Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-04-22
THE AMOURS OF WARREN HASTINGS.

visit, returned to India This celebrated per-
sonage was born in England, and of noble
blood; blt through some reverse of fortune,
never succeeded TO the patrimony and estates
of his fathers. His earliest and lifelong ambi-
ton, through all his checkered and eventful
career in India, was to possess himself of the
means necessary TO redeem this ancestral home.
While a lad of only dozen summers, he used
TO recline on the green banks of one of those
pure streams that fertilized its gardens and
parks, in full view of the old baronial palace
and mature plans by which TO realize this great
object. The plan upon which he finally deter
mined, and which he afterward pursued with
such signal success, was, to secure employment
from the East India Company, proceed at once
TO India, and there press everything into SER
vice that promised success. lie accordingly
embarked for that far country, went to work
for the Company, labored four or five years
without anything special turning up'' to
mark bis history, returned hame on a bri.f
visit, and has now taken passage once more for
the land Of his adoption.
An uninterrupted voyage of fifteen thousand
miles may be easily conceived to present as
monOtOnOus phase of life as can possibly be
otherwise afforded. Cut off entirely from the
world the limited community of dozen indi-
viduals, perhaps, affords the only resources for
that variety which gives life zest, OF render,
1T IN the least degree suppOrtable. With this
community, good, bad, Indifferent one must
come in contact daily, hourly; circumstances
eminently propitious for contracting the most
inveterate and lasting dislikes. or, on the other
hand, the most interesting connections.
Among the passengers of the Duke of Graf
ton, 1t appears, was one German portrait pain
ter, the mama of Imhof, and wife, which latter
A. described as an individual in who'll was itly
blended outward beauty and accomplishments
with nobleneSs OF mind, and Interesting and
engaging mannsrs
With this indiyidual-the wife-IIastincs
very naturally, was not long in forming an
acquaintance, and one which, under circum-
stances 50 favorable for social intercourse,
soon amounted to little less than intimacy.
iretty much the frs. thing, strange as it may
appear, of which he became fully satisfied was
that, whether with good reason or otherwise
she most heartily despised her husband and
but little later, what more particularly con-
cerned himself, that she was fast actually be-
coming an object of special favor and regard
IN his own eyes. Startling discoveries in
deed discoveries which rendered his situa
tion one at once of interest and peril: of in
tereSt, because his own future happiness or
course in life might be affected by it or peril.
because the only individual whose companion-
ship could in the least degree afford any anti
dote tor the ennui and mortal irksomeness of a
long and tedious voyage in spite of himself
was last making him her slave; gaining pos
session, indeed, of all he had in the world, his
heart; an estate with which ne was not 80
ready to part, at least, for the sake Of an old
h1tiilCu Dul now was ne going To
help himself' Circumstances utterly pre-
cluded, on the one hand, the possibility of
avoiding much less fleeing the object of his
passion, while no secret Ocean-cave, provided
IN the hazardous extremity an elopement were
determined uian, offerel the asylum of Gret-
na Green TO the enamored paIr He seemed
by fate irretrievabIy hemmed in Flee from
temptation he could not. Why then be SUI
prised to learn that he felt most keenlv it's
cruel POWer!' And what man, let me ask,
can long remain in the presence of a beautiful
intelligent, fascinating, and therefore, wo-
man OF porer, and not feel her influence! As
likely would he be to resist the influence Of the
sunlight with success, though exposed 10 the
tull blaze of nOOn-day. No; as ice must Of
necessity melt. If exposed to the influence of
hea' so a ,alnst that subtle p p)wer which woman
holds, that anon sparklcs In her eye meIIOws
In her tones, beams upon her face, mantIiny
through It's beauty, and which when intensi-
ned, Is aPuy defined by Upper g a volume
IN word =; . an ocean in a tear" "a sew
enth heaven In glance q whriwind in
slsn the " lightning In touch - = mil
lehuln In = moment; 1t were. altogether vain
and worse, to think Of making successful re-
sistance such, then, was the dilemma in
which Hastings found himself. Nor was il any
longer worth while to deny il; an attachment
fostered by every little kind Office performed
every glance, every word, by almost every cir
cumstance of every day life, was springing up
an inexorab!e duty.
At this Juncture, events which transpired
operated to prtcipitate matters very considera.
bly, nay, BRING them pretty decidedly to an
issue. Hastings fell seriously ill Now of
all the places to be sick, the worst we are told,
is on shIpbOard, where every Iurch and lean Of
the reeiIng, staggering vessel wrings another
pang from the tortured victim and where the
constant motion affords never 4 respite for per-
feet anu natural repose. Thus circumstanced
haunted with the loneliness of his situation
and raCEel with main W hO witt oil -,
tenderness and assiduity, administered to All
his wants and necessities Who while others
slept through the long weaTisOme watches Of
the night, watched over him Who, with her
own nand, gave him all his medicines snoothed
his pillow, supported his aching head cooled
his feverish brow in the interims of his deli
rum, and sOunted as days the doubtful mo-
ments OF his recovery Whose was this ever
present spirit, this ever constant heart thai
tnus so unexpectedly hOvers, watches and waits
about the sick bed of this frie ndess boy at sea-
Who would not love IT, indeed Alas The now
er Of kindness especially when its Object is a
poor orphan boy, homeless and friendlcss and
the benefaetOr beautiful woman. whose look ;
are 80 full of love Ike Marvel says. we can
sometimes afford to be sick; nay, cOyet il, for
The very sympathy it brings, especially when
that sympathy was felt and expressed in cur
behalf by the woman we best love
John Howard, the lOwly. yet iInmOrt a. whose
name IL endorsed in heaven, while sick at Stoke
NeHlngl"n, was not proof against the unremit-
TED Kindness and devotion Of his lsndady, Mrs
L'ldore; but long before fully restored to health
had not only confessed his sincere attachment
OF her, but though she twenty-five years
his senior, offered her his hand as well MS his
heart, aud was accepted; nor was il ever known
that he had the first occasion to repent of the
tep ne had taken We certainly, then, shall
not wonder to learn that, long before the - Duke
oi grafton arrived in Madras, Hastings was
avOEedly in love.
But BIS love, while twas strong earnest, and
deep was not Impetuous. Intent now. since
ms heart was altogether engaged, and, as he
then felt his happiness for life at stake on re-
AIMING at any expense, OF whatever sacrifice
the frulti1n OF his desires, he Sc; about Inatur-
ing scheme for the accomplishment Of this
"oJeet with "a calculating a mind. and cool
Consider 'tiOn of ways and means, as he lad
previously done Tor the redemption Of his pa-
t.rnal estates The plan he in come .tion with
mis- mistress, finally adopted yns os f,lIovvs.