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

STUDENT having read Votaires Philosophical Dctiona-
ry," began to affect infdel sentiments and conceived
thereupon the honest purpose of abandoning studies
which had IN prospect the clerical profession and Of APP
prentcins himself to the shoemakng business. Accord
ingiy, he applied to disciple Of ST. crspn, Who being
sensible cobber, conducted him at his teacher,
the ferocous Bowyer, who, learning the Of the
case without more ado. like veteran casgator he
was proceeded to administer the woudbe shoemaker
one of his most elaborate foggngs From that hour he
was efectuay cured of his n6del principles and his
aspiration for lasts and wax-ends' 'sAny whining
sernonizing would have grati6ed my vanity" he
fesses, in his Table Talk" "and would have confirmed
me in my absnrdy it was, laughed at, and got
heartily ashamed of my folly" We must beg to
mend this modern instance to the favorable notice of
all those who still hold to the efficacy of little brchen
admoniton For ourselves, it greatly rketh to
cede that the ingenious youth among should be de-
pved of any advantages literally enjoyed by ourselves
when we too young. Later observation and ripper
knowledge moreover have convinced us that the " old
school training lin which the rod held in due
ence is after ALL in the highest degree conformable to
the order Of Nature and the fitness of things which,
moraliss teach u.s. consists the very Of virtue
What means, should like know, the bountful pro-
vision which Nature has made in the production of each
green twig, plant shoot, and timber branch, g she in
tends not hereby to minister to the necessities of young
humanity? As amable and Jealous water cursts point
us to the spring that bubbles up feet to the
derng yulet the swelling stream and the wide cxpanse
Of ocean, as SO many combinations strong that Pro-
violence has fitted up the vast terraqueous globe for
grand establishment the plan Of Preissnit
too in contemplative moods love to view
the peach tree wg and stately hickory the swang birch
and branching oak the waving canebrake the hazels
pendant DER the paintve stream and the mighty forest
brstng with switches, many evidences of that be-
necent design which pervades the universe here, say
to ourselves is Dame Natures provision for the
servaton of virtue and knowledge among the children of
men. But grow dscursiye
From eight to fourteen Coleridge describes himself
payless dreamer, helluo HbroTu, reading through
circulating library, catalogue foos and all, thus keep
ing himself in continual low fever by his cerebral
element. My whole being was, with eyes closed to
every object of present sense to crumple myself up
sunny and read read read-fancy myself Rob-
nson Crusoe's island, finding mountain of plumcake,
and eating for myself and then eating it into the
shapes Of tables and chairs. In such Barmecde ban
quetngs plum-cake left to infer that hunger
quite operative fancy for the portion of food
dolcd out to the Blue-Coats at Bowyer's school
cruelty insufficient"
In 1871, at the age of nineteen the future logcian
Hospital to Jesus College, Cambridge where he be-
noted for his facility in the acquisition of Ian
guage for his dislike Of mathematics his fondness for
multfarous reading his convvial and colloquial dspo
stion and his mprovidence in dsbursing the scanty
funds of his personal exchequer In the winter Of 1898,
becoming embarrassed by debts and having been crazed
by care and crossed in love- for damsel, hight Polly
Evans he concluded turn soldier and accordingly
away from Cambridge and went up to London, where he
soon enlisted private in the 10Th Light Dragons
der the euphonious appellative of Slas Titus Comber
backe thus preserving at least his nalsor the sake,
presume of preserving his inen at least to avoid
the suspicion of wearing borrowed stolen shirts For
the amusing account Of his military career need only
refer the reader Cottes "reminiscences Suffice it
to say that he never curred down his steed ubsh
ed his carbne and could sit his horse, but
perpetuay tumbing off, much to the amusement Of his
comrades and the angerment Of his officers that Sas
is of again - ceased to be considered exclamation of
surprise and passed into the quiet statement of daily
expected casualty The drl-sergean finding last that
he could never make soldier Of this oldest fish, in
his awkward squad" got him transferred from the
ranks the medical der artment Of regimenta hospi
tai where he is represented have cured patients
by his talk than the doctors by their physc But being
soon discovered here by friends the Grant scholar
returned to Cambridge; where however he refused
to remain long tme having imbibed Socnian views in
theology which, Of course precuded his accession to the
Established Church, originally contemplated. His
TO Bristol here he became associated
with coere Of enthusiastic literary youth Of whom he
was the acknowledged chief Did space admit, we
would gladly pause a to contemplate the literary
of Bristol at this period Our readers must draw
the picture for themselves suggest the prominent
characters who then less acted their part in life
in and about this provincial town The Of John
Foster Robert Hail. Charles Lamb Josiah Wade Thomas
Poole Hannah More, Sir H. Davy, Amos and Joseph Cot
tie Robert Lowell, George Burnett Charles Lloyd, DR..
Beddoes, Robert Southey, the noted milk-woman Ann
Yearsey Charles Danvers George Catcott and others
form galaxy Of greater and lesser stars which, with
Coleridge among them, has not, think, been often
equalled
II was in Bristol that this cotere Of aspiring youth
ceved the celebrated scheme Of social and political
generation entitled Pantsocacy Coleridgeis the reput-
ed father OF this stl-born abortion and in spite of its
crudy he long remained earnest defender Of the
project which, IL will be remembered that the whole
party after mating themselves with apiece Of the
gentler SEX should emigrate America and there settle
on the banks Of the Susquehanna 1t calculated that
the demand on their labor in this undivided dell would
not exceed two hours day-that s for the production
Of absolute necessares leaving the contingent remain
DER TO be devoted reading to converse, even the
writing Of books to be read by the outside vugarans by
thus keeping aoof from all contact with the outer world
of sin and se6shness and by the genial cultivation Of
ned and humanitarian IDEAS il was further calculated
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