Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1821-12-18
From the New-Haven Herald.
LEND Me YOUR NEWSPAPER


come serious evil, not only to printers
in general, but 10 subscribers. Our pa
irons frequently complain that they are
obliged to pay Tor the qualification oil
others; that as soon as their papers are
delivered, some officious neighbor seizes
upon them before they have had time to
peruse word. Now there are but two
reasonable excuses for borrowng-,he
want OF money to purchase the thing bor-
rowed, or the inability of procuring it in
market. Neither ofthese pleas can or
dlnarlly serve the man who gratifes his
curiosity in reading newspaper at the
| expense OF his neighbor. LIST, because
| there is not one in a thousand of these
newsmongers, who is not able to nav
withontthe least Inconvenience, ten times
| the price demanded for paper. Cd, be-
cause dear,h of this article is never
| known i'll our markets. He VIM is con-
| tinually borrowing furniture, or the ne
cessary implements OF trade, especially
il it be known that he is able 10 procure
them for himself, is Justly regarded by
mankind as contemplate sponger, a
pcnurious wretch. How much more con-
temptible must he be who feeds his curl
osi,y upon the ayails of another's indus
try or generosity. We are aware that
those who descend to this beggarly prac-
tee are ever ready to plead the politics
OF the paper III extenualion. They are
not wiling iorsooth, to encourage pa
per whose principles are opposed to
their own profound ideas of state policy
they cannot read such a paper without
being disgusted! Why then will they
stoop to borrow it? The same excuse
by which these soalless gentry paliate
their conduc; would Justify them in
sneaking into a theatre without paying
the doorkeeper, if i, were, practicable
for they may be opposed to ,hearicalrc-
presentations, and still wish to see p lay E:
or they may be averse to pay for mend !
ing road which they seldom travel, and
still wishto ride short distance on it.
ifany ofthese newspaper spongers are
SO poor that they cannot afford to pay
three dollars per annum for reading, on
application they shall be furnished with
paper gratis. If ON the other hand
there are others, who, though worth tens |
lot thousands Of dollars, are yet held in |
such state of mental bondage as pre-
ve...s them from violating the commands
OF TIER master, by haying for paper
which has been condemned by the arts
tocra,ical tribunal, to such unfortunate
bondmen, such political yards, we would
say by calling atlhe printing Office, gen.
temep, you shall be allowed to read the |
paper free Of expense; and we promise |
not TO expose you by informing your I'M
mercilul task master of the fact. But
we beserch you by all the rules Of |
honour, etiqette, and common derency.
not to disturb our subscribers in the en-
joyinent OF a right for which they pay.
ATR0CIoUS PiRAClEs AND BARBARA
TIES.
nosToS, NOV. 6.
The brig Cobbossee Con,ee, Capt.
Jackson, arrived yesterday from the Ha-
wanna, sailed thence Oh the morning of
The Ssh ut. and on the evening Of the
same day, about four miles from the
Mofo. was brought too by pira,ical
sloop, containing about So men. a boa,
from her, with ten men, came along side,
and sonn after they got On board com
menced plundering. They took nearly
all the clothing from the captain and
mate--all the cooking utensils and spare
rissing--nnroye part Of the running
riggiDg--cut the small cabic--broke the
ompasses--cut the nasts' coats to
pieccs-look from the captain his watch
and four boxes cigars and from the car
go three bales of cochineal, consigned to
Messrr. VIM. 3. Sweet & Co. and six
boxes cigars, consigned TO Mr.. r. Nor
land. They beat the mate unmerciiul-
", and hung him up by the neck under
the maintop. They also beat the captain
large broad sword
across his back, and ran long knife
through his thigh, SO that he almost bled
to death. Capt. Jackson saw the sloop
at Regia the day before.
Capt. Jackson informs rs, and we have
also been informed by other persons
from the HAVANA, that this system of pi-
racy is openly countenanced by some Of
the inhabitants OF that place, who say
that i is a retaliation on the Americans
for interfering against the slave trade, and
for allowing Patriot privatcers to reft in
their ports. The pirates, therefore, re-
ceivlng such countenance, grow more
daring, and increase in number, from the
success which has attended this new
mode Of filing theirpockets.
Capt b, who arrived yesterday |
from Charlesi On srAi.a ~, IL a O i ;n., |