Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-01-22

VI w.s 10 haze had 4 wonderful eHcCi on
the West-lnd LANDS 50 great as 70 CO.
cree Britain "a yield up q concession TO Us,
which would in the end have been yielding
her independence "a France. We, BY over
throwing The English government, should
ultimately overthrow our AVA. That pow
er, w-ich has in The flee Of AN oreu treaty,
caused such multiplicity Of e:ils TO mum
date our country, would not be dilatOry IN
subIecting our land 10 all the arbitrary acts
Of CONSUMPTION, if their Marine strength
were adequate to a commencement Of such
All undertaking. 1t would therefore be we'll
far the United States TO pursue the course
which national policy dictates and natioual
honlr allows, and thus secure TO our land
those valuable privileges which il 50 en-
tnently enjoyed during that biissful period
when their Washington policy was pursued.
June 10, he says that " in some Of his TO-
GUITAR r7oments lie has compared himself TO
an animal he had seen, who would bite hold
Of the end Of rope and be drawn up by il
thro' multitude of rockets and hold on till
he was safely reiallded on the floor" This
HUMOROUS description of himself was per-
haps correct IS it related to many of ms Of
fetal duties. If so, he may now be cOmpar-
ed TO another rnimal, which when he has
become too old to be useful to his owners,
falls into the hands Of horse Jockey, who
elevateS the head of the poor beast to an
unusual height, gags his mouth and fits
him to become profitable for The business Of
his new pOsscssOr. This comparison was
followed BY quotation from The fourth
book rf Vitgii's Elnid, 440-h tine, intima-
ting himsclf 70 have stood uuT-Oveoble when
IN pubic business Gr.-n,in,c this 10 be thu
case, lie has told what ne once WAS It then
remains for his readers ID aay what Ae now
is, which might De done ,! quoting Virgi's
description Of .m Oh geHticH..h, who, ear
nest to SignaIize himself IN battle, bcgirt
himself with armour and shield, and .ganst
the entreatles OF ms COnsort went forth INTO
the camp, where, bending his bow with a
weak hand, the arrow, without dong the
least execution, fell at half WAY the SELF
conceded hero was Overpowered, ana lost
his life by has timerity But as few news
paper readers comparatively, understand
Latin, the following better known lines,
saiG TO be written by DR.. WOlcott, OF
England, to a certain -gotlst there, may be
applied 10 the present state Of John Adams.
"Thy egotisms, the world, Disguised
Nedl s.
Z" Then load, with vanity, no more our
ears"
After concluding his remarks on the nc
gociatiOn with France, he said thal lie
found himself under a necessity 70 say
something concerning the peace with Eng
Land, which in his letters, writ en- since, inc
has ATTEMPTED, by giving his readers an &C
count Of The communications between him
self and certain characters, which letters
show him to have .; en- an ALE minister -
Yet the debilitiVs nidc: which he now la
bours are more apparent by contrasting his
letters O: that day with those OF the present.
1t could not be expected that Mr. Adams
communications should be written in style
wholly destitute of pronouns Of the first per-
son; yet the multiplicity of them are aston
ishing if not disgusting 70 most of his read
ers. His letter Of June Is, containing the
articles Of Count Vergennes, in the French
language, without I, anslatiOn, is not IN the
least entertaining or instructive 70 people
IMMERSED in the language Of France, and
would have been styled pedantry if 50 writ
ten BY scholar, and cannot merit much
more decent appellation tho signed b. Sc
note;. character as John Adams.
LAELlUS.