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died on the 5th of January, 1803; and he says : — "The shock I received on the death of my wife I cannot well describe; but my father had left me a legacy better than property, in his fine alacrity of spirits, (God bless him!) which have never forsaken me; and in the summer afterwards I was advised to go to the Virginia Springs, and began to look out for another wife to supply the place to my children of their mother. While at the Warm Springs, with Mr. Giles and some others, a car riage arrived with ladies. There is something in des tiny; for as soon as I took hold of the hand of Mary Champe Carter (though I had seen her before and admired her very much), I felt that she would amply supply the place of my lost wife. I began my attentions to her from that moment. In person and face she was very beautiful. Mr. Jefferson said of her that she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, either in France or this country."

that effect; but in my absence the order was re scinded, and the funds appropriated to the Wash ington College at Lexington, to which General Washington had given his shares in the James River Company, which the State had presented him with. Mr. Jefferson never would discuss any proposition, if you differed with him, for he said he thought discussion rather riveted opinions than changed them."

Jefferson's rule might suit for his intellect, but for persons of lesser calibre it will not do. Brooke was a manly fellow, and an ornament to the bench. Judge William H. Cabell belonged to an old English family which came to Virginia at a very early period. During the Colonial and Revolutionary epochs of our history its mem bers bore a conspicuous part in all public affairs, and in war as well as in peace ren dered their country useful and distinguished services. His father had been an officer in The courtship was not long, and on the the War of the Revolution, and both his father 1 4th of the following February they were and grandfather had served with distinction married. Judge Brooke personally knew all in the Virginia House of Burgesses. the eminent military men of the Revolution,, Judge Cabell was born on the loth of except Alexander Hamilton and General December, 1772, at " Boston Hill," in Knox. He saw Gen. George Washington Cumberland County, Va., at the residence of open a great ball at Fredericksburg, Feb. his maternal grandfather, Col. George Car22, 1774, by dancing a minuet with a rington. He was the oldest son of Col. lady, and heard Mr. Jack Stewart, who had Nicholas and Hannah (Carrington) Cabell. been Clerk of the House of Delegates, a He was prepared for college by private great vocalist, when called upon for a song, tutors at his father's and at his maternal respond by singing a very amusing one from grandfather's, where much of his boyhood "Roderick Random." The Father of his was passed. Colonel Carrington had served Country laughed at it very much; but the as a member of the House of Burgesses, next day, when strangers were being intro chairman of the Cumberland County Com duced to him, he was found to be one of the mittee of Safety, County Lieutenant, and most dignified men of the age. Judge member of the General Assembly. Four of Brooke freely gives his opinion of many men his sons, two of his sons-in-law, and three of wnom he had met. His sketch of Jefferson his grandsons had served with distinction as is very interesting. He says : — officers in the Revolution. His residence was the resort of the eminent men of the "He was a man of easy and ingratiating man times; and the acquaintances there formed, ners; he was very partial to me, and I corre and the influences by which he was sur sponded with him while I was Vice- President of the rounded had much to do with shaping the Society of Cincinnati; he wished the funds of that society to be appropriated to his central college, life and character of Judge Cabell. In February, 1785, he entered Hampdennear Charlottesville, and on one occasion I ob tained an order from a meeting of the society to Sidney College, where he continued until