do not hazarC
much risk of exceeding the truth in saying that o
a hundred men who fail in literature ninetynne 0
them had no business to NEEDLE with it. Litcra
ture is fascination very much like the stage; ant
of the multitude who fancy they have "a sou
above buttons,' who throw up Coke upon Litef0n t
strut their hour in print who despise the homes
trade Of their fathers, and believe themselves des
tined to make figure in the world. the number i
incredibly small that are endowed with the attain
ments indispensable to success. There is profes
sion crowded with deficient in the quail
fcations required for their work In other profcs
siOns rapidly find their level but in literature
sustained by vanity which eernally whispers il
their that they ill treated and fed by
less ambition which grows by what it does not fec
upon they are long time before they find ont thei
own incapacity, if they ever find it out. How ma
ny such there clinging to the skirts Of news
papers and periodicals. bitterly complaining of til
rejection of articles, the neglect Of the public th
caprice and want of judgment of editors, and of CIV
r erything above the earth except their own un mes
u for the sphere they have chosen who might hav
> earned decent competence, in obscurty if the
had been brought up to some useful occupation, in
stead OF being cast upon that occupation which, O
all Others exacts the severeSt toll, the most varie
powers the greatest self denial the most earnest la
= Dor and vigilance. uprS htncSs and perseverance,
:, " Westminster Rerie1r.