Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-04-29

demption. amounting yearly to one per cent.
on their capital War came upon Us in IN,
next year; and in 1897, GOVERNED ut, deeply
Indebted to the national bank, restrained that
body from payment in cash. In the same
year, compulsory loan was meditaied; but
the public no sooner heard Of this institution.
than books were opened, and within four days
Ieigbteen millions were subscribed, thence
called the Loyalty Loan. The three per
cents however, sank to a., and public credit
could only he restored by the strong, but new
and unpopular aid ofan income-tax. At the
peace OF Amiens, the annual charge has
been again doubled--beng now twenty mil
lions sterliag War, however, was renewed.f
every sea swept, every nation subsidized. and
British army Once again maintained on the.
Continent. If aught could have dampcd tho
hour Of righteous triumph. a patriots heart
might have sunk before eight hundred millions
ofdebt, and an annual charge OF thirty two
millions so stood the account against US at
the close of the year cfNvaterloo.
Random Records I'VE believe no copv of
this production Of Colman's has found its way
to this city. Several notices of its very queer
contents are before US in our English periodi-
Gals, and VIC avail ourselves of them to ex-
tract little OF the "peth and marrown Of their
contents. He hits off the common method Of
inventing an excuse for publishing book
very aptly in the following quaint nlanner---
at is plain" (he ssys) "that there is no excuse
for me left;-a stale one will scarcely be adj
mitted. This reminds me Of story ola
parcel OF school-boys, who had fashion Of
smoking tobacco. II was in the times when
King James preached crusade against tho
practice--hut il had no effect upon the bows
they whitfield away, like little wings, to sLew
their independence of his Majesty In short.
the young dogs smoked day and night, like
the kitchen chimney Of tavern. This, of
course, was concealed. as much as YOU can
conceal smell, from the dominic: --till ono
lucklcss evening, when the mps were all lud-
died together, round the FIRE OF their Steering
room, involving each other in vapours OF their
own creation, --lol in burst the master. and
stood in awful dignity before them How
nowl' quothN be to the first lad, show dare YOU
be smoking tobacco SIR said the boy.
'Im subject TO head aches, and pipe takes
off the pain And your and you--and youp,
inquired thepedagogue, questioning every boy
in his turn. One had tagging tooth ache
another the clolic-the third cough---tho
fourth in short they all had something
Now, sirrah,' beloved the doctor to the last
boy, what disorder do you smoke forP' Alasl
all the excuses he had were exbaustcd.- -whan
the Intercepted urchin, putting down his
pipe, after a farewell Whit, and looking grave.
ly up in dominie's face, said in whining
hypocritical tone-'Str, smoke for corpsf'--
And so, indulgent reader, bereft as am of all
other plea, allow me, for want Of better, to.
affirm that ,rrife 10 cure eosnsn
Hereafter, then, let it be understood. when
man writes for money, that he has cosyss.y
and being too lame TO walk, desires to make
people who would be quite as much at a loss
for an answer, if they were asked what they
drank for, but all who have had much expert.
ence in the business might safely affirm thea
they drink TO be covnedi there are many in
this goodly city Of Philadelphia who have in
veterate corns.
The remarks Of our author on the march
of intellect are not the least amusing of his
gossip;ngs. After observing that so ex extensive
isthe plan OF education in London, that eesn
dustmen are classical scholars, he remarks
scare however must be taken that soma, a.
mong the lower classes, should be lett unedu-
Gated; such persons will be indispensable for
the purpose of rousing their more enlighten-
ed brethren from abstract medtations, that
they may mind their ordinary businf So: oihr
erwise when the early sweep pops his head
out of the chimney top and contempates tho
morning star. he will get absorbed in astron-
omy, and viii never descend to brush ard
bag the SCOT. Without such RENE mbran-
Ger the butcher will be lost in anatomy, tie
gardener in botons, the pot-boy in metallurgy,;
carpenters deep in dialectics viii chop hss.
wood than logic, 1amplghters will leave the
streets In utter darkness, and the postmen viii
be too much men of letters to deliver them 10
duo course" Here we conclude to-day our
imperfect notice Of Colman, having a pleas.
ure yet in reserve, in the perusal of the book
itsslf--.4riei.
Jsfeyson's opinion Of Bonaporte--In a lee.
ter, written in 1914, to President Adams, Tho
elder, Jefferson thus breaks out:--.Shall you
and last to see the course the seven field
wonders Of the times will take2 Tie AttiA
OF the age dethroned; the ruthless destro, err
of ten millions of the human race. whose
thirst for blood appeared unqnencha Bile, the
great oppressor OF the rights and liberties or
the world, shut up within the circuit OF little
Island in the Mediterranean, and d.indied TO
the conditions of an humble and degraded pen
sioner on the bounty of those he has most in.
juredi How miserabiy, how meanly has he
closed his inflated career. What q sample
OF the pathos win his history present. He
should have perished on the swords OF his en-
emies, under the walls of Paris. But Bona.
parte was lion in the field only In siyl
life, be was . cold -blooded, calculating, un-
prncipled asurper, without virtues no states