Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1828-08-09


il ha. power to do. ] only apprise the mem
bers tina, some minutes will be occupied in max.
ing nine copies Of the new proposition as SUBJ
mit.eG. Yes! Yea! The chamber will then
resume It's public sitting. Yes! Yes! Question
Question:. Z
The question on an immediate adjournment
10 the bureaux was then taken and carried; the
mos, Of the members on the RICH, not voting at
all.
The greatest excitement ensueds Members
quilted their places abruptly; some rushing out
and others for ming groupes, or conversing with
the spectators in different parts Of the hall. The
recess took place al a quarter before 1--we, and
the sitting was resumed at a quarter past hve,
when Nj. Labbcy &c Pompieres presented his
new proposition, amidst universal silence.
M Labbey de Pompieres. l move that the
chamber impeach accuser the members OF the
las, ministry Of the crimes Of con cussion nal.
version of the public funds, and treason. Gen
craI emmotion in the assembly.
NJ de Moni6el, moved that the proposition
thus qualified, be taken into consideration. The
motion was carried almost unanimously. Some
forty members on the right did not rise on Ell
Their side. The result did not create as much
excitement as had attended the previous delib>
erations.
THE President. The Chamber refers the pro.
position to the bureaux, for examination, and
the nomination Of commission with powers 10
report thereon.
From Mariners Sketch, published in the Providence
Journal
Landsmen generally have very mistaken no
tons concerning sailors, and most OF those no.
lions are absurd anG ridiculous. Cooper's two
novels, the Pilot and Red Rover, they think, af-
r. - tfa and
and compare him 10 the author of Waverey.
"Credat Judeus Apollo, non ego," (Which is,
ladies. being interpreted, tell that 10 the ma.
,ines,') to say nothing OF the silly and contemp-
.ible hatred Of the English nation, which breaks
out in every sentence, and which is feeling no
gentleman in the American navy ever did, or ever
will cherish, his sea dialogues are disgusting
and absurd, from being stuffed with sea phras-
es. Sailors do not Except when describing
some nautical transaction) converse in techni-
cal terms, any more than lawyers OF physicians,
and not near so much as clergymen OF certain
sec,s, nor do they swear so much, or at least
not more than landsmen, though there is more
energy and pathos in sailors oatbs Than in The
stiff and laboured Imprecalions OF mere "ferr9
fiius" "Tcm Coffin is caricatuye and not
a very good one) of an "old SALT" but terribly
strained and stiff Irecollect once being desir-
ed Ivy a dozen or twenty of my topmates, to
read few passages Of the Pilot. Every thing
seemed 10 please them well enough, till came
to one of the rope yarn dialogues when "Pshaw:
! aeave The id thing overheard" broke out
! from the lips Of half dozen man Of wars men
at once. They appeared to think that such
ridiculous language Slid discredt our mystic
ry." The Red Rover is much admired too, by
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do not understand two words of it. These
gratuitous admirers are chiefly exquisiles and
boarding school girls, who do not know salt
1 water from fresh, or at least which end Of a
ship goes foremost, and who think that sailor
is distinct animal, unlike the rest of the hu,
man family, like the Vermont lady who, when
sailor (tbe first one she had ever saw was
pointed GU, to her, exclaimed with some disap-
pointment, "Why, law you, he has not got the
least biof a TAIL" The character of "Fid,"
in particular; is most supremacy ridiculous. A
waiSter who had not been banya1 day on
board a guard ship, would be ashamed TO use
such silly language, as Fid over flows with.
! l have thousand times observed one Decu>
liar trait in The character of seamen. Whence
YER English sailors are in an American port, or
Yankees in an English place; they are sure to
quarrel, but put the same men in a French or
| Spanish seaport and they will unite most firm
~ against the common enemy. have often
| been amused at the promptness and aIacrity
| with which the English sailors uniformly es-
poused our quarrels on the coast Of South
! America. Without stopping to count noses to
make any tedious and unnecessary inves,iga.
| lions OF the causes Of the rotD we commonly
received the first "advices' Of their arrival and
operation from seeing half dozen Of the
enemy rolling in the gutter and the est "In full
| retreat" 1t was enough for them to see zone
of US, put upon" by the natives, 10 induce them
| 10 lend us their aid.
Another trait more amiable than Compare
tivencss" is their unreAec;ing generosity to
each other. Many time have seen group
Of English and American seamen whose money
was spent, before their ''liberty" was out, dis
encumbering themselves Of jackets, shoes, and
silk handkerchiefs, to snake raise" for the
accommodation of the party. In these sacu-
fees, the English, I mus, confess, seemed TO be
more liberal than the Jonathans, whose calcu
lating, money making disposition always shews