Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-11-30
rUBLIsHEp DAILY BY
| MUEL SNOW DE ",
COMMUNICATED.
TO the Editor of The Gazcft,

DEAB SIR-l nave seen. WIN ueeP feSte', t"o
bl,Swardness Of our townsnen IN contributing to
9enecessitous, through the medium of the House
Of Industry. according to the plan proposed some
weeks since in your paper, and hope that, by the
enclosed donation of $40 towards the desirable
object in question, the minds of others may be
stirred up, and they be induced to contribute ct
kheir substance in the same way. You will please
add the enclosed to the sum already collected,
and place ii. when you think best, under the
control of the Agent for that Society, as the offer
ins of A FRIEND TO THE room.
.9lsraadyiu, Noe. %, 1880.
rye have deposited the amount received IN
the hands of the Treasurer Of the Society.
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coMMUNICATED.
DR. Editor-l perceive, BY the last advices
IRON England, that the FALLEN Bourbon has Sc
iected for his final retreat, Holyrood-H House,
the ancient palace of the Scottish Kings of the
FALLEN Stuarts. l mean not to moralizc. or
prose; but what reflections force themselves on
the mind from such a reverse to this Monarch!
and what reflections must always be present to
his mind, at such a singular coincidence Of fall
en- Majestyin both regal Houses! LOUIS the XIV
gave to the Stuart, the exied Stuart. the palace
az St Germans, for a residence. William the
~. TO the banished descendant of Louis, supplies
the palace of a family, whose fate has been alike
caiamitous have just been looking over my
favorite-Burns-and was struck with letter
OF his, Of 9Th November, 1888, as applicable to
the late fate of the Bourbon ;sindeed so much so,
that | transcribe an extract. as evidence OF his
strong mind. and of his open. kind. susceptible
nature expressed for the fallen dynasty OF the
S'uarts The extract is further interesting. shew-
ins Burns attachment to American liberty:
..The Stuarts have been condemned and laugh
ed at for the folly and impractcabity OF their at
tempts IN Ills and l.45. That they failed,
bless GOD; but cannot JOIN IN the ridicuie against
them. Who does not know that the abilities or
defects of leaders and commanders are often hid:
den until put to the touchStone OF exigency; and
that there is caprice of fortune, an omnipOtence
in particular nc, idents and conjunctures OF cir
cu,nstances. which exat us as heroes, or brand
US is madmen, Just as they are for US, or against
Us:
..Man is a strange, weak. inconsistent be-
inc: who would believe, that i'm this our Angus
tan are of liberality and refinement. while we
seem SO Justly sensible and jealous ut our rights
and liberties, and animated with such indignation
against the very memory of those who would
have subverted them-thata certain people. I'M
der our national protection. should complain, not
against our Monarch, AMI few tavori'e adNis-
ers. but against OUR WHOLE LEGISLATIVE
DODt, luz s""hoi oPPie',."', w." ',
very Same terms, as our forefathers did of the
House Of Stuart! will not, cannot, enter in
10 the merits of the cause, but / mere say the
American Congress-. in l776. will be allowed to
be as able and as enlightened as the English Con-
ycntion was in 1858; aud that their posterity
will celebrate the centenary Of their deliverance
from US. as duly and sincerely as we do ours
from the oppressive measures of the wrong head
Ell House Of Stuart.
To conclude. let every man who has a tear
f. the many miseries incident to humanity. feel
for family Industrious as any in Europe. and I'M
fortunate beyond historic precedent; and let eve
nv Brton. and particularly every Scotsman) wh o
crooked with reverential pity on the dotage OF
parent. cast a veil over the fatal mistakes OF
the Kings Of his forefathers."
The foregoing was written just forty years
past. - H.