Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-11-12

OF newgate or of nations. ieleth US alike how
men suffer, and sin and perish--to History we
leave the sum and balance Of thy merits and thy
faults. The sins that were thine, were those OF
the man TO whom pleasure is all in all; thou vert,
from root to branch, sap and in heart, what mo-
ralists term the libertne; hence the light woolng,
the quick desertion. the broken faith, the organ
lied peridy, that manifested thy bearing to those
gentle creatures who called thee-Gentleman
George. Never to one solitary woman, until the
last dull flame of thy dotage, didst thou SO be-
have as,to give no foundation to complaint, and no
voice to wrong. But who shall say be honest to
one, but laugh at perfdy to another? Who shall
wholly con6ne treachery to one sex,ii to that sex
he hold treachery no offence! SO IN thee, as
in all thy tribe, there was laxness OF principle,
an ins, cerity of faith even unto thy friends
when occasion suited, thou couldst forsake; and
thy luxuries were dearer to thee than justice to
those who supplied them. Men who love and
live for pleasure as thou, usually good natur-
ed, for their devotion to pleasure arise from the
strength of their constitution and their constltu
ton preserves them from the irritations OF
weaker nerves so vert thou good natured,
and often generous and often withthy gener-
osity didst thou unite delicacy that showed
thou hadst an original and a tender sympathy
with men. But as those who pursue pleasure
are above all others impatient of interruption
so to such as interfered with thy main pur-
suit, thou didst testify deep, lasting and re-
vengeful anger. Hence the earlier gallants who
rivaIed thee in thy loves. know that TO thy last
day thou didst never lorgive-hence thy bitter
and unrelenting hatred of thy unfortunate, though
not unoffending wife-hence thy rash and arbl,
trary indignation when the mob took the part OF
that forsaken landlady aud insulted hee.-hence
the six unjust bills thou ditlst order to be made
out, when the tax cart was hit by stone.-
But let not these vices of temperament be too
severely Judged! thou vert in such respects.
no worse. perhaps than the members OF what
may be termed the robbers's aristocracy!-
Thy tastes, thy qualities, thy principles, thy
errors were rather those of man frequenting
public, than ruling it. Thou vert the Id
of ale houses! thy talents such as they we're
and they were the talents of man OF the world
misled thee, rather than guided, for they gave
thy mind that demi- philosophy. that indifference
to exaltedmotives. which is generally found IN
clever rake, and which we grieve to say char
acterized the Wing Rufilers Of thy period. Thy
education was wretched; thou hadst smatter-
inc of Horace; but thou couldst not write En-
yiish, and thv letters betray that thou vert wo-
fully ignorant of Logic. The fneness of thy
taste has been exaggerated; thou vert unacquaint-
ed with the nobleness Of simplicity; thy idea of
whole was grotesque and overloaded, and thy
fancy in details was gross and meretricious. But
thou hadst thy hand constantly in the public
purse, and thou hadst plans and advisers ever
before thee; more than all. thou didst find the
houses in the neighborhood wherein thou didst
build, so preternaturaIly hideous, that thou dldst
require but little science to be less frightful in
thy creations. If thou didst not improve thy
native village and thy various homes with solid,
lofty and noble state thou didst nevertheless
s;ns.,-s, ;"r".- And ''J pees~.'..5..-
avoiding the faults ofthy masonry, will be CRATE
full for the effects of thy ambition. The same
demi-philosophy which Influenced thee in private
life, exercised far benigner and happier power
over thee in public. Thou vert not idly vexatlous
in vestries nor ordinarily tyrannic in the parish;
thou vert even arbitrary, it was only when thy
pleasure was checked or thy vanity wounded.-
At other times thou didst leave events to their
Legitimate course; so that in thy latter years thou
vert Justly popular, and in thy grave, thy great
good fortune will say of thee with kindly, nor
an erring iudgement-ln private life he was not
worse than the Ruiflers who Cav e TO his bar:
in public life he was better than those who kept
a public before him."
Hark those huzZas: what is the burden OF that
chorus? Oh. grateful and never time-servlng Brit
tons. have We modified already for another the
song YOU made solely in honor of Gentleman
George; aud must we, lest we loose the custom OF
the public and the good things of the tap-room,
must we roar with threats yet hoarse with our Ter
, ,or for the old words, our ardor Tor the new!
Here's 10 hammer Bill God bless him!
God bes, hun!
God be-. hu'!
Here's to Muriner BIZ God bless him"
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