Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-08-21
AMoURs OF WARREN HASTINGS.
AN INTERESTING SKETCH.

IN the early Spring of 1889 the Duke ofGraf-
ton sailed for the South Seas and in it Warren
Hastings, who had tecr home from the East on
visit returned to India This celebrated per-
sonagc was born IN England. and ofnoblc blood
but through some reverse Of fortune. never sue
cceded to the patrimony and estates Of his
fathers. His earliest and lifelong ambition
through all his checkered and coentiul career in
lndia was to possess himself Of the means nee
cssary to redeem his ancestral home Whcr a
lad OF only dozen summers he used to rccline
on the green banks OF one Of those pure streams
that ierulzed Us gardens and parks, in tul. view
OF the old baronidl palace and mature plains by
winch to realize tins great object. The plan
upon which he finally determined, and which he
atterward pursued with such signal ,lcces,. was
TO secure employment from tie East India Com
pany, proceed at once to India, and there press
everything into service that promised success.
He accordingly embarked for that fur country,
went to work for the COMPANY. abored foul or
five years without anything special "tnrning up
to mark his history, returned home on 4 brief
Visit, ana mas now taken passage once more for
the land of his adoption
An uninterrupted voyage of fifteen thousand
miles may he easily conceived TO present as mo-
notonouS phase of life as can possibly be 9TH
erwse afforded. Cut oil entirely from the world,
the limited community Of dozen individuals
perhaps, affords the only resources for that va
riety which gives life zcst, or renders it in the
least degree supportahlo. With this communi-
ty, good, bad or indifferent, one must come in
contact daily, hourlyi circumstances eminently
propltious for contracting the most inveterate
and lasting dislikcs, or, ON the other hand, the
most interesting connections.
Among the passengers of the Duke of Graf
ton. Id apDpnrS. was ono (,or,,on ,ort,oif mint
er by the name of lmhoh and wife, whichlat
IS described as an individual in whom was fifty
blended outward beauty and accomplishments
with nobleness of mind and interesting and en-
gaging manners.
With this individual--the wife-Hastngs,
very naturally was not long in forming an ac-
quaintance, and one which. under circumstan-
ces favorable for social intercourse, soon
amounted to little less than intimacy Pretty
much the first thing, strange as it may appear.
Of which he become fully satisfied was that,
whether with good reason or otherwise, she
most heartily despised her husband; and but
little later, what more particularly concerned
himself, that she was fast actually becoming IN
object of special favor and regard in his own
eyes. Startling discoveries, indced-discoycr-
les which rendered his situation one at once of
interest and peril; of interest, because his own
future happiness or course in life might be af-
fected by it; or peril because the only .indiyd-
ual whose companionship could in the least de-
gree afford antdote for the cnnui and mortal
!rksomenoss of long and tedious voyage, in
spite Of himself, was fast making him her slave
gaining possession, indeed, of all he had in the
world, his heart; an estate with which he was
not ready to part at least for the sake of an old
married woman. But how was he going to help
himself? Circumstances utterly prccluded, on
one hand the possibility Of avoiding, much less
fleeing the object of his passion, while no secret
ocean cave, provided in the hazardous extrcmi-
ty an olopement were determined upon, offered
the asylum of Gretna Green to the enamored
pair.
lie seemed by fate irretrievably hemmcd in.
Flee from temptation he could not. Why then
be surprised to learn that he felt most keenly
its 'cruel power" And what man, let me ask.
can long remain in the presence of beautiful,
intelligent, fascinating and therefore, woman
of poicer, and not feel her inhuenccP As likely
would he be to resist the influence of the sun
light with success, though exposed to the full
blaze of noon day. No; as ice must of neces-
sity melt, if exposed to the influence of the
heat; SO against that subtle power which wo-
man holds, that anon sparkles in her eye, mel