Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1805-07-11

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calls 10 mind thar the congeniabilty ofyour
sentiments and opinions to his own, IS
sort of pledge for your sincerity TO him
that the prayer for Mr.. Adams was pub.
ic.fourish; while that for himself was a
private fraternal embrace. That the shoes
of the former were worth pushing him out
of at the expence of a prayer or two, and
that the other being barefoot, you could
expect nothing by Aatsering him, but the
credit of contributing to the felicity OF
worthy bosom, and evlacing the souudness
Of your own patriotic and religious Prlncl
Piles, by your entire appreciation OF his.
Laudari Lataato is fair play. The COM
merce of panegyric, like every other COM
merce, ought to be carried on with strict
regard TO mutual Justice, and the rights
of meun, and tulta,: and every quo be ba.
lanced bya qilid. Mr.. Paine's panegyrlc
upon you is correct, and correspondent to
that high sense Of moral conduct which has
ever distinguished him. On the article OF
prayers, however he is in your debt; and
II is to be hoped that he will not reserve
them for some other object. 1t would be
iamentable indeed, and unjust, if be
did for to whom can such prayers as
his be SO Justly appropriated, or by whom
be sowell deserved. Besides, being his
bosom friend youwould then have cause to
rejoice, as Doctor Johnson did IN an an
swer TO his bookseller, who wrote him
word that he thanked God he had done
with him; to which the Doctor replied,
(" Doctor Johnson is glad 10 hear that MIR.
has the grace to thank God tor any
thing
The change in the intellect of MFR. Paine
which appears stronger in every piece OF
his writing than it did in the former, and
in the last more strongly than in all the
rest put together, is a subject OF curious
consideration. He does not seem to have
los, all mind, but to have cast off his for
mer and taken up new one. The failing
and Reproduction of animal matter is
known. Perhaps mind may be moulted,
as well as feathers and a. new nail
grows cut otter the old has been lost by
whitloe, or bruize, the fabric Of mind which
Mr.. Paine may have lost in the brushes,
the squeezings, and the decorations OF Bri-
tish courts, and In the prisons OF the terri
bic Robespierre, may have been supplied
b. new growth, in which not an atom OF
the old is eon.aiuUd. Ills memory indeed
seems to be altogether Of new spe-
cies. As the unlucky wit, Peter Pindar,
makes king George enter in his tablets at
Whitbread's brewery-Mr. P. seems to
have got the power OF remembering to
forget, and Forgetting to remember facts,
beyond any thing | have experienced. The
dreams ofsome people are made u of Curl
Gus stuff aud when the brain is is under
the operation of q oerY strong stimulant,
the imagination in kind of raying delerl-
um, can compound and patch up together
curious pieces of motley, from things that
exist, as well as from things that never had
existence, transferring the patch that be-
longs TO one side, to that which belongsto
is opposite. 1t is in one Of those t,.i.itous
visions lsuppose, that Mr.. Paine put to-
gether that curious tissue his 9Th letter,in
which description in words is given of the
federalsts, and federal prints, while the
matter is taken from his own party, in
which he describes federalism as aniamdls-
criba6!e nothing, and accuses the federal
prints of abusive vulgarity, while a great
part Of that letter is OF the worst kind of
Billingsgate. In which he dreams of an
army OF fifty thousand men, intended tohc
raised without any real cause, bat on the
pretext, Of an intended French invasion,
of which, by the bye, he insists there
was no danger, giving DR.. LOGAN for
his evidence, and in which h rem mbesslo
forget that to save the trouble of invasion,
a French army was raising here by worthy
and benevolent Jacobins, French and else,
even in the bowels of the land in which
his miraculous memoirs call 10 mind facts