The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1876-09-14

failure To do so was source OF great
disappointment to HE friends. His
father, the Earl of Morningtoa, was now
dead, and the family circumstances were
not 30 good as they once had been, 50
that there was unusual cause for anxiety
in consequence of his non-success.
At length it was determined by Lady
MorningtOn that her son should be taken |
from Elton, and that she would remove |
to Belgium. Thither she and Arthur |
accordingly went, and he was placed
under the care of a private tutor in
Brussels. But even here he made very
slight advance with his studies at first
and for some time he seemed to give little
promise for the future, being almost as
indispesed to take any trouble to get on
now as he had been when at Chelsea and
Elton.
After he had been in Belgium about Il
| year, however, Arthur appears to have
begun to understand how very unwise
he had been to be 80 indifferent as to his
studies during all the years that had
gone by, and was at last convinced that
It was quite time to put aside his
dreaminess and dilatOriness; for 1t was
now that the choice of a profession for
him began to he thought about by Lady
MorningtOn, and it was really necessary
that he should turn his thoughts to the
serious question of determining upon his
future career.
We are told that it was at about the
time of which we are speaking that
Arthur happened on one occasion to be
travelling with his mother in Belgium,
and that they stayed for little while at
fortified town-One that had been
captured by the great Duke OF MARI
borough. 1t is said that Arthur's visit
to this place was the turning. point of his
life, for 80 deeply did the battlements
and the rows of cannon interest him
that, from the day when he saw them,
his one and only thought was to enter
the army. Whether this were really the
cause OF his becoming soldier we can
not say, but there seems to be every
probability that such was the case, for
very soon afterwards he left Belgium and
! joined the Military College at Anglers, in
, France (there being no academy of the
! kind in England at that time.)
Now it was that Arthur began to lead
an altogether new life. He had at last
some fixed object in view on which he
! could center his attention he knew that
it depended entirely upon himself
8 whether he ever attained it; and so he
3 manfully made up his mind to do hi'
t very utmost to make amends for his past
: failings, and, if possible, to be successful
4 Right we'll did he avail himself of al
s his opportunities to gain knowledge ant
s to get on; and thus it was that durin.
y the eighteen months that he was a
Anglers the great progress made by hin
g more than fulfilled the expectations tina
Q had been formed by his friends, and HI
t acquitted himself SO satisfactorily that b.
d the time he was seventeen years OF ag'
n he was rewarded with an ensign's com
|, mission in the English army.
n 1t is not our purpose to speak OF TIN
a deeds that in years later on were accom-
l. plished by our hero, much as we shoul'
d like to tell you the story of his victOrie
It at Assaye, Talavera, and at Salamancs
" and of his grand achievements a
D. Vittoria and at Waterloo.
n ClOuded as was his childhood, his afte
d life shone with radiancy that can neve
It be obscured. Upon his public fame nc
q dark spot is to be found; and as
n great soldier and wise statesman
= guided in all his doings by sincere n
gard for truth as well as a strong dev'
II ton to duty, the name of Arthu
$, Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, will liv
q through the ages.