Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-07-09

Too much or Zoo Htle 70 eat.-Thc over- libraried and over-nstituted world of the nine tccnth century is grown so theoretical-the logic of our learned Pundits of this thrice uni versitied kingdom has so thoroughly general ed into sophistry, that it would be useless to attack a subject of such grave importance to the digestive world with the learning of the schools, or the philosophy of the portico.- Perhaps, too it may be argued that it should smell rather of the stove than of the lamp we therefore propose consideration of the question in the simplest form of familiar dis cussion.
 In the first place let us begin with the con- clusion let us inquire what is the extreme crisis, the catastrophe contingency of having nothing to eat. The result of attenuation and famine "Accidental death !" says the iurors-e -eaccidcntal death !" says the coroner -"accdental death!" say the newspapers, | with an eloquent rhodomontade appended to | the verdict, and addressed to the affluent and humane Now, we appeal to any candid indi- vdual, who, besides being affluent and hu- mane, happens to be versed in the bills of mortality, either parochal or pharmacologic, whether for every single victim starved into parish coffien in the course of year, one thousand might not be adduced as having gluttonized their way into the crimson velvet |
 Starvation stands by itself in the list of casu- alties, but repletion is the mother of as many mortal serpents as Milton's Sin-of gout, ap- poplexy, fever, livel-complaint, 'tserpigo and rheum," and as many more distempers as it pleases Sir Henry and the college to fegalize, or MT St John Long to improvsate.
 But without pausng too exclusively on the appalling deduction, without resting our ar guments solely on the entrusted deaths of the peer and the pauper, the alderman and the author, let us look to their lives, let inquire in the daily sum total of their moral and phisi
 cal agonies; let us weigh the fractiousness O the one against the peevishness of the other the nightmare of the gorged Boa, against the predatory restlessness of the proving tiger
 the dyspepsia of the man of turtle and venisor against the Cameleon-like eromaDcy of the supperless poets; the magnanimity of Philip, when fasting, against the churlishness ot Phi lip after his tureen of Lacedemonian broth.- Let us candidly ask ourselves whether we should prefer addressing our petitions to Lord Grey for "that ero trihe" in the treasury or which our hopes have long been anchored, after five hours session at "MichaePs din ner," or a five hours session in that vocifer- ous house where the surperhuous tongues are never served Ia praise, and the fine words,
 to borrow lord Duberly's eloquence, "butter no parsnips."
 Let us next investigate what sterling works have enriched our literature, since like Sir
 Balaam, our scribblers
 taen their daily pint. and cracked their jokes, Would Johnson have labored over his lexicon under any pressure less severe than the scan, ty shoulder of mutton? and what rendered , Marvell patriot, but the same repugnan' , farei Do not the feebleness of Pope's latter
 works sayor of his veal outlets simmered in g 7 silver stew-pan and is not fricasseed sweet bread legible in every lordly line of the Keep t sakes Otway, who died of hunger and new 5 penny roll, was our last tragedian whose g works have kept possession of the stage; ant not one of all our billions of trillions of moderI