Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1830-04-30
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
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DEAR SrR--Yesterday being st. Georges day,
and the day set apart for the celebration Of the
birth day Of the King of England, Mr.. Vaughan
the British Minister, gave a splendid entertain
ment, consisting of a ball and supper. The Vice
President, and all the members of the cabinet,
were among the guests. Fancy had employed
her utmost skill in advancing the abundant gra-
ces which in reality were to be found there. There
was a crown suspended from the spacious sup
per room. the dimensions of which indicated that
Il was designed for no head but that of the great
est Monarch of any ace or of any CLINE; and as
il is the prerogative of crowns to multiply their
speeds, sans peur, a hundred infant crowns adorn-
ed the hundred ornaments OF Candled sugar
which beautiied the range of tables. There
were some of orr republican bellies there, who
seemed to have a tralterous propensity Tor the
Sewgaws of royalty, and were evidently desir-
GUS TO rival the roguish daring of blood, and to
steal a crown. Either by theft, or bribery, or
supplication,I have no doubt some of these crowns
were worn. immediately over the seat of hon
or, the Dais where the cabinet and the host were
seated, was an exquisite plume of three feathers,
representing the plume of the Prince OF Wales,
with The motto it bears, .Ich dien," set off by
appropriate drapery which extended from one
side of the banquetroom to the other. The tables
were iuTulclleu III Il StNtC " TcSuldE spltUuUT.-
All which horticultural skill; all which the most
cultivated science of the disciples of the slaugh-
ter house; all which the most approved finishing
schools of confectionery; and all which the most
devoted and most successful worshippers of Flora,
could teach, produce or obtain, contributed to
render this festival the most perfect of its kind,
to Whatsoever of the faculties the decision may
be referred. The tables were speedily filled as
soon as the signal for supper was displayed. The
Speaker left his game of chess unfinished evenin
the arms Of victory. The Dutch Minister threw
down his superhuous trumps, and the gallant
Baron, from a more northern Court. was for once
guilty Of the heterodoxy of paving his devoirs to
adish OF ca~ulihowers or asparagus. instead of di-
recting his alteration to the shrine of beauty. As
soon as sufficient time had been given to take off
the edge Of appetites highly whetted, a discharge
of corks from an army of champagne bottles,
announced something extraordinary; andin a mo-
ment afterwards, the voice of the Vicc-President
OF the United States, was heard announcing the
health of His Majesty George the w." The
toast was drunk, with all that fervor with which
all toasts are honored, when given by distinguish.
ed men, and taken in delicious wine furnished
free of expense. Ihe toast was swallowed by
the guests standing. The British Minister then
gave 'sthe President of the United States. p
The Midnight hour arrived before the tab IS were
cleared so freely of the gourmands, that the ghosts
of the slain and devoured could find room to ex-
ercise the privilege which that hour gives to them.
St. George and King George were as as highly
conplimented both by the provider and the con-
sumers of the feast, as Saint and King ever were
in the most arIstocratic countries or ages of the
old world. 70. S. Gazette.
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NEws-gratis.-The London Morning Chron-
icle says So In the United States of North, A
merica, the President is always one of the wisest
and best men Ofthe nation. His opinion on pub
lie matters, of course. much more likely to be
valuable than tie opinion of a King nurtured in
the folly and dissipation of a court" Though
We NAV doubt the first clause, yet shall we ad-
nit that We have the advantage of badly-nurtured
regality-having a President not burdened with
opinions-for he has none of his own, and no.
body has any opinion of him.-Boston Courier.
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The Alexandria Gazette Observes
''Mr. Crockett and Mr.. Chiffon are not the
only men who have had their eyes opened to the
humbug which is played off upon the nation"
There is French saying u royaume DIES
areugles, les borgnes sOnt roiS." If the two H.
lmuinGti were the only men, we should have to
crown them-Ndt. Coz.
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Tempest IN a Tea PoL-The Provincial Lee
gislature of Nova Scotia has been abruptly pro-
rogued, in consequence Of a quarrel between the
House of Assembly and the Legislative Council.
The origin of the quarrel seems to have been this:
The House Of Assembly and Council differed as
to a duty on brandy. The latter wished 1t to be
Is. a gallon; the former insisted, thirty one to
five that it should be Is. 4d. In consequence
of this difference of opinion, several of the mem
bers of the Council were insulted in the de-
bates of the House. The Council, of course.
took the matter in high dudgeon, and passed re-
solutions, insisting that the disorderly members
of the House should be punished. The Speaker
of the House afterwards felt that he had been
insuited by the Council, and the House, by vote
of % to 5, resolved to sustain the Speaker. FL
nlly, the Council refused to receive a Message
from the House: and in this state of the case, the
Legislature was prorogued until July.
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