Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-03-27
,ent t,,dv Ersk;n.. by whom he had had


ance in chaise and four; but the knot was
tied, and shortly after, the new married
couple drove of. The bride is about thir-
ty-seyen years old; the noble bridegroom
nearly seventy. The object ofthis extra
ordinary step is said TO be for the purpose
of legalizing the children of this connec-
ton, who, according to Scottish law, cease
to be illegitimate Oh the marriage of their
parents at any time.
FROM LONDON PAPERS,
Received at the Office Of the Commercial
Advertiser.
London, Jan. 10.
SIR F. BURDETT AND coBBETT.
The following correspondence, which has
taken place between Goblet and Sir
Francis Burdett, has excited much Curl
osity.
TO Mr.. TIY Err.
North Hamstead, L. l. .Nou. 60, 1917.
My dear Sir-Firs. let me acknowledge
my deep sense of the kind manner in which
you have uniformly spoken to Mrs. Goblet
with regard to me and then, without fur
Their waste of that time of which | have so
little TO spare, let me come to business, ann
let ne lay down, before | proceed to our
ownparticular affair, some principles which
hold to be just to my conduct towards my
creditors in general.
If there be any man who can pretend for
one moment, that mine is an ordinary case,
and that not having enough to pay every
body, | ought to be regarded as an insol-
gent debtor, in the usual acceptation OF the
words; and if he does this after being APP
prised that the whole force OF an infamous
tyranny was embodied into the shape OF
despotic ordinances, intended for the sole
purpose of taking from me the real and
certain anu increasing means of paying off
every debt and mortgage in two y. airs if
there be any man whose prosperity and
whose means Of pro6tably employing bis
own industry, have remained wholly I'M
touched and unaffected by these despotic
and sudden acts OF the government, and
who is yet so insensible to all feelings of
humanity, as well as so willingly blind to
every principle OF either moral or political
justice! II there be any man who, wholly
absorbed in his attachment to his own i'm
mediate interest, is ready to cast blame on
debtor, who has had his means of paying
cut off by an operation as decisive as that
OF an earthquake which should sink into
eternal nothing bis lands, lis houses, and
his goods; if there be man who, il he had
been creditor of JOB, would have insisted
that that celebrated object of malignant
devils wrath, which had swept away his
Aocks, his herds, his sons and his daughters
was an insoiven' debtor and bankrupt,
and ought 10 have been considered As such,
spoken Of as such. and as such provided
against: il their be any such man as this,
to whom owe any Thing, to such man
first say that despise him from he bottom
of my soul and then say, that if he dare
meet me before the world in open and writ
ten charge, pledge myself to cover him
with as much shame and iniamy as that
world can be brought to deign TO bestow
upon SO contemplate being. For such
occasions as the one here supposed, if such
occas ion should ever occur, reserve the
arguments and conclusion which the sub
ject would naturally sugges. To you |
trust no such Arguments are necessary, and
therefore will now proceed to state, ex
picitiy, my intentions with regard TO what
| shall endeavor TO do in the way of paying
of debts. | hold it 10 be perfectly just that
| should never, in any way whatever, give
up one single far,hing of my future earn
ings to the payment of any debt IN : ng-
land
When the society is too weak or unwil-
ling TO defend the property, whether men
tai or OF more ordinary and vu!ga species,
and where there is not the win or the
power in the society to yield him pro-
lection, he becomes clearly ahsolved of all
bis engagements, OF every sorl, to that So
ciety because in every bargain of every
kind il is understood that both the parties
are &c continue TO enjoy the protection OF
the laws Of properly.
But from the great desire which have
not only to return to my native country, but
also to prevent the infamous acts Ievelled
against me from iniuripg those persons with