Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1829-10-29

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f. 'S'e !, moment, and examine the st,7,e-
liire OF the passage With ,vhat 49, ~
We prepared for the appearance ~ are
fiow natural every eirc,lmst,ncs b,s- H.,
II ~ selected, how inpressiyelv coml,,naSt
FIRST, The news of her arrival
SUCH eagerness Ear and wide. br;ngs -
tial ardent and universal love Of The ,,en,,,a
Tor the noble and virtllous Ger,nan;e,,s ,sfih
Drew upon him the hatred and iealo,,sl, &c
Ihe court OF Iiberius; that hatred and ;esl
onsy winch were suspected to have hastsnad
nis neaiil:-thea tie friends Of the Er,g;j,,~
te eb1cefs scho Raj serred snatir L5erou,,,;e,,s
whose sFmpatlies we 50 readily conceive and
so easily adopt-ana a vast conco,,rse ~
strangers from the municipal towns. anxions
70 she" their respect, rush together to Brsn-
foasiin1 M a torrent, so full and strong as N
Dear All before H--then, at the intcrestiaa
momsn,, when the fleet comes in sirbt. the
spectators flying in crowds to the yalls--to
the tops oil the houses--and every place that
gave even distant view--the GREATNESS a.
icnce ~ winch they watched the approach OF
the iieet to the shore---their anxiety to con-
vince Agnppina of their respect and syulna-
| thy, and their uncertainty whether fhev
should best do this bya burst OF acelanatians
| or by respectful silence.-Then instead OF the
usual alacrity with which mariners return
from distant voyage to their friends. even
those rough and hardy sons of The storm are
hushed BY the awfiIlness of the scene--tbe
lfleet enters our harbor with a slosc and solem,
s0aaad ct the ori---and at this moment of the
ithrobblng xpectation--A grippina comes forth
land how?-She comes iOrth--leadiqg Isro
| Of her childrea---scith the san contais,aag he
ashes Of Gcsnaassicus i, her haadl-aad her
eyes steadfassty feed on that precious obiecn
y. what scene for painter of geniusl-A
| general groar is heard--a promise uo,Is scene
Of sorrow follows-and then comes one offbe
most delicate strokes of the writer's pencil
that, by which he distinguishes the refinue of
Agrpplna, from the surrounding crowd-to
the first, the subject was not new--their tears
and their strength were exhausted: they APP
pear, therefore, as was most natural, with a
languid air, and the deepest impressions OF
sorrow. settled upon their -faees-while the
crowd, yielding to the sensation Of the mo-
ment, break out tcith all the eehealence O, recent
gYief.
Tacitas then proceeds to describe the mill
tery procession which, by The order of the In
iahsouo IL tSC0fttu ASH
es OF Germanicls to Rome. Tiberius, indeed,
furnished the cohorts and prescribed the form
OF the procession: but it was nature that gave
it its highest grace. When they advanced
rear Ieome-ssThe consuls, Marcus Yalerius
hIessala, and Marcus Aureiius Gotta, who, a
little before had entered on their nlagistraey,
with the whole senate and numerous body
/ OF citizens, went out to meet the melancholy
train. The road was crowded; no order kept;
no regular procession, they walked and went
as inclination prompted. ftaiesy bad no share
IN The business; trhere the court reioiced IN Sc
erst, men could not tcsep themselves Into faeor.
Iiberius, indeed dissembled, but he could not
deceive. Through the thin disguise the ma
lignant heart was seem"
In this perfect stylc-withoat one touch of
the pencil too many, or one too few--tioes
this master Of the art finish up this fine piece
of historical painting. lam sensible, that, IN
turning the attention of the reader from A.
grippina to Facitus, / have dIverged little
from the immediate subject of this number
am still, however, within the general range
of these papers, for one of my objects is, to
endeavor to cali off the attention OF my rea-
ders, at least for an hour or two every week,
from the painful pickering of political party,
| to the pure and peaceful charms of literature;
and perhaps this will be better effected by In
cidental remarks, than by any series of set
and formal dissertations. Let US now return
| to Agrippina.
| This noble lady, who has been held up to
us in the soft and melting light of widowed
love and fidelity makes avery differnt figure,
! (and if not more winning, at least a more
glorious one, in another part OF the history.
The Roman army, under the command oil
| Gernanicus, was encampcd IN Gaui. (now
france) which was then, by right of conquest,
a province of the empire. Leaving IN tins
camp his wife and children with the main boz
| dy Of the army, the Roman general crossed
| the Rhine with strong detachment and M
yaded Germany; then defended by the genius
land Heroism OF Arminius, savage chieitain,
whose character has been drawn and imnser-
TALKED by the pen of Tacitus. am not about
to follow Germanicus IN this march--but It
the reader wishes to see how the pencil OF orr
ginal truth can eclipse the brightest colours
Of fiction, in painting to the heart, let me re-
commend it to him, may not add to her') To-
lperuse the historians account OF this interest
ling expedition, Let it suffice for me to say,
THAT Gerrnanicus, victorious and successful In
I his grand object, divided MS detachment INTO
1.-Two parts; and sailing with one OF ~shcm on
jnew enterprise, he left the other under the
lcare of Cacina, an able and experienced oifr
ieer. to return 10 the camp on tie banks OF the
..iRbine. The Germans, dispersed but mol VAN
Iouished, rallied on the disappearance OF Ger
lr,anic,ls, and lowering over the division under
1.-The command of Cacina, haTrassed II on IT'S
lmarch, and mcnacesl il with daily extinction
a AZ this crisis a report reached the camp on