Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-06-16

several Of the adverse prints, and to award
the palm agreeably to the dictates ofjustice.
In this attempt he did, the editor of this pa
per the honor to balance himaganst the fair.
famed Duane---the reader need not be told
which scale kicked the beam. AS soon as
Duane saw it, he, with characteristic mo-
desty reprinted it in his own paper, and the
editors of the United States Gazette have
taken occasion from it to make themselves
merry with him in the following article---
Will any man say that Mr.. Coleman is
equal to Mr.. Duane in the scale of talerts.' .
Asr0ra.
"To represent every Irish born man BE
his length Of residence, his revolutionary
services in the American army, his private
virtues or his personal talents what they
MIGHT, who did not servilely bow down
| and worship as a jacobin and United Irish
| man, zvas then the hue and cry of Federal.
ism. "---Amora.
BE they what they NIGHT!
Gone of these is the case of Catholic
clergyman who in the spirit of that mild be-
nightly so often recommended for Ameri.
can imitation, and for which so many pray
ers and eulogies are oBered up on the mer-
ciful and just monarchy Of Britain" ---Au.
rora.
EulQgiss o6sred up on the merciful and
Just monarchy of Britain!!!
By the horns of the altar, will any man
say that Mr.. Coleman is equal to Mr.. Du.
ane In the scale of talents?
No doubt # the Rev. Mr.. O'Neil were
to present himseifir, Philadelphia or in Bos-
ton, that what he had suffered would be
deemed not punishment enough. "---Au-
rora.
That zuhat he had suffered &c. 80!
"Yet it is the Repertory that sermonizes
upon the press, Which for the short PERIOD
that it has been in existence has disgraced
the press to a greater extent, Syc.---Aurora.
The Press (Which for the short period
that it has been in existence has disgraced
the breSs!!!
What is most illustrative Of this creed,
like other creeds, this editor who hates de-
mocracy pretends to applaud Governor
M Kean, the following lines exactly pre-
eede the above creed, and will give it as an
illusion of that creed and of similar creeds.'
---Auyora.
Paddy Duane,is requested to translate
the above from Irish and we recommend
to his attention the following queries. Is
or is not creed the Irish for editor If so,
is it not usual among those the bogg trot.
tiers who refined in their language, to con.
slider the word tolo1ung, as meaning,
when occasion requires, " to go betore'?
If it has not this occasional meaning, then
Mr.. Paddy Duane is further requested to
say why a clause of the above paragraph
about creeds may not be read thus &C the
lines which come otter go betorc the creed,
which exactly goes before Them" And last
ly, Mr.. Paddy Duane is requested, carol
lary-1uise, to answer Mr.. Pasquin. "WiI
any man say that Mr.. Coleman is equal to
Mr.. Duane Ia the scale of talents =
Gaz. Z. States.)
The impartial Judge has asked the same
question as to the abilities of Mr.. Cheetham
and Mr.. Lang, The gentle Cheetham,
however, blushed SO at finding himself thus
extravagantlv aattered, that his delica v
quite overcame him, and he declined repub-
fishing Pasquin's compliment. But that
the reader may see that he is as much enti-
tied to the victory he has gained over Mr..
Lang, as Duane is to that acquired over US,
we shall now select few sentences from
the first piece of his composition that pre-
sents itself-it happens to be One of his
Rest Produ ii .ns
Mr.. Denniston, another gentleman,
and M, called on him."
Cheesham has long been remarkable FOR
his enmity to syntax: thus in late paper
hesays,