Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1809-02-27
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Mr.. PRINTER,
AN answer that has appeared to my lit
tie communication respecting the *******
**.s* has absolutely filed me with axaze-
n1ent, inasmuch as it has come from quar-
ter totally unexpected! I should not have
troubled you again on SO traRins' a subject,
had not my respondent, regardless of the
first lesson of sharp shooters Chat of keep
ing concealed and taking good aim) come
CALAMITY out into high ground, and espous-
ed a cause which, in the heat Of his zeal, he
deemed his own, but in fact had notlsiine. to
90 with! Yet as still bear in mind a ia
vorite proverb ofmy good old grandmother
(and she knew as much Of human nature,
Heaven rest her soul, as any woman in
Christendom) that the sin of ignorance
should be winked at | feel it my duty,
notwithstanding his retort courteous" of
false" mahci0us," &c. to take him by
the hand and set him right, by telling him
he is avrong. He no doubt concluded that
the squib co1dnot possibly be aimed at any
body else, because the number Of asterlsks
happened to tally with the letters of sc Rifle
Company" Perhaps it would not have
been amlss for him to have considered whe-
Their there were not other companies in town
on whom the said asterisks will bear as well
as on his2 A Comic Company, Thesb1al
Glib, Music Society, &c. from their num-
Der OF letters, are as susceptible of the ap-
plication as his Company. These, however,
acqait, being persuaded tnat none of them
would be as plant as the young san IF Jesse
to SO up and play before the modern Saul,
even though the evil spigit on him were E.
yer 50 malignant. Now Gas l am in an &C
commcdating moody suppose nv friend
were to count the letters in the word
"ALEXANDRIANS," and if they come
within rife shat of the number of aster-
isks, let him betsink himself whether select
parties for a jaunt are ever made up by put
ting their names on paper! Lo0k at a
lane horse and he will zvince,'' is another OF
my old granny's proverbs. | am done .
| unless the gentleman 6 draw his bow at q
venture" again, and the arrow come whiz-
ling round my ears-in that case may pos
siby be induced to Look into tie nature Of
that patriotism which isto drazV him up to
the great Sgahedaim.
A letter has been received in New York,
from Antigua, dated the Goth of Jan. which
states that an expedition had just arrived at
Barbados from England, consisting of 8
major generals and 400 troops, to be com
manded by general Beckwith destined a.
gaiust Martinique.
The St. Jago de la Vega Gazette Of the
s1st Jan. (received at the Office Of the Phla-
delphia Gazette contains in addition to the
article we published on the Esd inst from
the same paper, the following paragraph -
eve understand by recent accounts from
Carthagena, that advices from Madrid had
reached that place as late as the 18th Of De-
cember, at which time the patriotic cause
was goiag on prosperously. In several en-
gagements they had been .victors, and at one
time took 5000 prisoners from the French.
Castanos had been arrested for preventing
his troops engaging the enemy, and sent to
Madrid-but afterwards liberated"
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