Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . England in 1813, suffering a briefimprisonment at Liverpool as an American alien. After a timehe went to Paris, and devoted himself to adapting successfulFrench plays for the London stage. He witnessed the returnof Bonaparte from Elba, and the scenes of the HundredDays. His future life was one of trial, vicissitude, and unre-quited effort. The plays of Therese, and Clari, the Maidof Milan, are from his pen. Home, Sweet Home, was firstsung by Miss Tree, sister of Mrs. Charles Kean, and procuredher a wealthy husband, and filled the treasury of Co
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . England in 1813, suffering a briefimprisonment at Liverpool as an American alien. After a timehe went to Paris, and devoted himself to adapting successfulFrench plays for the London stage. He witnessed the returnof Bonaparte from Elba, and the scenes of the HundredDays. His future life was one of trial, vicissitude, and unre-quited effort. The plays of Therese, and Clari, the Maidof Milan, are from his pen. Home, Sweet Home, was firstsung by Miss Tree, sister of Mrs. Charles Kean, and procuredher a wealthy husband, and filled the treasury of Covent Gar-den. Payne afterwards received an appointment from our gov-ernment as consul at Tunis. He died in 1852. Who knowsthat Sweet Home was not the plaint of his own heart, sigh-ing for the scenes of his youth % An exile from home, pleasure dazzles in vain,Ah, give me my lowly thatched cottage again ;The birds singing sweetly that came to my call, —Give me them, and that peace of mind dearer than all. FROM THE OLD SOUTH ROUND FORT HILL. !G3. Another abandoned church-site is near. The Old Presbyte-rian Meeting-house stood on the north corner of Federal andBerry Streets. The latter has changed its name to Channing,as it did its ancient orthography,Bury into Berry. The foundersof this church were Irish Pres-byterians, and their first houseof worship was a barn, whichsufficed until they were able, in1744, to build a neat woodenedifice. Governor Hancock pre-sented the bell and vane whichhad belonged to the Old BrattleStreet Meeting-house. The oldhouse was a pattern of many thatmay still be seen in our olderXew England villages. An amusing incident is relatedof the vane, — Hancocks gift. Colonel ErvinJohn Moorhead, directed his attention to the fact that thevane did not move, but remained fixed in its position. Ay,I must see to it, said the honest parson, who ran immediatelyto the mechanic who placed the vane on the steeple. A fatiguingclimb to the top revealed that the fault w
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