Litchfield Enquirer

Later from England.—The Halifax packet arrived here last night, bringing intelligence that the Falmouth packet of the 6th ult. had arrived there previous to her sailing, and furnishing a London Standard of the 4th of Aug.

Death of Rothschild. We learn by this arrival that Nathan Mayer Rothschild, the celebrated London Banker, died on Thursday, July 28th, at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. He was only sixty years of age. His visit to Frankfort was to be present at the marriage of his son. His illness continued for several weeks before it terminated in death. He was sensible to the last. It is said that he had a strong presentiment that he should not return to England—but an impression prevails that his life might have been saved if better professional advice could have been procured than that found on the spot. Mr. Rothschild was, emphatically speaking, a self-made man—the rise of his fortune was all within the present century. He came to England in 1800, where he acted as agent for his father in the purchase of goods for the continent. Shortly afterward, through the agency of his father and the Prince of Hesse Cassel, he had large sums of money placed at his disposal, which he employed with extraordinary judgment, and his means went on at a rapid rate of accumulation. It was not till the breaking out of the war with Spain in 1808, that his extraordinary means, which were displayed in making remittances for the English army in that country, were developed to any extent, so as to be known to the mercantile world generally. He was one of ten children, eight of whom survive him—four brothers, two younger and two older than himself, and four sisters.

He married the daughter of Mr. Cohen, a merchant in London, who is said so little to have anticipated the success in life of his future son-in-law, that he entertained some doubts about the prudence of the match—and Mr. Rothschild was accordingly desired to produce testimonials as to his worldly means. The whimsical answer was, that whatever number of daughters Mr. Cohen possessed, he could not do better, so far as money and good character went, than to give them all to Nathan Mayer Rothschild.

Mr. Rothschild, like the rest of the brothers, holds patent of nobility with the title of Baron, but he never assumed it, and was more justly proud of that name under which he had acquired a distinction which no title could convey.