St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1866-03-29

day-it 10 the notice Of IN orders by his
Msjesty's government to divide the colonies
into northern and southern district, tho
boundary to be the river Potomac, and q
line drawn westward from it. The king
lost an able supporter this year in his un-
Gle the Duke of Cumberland, whe seems to
have been as much loved and lamented in
England as he was hated, from the remem
brance Of Culloden, in Scotland. How
different is the union Of feeling nsM be-
tween the countries ..,!...... ..-sss. d,
In 1765 there were no wars and no con-
quests by England, except the steady, ON .
ward march of the Honorable Company in
India, which advanced in this season the
length Of Allshabad and Benares. Give
was then on his six months voyage out to
Calcutta, rich in the laurels already, won
Hastings was not yet renowned. - .cG.s
A. small acquisition was made very near
our own shores for, in 1866, the Isle Of
Man was purchased for the Crown from its
King, the Duke Of Athol, and great efforts
were made to educate the natives, by print
ing books in the Manx language. then
spoken by about twenty thousand of them,
| now almost obsolete. We wonder If Gaelic
| and Irish will be as little known a century
| hence?T In. -a ;-,.-.i. 35t! "; az
A brilliant host Of iterati were at this
time gathered in London round their auto
crat, Johnson. Among these the names of
Goldsmith, Burke, Boswell. and the great
artist Reynolds are still well known, while
those Of many other members Of "Tbe
Club = equally or even more highly rated
at II that day, are utterly forgotten now.
Glbbon was not then known either ss .
historian or as an aseailaut Of Christianity
Hume, however, had launched his first At
tacks, and found but too many admirers in
time when faith vas dim and love was
cold in England. Still, we may, be thank
full to this day that our country possessed
such man at the head Of literature as the
truly wise and pious johnson, instead. of .
wicked Wit like Voltaire, whose evil genius
was sowing the wind to reap the :whirl-
wind" at q. future time in infdel France.
We can only name a few Of the other dis
tinguished men then alive and known as
authors IN: England. There wss Gray of
1.-The Elegy;;'' Young of Night Thoughts,
who died in 1865; Akenside. Lyttleton,
and Langhorne;; Hannah More, whose
sacred dramas were at that time greatly
admired; adam .Smitks Robertson, md
Beatty I'M Scotland ~, vusg ex-
tremely popular, but now very little, rad
or valued ; the polishe hed Chesterfield, ,Sterne,
Garrick, Horace Walpole, Chatterton, and
ossian McP Pherson.: But Of all the mind,
Of that day, the very noblest, perhaps,
was then shrouded in dark eclipse; and
little did his fashionable relations think
that the time would come when not one of
them would be remembered except Is, hay-
ing been connected with the crszed and
wayward man in DR.. Cotton's private asyl-
um at St. Alban's, afterwards to be known
forever in English literature as the author
Of ''The Task William Cowper. ...,....,
Let us now take . glance at certain nur-
series in England, watched over by tender
mothers there was one at Hayes, where a
pale and precocious little boy Of six years,
old amazed his father with his wise words,
and was destined to eclipse even that faith
er's fame, as the second and greatest Will
liam Pitt! Another little ..Billy' Of six
years old was growing up At Hull, to be the
deliverer of thousands ye: unborn-William
Wilberforce. A gallant boy Of seven was
playing in the garden of the pretty rural
parsonage at Burnham Thorpe, ii Norfolk,
England's future hero, the great Nelson
and far away in Scotland, by loxly cot
tage door. at Alloway, in Ayrshire. 4 merry
bright-eyed' six years. old herd-boy was
running with his bare footed brothers and
| sisters, whe was hereafter to make the
name of Robert Burns the deligh Of his ma
tive country: Who can say what children
! ofpromise the nurseries and careful moth
ers Of 1865 may be rearing for the world /?
4 We find in this thought new application
Of the solemn words, s.Take heed that 70
despise not one Of these little ones.'' ass
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