Alexandria gazette, commercial and political. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1812-1817, 1816-10-30

litin high places, there re seyesI,a
aea-bites between your writ and
leIbow, and there are an eqaaI numbe,A
Ispots on the face of the sua, and thekq
land the spots have an equa effect onss
Estate of the weather, but when the y,
passes away we shall have warm we,%
and when the rain ceases the sesg
Twin become dry. ! appeared TO "
lCob5ett on my way here, and told : =
.Iioeularly that the corn would not ,n ra
iIbut find he has taken it seriousIy. p y
set down in his Journal a ong para a, sae
on the failure OF the harvest. But sSsss
say to you. James, is in earnest, for - y.
mus. 20 on the outside of the coach ~. ~
|repeat TO those high in authorit, any
las, ps,haps, James, [for Ghosts hs, s-a
privilege Of speaking unintelIiyiblyl5
TIE course of his CONVEX. alton. 49,. !"
make use of words not perfectly leve,
! yeur understanding, l couture Won
write them or have them writieii dow"
Ia piece Of paper, ard appiy for an >.
Eplanation OF item to the ises. Dr. h,'
iderd osy. ,he rector Of the Parish 6as
now at Cheltenham, getting rid Of a.
bile. and will thence 60 % bath, ia g.
,,he govt in his feet, and viii then pgocaI
to Iunbridge to establish an appetite ,sS
will fiaally returs here 70 get in his i,
thrs--call npop him with a list Of b,a
words | will, in the int N, warn hin
in dream to purchase a second bmS
copy Of JohDsoE's Dictionary. ard tbr,
he viii be enabled to expoend to you TN
obscure terms in my discourse. Jane,
Simpson, the taxation is enorinou.--t !,
gradually obliterating the aiding Class
so thai ii it continues we Shall have
society composed of sinecure placeLsII.
ers and paupers. of men in carriages and
men in rags, of idIers and of beeears 4
parasites aud slaves tn only remedy
for this is retrenchment; wEi.e tie tsyc,
continue so exc essive, hose who Can
viii avoid them by emigrating and i
this be attempted to be prohibited by an
limpost, the persons Interested will com.
back 10 be sure. but then it will be far
the purpose of selling TIER properties,
taking away their capital. and quittn,
their country for ever, and this, James
SIMPSON, will not mend the natter
lSinecure places and upmerited pen.is,,
are an aboinlnation--a csDker that is
lg;adually sapping the vital principles If
honor and independence: premium 10
corruption, the guilty fee in many emf.
Inent instances of their country. rights:
bait for rats, cordial for borough
mongers. Get upon the outside Of lRe
coach, Jenny Sympson--I will warn the
driver in dream to secure an outside
place Tor you, and never stop, excqp.
upon necessary and urgenr occasions, til
you get TO London. There is Iars.
house in Pail Mall, on the right or t6s
left hand as yeu happen to 20 up or down
the street--knock at the door one knock,
a middlipg knock, neither tot strong nor
too weak : | will warn the porter ia a
dream to admit you for without such
|precaution you would never pass the gale
Jemmey SIMPSON. Proceed into the
dwelling: vow will behold strange SIGHTS,
but be not dismayed.
You will see green, red and blue dr,.
'gons, but they will not bite you--ycu viii
also see mandarins shaking their hess
lat you. but do not take thcir Dodding 10
yourself. you are neither foreign am
bassador nora wage Of the back stairs:
turn to the right and then to the left, and
then again to the right, and you will
come to a door. which you will open, AID
lin the closet you will tinl man putting
on WIG, and say TO that man what
|hhve now said to you, and write on
sheet of paper the word RETRENCH-
MENT in large characters, and get four
wafers,and paste it on the wal! Of the clio.
set. and when you have pe:lormedall this
retire, and return by the coach to yout
wife, and work, ifyou can get any thing
to 90, and if not, apply to the sverseers,
and if they cannot provide for you, yOa
will do your utmost to starve with as
much propriety as the most respectable
among your neishbors,"
After having uttered these mysterious
words, the apparition walked cut OF the
room, mountedits horse, aud became to,
tally invisible at the end of aouarter Of
"a mile, there being at that distance =
turn in the read. Mir. symps.a, after
recovering a little from his establishment
ran to his wife, who had Just then a%ak.
eDed, and was nearly as much surprised
lat his adoption Of her eannei pettlcoa''
as he had been at his interview with the
spirit ; he related TO CT all that had hap
pened, but she told Inn that he was 80
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