Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-09

&c, occasionally delivering the same dlscourses
mons from the pulpit of n Unitarian church in Bath
merely emitting the tacetia and the mirth noving
dotes as not being quite in keeping with the time and
place In 1895 lie married Miss Sarah Frcker the
mony being celebrated in the St Mary Redcie Church
Bristol familiar to all who have dwe the meancho-
ly story and tragic fate Of that marvellous boy Chat
eron He now, says Mr.. Cottle began to console him
self with the suspicion not only that felicity might be
found cs-Atantic shores, but that his little cot
age at Clevedon, Bristol concentrated the of
all that earth had bestow He now even satisfied
that the Susquehanna itself retired into the shade before
the superior attractions of his native Severn And
suspect moreover that certain pretty but ndspensa
BILE appointments of his household economy Cevedop
convinced him that American forest might be very good
for the Indians and bufaloes whom Campbell sings in his
Gertrude Of Wyoming" but would be, after all, only
Indifferent residence for man of family and author
by profession" We find at least billet was about this
time his friend JOS Cote requesting him to send
down to his cottage the following little articles:
"a riddle slice, candle box, two yentilators, two
glasses for the washhand stand, tin dustpan,
small tin teakette pair of candlescks carpet
brush flower dredge three tin extnguishers mats
pair of slippers cheese toaster, two large tin spoons
Bible keg of porter, coffee rasns currants catsup,
nutmegs, allspce cinnamon rice ginger, and mace"
Our readers, sure, will agree with us that"
Bible occupies very edifyng position in this schedule
of ittle necessares and that it very thoughtful
in him to think of it, seeing he always announced
in the preaching advertisements of the newspapers
(" the Rev. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Cambridge
University"
Coeridge did not long remain Socnian In his /" Bio
graphia Lteraria he states that early period
in broke upon from the fountain of the great deep,
ard fell from the windows of Heaven The onta truths
of natural religion and the books of revelation alike
tributed to the food and it long my ark touched
Ararat and rested" What in fact became his final
and fixed confession of faith is still matter Of discussion,
though We think, in the MAN, he what call orho
dox from which exact and lucid statement readers
draw their differences We do not think his wri
tings this point much lucid exact than
sentence which leaves in doubt what constitutes
orthodoxy, though every knows that by orthodoxy
mean our-dOry. and by hcserodory some body ese's.
In 1913 Colerdge repaired to Germany to study in her
Universities Here he became tncured by the
dental specuatons of Kant and Schilng insomuch that
all his subsequent writings derive their prevailing color
and complexion from these masters of mental philosophy
As at present interested in Coerdge the
than the metaphysician theologian, all dis
QUESTION the value character Of his opinions in either
of the astnamed character He visited Italy Also where
he being apprehended and indefinitely i'm
INJURED in durance-vile by Napoleon l. who it seems
had been gored and stung by of his ant-Galcan
paragraphs scrubbed for the London newspapers
bic revenge truly for Emperor to take penniless
scholar udgng through Italy search of health and
taxation from literary toll He finally escaped through
friendly hint given him by Jerome Bonaparte and by the
Jealous nterpostion of American captain who,
becoming interested in him. procured his passport by
stouty swearing that American and his steward
adding in his affidavit by way of confirmation, that be
knew Cs father and mother and that they lived in lit
tie red brick house. about half mile out Of New York.
the road Boston 1t is due to Colerdge state that
he knew nothing of the hard swearing which in
temptation when he embraced the "good captains I"
generous offer extricate him frem his uncomfortable
position.
We now come to the dark pages in Coleridse's bio
graphy Our readers will understand, of course, that
allude his nornate Of opium As early in his life
as the year 1900 find in Of his letters allusion
to the 'pleasurabe operations of adose Of opium which
ncnes us to believe that he had already begun drink
Of this Circean cup which finally transformed him from
the soaring seraph impotent and bestia grove
Ter in the sy Of drunkenness melancholy picture, but
one not without its lessons Of warning and morality II
is hard and painful read the pathetic plants of this
man of mind thus caught in the coils of the serpent which
preying his very vals transfxing soul and body
with its foul and poisonous fangs He describes himself
"rong rudderless," cowed and Frustrated by an
unceasng overwhelming of wretchedness" the
" wreck of what he was"
'For ten years" he says in Of bis letters "th,
anguish of my spirit has been indescribabe the
danger staring but the consciousness of worse
worse than all y
In another he says: " You have conception Of tn,
dreadful hell Of my mind, conscience and body" And
again, in his agony he thus cries out
Conceive Of a poor miserable wretch, who for many
years has teen attempting TO beat off pain by
TO the vice that reproduces IT, Conceive Of
spirit in hell employed in tracing for others the road
to that heaven from which his crimes exclude him
= :" In the crime of opium what crime have
not made myself guilty Of Ingratitude to my Maker
aud TO my benefactors injustice and unnatural cruelty
my poor children Self contemptfor my repeated promise
breach nay, too often actual falsehood"
Surely De Quincy himself in his suspria dc profun-
dis has uttered from lower depth than these II
is to Cottles "reminiscences we owe these revela-
tons. They made in compliance with Coeridge's
request-we may say his solemn injunction. In letter
Of Southeys published by Cotte it is stated that Cole
ridges consumption Of laudanur ut the height OF his
addiction to its USE was from two quarts week 10
pint day." Meanwhile his family was deserted and
resided under the hOspitable roof of his brothernaw
Southey But better day dawned on the poor mans
soul before his life entirely consumed away 1t was
gracious Providence" which last conducted him to the
house and home Of Dr. Gilman worthy and excellent
physician then residing in village London. Here
he mastered the cngng that was destroying soul
and body Under the judicious treatment and gentle