Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1810-06-05
aIsranDrta EstTp @ssstts.
TUESDAY, JUNE S.
CoMMUNI CATION.

Drrscnt worthy members OF AounSh "aSe,
a, al tines, manifested for the morals and
hcal,h ef the inhabitants, affords well
grounded hope that they will readily adopt
any measure which may have tendency
sill farther to improve either, or both, OF
these all important matters. 1t is possible,
however, that the writer from the narrow
ness Of his intellectual views, may be erro-
neous in supposing that an evil exists. when
in fact the more enlightened can make no
such discovery. CLEANLINESS is certainly
virtue, aud he EATERS himself that no per.
son in his huasSle sphere OF life, pays more
attention to il than he does: hence it may
be inferred that he approves Of the law of
the corporation directing the cleaning Of the
pavement, &c.. buthe disapproves Of do
ing any part Of it on Saturday, unless the
duty could be performed in sufficient time
10 enable the officers of Police to ascertain
the feet on that evening without encroach-
ing on the sabbath but this cannot psssi.
bly, be done, Il he may judge from what he
and others have lately witnessed and ii is
well known that those officers, from the
highest to the lowesr, are inclined tonscien.
tieusy TO discharge their public duty lit
remains, therefore, moot poiRt whether
they arc not employed the greater part OF
that sacred day 10 Observation-Disclosures. &
brooding over the delicious szvrnty enc cents
piece, to be recovered in the name OF
costs, from those who sin through ignorance'
tor the knoz0inS ones can certainlyvery ca
silly evade the law When he says this,
however, he judges Of himself; some msn
there may be who can " 10 she twinkling oil
m eye" dives, themselves of all carnal cares
and become (" holy and indebted an cumu
10. To rhs religious character his not re-
suisi,e to state, that infinitely more is to be
expected from strict observance OF the Or
dinanees of the Omnipotsut, than the most
serupulo0s attention to human.law without
IL: And to assert that any member OF Coun'
Gil, or il. offers, are destitute Of religion,
would be committing an offence of no rsean
grace agains. the good sense Of the soEe.
reign people ofthis corporation.
On the morning Of ehat'idae day. 600. Il
10 well Known that ,many of our tender
beaas eSlisct in grUupss and Stand tor hours
?, tho corners of our public streets. which
are impiegnsted with the abiu'ion OF the
previous night, aided by the heavy dsws
Of the morning. This may imPercePt''Ay
undermine their constitutions and deprive
the community premaldrely of many pro-
missing members, whose precious observa'
tons on men and manners" thus acqu'r-
ed, are in danger of dying with them.
Out Of regard, therefore, for both the
souls and bodies Of men, would 1T not be
well to set apart for this necessary work
some other day than Saturday. and would
II not be equally salutary ana oeneHe'a'
performed on FRlOA1'
TWAS currently reported in Europe i'm
m,diaiely on his marriage, that Bonaparte
would make proposition OF psaces to ms
brother George Of England bush was the
expectation that il would be rejected.
Our aecoun<s direct from Spain are-as
they generally are--later than those in Eng
lis6 papers. But we find in the last one
Of tie bOldsst edie.s ever promulgated by
she patriotic councils Of Spain and issued
on she seth March, after the French were
before eadiz 49, No lees than the formal re-
sognilion Of the coust Of Province, Louis
XVIII ~ the legitimate sovereign OF
France ;.and denunciation OF Napoleon
Bonsparse as an usurper, and his broshss