Alexandria daily gazette, commercial & political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1808-1812, 1812-03-31
ALEXANDRIA.
.T,rsDaY MORNING, March 81.
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r,.,d who lately sent us some Trans,
.ror, French papers, has promised &C.
'' ,llr to furnish US With more. nc has
'4'~ ,;,ted Us the following Translanon OF g
r c-s,,,. On new play called" The coMEr."
swbata 6ne thing a Comet is especially,
!. ,hey are no longer regarded as the wan
-. ,racnrsors Of calamity aid desolation'
80 .;aral Of 6nai dissolution Not long
.he parisjans, on the faith of a great
,,momer, finally believed they were about to
!. .o0jbikted BY the Comet; but in short
fne they exhibited quite different appear
.,,e for, instead Of hiding themselves III Gel
hrs every citizen Of the capitol took regular
u,,t 70 the nearest wharf, in order to have q
e., view Of the Comet and It's beautiful tail
So far from its being any longer considered a
srphoder Of evil, that it is now thought ca
a,lvipdfsI. The ra5b!e find food Tor their
wrio,i.y: the scapaat has subject tor dlsser-
atoms; newspapers are furnished with para
graphs; the dramatiat " has an ideas" ard
lie haSker, above all, can contrive to tel
wonders of it long after it has Disappeared and
tie dissertations upon it forgotten, as well as
he new Drama to which it has given rise
Thus the production that appears last, labors
under the disadvantage OF being impelled to
repeat many of the old jokes; al the same
time emitting many of the best. But to re-
4 an to cur subject.
i The general opinion now seems to be, that
Comets have no Influence over those catus
aOphes which overturn empires Yet it mus;
not be inferred, from this, that they have no
influence for, in the hands OF man Of wit,
A'y can be made use of to destroy marriage
rOTs, ard spread CONSERVATION in whole VII
ASe Sach, at least, is the opinion of Mr.
IsRscope,* an astrologer by profession
While looking at the Gomez from his O5secva-
Wy be heard some fine compliments paid to
Qassli: some called him misar; some said
&c Sas an Old fool that all the girls n tie VII
ese tstested. His blood builed at these sar-
~MS' anG &c swore he would have revenge
'U ts purpose he determined to call the
~''ehS to his aid. He therefore declared TO
inhabitants that they had only tW enty, four
eU' 10 live, and that the fatal Comet would
,N"eclm them in TIE course of that time,
va us rest OF the world. For a while, the
'""auon created by his news was uaiver-
0e'Hs effects soon disappointed the pro-
Al - expectations. The young men and
''' made haste to get married before the
~@ould end; their relations were in an
hurry to settle private quarrels before
H and consented TO hasty matches; so
f telescope could not find single
s, N1'' IN the whole place. To increase
~, ,'or'0nes, his servant, being anxious to
y, NC most of the last day of his life, in
e., us acquaiatances, who ate and drank
\. .V'sei and drop belonging to the house.
.cc,. .ioSer Was much picqued at the bad
he, nus scheme; but, being Philoso-
,,.a,' ,0hsented to live, on condition that
dk.s. 0s s1htorfsd during the remainder
:, Existence"
sss 'each critic concludes with some
'naFks on the piece,
pal character in the piece-l