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derful sight . Some time since a young woman lost her senses , and never recovered them , on suddenly being brought to the Falls . ' I will now mention the disadvantages of Upper Canada ; the ' country is subject to intermittents , long continued , and very distressing to new-comers . This is the case with every part of America in its wilderness state . It is subject to wolves , bears , foxes , & c . which destroy cattle and
your , sheep , poultry ; but the greatest inconvenience is , no servants are to be had ; yourself and famil y must do all the work : where a man is young and has a large family , that difficulty isremoved . My sons are merchants , at the head of Lake Antorio distill , und mean to brew . I found the U pper Country sickly ; I got a fever there : howeverwith the use of the barkI recovered intend
, , am . I living some time at Montreal , for tbe present , , where society is < rood . I have a house on the bank of St . Lawrence , very pleasant , where vessels of 500 tons lay their broadsides close to the shore , and unload without any wharf , perhaps a thing not to be paralleled in any part of the world . Copper , lead , and iron , are to be met with every where in the Upper Country .
Further Memoir Of John Wilkes.
FURTHER MEMOIR OF JOHN WILKES .
QUCH an extensive biography as an entire life of John Wilkes must necessaril y occupy would demand a space which the limits of our Magazine cannot afford . It would involve , among various other mutters of notoriety , an history of the Administrations of Lord Bute , Mr . George Grenville , ancl the Duke of Grafton . Nevertheless , as the historians of the day as it passes by us , we cannot suffer such a man to descend into his grave without-observation . We therefore offer to our readers the following sketch of his life and character .
In the early part of his career , Mr . Wilkes was known as Member , of Parliament for Aylesbury , and Colonel of the Buckinghamshire Militia ; as a man of a cultivated mind , lively talents , and dissipated manners ; and as one of the Club of Medmenham Abbey , near Marlow , of which so many idle stories have been related . This club , consisted of Sir Francis Dash wood , afterwards Lord Le Despenser , Lord Sandwich
, Paul Whitehead , and a few more lively spirits * who , under the title of tbe Monks of Medmenham , used occasionally , to pass a few days together at the Abbey in a course of conviviality , which , if it could not be altogether considered as the feast of reason , was-not without the flow of soul . As a writer , Mr . Wilkes was first known by a publication , entitled Observations on the Papers relative to the Rupture ivitb Spain , laid before both Houses of Parliament in January , 17 62 ; but lie soon became an object of very general attention as the conductor and prin-
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derful sight . Some time since a young woman lost her senses , and never recovered them , on suddenly being brought to the Falls . ' I will now mention the disadvantages of Upper Canada ; the ' country is subject to intermittents , long continued , and very distressing to new-comers . This is the case with every part of America in its wilderness state . It is subject to wolves , bears , foxes , & c . which destroy cattle and
your , sheep , poultry ; but the greatest inconvenience is , no servants are to be had ; yourself and famil y must do all the work : where a man is young and has a large family , that difficulty isremoved . My sons are merchants , at the head of Lake Antorio distill , und mean to brew . I found the U pper Country sickly ; I got a fever there : howeverwith the use of the barkI recovered intend
, , am . I living some time at Montreal , for tbe present , , where society is < rood . I have a house on the bank of St . Lawrence , very pleasant , where vessels of 500 tons lay their broadsides close to the shore , and unload without any wharf , perhaps a thing not to be paralleled in any part of the world . Copper , lead , and iron , are to be met with every where in the Upper Country .
Further Memoir Of John Wilkes.
FURTHER MEMOIR OF JOHN WILKES .
QUCH an extensive biography as an entire life of John Wilkes must necessaril y occupy would demand a space which the limits of our Magazine cannot afford . It would involve , among various other mutters of notoriety , an history of the Administrations of Lord Bute , Mr . George Grenville , ancl the Duke of Grafton . Nevertheless , as the historians of the day as it passes by us , we cannot suffer such a man to descend into his grave without-observation . We therefore offer to our readers the following sketch of his life and character .
In the early part of his career , Mr . Wilkes was known as Member , of Parliament for Aylesbury , and Colonel of the Buckinghamshire Militia ; as a man of a cultivated mind , lively talents , and dissipated manners ; and as one of the Club of Medmenham Abbey , near Marlow , of which so many idle stories have been related . This club , consisted of Sir Francis Dash wood , afterwards Lord Le Despenser , Lord Sandwich
, Paul Whitehead , and a few more lively spirits * who , under the title of tbe Monks of Medmenham , used occasionally , to pass a few days together at the Abbey in a course of conviviality , which , if it could not be altogether considered as the feast of reason , was-not without the flow of soul . As a writer , Mr . Wilkes was first known by a publication , entitled Observations on the Papers relative to the Rupture ivitb Spain , laid before both Houses of Parliament in January , 17 62 ; but lie soon became an object of very general attention as the conductor and prin-