Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-09-09
aleraaorfa aOuarissr.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9.


more, subject of the day.
This is not extraordinary, for the Judge
who presided, was, on one point OF law
only. no less than four .lnrs asfonsbed.
he quas asfonis6ed at the application to
pu. loft the tiral.
lie zuas asteaisbed about witness
whom the defendant offered TO call in his
behalf.
He 4vas aaoniisbed at the reasons given
for putting off the trial, and finally,
He 7oa, asfonisbed that the application
should be made at oil.
These establishments induced bis bonoNy
to perenptorily refuse indulgence to the
Notwithstanding, "even if the witness,
TO prove the truth of the publication, was
in court, / would not suffer him to be ex-
ahmed on the point"
After this we trust the Democrats will
desist little from their scurrllous abuse
of Judge Chase. The astmisbed Judge
Lewis, may surely SIT while for him.
upon their 6lshy columns. But hold, say
they-he is one of us--is he he SO? Then.
the case is altered, and we are rot ast5u-
isked at all.
When Iuveais came forward to expofe
illiberality, he fhould not appeared with
unwafhed hands,
He begins with recommending us to
read Pope's EGay on Cr,ticifm. Wehad
already done fo-nay, we have fecn the
Dunciad.
Let US, however, look into the merit of
his reproof, and Zee whether his lines are
clear of the filth he complains Of in ours.
On this we" dogmatically fay" that a
production 70 franght with invettive-fo
foul in manners-and withal, 70 unlike
the gentle delicacy g he charges US with
lacking" has not often !" tinged a fair
lheet, or clapt the night mare on groan.
ing prefs.''
But 10 it is-called upon we are to an.
lwer for unlavory words and want of ikill ];
and mark the mode adopted. He charges
US with want of good breeding in fuch
gentle fyai1s as thefe-.s palpable illibe-
rali,y--milrcpreientation- unmerited FAR.
cafm--bitternels Of latyric galp dog
NAUTICAL itupidity-arrogance and brutal
sy-eenforious impudence''-- and other
neat turned epithets Of fmilar nature.
It reminds us of Falaafs attack on the
Prince, where the author has drawn his
hero brcadllefs with rapidly Of abufe.
TO child it might prove lugubrious
ldllaby--to US j, RATES. no other idea tnsn
bringing to recollection certain old adage
about 4" pot and kettle readers
will guels at the alluGon and when they
compare the language Of " the Theatre
with the attack of .1uvenis, they will
draw their own inference: for we lhall
triac with them no longer, on fuch
theme as this.
Policies are opened at Lloyd's Coffee
House, London, for one guinea to return
an hundred, if Bonaparte is alive | month
after his arrival in England The chance
was thought tar greater--maRy private
persons offering the same bet upon
week -!
The French are greatly distressed for
money, the very sinews Of war--without
which the sons Of equality, it seems, re.
fuse to join their Corsican Chief in his
aquatic excursion to Britain. He must,
on this score, at any rate, be hard pushed
for he has offered an enor nous premium
for the discount of the purchase money,
sUbieb IS to 6e PAID for Louisiana.
Information 70 f6ee Tvbo trade with The
MigSGp3i Territory.
BY law of the assembly of this state
protested bills, drawn on any person with
IN the jurisdiction of the III. 6. bur he.