Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1803-10-10

lin mechanics phrase, is but bungling
oanab of absolute inhdelity, written by a
drunken author, rarely quoted, except by
the lowest vulgar, and then in the lisping
accents Of lntoxication, will not descend
to an ANALYSIS, but determine this head Of
my discourse with the warmest wishes, that
in spite of Earring opinions, Gospel charity
and benevolence, may be, everlastingly,
fashionable, and that men will not expect
a more excellent mode from the new fang
|Ied looms of Paine and of Paris.
Physic has experienced more revolutions
thar Poland, or even France, since the Ca
pets are nc more. Berhave has prescribed
at L.eyden, what Brown would reject at f.
dnburgh. Gout must be pampered, ac-
cording to one physician, and starved by
another. The small pox, like Sancho Pan
ga, is sometimes blap4eted into submission,
and sometimes every winterv wind must
be invoked to blow the infection away
DIR. Cheyne insists that his patients shall
quaf perpetual bowl of1nilk, while more
Jolly physician directs as perpetual and
much Yudt3aier dfaughts. lie Sage's San
grade drained every vein, and now every
vein must be inflated like bladder. Cul-
len departed from Berhave, Brown has
exposed and abused the heresy of Cullen,
and probably, by this time, some European
proieetorhas started new theory, to the
utter destruction of the old.
A logician, considering the two subjects,
as equally variable, would infaliblv class
weather cocks and politics together. We
behold vast empires sometimes governed
by solitary woman-and petty states
headed by mob of rulers. Kings, once
ranked with gods, are suddenly and capri
oiously degraded among felons. Govern
ment, as nervous writer expresses it, is
sometimes scandalously relaxed, and them
violently stretched beyond its tone. The
Corinthian capital of society, laboriously e..
rected by aristocraticaf artists, is Frustrated
by popular fury in an hour. In our own
country, political modes are perpetually
huctuatlng. Prior to the formation of
French friendship, that people, their rehgi-
on, and their politics, were equally detest-
ed. The Pope was antlehrist, the French
king his high steward, the government of
France was the archtype of Turkish dcspo-
tism, aud the nation viewed as a motley
collection of coxcombs and slaves. Mark
the instant operation of single defeat, On
the whole political sense of America! A
captured Burgoyne could metamorphose an
arbitrary Lewis into the friend, the patron
of Republicans. But the love towards Lew
is soon waxed cold, and Marat had his
proselytes here as well as at Paris.
Very suddenly have most of our political
fashions past away. Britain has been call
ed a mother, a bag, sister, ora fcnd. Our
rulers, are perpetuaily wrangiing concerning
the garb of government. Some, from &C.
se0a or Virginia, affect the broad mantle
of republicanism, 7Utieh coverS.c multitude
Of SINS. Others prefer French manufac~
ture Of the Paris cut. A few, perhaps,
wish to import materials from England, but
there is good warm, well made, easy gar
ment, made to fit any one, called Fedora
L1sM, which the Lay Preacher actually
prefers to his canonicals, and prays may
be constantly worn, and an Interchangeable
mode.
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