Camden gazette and mercantile advertiser. (Camden, S.C.) 1818-1822, February 10, 1820, Image 1
Miscellaneous.
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FOB THE CJlKoIBK GAZETTE*
/ SKETCH.
Nothing can be more fatal to the
^prospects of a jonn^ mat* who as
pires to public distinction, than nn,
extreme delicacy c of feew^t Hovy
eyer interesting it may render one in
the polished circles of private soci
ety ; however rich and chaste a glow
it may give to all his language awl
sentiments ; i|gf a spell that will be
numb all his powers in the more con*:
tortious scenes of public life. Let
him, who possesses it, fly within *
favorite books into retirement; for
if lie becomes a candidate for public
dtstmcfiooy Iks will Be' the victim of
every conjtiugeucy jhjk. feelings wity
^l>e continually wounded and his
spirits depressed hy tlie idle remarks
4>f ignorance, and the ?contemptuous
sneers uf envy -and malice. This
is' wh^t cjverj candidate for distinc
tion must expect It is the passage
money ittto the (Maple of Fame. If
lie cannot shield himself in his In
tegrity, and bear sqch attack* without
emotion 1ft Inm^I say, relire from
ihe field, for Hr has net fortitude
enough for M. warrior. These re
flections were caused by the melan
choly, fate of a young Hum, with
whom I once associated, i Having
been: educated in a most polished fit
nml liniiinn .
rely in promiscuous society, his
it and taste had become too re
? n%m ^T^ToT
mou conversation. He could Hot
converge oh subjects winch be be>
li(iv??l to have no relationship to in
tellect and was, therefore, incapa*
ble of ei\joying .the society of men
of the world, who have -neither the
taste nor the leisure to dwell on the
wild vagaries of fancy, a?d the
cold deductions of philosophy. ?
When I first knew my friend in the
private circle, 1 thought him almost
a 'superior intelligence. His mind
had all the clearness of some light.
The ft^shiegs of wit, the Jiapjw
power of ^ebneating intellectual and
moral charMiwr^nd the beautifully
expressed seifrnHgit gave a peculiar
charm to bis conversation. Wg.
tit* drama tbo sttbjectpf discourse^.
He appeared to have stodied it with
?U the accuracy of the critic, and
nil the feeling of the pott. Was
the subject eloquence? His mind
seemed to Imbibe (lie fires of his faW
orite orators. Hid a political sub
ject artse for discussion ? His pene
tfatingmind looked through jt at a
Ytance, fcml bis. elucidation "would
do honor to a Chatham. Possessed
of such a mind and such varied accom
plishments, 1 anticipated with plea,
sure the day, whm*he should dis-k
play them to public admiration, and
claim the rewards of genius*. Hut
whm he, did come forward I w a*
?adly disappointed. . His faculties
seemed to have been touched by the
torpedo. He found it impossible to
engage fa Jbe common con?<wauon
?f the world, he seemed to disdain
|t, and the public ilndiug his soot
too etherial for earth, made those
hitter remarks and observations,
which wound the feelings of an in
cenuoos roind^M which he wss
?ml fitted .to enduriR After nn effort
W two at the bar, he retired in disgust
to tbe private society heinul left. Bu t
happiness had tied from him forever.
Disappointment preyed upon bis spi
rits, and melancholy cast her pall
over his mind. Much was ihe mor
bid state of Ms feelings, that he con
l s trued the moot harmless mirth^th
most distant attnfeion, into an attempt
to mortify him. He permitted mis
anthophy at last, to darken the pure
region of his soul. He supposed
alfhad wronged, or wished to wrong ,
liim. Such was he, when 1 last
conversed with him. * 1 urged him
to embark once more on the sea of
[ ftlory* 1 urged liim? at last, to seek
solace m the caresses of love and
friendship, He replied. "You urge
me to engage once more in the con
tentions of the world. What are
my prospects? I?y spirits were Mast
?jd, at the very hour, T tossed my
self wpon the flood, which I* fondly
hoj>ed would bear me on to fortune
and lion or. How dreadful is disap
point nient to bright-eyed anticipa
tion! The winters, that oriee spark
led with hope.-aud animation, have
become dark and slimy in the stag
nant lake. You know my spirits
w,ere crushed, and why urge me to
sucfi n pursuit? To run the career
sir, the spirits must be
light and airy, the mind must swell
with high and proud emotion. You
speak, of^ the fascination of love.
Why should I think, of thb, vyben
i ecollection comes armed with pangs?
Love require? confidence, and what)
confidence can I- have, when I reflect,
that love is no longer a refined senti
ment of the heart, M f mere bar
gain. ||^is tHmwn into market like
other merchandise at a fixed price.
Give me so oiany thousands, and I
pill give you my baud* Nature
knows nothing ^ tbia bartering in
Jove. Let it npjn^ war 51
recessee of thelieart, leTIt
in the eye, ot diffuse a languor over
the contenauce that denote! Ate depth.
You point outtn . me- tW charms of
friendship. But friendship often
hurls tl*e first arrow, Hint rankles in
the breast, What tbeij is to be
my future life ? One continued scene ,
of melancholy retrospect and gloom;
? nation.; ' "
once had; give me the hopes, that
l gilded the dreams of earner life;
B^vMje feeling^, that would not be
I wounded by the sneers of surround
ing dunces, and I would-pusb my
fortune to the utmost, I Wouldru^fc
boldly up the bill, where Jfame lit*
beckoning to her votaries. I once
entered the path; panting wW* hope
I 1 had reachedi|i base ; in imagina
tion 1 had alremy entered the port?l
of her temple ; the chaplgt was
ready on mi brow., when f
riis were b%hted, and the fair -fa
I, i ic of my holies w? l*id prostrate
tSUask. Ambition even now
&**??
in tM *last. Ambition even
sometime* east beams ?
the perspective of my
aire but the* gleamings of lightening
along thfc cloud, which lor a moment
illumine the path of the traveller
amidst the howling# of the miduigbt
storm." 1 found, that he was not to
be influenced to etrter again into *0
ciety, which be was so well qualified
t6 adorn, and 1 bad only to lament,
that so much virtue, anil m much
genius must be sacrificed to a sickly
seusibility*^ Y'r ' }
DETHRONED MONARCI1S.
Fortune never appears in a more
extravagant humour than when the
reduce* monarch* to become mendi
, cants. This ia no uncommon revo
lution in her eventfal volume*.?
? Modern history baa recorded many
such instance*.
In Gandide, or the Optimist, the
reader will find an admirable tlroke
of Voltaire's. - Eight traveller* meet
in. an obscure in% and aotne M them
witb not sufficient money to pay for
a scurvy dinner, ^n the course of
couverskliou; they aft discovered to
be eight monarchs of Europe, who
bad been deprived of Uieir towu
crowns ? s 1/ \ fcv >
What adds to this exqaMtc satire,
these eight monarchs are got 4>f the
fictitious majesties of the poetfcbraife ;
imperial shadows* like those that ap
pear itr Macbeth ; hot lining mon
archs, who wer? yaodpriag *tthat j
uiomeut about the world. -
/, Tta Kmperof Hwry XV ^ after
having been deposed and iaiptiaou
ed by his son, jHeiiry Vati^aped
from prison ^ poor, vagrant, and
.u i ? i- * *? :?*. *
without aid, be entreated the Hiahop
of Spirits to . grant him a lay we
bend in his chuicii. i u I have studied
said he, - and ba^e learned to sfag,
and may therefore b^?f some ser- 1
vice to y>ou.*V TPae sMuest was de
nied, and be died wise lithly nnd ob
scurely at Liege, after having dM*.
the attention of Jiurojie on bis vido
lies and bis grandeur.: He exclaim
ed . in dying " CM of Vengeance/
-you avenge this parricide."1 *
Alary of Mcdicis, tlm widow of
Henry the Ure|t, mother of Louis
Villi mother-indaw of three sover?
eigne, and Regept of Fra^C*,' fre
quently wanted? the necessaries of
life; ? The intrtaiiles ^ of. Ricbeliett
compelled her to exiW herself, and
live an unhagpy fugitive. HerfotR'
lion exists,^ WtOi tMssuppHcator
V* ? ? 7 > " ??*f ??sa*? ou
yniBgiJ SuppJio ?>ia?e,
trance $t do Navarre, distant, que
depuis le 88 Fe Welle auriate ete
JflLi ' 4 -V " 1 ?j5
cbateaiule
seeni
not yet forgotten bymauj
in h? Ferdina^ QoU ^ :vr:T-r
^ven us some cwrrlous anecdotes.
- which .paint ^h-jSlStcibl^tbe "singu
lar distress of th?t immarch. i
5'A Others ace to be added to this list. I
In the yaar of 190, died at Paris,
Anionic, King of Portugal. His
. body is - intered at the Cordeliers,
and his heart deposited^ at the Ave
: Maria. Nothing on earth was ea
. pable of obfcging thfcf prince to re
nounce his crown. He passed ?ver
to England and o*m? to France*
L Jhe resided ; and died, in great
the age of 64 years. ?
dethroned monarch was ha
thing, Which IS .... . .
in all his raiasei ies-he had a servant.
yrho proved a tender and faithful
friend, Jmd Who only desired to par t
ticipate in his milfortbnes, and tp
soften his miseries : and igr the re
compence of his services "he only
wished to be buried at the feet of his
dear master. This here in loyalty,
to Whom the ancient Romans would
have raised altars, was Don Diego
I lothei, one if$ the greatest lords of
thecoortof Portugal, and who drew
his origin from the kings of Bohe
mia.
Lilly, the astrologer, in bis Life
and Heath of Charles the First, pcftvl
? sents us with another instance of. an |
[ unfortunate monarch. It is In the
person' of the Old Queen Mother of
FnMli These are the words ?
*ln the same month 5 of Augnst,
1011, 1 beheld tMBId Queen Mo
tiler of France departing from Lon
don, in comity of Thomas: |fa|
Of AruodeL A sad spectacle of
mortality it was, and produced tears
from mine eyes, and atony other be
holders, to see an l?an decre
pul, poor mieon, ready for her grave,
necessitated to depart hence* having
no place of residence in thisworld
left her, but where the co?i"
her hardp fortune assigned it
had Mti the only stately!
nificent woman of Europe .
the greatest king th?t war Kvdtt. in
? r
France 5 mother unto one king auu
onto two queens/ ?? v ,
r H^rae supplies, us with an anec
dote of Singular rqyal distress* In
informs us^ that 4he Queen of
taud, .with her son. ( paries, hau P# .
moderate pension assigned her ; but J
it WS3 so ill paid, ami her credit ran
so low, that one morning, when the
Cardinal de Retz waited. on her, she
informed hint that , her .daughter the
princess Henrietta, was obl|ge<) t*
tie a-l*d, for want of fire tfrwarm
Uier. To such a condition was re
1 duced, in the midst , of ^Paris, a
Cjuern of Engiam) and a daughter
ot Iplenry IV. of Frauce.
The daughter of James the First,
who married the Elector Palatine,
in hot attempts to get her husband
crowued, wins reduced to the utmost
baggarj, and wandered frequently
in disguise as a mere vagranft ?
A strange anecdote as related of
Cliarlaa Y II. of France. King
HeniJVihud shrunk bis kingdom
into ?tbe town "bf Bonrgss; II. ^
said that having told a shoemaker, af
be bad justtried a> pair of bis
45, that bebad.no money to pay (
them, Crispin Sad sueb callous
.tefcjipgs, , that be refused to sufictbis
? majesty to take the bodts. ' It Is for
?this reason,' says.Comines, * I praise
those princes who are on good terms
Vitb th% lowest of their people 5 for'
they kiwSw not at what ' hour they
?ay waul 4hem.'? Pet. biteL ^
*HQM TUB SKETCH
waS one
< mortals, of - foolish,
spositions, ? who take
th^ world easy, eat while bread or
lirftwn, which ever can be got With
least thought ot trouble, add would
fathw ttarv* on *'jw ;*ny,' than
is
he
rel whistled life UV*J in
f|>ef4M*v'CbiiteotiR?nt ; but Ms wifi
kept continually dinning in his eai
.about his idleness, his fa"
?Ind the ruin lie
family. Morning, noon a
ft?r iibnguo ^as
K <#j t ^ S r i r* r & - \
I and evefy thing he _ ? ...
1 sure to produce a torrent of
tiiold eloquewSM had 1
waV of rejdyBtein att hfcr lectures of
the kind,- and (bat, Infrequent use,
hSd-growtf into * W&. He ^
ged liis> shouhlen
xast up his '
nothing,?.
I This however, always provoked a
I fresh volley from his Wife, so $st
he was fain todraw off itii'^lbrcefM
aud take to the outsidfc of the house,
truth, be
ckwttiisbai^^j]
1 .-1.40me" io,' adhere^ |
was his dog Wo^ who was as much
hen-pecked as his uriftter t for Dante
$art Winkle regarded them as com
panions in idleness, and even look*
ed upon Wolf with an evil eye, as
the causrf'bf his muster's so often
going astray. True it is, in all
mints of spirit befitting an honora
dog, he was as courageous an
nal as evet scented, the woods-31
I but' What courage can withstand the
' ever-daring tod all besetting terror's
of a woman's tongue ? *t\*t moment
. tongue 1
Wolf entered lite ho??
fell, -his tail dropped to the ground, j
or curled between his legs, he
ed about with a gallows air,- ?... ..
many a sidelong glance at Dan
Van V/inUle, and at the least flour
ish of a broom-stick or ladle, would
fly to the door with yelping precipi
tation.
"Times grcW worse and worse
With Hip Van Winkle, as yews of
matrimony tolled on } a tart temper
?
never mellows with age, and a ?
tongue is the only edge tool that
grows keened by constant use. For
a long whiles be used to console him
self, when driven from home, h& '
frequenting a kitul of
.of the 'sages, philosophers, an$;
other idle personages of ttaNilh
that held ita sessions on a '
? <JT. ' ' 'r "''V rl
in the shade of ? long lazy I
day,' talk listlessly uvef
sip, or tell endless stories about.no
thiug. ? But it would ha ve been worth '
any statesman^ money to have heard
that
?UJ
the profound
times took pi
an old neysp _
hands, from some ,
How solemnly wou
the contents ins "
rick Van IJiimi
dapper learned
into theft
pfemlle&ft
?wlte??
not to be daunted by the
tic word'Hrtfe&d
Pi w
nMgt;
.i
sagely they would deliberate upon
Public events, some months after,
they had taken pi, tee. '
?? The opinions oC this jun
completely controlled by ]
Yedder, a patriach of the
and landlord of the inn, at the door
of Which be took his seat from morn
* |jrro % -jnii moving snfl
?the sun, and keep
?PI ? tree, so' th
neighbors
a sun-dial. It is true,
~^Mwd*tespt*k,hut
?a??SEg3?r
and knew how to gather his
Wheat: any thing that was
' related displeased -jWf
servedto smoke hijtph
and sent forth*?bort?
gry buffs; but whet
WwWinl
plac?d clouds, and sometimes
of the agsemblagfe, cull t
all to n?Night > ncHrwas the
las Tedded h
Tadc Reims.
FOR Til h YEAR 1819,
k. WiU^e received on Monday, t
I at Liberty Hill? the at J
Store, Better Creek? ?on Wednesday, the
1st ol Merch at Flmr R<* 1
George \V ell's?the 3d at' J*j
on Lynches Creek. > , '
x Retfutn* will be received in Camden on
til ths first of April. Ipto expected that |
vicinity. Ho Wile will be taken n
payment for taxes* btiHhOseof theBanlti
of thb State. itti&fodt- 1
Charles J. Shannon,
Collrctor Ktfthaw JDhtrfct.]
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is^o. 99 0yife
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C. a C ATONN ET,
ttA8 removed his Grocrry and tfanfc#*
tlonary St or t, (he Store lately occupi
ed by Samuel topee, fc Co? two doors a
t>cve the Post'Olotfe^whene he hat fop
sale, a general assortment of
Groceiu* and (bnfectumaries.
Camden, Feb. 3, f82o. 99f$b?