Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-01-09
friendship or affection, will one day be

unfoIded on our bier We Know that
the avenues to death, are encountered
only BY the crowd, wHo are ever NOV
ing towards its own tails; anot" ME
we lament in all around US, the futillty
of human desires: that are constantly
.,randing Our frail bark on the quick
sands OF disappo' / ent, o' the shoaS
If despair-we ourselves pass rapidly
along the same deceitful coast, soon TO
.ubmit to kindred fate, aud become
the future subjects of like commls'era.
ton! Throughout all our experience OF
the events Of each psst year, as they
nave steadily followed each other down
20 the mists Of oblivion, We find chat
human destiny, though ever So Varieo
IN feature. io still the same in strength
and r. rmanency; and. however SUPER
ticial the glance we turn upon the oc-
equations of men, we only learn that
the pillow cf luxury is still surrounded
by the spectres OF care and PerPlexity
perhaps Of guilt; the straw couch OF
poverty sends forth the rePinings OF
discomfort, and the murmu's OF suffer.
ing; the gilded canopy OF wealth. SUI
retains its splendor; vice, Its charms;
beauty, its attractions; love, Its tasc'-
nations! Still, as in former ages, OPP
preston, with 'rptiian glottony,' IN.
foldo her remorseiess STANDARD over
half the world. stained with the blood
of innocence, and tathed IN the tears
of misery: houseEes>, penury, SUI
'moists her mouIdy bread with burning
tears and holds out her 'at'ered gar
me-, TO reward the simplicity OF sesiu-
ded worth the exerslons of genius aDo
the rsfnements of science, alth'' dis.
mayed at her paliid smile, or shrinking
from her unmerlted flown. Savage,
Dermody, and Chattert on, have ex-
pred amidst the horrors OF PRISON, or
mixed their own las, draugh' with The
hand OF indignant desperation F!
The same deep Rowing tide has ex.
tended It's expansive eddles along the
shores OF every cline, where man Is
known q wauderer: embracing IN lie
current, he passions and the fallSes OF
i wuo inh bi the borde rsoi e, ICON
,hose who dwell! on NIger's banks to
the swarthy Indian OF the Oronoke and
presenting as objects OF wonder aod .of
pity. those who repine urhesrd amidst
the iron-hearted reqnisi,ions OF clos
ter d fanatlCisD, and the gloomy OBJ
seryances or monastic solitude. The
pnpitied wretch who ascends the b'az
inc pyrs, a self.im molated victim to
the bloody rites of ilindoo cruelty, and
those who IN other regions have been
compelled to imbibe theu on,ictions,
from the fash oil the scymitsr cleaning
amidst the sackiDg Of cities. the PUN
der of palaces, and the cooh grafton
of temples; as we'll a. he tied iorairs
as the unambitious POI aut-'he eth J.
nate sons of Bagdat. and the ior.cisd
wanderers Of Lap,and-lhe hunter o.
the ives ern wltds and the Tartar OF
the eastern foreyts.
Such has been the unvaryiDg fate OF
humanity from the moment when ne
Gun first smiled through the Give groves
of Eden, and lent h's earliest rays to
Gid the sumniit of Gair onda And
syho 10 he, that with all this failing
waste before him, would lecture on the
happiness o. the present state, and the
fe!icit, of terrestrial en- oymen'? AS
well might the Arab Of the desert. pic
ture to the fainting pilgrim the useless
richie, Of his caravan, or tie laxurlance
OF his dis ant vineyard, " lie e sancy
waves are gathering ar"ur1 the cooling
streams drying up, and the deadly 81
rocco is advancing to over"heim them
both in one common sepu!chre! Let
man. then rememte bow uncertain Is
the sunbeam IN which ne sports away
his insect life, nor srrogate to this little
spoI, because ne is Its inhs bitaRt, The
sole regard and undivided watchiuIn IS
of Beng, whose attributes no thought
of his can sufficiently comprehend
Let him 20 HAND in baud with his pas
sing yesrs to the valley OF iorGettuiness,
and meet the long repose 20 which his
frame IS destined, confident that future
ages of unalloyed felicity mast be re-
served for the soul-"thal immateriai
spark which no power can extlnguish,"
in state ofsuperior exaitation and SUBJ
lime ex expansion, beyond the narrow Dor.
ders of mertal inquietude.
Nl0NTGARNIER.
Dec. Is, 1922. ". y Com. Id.
Prince Charlie, Edyard S,udrt's SgOrd