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Specimen Of An. Intended History Of England.
torpors of slumber ; and the tedious interval which was passed in the Dorset yacht was made conducive to the promotion of his future hopes , by laying the faithless foundation of a felonious friendship with one of the copartners of his voyage . A tale of wealth and ancestry was fabricated by our child of for * tune for the purpose of lulling suspicion into security , and conciliating doubt into confidence . The latter of these pretensions was of a
nature sufficiently unsubstantial to elude the fear of detection ; but as the former was to be corroborated by external evidences , and as a , solitary score of guineas was the only basis on which it could at this early epoch of his life be erected , it became necessary to make an instantaneous appeal to his mighty abilities . His first successes held the world in awe ; England trembled at the name of Barrington ; and
the march of the Hero of Hibej-nia was every where marked with personal depredations . From the winter solstice to the equinox of spring , he prosecuted a series of exploits unequalled jn craft and in-, gehuity among the sons of Adam . The walls of Ranelagh were the scene ofhis maiden claims upon the involuntary contributions of the publicand in the transient revolution of a single eveninga Kniht
; , g of the Bath , nine Peers of the realm , and five others of the brightest luminaries in the globe of fashion , were reduced , by the fingers of the Son of Waldron , to the necessity of enquiring , the hour of the night from those of their friends in whose fobs he had still left the sourcesof information .
: " The magic of the foenatonal rod was not wanting for the purposes of converting his watches into wealth ; and his intimacy with his fellow voyager of the Dorset yacht was supported with the glittering robberies of Ranelagh . But the gratitude of the depredator of Hibernia walked forth with unequal pace by the side ofhis emoluments . This friend of the Dorset yacht , and the friends of this , friendand collateral relativewere laid under contribution to
, every , the unasking necessities of the pupil of Mercury . At their nocturnal meeting ' s , he silently contemplated hi ? gains amid the unsuspicious joys of Bacchus ; and promote d a full flow of hilarity , not as an . aid to wit , or as an . antidote to care , but as a soporific to suspicion , that his hand might find a facile entrance into those favourite haunts of his divinity , the pocket and the fob . however mi
But these subaltern modes pf chicane , they ght relieve his necessities , or supply his prodigality , could by no rneans saturate his ambition . He was an eagle , that aspired rather to the perilous glory of a victory over the vulture , than to the s ^ fe luxury of a nieai upon the dove 5 and the Court of the British Potentate was to be the scene ofhis proudest achievements in this field of adventure . not assumed for the first time
The ecclesiastical habit , now as a screen to the plots of the plunderer , furnished him with a passport to the presence pf Majesty 5 and a J _ ord of the Cquitcil unconsciously resigned to-the felonious hand ol the Hibernian the glittering ensign of his Order . Nor was a less sum than 3 ooj , which was delivered in exchange for the trophy of §( . James ' s , the reward of that audacity and ,
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Specimen Of An. Intended History Of England.
torpors of slumber ; and the tedious interval which was passed in the Dorset yacht was made conducive to the promotion of his future hopes , by laying the faithless foundation of a felonious friendship with one of the copartners of his voyage . A tale of wealth and ancestry was fabricated by our child of for * tune for the purpose of lulling suspicion into security , and conciliating doubt into confidence . The latter of these pretensions was of a
nature sufficiently unsubstantial to elude the fear of detection ; but as the former was to be corroborated by external evidences , and as a , solitary score of guineas was the only basis on which it could at this early epoch of his life be erected , it became necessary to make an instantaneous appeal to his mighty abilities . His first successes held the world in awe ; England trembled at the name of Barrington ; and
the march of the Hero of Hibej-nia was every where marked with personal depredations . From the winter solstice to the equinox of spring , he prosecuted a series of exploits unequalled jn craft and in-, gehuity among the sons of Adam . The walls of Ranelagh were the scene ofhis maiden claims upon the involuntary contributions of the publicand in the transient revolution of a single eveninga Kniht
; , g of the Bath , nine Peers of the realm , and five others of the brightest luminaries in the globe of fashion , were reduced , by the fingers of the Son of Waldron , to the necessity of enquiring , the hour of the night from those of their friends in whose fobs he had still left the sourcesof information .
: " The magic of the foenatonal rod was not wanting for the purposes of converting his watches into wealth ; and his intimacy with his fellow voyager of the Dorset yacht was supported with the glittering robberies of Ranelagh . But the gratitude of the depredator of Hibernia walked forth with unequal pace by the side ofhis emoluments . This friend of the Dorset yacht , and the friends of this , friendand collateral relativewere laid under contribution to
, every , the unasking necessities of the pupil of Mercury . At their nocturnal meeting ' s , he silently contemplated hi ? gains amid the unsuspicious joys of Bacchus ; and promote d a full flow of hilarity , not as an . aid to wit , or as an . antidote to care , but as a soporific to suspicion , that his hand might find a facile entrance into those favourite haunts of his divinity , the pocket and the fob . however mi
But these subaltern modes pf chicane , they ght relieve his necessities , or supply his prodigality , could by no rneans saturate his ambition . He was an eagle , that aspired rather to the perilous glory of a victory over the vulture , than to the s ^ fe luxury of a nieai upon the dove 5 and the Court of the British Potentate was to be the scene ofhis proudest achievements in this field of adventure . not assumed for the first time
The ecclesiastical habit , now as a screen to the plots of the plunderer , furnished him with a passport to the presence pf Majesty 5 and a J _ ord of the Cquitcil unconsciously resigned to-the felonious hand ol the Hibernian the glittering ensign of his Order . Nor was a less sum than 3 ooj , which was delivered in exchange for the trophy of §( . James ' s , the reward of that audacity and ,