Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-02-16
PROVIDENCE
10 OUR FRIENDS. We acknowledge will

10 U FRIENDS. We acknowledge with
gratitude, that we have within the last ten
days, received f ON our friends, three long,
elaborate, and int eresting communications, and
are sorry 10 say. that we are compelled to de-
cline publishing either of them.
The first, encloses 10 rs, a very interesting
debate, delivered before a debating society, Of
one Of the interior towns Of Masssa chusetts
qucnt;-it certainly is very interesting and
we had nearly resolved to give il publicity,
and should have done so, had not a friend of
ours. suggested to US, that by giving it TO the
world, we should he compelled to publish its
rejoinder, and sur-rejoindcr THIS startled us;
and as we have no idea of filling up our col
umns, with the speeches officiating societies
it is bad enough to be necessi,ated to publish
occasionally. a long and tedious speech of
some member of Congress we resolved to
forcgo our previously half formed resolution.
The author ofthe speech, now spoken of,
will, we trust, excuse us FOR not obliging him,
and be satisfied, when We assure him, that his
production should be laid before the world by
us, if we did not feel assured, that such a step
would lead us to Incompatible voxa ton. and
tend to mako our paper, The vehicle Of reports
for the debating society, 10 which he belongs,
and of which We hesitate not to say, he is a
prominent and a very brilliant member
WooD AND FIss On Thursday, VIC re-
ceived from some philosophical Spectator, a
long essay on fye-a very fiery subject most
fruly-but no, half so fiery, as the spirits
which now operate in Congress Hall and we
should publish it most gladly did MOI IFS extreme
length forbid our doing SO. II IS lngeniously
and philosophicsily written, and occupies for
ty-one pages of close medium manuscript. The
author advances some propositions which are
widely at variance with those Of Sir Isaac
Newton and his prosely,cs.
Although We do not yield ON unqualified as
sent TO all Of the doctrines Of Sir Isaac, We
cannot depart from him so widely as our cor
respondent does. We arc the followers Of
Count Rumford, and shall speedily adopt all
opinion of his that ~leatnern aprons, may by
The process of fire, be transformed into baked
mutton chops and roasted chickens.
Our correspondent, will, however, excuse our
leyity, and be assured, that We admire his IN
g%enui,y as well as the classical chastity which
pervadss his writings; and we should pub
lish his essay, did not It's size forbid our doing
so. To publish it, we should be compelled to
exclude all other matter from our paper, omit
Marriage Obituary and Marine Lists, Adver-
tisements the story Of O'Connor, our love
tales, etc; a thing positively impracticablc
and which, by the way,if dore, would incur the
especial ire of aunt Hannah, Uncle Obed, and
Cousin julia.
BUsuEL BASKETS AND Ice. A third
correspondent has forwarded a long, and TO
our mind, a very happy essay, IN which he at
tcmpts 10 prove, that a bushel basket. may
"by the process o! ratiocination.' be made TO
hold one bushel, md "A peek, Of "5uahogs''-
what a classical name for "a fish-and TINT ice
can be heated red not! To his hypothesis,
we entertain no objection, but no, beng dis
posed 10 enter on a discussion of so much inn
portance, and Of decided intrinsic interest, ~
must decline inserting our correspondents cs.
say.