Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-10-02

ness. Il floats with the tide, it sale
18th the stream. 1t lias no other,prin-
iple, az we take il. IT is not ministes
rial it il not patriotic: bot it IS ci0ic -
IL is. the lungs Of tbs British me,ropn
lis; the mouth piece 1acle aod echo
the Stock Exchanse; the Representative,
OF the mercantile in, rest. Ore woa!
think SO much gravity of style migh
be accompanied with more steadiDes-
and weight OF opin on. But 1he Times
conforms to the tn changes of the tin
1t bears down upon question, iis>e
a first rate man OF war, with streame,,
fyiag, and all hands On deck; bat j.
the first broad.si6e does not Answer
turns short uponi,, like u trimmed gal.
ley. firing off FEW paItry squlbs to
cover its retreat. Ii takes up no fall
ing cause; fights no up-h II battle, advo-
Gates no great principe holds out q
helping hand to No oppressed or OBJ
scure individual. 1t is sever strong
upon the stronge SIDE" Its style IL
masniloquent; It, spirit is not magnan-
imous. |. is valiant, swaggering, inso.
lent, with hundred thousand readers
at his heels; but the instant the ras. al
rou, turn round with the whit ana
wind" Of some fell circumstance, the
Times, tie renegade. incons'apt Times,
turns with them Let the mob shout,
Jet the city roaf, end the voice of the
. a all
outrageous deafenipg Glamour; bot let
the vulgar hnbbub cease, and no whis-
per, no echo of IT IL ever after heard Of
in the Times Like BuIy Bottom in
the play, it then agsravates its voice SO,
as if !, were singing dove, as it were
any nightingale It's coarse ribaldry
is turned 20 harmless jest; its SWELL
ling rhodomoD' sinks to vapid
commonplace; aud The editor amuses
himself In the interval, before another
great explosion, by collecting ana pub
fishing from time 10 time, atfidavits Of
the numbers of his paper solo in the
last stormy period of the press.
THIS naturally LEADS Us to the Court
or, which is paper of shift. and expe-
dents, of bare assertions & thougbsless
impotence. II denies facts Oh the
word OF a Minister, and dosmatizes by
authority. The force OF dutness can
no farther go:"--but its pertness keeps
pace witt It's duilness. II sets up
lively pre- nsion to safe commopplaces
and stale jes +; and has an alternate
sayety and gravity OF manner. The
matter Is netning. Compared with the
solemn quackery Of the Old or New
Times, the Ingenious editor Is the Mer-
ry Andrew Of the political show The
Courier Is intended toreountry readers,
the clergy a,o gentry, who do not like
10 he disturbed with reason for any
thing, but with whom the seli.compia.
cent shallowuess Of the editor passes for
a sel,-evilen: proof that every thing Is
AZ it should be. 1t isapaper that those
WIN run may read asks no thought;
il creates no UnessIDess. In 1t the last
quarters assessed taxes are always
made good; the harvest Is abundant;
trsde revlving: the constitution unIm-
paired; the minister immaculate, and
the monarch the finest gentleman in his
dominions. The writer has No idea
beyond certain set OF cant phrases
which he repeats by rote, and never
puzzlesany one by the smalies; glimpse
OF meaning in what he says. This lac
quey to the treasury, in short, put. one
III mbnd Of those 'mpudent Wallets at the
doors Vi s,eat Il, uses--sleek. saucy,
empty and vulgar whU give snort
answers, and laugh into the faces OF
those Who come with complaints aud
grievances TO their masters---think
their employers great .nen, and them
selves clever ieilows-eat, drink, sleep
and let the world Stsde
The Sun Is paper that appears dai
", but never shineS. The Editor, who
is an agreeable man, has a sinecure Ut
II: and the public trrub their heads
Iust az ,r,tle about 1t as he does.
The Traoeitey is not new, but a
newly conducted evening paper; winch,
if 1t has no, much wit or brilliancy, is
distinguished by sound jnd sment, care
fol Information, and constitutional prin.
ciples.
We really cannot presume to scan
the transcendant merits of the Morn
ing Post amt fashionable Uortd; and,
i'll shor, the other daily papers must ex-
cu.e Us Tor ssyi'g nothing about them.
or the H,eeAly journalists, Goblet
stands first in power and popularity
Certainly he has earned the ,iatte':
would that he abused the former less |!
We once tried to cast this Aateos to the
ground. but the earth.born rose again,
and .tiIl stageers on, blind or one.eyed,
10 his remorseless. restless purpose
sometimes running upon posts or pit
faIis--sometimes shaking country to