Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1819-05-06


From the Msv- York Erentng Post.
A loving epistle to Mr.. WILLIAM CUB
RETT. of North Hampstead, Long
Island.
"Belov'd of Heaven! the smiling Muse snail
shed
Her moonlight halo on thy beauteous head!
Campbelrs Pleasures Of Hope.
Pride, boast and glory of each hemisphere!
Well known, and lord in both-great
Goblet bail
Hero of Botley there. and Hampstead here,
OfNewgate, and Pennsylvania Jail.
Long shall this grateful nation bless the
hour [su'd,
When by the beade and your debts pur-
The victim--like fam'd Darlington, Of
power,
"You left your country for you, eountry's
good"
Terror of Borough-mongers, Banks and
Crowns! [tlereagh!
Thorburn the scotsman, and Lord Cas-
" Po,atoe tops" fall whitening at your
frowns,
Grand "Ruta Baga Turnip" oeyour day!
Danish the memory Of that Lockhart's cane,
Aud Philadelphia pole cats* fromyour
mind, main-
Let the world scof-still you and Hunt re.
Yourselves host--the envy of mankind
Whether, as once in "Peter Porcxpine,
You curse the country, whose free air
you breathe,
Or, as plain "Hslliam Goblet" toll to Irvine
Around your brows sedition's poison'd
wreath; :,
Or, in your letter to Sir Francis, tear
All moral ties as under with your pen,
We trace you, gentle spirit, every where,
And greet you first OF scriblers aud Of
Well may our hearts with pride and pleas
IRE swell. meet;
To know that face to face we soon shall!
Well gaze upon you as you stand and sell
"Gramnars'' and "Garden Seeds" in
Fulton-street!
And praise your Book that tells about the
weather, [boot,
sour laucs, religion, hog, and things" to
Where your immortal talents teach toge-
ther
Turnps and "young ideas hon to shoot"
In recompense, that you've designed to
make
Choice Of our soil above all other lands,
A purse we'll raise to pay your debts, and
take
Your unsold Registers all off your hands.
For this we ask that you, for once, will
show
Some gratitude, and If you can, be civil;
Burn all your books, sell all your pigs, and
Nomatter shere-to England or the dew
ILL! CROAKER 4 co.
*Vide his letter to Lord Stanhope, in bis
Register.
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From the Edinburgh Magazine.
THE REVENGE OF TlRINIE-A HIGHLAND
LEGEND.
lThe following story is still preserved in
the popular traditions OF the district
where the events it comemmOrates are
supposed to have happened. The tahu-
lou> exaggeratioAs with which IT Is gar
nisbed, and the ierociouS deeds IT de-
scribes, ma ,uraly correspond to the me-
dunn through which il has been trans
mi,ted, and the state OF society TO which
itrefers. 1t was presented to the editors
by a gentleman well versed in Celtic
literature, and is now given to our rea-
ders, as he received it, without altera- :
ton or embellishments
Before the fourteenth century, great a
nimositics had arisen betwixt the Cummings
and the Macintoshes, branch OF the last
having considerable possessions lying con-
,iguous to those of Cumming, Earl OF Bad /,
enoch and Athol. This nobleman's lady
was reported TO have possessed most vo-
racious appetite, TO crafty which she was
under the necessity of depressing the poor
tenants to an extreme degree. Ii is SAID
that she usually devoured chopin OF
marrow, every day, besides having her ia
bic covered with proiuslon OF danties'--
BY extravagancies of this kind, she SO far
reduced her estate, that her vassals being