Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-03-19
The Hon. Francis I. Brooke.
From the Boston Patriot.
InHN RANDOLPH.

John RANDOLPH.
John Randolph who Is s"r! Oh i'n''a.
,ho.e hand is against every body, and almost
very ,ody against him, has become famous
80 ridiculous ,ddty in dress manner, and De-
,v;our. viii h he carries e,eh INFO Congress:
,od ba, therefor made himself an object Oh
rnbIic remark and fir Critic 1sm IL vas De
come Fashionable 10 go 10 hear II IN x see NM
&c Won would any other singular annual
r, nn;r his strange freaks, he has gwen one o.
his own spec hes, cWdrn'ly prepared Tor 'ne
nre,s bv HIMSELF and which thu friends OF JACK
son in This lily have re2rin ed in pamPhr'
form and spread over the Country, bPc'ust v
fuII OF SANDER AID sly abuse oil the ftfs'och''
in form Of inu.ndoes and base fluctuations, 'nt
foul s,eams Of bad heart, ard crazy h"a'.
B, sides III this, there Is something oeioW '''
DIGNITY of ,edan,ry, which l. the pride OF earn
ING issuing from a week head II nay We" We
callrd he auackery of learning; Tor 1t Is the
.how and the appearance Of It without the re-
aiftv. but enough to deceive the ignorant. liz
throws in scraps OF Latin, witn"u' kno'edgf'
tas,e or dignity; often not whit better sha
The SCRAPS Of Partridge in Tom jones, who
ouoled the examples in Lii|y's grammar
| Som-,,es Randolph throws out mutilaied law
! kim. q de min,mis non curat, which rs nom
CONS. without the word lex; and 81 OF other
scrars. He talks again and again OF singing
Ipalinodia, or ra her not singing OF II. kremrr
and General Jackson may believe ms 10 oe
fresh evidence Of the pro di 81 Gus learning OF
,he Ronanohian Deuoslhenes, when IL means
no more than a recantaion, or mans eat,hs
his own words-or what Some call swalio"t.s
cat tail foremost, or what our good ir'ehaS u,
the ;, ate Of stiff and steady habits used to Cal
> eating skunk and dumpIin. This is the simple
mranng &c Randoph's high sounding tern
pn1xopI,!! HIS ultima ThnP beyond,is ano
=, pr psr,r,dee- TX phr Sc. His ab ovo usqu'
d mall, is liter lily from the eggs 10 The apple
abiding TO the first and last dish o" The 'an's
mon srnse, fro n the beginning to the end -
How rcIicnl,us for man of sense ard repulet
scho arship, 20 throw cut such coAemplibl
, scraps TO impose on the ignorant. How despi-
cable this appears nong real scholars. True
genius is shown III apt quotation, and ot'el
great wit and judgment. The great Lord Chat
ham and Edmund Burke have e'inced adml'a
Die S n,r, learning, wit, and judgment III their
classical illusions; bat thi, is not The case with
the Johannis de rant, rho, gimmcrins in The
swamp Of Roanoke, which is good and legi-
innate law term, though it m"ans no more thar
Jack o'lanlhern. and is here more applicable
than half Raneolph's quotations.
There is ano'h.r matter that ought 10 BE- no.
tced and inat is, portions from celebrated
speeches IN the British parliament uttered by
Mr. Randolph.as his own. He says IN p 80
&" There have been times when STOOD IN suci
{" favour in the closet, that there must have
L" been something very extra,agant and unrra
&" sunable IN my wishes, il they might nor al
:. have been gra,ifel." These are the very
word, of Lord Chatham in the house Il P'ers
We challenge Mr.. RI, dolph to bring evidence
of his asserson, borrowed as 1t is, OF his eve
. being d favoritr in the close. Of any preriaen
i of the Unied States. We deny fatty his rs
serlou. Neither Washington, Jefferson, Mad
|" isun or Monroe ever shaved him any favor o
parti,liy. As for The elder Adams, he DIES
= pist d the spoilt child-the forward DO grow
VI up to the wears of discretion among Slaves, am
e tie servile fl .tterrers of young man with III
/ purse full Of money, his head full Of his o"
: consrqu nee, and his heart full of venemou
envy talents, pa rioism and reputation whie
+ he himself could never attain to, forming alto
II getber character for commisrraion and tear
u rather than congra'ulatio and applause
y Such is John Randolph:
: SINGULAR TRoN CAsE.-The Boston Evenin
y Gazrt,r mentions, that merchant OF ,hat CIT
expecting ship from Russia lIden with iroi
, entrred into contract, some time since, 10
the sale oft al a certain rae. provided the ve'
J sci arrived here before he Isl OF March; or,
;, after hat lime, tho contract was to be null.
~ the 90 OF February, The ship was eiaphet
and i'm the course Of the day she Game 70 az
d Choir in thu lower harbour, being compelled
u do so from head wind and tide. Since III
l con,rac, was made, Iron has risen in the maj
r. ke,, and both parties claim the cargo: one tn;
d the ship had, and the other that she had no
- arrived
IL Query When may ship be said to hay
: arrived, and where must she lay? In comm
;. up the harbour, she got ashore On the POI
. on Fort Warren-had she arrived then!
From the augusta Chronicle.