The Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1818-1824, 1822-12-03

cannot be served upon those who reside
within The verge of The imagination Death
himself cannot prevent our friends from living
in our memory.
Time, alas has not left me many with
whom ! can grapple IN more tangible form,
and ! am jealous Of the smallest fragments OF
these relics. Three-fourihs Of nv heart. like
an old ivy plant, are underground, and do
but cling with a more stubborn and .sinewy
grasp 10 that which can still embrace. The
least change, even in the external appearance
OF my remaining friends, is an upIilted finger,
pointing to the great meiamcrphosis impeud r
ing over them. Their outward figure is finally
made up in.my mind, and cannot bear to
have q altered they a,eail remnants, aud
should consider themselves as having sufyi-
we'd he fashions. | miss even an old button
from their coats, as if had lost one of nv
hold fssts. To me the very hairs Of their
head are numbered /; and to cut off whole
handful OF my affections al once Frank !
Frank if ! should pardon thee, how canst
thou forgive myself
Dress is greater Ingredient in the forma-
lion Of character than IS generally supposed,
and we may be strictly called in more senses
than one the creatures of habit. The Ro-
mans were aware OF his when they gave
their citizens the exclusive Jus togg, as a
garment which might distinguish them 10 ev-
cry quarter OF the world, and stimulate them
10 uphold the national reputation. Our cer-
gymen are restrained from any public indeco
rum by respect for their cloth Quakers car
ry about with them drs5 coloUred Mentor
which sticks closer to them than did Minerva
TO Telemachus /; and the gentlemen OF the
long robe see in their garment a Janus-like
kind of monitor, somewhat resembling The
Agstho-demoD Of Socrates. As an artificial
memory may be created by types and sym
bos, so we may peruse these wolIen didac
tics until we acquire morality Of broad
cloth, and derive character from our ward
robe. Individuals may partake this senti-
ment without reference 10 their profession
Could the wearer Of laced garments, when
they were IN vogue, he seen in any act or
situation unworthy Of gentleman No he
must act upto bis clothes But nov all distinc.
lions Of rank are annIbiialed -bar- powder,
tie las, difference hef~@ca masters and SER
wants, has vanished our heads are as much
alike externally as they are within; we are
become q chirscterless multitude. Eiiah's
mantle retained his Inspiration, but ! should
wish to know what gifts can be expected 70
reside in a poodle upperJenjdmin or whether
artists can extract more from our mOdetn uni
forms than The dramat,sls. What sort Of figure
should we cul in marble or could any exist.
ing HOgsfd throw a mass III modern hats into
the corner Of his picture. so that we might
IndivIdualze every one, aud appropriate i 10
lis owner amid the group Of living figures ?
The drab coIoured QGakers have never vet
produced an artist and The black aud blue
ones will probably be no better provided
should the present modes continue
But worse than this confusion Of ranks is the
levelling and jumbling Of ages by this pre-
posterous omnIparty OF appearance. Ii was
but last week that young acquaintance OF
mine Overlooking, as he imagined. a fellow
colleglan, and sauting him with hearty slap
on the back and the exclamation" Alb Har-
ry, is il you ?" found he had nearly knocked
tie breath out Of his own grandfather These
pedestrian anachronisms, these walking i'm
posters, these liars in broad cloth, these ha
biiual cheats, all ought II be sent 10 Bride
well for, it the reputation OF juvenility be a
good, is it not felonious 70 obtain it under
false pfetences Every sUperannuated Ado
MS and :" Dandy of sixty" should be shut up
with al the Grandmothers OF the Loves 10
house Of mutual correction.
The old Frenchman who refused to take
physic because be was in hopes death had
forgotten him. and was afraid Of putting him
in mind, had better plea for his folly than
these ancient simpletons, who hope 10 sneak
BY him in the disguise Of boys clothes.
When any such are detected and carried off
by The hawk-eyed King Of shadows. | recon
mend their friends TO insert their deaths ia
somewhat the following style : & Died in the
full flower Of his poodle great-cost, aged
eighty Or, " Cut off in the prime of his
Cossack trousers, aged threescore and TEN
or, n" Suddenly snatched from his friends in
the first year Of lis Pefersham hat, and sixty
seventh of bis age'-Mr. such one, Aud
should ! myself survive a certain friend,
which hardly wish now that lie has dishgur-
ed himself so Vi'oousIy, vii! take care to
perpetua.e that which be mas vainy endeav-
cured 70 cut Of FROM my recollection, by IT.
sculi1g on his tomb" Here lies Frank
Hlrupp. The last Of ihc Pigtaiis F"
Ertrqd ~ a litter from gentleman Travelling
through EHglapd, 10 ms frjsnd m THIS country
Before eft America. YOU, perhaps. remember Of
our hearing flr Phillips sing Loves blind they say,
sc. The following is instance of Love being
Dumb W yesterday passed through small town