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BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY BIORNXNG, FEBRUARY 8, 1338.
POETRV.
From Hood's Comic Annual.
STANZAS COMPOSED IN A SHOWER
RATH.
Trembling as Father Adam stood
To pull the stalk, before the Fall,
So stand I here, before the Flood,
On my own head the shock to call;
How like our predecessor’s luck !
’Tis but to pluck—but needs some pluck !
Still thoughts of gasping like a pup
Will paralyze the nervous pow’r,
Now hoping it will yet hold up ;
Invoking now the tumbling show’r ;
But ah ! the shrinking body' loathes,
Without a parapluie or clothes !
“Expect some rain about this time !”
My eyes arc seal'd, my teeth are set—
But where’s the Stoic so sublime
Can ring, unmov'd, for wringing wet?
Os going hogs some folks talk big,
Just let them try the whole cold pig
RIS CEL I, A \ V.
JUDI) WATSON.
“Poor Toni's a cold.’’ —King Lear.
Some years ago I paid a visit to a relative,
who, with his wife and a lovely family, con
sisting of three daughters, occupied a beautiful
mansion in the environs of Eye, in Suffolk.
My cousins were just budding into woman
hood, —Maria, the eldest, being in her nine
teenth year, Selina, her second sister, in her
| seventeenth, and Julia, the youngest, just six
, teen. My arrival was a source of considcra- |
i ble gratification to them: for although they
'could with perfect security take their rambles
! round the immediate neighborhood indepen
-1 dently of any aid from the other sex, they had
j hitherto been without a male relative or friend
|to accompany them in their more distant ex
j cursions; and about a week after I appeared
I among them, my services were put in requisi
j tion for this purpose. Our first jaunt was to
I Framlingham Castle, to which so many histor
ical associations are attached. The town in
which this monument of feudal power is situa
ted, is about twenty miles from Eye, and the
intervening country is beautifully picturesque,
being interspersed with towns, villages, and
country seats, and in the highest state of culti
vation.
Though my fair cousins have very little to
do with what I have to relate, I think I may as
well describe them, as I would willingly af
ford to the reader who accompanies me on my
visit to them, as much of the enjoyment I my
self experienced, as can possibly be conveyed
to him through the imagination.
Maria, the elder of my cousins, was one of
| those bright visions which very seldom appear
in the present state of society, and with the
j present system of female education. Though
j beautiful in person, her greatest beauty lay in
] her mind. The dark hair simply braided on
each side of her forehead, the light hazel
and liquid eye flashing with intense expression
' under the least excitement, the Roman nose,
| the beautiful smile displaying a set of teeth
| white and shining as polished ivory, the classi
\ cal contour of the head, the glow of health
| mantling on her cheek, the graceful form neith
|er too tall nor under size—these Yvere some
! of the personal advantages she possessed ;
but they all sank beneath the absorbing inter
' est excited by an examination of her powers of
intellect and the extraordinary originality of
I mind she displayed. Gentle, amiable, and un
assuming, she required to be drawn forth to
he duly appreciated, but so unconscious did she
I seem of any superiority, that she disdained
I not to converse with any one who sought it,
i adapting her powers and knowledge to the ca
pacity of the person she talked to, without ap
| pearing to know anything beyond. Though of
j an independent spirit, perhaps too much so—
; though abhorring flattery, and giving her opin
ion often too strongly against those who
j sought to convince her more by personal inllu
; ence or the weight of authority than by argu
* ment, she was so kind, so self-denying, so do
: voted to the comfort of those around her, that
i every one, even persons of the humblest capa
city, felt quite at their ease in her company,
I and perceived not the immeasurable distance
I that separated their minds from hers. i
I The awe with which this gentle girl inspir
ed me during the first few days after my arri
| val at her father’s house, is quite unaccounta
. ble. I had been accustomed to talk, to flatter,
and flirt with the young ladies into whose so
jciety I had been thrown in London ; and with- (
j out vanity I may say that at the age of twenty
seven I had fallen in love as often, and had
j broken as many vows of eternal constancy, as
l the most successful of my contemporaries. For
a whole season I had been in vogue, and as I
possessed a very handsome competency, and
was not quite so ignorant who my grandfather
was as some of our modern peers and states
men, many a mother had laid her snares to en
; chain me for life to her well-bred and accoin
| plished daughter, who could execute a head in j
j crayons thal seemed as if it had been copied i
through the medium of a distorted looking J
glass, or squall with a “voix cclatante,” let out
to its full pitch, and dreadfully out of tune,]
Rossini’s “Unavoce pocofa,” or Bellini’s “Son !
virgin vezzosa.” From such a fate I had al- 1
ways escaped, and had never supposed myself j
capable of forming a lasting attachment foun
ded upon mental and not personal attractions,
until I beheld my fair cousin Maria, whom I
soon loved with a devoted kindness of which
I have since given the most unquestionable
proofs.
My cousin Selina was a very amiable and ]
very good-tempered, a very timid, and a very
pretty and elegant looking girl, with light hair,
deep blue eyes, and the fairest of complexions.
Inform and person she was a Ilebe ; and in
the ball room, no one votary of Terpsichore
possessed more attractions; but site had no 1
mental superiority over the ordinary herd of
young ladies who grow up to learn to play,and
sing, and draw, and talk a little about chem
istry and natural philosophy, until they are
married, when this bait of the husband-trap is
thrown aside and forgotten.
Julia, the youngest of my relative’s daugh
ters, was rather a singular girl. Ever since
her childhood she had suffered from ill health :
she was a tender and delicate plant, requiring
much care in cultivation, and until very shortly
prior to my visit,apprehensions had been enter
tained that tubercles were forming in her lungs.
The upper part of her countenance was beau
tiful. With a fine expanded forehead, hazel
I cyc3, and brown hair worn in a crop, she pre
sented a truly interesting appearance. There
was an air of patient suffering in her mcekcoun
tenance truly angelic, and at times the saga
city and acuteness of her remarks gave evi
dence of great powers ot mind, though there
were moments when her faculties appeared
quite obscured, and she was incapable of ex
ercising any powers of thought; but this in
variably happened after too great bodily exer
tion. Like her two sisters, she was gentle
| amiable, and affectionate.
Such were the three girls into whose socic-
Ity this visit threw me. Their father, a distant
cousin of my mother's, was a very excellent
! man, but not over refined in his manners and.
' conversation. lie had a fortune, but having lost
j his wife soon after the birth of Julia, lie had
determined to reside entirely in the country,
where he devoted himself much to field sports,
j keeping a large stud and a pack of hounds,
i The widow of a friend of his, a very acccom
' plished woman, had undertaken the education
] of his daughters, and had most faithfully per
formed the task. To her care had inv cousins
i been wholly confided by their father, whom
' they scarcely ever saw till dinner time, and in
; the evening, which was usually devoted to mu
j sic, of which he was very fond, and in which
jmy cousins wore great proficients. About
]a month before my arrival, Mrs. Wyndham.
| the kind instructress of my cousins, had sc;
jout for the South of France on a visit to a sis
! ter who was in a declining state of health ; and
i she was expected to be absent during six or
j eight months.
As 1 have said before, about a week after
my arrival, a plan, was formed to ride over to i
Frainlingluun, and explore the old castle in that
town. Accordingly, after nil early breakfast,
my cousins and 1 set out on this excursion one
tine morning in July. Maria, who was one of
the best horsewoman in the county, rode a
blood mare of high mettle, w hich her lather
had lately purchased for her, and I accompa
nied her oil rny favourite hunter. Feliua, too!
timid to venture on horseback, accompanied :
Julia in an open laudaulet kept on purpose For
their use.
The country from Eye to FranilingLnn is 1
like a garden, or rather it might be taken for'
a continuous and richly cultivated estate laid
out with the greatest taste so as to produce
the most jiicturesquc effect. It seemed the tri
umph of landscape gardening. Butlovelv as
the country was, it increased in beauty as we
apjiroacheci Franilinghain. About six mil- -
from this latter jduce, we entered the jwrisli ot
Monk Soliain. After passing through it, we
came to one of the most beautiful villages I
ever beheld, called Earl Soham. 1 shall not
stop to describe the beauties of this sweet
place—the long street of straggling houses
peeping up their heads amid gardens and
shrubs, and flowers, and trees—nor two rising
grounds, upon eacli which is seated a mansion
inhabited by the lords of the place—nor the
beautiful church and parsonage house, both of
which appear seated in a garden—the church
yard being elegantly lakl out, and containing
but very few of the insignia of mortality. We
stopjieda moment ill the middle of the village
at a very neat inn, bearing the sign of the Fal
con ; and this is particularly impressed upon
my recollection from my seeing there at the ]
door, the man 1 am about to introduce to the j
reader under the name of Judd Watson. This
individual seemed about thirty-eight years of
age, of a tall and athletic frame, and a noble
countenance ; but there was a wildness in his j
gaze which indicated that if not actually in-;
sane, lie was on the extreme verge of in
sanity. Still there was a gentleness in his
look and manner that completely lulled any
terror his first appearance might have inspired.
His dress was superior to tint of the country
louts around him, and there was something
distingue m lii.s appearance which indicated a
refinement of breeding not known in this
country except among the gentry. His lan
guage at times was that of a well-informed
and well educated man; but when the cloud
came over his mind, lie would imitate the pro
vincialism and pronunciation of the country
'people, and his ideas were as incoherent
l as Ills language was wanting in refine
neat. .Still he was gentle and harmless.
He excelled in all the sports of the field, and
' would undergo the severest fatigue in their
•"pursuit. Brave,bold, and enterprising, he was
ever the foremost in danger, ever ready to take
the jinrt of the oppressed, or to rend- r assist
ance where he could give it. lie seemed in
no want of money, having always sufficient
not only for his own wants, but to assist those
; who deserved it among the peasantry’ of So
' ham, having, notwithstanding his aberrations
lof intellect, sagacity enough to ih ■ ■ l tie se
on v> horn Ins ci. u ify would he thro .', n;■ ay.
Just ns we hid got beyond the viiUge, af
ter hating quitted the Falcon, Maria's hor.-e
started at a boy, who had been rc.-iing by the
j road side, and who suddenly rose nrr the
creature ’j head, (hi the other side of the
highway sumo men w 're digging a well, and
: had i;e fleeted to enclose the spot w Imre they
~ , '
I were excavating, .worm s mare n.- ke.l to
| wards the chasm into w hich my cousin must
j h eritably have been precipitated before 1
! could have had time to come to her assistance.
—when just as the mare’s hind legs were with-
I in a foot of the brink, a man sprang forward,
land with an almost supernatural exertion of
. mu. - alar strength dragged the animal forward,
I caught the fair rider in his arms, lifted her
; from the saddle, and placed her upon her feet
l on the ground, lie then seized the bridle of
' the ihare, but ns the frightened creature sa.l-
, (Italy turned round towards the pit, my cous
! in’s deliverer overreached himself, and was
1 dragged by the horse into the gaping chasm,
. then about twenty feet <h op. Both horse and
, man were got out w ith some difficulty, the for
’ iner with very little injury, the latter with a
| broken leg. As I saw the brave fellow emerge
! from the well, I recognised the features of the
inan I had seen at the Falcon, and who had
I interested me so much. Though suffering
I great torture from a compound fracture of the
(injured limb, there was a glow of satisfaction
'in his countenance, arising from the service
jhe had done us, which indicated a let ling and
1 noble heart. With the assistance of the men
• or;, loved in digging the well, all of whom
, hud fortunately escaped unhurt, I had Judd
; Watson conveyed to his cottage, which was
1 situated at no great distance from the spot,
1 and sent to the nearest surgeon, with a request
i that he would immediately follow us thither.
! We had scarcely laid th ■ sufferer on his bed,
I when Mr. G appeared, and very skilfully
'set the limb, the bone of which hid broken in
, two places. My cousin Maria, hud accompa
nied me to Judd Watson’s, m -oiv ed to conti ib
i ute all her personal exertions towards his re
covery. Selina aniLJulia, whom we h:d left
j at sumo distance on the road, hming ridden
'oil before them, laid proceed'l to I’ramling
! hum unconscious of the ucci.i'-nt tli it Ltd be
fallen us.
Judd Wats, m’s cottage was li:'ed up, if not
j with luxuries, at L•■:-1 with ail the not cssnries
of refined life. It consisted of four rooms, two
;eu each floor. All elderly female, having tic
appearance of a retire.l upper servant, in some
to pay the greatest iesj.eetain! at;out i.o to .l tide,
who. as she informed 11s, | • | |,i; od her ! > take
ra;“o! in it. We ad. 1 ,'cr a fovV qi- 1:-5 a
liontL r ilia.- ter, Li mg c t.> kno ,v so.in -
thing concerning him, hut obt-iiniii;-- no satis
fi'-mry repli'-s from her. we gave 1; ■ the noin'.
In consequence of this accident, oar iour
• ney to Frandingham was deferred to another
day. From this time forth until Judd Wat
son’s complete recovery, which did not tike
place till towards the end of September, Ma
ria, who considered him the preserver of her
life, and I rode every day to Earl Solium to see
him. He grow attached to our society, and at
length seemed to look for it Whilst we were
with him—and we devoted three or four hours
of cacti day to him—the cloud of insanity
seemed to have passed from his spirit, and the
more we saw of him the more we deplored the
'•■mse that had ruined the intellect of a being,
firmed to be an ornament to hi.s country. Ilis
mmd was highly cultivated, and, from the
names of individuals he let drop in conversa
tion a.; having been personally acquainted
with them, I came to the conclusion that he
must be not only of good family, but of high
rank. I formed a thousand conjectures.—
Perhaps,” I thought, “he may be seme no
ble lunatic who has escaped from a private
madhouse, and remained here undiscovered
for a number of years.”
For several weeks after this accident, I fore
bore speaking to him concerning himself. In
deed Maria thought I had no right to indulge
in any sjioculations relating to her preserver,
or to force any disclosures from him except'
such as lie might volunteer to make. Think- 1 ;
ing, however, that by knowing who be was 11
might lie better able to render him services, I
resolved, after obtaining Maria’s consent, to
question him on the subject.
One day, when he vvas in a more than ordi
nary rational mood, Maria and I being seated
one on each side of his couch, I thus began— 1
] “My friend Judd, arc you a Suffolk man;
.born ?”
; “I am not,” he replied ; “I first became a
citizen of this troublesome world in the metrop
olis, nearly thirtv-iiino years ago.”
1. , |
“Have you long resided in tins pretty vil
] luge r”
“About twelve years, I think ; but my mem
ory sometimes fails me so sadly, and the past
! vi-vs in such fantastic and horrible pictures be- !
f ire me, that it is like an incubus ujion my mi-'
! derstaiuling. How ever, old I hum ah has a better |
1 memory than I,and 1 believe she observed tome j
this morning, that four days back she made 1
the twenty-third half-yearly payment for the
rent of ibis cottage.”
S “You seen to have been well educated,
friend Judd, and your manners and language
' are evidently those of a gentleman.”
“I am glad you think so,” he returned, rath
j <>r 'h'i’y
‘Have you always borne the name of Judd
Watson r” 1 asked.
The countenance of the invalid became
flush"J, th"ii deadly pule;u convulsive twitch
ing seemed to draw his month all sorts of
| shapes, and a shudder to creep through his 1
| frame.
“Ask no further,” ho cried, in a voice almost
1 extinct, and conveying an expression of hor- ]
ior ; “for God’s sake, a k no further. Seek j
li it to know that which has made me the poor;
jin ane wretch I must so long have apjiearcd
ito tli" inhabitants of this place. lam not mad
j now—l can speak rationally. Who I am,none
1 shall over know. Hannah alone possesses
;my secret—lmt it will die with her. O my
I young friends, your society since the fortun
ate accident v.liich brought us acquainted, lias
he 11 the only assuagement of my sorrows
that has been afforded me for many years past.
Let iii" enjoy it whilst I can, without its being
j embittered by those dreadful recollections
! which throw me into such a state, that I am
I mad, at the same time that I have the horrible
I consciousness of being so.”
! “My friend,” I replied, “T will say no more
j to you on the subject, and entreat that you will
; forget it was ever mentioned.”
.Maria vvas much affected, so was I ; and
v. e i"ft Ju ! 1 WaL-on with increased regard
■ for his person and regret for the misfortunes
which had broken down so fine a mind as we
I divoveri'd iii' to he. From this time the sub
ij- at was never renewed. Judd'recovered the
j use of his limb, and was soon a constant and
' welcome vi-iter at the mansion of iny rela
tive, with whom he became a great favorite.
11 is fits of insanity were gradually less fre
quent ; and though a ertaiu abruptness, per
il a-.j I i:,.,v sav wildness, of manner still re
• c
maim'd, there was scarcely over anything de
cidedly irrational in either his manners or his
■ conversation.
.1 hiw bile, wei'k after week passed away;
!tk" attractions of my cousin Maria kept me
.;. i■:i 1 longer at Eye than I had originally in
tend'* 1. 1 ler father seeing my partiality,kind
ly insisted upon my lengthening my visit, to
u I.k'h fie had not much difficulty in making
in ' cons ut. Judd Watson now came to see
Hs very day, and a room was always ready
fcik 11 w hen he chose to stay all night. He
vv..-i!.! hunt and shot with n,y relation, who
was delighted with his knowledge in wood
craft, and in ihe evening lie would sing with
Mii i and rue, or instruct Julia in drawing, in
1 v. 1 ill'll he had genius sufficient to have raised
h: n to high rank as an artist.
One morning I was awakened by iny ser
v nt who brought me a note, which ho said
lie was desired to put into my hands without
a moment’s delay. It ran thus :
“Earl IsoiKuii, 11th Febuary, 1621.
“My dear friend, —1 am in immediate want
of your assistance. Hasten to me the mo
ment you receive this, or you will be too late.
“Yours, with true regard,
Judd Watson.”
Fifteen minutes after the receipt of this note,
j I was on horseback, and in less than an hour
' after, my panting steed stood before Judd Wat
| son’s cottage. The door was open—l enter-
I ed. Neither Judd nor Hannah was to be seen.
I l >ll the dressing table lay a letter addressed to j
j myself, with a trembling hand and a presenti
ment of evil, I tore open the packet and read
j as follows:
“You aio too late, my friend; I am again
I in the clutches of those who in times past first
cast a dark cloud over my mind, and consign
-ledme to hopeless captivity. I escaped from ■
NUMBER 36.
them and lived, as you know, in quiet seclu
sion, w ithout troubling those who have usur
ped my rights, or claiming any portion of the
wealth which another enjoys, although it be
longs to me. Had I been able to send to you
earlier, you might have rescued me. Old Han
nah has, I fear, been made away with. Per
haps you may vet discover me. God bless you
all r
Judd Watson.”
No one at Soham could give the slightest
clue ns to what had become of the unhappy
w riter ot the above letter. I therefore rode
back to ’ * ' Hall, and communicated its
contents to Maria, who urged me immediately
to set out and scour the country in all direc
tions. I thought this a good opportunity of
expressing iny hopes with regard to herself
but the only reply I could obtain from her was
that she would engage herself to no man un
til she had know n him long enough to be sure
that they could mutually entrust their happi
ness to each other’s keeping. The only di
rect promise that I could obtain, was that she
would form 110 other engagement. With that
1 was obliged to be satisfied. Having taken
leave of my fair cousins and their father, I set
out on my journey. During four months, I
spared neither personal exertion, nor expense,
to discover what had become of Judd Watson.
I bad advertisements inserted in all the news
-1 papers ; I employed agents in every part of
j the country ; J visited every place where Iliad
I the remotest chance of hearing of him: but
j all was useless, no tidings of him could I
[gain.
1 wo years had at length elapsed since his
disajipoarance, and I had long given up
all hopes of seeing him again, when one
day, being at my club, I was informed that a
person wished to speak to me on a matter of
urgent importance. This person proved to bo
oid Hannah.
“Uh ! sir,” said she, “lain at last come to tell
you where to find my poor master, who has
spent two long years in captivity, treated as a
madman, and indeed rendered one—which was
what the villain wished who kept him in bond
age. But retribution has at length overtaken
i the guilty. I vvas myself kidnapped and sent
to Holland, and there prevented from returning
, to my own country, till the event which has
liberated rny master has also set me free. If
you will follow me, sir, you shall immediately
see your friend.”
I assented, and Hannah leading the way, I
followed her to a largo house in Grosvenor
Square, the door of which opened at my ap
proach, and I was ushered into an elegant li
brary, in which, upon a sofa, reclined the lost
Judd Watson, but so emaciated, and so alter
ed in appearance, that I scarcely knew him.
1 “.My friend, ’ said he, holding out his hand,
, w hich 1 warmly pressed, “my bodily sufferings
I trust are at lengt li ut an end or nearly so. You
j shall now know who I am. I feel lam dying,
| and I quit w ithout regret a world in which for
j many years past I have experienced nothing
I hut suffering!!nd injustice. lam the unfor
tunate Earl ol * ' % ", of whom you must
have heard as having escaped from a madhouse
in w hich he was confined, and for ever eluded
the search of his family.”
The circumstance I well remembered. The
Earls tale of his sufferings I must abridge, and
state the facts in us lew words as possible. He
had married a lovely and amiable woman, the
perfect counterpart, as he said, of my cousin
Maria. lie loved her with a species of idola
try seldom found in married life. She died in
giving birth to a son, which,in two (lays follow
' and its mother to the grave. The shock caus
ed by his bereavement was so great upon th»
I mind ot the inconsolable widowerthatit shook
Ins intellect, and made him commit several
I acts which ii nut the result ofactual madness,
I very nearly approached it. The next heir, an
i unprincipled and ambitious man, obtained a
j commission to enquire into the state of the
Earl’s mind, and in the meanwhile had him
1 pLced under restraint, which did what kind
I lid soothing treatment would have prevented
rendered him completely insane for the time.
( In this state he vvas brought before the com
j missionors, w hose decision was that he was in
j sane, and bis relative was appointed his guar
j dian. He was conveyed back to his place of
; confinement, from whence he escaped soon af
! ter; and accompanied by Hannah, an old ser
j v ant of the family, went to reside at Earl So
j ham, under the name of Judd Watson. Here
J he liv ed unknown during twelve years, fesrt be
ing length discovered, was taken back to
his place of confinement, from which hu was
released after the death of his relative, by a
tresh inquiry into the state of his intellects,
which had recovered their proper tone. Bat
his body was broken down by suffering, and
when I saw him he was a prey to a disease
from which there was no hope of his recover-*
ing.
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A few weeks after this, I attended the funer
al of my late friend as chief mourner, there
being none of his relatione present { ye.-BM