Alexandria advertiser and commercial intelligencer. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1800-1803, 1803-01-26
. CHARLES LEE.
THOMAS SW ANN.
ELISHA C. DICK.
the Other,

ErsrGa ga letter. tfrsrr a nem5er ef Can
greG 10 BIS fyiend ia h5i, tsvva, dated
N1gl9ingfon, Jar. IS, 1902.
8 Mr.. Davis yetterday laid a refoInti-
on on The table for concentrating the Pub
lie Boildings; On the queaion Of commit
ting The refolution % iales} committee, it
was carried by a large majority. We are
now balloting fer she lste--~hlca
will employ this Gay
Remarkable Coinriae.-A hundred AID
fifty years ago Butler wrcte his Hudibras
70 ridicule and expoie the zealots Of
lawIefs fanasicifm, which dinratfed Eng
lard with all the horrors Of civil war,
and fubletaed it TO the yoke Of bafe and
defpotic ufurpa,ion. Of iuch poem, il is
nor furprizirg to find many raaages ap-
plicable TO the preienr fate of thefe fates,
and defcriptive Of the iordidneis, the f.nu-
lation, the furious revel and grinace, the
topfyrtnrvy intolerance, and mifgovern-
ment of the faction which now lords il
over America. It's Remembrance in'thoie
reflects TO the heroes OF Hudibrss is TOO
obvious TO need pointing our. But in enc
infance we have difcoversd fometh'ng
more than mere resemblance, though i:
cannot be properly called identity. Ac-
cidentally taking up the book the other
day, we happened to open on the follow
ing lines near the cIoie Of the I'd Canto in
part Sd.
And, while the work is carrying on,
Be ready lifted under DUN,
That worthy Patriot, once the Beis1vi
And Undertook of all his Fellows,
The atiiy'a member Of the Five,
AS well as the moh primitive:
Who, fer his faithful iervice then, =
Is chofen for Fifth sgen
This Worthy, as the World will fay,
Is paid infpecie, his own way,
Fer, moulded 10 the Life in Clouts,
sTh' have pick d from dung hills here
abouts,
Hes married on a H1zT Pzpiu
A cropp'd malignant Baker gave 'em I:
And to the Target Bonfire riding,
They have roaied Cook already, and
Pride in,
On whom, in Equipage and State,
His fearecre7v fellow members wait,
And march in order, two and two,
AS at Thanksgiving tn ns'd 10 do;
Each in tattered Taiiiman,
Like veFmin in Efgie lsin.'
Who is there that did not know thefe
lines are in Hudibras, but would lwear
that foae American imitstar of Butler had
written them as iketch of the Clonnell
faye, the lying pioneer of democracy, and
MIR. Jeferion's mott immaculate protegse
Billy Duane, Eiquire. The points o.
agreement ere really 70 curious, that wei
wonder a, not having ieen the above sx.
tract taken rotice OF before. In defcrih-
ing one of the vileH inGruments Of rab-
bic rout, Butler as by gift OF prophecy
has, in the hrf place, hit en- the very
name of the Aurora printer.
Be ready lifted under DUN
Now it is well underfood, that our
Duane's real Irifh name is DIN, and tha,
the one he bears in this country is only
anumed. In a note TO this line in Hudi-
bras we are told, that DIN at that time
was the hangman's name and reference
is made to the following verGe in Buffers
Ghoa publiihed in 1862.
For you yourfelf to aa Squire DIN,
Such ignominy ne'er Jaw the Sum-
Every enc will allow, that the name
has loft nothing Of its priaine infsmy with
iss prefent poGefor; and if there can be
any ignomioy, greater than his, it has
veto how itfelf. But again,
Thar worthy Patriot, once the Bel
I9qrs,
ssAnd finder BOX of all his Felloevs.'