Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1801-11-04

Supreme Beng. Cnnipotencc cannot be
exalted; Inhnisy cannot be a,npiihcd
Perfection cannot be improved
LIFE If Walter.
/ intended 10 have uaaicribcd the beau
tiful parallel between Dryden and Pope,
as Specimen of f:,pcricr competition. =
But as the Livcs at ibe Poets arc in every
ones hands, | prefer quoting his character
of the celebrated Junius, which is lefs com
mon, and affords an example OF ]ohnicr's
elaborate manner.
Sc The Thrift of blood, however TIC
vilible promoters Of iesli,ion may think it
convenient 70 fhrink from the accufation,
is loudly avowsd by Junius, the writer to
whom his party owes much Of it, pride,
and fome of It's popularity. Of Junius it
cannot be faid, as of U!yiies, tina he feat
tiers ambiguous exprellicns amongthe vul-
gar, for he cries baq9ck without re(erve,
and endeavors to let Zip the dogs of TO-
reign or of civil war, ignorant whittier
they are going, and carelels what may be
their prey.
Junius has fometimes made his fatirc
felt, but let not injudicious admiration
mlitake the venom of the fhaft for the vi
gor Of the bow. He has fometimes fport-
ed with lucky malice but to him that
knows his company, it is not hard to be
farcaftic in maxi. While he walks,
like TACK THE Giaut Killer, in ceat Of
darkness, he may do much niichief with
little itrengih. Novelty captivates the
fuperfcial and thought!efs vchen,encc
delights the diiconten.cd and turbulent.
He that contraditts acknowledged truth
will always have an audience he that vi
lilies eitabl.fhed authority will always And
abettors.
junius BURT into notice with blaze
OF lmPudence which has rarely gIared up
on the world before, and drew the rab-
bic after him as moniter makes flow.
When he had once provided for his fafety
by imPenetrablc fecrecy, he had nothing
to combat but truth and juRice, enemies
whom he knows TIC be feeble in the dark.
Berg then at liberty to indulge himEeif in
all the immunities of inviiibility, out of
the reach of danger, he hxs been bold
out Of the reach of fhame, he has been
| confident. AS a rhetorician, he has had
the arr OF periuading when he feconded
eeiirc; as a reafoner, he has convinced
thole who had no doubt before; as mo-
rallft he has taught thar virtue may
diSrace; and as patriot, he has gra,ifed
the mean by inlults on the high. Find
ing fedition attendant, he has been able to
| advance it; finding tke nation CONDUIT
BILE, he has been able to imAame it. Let
US abitraet from his wit the vivacity of in
loler.ce, and withdraw from his efficacy
the Sympathetic favor of plebeian nalie-
| nifty, do not fay we fhall leave him no
thing, the caufe defend fcorns the help
OF falfehood; but if we leave him only his
merit, what will be his praiie
1t is not by his livelinefs ofimagery,
his pungency Of period, or his fertility Of
ailution, that he detains the cts of Lon.
don ard the Doors of Middlefex. They
admire him Tor virtues like their own, for
contempt of order and violence of out
rage, for rage of defamation and audaci-
ty Of falfehood. The Importers of the
Bill of Rights feel no niceities of ccmpof-
ton, nor dexterties of faphiary. Their
faculties are better proportioned to the
bawd of Bellas, or barbarity of Beckford
but they are told that Junius is on their
iide, and they are therefore fure that lu.
MUS is infalible. Thoie who know noe
whittier he would lead them, refolve to
follow him; and thofe who canno; find
his meaning, hops he means rebellion.
f" Junius is an unufual phenomenon on
which iome have gazed with wonder, and
fomc with terror but wonder and terror
are tranii5ory paiiiors.. He will foon be
more clofcly viewed or attentively ex.
amined, and what folly has taken fer a
comet, that from its flaming hair fhot
pettilence and war, iniquisy will hud to be
only meteor formed by the vspolrs of ru