The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1829-05-06
WHOLE NO. e927.

The name of Rothschild has become familiar
to all who are conversant with European poll
tics. The appearance of him, who, by the in
fuence of his unprecedented wealth, controls
the movements of Kings and Princes is well
drawn in the following article:
APPEARANCE OF ROTHSCHILD.
By the -.4uthor of" Babylon"
Go to the Royal Exchange almost any morn.
ing that you please, and among some score of
persons, whose appearance win not verv preat-
ly elevate your notions Of the dignity and
grace OF human nature, you will see some one,
whose face and figure battle your powers of de-
scrptIon; and his whole man and manner
make you instinctively repeat the vulgar te-
rastich,, -
do not like thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why, cannot tell;
The fact itself feel full WE'LL
do not like thee, Doctor Fell"
The thing before you stands cold, motionless,
and apparently speculationless as the nillar ~
salt into which the avaricious spouse of the ma
trlarch vas turned; and while you start with
wonder at what 1T can be or mean, you pursue
the association, and think upon the fire and
birthstone that were rained down It hui.
man being OF no very Apollo like form of face.
snort, squat, with its shoulders drawn I'm to its
ears, and its hands delved into its breaches
pockets. The hue of its face is a mixture Of
brckdust and saffron, and the textnre seems
that OF the skin of dead frog. There is
ridgldlty and tension in the features, too.
which would make you fancy, if YOU did not
see That that were not the fact that Soma ona
from behind was pincing it with a pair of hot
tongs and that it were either ashamed or afraid
to tell Eyes are usually denominated windows
OF tne soul but here you would conclude that
the windows are false ones, or that there ia no
soul to look out at them. There comes mt one
pencil of light from the interior. neither il
there one scintillation of that which comes
from without reflected in any direction. The
whole puts you in mind Of ga skin to let
and you wonder why it stands upright without
at least something within. By and bv another
figure comes up to it. 1t then steps two PAGES
aside, and the most inquisitive glance that ever
you saw, and glance more inquisitiye than
you nave thought OF: is drawn slowly out Of
the erewhile fixed and leaden eve, as if one
were drawing sword from the scabbard. The
visiting figure, which has the appearance of
coming by accident and not by design, stops
put second or two; in the course of which.
looks are exchanged, which, though vou can.
not translate, you feel must be of most imnor.
tant meaning. After these, the eyes are
sheathed up again, and the figure resumes it's
stony posture. during the morning, numbers
m
lar reception, and vanish in similar manner i.
and last OF all, the figure itself vanishes. ieav.
ing you utterly at loss as to what car be n.
nature and functions.
That singular figure Is Nathan Mavors
Rothschild, the Jew, who holds the nur.e ~ nh
the Kings on the continent, and opens or closes
1t Just as he lists; and who upon certain coca.
slons' mas been supposed to have mere influence
IN this country than the proudest and most
wealthy of its nobles-perhaos more ;nfiranea
than the two Houses of Parliament together.
lie taxes that post, to be in the midst of his
scouts; those visitors who appear to come cas-
ually, are all there by appointment. Thev
communicate their information. receive their
instructions, and hasten to act and nrobablv
at each application of them 70 the grand caicti.
latlng machine, 1t was willed that a million of
money should change masters, or that poten-
tate who calls himself absolute, should alter his
purpose, dismiss his minister or chance the
system OF his politics. Ungainly a. his exter.
nal man is, and detached as it seems from huai
ness, and incapable of thought, it is the case Of
perhaps the most curious, and certainly the
most powerful calculating machine that ever
existed
The prodigies of calculation which have
from time to time been exhibited, all sink into
nothing before this one. They could nlnv with
numbers, in manner wonderful enough. no
doubt but their play was unproductive, was
nothing but a meteor marvel to be soon forgot;
but this wields the purse of the world and by
means of that all the powers in it. Along, too,
with the lntultIve magic of numbers, which this
singular being possesses, there must be magic
over the passion -of men ; but what is it, or
how it works, the possessor will not tell, and
nobody else can
Even this secrecy, however, forcible and fell
as it is, cannot last for ever. The former high
priests of Mammon have suffered reverses, have
been swept of all their wealth, driven TO despair
and persisted by their own hands and there.
fore the man who lives upon the produce of his
daily industry, must be more happy, and may
all his wealth and power. So much for the
very acme of the remnent of Jacob
Fro t~4rnotts Elements of Physic.