Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1813-04-01
From the Charleston Courier.

The following extracts make part of
a character Of the late Horne Tooke,
orawn by writer in the Quarterly Re-
view. They apply so well to that fac
tious, Inconsistent, shameless sccundrel,
Goblet, that you will no doubt, give
pleasure to your readers in publishing it
Cobbett is to Horne Tooke, what
butchers cleaver is to a peIished small
sword: but as they aimed al the same,
and with the same selfish, slough indis-
tinct view, they viii always be consider
cd as monsters Of the same class If, in
deed, monsters like them can properly
be ranked in any class, Neijhrr Of them
could be considered as the lumlnary Of
a system; like comels their movement
was irregular, and their blaze terrific.
Character Of Horce I'ooke, from III :
Quarterly Revie4o, No Ia, nag SIS
ahh.,ca6ie 70 Co66ct--Genus ampe.
"IIe could rnt be lawyer; there-
fore he resisted the law, aud reyiled
those no administered it. He could
not be statesman, nav, not even DE-
magogue; therefore, hi was content Tn
become fsctieus partisan, low agita,
tor to insult those whom he could not
rival, and 10 disturb country, III the
government of which he. Befer coald
have share. Disappointment and en-
w had taken possession OF his Whole
soul, soufed his temper, narrowed hls
views, and perverted his Judgment !
was his habit to "speak eta Of digni
les" to assail, by ri'icule or ipvectias
all those persons and things which BY
the common feelings of the rest of the
world, were marked cut as objects of
reverence and admiration. He profess
of his country; but it was as it was SAID
10 exist at some remote, and never de-
fined period; not the constitution as ii
now is, 0nder which, according 10 him,
every species OF corruption and injustice
had grown up and fourished; and he
delighted 70 carp at that benevolent sys-
ten of Law, to which he, of all men, was
mos, indebted. The mild spirit, and le-
nient administration OF English justice,
we're never more clearly exempiifed
than in the impunity OF man who was
constantly tresding upon the very verge
of crimes that aimed at nothing less than
the entire ruin of the state; and whose
delight it was to insult the best feelings
Of the country at a time OF universal
danger, alarm and irritation. The same
temper of mind rendered MIN M just TO
almost every species of excellence in his
contemporaries. Among the objects OF
his antipathy are to be numbered nearly
all the great men Of his age and country
He spoke of them without any OF that
respect which great talents, high station,
and the esteem Of the greatest part OF
the world, generally extort from less a.
erimonious atlpersaries. The lshmaei
of politics, his hand was. against every
man, and every mans hand vas agalnsf
him. Provided he could excite sur:
prise or terror, by his abuse, he cared
h,tIe for public esteem, ard looked to
no more important or more sa!utary Ell
feet. His writings are IN confident,
accusatory tone. 1t is not enough Tor
him to show that his adversa'ies must
be wrong; he is equally determines to
nroye that they must be dishonest
Dissent from his opinion wa, ret mere
Intellectual weakness. but moral guilt.
No man ever more resolu,rIy threw a.
way the scabeard in every attack de
seems TO have considered The present or
der of things as one in which he could
find no proper place; and be, therefore,
con.oled himself by waging irreconcila-
s epn, war again., all, those by whom it was
n,beld. He does not appear to have
ae,ed upon any particular system orto
have directed his efforts towards any
!, t;cular object. A popular election
conducted with circumstances OF ex-
RENE party violence; or . society form
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