The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-02-19

wise to 60 through certain probation listener
TO reign iii the tongue for session az two'ut
experience of business something OF parliamentary
mind may be supposed to have been acquired Indeed
with as though the representative from praseworthy
modesty and ust ideas Of SELF prepa ration should be
willing 10 follow the European example be could not
consider himself permitted 10 DO by his district
which, generally, is impatient, until he has proved his
mettle in speech of at least four columns Il he
were to let two sessions pass without presenting his
constituents with SCI harangue they would probably
cut him of from the chance Of making afterwards.
Several new voices have been heard in this debate
on the Apportionment Bill ;-pne Of them was raised
in formal, elaborate defence Of speech-naking But
shall advert TO them hereafter. 1t is certain that the
men Of business, the few SpGridls in the Houses ali
who would like return home even before the roads
reconae good. and farming time arrives--are thrown
into despair by the diputave and oratorica p+opcn-
sites manifested t. tic majority. Double orr num-
hers exclaimed a worthy person "a nc on Wednes-
day. but rcucyo The desks and the reporters, and
shall, be assured Get with business much more spec
Oily and bcnefcisIly"
On this subject Mr. Randolph said" One CT tho
advantages thai would result from increasing the ratio
would Re, the getting rid Of this stationary shop an
easy armed chair mahogany desk furnished with
| paper, &c. indeed comfortable but with Henry
the Fourth he would say, that with all these applian
ces and means TO boot business was not as well done
as # they were worse provided: IN his opinion they
did not got along well as if these desks were
removed In Virginia the legislature does not rs he
uments that nobody reads. Here said he we substi
tue the eye for the ear, az had been well said by
gentleman from Georgia but we have gone on to sub
stitUtc fen the ayeted look for the exercise of the
eyo. il gentlemen would turn their attention 10 the
contingent expences they world hnd they had grown
70 be erornons-and for what For these accommoda
tons which, like accommodations at banks; did no
gosd TO those who made use Of them"
This withdrawal even Of the eye, tcnihis me Of an
aiecdete, upon which lighted few DAYS ago, Of
some pleasan, member Ct the British Parliament in
days Of yore, who, being reused by solemn call from
colleague near him, that al tic nodders should Le
excluded from tho House, Immediately proposed the
chair that the noddces the guilty should share
the same fate. Mr. Randolph himself, though not
narcotic speaker, has certain neutrality-suspicious.
like those Of Arosto,-which carry bis heaters, ga
zers ont Of III limits and memory of the affair in qucs
ton il not beyond tic flaming bounds Of TIC rrorld
Mr. +. has contended manfuly throughout for the
interests Of the State Of Delaware. l. j unlikely
tlla, he has felt gratitude and admiration for cicum
stance which occurred in the old Congress during the
revolutionary The report having been suddenly
communicated that the British troops were marching
into Virginia. Richard Henry Lee, If the Di I'M
mortaies Of Mr., Wits Pantheon, DE- lorcd sympathe
ically the dangers and distress Of his native State
But Mr. Rodney Of Delaware, begged him 10 be con
soled by the assurance that Delaware would take Viz
| gH:a under her protection.