The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-27
WORCESTER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY e. 1890
Lady D.-Have you seen Sir James late

Lady D.-Have you seen Sir James late
ly?
Lord Ale quilted US only few min
utes before we had the pleasure Of finding
you here.
Lady d. wish you would scold him
tor me; sent him an invitation to dine,
yesterday, and he never came.
Mr.. CT think heard him say that he
was invited for tonight.
Lady D.-Ah, then understand the rea-
son. The fault is not his. The fact is
that my automaton note writer does make
such dreadful mistakes that I must really
have him taken to pieces. Do YOU know
what he did the other day? sent note oil
coincidence instead of congratulation and
it was on the event of old Lord Battersea's
marriage with that little firt, Miss Pipkin-
son. Nothing could have been more anfor-
tunate. / Care say am suspected of hav-
ing done it on purpose.
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Lord A.-Pray have you heard the Pres
ident's speech at the opening OF the Parlia-
ment at Madrid? 1t is in a spirit more ia
vorable to the Catholic than the last. The
debates in the last session of the Spanish
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emancipation the small remnant of their
Catholics, bore a remarkable resemblance
to some of those which took place in this
country, on similar question, during the
| reign of George the Fourth.
Mr.. CT have heard it remarked their
speakers seem to have been all plagiarists.
But where did you see the Presidents
speech?
Lord AIN six hourly paper that was
published about two hours ago.
Mr.. C.-Ah! you have the advantage.
My paper is a half-daily one. | believe
must leave it of. One never knows news
till it is old.
Lord Avery true, half-daily paper
leaves one several hours in arrears But,
after all, nothing that appears in print can
deserve the name of news. The only sat-
isfactory intelligence one receives, is by
letter.
Mr.. C.-Certainly. / agree with you,
and apropos las the hackney coachmen say)
apropos of letters. / received one this
morning from friend in Moscow. 1t was
written the day before yesterday, and con-
tains a piece of information that is not gen.
orally known at present. My friend says,
that they had received intelligence of an
instruction having broken out in Turkey.
Lady D.--Turkey, where is that?
Mr.. Cit is one of the southern provin-
ces of Russia. The instruction is suppos-
ed to have originated among the remnant
Of an ancient sect called Mahometans, and
TO have been secretly fomented by those
seditious Jewellers. the Austrians. Those
restless mortals are like the old French
loo NTH
themselves, they wish to carry their PERM
cious doctrines into every other country.
Lord A.-Ay, | wish they would initiate
the steady monarchical government of Amer
lea. Talking of America, reminds me of a
letter | lately received from my friend the
Duke Of Massachusetts. He gives a curl.
Gus account of visit which the King OF
Canada paid to his Majesty Jonathan the
Third, at Washington. War is expected
between those two powers and the King of
Carolina. They can never remain at peace
long. There is perpetual Jealousy be-
tween those North American Kingdoms.
Mr.. C.-War is expected in the East.
The Emperor of India, the Burmese Re-
public, and the Kings of BoIneo and Suma-
ira, have entered into an alliance to resist
the aggressions of Australia. AS neither
New Zealand nor Tasmania are very friend
| ly to the Australians, it is thought the latter
must come to terms. 1t will be singular if
war should break out at the same time in
two opposite quarters of the globe, among
set Of nations all of whom speak Engli,h.
( Lord .A.-True, but you remember that
with the exception of few countries in our
little Europe which retain their original
languages, almost all the greatest nation,
do speak English. 1t is the language Of
three-fourths of Asia, nine-tenths of North
America, half of Africa, and all the insulal
States in the South Seas.
Mr.. C.-And this little kingdom, with 8
population of not more than forty millions
has had the honor of colonizing half the
globe,
Lord .A.-True, and at time when on,
population was not much more than hal
what it is now.
Mr.. Cit is gratifying reflection.
Lady Dwight not one say "mortify
ing one?' These countries are our colo
MES no longer. How powerful we should
have been if we had retained them.
Lord .a.-Perhaps, Lady d. not mucl
more powerful than we are at present.
might almost say perhaps not so powerful
~ w ASOA tAAS HtShStg3 LhNt WHGl
the United States of America, las they were
formerly called,) when Canada, India, anC
Australia, successfully fell from our grasp
at each time the most ruinous consequence.
were anticipated, and at each time the fan
cied disaster was found to be- the forerunnel
Of increased prosperity. There seems t,
be certain limits, beyond which NO natior
can extend itself without mourning the dan
ger of disunion and decay. We have los
many dependencies which, perhaps, aftel
all, were more expensive than beneficial
but we can never lose the glory of having
been the mother country of almost half the
colonized globe, and of having conveyed al
that is most valuable to human nature, into
regions which, before our coming, we're the
seats, either Of tyrannical despotism, or saw
age ignorance. Let us only look at the
mighty nations that were first nursed int
tim a