Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1802-09-20
CONCLUDED.

in eagsrnels for psriecasion en- one hand,
and for praistytrlm on the other. they
have fpared neither expence nor Pairs to
circulate books Of Ialielity and Jacobin-
i'm, and to their zeal the public is indebt-
ed for all the Civilizations communicated
by the Tempe If Reat5a, under the gui-
dance of Duicoll, the apoiatized p,piih
prief. The 6rf di1ieul,y, the want OF
money, was furnounled by Mr.. CEeethdnn
hinfe.f, who in the impe,uoity of his
zeal, is faid not only TO have become fe-
curisy for the types, hat IL fit otgenefous
irdifcre,.on TO have betrayed has real cha
raeter and principles to feme Of his fub-
icribers. Wood, who knows the man,
Eys, I" Fl place OF the vulgar fupidisy
IS which unveils. the PROJECTS o. Dennii-
g tens brain, Cheetham poiIeiles all tie
I" cunning Of IN artful pgoiti;ute that IN
g der placid countenance maks deep
sc deGgns, and plotting vengeancei yet,
IN this caufe 70 ardent was this fame
Cheetham for the pubic good, 70 did his
bowels yearn with compallion for the
hlindaeE Of mankind that he became blind
firnielf, and incloied Driicoll's hand bills
. in every one of his papers intended for his
De;itical cuf3omers, but unfortunately the
carrier, not being 70 deeply ver!ed IN mo-
dem philolcphifm as TO Know true inh-
del from a ehrifian by the fourd of his
name or the irort ofhis houit, attributed
tie papers Unfortunately. The Chrif-
sian fublcribers were luprized and dil.
pleafed, and the milchief II is fuppoisd was
no, quite healed by very humble aPclo-
gy. When DriicoiI began 10 fuoeeed,
oar precious lociety wanted 10 finger flme
Of the profits; bu, il was ioon found that
remembrance, inueaty, argument, nay
Billingtgate, had no effect upon the Ain'y
nerves of the old. blooded inhdel, who,
with all the fang 1iyeia of an old pcdlar,
and the iagacity OF a Jeiuit rehtted their
fluctuations, retained the renee, and left
them all TO grunhle among themielyes,
exclaiming with Falaaf, 4 plague up
on it qvbsu rogu<i cart be tras to each
other" So, packing up hisprefs & types
he moved to Philadelphia, and taking pot
under Dsare, endeavored by making freih
PROTOTYPES, to repair tie injury he had
done the fociety. He was not unfucceis-
Sui; fubordinate fociety was loon efab-
sifhed under his aufpices in that city, AMI
another at Baltimore, bot both under con-
sti;u,ional patents from the mother fociety
here.
They now began to afpire to an extern
zion of their principles. They feared that
none but thofe who had been already con-
ver,ed from chriltiani,y would read their
Temple Of Rea/m. To feal a march with
it upon believers would, they conceived,
be a meritorious fraud, and they had re-
courfe TO the following, curious and Gle
yer expedient for the porpofe-Having |
laid their plan, committee was appoint.
ed, who waited on Mr.. Donald Frazer,
pious chriNian teacher, who had JULY
gained fome credit by anfxering Paine's
Age of Resion, ald him they prevailed |
upon to take up the defence of chriaiari;y
and fet up.a paper called The Temple FL
CSrR This, they judged, would occaG-
on both to be read, and they had vanity |
enough to think that they hould make
quick work of the argur1ents.of Mr.. Fra
ger. However, their pious and beneyo-
lent plan was frufrated by one of Mr.. /
Frazer's friends, who having fome hints OF
1he intentions of the Illuninati, comElu-
nicated the information to him. I
Mr.. Wood ftates the number OF the To-
ciety TO be very Comfortable.
9 The number OF members in the lift.
Of the Theittieal iociety of New York,
which have amounts to ninety five; /
would give their names, bat this would
ierve no purpofc, and only expoie their
fernilies, Pefhap', to mlfery,; fvery ore OF
them however, is in politics Clintonian,