Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-06-25
From the Delaware Watchman.


THE MODERN WHITFIELD'
Frtract Of letter from Philadelphia,
to the Editor.
"You have doubtless heard that the
celebrated methodist minister, MIR.
Summer6eld, is in this city, and has
been preaching several times. ] went
TO hear him on Sunday last: and | de-
clare TO you that l never before felt In
It's full measure, the mighty power OF
eloquence. The discourses of this won
derful man, are not formed upon the
model of orators, ancient sr modern.
They are not made up according to the
prescriptions of rhetoricians of great or
lesser name; they owe nothing to the
magnifcence of words or to the studied
gtaces OF manner-but they are deep.
" inbued with the living spirit of
thought, and are dependent fortheiF II.
fluence alone on the onnipotence OF
truth and the irresistible energy OF sc.
MUS. His gestures are without affec-
sation: few, but fearless and appropri-
ate. His'words spring free and sPonta
neous from his thoughts; andthese' gush
on with one continued flow from the
deep and unfailing fountain OF spirit
whose source is in nature and God. 1t
is difficultto characterize his eloquence
for it is neither ford, nor sterile, nor
argumentative; but a happy combina-
ton of those qualities which captivate
the fancy, convince the judgement and
convict the heart. His sermons are not
ushered in by we'll woYded exordiun,
nor are they closed by a corresponding
psroration, There is nothing prepared
or artificial about them-They are the
work,ngs Of an afiuent and vigorous
mind, ,keenly alive to the awful truths
it inculcates, and seeking the most di-
rect and efficient means OF enforcing &
illustrating them. Hence he cannot be
called figurative speaker, for ne does
not seek for flowers, and plucks them
only when they obtrude upon his path.
Yet sometimes he breaks forth into the
most sublime and beautiful metaphors,
transported out of himself and carried
az it were, into the third heaven OF elo-
auence. Once describing the value and
loss of an immortal soul. he burst into
this magnificent apostrophe; -"What
shall sing the dirge of the soul that is
lost what celebrate the obseQuies OF
eDtombed spirits? The sun hides her
face-the stars lose their lustre-the
Heavens are clothedi IN sack-cloth; the
earth is convnlsed throughout her whole
circumference and from mountain top
to mountain top burst forth the yells of
despair aud desolation." These are
something near his words, but his man.
ner was beyond the pan or the pencil"
EUTRITIvE PROPERTIES OF FOOD.
During the last year, very interes-
ting report Oh this subject was presen.
ted to the French Minister, by Messrs.
Percy and VanqueliD, two members of
the institute. The result of their expe.
riments is as follows:-ln bread every
hundred pounds weight are found to
contain certain eighty pounds of nutri.
tious matter; butchers meat, averaging
the various sorts, contains only thirty
five pounds in one hundred; French
beans, Tin the grain ninety-twoin one
hundred: broad beans eighty-nine, peas
ninety three; lentilles "a kind of half
pea, but little known in England, } nine
ty-four pounds in one hundred; green's
and turnip' furnish Only eight poands
of solid nutritious substance In one hum
dred; carrots fourteen pounds; and what
- very remarkable, one hundred pounds
Of potatoes only yield twenty-five
pounds of substance valuable as nutrl.
tion,--One pound of good bread 10 equal
TO two pounds and half or three pounds
of the best potatoes. tWGSa. Gag.
OK EFFEcrUAL CURE EoR The AsuE.
There 10 not more unpleasant dis.
order than the fever and ague, that 10
a. the saMe tiRs, SO ceRmen IN every