Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-11-18
Letter from wilkins Der, Esq.
MELBOURNE. VICTORIA

August IS 1853
GENrLEMEN-Deeming that from this auriferous
and delectable land line might please you am in
duced to assume my pen in epistoary manner, pre-
Stunning that my celebrity, obtained through the me-
diumship of the fattering Copperfed will render
interesting anything acquanting the world with my
existence and welfare and throw an additional in
terest around any information that may flow from
beneath my hand, responsive to the action of the
brain Since the gold discovery has turned up, my
prosperity has advanced and those budding ten
drills, surrounding myself and Mrs. Micawber, as
the honey-suckles entwne about the sturdy pillars
that adorn the stately manson-the children added
to nv accumulatve strength of numbers in a ten
years residence here have blessed their parental
hearth with the fruition of early hope on the part
of the elder and dawnng promise on the part of the
younger. Wilkins Micawb Der, Jr is honor to his
Mama bright star in his chronological calendar
ain short he's doing very we'll, and we hope he
will do better. His flute performances consd
cred exquisit, and he has made me, in the progress
sion ofhumanity, where the boy is succeeded by the
man who assumes the paternal, Ain short-a grand
| father. The twins have grown to goodly stature,
and am gratifed to say are not ashamed to dig,
| when digging compensates for the muscular action
employed in It's prosecutionin short, where it
pays.
have amassed suf6ciency of the precious de,
post, and now at Collingwood enjoying my oti-
UNI cum pig surrounded by those domestic delights
improbable in the society of Mrs Micawber and her
offspring.
may say with regard to your countrymen COM
ing here from my own experience in Eolian exper-
ments-the production of that, through which alone
tes bark is made move readily over the waves of
tme-in short raising the wind, the course for them
to pursue is to keep their vsuas peeled for the main
chance in which, if am creditablv informed, and
as far my observation extends, they in no
wise deficient.
my optical inspection of the natives of your ilusri
Gus land. may say that like them and that tho
unskled in the connection of that delightful bever-
age than which the ambrosial nectar that flowed at
the repasts of the gods of high Olympus was scarce
! ly less inspiring-in short rum punch-they are,
may say, hardly behind the most practsed in drink.
ing it.. There is certain redundancy of manner
50 to speak, that commends them to me. | have
never found one of them deficient in those qualities
that go to form good companion-an though Mrs
Micawber deems their conduct too free, tell her it
is because they have been reared where freedom il
an element of education-where they imbibe its
principles from those maternal founts which all Of
us are compelled, probably to teach US humility. by
the dispensation of Providence, to drink at.
This is favored land To give you an idea o.
our situation here would say that readily is the
gold the tin, the dosh available, that our settlers
have merely to send a child out to dig peck as i
is required, they dig potatoes in other lands and
so plenty is it that enclosure is suffcien
protection against thieves There is no inducemen
to steal. So large of the pieces found
that the boys pitch quoits with them. The mora
effect of such a state of things may be imagined
The most ardent gold lover in fortnight's tim,
becomes satiated, as the New Zealand children ar
{ with the redundance of that oleaginous matte
wherewith paternal solitude supplies them-in short
:, whale blubber. Their moral equilibrium is restored
and freedom of crime is the consequence that rem
ders my magistracy perfect sinecure.
e offer this as no inducement to come here bu
merely state it current fact. shall here close
and, With sentiments
of profound
and continued
respect,
} subscribe myself
= yours,