Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-04-27

them something. 1t seems impossible |
that any people, within whose reach |
good newspapers can be brought, can
resist the temptation TO letters. Ia A.
merica, where alone the thing has been |
tried, a native unable to read cannot be |
found. 1t is thus that the miscellaneous
character of newspaper makes it more
valuable than if it contained political oc-
currences and political dissertations.--I
The understanding of its readers are led
on, by degrees, from the simplest domes-
tic occurrences TO those which effect
their remotestinterest or appeal to their
noblest sympathies from the overturn-
ing OF coach, TO the overturning of an
empire. 1t is impossible that man,
however narrow may be his views, can
cast about in s:,ch mass of information,
for that which particularly concerns his
own objects or pursuits, without stumb-
ling on something which enlarges his l.
IDEAS, OF exercises his reason. 1t is ne
cessary to have seen people among
whom newspapers have not penetrated,
to know the mass of mischevous preiu-
dIces which these productions instantly
and necessarily dissipate. We may in
stance the belief in witchcraft, and the
rage which, on the approach Of search
ty, was tormerl y directed against all the
dealers in provisions. No man, accus-
toned TO watch the state of crops and
markets, the speculations GA the ade-
quacy or deficiency of supply, can, for
moment, suppose that scarcity OF plenty
depends upon the bakers or millers of
his district, or that violence towards
them can produce any other than bad
effect. This is an example of the gen.
eral effects of newspapers. The in
struction is conveyed, not by the direct
incuicaticn of opinions, but by the habit
of looking beyond the narrow circle of
mans personal observation to the re-
suits of a more enlarged view A news
paper is, in fact, the instrument which
enables an individual to avail himself of
the experience of the whole communi-
ty. Westminster Review.
Buying Out.-Harriette Wilson, whose
Memoirs are now publishing in En-
gland, has written letter TO Mr.. Ellice,
a member of the British Parliament, in
which she tells him that he is /" quizzed
most unmercifuly'' in the last volume,
but if he will forward to her E2OO, she
will not publish word about him. She
says that people are buying themselves
so fast out of her book, that she has no
time TO attend to them, but that she
should be sorry not TO give each a
chance, if they choose 10 be outs
| Two noble dukes are among those
who have bought out. She says, 81
get as much by small book, as you
will give me by taking you out, OF
more. attack no poor men because
they cannot help themselves" She
tells Mr. E. that she has no time tc
write again, "as what with writing
books and then altering them for those
who buy out, | am done up-fraPpe en-
mort"
Specnlation.-Shortly after the arriy.
al Of the Crisis in Newly ork, which ap,
pears to have formed the crisis in the
specializing fever, trig little French.
man arrived at our landing in the Full.
ton, having been dispatched from the
Knowing ones in New-Yo to take il
the flats at Providence and Boston. The
little Frenchman bad almost raped bis
knuckles off upon the top of his snuff
box in his eagerness TO reach Proyi.
dence before the dispatch Linneus, and
as soon as the boat touched the wharf
he sprung on shore and fastened into
the first store he arrived at on Water.
street Monsieur, Sair - says the lit.
tie Frenchman with all the eager ges-
ticulations of his country, and trembling
in the anticipation of the immense prot:
its he was about to realize--'' Sair
half you anee cottang and Kaffaa %
eyes !" "Vel !! den tax him all vat
you AK Providence Journal.
| huO " L ~ learn
the fashions and modes of the capital,
heard the conversation often turn on
the advantages of gas and its preferable
ness to oil. but he did not venture to
betray his ignorance by asking for ex-
plantations. One day, being at dinner at
a restaurateur's, he asked for turbot.--
" Sir, will you take oil with it 2" said
the waiter. "No, lam acquainted with
a new mode," replied the German,
"give me some gas -
Mrs. Barbauld (sister of the late DR..
Aiken,) died on Wednesday last, in her
SD year. This lady commenced her
literary career upwards of 50 years
since, by the publication of volume of
poems, which received unqualified COM
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