Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1855-03-31

play a greater variety of beauty. Now, what is
better, | have not tho trouble of entertaining them.
My estate is a perfect Sans SOUci, where every one
docs rs he pleases, and no ono troubles tho owner.
All Paris is my theatre. and presents mo with a
continual spectacle. l have a table spread for me
in every street, and thousands of walters ready to
fly at my bidding. When my servants have wait
ed upon me- pay them, discharge them,and there's
an end; | have no fears of their wronging or pill
fering me when my back is turned. Upon the
whole, said the old gentleman, with n smile OF
infinite good .humOr, when / think upon the va
Gus risks ] have run, and the manner in which |
have escaped them when | r~ecollcct all that | have
suffered, and consider all that | at present enjoy, |
cannot but look upon myself as u man Of singular
good furtue."
Such was the brief history of this practical
philosopher, and it is a picture of many n French
man ruined by the revolution. The French APP
pear to have a greater facility than most men in
accommodating themselves to the rcverses of life
and of extracting honey out Of The bitter things Of
this world. The first shock Of calamity is apt 70
oycrwhelmn them but when it is once past, their
natural b~ouyancy of feeling soon brings them to
the surface. This may be called the result Ct le-
witty IF character, but it answers the end of recon
Cling us TO misfortune, and if it lie not true phi
l0sophy, it is something almost MS eficacious. Ever
si- ce | have heard the story of my little French
man, | have treasured it up in my heart and ]
thank my stars ! have at length found what | had
CVuSllcicu Us hOt " NC lOulIu OH C'Itl-d COHlCHt
ed man.
p. S.-1here is no calculating Gil human happi-
ness. Since writing the foregoing, the law Of in
~demni!y has been passed, and my friend restored
to a great part Of his fortune. | was absent from
Paris at the time, but on my return FASTENED tc
congratulate him. | found him mngniicently
lodged on the first floor Of his hotel. | was ush-
cred, by a servant in livery, though splendid sr
looms, to a cabinet richly furnished, where | found
my little Frcnchman reclining on a couch. lie re-
ceived me with his usual cordiality; but | saw
the gaycty and bcnevolence of his countenance
had fled: he had an eye full of care and anxiety.
congratulated him on his good fortune. Good
fortune p echoed he bah! | have been plum
dered of 4 princely fortune, and they give me a
pittance as an indemnify"
Alas! / found my late poor and contented
friend one of the richest and most miserable men
in Paris. Instead Of rejoicing in the ample com
potency rertored to him, he is daily repining at
the superiority withheld. lie no longer wanders
in happy likeness about Paris, but is n repining
attendant in the ante-chambers Of ministers. His
loyalty has evaporated with his gaycty he screws
his mouth when the Bourbcns are mentioned, and
even shrugs his shoulders when he hears the
praises of the king. In a word, lie is one of the
many philosophers undone by the law o~findemnity
ana his case is desperate, for doubt whether
even another reverse of fortune. which should re-
store him to poverty, could make him again a happy
man.