Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1804-02-13

per, which lav on the 5tOuila'
and found it so. curious thai ShouSht =
might be worth Offering to you. Ii You
please, YOU may put it under your Charles :.
ton Head. It is evidently an imitation %
the style ofSterne.
Never before did see such wainas'ai
compound ofvarious expression as his race
never such whimsical display OF intestine.
"comlnotion, and inward struggles between
hostile passions, as his acsionss his words
did Justice to both.
Ifwasnot a countenance Of i'll nature or
n,;santhropy; but one which displayedpeev-
.;shness in .spite of nature. There was
fret n ;f--a frown---a formidable grin at
t;mes--and at times those were enbeiilsn.
ed BY 4 laugh, one note OF which would
have brought gall and vinegar, and all the
b:tters and acids in a chemical dictionary at
once to the dullestsm Vet ANA phy-
siopnomist) the Devil himself, II ne had
got days possession Of the body could
not have twisted the t0ut ensemble of the
face from the mastery of a benignant heart,
which all his frowns, and frets, and grins
could not deter ompeePing out occasion
ally through his mouth and eyes. In the
vertieinous whim of nv fancy, thought
/. saw (as if in dreamy the words " anlla-
he,'' & socia6le," printedin leglble charac-.
tiers in the burrows of his weather beaten
physiognomv. An old fashioned three
cooked hat, and a pig-tail wig, gave IL
nishing stroke to the picture.
He rose from a log ofwood on which he
was seated, when his voice first drew my
attention as he. rose he laughed" Ha,
ha, hah !-Ay, Ay! Ay, Ay, to be sure!
to be sure!'' said he in tone Of spite. He
paused as if reAecting--made flourish in
the air with his cane, sighed, andconslnu-
ed" What care I?----No, curse me, :"
(thumping his cane with hrnness on the
ground) 6 curse mesif care, if the whole
human race were reduced to the state of va
hoos and ridden by Houyaltnms. Again
he paused---" Andby Heaven they are not
far from it." BY and by they will be
worse; they will be yahoos soon, they will
---they must---and they will be rode, not
by horses but asses, apes or balloons. So
much the.better--.s shall Ike it,
endeavoured 70 catch his ere, bat he
evaded me---I walked on---he drew back to
his log Of wood and sat down again---my
curiosity was too much for me---I hasten
ed round the next corner, came about a
large store, got behind him under shelter
of heap of timber---and for the first time
sacrificed my honour to my humour. /
became an eves-dropper, and listened.---
6 Democracy! Che exclalmed) Democra-
cy u neelzebub stuff them up to the throat,
ay, and the throat itself to the very lips
with it, if the world has not had already
heavy meal of Democracy. Brutes alb
surd fe, 6e, out upon it, outupon it. De-
mocracy indeed with devil to it"
Iperceived thatshe was a politician---an
enthusiast, and probably cracked in the
brain. Political madness being epidemi-
cal, it was evident from his words that he
was subject likely to catch il. He pro-
ceeded, as Shakespeare calls it, by snatch-
eS---
"A complete exclusion of wisdom, of
principle, OF consistency!
1t presupposes whole people CONVEX
SAINT with government---which IS impossi-
bic.
/" A whole people rational, and learned
in the human heart---which is impossible.
6 A whole people attachedto their coun-
try---P Patriots IN short---Hah, hah, han,
(sardonieally9 how few patriots are found
even among the best. al patliots.--Al
balloons!
!" Awhole people deliberative-7a whole.
people honest whole peopleM Mad
ness
2 That whole people can think !--how
few think Ask the 6rsttwenty husbands,
or7saives you meet, the history Of Their do
nestle concerns will tell YOU.