American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1825-01-04

lasting impression the minds OF the different
artists ''-ScOtsinan.
The following article is related in the Traveller.
!" Lord Byron being about TO take his seat in the
House of Lords on his coming OF age, wrote to his
relation, Lord Carlisle, to introduce him into tina
asse mbly. Just at that moment Lord Byron was
engaged in writing his satire of English Bards and
Scotch reviewers, and he introduced into his man
uscrlpt these lines:
On one alone Apollo deigns to smile,
And crowns new Roscommon IN Carlisle
The noble subject OF this adulation, however, I'm
fortunately declined volunteering his service as an
nroductor to Parliament; Lord Byron then sub
stitued in the copy the following heartess casm
on his relations age:
mo more will cheer with renovating smile
The paraiytic pulling of Carlisle.
Mammoth Cake.-A La Fayette Christmas
lCake was made in New York, con- aiming IS pounds
lot -four go pounds OF currants, $50 eggs, besides
|ctron, sc. and weighing altogether $50 pounds.
Georgia The Legislature OF this State have
made an appropriation Of ten thousand dollars 10
|detray the expense OF surveys. sc preparatory to
commencing such works OF Internal Improvement
las a future Legislature may deem ADVISABLE.
Glide {, Enerali"A qarto paper, under this title
and conducted with than ordinary ability is issued
lin Philadelphia, every Saturday II derives its name from
la junction of the interests OF the 'Gobe," printed in
that CITY, and the Emerald" which has for sometime
been published in New York. We have extracted from
the following pleasing remarks ga le-persal Of the
Presidents Message"
"We have given this document second perusal ::
~ rad in he ErSt nj
ing state paper, interesting not only to the Amer-
can, but the people OF all nations II is pleasing
may, fascinating prospectus OF the growing pros
|perity OF wonderful nation, young IN years, bul
lathough young, already assuming the firm bone
land sodlty OF maturity. Advancing vi giant
stride towards perfection, who VIII dare say where
Iit shall stop, how far il may advance! The specu
laluns Of theorists have been ridculed, as the wild
fancy of the enthusiast the calculations on the
growth of America have been reckoned the wild
Ichimeras of disturbed imagination but let the
America OF this day be compared to the America
OF l776, and who but must acknowledge that every
speculation and every theory every calculation and
levery expectation, are lett iar, far in the oil
reality? And this being the case where must we
in anticipation, fix bounds to what America will be
Who il l776, dreamed that republicans would
! stretch their settlements, within hall century,
beyond the Mississippi? Few, indeed, expected
that that river would be reached except by the ad
yenturous hunter or the imprudem woodsman
| The spot OH which the capitol OF the nation now
| stands, was then but a wilderness unnotced IN
| bought of, without fame and without name and SO
would it probably be this day, were 1t not tor the
virtuous courage which shook off the trammels oil
| the colonist, gave birth to a nation and borrowed
from its first citizen name for its chief city AT
this aus }icious PERIOD the Allegheny hills and the
Rocky mountains were scarcely known or their ex
lstence only spoken OF as terra incogna, which
might give food to tie novelist, supply the ex-
travagant traveller with subject Tor wonder.work
i ing history. Coming nearer our own day, who, IN
1916 (eighl years ago) would believe that the great
ditch" in an unfinished state. would already have
i in one year, produced an income from its tolls oil
500 900 dollars and who. at later PERIOD who
but three years ago, could expect that, in this day
lit would be in conem plation to unite the Atlantic
with the Pacific, by canal which will traverse the
United States IN the whole extent from its eastern
to its western boundary? Who will reflect on the
pasl, and venture set bounds to the progress oil
limprov ement in America!
i The means, the small comparative means ap
lplicabie he immense objects, Is in itself sub
lIelt worthy The serious ref clion oil the people Of
lother countries Ii comes home to ourselves, when
we reflect on the land ce left The money paid 10
a standiug army, to an ext police, to an estab
lished church, TO pensioned tories and biibed pu
iurers. to slnecuie office holders, aud a thousand
OF hers de pendant corrupt system, would do ten
told more than that which Is working wonders IN
America, giving to literature ana the arts their ut
most indulgence, to agriculture and The sciences the
highest encouragement, and that without the aid oil
1.-THE, church establishment,
/ The internal Improvement in the United States
has been hitherto principally executed by private
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