Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1824-09-10

TUG WIZ VOy Will Oe tue Qeatn Of bltn, by
the originality Of his wit, and the profusion Of
hls vivacity. thanked by these oddities, the
Tourist can exhibit as much as little of him.
self as he pleases, and the trio open their cam
paign in Jack Rivers Hotel, in Elizabethtown ;
where they at once encounter that admiration
oil all wandering vistants from the Old World, a
stiff independent American iuukcepcr, who
thinks his guests obliged to him, and understand
inS the interrogatory system completely as
t% Richard Philips or the Lord ChancellOr-
The pniis or cQuivoquc now begin to iy quickly
through the medium Of Jack Topham, who mis-.
conceiyes the American phraseoiogy at all
points, queers them with his own, and sets down
"a decanter OF port for a bottle of Day & Mar
TIN. The travellers then proceed 10 Bristol
ana from bristol to Baltimore, in a diligence, OF
winch Mayor - is the driver, and in which All
American Judge and shop keeping General are
passengers, TO the production of some very en-
| PERTAINING carcatures. The kind reception oi
MIR. Mathews is then related, the serious part of
The narrative being relieved by occasional auec-
dotes, some of which told wel-particularly one
OF an lrishman in steam packet, who seeing
turtles for the first time, asks if they are real or
mock turtle On the journey from Baltimore
10 n CIV York, we introduced to AN Amer.
can original, Mr.. -Rayentop, drawing, me-
| lancholy-toRed old gentleman. whose PROVINCE
IS wit and humour, being irrcsstiby called upon
10 support the superiority of American preten-
SONS IN that department of mind. Like Mr.
barnaoy Bray, (baing altogether IMMERSED in tue
great classic Joe Miller, his proofs of American
originality are ludicrously ancient. a portrait
OF Curran, to whom he is avowedly resembIed.
Is furnished in a Mr.. Pennington, who w ashing-
Ton IrVin-tses about the narrowness of national
antipathies, and the propriety Of IL mutual regard
between Great Britain aud .3metca very much
IKE gentleman and little like Il bore. AZ
New York, we arc conducted into negro play.
mouse, and 10 the performance of Hamlet by the
getty MIR. Cesar .3ici5iaics Hannibal fIcr:st.
This is extravaganza but irrcsistihIy ,Iroll espe
claiiy the call on honest Ctru,, for the ,sOpus-
sum Song" III the midst of lIasnlct's solilouuy
with which request the .1frican kean very e.ra-
ciousiy complies. II review of the american
militia follows, much in the stvle of the field
day OF the London volunteers OF former celebri-
y. Ihc abrupt termination of the inspection,
In consequence of the annoy ancc of The mus.
qniioes, IS an admirable iuoery. \ trip TO
boston follows; ana Bunser's Hill furnishes
a oroii inscription or two in illustration of the
.aineilcan amor p0ti'ioe. Here a genuine YAM
hee presents hlinsclf,--onc JordLtan IL Do.,-
ootu WHO, i'll q description of himself ard hi,
uncle ben, not only represents but individual.
yes Tie New-Englandc-. We suspect that this
portrait Is IRON iIie Dropping sequence, we
may !o'ice as peculiarly happy the hiring of "a
heip,' anSt,ce seryant,-a word rc.cctcdln a !
merlca. The previously known story OF a song
whicii trenchrnan sung at public dinner al |
New Orleans, IN praise OF Gen. Jackson is al |
SO very correctly given. The Tory prints fur
his'i the joke bat not the accompanying expla-
nation OF Mir. Mathews, WHO as very sin man. |
refused to attend The dinner until n pledge was
:" 'hat no "iher notice Of him should be ia
ken beyond drinking h.s nea.,.. ''e charge
to be delivered by the Ivc;.., ,...,..-
of an .3narican Judge TO Grand jury, is
ouTiesluc OF a very entertaining nature; cspcci-
ally IN regard to vcrbiage and dcportncut--tut, |
after all, the most finished and really genuine
sketch Is that of Erenchman, who applies ,ay
after day, to the Boston Post Office for letter
from his only daughter. The blending of pa
ihos, popularity, and drotlery, is very skiliul
Th> third part, or Monopoylogue, introduces
seyer.,l characters LII costume, and Mr.. Ma
thews transforms himself from the ruyn-loylna
Captain Hiram Pcstes, military cobb!cr at
" atchitoches-to a French tailor. his rival and
iodger-to a .Uiss .N;n,el EYo,.zel, whom they
both love III Val'i--to Il more successful yaga-
bondizing Irish jonfie1aa.-to burIy runaway
negro, who ilas escaped from the aforesaid jon-
dshrn ". DJtttihtn, and lastly, To the said lon
0ths'h himself, The most exclusive American in
the whole personation. .4l these with the cx-
ception of the ladr, are very divertng, but es-
pccially the Tailor and Doubikin.
Very much ofthe opinion of Sterne in regard
tiiSSc tilat AMUSED, II useless 10
care wherefore, we lie jacto toerably salts
fed In reference 10 our anticipations, this Is
not quite so much the case; we had expected a
greater diversity of american portrature and
few attempts at the delineati.n of nationality
Oh higher class OF sGCicty-tbe elite of the lar
ger towns. We are a little Disconnected too
with the reverend antiquity of much Of tie
pun, and the extreme tins:ncsS of the Songs
both as to sense and sound. Still, Matthews
is Matthews; and we know Of none but himself
who can entertain he town. for four hours at n
tune, by his own unail!ed effort which, by the
way, is one hour too mach, by the Shrewsbury,
or any other clock. The entertainment will
be improved by the eli OF sixty minutes, and
about i,alfa many piattfudes, to the much grea-
ter enjoyment OF what remains. We cannot
conclude without observing. that in utter con-
| tempt Ut Butts and Qw;rtertys, Mr. Mathews
has preserved the character of gentleman, and
siGneI against no American hospitality by
cleaning from private circles. lie has taken
10 greater freedom with American singularitics
than with dose of his own country: and NAV
revisit his republican friends again, without the
slightest apprehension of lower place in their
cstccn.o
Not an american Judge himself--weil ma
| noeuyTod Mr Mathews
/ From The Ed;nbw;g Jo'omai n Scicnce far July.
| PgRKfN's STEAM E&GISE.-!yc understand
That Mr.. Perkins has at last completed his APP
paratus, so as 90 demonstrate To a select uariv
/ OF friends the power of 1nOtno IA, fin, =.