Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-12-01

.r,.. suffered more or less. Long, Union
Ss o.h;osop's wharves suffered most. The
''u .,.f side Of Long wharf, for two or three
'@n ,..d feet. was principally washed away
snD lon, blocks of stores belonging to Messrs.
W." nesring, Asa CIapp, and Benjamin Willis,
'u' .s,rly destroyed, and another belonging to
f' r, whitman carried about halfway across the
Nv The end Of Union wharf was much shat
'D-, and piece carried away; some thing like
' ,,,d,ed feet of RObinson's wharf also carried
10 49, The amount of goods lost could not be
- ,,,,iosd. The vessels in the harbor did not
..s 30 much damage as was expected. Deer
~ :. h,;Iye was much washed, and the ratings
,;mbsrs carried away. he bank Of the Ca
.,,s way somewhere below Stroud~ater,
10 will prevent boats passing for a few days.
". rive below curious piece of legal and Ii
history. The sturdy old moralist to whom
.,irs delighted at an opportunity Of giving
400, upconscously, to his jacobinical pre-
lions, as we'll as to his personal antipathies.
~, ronr to the Hebrides is perfect bjou IN
-, ,.,0.ct. The following is emnentl.y. cha
.,.,;,,ic Of the great photographer before he
Am. Pensioner Of the Crown; although it
..M hear a comparison with his celebrated
~n,,e, Of :. Taxation no Tyranny"
". crnler. in his edition Of Boswell's Life of
VI! W. mentions that it would seem JOhnson's
%". ,,ho had been a tanner at Litchheld, had
i' ,rs,,ed or threatened with great severity BY
r S.a,c;.e authorities, which circumstance was
.;dsntIy in the great photographers mind,
WV bo s,olained the word excise as q hate
VI aII ,a, levied upon commodities, aud adjudged,
=, nv the common judges Of property, but
,.,.,riss hired by those to whom the excise is
~, Roswell relates, that the excise commits
miners. beng greatly offended by the severe re-
s.,,iou, consulted the then Attorney General,
Mr. Murray, afterwards Lurd Mansfeld) upon
.. Oroprieiy Of prosecuting the author; and tho
= correctly states the purPort Of the opinion gi-
con by that eminent lawyer, he expresses his dis
,aooiatment that .hs Secresy of95fce" did not
'srn, him to obtain a copy Of it. Mr.. Croker
:, besn enabled to supply this defect, through
s, kindness Of the Drpaty Chairman of the
Bard Of Excise, who gave him copy both OF
~ case and opinion, which we insert as re-
arssbe literary curiosity:
Gas. for The opinion Of Mr. attorney Gene
L-Mr. Samuel Johnson has lately published
hOk entitled "a Dictionary Of the English
language. in which The words are deduced from
bsr criminals. and illustrated IN their different
sguicatiOns by examples from the best writers.
70 which are prefxed history of the language,
ana an English Grammar Under the title
Excise are the following words:
Excise, n. $. (accYis, Dutch; erciSum, La
inl A hateful tax levied upon commodities,
anil adiudged not By the common judges of pro-
perty. but wretches hired by those to whom the
excise il paid.
The people can pay a rateable tax for their
shoes, and an excise for every thing which they
should Iet.'-Haytrard.
Ambitious now to take excise,
OF 4 NOSE fragrant Paradise - Cleveland.
Excise,
With hundred rows Of teeth the shark exceeds.
Ard on all trades, like cassawar, she feeds
Narpel
Can hire large houses, and Cypress the poor,
BY formal excise. > Drydea's Juoenai Sal. s.
The authors definition being observed by the
Commissioners Of Excise, they desire the favor Of
yrlr opinion.
Question. Whether it will not be considered
asa libel, and, il 50, whether it is not proper to
proceed against the author. printers. and publish
gs'hereoi, or any and which of them, by infor-
nation, or otherwise, am Of opinion, that it Is
libel. But under all the circumstances. | should
link it better TO give him an opportunity Of al
'erns his definition, and ia case he does not, to
'hreaten him with an information.
w. MURRAY.
Nore,nber 90. I755.,