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WHEELING REPOSITORY.
• (Vot" '•) Thursday, ioth March, 1808. (No. 44.)
M IS C E LEANT.
T» E UsURF.R.
AN usurer, m little time,
A mighty mass of wealth had gain’d :
1 was not he said, by naud Q® crimc,
imt all by honest mea-ns obtain’d.
At length, his sinful soul to save*
]:u!l charitable Motions fill’d,
<But more with worldly pride) the knave
Kesolv a an hospital to build.
^ ow that the edifice was rais’d,
A'id while, intent on its survey,
A .^n®r,oua .^lf he inly nvaU’d,
" neighbour pass’d that wav.
A co*i\cise ot’:"k the inis-.r sought,
- u «>--k iij p ‘ a. -iii.it. 'it sui .)
_ ** **Ctiiel t . llusj.ii.il., tliOa. *U,
Was large enough to hold the poor.
AVhy, yes said h , I see full well
X uddiiig’s i.'i’g ; an I v , ’all
^ • ii /;ii you ve made poor Were nt-re to
dwell,
I shrewdly guess ’twould be loo small!
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Original Ax ecu >tes.
An old Batchelor lately, in company
with half a dozen handsome young la
dLs, expressed much regret that the
law did not permit a man to take several
wiv'S. That is a subject ^replied one
of tlvm, with a sarcastic smile,) upon
which you need not complain. In per
mitting you to take one wife, if you
could get her, the law ha.« already al
lowed you more than you seem dis
posed to take.
A member of Congress,more rema ric
able for the frequency nod length of his
speeches, than for'sound argument, not
long since got confilsed in the midst of
a speech. la his confusion, he seized
a glas* of water in each hand, and drank
alternately from both glasses. A lady
in the lobby wittily remarked, thatit was
the first time she averiftlw^xutndmill
' by water. ‘ * »
Fashionable Shoes.
Shoes with long points, full two feet
m length, were invented by Henry
Piantagenet, Duke ®f Anjou, in France,
to conceal a very large excrescence
which he had upon one of his feet.
In England, about the reign of Hen
ry the fourth, they wore long pointed
shoes to such an immoderate length,that
those who wore them could not walk
without having the points of them fast
ened to their knees with chains. In the
fourteenth century it was the custom
of an h nglish beau, to have these chains
of gold or silver.
11ns fashion must have been rather
cumbersome, particularly when the de
i.^atc beaux who wore these shoes, un
cU rtook to dance in them.
Warning to 2\ ung People
T the town of Manchester, in En
glan.l, not long s nee, a number of young
people combined, without intending a
ny evil, to frighten one of their compa
nion , a girl about eighteen years of age.
For this purpose they procured askele
leton of a man from a neighbouring doc
tor, and laid it in the bed in which the
young woman usually slept: they then
placed themselves in an adjoining room,
; o wait the event. At the common hour,
Nancy (this was her name) retired to
her chamber—in a few minutes, her
waiting friends were alarmed by a noise
which issued from her room ; they tush
e J in, already laughing at the fears their
plan had excited, when, horrid to re
late, they beheld the lovely female in
the most agonizing convulsions, press
ing the grim skeleton to her naked bo
som, and lavishing upon it a thousand
kisses f
As soon as the astonishment of the
spectators would permit, she was remo
ved from the chamber, and every' art
exerted to soothe her to reason, but
without effect. She soon expired, an
unfortunate victim to the folly of her in
considerate friends.
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SENATE OF VIRGINIA.
Tuesday, January 19.
Proceedings on a proposition to alter
the Federal Constitution, so as to
make the Judges romoveable by a
vote of a majority of both House’s of
Congress.
Mr. Doddridge* s Speech, continued from
our last.
Mr. Chairm an, I will now proceed to
shew, that to be impeachable and re
moveable at the desire of both houses
of parliament, is the same thing as to be
impeachable only : in other words, that
prejudice and party spirit cannot pro
duce a vote for removal. The kings,
lords, and commons, are three different
estates ; having different interests and
privileges to preserve : and these differ
ent interests operate as continual checks
on each other. To suppose an act of a
juuge noi wuawiui, and therefore not
j impeachable, it must have some charac
ter or other : it is offensive to the king,
the lords, or the commons. It is next
to impossible to offend them all by one
and the same act; and unless this be
done, all will not unite in the removal.
Strength St weakness are relative terms.
Lessen the kingly power, and by rela
tion the strength of the nobles is in
creas'd. Weaken the regal prerogative,
and the freedom of the subject is by so
much promoted. Has the judge ren
dered an opinion destructive of prero
gative, which would dispose the sove
reign to his removal ? He is for that ve
ry reason the favourite of the people ;
and the commons, their representatives,
will not concur. Has he trenched upon
the liberty of the subject, and have the
commons turned against him ? He is in
the latter case equatly secure of royal
support. And the same thing must
happen between the king and the nobles;
and between the nobles and the com
mons. This opinion may now be tested
by experience. One hundred and seven
years have elapsed, since the judges
were subject to this mode of removal,
and no address for that purpose has ever
passed ; which proves either that thi*