Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-04-28
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.

The folio ing admirable letter appeared hrs'
ii. the Nav York Eyeri"g Post, What tHtc'
i, will have,i is ye, to be ascertained
To President a. Jackson
SIR hen The late Mr. Pitt represented in
Parliament TIE Uni, ersily of Cambridge, CHS
.dlma Mner) DR. Pa'ey was appoin ed TO preach
before that University, on III occasion WHEN
the Premier, il was known, would be present
You NAV guess the astor ishmr nj of an audi
cnce, chi, hy clerical, when the preacher an
nounced as his text the following verse Of ST
johns Gospel:
"There is lad here who hath five loaves and two
small fishes, but what are they among so many %
S.. Mark, il is true (chap. 81 spesks Of SeUen
loave> but the Two additional loaves could not
,,ract any thing from the miracle by which
alone so large an assemblage of people was 10
be fed with means inadequate, so far as hu-
man power was concerned.
dare say you, sir, can readily call 10 mind
this afftc,ing narrative. Before your Presi-
tncv expires, you will, l fear, regret that the
day of miracles is gone by.
TO desr eud in my scale of illustration. will
further remind you. by way of PREPARATION OF
what fear awai,s YOU, Of wise and feeling ex-
clamation Of Louis The IA h: Whenever
dispose of place, am sure 10 NIX" one un
grateful man and hundred disconnected" The
'ru h &C this, too, will almns' dAiy De forced
upon u. viii ado passag" from one of
the ora ions Of Cicero. in which that great
ma,'er Of eloqutnce and profound observer Of
human seton, and passions, is induced 10 in
t,'rupt, for moment, his argument, TOR the
sake o. INDUCING in ref ction that arose very
materially out II.
The ora,ion is entitled Pro Flacco, and the
splendid fusion is As follows
go c0ndn,ones miseras sdminstrandarum Provinca.
rum, in q.rus, d.igenta piena simutatum est; neg
igents u,uperatonum: ub severltas pericuioss est,
lberatar .ngrata, sermo invidiUsus assentario per
nicosa; Mons omnium famiariS multorum anlmus ira
tu~ lracunde occulte, blandiiie aperts: VeEientes
pre eNpectant, presentbus inserrunt, abeuntes
deserunt."
wish. sir, could refer you for translation
of this splendid passage to The elegant pen of
Mr. Memoth. Guthrie was as f. to trans late
Cicero as file is Fl to polish mirror. shall,
therefore, attempt TO express Tuliy's though S
as we'll as car. His language can he undrI-
stood by those only whose early wears were
spent under the shade of academic bowers"
instead Of being devo,td to the baule 6eids:-
/" How unhappy" says Cicero, is the condi-
ZION Of that man who undertakes TO administer
a government! A situation, in which zeal in
the discharge Of duty probably brgets haired,
and negligence, blame; in which, severity Is full
of danger, and indulgence of ingra,itud,; in
which professions are ensnaring, and flalieIy
pernicious; in which those who ART externally
pleased, are at heart Tull Of resen,men' where
the eoun,enance is open, and the thoughts con-
csaled; where men turn their backs upon him
who IS no longer in power, but alter oringi;,g
to him who is still in Office, arden,ly desire his
successor"
Twill not apologize sir, for this extract, nor for
the following, which, though applied originally
to Lord Nielsen, will account for S me of those
+Mr Pitt was then less than "A years ofage.