Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-11-25
From, the London Sunday Times.
ENGLAND AND AMERICA.

ENGLAND AND AMERICA.
fThe followinginteresting remarks
upon America. perhaps bearing ra-
Their unkindIy upon Old England, are
extracted from the last No. OF the e.
dinburgh Review.
"America is exempted by its very
newness as nation, from many OF
the evils Of the old governments OF
Europe. 1t has 20 mischievons re-
mains of feudal institutions. and no
yiolators of political economy sane.
toned by time. and older than the
age of reason. lie a man finds a
partridge upon bis ground eating the
corn, in any part of Kentucky, or
Indiana, he may kill it, even If his
father is not Doctor of Divinity
The Americans do not exclude their
own citizens from any branch of com.
merce which they leave open to the
rest Of the world. 81
"Though America is a confederation
OF republics. they are in many cases
much more amalgamated than the
various parts of Great Britain. III
citizen of the United States can make
a shoe, he is at liberty to make
shoe any where between Lake Onta-
rio and New Orieans--he may sole
on the Mississippi-heel on the Mis-
souri-measure Mr.. Burbeck on the
little Wabash. or take (Which our
best politicians find no easy matter
the length Of Mr.. Munro's foot on the
banks of the Potawemac. But woe
to the cobler, whe. having made Hes
sion boots for the Aldermen OF New
castle. should venture to invest with
these coriaceous integuments, the
leg Of a iiege subject at York. A
yellow ant ia nest of red ants, or
butchers dog in fox-kennel,a mouse
i'm a bee-hiye all feel the effects of
.untimely intrusion; but far prefera-
BILE their fate to that misguided arti-
san, who, misled by cd. histories of
England, and conceiving his country
60 have been to stitch freely within
the sea-girt limits of Albion.
"Him the mayer, him the alder
man, him the recorder, him the quar-
ter sessions would worry. Him the
Justice before the trial would long to
get into the tread.mill; and would
much lament that, by recent act,
they could not do, even with the in
truding BRIDESMAIDS consent; but the
moment he was tried, they would
push him in with redoubled energy.
and leave him to tread himself into a
conviction Of the barbarous institu-
tons fhis corporation divided conn
try.
"There is nothing which an En-
glishman enjoys more than the plea
sure Of sulkiness; of not being fore.
cd to have a word from any body
which may occasion him to have the
necessity Of replying. 1t is not so
much that Mr.. Bull disdains TO talk,
as that Mr.. Bull has nothing to say.
His forefathers have been out of spi~
rits for six or seven hundred years,
and seeing Nothing but fog and va
por.h is out of-spirits too; and where
there is no selling or buying, or no
business to settle. he prefers living
alone and looking at the fire. II any
gentleman was in distress, he would
willingly lend helping hand; but he
thinks it no part of neighborhood to
talk to person because he happens
to be near him. In short, with many
excellent qualities. it the acknow>
led sed that the English are the most
disa greeable Of all other nations OF
Europe--more surly AID morose,witIl
less disposition to please, to exert
themselves for the good OF society,
to make small sacrifices, and to put
themselves out of their way. They
are content with Magma Charta and
trial by jury; and they think they are
not bound to excel the rest of the
world In small behavior. if they are
superior to them in great institutions.
"Americas seens, on the whole, to