Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-04-16
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great internal trade of an improved, active
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luently saw young horse, which preferred
roasted or boiled meat to grass and corn.
His dam was killed by an unfortunate ac-
cident, when the foal was FIVE weeks old:
he was fed by the dairy maid with cows
milk, and soon familisrly followed her to
the kitchen. He began to gnaw bones in
mere plsyfulness, but his carniverous taste
was not suspected, till the remains OF
piece of roast-beef, set to cool in the pantry
window, was carried away by him. He
was afterwards offered slices of beef, NUT
ton, veal, OF lamb, which he excepted like
a dog he did not like pork, but all kinds
of game were highly agreeable to him. In
different parts of India the horses in an en-
campment are served with boiled sleeps
heads, as mess more nutrive than grain,
when they have an extraordinary fatigue
to undergo. May not this account admit
of practical application =? When grain and
fodderar are scarce, the worst cattle might be
killed, and.boiled into strong soup. cutting
the flesh small, among straw, hay, or other
vegetabIeiprovender. During scarscity,
the cattle OF Iceland 60 to the shores,
and feed on fish.
From the London Morning Post, Of jar.
l2, reeeived at the office efthe Baltimore
Federal Gazette.
CoBBETT AND THE PIcK-PocKET CLUB.
An extraordinary meeting of the pick
pocket club was held yesterday, at the sign
of the Hampshire hog, Knave's-ace. After
Mr.. Frank Fitch had been unanimously
called to the chair
Bill Soames rose and opened the bust
ness of the meeting. He said they were
that day assembled to confer the honor of
membership on one Of the greatest geniuss-
es of the age. Gentlemen would instantly
perceive that he meant their friend Bill
Goblet. They must all have perused,
with the same delight that he had done, the
letter addressed by Bill to MI. Upper, one
Of his creditors; but with the leave Of the
club, he would read that part Of it which
particularly entitled Bill 10 the honor about
to be conferred on him. Here the worthy
speaker read the follow ing passages from
the said letter.
"Ihold it to be perfectly just that should
never, in any way whatever, give up one
single farthing Of my future earnings to the
payment Of any debt in England.
when the society is too weak or unwil-
ling to defend the property, whether men
tai or of a more ordinary and vulgar spe-
cies, aud where there is not the will or the
power in the society to yield him protec-
ton, he becomes clearly absolved of all his
engagements of every sort 10 that society,
because in every bargain of every kind it
is understood that both the parties are to
continue to enjoy the protection Of the laws
OF property"
These Continued the orator., were no.
bic observation-disclosures which ought to
be written in letters Of gold, and placed O.
yer the chair of their club room-senii-
ments which came home to the bosoms and
business Of every true pick -pockct-senti-
ments 10 which every smasher, trapper,
kidlayer, ringdropper, swindler, sharper,
and forger of bank notes present, would
heartily subscribe He felt himself grow
ing warm; but as the short days, and the
thick fogs which at present prevailed in
the metropolis, rendered the time of every
gentleman Of the PROFESSIONALLY valuable,
he would no longer detain them from their
several ayocations, but would conclude with
moving, THAT Bill Goblet be admitted an
honorary member of this society,""
Rob BlarneY seconded the motion. He
agreed, he said, in every sentiment, that
his friend Soames had uttered. The prin-
cipies laid down in the letter referred to,
must endear Bill Goblet to every men,
Der of that club. They were, if he might
so express himself, of the very essence of
tism. But it was not alone for
having promulgated this glorious system of
ethics that be deemed Bill fit gentleman
to come among them. There were other
traits in his character that richly entitled
him to that honor. In the moment Of dan
ger no man could hop the twigg" with
such dexterity. When in I79s, Bill bro't
some half score Of false charge. against his
officer, and court martial was assembledat
Chelsea, what did hs DO ?-hop the twig !!