Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-04-08


turf,-diable, foutre, --what you CALI
wrong spell de word, so as make my
grand argument eontre de whole tribes
of torees appear like de demdest non.
sense whish everwas create. Don't do
so no more, but prent whatever l write,
to convince de teree, joos as say it, to
shew am grand scholar, and can spell
de word myself, aussi bien qse vous, &
can alkHebrew, Hoe labor, Hic opus est.
as de Intelligeneer say, one day when
he write to prove de whole Society of
Washington was wrong because it was
stableesh long before de Tammany Wish
exist long since, and don't claim no Sc
cret right to send people TO school You
know Mons. Tammany is one Indian
Saint which all de wise philesofair of
l'Amerique have consecrate on de first
of April for de Americans peoples to
swear by, same as dey use St. George
for France, and st. Patrick for England
Begar, / hear de Tammany members
can paint himselfu most horrible pooty,
and chanter de war danse too sweet and
beao,ifool. Dis is grande accomplish
ment for petits garcons, great deal more
usefool as TO say A B c, and count de
6ggair.
One day, after making great many re.
Election to one of my frens abrut dc hard
hearted tores fedralces not to turn round
when we beg him SO much, he say, At
last, Nicholas, have discovair de cause
of dem not to change: Peutetre, may
be, dey want solid raisons, and you is
able to give it to dem wild all de elegant
logic of true grammarien. ! was con
found by his politesse, and eAclaim, Aha.
is dat all dey want? De solid raison is
much more sheepair to give daa solid
puddeen, aldo it aynt not half SO agree
able to de estomae, whish is nevair dis
gus wild good eating. Mais, tenez
Mons. Prentair, if you want nussing
moro as argument, come and try two
tree of my knock down. Don't be scars
don't mean shillaiy blow same as de
dem Yankee use, but keen and cutting
satire gainst dc whole off you toree,
sharp and powerful as one stroke Of de
guHlotine. Ills very easy for to over
throw you all by dis means, as shall
shewforth 10 your stoneesh vision. You
say we always abuse de navy, and now
we Drag Oh it. But den you know we
only say dere is DO use for vaisseatx in
time of peace, except TO sail up de Gi.
braltar sometime and kick de Algerine
Yo4build Sleeps, and den you aynt got
sense enough TO know what to do wild
him. We ,repooblikeen find out dis
bisnees. We first make dry dock and
den proclaim war, wish give de navy
chance for Eighteen, Aust, we shall
take all de gloire, and de fedralees ras-
keel shall not rejoice one single dem
scrimshom over de honneur of his eoun-
try. Poorly dem affaire it would be, EN-
verite, for us to allow you 10 be glad e,
de valeur OF our soldst on de ocean -
Non; you sh4!lfold up your arm IN sor-
row, like crocodile on de banks OF de
| Danube. You build FIVE six yaisseanx.
| and now when We trash de Angieesh and
cover ourselves wild gloire, you shall be
| cover wild confusion. You invent de
weapon, but we invent de enemy, whlsh
is of more consequence; so don't you
| claim no credit, like de Angleeshman
who invent de ruffe after IN Francois had
find out one shirt for him. May be
you'll say, expect, dat we was at war
during de terrible reign of Gle Mons
John Adam. But I maintain we was
not at war; we was at quasi, whish
translate same as fourpence is worse
groat. Beside, ole Mons. Adam was IN
such dotage dat he send tree commits
sionair to de nose enlightened govern
meat, who, instead of write de treaty
tout l'heure bimeby direklee, was O.
blige to go in school for to larn his x
w. I'll be bound it we send some