Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1828-05-06
WYE LA BAGATELLE
FTomour Correspondent.

- NAsBIHGroN, I'D April.
The great talk of the day still continue. to be
The celebrated distorQueated nose of Prince John.
never say" men so happy at having one of their
own picked 0ut of ten thousand noses pulled, as
The Adams men seem TO be. 1t is now admitted,
and it is proved that the young fellow grossly in
suited party OF ladies', the majority oil them Of his
own political stamp because the husband of one Of
them wasin favor of Andrew Jackson. Yet, such
IS the infatuation of John Quincy Adams, that he
sent his ftoin nose messages to Congre sanction
ing Indirectly such conduct and atrocious princi-
pies The whole has been got up for political effect
soon alter the mighty event took place, the noise
OF itfew like lightning from east TO west. Neither
me earthquake, nor the African Lyons, nor the
Morgan business, nor any other extraordinary al.
TAR, be marriage or nnnarrage, stirred up hall
The commotion IN the city of Washington that the
nose has done. The married and the single the
widow and the widower, the tavern keeper, and the
taoe' keepee, all 1ung out OF their doors and win
COWS Tor whole afternoon, and endured about the
nose-the nose. The Fdbelid ,Saickenbergii was
partly made matter of fact. 1T was not, however,
The size OF the nose, il its peculiar dimen-
sons-lts length breadth and thickness, w ich ere
ated this extraordinary movement in the capitaI:
neither was 1t the materials in the mt parts
as the Tariff men say--of which il had been man.
utactured
Monstrous :" said Mr.. Storrs, looking at the
nose most monstrousi" repeated he, 81 would
XII any man who would colour my nose 500
Mr.. Everett looked over the top of his golden
spectaces in his quiet, gentle, classical SUI
gene'fs way, and said, Sc apud .Nasortrn promon
!0r'itm tuiSse, but he had never seen such nose
in his life.
One of the most bewi,ching las bleus from the
East held mp her hand" DoltiS est orri--7.e mi
dit--nGsSuS est tdiSuS."
!" This admirable nose" said Glen Dorsey of
vi aryian,i, 2" come let us make devil Of fuss
'' This is better than the tariff said Wright Of
Ohio; sit will destroy Jackson's popularty-huzza
Ior the nose - down with the pnLLer and up with
the pasllee!"
I'm have nothing TO do with that protuberance %
said Daniel from the East, sunless the Pres
ident interine this letter in which certain promises
are made, and then it shall be the nose-the whole
nose-and nothing but the nose''
=" Let rs give the nose pension with the widows
Q: the mutineers,'' said DIR. Whippe it will paw
physicians fees, and vex Jackson
declare before heaven and in my place on this
iioor, SAID Tristram Shandy, burgess, l mean,)
" that II the colour of that nose is 20 be the colour
OF me noses under the new administration, they
VIII be curse upon his county, and destroy the
American system" Gen. Van Rensselaer, smiled
bencvolentiy upon the nose, but spoke not word
When Prince John had mounted his gig cracked
ms whip and retraced his way along Pennsy lvania
Avenue, the curiosity of the people TO see the won
derful nose, was irreprcssible and overwhelming.
" Is an alien and sedition nose, said one man
with sarcastic twist about the leeSard side OF the
neither lip g II looks like a wart with little cans
tie on it., said bFoh al the corner OF Fourth-st
market. "Oh! what beautiful azure nose - said
poetcss in the neighborhood of Williamson's " il
Is nose carved out of the bright blue sky.''-|
- fudgeP said Jacksonian, ''tis only chin of
the old block, and looks for all the world like an
impudent nose that has goa itself into orraher out
OF a difficulty" Clay laughed outright when he
heard OF the nose, and syore it would be as goo as
the Morgan excitement. Southland sighed and ielt
ii his nose was in its right place Barbour unsheath-
ed his raPier, and wiped its edge upon one of the
." coffin hand-biIs." Rush smiled beneyolently
over long calculation about the national debt
John Quincy Adams started up from the torpiiity
oil the nnetieth degree of northern latitude,
called Tor his thimbe and his pen, and wrote cou.
PIE OF dIpiomatised messages, the Interpretation Of
which Is, '' let us re-enact the alien and sedition
laws as applicable to Noses In short never since
the creation ofihe world to the flood from the flood
10 the call OF Abraham, and from that to the present
day-never did the pulling of a simple nose make
people so happy, that of Prince Johns has made
the Adams men. LaI:s Dec s. MahoInet his broth.
CT. Adleu' In y. Eng.