Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-11-09


where there is no more than loo majority
tor Adams. So that all the 81 votes OF
New England are safe Tor Mr. Adams.
GENERAL LA FAYETTE
Left US onTuesday pleased with all, pleas
ing all. He is one Of those fine orig FINALS,
which can stand the nearest, incest, criti-
cal inspection, Not like most great men,
who loom with the distance-the nearer
you approach him, The more you love him,
the more you respect him. His moral QUA
llles are OF the most attentive description;
so sweet 10 his disposition, SO delicate
and philanthropical in all his attractions,
so modest and unassuming his pretensions,
so tree from all false pride anG arrogance;
so civil and polished in bis manners, with.
out degensfallng into insincerity and fat
terry. Ii is scarcely possible to conceive
greater sense OF propriety in all that he
says and does. HIS mind, too, is so richly
stored with the treasures of reading, obser-
Walton and retection--his common sense
is so true and strong-be has seen so much
that others wish 10 hear, and DEVELOPS
his ideas with so much clearness, fluency,
aud OrIgDallty--he has mixed so much
with the gre I men and measures OF these
great times; his mind is so thoroughly i'm
b., q with the principles OF liberty, and he
expouads them with so much enthusiasm,
that IL is impossible to partake OF his soci-
ETY., and to listen to the love of wisdom
which flows from bis lips, without the
greatest delight and sincerest venerstion.
His visit 10 America will have the effect,
of raising even much higher 10 the esteem
! of the American people. character which
all the world had previously So much ad.
mired.-Enq.
RICHMOND, Nov 3.-The General left
US yesterday between ten and eleven o.
clock, on his way to Monticello. He was
escorted out OF the city by the Volunteer
Co;ps--snd by the Fayette Guards to
fOweiI's Tavern in Goochland. Here be
was received by Colonel Boiling and seve-
raj members Of the Committee OF Arrange
ment OF Goochland county, by portion OF
the GoocEland cavalry, and several oi,
zens. after plentiful collation.. he bid
adieu to the gentlemen who were returning
10 Richmond, as we'll as to every member
OF the Fayette Guards He left Powel's
about O'Clock, under the Goochland Es-
Cortland would dine at the Court. House,
| where 500 people were said TO be collect
ed, prepared to receive him.
The M1LLEDGEviLLE RECORDER gives
The following as correct translation of
the celebrated Aphorism of Lafayette. de
ivered in an address to the electors OF Pa
ris, after bis return from America--"For a
nation 10 love Liberty il is sufficient she
kaogs ,t-and TO be Free, II is sulllciesl
she zstlis it,
General La Fsyette, who is travelling
in the United States, is every where re-
! ceived with the same enthusiastic vel
come which marked bis landing on the A
mericsn shores. The public prints OF that
country which we regret We have not
room TO quote devote a large portion Of
their columns TO the details OF bis interest
ing journey; and the deep feeling OF pat
riotlsm aud Joy which bis presence inspires,
| though 10 cold observer 1t Hay appear
Economically intense, must afford the We
teran soldier OF independence gratlbca-
ton which monarchs might envy, anu IS
| highly honorable TO the American Charac-
ter. We should think little indeed OF any
country that could forgetthe services OF an
early and disinterested friend-and lie too
q foreigner: and We should perhaps better
compliment free people by considering
such demonstration OF national gratitude
as matter OF course, than holding IL up
as al example patriotic virtue.
! Ll0erpooI Mercury.
Two men having dispute 10 Ohio, one
of them sal to the other, 4 am not able TO
fight you; but will meet you with
musket any day you dare meet me =
This being deemed TO be challenge, ne
was indicted at the late term OF Belmont
county court, found guilty, aud sentenced
10 Imprisonment and hard labor in The
Pepitentiary, TOR three year'-that being
the shortest time prescribed by the law OF
the state. for sending challenge to ngh'
duel. Nat. IN.
! U. S. SHIP JOHN ADAMS.
Sailed from New Castle, on "Wednesday
morning last, tor the West Indies, toe U.
S. snip John Adams, bearing the broad
pendant OF Com. David Porter, commands
erin chief OF the West India squadron
Thomas Barron, Esq. secretary; John
Simpson, clerk.
The following is list of the othcer:
attached to the Ship
/ Alexander j. Dallas commander: Cor.