Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-05-22
ALEXANDRIA,
MORNING, MAY ss.
FOR The Gazefe.
OBS tCEk.-No. I.

The very age and body ofthe time.
His form ard pressure"
In my first essay mean to mark ont q
course, which ! shall invariably follow,
without fear. for the conducting OF those
themes which you may have the goodnss,
10 publish. II is the the custom, now.a-
days, to pass BY the little foilies which
mankind are guilty OF, and 10 consider
them as the necessary consequences of frail
human nature; hence, VI. see, that vice,
which when it first appears is too triHing
to notice, becomes in short time mon.
s,rcus aud growing evil. Under this con-
sheraton, I am induced &c offer to the
public. through The medium Of your Jour.
nal, lew hints on this important subject,
which may, 10 the end. prove oil practical
advantage.
have adopted for my head OJnroer,'
because I intend diligently to Observe all
the prevailing vices and foiales Of the com.
muni,y, and to tell them candidly OF their
tan's. Ths ladies too must expect share,
for surely they are not tree from The intec-
ton Of this world: but ] know thai too
much Of the milk Of human kindness flows
round their hearts, to think iba, malice
prompts me thus to cast il in their teeth. ,
No--they wnult rather imagine wisbe d
to add another charm Ia those who are al
ready The patterns of virtue and innocence.
No personalities shall ever he used, and
no vice shall be noticed which does not be-
long to the many. As TO matters of reli.
gion, | shall leave that to those who are
eminently qualified both TO leach and prac.
tice; and my Office shall be, particularly 10
no,e those tolies which are commonly
called fashionable. 10 the prosecution Of
this plan, know shall be exposed TO the
sneers of those who imagine themselves a.
hove all advice. and 10 the oblosuy OF a
certain class Of critics, who, am sorry 10
say, iotest the town. Towards these gen.
try must say feel sovereign contempt;
and as 10 their favor or III wilt, I am per-
fecily indifferent. throw myself upon
The indulgence of those alone who take an
interest in the suppression OF vice, and 10
the exallalion OF every virtue which emo.
bIes our species.
The damage by the FIRE at Harper's
Ferry is said to have been overraied- IS or
10 QUO dollars. It is supposed will cover
The whole loss.
The brig Oswego. captain Thompson,
OF Boston, sailed few days since from
New York Tor the Cape de Verd Islands.
Samuel Hodges. jr Esq. Consul OF the
u. States at those Islands, returns in her.
The GridIey Farm, in the vicinity Of
tire Military Academy at West Point. bias
been purchased by government Tor 10000
dollars,
Il i. .aid des patches from India by d
Steam Boat Line, via the Red Sea and
Mediterranean, can reach England in 81
days.
Il IS contemplated to establish The steam
ship Robert Futon as . packet between
Msr.sllles, Genoa and Naples.
The United Foreign Mission Society,
held it, anniversary meeting in the city
of N+w-Yvrk on Wednesday evening. -
Among tie speeches, was one BY Racha.
r,s,s, venerable chief Of the Tuscsrofs
In isns, delivered In his native language,
and mt rpreted by one Of the pupils from
The school al COrnwalI-and an address
Irom a young man OF the same nation. also
a pupil at Cornwall. A hymn was sung
m the Indian language by TWO males aud
one female OF The fuscsroTa Nation.
Bosros, May l7.--Arfived, brig Cy-
prus, Chaddock, 81 days from Messina,
apt 40 from Gibraltar. LEFT at Gibraltar,
Is, April, U. S. trigate Constitution
A French trigate arrived at Glbrsltar "a
OF April, IRON Algiers, with ak the Spa
nish prisoners taken by the Aigerines' ihe
difference between HE Spaniards and a.
perjnes having been settled. The Alge'
rines had taken all their vessels OF any
consequence into shoal water, and strip
ped them. sF%''0''
Consulate Of tie u S Of imerica:
BAR1ApoEs, LIST May, 1884.
SlR--By directions OF the Lords
of his Maiesty's Gus.
toms received this day. vessels Of the
United States entering here; will DO al.
l...aA "a La nd anu na ri of theit CArgoel,