Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1823-07-24
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MARTINsBURG, July "a, 1928.

tached by some Editors, English ana
American, TO the entrance ofthe French
amy into Madrid. Is il already forgot
ten that the Spanish Patriots had, i'll the
removal of the Royal Family from Mad
rid to Seville, given sufficient evidence
of their expectation that the French
would enter EIadrid, that they in fact,
abandoned it to the enemy? Now viii
come the tug Of war. Aow that army
which is headed by an imbecile chief,
will find something to do, other than that
of receiving congratulations OF friend
ly population. We are persuaded that
thai spirit which submits not to dicta-
ton. that which France so eminently
displayed themselves in, in the invasion
of Bonaparte, and which resisted the
gower that had Inundated austria, Rus
isa, and Prussia, viii not only drive out
the present invaders, but retaliate in n
manner that will shake the government
? that Is now todering under the convul-
sive grasp of strong party in France,
whose antipathes tothe reigning dynas-
ty, are formed by the remembrance OF
the glory acquired under Bonaparte,
and OF the humiliation which attended
the restoration of the Bourbons. 10
shut our eyes against the above princi-
piles, would be as absurd as the attack
OF Don Quixote against the Windmill,
We know very well, the causes that
,lnoVe in modern times-the springs oil
government; not as formerly, the ca
PRECIOUS will of single individual, sa-
criiceing the blood and treasure Of the
people, without one enquiry made by
the sufferers. The public op-aion OF
France viii now contIole the will of the
Sovreign Should the war be procras-
tinated, the taxes, the loans consequent
on this invasion, will bear hard on those
who pay, but who viii enquire for what
purpose hes this blood been split, or this
treasure wasted. France will be oblig-
ed to say: Our King rules for the good
of the people, not for the aggrandize-
ment Of an individual or his kndred.-
And this voice will be head in her ma
tional councils. This will weaken the
arm of the French, and strengthen that
of the Spanish government The insi-
tutions of Spain win therefore, in the
end, be only more strongly established
by this attempt of Louis to destroy them.
We, therefore, have no fears FOR the
result of this contest. We know these
are the wishes of every friend to free
governments.
BY late arrivals at New ork, London
dates to the 9th, and liverpool to the 9th
of June inclusive, have been received.
They contain much interesting matter.
II the reports circulated at Bayonne, be
true, it certainly gives a ve.y favoura-
bic appearance to the affairs of General
Nina, who it is stated defeated the
French Cen Donnadiea on the 18th of
May at Eich and took him prisoner, and
that Gen. Curial had been beaten in four
successive engagements, which took
place up to the Esd Of May.
There is to he a meeting Of the citi-
Kens of Loudoun county, on the first
Saturday in August, to take into con-
eideration the contemplated improve
ment OF the Potomac.
FOR TRE~eAzET-rE.
-N5-. Edd0r,-One ofyour subscribers
would earnestly call the attention of Pa
rents to the following extract from the
National Gazette. His erperieace con-
firms the statement OF Vossius. In adj
dtion to the evils enumerated below,
there might be mentioned, an indifer-
ence to learning, an improper estimate
OF the value of time, habit of idleness,
(which are the certain consequence of
an irregular and interrupted attendance
at school:
In other sciences, although our j.
IDEAS are not so intimately interviewer
with one another, and although mathe-
mates have in their nature something
similar; yet there is more or less of mu-
tual dependence among our thoughts in
them all. If student loses some IDEAS
he will certainly have less perfect UNI
Outstanding of some others; these again
will eject others, and there are no as
signable limits to the mischief, but the
limits OF the science itself. In this way
frequent absences prevent a good edu-
cation; and even a few, undoubtedly in
some eases, produce the most meian-
choly results.
"Besides, nothing is so discouraging.
to a young student especially, as being
behind his class. 1t is irksome also to
study, in proportion as we fail of acorir-
ing definite ideas; and the occasionally
absent scholar, as he viii always be be-
hind his fellow students in both these re-
spectS, viii meet at length a magnitude