Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-28


Society. On motion Of the Hon. Mr.. Wnsoy
Resoirea. that this institutions deeply afAiet
Cd Inv the death of WILLIAM II. FlrzHucH. Pso
one of its Vice Presidents, and that it will cher
ish am a(lectionate remembrance of his eminent
private and public virtues and Ills distinguished
exer,ions in aid of the African cause.
-1NsS
1t is stated in the New Orleans Argus, as H.
impression of several members OF the legislature
that the seat of government Of Louisiana. wouI5
he removed from Donaldsonvile to New Orleap.
ASsA
1t is mentioned in the New-Orleans Bee of,ba
goth ult. that the Hon James Brown (our late
Minister to France had arrived there in the shin
Ohio from New-York. Mr.. Clay and he, v,rp
are intimate friends and connexions, meet ther,
upon business. Mr.. Clay with his family arriy.
ed at New Orleans on the 18th, and has taken IN
his residence with Mr.. Durable, his son.in.law
below the city.
It's stated in the NewYork Courier that Glib,
the person charged with having aided in the late
murders on board the brig Vineyard, was detect.
cd few days since, in second attempt TO e.
| cane from prison. Immediately after the ds.
| covcrv of his first intended attempt 10 cscsre
with the others. he was confined in SOLITARY
cell. 4 few DAYS since. il was discovered tba,
quantity of mortar and pieces Of stone were
concealed in the folds Of his bed clothes. and On
search being made, it Was found that with the aid
| of a spoon he had cOntriyed 70 cut away Il piece
of the sulbase Of the room 10 the extent of abour
| % inches; this piece he had preserved so thatAs
conid always slip ii into its proper place. behind
" hich he had exca,atcd 10 the extent Of several
inches. Desperate rs the hope of an ESCAPE
through such an aperture was, 1t is probable ,ha,
he could have efected.an opening from his cell
to the ward, il he could have concealed his labor
some time longer.
800
The committee Of the House eff Delegates. 10
whom had been referred the subject Of closin.
the present session of the Maryland Legislature
at an early day, have reported that the scs.o.
might be brought TO a close on the 18th Febuar,
next On the presentation of the report. u.
House refused to strike out tie day named with
a view to insert more distant dav, and after
some discussion the report, as originally made
was adopted and sent to the Senate.
ANB-
| The National Gazette is very harsh IN its stric-
lures upon the second volume of MooIes Life Of
Byron. Without having an opportunity ourselves
of reading the work, and forming our own oplI.
ion as to its merits, we subjoIn the sweeping de.
nunciation referred to.
I'VE have read the greater part OF the second
volume Of Moore's Life Of Byron. 1t open to
all the exceptions which unregistered against The
first. but in much higher degree. To feel senu.
inc INTEREST," in such tarrago of ribaldry, egolsm
doagerel and spurious sentiment, it is Necessary
to have taken lively concern in the life. charac.
ter, and works of Byron, or to have suffered a
lamentable deprivation Of taste We could not
easily decide to which party the book should b.
deemed most disgracefuI, the author OF the sub
ject. The first hall of it is utterly unfit for the
hands OF L respectable female-partlcuIarIy he |
youthful part of the sex. We think this opinion
due to parents as caution. Moore has betave
the memory Of his friend by reckless prcmg'
CATION of the coarsest, the worst private etfl,In
of desperate libertine to his boon companions I:
Most of Byron's letters to Moore himself, and Z
Murray, his Bookseller, and his diaries, areme1'
larded with vulgar oaths and the lowest Slang
We do not recollect to have ever seen prCfln:
swearing more Extensively lavisbed
"ltis incomprehensible how the biosraple',
who formally undertook the custody OF bis dear
friends pOsthumous reputation, could have ALLOW
ed so much to appear which can have no o.hsf
than very injurious effect for all parties II The
correspondence had been weeded. it would, tOe l.
sure, have shrunk TO small compass; set any
sacrifice would have been preferable to that WHICH
Moore seems to have made to Incidence, persona
vanity, or the object of forming volume OF a Ger
tain bulk, without the labor of original compost
ton. HIS own share in the five hundred and 'N'
ty-iive compact pages is inconsiderable; and l.
consists chiefly Of false CLOSES, strained excuse
sophisucal defences or hypocrilcal regrets Tor
course of extreme dissoluteness and loiy,a vase
and degradation of intellect, prostitution Of '4l'
racter and fortune, a general and frcntlc', III
diligence Of the iicrcest and the ylIest pas'oD'
which no one, we think, could have thus attemP:
ed to palliate and varnish. but the accomplcea
pable of giving such records or confessions
them to the world. 3
/" Moore has hot included any reply to Lao,
Byron's remarks on his first volume; but he n''
suffered passages to remain in the poets le,e'
TO him and others, which teen with insult and,F
nom in regard TO the wife and her mother. VIZ!
in this way accessory to the most unconrleon' a'G
ungenerous wrong, he has labored TO endear ana
exait the character and conduct of the Counle"
Gulccioli, ByIon's Italian paramount who aO'a
d0ned her husband to lead the wild galaat
the most ignominious letters. from which he l,G'