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Remarks On Men Of Spirit.
they too often keep up their spirit at the expence of the public ; and it does not appear to me that they are influenced by a GOOD spirit when they ruin a tradesman , by getting into his debt for superfluities , or when the } ' take in a friend for their surety to keep up their credit . I know several men of spirit who wear the tay lor s clothes . I am often blamed by these people for not appearing oftener at public
diversions ; but I can divert myself and family without going to the Playhouse every other evening in the winter , and to the Gardens or Wells , in the summer , four or five times a week . Though I am condemned by these gentlemen as a mean-spirited and unpolished niggard , yet my conduct enables me to provide for my family all the necessaries of life , and for myself a perpetual succession of peaceful
pleasures , without the risk of my independence , my virtue , my health , or my fortune , all which are constantly staked , with the desperation of a losing gamester , by our modern men of spirit .
Remarkable Reverse Of Fortune.
REMARKABLE REVERSE OF FORTUNE .
A Spanish journal contains the following account of the life of M . Thurriegel , a Bavarian , the founder of the German colony in Sierra Morena . —Being emploj'ed by the French court to reconnoitre the Island of Mi " ' ca > ' » ' 754 ' passing through Sierra Morena on his way , he first conceived the plan of its population . After . the death of Marshal Bellisle he became a Lieutenant in the Prussian service , and
raised the corps of . Geschray , which the king gave him the command of ; a dispute with General Geschray caused Thurriegel to be arrested and imprisoned at Magdebourg , but the corps being made prisoners , he was liberated . Discharged at the end of the war in Silesia , he was stripped bv his mistress of all his jewels , money , clothes , and linenand lived in great distress at Franckfort on the Mainwhere
, , digesting . his plan of colonizing Sierra Morena , he was ordered to Madrid , after his scheme was presented by the Spanish resident at Franckfort . His necessities protracted this journey till he resolved to walk to Madrid on foot , where he entered into a contract for sending 6000 colonists and 4000 soldiers from Germany to Spain . The terms were advantageous , but as no money was advanced , he sought
a partner in that country to no effect , and was on that account obliged to travel back to Germany on foot , where he met with as little success . —His appearance , notwithstanding he was furnished with a large parchment signed by the King of Spain and his Council , seemed continually to paint him as an empty projector , but indefatigable , - \ fter travelling from one lace to anotherhe at length met with a patron
p , in the person of a merchant at Lyons , in France . Being now richly provided with money , he chose Cologne as the centre of his operations , from whence the colonists being sent to Genoa , and there shipped for Barcelona , were followed by Thurriegel , who realizing 6 o , ccc piastres , as the condition of the contract , settled iu Valencia .
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Remarks On Men Of Spirit.
they too often keep up their spirit at the expence of the public ; and it does not appear to me that they are influenced by a GOOD spirit when they ruin a tradesman , by getting into his debt for superfluities , or when the } ' take in a friend for their surety to keep up their credit . I know several men of spirit who wear the tay lor s clothes . I am often blamed by these people for not appearing oftener at public
diversions ; but I can divert myself and family without going to the Playhouse every other evening in the winter , and to the Gardens or Wells , in the summer , four or five times a week . Though I am condemned by these gentlemen as a mean-spirited and unpolished niggard , yet my conduct enables me to provide for my family all the necessaries of life , and for myself a perpetual succession of peaceful
pleasures , without the risk of my independence , my virtue , my health , or my fortune , all which are constantly staked , with the desperation of a losing gamester , by our modern men of spirit .
Remarkable Reverse Of Fortune.
REMARKABLE REVERSE OF FORTUNE .
A Spanish journal contains the following account of the life of M . Thurriegel , a Bavarian , the founder of the German colony in Sierra Morena . —Being emploj'ed by the French court to reconnoitre the Island of Mi " ' ca > ' » ' 754 ' passing through Sierra Morena on his way , he first conceived the plan of its population . After . the death of Marshal Bellisle he became a Lieutenant in the Prussian service , and
raised the corps of . Geschray , which the king gave him the command of ; a dispute with General Geschray caused Thurriegel to be arrested and imprisoned at Magdebourg , but the corps being made prisoners , he was liberated . Discharged at the end of the war in Silesia , he was stripped bv his mistress of all his jewels , money , clothes , and linenand lived in great distress at Franckfort on the Mainwhere
, , digesting . his plan of colonizing Sierra Morena , he was ordered to Madrid , after his scheme was presented by the Spanish resident at Franckfort . His necessities protracted this journey till he resolved to walk to Madrid on foot , where he entered into a contract for sending 6000 colonists and 4000 soldiers from Germany to Spain . The terms were advantageous , but as no money was advanced , he sought
a partner in that country to no effect , and was on that account obliged to travel back to Germany on foot , where he met with as little success . —His appearance , notwithstanding he was furnished with a large parchment signed by the King of Spain and his Council , seemed continually to paint him as an empty projector , but indefatigable , - \ fter travelling from one lace to anotherhe at length met with a patron
p , in the person of a merchant at Lyons , in France . Being now richly provided with money , he chose Cologne as the centre of his operations , from whence the colonists being sent to Genoa , and there shipped for Barcelona , were followed by Thurriegel , who realizing 6 o , ccc piastres , as the condition of the contract , settled iu Valencia .