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

| Ii Is SAID one z 3lIOn OF OIL VIII supply tWo
| hundred OF these lamps. and five dollars
purchase thousand of them. One OF tine
windows OF the Coffee House was illumln-
ated last evening, which exhibited sPlen-
did appearance. Ph'l. paper
CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.
The late Earl of Pembroke, who had
many good qualities. but always persists
ed inaexibly IN bis own opinion, which,
Rs well as his conduct, was often very
singular, thought of an ezpsdient to
proven, the exhortatioDs and importu.
mites of those about him. This WAS TO
feign himself deaf; and uoder pretepce
Of hearing very imPerfertly, he would
always form HE answers not by what
was really said to him, but by what he
desired 10 have said. Among other
servants was one who bad lived with
bun from child. and served him with
grea fidelity and affection till at length
he became his coachDsp. This man
by degrees got habit of drinking, for
which his lady often desired that he
might be missed. My lord always
answered, Yes, indeed. John ia an ex-
cellen, servant 81 say replied the
lady, that be is continually drunk, and
desire that be may be turned off'-'Ay,'
said lis lordship, he has lived with me
from a child, and as you say, .rihe of
wages should not part u.s. John, how.
| ever, one evening, as he was driving
rom kensiDgtoD, overturned his lady
in Hyde Park, she was not much hurt,
but when she came home she began to
rattle at the earl. Here says she, is
| thai beast John, SO drunk that he can
| scarcely stand; he has overturned the
coach, and if he is not discharged may
break our necks.'-'Ay,' says ny lord,
is poor John sick2 Alas, lam sorry for
him, ~ am complaining said NV la.
dy. shat he is drunk and has overturn-
ed me '-'Ay,' answered his lordship.
'to be sure he has behaved very well,
and shalI have proper advice My la
dy finding it hopeless to demonstrate,
went away in pet, aod my lord having
ordered John into his presence, address
ed him very cody in these words
John, you know | have regard for
] you and as long as you behave we'll,
you shall be taken care of IN my family.
my lady tell me you are taken i'll, and
indeed | see that you can hardly stand;
go to bed and l will take care that you
have proper advice John being thus
dismissed, was taken 10 bed, where, by
his lordsbips order, large blister was put
upon his head, another between bis shout
ders, and sixteen ounces OF blood taken
| FROM his arm. John found himself next
morning in woiuI plight, and was soon
acquainted with the whole process and
the reasons upon which it was commenced
He had no remedy, how ever, but to SUBJ
| NIT, for he would rather have incurred as
! many more blsters than lost his place
My lord sent very formally twice day
to know how be was, and frequently con,
graduated my lady upon Johns recovery,
whom he directed TO be fed only with wa
ter Cruel, and to have no company but an
old nurse. In about week, John having
constantly sent word that he was well, my
lord thought fl to understand the messen.
| ger, and said, 'he was extremely glad to
| hear that the fever had left him, and de
sired to see him When John came in,
| well, john says be, 4 hope this bout is
over.-,' All, my lord, says John, / hum.
bly, ask your lordsbip's pardon, and pro-
mise never to committee same fault again.
'Ay, ay,' says my lord your are right, no.
body can prevent sickness and il you
should be sick again, John, l..sball see to
it, though perhaps you should not com
plain, and lpromise you shall always have
the same advice. and the same attendance
that you have bad now. God bless
| your lordsbip,' says John, Il hope there
will be no neel.'-'So do too says bis
lordship, but as long as you do your duty
| 10 me, never lear, shall do mine TO you >
Colman's anecdotes.
1t is recorded Of person who bad been
sentenced 10 be bled to death, that, in,
stead OF the punishment being actually in.
h,cted, be was made to believe merely
that it vas so, by causing water, when his
eyes were blinded, to irickle down his
arm. This m:mickry, however. OF the op,
Grafton stopped as completely the move
ments OF the animated machine, as though
an entire exhaustion had been effected OF
the vlvifying fuIG; and the man lost his
lie, although not his slosd, By this una