Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-04-20

e0 Tue ATTENTION OF the Suitdu. Dy "'o >"'
it is to be newly organized, and the moral treat
ment is in future TO be adopted.
In connection with this, 1t may be mehuoheu'
that complete course Of operative surgery WV"
dissections. has been commenced under the aus
pices of the Government by very clever french
SURGEON, DR.. Salt Deygalliere.
The experiment Of publishing Journal al
Constantinop!e in Turkish and French has sue
ceeded so we'll. that arrangements are now max
ing for publishing another newspaper IN Arabic,
Persian. Greek and Armenian. The Greek Pa
triarch has issued circular to his countrymen,
warmly recommending it to their patronage.
Latest intelligence from the new Volcano ISL
and represents it as somewhat diminished in size.
Since its appearance, Etua has been quiet
which has led to the superstition that this new
volcano is connected with it. A.steamboat was
about TO sail from Naples with party OF plea
sure to take a pic mic on the island.
The arrival of Stratford Canning, the knglIsh
Ambassador, is announced. and warm hopes are
entertained that his presence will be advantageous
to the interests OF both countries.
Our private letters speak in high terms ct the
many important improvements which are daily
introduced into Turkey. They are all fairly to
be attributed to the activity, the zeal and the in
telleence of the Sultan Mahmoud. Under his
auspices, Turkey bids fair to be placed on an
equal footing with Russia, the most inveterate
and the most formidable Of her enemies.
Our Minister, Commodore Porter, is assduous
in the duties of his station. and by his cour.
tesy and frankness, has secured the esteem Of
all classes.
The Bank and The Press. The New York
Commercial says" We learn that the Bank
from several Of the Banks, as to the credit Of
certain persons connected with the press, who are
supposed to have received large accommodations
from the Bank, and whether the Banks here have
been in the practice of discounting their paper"
And adds: at strikes US that the investigation
must have taken strange turn. What right
had this COMMITTEE to pry into individual trans.
actions with the Bank, and to institute travel
ling inquisition, unless they had good grounds to
suspect fraud and corruptiona"
On this head we subjon the remarks of the
National Gazette, which strike US as just and
opposite.
The American press has common cause, to be
maintained by every person associated with it in
whatever degree or employment. As far as it is
a most important engine in regard to the morals.
,.ff ho nfru ~ oh
be protected in all its rights by all spund Ameri.
cans; rescued from any peculiar disabilities to
which party prejudice of temporary interest
NAV endeavor to subjectit; and left, like the 9TH
err branches of public agency and industry;to the
ordinary responsibility and penalties for the abuse
of It's rights. Any segregation Of its conductors
from the rest Of the community. upon the pre-.
sumption or assumption that they are especially
susceptible of sinister influences, implies moral
inferiOrity and dcbasement, which it is the inte-
rest and duty of every one Of them to resist, in.
dependently of all differences of opinion and
procedure among them about political tenets and
men.
Exposed to disparaging and DISTINGUISHING
theory and practice, the Press could never reach
the level and force to which it should constantly
aspire and tend. In the principal countries of
Europe. it is managed or supplied by men Of the
most liberal education and superior intellectual
powers, who have come to it from important pub
lie functions or gone from 1t to them;-and in
none of the constitutional monarchies, has the
scheme been ever suggested or entertaine d, of
treating its conductors as more suspicious in point
Of personal honor than any other class or order.
We are ready to acknowledge that mesof suc,
intellectual and social elevation as we have just
mentioned are not common in their profession;
but It is evident that they must be still fewer
when the terms are made SO derogatory and in
furious, and it is also evident that an increase of
the number would be great national advantage,
while this virtual prescription Of them must
strengthen the problem raised by able and good
Observation-Disclosures the Iicentiousness of the
Press be not more mischievous than its liberty is
beneficial.
Moreover, deficiency in the higher mental
qualifications and public services does not imply
a want Of personal or professional integrity; and
in this question, the abilities and accomplish
ments proper to the station of an editor, and the
nature Of the expenditure and receipts of a news.
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