Litchfield enquirer., 1860-06-14
Alisfellal1p.
SIR HARRY HIGHFLYER. A SU1CrDE's LAST CARoUsE.

A SUICIDES LAST CARoUsE.
 Who was better known about town, o who knew the town better, than Sir Harry IIghfyer? He was, as the phrase is, ,, everything, and the best man at everything supreme in each pursuit that had fashiol for it's sanction. He was member of th' 1 Four-iu- Hand Club; and it was universally admitted that no gentleman could drive hi: own coachlnan to Salt Hill in better style He was the best dresser ill London; and I'll ined three taiiors by the disinterested readi ness with which Ee exhibited their choicest productions on his own well-formcd person
 His dinners were tlic most recaerches, hi: wines the most exquisite that money coule purchase-and certainly they had cost dear ly to the tsvern-keepers whom he had prom ised 10 pay for them. He was celebrated ii the Elves Court: and if he was unable tt lick young Becher, who from constant prac tice, had the advantage of him; or the box ing coal-heaver, who was his superior il weight; he had done all that could be re quired of gcrtleman-he had tried. H. was the best shot in England. Twice dit he brusI, the morning dew from the grass o Mary-e-bope Fields in his way to ChalE Farm; and on both occasions he had the good fortune to kill his man. The first wa. Major O'Blaze, a scoundrel, as Sir Harry justly termed him, who had scduccd the Baronet's mistress; the other, Mir. Hard acre, plain country squire, who had the te merity to call Sir Harry scounlirel fer elop ing with his wife. Here again had Sir liar ry done all that could be required of gen, tlcman But these were not his only claims to that title. In a single night he won sev, enteen thousand pounds of q young Lack
 brain, tyro in those matters, it hazard Finding that by selling his commission in the - dragons, drawing upon his agent to the utmost fal thing in his hands, and plcdging his pictures, his books, and the lease of his chambers in Albany young Lackbrail could raise no more than nine thousand pounds toward the amount of his loss; he generously, with respect to the remaining sum, declared that as he slould l:eId it unbe
 coming friend and gentleman to press fol its immediate payment, Mr. Lackbran might set his mind perfectly at case about it, upon signing bond, for principal and interest te be payable in twclve-nay, even fifteeI months. Sir Harry began life with fortune of eighteen thousand year. Having some what of a turn for arithmetic, he at once per ceiyed that it would be imprudent to spend more than twenty thousand, and wisely re- solved to limit his expenditure by that sum or twenty-five at the utmost. But circum stances, which might have baffled the wscst calculations, so ordered it. that thirty was usually much nearer the mark; and however extraordinary it may appear to persons unac customed to investigate such matters, the consequence of these continued discrepancies between the income and the outgoing, was that one fine, sunshiny morning, his debts were found to amount to 102,357i. 1es
 9 3-4d.-a very complicated and ugy-look
 tug row of figures-whilst his assets were gracefully pictured forth by that simple and elegantly-formed symbol (O) representing Noucnr. To use his own emphatic phrase, Sir Harry HighAyer found himself "most magnanimously dishcd" Itwas towards the close of the London season of 1871, that he made this wonderful discovery. What was to be done! He could not at the moment determine. Free air and solitude were nee essary to put his mind into fit state for re
 fection: so, calling forth his hat and gloves he sallied forth, aud avoiding dear Bono street, and all the more frequented avenues
 he crossed St. Alban's street, sidled througl St. James's Market, felt his way along dirty. dingy de6le, called Swallow street, ant after passing through sundry dark passage on the north of Oxford street, he, at length found himself in the Mary-le-bone fields There he sauntered about for some time, bu to no purpose: onc-hundrcd-and-two-thou sand and odd pounds, shilings. aud peuce were not to be picked up in the Mary-le-bon fields; and what else under heaven could SC him aaoat again? The more he thought, tn more desperate did his position appear t
 him. But there is an old French prover
 that tells us that force de ehercher 70, troare; and so it happened to Sir Harry: flo by dint of thinking and walking, and walkin
 and thinking, he all at once found himself o
 the identical spot where he had killed hi
 friends Hardacre and Major O'Blaze. Here py that me operation of the mind, called tn
 association of ideas, an easy and certain mod of arranging his affairs occnrred to him "I
 it possible!" he exclaimed, that I can b such an idiot as, for nearly two hours, t , have overlooked so obvious an expedient! l it possible that l, . man of unquestionabl courage, as this very spot can attest shoul have been, for an instant, in doubt about tn means of escaping from an exposure of m cut up-an event I never should have foun nerve to encounter! Is it possible that I,
 rational being, should have failed to think the very thing that would have occurred [ an ass in London, at the first blush of u affair!-What! shall put down my four-i
 hand! Shall I send my racers to Tatte