Alexandria daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1803-1808, 1806-10-27

Of 6 party spirit and g private animosity, In
any individual tribe were savage virtues !-----
Who before has not been taught that party
| spirit and private luminosity" are peculiar evils
| of free governments in periods OF refinement.
| Whip the school boy for a dull rogue, who
tewould blunder in this manner. Before the in
! CRATE attempts politics again, let him read the
histories of Athens and Rome.
Again, speaking Of us, he has said, "when
| we find them arrived at maturity IN most OF
the Evices, and all the pride Of civilization,
while they are still so remote from It's elegant
characteristics it is impossible not to feel that
this youthful decay, this crude anticipation of
the natural period of corruption, represses
every sanguine hope of the future energy and
greatness of America" What does he mean
by the elegant characteristics ofciyillzation !?
Does he mean those feuds and civil dissentions
by which no less than six of the English Kings
have fallen? Or does he have in view the grace
and decorum, with which the wings and to-
ries have always behaved towards each other !?
Or does he not rather, perhaps, have in his
eye the taste and delicacy observed in the con-
test between the casaliers and round hea1S -
Let me be here understood: would not re-
vile the British character, nor eanly stoop
to recrimination. | love British Ya!or, British
patriotism, & British laws, infinitely more than
Mr.. Thomas Moore is capable of doing
Therefore, intend no national reelection but
only aim at the taste of that delicate Trainer of
h6fdinous verseS. The fact no doubt is, he III
tends by his elegant characteristics, those de-
baucheries, intrigues, prostitutions, and inf
delites, found to polish the noblesse Of Paris
and London or made the finished peculiar
ty of Martavavan or St Martno. From such
unenviable distinctions, / wish nay country
long to be free.
One quotation more from the modern ina
creon, and | have cone: it may be found in
his sixth epistle, addressed to Lord Viscount
Forbes, andis as follows:
g While yet upon Colunbia.'s rising brow,
Inc shewy smile OF young presumption
PLAYS,
g Her bloom is poison'd, and her heart de-
GAYS!
Zen now, in dawn Of life, her sickiy
breath
g Burns with the faint of empires near their
death,
And. ike the nynhh. Of her osyu smtAering
cline,
g She's old in youth, she's blasted in her
hrTme 20
We here find, the professed imitation the
7 elan Voluptuary has adopted the often reius-
ed calumny of Button; that tie climate OF the
western continent is unfriendly at once to ami
NAL vigor and the powers Of genius. This
needs no comment. But it is different with
another SANDER here advanced: the wanton
attack upon the fair. of our country IS worthy
only Of the proaigatc who made it. Had ne
possessed the urbanity of his prototype, he
would have spurned suggestion 50 unmaniy,
even if he thougl it had It's basis In truth. 1t
Is, however, pleasing, that the ladies OF Anne
RIGA need no formal vindieadon. lhe best
Judges have ranked them with the tairest:
while, taken collectively, they have been con-
sidered, in their mental refinement and the
delicacy Of their virtues, to be superior to all.
1t will be long, doubt not before they Will
become so far alien from their present purity
of taste, as to relish the licentious poems OF
the English, or the Grccian Anacreon. The
latter was rebuked for his lswdness even by the
lewd Ovid while the former, going beyond
him in the boldncss of his sensuality, puts his
hands into the filth OF every sewer, and strives
by all the tricks of retail to vend it for money.
In much the greater part OF his poems, he IS
unblushingly Gbertine in his sentiments Civ
ing them. at the same time, the most PERM.
cious fascination of character, by clothing them
with the luxury oflanguage, * disgusting them
with tho obscurity offgure. Besides, where
yer he mentions America, he does it In the
manner given above in all the yulgarity Of a.
buse, and all the villainy of ingratitude. Yet,
he quotes Greek, Latin, Italian and French,
from the most o6srure author, most profuscly;
mingling an aHectation of learning with all his
wantonness. / am almost ashamed to add, he
has found publisher and few servile admir-
crs in this country: with these must have