Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-05-01
APPEARANCE OF RoTHscuL.p.

t'R'7 Tie "SeronS Judgment Of Babylon the GrsaI By the
Guthor Of "BGbyton TIE Great"
Sceptic, 90 to the Royal EXCHANGE almost any
morning that you please, and among some score Of
persons, whose appearance will not very greatly cle-
vate your notions ofthe dignity and grace of human
nature, you will see some whose face and frure
alike battle your powers of description; and his whole
man and manner make you instinctiyely repeat the
vulgar etrastIch.
81 do not Ike thee, Doc u,r Fol
The reason WHY cannot tell:
The fact itself feel full welt
do not Ike thee Doctor Fell"
Inc thing Before you stands cold motionlcsS and an
parenty specuatonlesS the pillar of salt into which
the avarcfous spouse ofthe Patriarch wr,s tnrne1
aud while you start with wonder at what il can he mr.
Inean you pursue the association atn] th;pL oo ~
Itc ana orinstone that we're raned down. Il is
human beng of no very Apoo-like form, ar face
Short squat, with its shoulders drawn I'D TO its corp
and hls hands de1vcd into his breaches pockets 'Tbn
hue OF It's face is mixture Of brickdust and soGron
aho Inc texture seems that ofthe skin of dead frog
mere Is rigdity and tension in the features ton
which would make you fancy, if you did not soc thar
tuat were not the fact, that some one from behind
was pnchlng it with pair of hot tonps and that II
were ethcr ashamed or afraid 10 tell. Eyes arc uy
ally depomlnated tho windows Of the soul: but here
sou Yond conclude that the windows are false ones
or that there was soul TO look out at them Phere
comes not ono pencil Of light from tue interior mel
tiler is there one scinlatiun of that which comes
rom without rejected IN any direction. The whole
puts you in mind Of ga skin to let" and Won wonder
Why 1t stands upright, without at least somethipo
within. BY and by another figure comes M to III
IL taen steps two paces aside, and the most induis
i've glance that ever you saw, and glance more in
qnsitiyc than you would have thought Of is drav
slowly ont ct the ercYhle fixed and leaden eye as if
one were drawing sword from scabbard TIN
visiting inquire, which has the appearance Of cominp
ny accluent ana not 10y design stops but second or
TWO; IN tile course of which looks are EXCHANGED
when though you cannot translate, you feel must be
OF most important meaning After these, the eyes
arc shcathed UP again. and the figure resumes its sto-
ny posture During the morning, numbers Of visi
tors come, all Of whom meet with similar reception
ami vanish III similar manner; and last 81 ali th,
figure itself vanishes, leaving you utterly al loss as
70 what can be its nature and functions.
That singular figure is Nathan Myras RothscIifi.
The Jew, who holds the Purse tO all the kuOs ON tho
continent and opens or closes it inst az ne lists. md
VINO, upon certain occasions, has been spposcd 10
have more Influence in this country than tho proud
est and most wealthy Gifts nobles-perhaps more in
hudnce than the two Houses Of Parliament taken TO-
gether. He takes that post TO be in the midst Of
sC0utes; those visitors who appear 10 come casually
arc all there by appointment They communicate their
Information, receive their Instructions and hasten 10
ace and probably at eaah application of them to tho
grand calculating machne,it willed that q mil
hon OF money should change masters or that n pot
entAte who calls himself absolute should alter his
Purpose dfmlss bis ministcr change the systom OF
MS politics. Ungainly as his external man is, and
nstached as It seeUIsrom business, aud incapable
OF thought, II IS the Of perhaps tic most Curl
GUS ana certainly the most powerful calculating ma
clilue that ever existed.
The Prodigies Of CALCULATION which have from
time 70 time been exhibited all sink into NOTHING he
TIRE this one. They could play with numbers, in n
manner wonderful enough, 20 doubt hut their play
was unProductivewas nothing but meteor marvel ia
De soon Iorgo6 but This Yields the purse Of the world
ana ny means OF that' all the powers in It. Along,
too, with the ntuitve magic Of numbers which this
singular being possesses, there must be magic over
The passions OF but what it is or how Il works
'h' posseSsor VII no. fcll ard nobody else can