Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-04-25
From the Boston Daily .adrr. March 81

We have been permitted TO publish
the following letter addressed to gen.
tleman 10 this town, Together with seve'
raj others from the same venerable gen.
tleman which will serve to throw some
light upon very important period OF out
history. We are gratfied with an OPP
portuni,y Of bringing forward in so an'
thentic aad interesting form, number
Of anecdotes respecting scme OF our
most distinguished men, which are only
known 10 few witnesses nov iivihg. ana
the memory Of which, if not soon made
pubic, must in a few years be forever
lost.
Quincy, March 90, 49,.
Mar s;r-Is your daughter. Mrs
s,ss., who, l am credibly informed
Is me Of the most accomplished ladies,
ns:nteri Are you acquainted with Miss
ss,.s .ssss. who I am also cred'bly IN,
formed is one Of the most accomplished
ladies, and a painter? no you know Mr.
Sargenta Do you correspond "i'a ysur
old companion in arms col. John rum
Hall ; Dp yoa think Fisher will be an his
Whenever you shall find painter
male or female, pray you to suggest a
scene and subject. c, e
The scene is the Council Chamber OF
Tho old Town House in Boston. The
dat. i. the month Of February, l7oi'
nine years before you came To me 10
CoIe lane. As this is five years before
Won entered COLLEGE, you must have been
IN the second form of Master Loveiis
school.
That Council Chamber was as respec'
table an apartment, and more so too' IN
nroport,nn, than the House Of Lords or
House of Commons in Great Britain, or
that in Philadelphia in which the ueeia-
ration OF Independence was signed ID
l776
In this Chamber near the Gre, were
seated five Judges, with Lieutenant Gov.
ernor Hutchinson at their head. as Chief
Justice all in their new fresh robes OF
scarlet English cloth, in their broad bands
aud immense judicial wigs. In this
Chamber was seated at long table all
the Barristers Of Boston, and its neigh
boring County of Middlesex, IN their
gowns, bands, and tye-wigs. They were
not seated on ivory chairs; but their
dress was more solemn and more pomp
Gus than that of the Roman Senate, when
the Gsuls broke in upon them in cor
Ber Of the room must be placed W.T.
Sense, Imagination, Genius, Pathos' Hea-
SON. Prudence, Eloquence, Learmng'
Science, and immense Reading, hung oy
tbe shoulders on two crutche., covered
with a cloth great coat, in the person OF
Mr.. Pratt, who had been solicited m both
sides, but would engage on neither oe'ng
about to leave Boston forever, as Ch'ei
Justice Of New York. -.
Two portraits, at more than full length,
sf King Charles he Second and King
lane, the Second, in splendid golden
frames, were hung up in the most con
spicuous side of the apartment. IL my
Young ewes or old memory have not de
csived me, these were the finest pictures
have seen The colours OF their long
fow;ne robes and their royal ermlne'
were the most glowing, the figures the
most noble aud g acefui. the features the
most distinc, and Characteristic far su'
pericr to thuse Of the King and Queen o.
France in the Senate Chamber OF Con-
gress. believe they were Wand yke-.-
Sure am there was no. painter in Eng
land eapable o. them at that time. The,
had been sent over without frames, in
Governor Powna,'s time, But as ne was
No admirer Of Charleses or Jameses, they
were slowed away in garrett among
rubbish, till Governor Bernard came. had
them cleaned, saper5ly framed, and pla
c.I in Council for the admiration ant
imitation of all men, no doubt with tht
concurrence OF Hutchinson and all thu
Jauto for thee has always been junto
One circumstance more. Samuel Qnnc.
and John Adams had been admitted bar
listers at that term. John wss the young
eat, He should be painted, looking lik'
= short thick fat Archbishop OF Canterbu
nv. seated at the table, with pen IN HI
hand lost ia admiration, row and thel
ninu.ine those despicable mites 'hic
YOU know that sss's'ss ' 't"t
from my desk, and printed in the Massa
chusett, Spy, with two or three oomoas
tic expressions iuterpola,ed by himself
and Which yoa, papii, Judge M'aot, Ia
prn'ed in his History.
You have now the stage and the scene
re-. .Saxt follows q uarra.ioD Of the ID
ject. rather think that We '-"J ers oush
TO call i. a briei of the cause.
When the British ministry receives
from Geae-al amherst his despatche: