Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1827-08-18


"Whcn al Msso!onghi saw a poor devil. sitting
on the cold ground weeping most bitterly. Why, my
good fellow, said !, do you thus weep. Why re-
spondcd the mcndicant-isten and shall tell you.
In an unpropitious moment abandoned my friends
and my country and led ast:ay by designing knaves,
and here am, left to weep over my own folly, and
none to pity me.''
Hobhouse's Letters from Greece.
VIC were to suffer the inuendoes, that ap-
peared in public newspaper, printed in this
town, last Friday ovcning,to pass us unnoticod
we should do injustice to ourselves, neglect the
duty we owe to those who literally patronise
us, and very justly be set down by the commu-
nifty, as tame inofensive animals, who bear
with calmness, and without a murlnur, the in
suits and indignitics hcaped upon them, by the
arrogant, yet lowly. the malicious, though dcs-
picable.
As TO the effect these inucndocs, considering
the source from whence they came, will have,
il is more than we can form any reasonable
conjecture, though we have as little to apprc-
hcnd from their consequences. as VIC have from
the influence of their author; and it becomes
us TO say to him, that he is at liberty To con-
tinuo them, till he is perfectly satisfied:--wc
shall not complain. Nor would we now de-
sccnd TO the level Of the manufacturer of ind-
vidual scandal and cowardly abuse, or notice
the assaults Of 4 person, who, screening him
self by the ambuscade, anonymous productions
and dark inucndos afforded, were we not dis
posed TO defend upwards of fourteen hundred
Of the most respectable citizens of Rhodc-Is-
land, our patrons, who have been grossly in
suited by the writer of the inucndos, to which
VIC alludc, who, arrogating to himself claim
to moral inmutability, has denounced them as
vagabonds, because they please to give TO us
their support and patronage, and encourage US
in our attempts to support corrcc, principles,
and to gain for ourselves an honest livelihood
We will not see our patrons illuminated; and
we shall tell the author Of the inuendos, that
his efforts TO withdraw from us the support of
our friends, has met with but i'll success. Our
patrons are flcemen, they patronizc that pub
lication, which suits them best, and We do not
think that they will ask his advice on the sub
icct, or solicit his consent.
We arc informed that tho writer of the in
ucndocs avows,, that in giving them to Che world
he was actuatod by the principles of rctalia-
tion, and asserts that VIC have striycn to do
him private injury, when opposing his poliii-
cal predictions. Beyond this ho has told
tho sickly and childish story of his mistortuncs
as public writer, and because, VIC have not
suffered him to oppose the best interests Of the
country, without attempting 20 destroy the
balcful influences of his pen, he acts Up a cry
of persecution, and whincs morunful d:lty,
about an unprincirlcd opposition 10 his inter
csis, and scctns 70 think that the winds, the
thunders and tic lgh,nings, and tie rcsolving
orbs, should be subscrvient 10 his wishes, aud
at his nod, the world should bow down, and
worship Bal.
The assertion. that wo have attempted 10
do him private injury. is untrue II conno, be
rrcvea ~ a" reduction c. . solitary flc'