The Alexandria herald. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1811-1826, 1823-02-17


vac paie OF the church--tbat he'd grind
ne oevoted beef eater to the dust n
nc 'sienied but for a raomsnt, the mutila.
ted round swan across his memory. and
same the train of its perfccuons.
on' IL was round fiji for. rector's
appe'i'e--a round the very corporation
3 might have envied~-a round to bid def
ance to the whole common council after
FAST day.
The round was picture for painters to study,
HE tat was so white and the lean was SO ruddy.
And then his ,ionan Indignation burst
into soliloquy-"I'il make an example of
the miscreant--l'll make j, city bust
ness-l'll have tho monster tried AT
Hicks Hall-lll retain Judge to prose.
cute him--the deputy recorder shall
prosecute hlm-l'li go further, the court
OF aldermen shall DE on the bench, and
he shan't have even chance, for IN
have him indicted FIVE minutes before din
ner-the rascal shall become Py,hago
reab, and take distaste to the whole an,
NAL crea,ion--( Laughter)-even in 30
tany Bay he won't have the hardihvod to
look bullock in the. face.'-(C
laughter.)
So tar this may appear Jest, s. as such
so Tar you see have not been unwilling 10
trea, 1t. But what will you say when 1
tell you that he actually put it into prac
sice What Will you say when Tell
you that he took three whole days to de-
hberate, and then, though the poor man
returned 20 mis- garden 10 his daily work
as usual, actually had hIm arrested on a
charge of feion, yes when the poor
Peasant with ali the boldness natural to
innocence,day ,fter DAY presented hlmse Il
before him-when he as bending in toll
over the sluggish soil Of its more insensi-
BILE proprietor, he mad him arrested on
charge OF robbery! And who did this
man OF wealth-a man of God the
very s'Dives" OF the bible, "faring stump
tuousl, every day." and grudging to poy
erty even the crumbs from MS table
Who was the magistrate before whom
he brought him A sergeant at. law
his own father in-law ?-the son-in Law
accused, and the father. in. law COMMITTED
him and, indeed, they were right not TO
let the glory of the achievement go out OF
the fanily.--lmagine, gentlemen, you
behold The spectacie--the parson swear
ing to The COMPLEXION Of the penny worth
the butler endeavoring 20 coax him in
TO reason--she cook maintaining the in
volatility of the larder--the sergeant
threatDing TO bundle her out of the Office,
until at st,amid the Babel oil the contest,
and the alternate ascendancy of 0beet !"
''Church 20 "Newgate !" and "Bolany
bay ~ he was confined TO FIVE hours i'm
prisonment by these twin ornaments of
law and divinity.
AT length his friends heard OF his situa
tion--he was necessarily committed TO
ball, and bound over to meet his charitable
'pastor aud master" at the sessions LEI
us pause here, gentlemen, and reflect Oh
the situation ofmy client during the inter
val. Turned out of service on a charge
Of robbery tina, robbery the robbery OF
his own master-unable to get employ
mcnt under the doubt-obiged to spend
the last shilling of his little savings, a.
mounting to-tweniy pounds, in prepare
lions tor his deience--with many weeks
before his Innocence could be indicated
and with the certainty, that even in case
OF an acqnittal, the fact of his having been
tried would cling to him for ever--weeh
these sutferiDgs OF poor man and al in
Docent man, and then say what a rich man
and guilty man should pay for their
intlicuon. The interval, however, might
have had It's ya!ue--it might have awak.
eBed in the prosecutor some compunc-
tions of humanty--dld it do so mo, for
four weeks did he brood over the serpent
egg of his malignity for four weeks,
night after night,did he lay his head upon
his pillow after praying 10 the Almighty
Git such men ever pray) to be forgiven
on :he terms of his own forgiveness f!
will suppose for moment the worst a,
gaiDst my CLIENT will suppose that this
charge might have been true, and that
the poor man, goaded by hunger, and
tempted by opportunity had taken the
rich mans beef, 'value, one penny
ought he not, as minister Of the gospel,
TO have forgotten and forgiven thought
he not, as man, to have thanked the
Power that placed him above mptation,
and dropped tear fer the unfortunate
But when it was false, false on the face
OF it--adopted upon grounds which even
dwelling ideot would have discounte-
Danceds and sIubbornly peTsevered in
against the combined oalhS of every one
consulted, in what terms shall we express
our disgust and INDIGNATION