Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-06-28

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pointments, and mourning under similar be.
reavements, will almost always behave very
| much alike. We would therefore. comfort our
suffering gentlemen with the reflection, that, as
misery loves company, they probably have the
sympathy of their disappointed fellow men, the
displaced aLords and Gentlemen" in Great
/ Britain
A letter from Horace WdlpoE, Lord 0rjo,d. to the
Earl Of STAFFORD, London, Aoo az, 1871.
lord Oxford, SON of Sir Robert walpoIe, was Whg
Lord STAFFORD Ministerial mani
Each fresh mark OF your Lordshio's Kindness
and friendship calls on me for thanks and an an
swer: every other reason would enioin me ST.
lence. not only grow so old, but the symp-
toms Of age increase SO FAST that, as the advise
me to keep out of the world, that retirement
makes me less fit 10 be informing or entertain
ing. The philosophers who have sported on
| the verge Of the tomb, or they who have affected
to sport in the SAME situation, both tacitly i'm
piled that it was not GU, Of their ihoughts-and
however dear what we are going 10 leave may
be, all that is not particularly dear must cease
10 Interest US much.
If these reflections blend themselves with our
gayest thoughts, must not their hue grow more
dusty when public misfortunes and disgraces
cast general shade. This referred to the just
arrired ne,0s Of the sur, ender Of Earl Cornwalis
| The age, ii is true, soon energies from every
gloom, and wantons as before. But does not
that leyity imprint still deeper melancholy on
those Uho do Think Have any Of our caamities
corrected US! Are we not reveing on the brink
Of the precipice? Does administration grow
| more sage, or desire that we should grow more
sober? Can one repeat common news with in
difference, while our shame is writing for future
history by the pens of all our numerous enc
mics? When did England see two ,Uhoie armies
lay do,un their arms and surrender themselves pr,-
sonersS Can venal addresses efiace such slig-
mas, that will be recorded in every country III
Europe? Or will such disgraces have no con-
sequences? Is not america lost tousS Shall we
offer up more human victims TO the damon Of
obstinacy? Ana shall we tax ourselves deeper
to furnish out the sacrifice? These are thoughts
cannot stiAe at the moment that enforces them,
and though do no, doubt but the same spirit
| of dissipation that has swallowed up all our
principles will reign again in three DAYS with
| its wonted sovereignty, l bad rather be silent
than vent my Indignation. We, cannot talk,
for cannot think on any other subject 1t was
no, six days ago, that in the height OF four ra-
eing wars, with America France, Spain, and
| Holland / saw in the papers all account OF the
opera, and Of the dresses of the company; and
thence the town, and thence of course the whole
nation were informed that Mr.. F. had very
little powder in his hair! Would not one think
that our newspapers were penned by boys just
come from school, for the information of their
sisters and cousins! Had we Gazet,es and
! Morning Posts in those days, would they have
been filled with such iittIetatle after the battle
Of Agincourt, or in the more resembling ,recks,
after the battle Of Nasseby? (when Cromwell OBJ
tanned the great vic,ory) Did the French tri.
He equally even during the ridiculous war of
the Fronde! II they were as impertinent then,
at least they had wit in their levity. We are
monkeys in conduct, and as clumsy as bears
when we try TO gamboI. Oh! my Lord! have
without regret. (Lord Oxford was then between
| 70 and SOY Can we be proud when all Europe
scorns US? 1t was wont to envy US, but nevsr
despised US before James the First was con-
,e,np,ible, but he did not lose an America! His
eldes, grandson (Charlss 2d) sold us; his young
er lost us-but we kept ourselves. Now we
have run to meet the ruin--and il is coming.
| beg your Lordshp's pardon If have said
too much; but do not. believe | have. You
have never sold yourself, and, therefore, have
not been accessory to our. destruction. You
must be happy now not. TO have son, who
would live to srovel in the dregs OF England
Your Lordship has long been so wise as 10 Sc
cede from the follies Of your Sountrymen. May
YOU long enjoy the Tranquility that has been
your option even in better days! and may you
amuse yourself without giving loose to such
reflections as have overAowed in this letter
/ from, Sc &c.
HORACE WALPOLE.
On the foregoing we would remark that Lord
Chatham, also predicted the ruin.of Britain from
her quarrel with Americas. Both he and Lord
Oxford maintain the charactef OF prophets
England is not what she was when George ane
Cd died. nor ever will be, however she may i'm
nose on the though,less by clustering
AN ITALIAN DESPERATE.
From HsndaMs "Ron,e, Naples, and Florence
There was living in 1856 at Brescia, a Count
viteleschi, most singular naan, and whose
energy seemed to belong 10 The middle ages
All ,hat IIiaye heard Of him announced him TO
81, . .ss,or similar 10 thai Of Casiruccia Cas-.