Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-07-29


nri,ileee Of resor,ing to it. Some strangers
were disposed TO make a large use OF the PR
,ilece, but / will not be particular. ~ %
enough for my narrative TO say, that Mr.. nan
dolph obtained pei mission TO frequent TINS o'uo.
A boon /, was Of no slight value 10 MIN, '''
here an audience for the most part was reaoy
assembled. Here was his daily rendezvous;here
the chosen theatre Of his displays. His auditors
were not such as might be COLLECTED al ever!
dav exhibitions. They were OF different mould
and especaly did they minister to his eomp'a'
ceney by every fair token OF outward ci'lii'y'
Our orator Of the human race, allured by sup
posed admiration Of his parts, y 'uid go on
with his discourses They are craven upon
the everduring tablets Of the club: How shah
| report them? Spirit of Swift aid me! MS
Quot ations from Latin whilst The OHoh'' ~,
we're by; for example, qudntum muidius do H'o
Heciore. This was but the herald oil wha' was
TO follow, for out came, IN opposite ano oeau.''
full conncxion, Quanfum mufatH 40 '"" 'rS'""
The latter was uttered slowly and sage'y IL
was ai,o brea,hed GU: with sort Of pious and
6,;,l s,rb. for he grew pensive when pieturlng
,he chanpss to which fate had doomed the old
dominion, being prone TO dwell upon the anti
oui,y Of the colony in the heart OF The mother
country. His "reminiscences still more recher"
che from the French, Uerr0ns, nous Cerrofas,
de n'ou6Aerai jamais, Je n,ou6iieratJdnad's'
with savings and moltoeS from other tongues
| md books. from the Whole Duty OF Man, from
Tom ZONES, Doctor Faustus, Shakespeare, Ro>
| chester. the Bible, Racine, Pope, Sancho, vicar
of Wakefield. Virgil, Caleb Quoem, Patrick
Henry. Juvenal, Jack Robinson, every body;
all .his, with various additional illusions oil
ella steal, typographical, and genealogical
rudition, the geneology compreherd'hS ma"
and beast, king, peer, and race hor,e-Pre
stnted scene a. which Momus himsen wous"
have STOOD al gaze i, received lis last hhisn
ON the enfnlded drop"ry OF the old green u
nick, through which peeped the su"ken heaa
Of The orator, as HI sa; in bent up posture, ms
finger pointing the while. Never haa d"
Nall Witnessed any thing like it. Looks we've
rx,h ,op.d inst he spoke the universal surprise.
some LETT he occupations they were iouhsihs
nyrr Ia pc, nearer TO him Some, urmo'td
from their st ats OF damask, would yet turn up
their 81 o., ifcan, glances from the page before
them A voung Etonian was heard to Whisper,
lp,'s cate HIM with ibant ponere j"ria. English
reserve could not sianC il. SUI h auditors al
way, suppress, intempera,r Joli'y; but guard
ed, contagious mcrriment went rouhd ne
mos, unbending gave way, the more arcn ann
ed by their blandi shments, 81 d'cnyng him IN
20 repetitions Ii was scene SW generS, move
even for London The silIikIcc"bre feast lni
variety, and the caullron II the wiered sisters
for oongruity, were is only types Kepea''o
j, was, with vsria,ions-"Hoby noo's 'o'e'c'
Asla a aas d asaiSs s bssd I"Ihe
M neH ~ S91@1a IN his own country mai
on the public Glib, he gave i, TO them thai he
did and would Bladensburg, Yazno, he YAM
KEGS, the Negroes, Mason and Di kson's line,
the man in the monn"-every hi & danced in
the Astounding medley. such CHATTER If dis
cordanr ideas. such a hurry bLrly Of the brain,
had been heard in the edihce thai stood in
Moo,fit as, but ne, e. elsewhere in old England
| 1t must not BE- fo' gotten, tina, he filled up his
intervals with the n"sI reverental indications
OF his devotion to rank. Sometimes they be-
came almost Koo-to""
All ,hings however, as al! men, are destined
| 10 come an end. la London no divertise.
ment can have more than its appointed run
AS The novelty IF this faded. US atractveness
began to fade TOO. The auditors were plainly
seen to flag. They grew shy, feeling not dix
m:nishcd in them, f. ON us absence in him
He has said on the anor of an august assembly
in hi, own country, as par Of his argument
believe OH an in'eral improvement, question,
that he had The enree of some Of their domiciIs
afterwards. Ii e had, il was in the capa ity
j. which Wanda found himself seated on the
Dais Of Cedric, the better To- carry off the en-
ertainme'' for the lady Rowena aud Sir knight
Trnpiar.
What a Cha la,ap am describing am
ready TO throw awas the pen. But no-he has
earned re ribntion ai nv h!nds will go on.
seem 10 pc suade m, self lha thu reader also
says, 10 not stop You nave in MIN materials,
tn most INVITING aud at henlic, for laughter
and for sc"rn. He is he double mark Of jocu-
lari,y snf deiestation. Proc ecd: YOU owe il to
the p"'li amusement; what l. of higher aim
to The Cause Of moral and sociai order, which
he has so long invaded Ia aid in m king him
better knowh; To toss him in spor' and analyzc
| i'm in rigor Spare him not. II Is f., il is
even duty, har some citizen should offe,
himself as public hc;or, whsn the STATE is hes.
hy SO enormous a iran>gress"r. The tasc.s Of
your offire will be holy, bind him f.si and do
not lie; go he rods The applause Of the ma
tioh will wait upon your INFECTIONS; IT will rise
10 atclama,'on, for who, from the NORTH - the
south, from the fr-s,s =" the ocear, Blu, h S