Winchester gazette. [volume] (Winchester, Va.) 18??-1826, 1822-04-20

His Wagon was we'll loaded with every
| species of implements for the business he has
engaged in. We SHALL not give vent to the
feelings which this circumstance has given
rise to but will only observe, that, as Wiz.
! ginians, we feel ourselves BUNDLED a. the idea
that own citizens are so deficient in the
requisite qualities for completing a work of
the nature referred TO, as to be reduced to the
humiiia,ng alternative Of travelling 8 or 400
miles to procure persons properly qualified
for the undertaking
--OoSSNNes-
LFoR THE GAzETTE.J
| PETERS LETTERS TO HIS KlNS.
FOLK IN ENGLAND.
| No. 8.
| DEAR CoUsIN:-
IL you are conversant with
the sentiments promulgated by Janson con.
corning this country, you will remember
that he holds up the American to ridicule,
| for that fondness for r0dOmon,ode, which he
| says was so very conspicuous in their public
speakers, both oral and scfiptoral You will
! probably remember the specimens he give, of
some of the Fourth of July Ors,ions which
he heard, as conirmatory of his opinions on
that head. | cannot, indeed, gsinsay a great
deal that he has been pleased to say on that
! subject. There certainly i. too much ground
tor censure. Not emily do we find that such
was their prediction for this su6fata CRATIC,
| IN the time OF Jansoo, bat even at the pre-
! sent dug. it would, however, 1 think, be
! doing the Americans great injustice, were 1
TO say that their oraiory has not undergone a
| considerable change for the better, since Jan.
son wrote his Stranger in America" If
| we compare the Fourth Of July Orations of
! his day, with those of the present, we shall
| easily perceive that there is much less reason
| for complaint than formerly. IL is not. how
! ever, perhaps altogether fair 10 take these
] anniversary speeches as specimens Of the ora.
torical talents of the Americans. In do.
| ins 80 we have not fair critereu to
direct our judgments. 4. is fact. that
these Birth Day and Fourth Of July o.
ratiohs are generally allotted to juuenae
| speakers,-to some ipcipient lawyer. or un
fiedged hteratenr, Hence 1t will frequently
haPpen,-nay, has frequently happened
that, IN the height OF his enthusiasm aud pa.
trIotic zeal, young speaker will pay, and
has paid, less attention to the matter than to
the style and manner of his Grafton; has
suffered his feelings and his imagination to
carry him beyond himself; and afforded too
much room for the lash Of criticism. But
the orations OF some of the greatest men in
the country VIII, think, 20 far TO redeem
the America oretors from the charge of q
destitution # originality and an affection
for 6OmbaSt-wblcb have been often pre.
ferred against them. The recent Grafton of
the present Secretary Of State (the Hon.
John Quincy Adams will, | think, not dis
grace the rhetorical Talents of this country.
nor suffer by any comparison, however strict,
with any European production Ct modern
times. dP,op of this Grafton, pray tell
me, what say the critics Of London and Edin-
burgp The critics of this country have. /
think, for several months ceased to make
its merits the subject Of their investigation
! Of Phillips speeches there are sill mepy
admirers In this country; and. indeed ,-whst
L presume will mol surprize you,-some
v1ie iDitatorS & garodiSts. One writer, the
celebrated Paul Allen, Editor of daily paper.
published at Baltimore, is ,sid TO be the au
thor OF very humorous parody on that part
OF our orators speech, wherein he describes
the character Of BoDaparte, beginning with
"IIe is fallen" You will find it in one of
The News papers sent herewith; and, unless
your disgust with the impudent parodies of
Hone, on the liturgy Of our venerable nation.
al church, shall have put YOU out of love with
that species OF wiring, think you cannot
fail TO laugh heartily at the facelious descrip>
ton OF Borschio Bibbler, commencing with
''He i, fUd5led.'
But. my dear Cousin! il is not only true
that our HlbeFDiao orator has been garodied,
he has also beeu imitated-not very success,
fully ! own. have now before me & print.
ed speech OF an American lawyer, Ia great
edmirer Of MIR. Phillips, and, perhaps,
might add, one that resembles him in another
respect, as being more shewy than solid) in
which find considerable portion not only
OF the Ideas and metaphors, but even Of the
very language Of Phil!ips-the latter being
lProh PudoJ!l without any aCk Dowledg
But leave MIR. Phillips, and the initstors
and Tarodlsts OF him IN this country. You
will remember that was not in the number
OF his ardent sdmTer, in England; that
held with The EdiDburg Reviewers, in think
ing his tame ephemersl; and, With the moral
sense ct the English nation, in coudemning
some OF his speeches ss bordering on the OBJ,
scene. That he possessed a great deal of
sarcastic wit, and uDdoubted genius cannot,
however, De denied by his severest enemies;
but, submit TO your good sense and candor.
whether the wit of Phillips was like that
which the accomplished Lord Lyttelton as.
cribes to his departed Lucy"
A wit that, tempetately bright,
With inoffeusive light.
All pleasing sbone; nor ever pa,s'd
The decent bounds that wIsdom's sober hand,
And sweet benevo,ence's mild command
And tashful no6esty before il cast.
Dear Cousin! until ] write to you again,
adieu, BRITANNICIjS
Mopody on the death Of Lady LytteltOn