The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-04-19

of April.
The folio wing observations are extracted from an
edition of Junius, lately pubhed by Heron.-N--
yer probably was 10 much profound and uleiul
thought condenied into 10 l;ra ipace The man
who has magnaninlty enough prefer utility to
admiration, would probably rather be the author
OF this ihort paragraph than of the keene inve6tive
or the mot elegant ientence that ever flowed from
the pen of Junius.
when youth hrlt enters among the ranks of
manhood, it becomes confcious of powers of
manly intellect which it has not yet tried, and
begins to aiiume the authority to Judge ofth
to whom it has hitherto looked up with fubmif-
five veneration; change 70 comfortable never
fails to make it climate its own powers by much
too highly, and Judge too contenptuouily of
the abilities of others. 1t meafurcs its own ia
Tents, by the Wild gigantic greatness of its hopes
and wifhes; 1t judges of the genius of others,
by the inferiority of what they have attained,
to that which it fondiy expects for itfclf in
cenfuring works which are not its own, it con-
dennis with PATTON whatever accords not with
its own deiuiive views ofthc good, the true, the
juft, the beautiful, and the great, in the opening
fcene of things. Such, in entering upon man
hood, is the effect to every ardent, youthful
mind. In its farther progrefs. one ofthefe three
events ever takes place, and three great clafies
of characters confequently arite in fociety =
Either the young man never becomes fcnEble of
his hrtt error; and in this cafe, he patIes
through life, pert, ignorant, prefumptuous, feif-
fuficient, of all men the lillicit, yet fancying
himfef to be of all men the wifef, and ever
forming the means ofimprovement, becaufe he
fuppoies every thing in hmtef to be already
perfect beyond the pofiblty of being improv-
ed: Or, he is humblcd by the difcovery of his
RI nf oboI Of
which makes him relinquiIl. all thoughts of rif-
ing above the common level of mankind, con-
tent himief with being quite an ordinary cha
raGter, and defend TO the practice of every
little, forbid, and diipyenuous art: Or, per
ceiving his error, refuling to difcaim the hopes
he had founded on it, and learning how muchis
by unconquerable perseverance, to he furmount-
ed and achieved, he fill cheriillcs his frft gene
rous ambition, employs thofe means which are
the fittef to crown it with fucceis, and by IN
wearIed exertion, and the mott candid arts, RI
les to be numbered among the bef and greateft
OF mankind.
The reports which we publifl,ed fone days
paft on the interruption Of our commerce with
st. Domingo, are confirmed beyond the poflibi-
lity of doubt, by the dyrete which appears
under the Wef-India head. Two variations
only deierve to be noticed: lift, that the de-
hgnated dlitance is 9, lnftead of 8 leagues end,
that the operation ofthe decree is 10 commence
from the elR of April, inAead of the 1T.
The great importance and compIexity of
the caufe lately decided before the Court of
Appeals, has prevented the reporter from pre-
pairing it for the preient paper.
The remarks on the increafe OF the banking
capital of Virginia, are once more unavoidably
pofponed.
The frft number of the very elegant Hs,rui-
tatrt Gra9biee is open for the INFECTION of the
CURIOUS at the Book Store of the Enquirer.
Married, On Saturday tie 9Th inn. by tie Req.
Mr.. MaeRae, DR.. DANIEL WiLsoN, of this eity,
10 Mis- Henrietta Jobnjon, of Poqvbatan county.