Portland gazette and Maine advertiser. (Portland, Me.) 1805-1818, 1807-02-09

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Catching flies sSVery pretty Amusement.
and very interesting one, in is VA, M
history justly treats WIKI scOrn the character
| of the Emperor, who spent his hours IL kc.
mapping and impaling these creatures We
are idle enough, sometimes, 70 langt II
whatever is trihing in private life, But vs
are not so foolish, or SO Infatuated, when We
see the higher authorities supremacy busy
IT pushp:n, or hunt hc-slpper, IA not ID
fesl, in AL their possible strength, the not
humiliating sentiments otpity and contemEt
Indignation would feel itself diseraced, to
NEEDLE with their gestions :-,ii impcr
tinenccs.
How truly piteous sigh. il Is to see, The
Senate ofthe United States, cmplo, ;rg Their
time ard eloquence on so trihing CuestioF,
as the expediency of bridge--a raere mat
ter of moonshine as Fisher Anes would cal
it--o quarrel between the corporation Of !
nominal city, but a real desert, :.nu the ~.
iectmen ana constables Of a town Ofan
miserable affairs, and 10 parodv !. ceIe brat.d
hight, The great Chatlam's, | have read
EsoP and Tom Thumb, this il tie most dis
tressing,
The process of creating aSehator is syery
| grand and a very imposing one Peogie
collect 81 their different corners, and ater
quarrels and kisses send their renresens atfve
to Boston, or to Richmond, AMI when Ire
| critical moment comes for TIE palturfton Of
| this illust' ious body, the concentrated Wis
dom Of these elect gentlemen edorps some
| distinguished character with TIE represen-
tation Of a State Having thus te!..sted the
| hiltb OF a Senator, the biographer proceeds
| to relate the progress Of the tiL2yin, on his
way to Federal city, and his conduct there
| ia HoabfcHs tlHHes-hov, when he got there,
to his CONSERVATION, lie found himself
dwiRdled into a Legislator for George town,
| the banks of Goose -crcek.--How The other
House crowded III, and the ladies, how they
came in troops, to listen to the music ofthe
waterfall Of the floods Of elOquence, that
trickled from the lips of Clay and Giles, and
Adams and Sam Smith. While we mtntitn
Clay, let us fancy the vast page this uipto
Washington will fill up, IN the life Of Cen
Adair's successor, whose seat lie giycssP
to Pope next month. Surely authority never
was brieter than Mr.. Clay's; a senator for
SIX weeks and being rcsolute upon distin-
gulshig himself as much in Congress-, ~ he
did in his native Kentucky, he is obliged
poor man. to prostitute hls powers TO coniuTe
up bridge. Doubtless his return hoge
will be treated with dinners and balls Alas
the hon. Mr.. CLAY
! And this paltry question is become q vast
| object of national moment. Give IS Of yoor
patience and meekness, hlustrious and -
loved President wien We arc told thatth
| throwing plank across brook has employ.
! ed our highest representatives aconsitleTabs-
; part of their session they are legislstas
! upon it week, and the other members "A
+; Congress and LADIES', Of reputation lid y.
< no reputation, leave, the one their desks and
duties, and the other Their home asbrp t,1lsi.
toexcite and enjoy the exhibition whiSa .
gallant senate is proud 70 dispI.y.
1 Tins IS at tine too the bIprest with
events that we have ever known N y
moment when our foreign relations ~ y 4
'errlhe aspect, and our domestic atiaifs aFs
contn'iallv on the alarm. Abroad daring
and powerful man is laying the causes DIX
VIII tear our independence up by tic roots.
and at home as daring and usurping heat,
as ever beat beneath ambitions red waist
coat, has lifted the arm of a patriotic against
the integrity Of our Union
Why has not the district Of CpluHibia
municipal Legislature Of its own, OR. y
this il not fessikle nor expedicnt, why $ y
that the Government are to be pcstered Z
such time as this with their Drawing re-
titions Children viii cry and We X at
blame them, but we censare tie Esnerts
that cant keep Their nose and q,ls.rrvis ~
the nursery, and not have their brsts tcasins.
and interfering az nnsea unahls - JEicnis