The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-05-26

"t'I es ~ t0|1tf UUfCf 1915 OUeFfiGH
Mr.. Harvic proceeded to examine MIR
race, and myieif. He afked number OF
tilty queftions, and faid number of iillv
Things. He informed the court, for innancc,
that he had been at fchool with Young man.
whom he named. Another Young man was
bis relation. He was in habits of friendthip
with both. AIlthis was nightly interening
20 the court. He defcribed the horror which
he felt upon hearing that the conAablcs had
been IN iearch of him. He was not ufed 70
iuch kind of people. It may be 70; but if
ne does not mend his manners, he will loon
ind himielf in much worfe company than a
conltaole's, and as for (ucb peobIe, 10 man
would be choicn to their Office, by the maeif-
trates, who had not more temper and comn5or
iente than Harvie has. BY the way, Rich
mond contains, at this time, a conitable, who,
as man of butinefs, and as a gentleman, is
altogether hyperion TO this Republican pearLI
he affected to'thnk that the fpeech ii turned
commas, which has been given as the fubhance
OF ms, might, at fone future period Of his life,
De quoted 70 the disadvantage of his reputa-
ZION lie has no Caufe of uneaiinefs upo,,
shat fcore. The world will never give itfelf
the trouble of enquiring hereafter, what he
may have faid. But the truth is that the lad
wanted to make a buitle. He was mortified.
perhaps, becaule we did not, in his capitol ex-
hlbition, hail the dawn of his meridian fpien-
dor. The lpeech was fi,ared, at that time, in
mercy to his youth. But he difcovered vein
OF III nature, which, in cloie erapple, he IS
incapable OF bearing out; and it was this
which induced US TO give a eight Retcb OF
his prattle. The hetch, although not bottle,
was not very Aattering
In his addrefs to the court, Harvie fooke
ofMr. Pace and myfelf, as men of Infamous
characters lie dweIt, with particular ernpha-
rs, upon my being invulnerable to approaches
OF any kind, as being entirely blahed, &c. sc.
lie urged that the court fllould take his suOrd
q b0h0r FOR keeping the peace. He added
that alnloft every thing publifhed in the Re
corder was q taijsbo0d
As foon as he had done, ] rofe and obferyed
that MS bromif could not Re taken, as he had.
ao'tbin the lat foe mimufes, afforded comolete
evidence that he wanted the veracity of a
gentleman, and that bi5 WORD OF HONOR
was, in no refpe6t, fit TO be truied. He had
fad that MIR. Pace and myfelf wero men of
infamous characters. He had faid that the
Recorder was full Of falichoods---The
court was, by this time, tired of the bufrlefs.
he only wonder IS that they had fulFered
!darvle TO proceed 70 long as they did. He
found bail
When this Lewis Rarvie i7nall next addrcfe
public audience, ne will do well to be eau
tious fpoaching for metap hors in Shakespeare.
Ills pearl m0re prefiou5 than all tbc ff9cya!
t7I6e is a line botched from Othejlo. He
may ref afIured that The logical talents, and
the corre6 file OF Mr.. George Hay require
not an atte1tation ike bis He may ref az
iuTed that the constitutional knowledge, the
acutenels, the found judgement cf lanes
Kind are, and forever will be, as much above
his rivalihiP, as the political independence q
that gentleman is above the Llliputian CEN
lure OF Lewis Harvie. He will do well to
remember ALTO, that ther> is often wide DIFF
ference between noife and knowledge; that
ne, who is ambitious Of teaching, mutt begin
by condclcending TO learn; and that, TO be
come an imprefivc orator, it is neceGarv to
think, as well as to jbfah.
1t was the more ncceilary TO take w II the
ihoftcit cut, luch INCIDENT aGertions, as thofe
which this fellow made, becaufe the Recor-
der fcems likely to have alnoR ali the news
printers in the country upon its back. What
between Cheetbann and Dernihon at New
I ork, Prentis at Baltimore, Smith at Wa11
ington, and ,he two IonesesnRicbnord
and croud ofother ahailants, whom we are
expecting to hear from by every poR. this
provoking fleet Of paper promifes, in flor,
time, 70 be nothing but a fcene Of hoailty.
he hacks, upon each fde, cannot bear the
fuppoiiton that there is All editor, who values
rot either iide, or both hdes. Perhaps tHeir
Understandings are too contracted to compre.
bend the pofEblity of this kind of editorhir,
4 bat there may be fuch phenomenonis,
however, the melancholy fact.
In one Of his late crR61ation5, one Of the
brother mark(men Jays that am well,mc
to borP rpm The edit9r, Gas long as Pace can
furnifh him with ink TO fcribble with If