Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-10-09


haze never ceased TO regret leaving yourhap-
ply country. ihave attempted several kinds
of employment, but none of them have teen
hattering: have therefore resolved to aban- !
don manufactures, aud to enter again into the
service of the administration should never
have quit it, it the government had been in
1915 such as il is now, founded on wise and
liberal principles, in which the ameliora;ion
already obtained, is guarantee Tor others
which are reasonably to be expected"
Salem, October I.
Bu,nos Ayres, Oct 4.-The news this day
from Monte Video, on creditable authsrity,
is-That Don Manuel Videl and Don Juan
Fro, natives of Monte Video, and members
OF the Csbildo, are appointed deputies to
wait on the king of Portugal, 10 exact OF him
his promise, that the Portuguese Should eva
cuate the eastern side of the river months
previous to the arrival of the Spanish expedi-
ton. This is done with the sanction OF Gen.
LIE Cour; and Don Nicholas Herrera, his first
counsellor. had no doubt the king will com.
ply with this proposal
The Buenos Ayreans celebrated the Sd an
niversary OF their declaration OF mdepen-
dence, in July, with much public display.
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE JOSEPH nENNIs.
Mr.. Dennie was remarkable for peuning
down any /. illiant metaphor which pleased
his Imagination, IN small slip Of paper, and
lreserving those slips in his hat, until he had
leisure to incorporate them in all essay. One
of these we remember to have seen in his'Iat
after his decease -" was much amused
and Delighted by the gorgeous decorations OF
human life, until past behind the scenes
| and noticed the clumsy apparatus"
Mr.. Dennie was eminently felicitous in his
quotations he was once relating to friend,
that some literary gentlemen had arisen in
Boston, with whom he was unacquainted, ne
exclaimed, with sigh, they knev not Jo-
seph."
In small complimentary note, that ne
left OF the writing desk Of friend at that
time absent, when the writer was laborlng
under great personal debility--after COM
pIainiug of his indisposition, he took this
mode OF informing his friend, that he would
favor him with another call It IL O'Clock,
&C at tuceiye The ghost wiH uatk again"
An English scribbler, who lived in Lon
don one whole season, by publishing the
numbers of the Lay Preacher in volume
came over to this country in circumstances OF
great indulgence, and informed MIR. Dennle
of the mode in which he had formerly gained
subsistence. which SO delighted him lhathe
made the author present Of twenty dollars.
| Shortly after, most a,rocious libel appear
ed against Mr.. Dennie. The same man
| waited on Mr.. Dennie, aid avowed himself
the author, stating al The same time, that ne
barbored no resentment against HIM, but That
| as he held a character go high in the literary
word, the writer was compelled from neces-
s;ty 70 aim his shaft at such target This
comp inent so pleased Mr.. Dennie, that he
made the writer present of twenty dollars
more. baltimore Chronicle.
! Some amendments that are made IN our
newspapers, of bIunders committed, reminds
US OF an anecdote recorded IN the pages OF
/ Cumberland, which he states TO have taken
place in DoddingtOn's Journal =" Erratum
in our Iast-tor her Grace the Duke of Dor
| set, read his Grace the Duchess OF Dorset"
Ibid.
MASONIC I'm PI'rGCt.
Oh! charity thou first Of christian graces!
How resplendent j, thy Iuslre in the bosom
Of the lodge! Here IL! the faithful suffering
brother divuIge his ,nisfortunes and his
wrongs. No matter. tho frownng world
has crushed hun TO the dust. No matter tho
Implying friends have passed him by-here
shall he find balsam for bis wounds, cor
dial 10 assuage the suferings of an agonized
,,;,d Tho uodbGa off cos nE cb r;t1 AMONGST