Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-03-24
MISCELLANY.
YORKTOWN.

We respectfully, and particularly invite
the attention Of our readers, to the follow
ing interesting and we'll told tale, which we
copy from the cold Bachelor" work of
great, and deserved celebrity, by William
Writ, Esq. Attorney General Of the U S.
1t pourtrays the feelings of fond and dot
ing wife, at an eventful period of the Revo-
lutionary War. The story is narrated with
all the native eloquence of Mr.. Writ, gen.
tleman, who, as a writer, and as an orator,
deservedly ranks among the ablest this
country has thus far afforded There are
parts Of this tale, which cannot fail to en-
list, and TO call into action, all the better
feelings of our natures, and to awaken those
sensations of patriotism, which should thrill
the bosom Of every American. We wish
that we could at all times occupy our col
umns with matter equally interesting, as in
that event, we should be enabled to relieve
our readers from the tedious employment Of
pcrusing too often, our own dull, and, per-
haps, monotonous prosings.
OLD Mr.. BAcHELos-You really have set
me thinking of things that never would
have entered my head in the way they have,
if it had not bean for the reading Of your
peaces in the Enquirer. Now, about read
ing of Newspapers, am not like our friend
Squaretoes, that wrote you letter concern
ing his daug hter. have taken the Enqui-
rer for several years as well as Mr. Square,
toes. was advised to it by a worthy
young man in our county, and have never
had any reason to repent Of it that know,
of-Though I read the speaches in Con-
gress and the essays when there is any, as
well as the news and advertisements, &c.
Indeed, read the essays with more atten-
ton than any thing else when they happen
to be about subjects that can understand,
for as for the news one half Of it is never
true, and that that is, can hear when 90
to court, or to market at little town near to
whear live: Tho indeed it would make no
great odds if l never hear it---for as the old
saying is, bad ne,cs come soon enough, and if
there is any good, we should feel the ben
eft of it if we never hear it---But l know
there is great many things in the newspa-
pors that | do not understand, such as the
dispute in Congress about West-Florida---
And concerning the rivers and places, can
not make out there names, for suppose they
| are French or Spanish. Now the Ingian
| names can always make out pretty well---
| for it apears to me that there is something
rather grand and noble in the sound Of tie
names they give to rivers and places---Nor,
| old Mr.. Bachelor, do l understand what
they said about the lattitudes---for never
had any lerning in these things-(But
shall write more particular about my want
of lerning and the want of lerning in country
people in general presentIy)-And as for
the treties that were made between the diff
ferent nations, it all got so iiumbled up in my
head that it was like one Of these puzzles
that have seen put into the Enquirer in
verse to try peoples ingenuity chat have
got nothing else to do but TO set and think
over these things-but one thing could see
plain enough that the majority in Congress
and the President thinks we have right to
the country, and il has always bean my rule,
and so have often told my boys, am al
ways on the side of the majority Of govern
ment unless think can see wherein they
are rong And indeed if it comes to the
pAsh with any foraign nation and my own
country, | should do just a. if my mother
was alive and was to get into fray by her
own imprudence, which know she would
not-I should stand by The old Lady through
thick and thin, no matter whether she was
right or rong; and I should be mighty apt
to think the other party more TO blame than
she for you know Mr.. Old Bachelor, we
are all very much inclined to think them we
love best are in the right, unless the matter
is too plain against them.
But hope, Mr.. Old Bachelor, you will
not think I have forgot that you do not wish
any Of your correspondents to write about
polIeticks l assure you I do no. mean