Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-07-09
VOLUME HI....NUMBER 15.

"Ihe Vicar," of poor Spunging-house Oliver Goldsmith. Compare Galt's Laurie Todd (which we conclude to have been written on raw racoons and flied rattlesnakes in the back settlements) with the Southennan, arising from the fumes of turbot and roast beef: compare the personalities of Blackwood, which bub- bleforth from the weird canldron of Ambrose's codk- -a-leeky, with the graceful genealities of tha Court Journal, which emanate from selt- zer water and Turnbridge biscuit Had the most elegant of our modern poets been born with wooden spoon in his mouth, instead of Ryndell and Bridges gilt and embossed de- serts--had his genius been cherished on stir about instead of Potdpe q ka frintanniere, he would have built for himself temple of fame, with golden walls and rubbed windows, such Jas Aladdin derived from the tolls of the slaves 'of the lamp; had Anastasus been cursed with good plain cook, Bacon would have been laid on the shelf, and Locke turned out of doors. Had Vathek been fated to a crust and wallet, the waters of the Tigris would have become as the waters of the Helicon to English literature.
 If it were not invidious to particularzc on such subject we could point out twenty modern writers who have lost the vigor and .pith oftheir early promise since they descend ed from the attic story, and that acute angle of bread and cheese which Marmontel so feelI llDSiy ucSCIlOSS III HIS InenOlTSJ anu WnOSe scanty proportions anti-mus-atve as the most active grimalkin, to first floor and a second course; while to the managers of our theatres we beg to point out, that till 8onhe matgre shall have superseded hieceS de resis- tance in the bills of fare of our dramatic au- thors, no ressting piece will ever be found in their own bills, which has not been imported
 from the Scribofactory of the Boulevards. In fact, the whole genius of the modern world of letters has been melted down, like Lord Sef- tons bullock, in one of Papiu's digestcrsi
 Ag:aln, profession.-Sy speaking, let us con template the double-edged acuteness of the young barrlster on his first circuit, with his one brief and one mutton-chop, with the rubi- cund somnolency of the haunch-fed lord on the bench; let Us compare the eloquence of the mutton-broth curate, which raises every hair upon our guilty heads, not like quills up- on the fretful porcupine, but (Russian oil not withstanding) like the scanty quills in a fash, onable ink-stand with monotonous droHe for the dignity for whom
 Two buildings smoke upon the board.
 Let us contrast the vivacity of our dapper a. pothecary, who etherializes on the fumes of his own ether, with the blundering stupor of drunken Radcliffe, stumbling on the thres- hold of the presence chamber of Queen Anne. The baneful effects of gulosity on the intel lcCtual powers DSliiS uhiFefSaiiy iCCo5ihHCo, what shall we say of the selfshness, the mo- roseness, the ferocity engendered in those blary ducts which arc chafed into spasmodic agony by the stimulants of Mogul sauce and Mango pickle, required by John Bull to prick him on the deglutiton of his Bso.n.;....n.. oc,a- 5em' It is well knowl that the "soldier, full of strange oaths, . is the well messed dragoon of crack regiment, not the starvel- Hing of captains on bAf-pay it is well known that Fiesco's and Dr Watson's conspiracies were matched at feast; it is well known that Charles X. issued the blackest of his ordon- nances over Pate anr trnfes!
 Under this view of the case we humbly re- commend to all fathers of families, and precep- tors of the ingenious youth of our island, to consider well at this festive season of the year, the demoralization and disorders which may be introduced into respectable family, stalk ing on the devi1ed legs of turkey, or couch ing in the unctious ambuscade of a mince- pie; we implore them to recollect that Rum ford soup is far more active cherisher of so7 cial virtue than Birch's particular, and that a sturdy loaf of OK Farm bread is better ad- iunct to household subordination than the most ornate cake which ever rose from the classical atelier of Jarrin, or the recondite ovens of Gunter g. col London Court Jour.