Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-06-17

Dobson, bookselerhere he recommended me TO Dunlap
Claypole as person capable Of undertaking active
part In the management of their paper and with them
am engaged upon toleraby good terms. This situation
VIII not only give my family present bread but it will
habituae to the Of doing business here and
give me an opportunity of becoming acquainted with
many things which viii be Of use hereafter.
WISH while you at Paris, you could learn the title
OF the printer OF the principal paper in seaport in
France, that il commence paper might have the
benefit Of exchange by every ship sailing from thence
The treaty lately concluded between Great Britain and
this country has given great dissatisfaction to the great
body Of the people here and addresses have been pre-
scented to the President from all parts requesting him to
withhold his signature from it. Though majority Of the
Senate had sanctioned 1t j but within these few days
number of merchants in this and other places have ad
dressed the President and expressed their appreciation of
the treaty. 1t is said the President has signed it, and
that Mr. Hammond has sailed to England with it from
New York
week ago it was positively said here that the yellow
fever ragged at New York. but it is found to be with
out foundation. No epidemic disease is there few
than ordinary deaths have been occasioned by the
hot weather. Boston is also sicky.
My wife joins in expression Of thanks for the many
civtes shown to at Altoona, and in the hope Of
seeing you this side Of the Atlantic well and happy
Yours, sincerely, 10. GALES.
After residing upwards of four years in the city
Of Philadelphia, during which he established and
carried on considerable printing Office, Mr. GALES
induced to transfer his establishment to Raleigh
the seat of Government of the State of North Caro-
lima; and very soon after his arrival there, began
the publication of newspaper by the title of the
Raleigh Register, which exists to this day, being
now owned and edited by Mr. SEAToN GALES, his
grandson
| As soon as practicable after his arrival in this
country he took the first step Of declaring in legal
form his intention to become citizen of the United
States; which intention was carried out very soon
after his removal to Raleigh by his naturalization at
United States Court held in that young city.
| We should not have troubled our readers with
all these particulars, and perhaps not with any of
them, had it not been in some degree necessary to
show the authenticity of the source of the memoir
of Mr.. MONTGOMERY which we are about to lay
before them, and the reliance that may be placed
upon its general accuracy.
Among the manuscripts found with the papers
Of Mrs. GALES, after her decease, Gin 1880 was a
collection, the general title of which was as fol-
lows !" "reminiscences aohich relate to Persons acho
haze come under my ocn observation" First in
order Of these "reminiscences is the subjoined,
copied from the original in her own handwriting.
JAMES MONTGOMERY.
This estimabe man and celebrated poet was born No
vember 4th, iii, at Irvine in Ayrshire in Scotland
His father Moravian Minister, and, when he was
still an infant his parents removed to Antrim county,
Ireland When only six years old this child of promise
was placed at Fulneck, in Yorkshire, seminary of the
Utas Fraum His parents, going missionaries to the
West Indies, died there.
At the seminary above mentioned he soon became ia
miar with the Greek, Latin, French, and German Ian
guages, and with history, geography and music; his
early taste for poetry interfering with beneficial
studies Even at the early age of ten years he
devoted worshpper at the shrine Of the Muses. In 1887
he left Funeck and placed by his guardians at
obscure village in Yorkshire shop-boy That this
situation should satisfy his ardent mind could not
expected and, after struggling with his feelings, in
about eighteen months he privately left his employer
and ignorant Of the world and buoyed up by delusve
hopes, he wandered about for few days, and with
shlings in his pocket reached the village of Wath
Rotterdam During his of service in the shop he
had filled up the leisure hours of his situation in the in
diligence of his ruling passion. Truly might he have
said, with Pope
/ 81 lisp'd in numbers for the numbers came"
From Wath he went to London. High in expectation,
and flushed with long-cherished hopes of neyer-dying
fame and muncent rewards of genius he applied to Mr..
Harrison, celebrated publisher in Paternoster Row.
With this gentleman he remained few months; but,
would undertake to publish what they deemed the
crude illusions Of unknown juvenile poet he return
ed, disheartened and melancholy to WaA, where he
kindly received.
At this period of time my personal knowledge of Mr..
MONTGOMERY commenced. Mr. GALES then, and for some
years preceding, published newspaper entitled The
Sheffield Register, and in consequence Of advertise
for clerk in that paper by of the merchants
MONTGOMERY applied for the situation. Well do l
member the circumstances attending my first knowledge
Of this interesting young man. for interesting he
in spite of his very uncouth habilimens His inquiry
was for Mr. Gales, and it happened that
ing the passage at the moment he presented himself OF
the door, received the letter. and when had read il
compared it with the singular appearance of the writer
for there was bright beam Of intelligence in his fine
hazel eye which identified him. His letter repete
with energy, and in offering his services clerk, in
consequence of the advertisement he entered into
animated description Of his pursuits his feelings his
expectations and his dsappontments. With sarcastic
bitterness he spoke Of the Mac@nas Of modern days and
the selfshness of modern publishers. For long tme
even till lately, preserved this letter, do now re-
| collect what became of it.
And now to describe this very extraordinary young
at my first interview with him. He was in his 10th
year. of middle size his eyes bright clear and express
sve, his hair auburn his complexion fair. These mi
mute observations not however, made at this
sent view; but his dress eracy scas, again
son. young too, who had been in the great
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