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BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25, 1838.
POETRY.
A WINTER MORNING ODE.
Respectfully inscribed to the author of“ Rights
of Woman.”
When breakfast bells peal out at seven,
And sleepy clerks from bed are driven,
To re-commence their cares, —
When chamber maids in slipshod bustle,
Their mops and brooms begin to rustle,
On all the painted stairs, —
How sweet to lock your chamber door,
And snug in blankets calmly snore,
On a cold winter's mornimr.
You hear a female voice, perhaps,—
And sundry inauspicious raps
Break in upon your dreams, —
That rises high, and shriller grows,
These come to horrid kicks and blows,
‘•Like mad” the woman seems !
But oh ! how safely you are hid,
Your drooping eye ne’er lifts it lid,
Nor heeds the lady’s warning.
Visions of smoking hot beafsteaks,
And reeikng piles of buckwheat cakes
May tempt you oft to rise
And so you gently lift the clothes, —
The air pops in and wrings your nose,
And oft the tempter flies,
For breakfast you had rather loose,
Than one more fine refreshing snooze,
While Sol the earth is wanning.
And thendhere's little Jane, below,
Who on the pantry shelf will stow
A plate of something nice,
A herring broiled—some buttered toast—
Os venison saved from last night's roast.
A most delicious slice, —
Oh ! then sleep on, and bravely brook
The angry tongue of Mrs Cook,
And Madame Blowhard’s storming !
Jfl ISC EL LAY Y.
ANECDOTES OF GILBERT STUART.
From Herbert’s Irish Varieties, a late London
Publication.
When Stuart, the portrait painter, vis
ited Dublin, Home had possession of all
the fashionable practice; but Stuart’s
works paralysed Home’s efforts, and he
left Dublin and the field to Stuart. His
portraits were so well reported by the
cognoscenti, that a rage to possess some
specimen of his pencil, took place and a
dilfteulty of obtaining a finished picture
became universal, so fond was he of
touching the half-price. Stuart had great
affectation in his manner of speaking. It
was like an imitation of John Kemble, to
whom he bore a great resemblance, and
he was flattered whenever it was observ
ed he was not only like Kemble in fea
tures, but in speech. He was perfectly
conscious of his pre-eminence in paint
ing; and he, hy his manner, exhibited that
self-opinion to his visiters: this gave him
the air of a coxcomb, although lie assum
ed an independence of mind, which
scarcely would be endured from any oth
er man.
Stuart, soon after his arrival, was in
vited to dine with the Artists of Dublin,
on St. Luke's Day. lie accepted the in
! vitation, and was very communicative to
those who sat near Him. But Mr. Pack,
(one of the company) who delighted in
anecdote, was relating one, where he was
the hero of the tale himself, and he spoke
so loud as to drown Stuart's voice, so that
[the great visiter was obliged to be a mute
listener, until lie silenced the story-teller.
Pack was boasting of bis intimacy with
Sir Joshua Reynolds being so great, that
he had the freedom of going into Sir
Joshua’s study, even when he was paint
ing, if alone. One day he entered the
study when Sir Joshua was engaged de
signing with chalk a picture of the Holy
Family.—“Mr. Pack, I have been puz
zled with this design,—the lore shorten
ing of this infant’s thigh, I must lay it by
until I get a model.”
Pack saw several lines stretched, and
he said, “Sir Joshua, your eye is fatigued;
now, I come in with my eyes fresh, and I
think I could draw the line you want: will
you permit me —this in a softened tone —
to point out what strikes me.”
Sir Joshua handed him the chalk and
Pack drew the line. “I think it would
come so, so.”
Sir Joshua thanked him, but the free
dom was rebuked; but the line was a
dopted, as the picture (which has been
finished) testifies. These were Pack’s
words.
Stuart, fired with indignation at what
he heard, asked Valdre, an Italian artist,
who sat beside him, and in a voice as
loud as Pack’s. “Who is that person
relating these stories?”
“Pack! Pack!” said Stuart, “Well, I
have often heard of a Pack of nonsense,
but I never saw it before.”
Such an involuntary burst of laughter
took place, like a volley, so generally was
the excitement felt, that it took some
minutes to relapse into a decent silence
or decorum. Pack then became mute,
J and we were deprived of his entertaining
qualities for the rest of that evening.
We then enjoyed Stuart’s account of
himself, as he was freed from interruption,
lie stated that on his arrival in London
from America, he was received by his
friend, Benjamin West, and treated as an
inmate in bis family. He saw him paint
ing every day, and he took such an inter
est in the art, that he determined to be
come a painter. After some time spent
as a looker-on, Mr. West asked him,
what profession he meant to follow, lie
said he had not yet made up his mind that
he could he a musician. West shook his
head, and said, “Though you can play on
every instrument, do you suppose you
could vie with men here. I think you
must fix upon sonic particular instrument,
practise under a first rate teacher, and
then you may reckon on success.”
“Well, a few days after this conversa
tion, Stuart happened to pass St. Cathe
rine's Church, in the Strand. He had
observed a crowd at the church door,
and crossed to ask what caused the peo
ple to assemble. lie was told it was a
competiou for organist. lie asked if a
stranger might become a competitor.—
“Yes,” was the answer. He was accor
dingly brought to the organ loft, and, in
his turn, played on the organ. 11c was
asked for his address, which he gave;
and was told a note would be sent to him
reporting on his performance.
On the next day lip received a note ac
quainting him that he had been elected
organist, and if he would attend at one
o’clock that day at the church, the par
ticulars of the duty would be made
known to him, and the salary, &.c. He
handed the note to Mr. West,-saying, he
had now a proof of being able to support
himself by music. Mr. West was sur-;
prised so much, he doubted that the note
was genuine; in fact, that it was hut a
joke; but Stuart assured of the truth of;
it, and that he should be the witness him
self if he chose to go with him to the
church. Mr. West then believed him;
yet doubted his perseverance in the duty,
that he would throw it up in a month.;
He assured him he would attend regular
ly for three months, then resign; giving
Uuc notire of his intention to change to
another pursuit.
“And, what,” said West, “will you:
take up in its stead?”
“Portrait-painting.”
“Why, you can’t draw?”
“Ul paint, though.”
“What, without practising drawing?”
“Yes.”
“i shall be glad to see your works.” j
| “You shall see them, and that soon. 1 |
j am resolved on giving up one art to take I
| up the other; therefore let me Leg you to
I set a pallet to* me, and this day 1 mean
Ito commence practice. I mean to paint
j that piece of white satin that hangs' on
I the back of that chair.”
j Mr. West set the pallet; then Stuart
took it and the satin to his room, and in
three days produced his work, which as
| touished West, but not more than it pleas-;
|ed him. He then said, he should like to
I see a portrait of a head from life. Stuart
j began a bead. His plan was of his own
contriving, lie got two looking glasses,
placed them opposite to each other, put
his subject with his back to one, his face
to the other: the reflection of the face
was repeated (by managing and shilling
the glass) three or four times in grada
tions of effect less perfect in each. Hr
i painted first from tile least perfect, whose
j faatures were confounded in masses of
i shadow, hill he got the character of the
! head exactly. His next sitting requir
! ed more making out of the subject; he
j then looked to the next and nearer reilee
• lion. The next sitting be was able to dis
cern more particularizing; he tlien came
I to the first reflection, and then introdac
' ed the eyes: the very spaces left for the eyes
| showed where they should be placed.—
Then at his last sitting he faced his sitter
and hud all his niaskings so perfectly dis
tinct, his task was easily accomplished.
His first head was as like as he ever
painted; and Mr. West could scarcely be
lieve it was lus work. Stuart, however,
showed him bis mechanical invention,
and West saw him at work, —he was then
; convinced.
Here ended Stuart’s account of his
j first essays in bis art; by practice lie was,
enabled to lay aside the use of looking
glasses, as boys lay by cork when they
become familiar with the action of swim
ming. The company were greatly amus-j
ed; and that night’s enjoyment was mem
orable for years, with those who were pres
ent at Stuart’s narration.
Stuart was struck with some remarks 1
made on bis account of himself, and lie
requested Valdre to introduce me. Tbis
being complied with, lie called upon me. !
and frequently came and partook of a |
dinner, in the family way, when perhaps
he had been asked to a great house and j
splendid fare; but lie was whimsical, and
bis attachment to me often surprised me. I
There was certainly one point in his dis- j
position that ho certainly never deviated I
from. He had all the equalizing spirit of
tiie American, —and lie looked contempt
uously upon titled rank. I had an exam
ple of that not long after; the Archbish
op of Dublin bad his daughter’s portrait
painted by Stuart,but had made some re
mark upon it th.rt was not complimentary
to the arti>t. His Grace called on Stu
art and sent up his name that he wished
to speak to Mr. Stuart. 1 happened to
be conversing with Stuart at the time and
I rose to depart; but he said, —“No, you
must stay and witness a novel scene.”
He sent down an excuse, that he was not
accustomed to attend carriages,—that if
his Grace would honor Him in bis paint
ing room, be would tend on Him. The
Archbishop sent back to say that gout
prevented his coming up. Stuart replied
he was extremely sorrv; for two reasons
—one, for his Grace’s sufferings, the oth
er that he had got the rheumatism him
self; hut that he would endeavor to meet
his Grace half way. So slipping his
foot out of his shoe, lie put down the hind
quarter, then, slip-shod, he tied a silk
handkerchief round the foot, and pro
ceeded to the stairs, and literally met the
Archbishop half way.
“Well, 1 have contrived to hobble up,
| you see, Mr. Stuart—sorry to see your
foot tied up.”
“Ha ! oh dear!”
“Do you suffer much with your foot ?"
“Oil, very much, my lord.”
“Well, Mr. Stuart, I came about my
daughter’s potrait ; I am not quite recon
ciled to the picture. Now, she is not a
bad subject, and I expected she would
have made an interesting picture. Now,
all these potraits, as far as I know the o
riginals, are not only striking likeness,
but pleasing pictures. I candidly own,
I cannot say so much for my daughter’s
picture.”
Stuart then placed the picture on an
easel, with a large brush began, on a sky
Hack ground to lay in a dark neutral col
or. He went on until lie bad covered to
the head. The archbishop conceived lie
would let the face and figure remain ; but
lie covered all.
Then his grace exclaimed, —
“Now, what are you doing ? are you
painting out ?”
“Yes, i am putting your ..<*
pain, as much as I can, I shall return the
li dfprice, and am sorry I could not please
your grace.”
“I wished you to alter the face.”
“That I could not, I make it a rule
never to alter, but rub out.”
“But I don’t wish it rubbed out.
“Oh, don’t you; 1 have, then, only
to restore it.”
Then taking some tow and dipping it
in turpentine, he removed the dark color.!
The archbishop desired Him to send it
home at three o'clock, remarking, that lie
was the first lie h id met with to refuse al
tering a picture to please.
“’[’hat’s not to be done ; and 1 have long
since proved that point, which made me
adopt, as a rule, that of painting from my
own vision and conception : a dress-ma
ker may alter a dress ; a milliner a cap ;
a tailor a coat ; hut a painter may give up
his art, if lie attempts to alter to please ;
it cannot be done.”
The archbishop bowed obsequiously,!
hobbled down ; Stuart attending him ball-'
way, and, bowing hnv, returned, to his j
painting-room, enjoying his victory. He
asked me how i liked the scene. 1 said
! could not have i; lievod it, bad I not
been a witness to it. He remarked, that
the archbishop was arbitrary,—therefore
lie was resolved not to yield to his rude
anil overbearing temper. He ordered his i
servant to take the picture home at three!
o’clock, and get fifteen guineas, or bring
the picture buck.
i A Pki.nti; amo\<; Buim.-tits. With
jvery few exceptions, all the London heg
i gars live up to their means: and what
they earn, or rather swindle, out of a be
nevolent or confiding public, is spent in
jeating and drinking. Gin is the great
thing with most of them. I knew one,
and only one, who spent a considerable
portion of 1 1 is professional proceeds in
the article of dress. This man, who us
ed to he seen daily in the neighborhood of;
jllolborn, decrepit in appearance, and
with the most ragged wardrobe that was]
ever fastened about the human body,!
regularly gave up bis vocation at six in ;
the evening, and in about an hour after-1
wards was to be seen in the parlor of.a!
public house in Gwy’s Inn Lane, where]
he remained till eleven at night, smoking j
his pipe and drinking his brandy and wu-j
ter, and dressed in a suit of clothes, w ith !
his legs encased in top boots which no
gentleman would be ashamed to wear.
Not more partial is an alderman to bis
turtle soup than are these gentry to the
good tilings of this life. There are sev
eral of them who “spit” their goose or
duck at least three times a week. There
are also numbers who bold regular con
vivial meetings, at which some remarka
ble gastronomic feats are performed.
On koine special occasions they regularly
' elect their chairman, and have their series
jof toasts, their speeches, and songs, as
lon great public occasions. It is known
to several persons that George the Fourth
when Prince of Wales, went on one
occasion with his friend Major Hanger to
i witness the scenes which took place nt
these guzzling exhibitions of the mendi
cants. Tutored as the young Prince was
■ by Sheridan and others of his boon com
panions in all sorts of frolics, he enjoyed’
! the scene tor some time. At last, how
lever, a circumstance occurred which
1 somewhat disconcerted him. The beggar
who presided on the occasion as chair
man, after a temporary pause in the mer
riment of the evening, rose, and pointing
Yo the Prince, said, “With the permission
'of the company, I calls on that ere gem
[manwitha clean shirt an for a song.”
j A round of applause from the rest of the
jolly beggars showed bow eagerly they re
sponded to the appeal tints made to his
Itoyal Highness, who winked significantly
to Major Hanger, and then stammered
; out the expression of a hope, that as he
| was no singer, the company would ex
cuse him. “Not a bit of it,” said the
chairman. “Veil have no denial, young
man,” said another. “Perhaps, gentle
linen, you’ll allow the gentleman to sing
jby proxy,” interposed Major Hanger.—
I “Proxy!” said several voices at once,
j “vat’s proxy?” “O another person sing
ling for him,” said the major. “O, cer
tainly, if lie can find one,” said the
| chairman, looking round for the concur
-1 reuce of the company in his sentiment.
| “O, there can be no objections to that,”
i observed a dozen voices at once. “Come
'then, If , you must do it yourself,”
'said the Prince, addressing himself to the
j major. The latter responded to the ap
peal , and amidst great applause a well
| known ballad—well known, I mean,
among the fraternity—called “The Beg
gar’s Wedding.”
“GcriTuien,”said the proprietor of'a
little unwashed and unshared face, and u
nose of remarkable flatness, who sat op
posite the chairman, “let us drink the
health and song of the genTmaii vot’s
just sung.” “The geuTman's health and
song,” shouted a host of voices, and in
an instant every glass was empty of its
•••« - £ *!•« • 4 1
say, young man, vy don’t you drink to
your friend?” said a round faced mendi
cant who sat opposite to his Royal fligh
tless, his eyes rolling in a fine frenzy
through the inspiring influence of the li
quor lie had so copiously quaffed. “O, I
beg your pardon, Sir,” answered tlie
Prince, who had been for the moment lost
in surprise at the ccstacies of uproarious
merriment lie witnessed every where
around him; “O, I beg your pardon, Sir,
for the omission; it was accidental I as
sure you.” This was addressed to the
person wiio had challenged him for not
drinking to tlie major. “Veil, vy don’t
you drink R now?” inquired the other,
who was a very consequential personage
in his own estimation. The Prince filled
up his glass, and having drunk off the
tiie contents to the health and song of
Major Hanger, held it out in his hand in
an inverted position. “Bravo! your’re a
a trump!” “Go it, clean shirt!” shouted
about a dozen voices. “Three cheers for
the gentleman who lias favored us with
so excellent a song!” exclaimed the Prince,
beginning to feci himself more at home.
As lie spoke he rose, and waved his hand
with his empty glass in the air, as if to
lead the plaudits of tlie others. All pres
ent were on tlieir legs in an instant,and
deafening and universal were the cheers
with which the major vvasgreeted. The
scene was kept up with great spirit and
eciat until at least one half of the jolly
beggars had drunk themselves asleep,
and lay like so many masses of inert clay
on the floor, in a horizontal position.
[Sketches in London.
Conflicting Creeds. Most persons
are aware that if a Protestant wishes to
insult a Catholic, in our sister isle, be at
tains his object by using the epithet “Ro
man.” Call a Catholic a “Papist,” and
lie heeds you not; call him a “Roman,”
and his blood is up in an instant. Two
old ladies of the “conflicting creeds”—a
term well known in Ireland—were re
cently engaged in a controversy, which
was on the eve of terminating in favor of
Protestantism, when the advocate of Ca
tholicism exclaimed, “Don’t you take the
blessed Testament as authority?” “I do.”
“Wasn’t Saint Paul inspired, raydarlint?”
“That’s true, sure enough.” “Don’t you
know, jewel, that he wrote an epistle to
the Romans?” “Sure enough he did,
njavouruecn.” “Now, can you just wa
ken your memory, and tell,me if be ever
took the trouble to write to Protes
tants?” This was a home-stroke, and the
Protestant gave in. [London Paper.
Men. Men act in regard to virtue, as
the British" do in regard to money; small
demands are paid by both in the genuine
coin —large ones with its paper represen
tative.
*, tL-'# ' a
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS
• [From the Macon M
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS.. *
We regard the subject of Internal Im
provements as the most important one
that can be brought to the contiideration
of the people of Georgia. It deserves to
be the engrossing theme, for, compared
with it, every thing else we deem ephem?
era! and profitless.
Under the protection of qur State Con
stitution and Laws, we have nothing to
dread for our lives or liberties, and what
ever may be our fears of the consequen
ces of federal usurpation upon the
rity or existemie of the Union, here at
home, “under our own vine and fig tree
we can enjoy life and all the privileges
belongings to freemen securely reposing
under the ' etgis of that all powerful and
pervading sanative principle, Status
Rights.
What then is left for us to do? It is to
make our homes as comfortable, our
property as productive, and life as worth
enjoying as possible. In a word, it is full
time we were looking to our interest—
the interest of our State and of our
selves.
The question is often asked, why is
Georgia so far behind the other States, in
her "works of Internal Improvement? Na
ture has done every thing for her, she is
rich in agricultural and mineral products,
and she has ail intelligent, industrious
and enterprising population; there are no
party lines of distinction at least upon
this subject, and the word will be both to
credit the disreputable suspicion, by some
entertained, that sectional divisions and
demagogue jealousies have retarded its
progress.
We have invariably bad but one reply
to this humiliating question. The people
arc not informed upon the subject.
llow many of the citizens of this
State, having never seen a Rail Road for
instance, are unacquainted with its mode
of construction, and with its practical op
erations? How many arc there of our
planters, who bringing tlieir produce to
market fifty and a hundred miles over bad
roads, travelling twenty miles a day, have
ever made an estimate of t/io saving of
—*im ............... I fillip nf tlieir
produce when carried to market at (dtp
rate of twenty miles per hour? llow-ngG
nv of our native citizens are unacquaint
ed with the incalculably valuable resour
ces of their own State—its rich mineral
productions, its iron, coal, marble, lime,
&c., and its hundred of thousands of un
cultivated lands, uncultivated only on ac
count of the difficulty of transporting to
market?
The people, have not given these mat
ters due reflection; tlieir public servants
—their Senators and Representatives
chosen by them to subserve-the interest
of their constituents fc have not done them
justice. Party spirit and the selfishness
of party leaders, have diverted tlieir
minds from matters touching tlieir own in
terest. The press can be, if its conduc
tors so will it, a most powerful regenera
tor of public opinion, by collating facts,
giving statistical details of rail roads, &c.
and disseminating every piece of infor
mation that is attainable, the public mind
will be enlightened, and a tone will be
given to public opinio:*, so as to secure at
the next meeting of the Legislature, the
patronage of the State, without which,
all the projects of Internal Improvements
must fail.
We approve of tire idea suggested Ly
the Telegraph, of having meetings in ev
ery county, explaining the subject, and
taking the sense of tin* people upon v. hut
is best to be done. The subject is one
affecting the general interest of the State,
implicating no party creeds; and we
would advise the Telegrapf), if it be
friendly to Internal Improvements, not to
provoke party prejudices bv reflections
upon Gov. Gilmer’s independence, or the
comparative independence of the two
great political parties' of the State. Upon
this subject there should be no divisons.
So far as regards the propriety o*f calling
an extra session of the Legislature to act
upon this measure, if it be practicable,
and consonant to public opinion, and
would be the means of accomplishing the
desired end, we certainly would recom
mend it. The apprehensions of the Tel
egraph are groundless, and his remarks
thereupon gratuitous, that Gov*. Gilmer
would veto the bill, should it pass. It
would be his pride to sanction such a bill.
Great Minds. The only men who
can make a change in tin's worHLof ours*
are they who are not changed by it. The
multitude cannot civilize the rnultittxlp,.
any more than hounds can teach hotinfp.
A thousand drops of quicksilver will (ike
as many different directions, and never of
themselves, unite in one mass. Luther's
Protestantism, Selbritz’s Philosophy etc.
were like the offspring of a queen bee*
which are fed and tended by thousands of
barren workers.