Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-03-10
WILLIAM WEIGH.


and withal lazy. Ii is said he started for B,ls
more. S SN0WDEN. /
March 9-St
As a specimen OF his reason for leayiO, >.
employ. append copy of note handed II,
after he had left the place in one Of the Se,
b0ats:-
VIZ. Snowden-l take this method Of info,
ing YOU that am very much dissatisfied with NJ
situation in your Office. find that it is INN,
sible for me TO get away from press unless | Ir,,
YOUR Office, and that | must DO.
WILLIAM WEIGH
March Sth, 1881.
Editors of newspapers who receive tl,, nan
Wi! confer favor on the subscriber. BY shewr,
this notice TO the craft, generally, in their
spective places of abode. SIS
Extract of letter from gentleman in Ri
m.ond to his friend in Alexandria, dated NJ,
:, 1851:
"DEAR SrR--I take pleasure in announcing
you the passage, to-day. by the House of D., |
gates, of the bill authorizing the Board Of Pub,
Works to subscribe SEA, 200 to the stock Of h,
Middle Turnpike Company. This being asrs
able news to the people Of Alexandra. and d
large portion of Virginia, you will please CONE.
nicate it to such of them as you may see. Inv
no doubt of its sanction by the Senate"
-SNes-
From Croly's life of George the ". vui
recently published. we make the extract beIou
as specimen Of the style Of the work, aud as j
we'll written article.
1.-The story of the French Revolution is sill
to be told; and the man by whom that tale 4
grandeur and atrocity is told. will bequeah ID
most appalling lesson ever given to the tat
wisdom OF nations. But the first working 4
the pie of ruin in France was brilliant h
spread universal animation through the framed
foreign society. All was hectic flush Of via
city. Like the Sicilian landscape, the gate
ing firessof the volcano were first felt ia the sir
euar luxuriance and fertility of the SOIL OF
stimulants, political ambition lays the sronge
hold on the sensibiles Of man. The revOutus
AIRY doctrines still covered with the graceful rOba
of patriotism and philosophy, seemed to have Id
the whole population of France into enchanta
ground. Every hour had ITS new accession q
light: every new step displayed its new ~sndsr
Court Notwithstanding pri,lIege-the 50
lemnty of the atar-all that had hitherto stood
an obstacle to the full indulgence Of natural in
pulses, all the rigid and stately barriers esIb |
lishcd by the wisdom Of elder times against Py
ular passion, were seen suddenly to shrink and |
fade away before the approach of the new regel
Grafton, like mists before the sunbeams. lhe
listless life of the man of rank was suddenly sup
piled with an excitement that kindled all the IA
tent activities of his nature; the man Of study
found, with delight, hi solitary Speculation a,
Stunning life and substantial shape before ib
eye, and the long arrears of fortune about TO X
paid in public fame and powcr;fhe lower Case |
listened with fierce a,idity to the derlaaug.
that the time vas at hand for enjoying tG p
share of that opuent and glitterins word
on which they had hitherto gazed. with as lHi
hope of reaching it as the armament above tha
heads.
'Thus was prepared the Revolution. TIN
was laid under the foundation of the throne
deadly compound Of real and fantastic injury
of offended virtue and embitered vice, Of i
honest zeal of general good, and the desPPnr
determination to put all to the hazard tor hd'
vidual license, rapine, and revenge,-a ml:h9
deposite and magazine of explosion, long v'st
to the eyes OF Europe, invisible to the fIeDa
government alone, and which only awaited Ok
first touch of the inceniary to scatter the nj
archy in fragments round the world.
philosophy" was the grand eadern thbFs
gress OF crime; and it is strong coincidence 'a
at this period its title to national homage sNo'G
have been, as ifby an angy destiny, suffered iO@
It's popular ambition. Europe never teemed uIl
more illustrious discoveries: the whole range
the sciences from the simplest application Of %
man ingenuity up to the most sublime trials
the intellect, found enthusiastic aud success"
the whole circle was circle Of l'lt
llame. The French philosophers collected tE
contributions Of all Europe, and. by em6'd!l'
them IN one magnificent work, claimed tor then
selves the peculiar guardianship and suPren'F
IF human genius. Law. policy. and religion ~
ong possessed their codes: ,he French Phlos
'hers boosted that in the "EncycIopedle' h'
lad first given the code of science. WIN
lur hatred of the evil purposes Of DldeIc' 40
)'Alembert, and all our present scorn OF the oI
uslons which their fierce malsnity was de's't
o lnfiict upon mankind, it is impossible to ~
pom their labors without wonder France u.
within a few years outstripped all comPetltosDl..
he higher branches of mathematical !ealnpt
pursuit eminently fitted for the fine suD,tg
the national genius: but she now invaded =.
lore stubborn precincts of English and Germ
esearch; seized upon chemistry and na'pl
lstory; and by the success Of LavoIslT :,
'uifon, gave science new and eloquent P''
a. IN fba ocI