Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-09-01

pies VI mysuncati0n and redundancy IN the Ed
'nburgh Review, that the errors Of magazine
in tins respect, may well be overlooked. The
fancy Of the said Christopher has been acknow-
lodged by Byron, and by the Quarterly Just men
toned. to be singuIarly luxuriant;--he is capt..
waited by the Beautiful in nature aud as for the
Sublime, he declares his love for :. the irresisti
BILE glory which takes the imagination by storm. 81
Such gifts in the decline Of life, ere worth an EN-
pire.
We take one or two extracts from the last
/" flight" of the satd Christopher among the
house of rural friend whom he has not seen for
many long years, since an ancient visit to the
same spot. The following description of his ap.
pearance, as he sits IN the porch of his friends
door looking ip!p the garden, will be taken as
rather burlesque, and is professionally over,
drawn;-
"The brown mugs keep moving to and fro on
their domiciliary visits; and the household, some
of whom have never seen us till this blessed
moment, cOntrlve pretences for coming out. lad,
lassie, BARN to look at us, and retire smIrking;
We never denied that our outward man is little
queer; and now even less common place than or
binary, for our not having been shaved since we
left Edinburgh on Monday morning. and Ills now
Saturday ten O'Clock, 4. NJ, and a redder beard
than ours, has not curled In love or ire since Bar
barossa: to say nothing OF our having forgot to
put on our linen shirt mo gentleman any more
than pedlar. wears a neckclOth on an e1cursion)
and that like Hamlet Prince Of Denmark, we
have on wOrsted stockings by no means OF the
same colur, one being wholly blush and the other
tartan, and both from the circumstances OF our
breeches being unbuttoned at the knees, I'VE are
faithful to shorts) " somewhat declined into the
vale of years" one Of them (the Highland hose
binding our shoe. which is no great matter, as
its brother is sadly down 1T the heel, for sake Of
a blister; while to crown all. we are conscious
that no person of any age or sex whatever could
lonk for our pcricranrun, without " mentally ex-
claiming as they say in novels, hat
shocking bad hat.''--the roof of our tile being
entirely Oft, and the rim shaped, like scoop for
running waters"
The subjoned picture is that Of a wrestling
match between the Professor and another old ac-
quaiutanee, dweIler among the hills, whom he
found in his rambles. The contest of strength,
it seems, took place IN the presence of sundry
rustics, named Toes, Jonathan, &C. The de,
scription of the struggle graphic; and the clos
ing word will be deemed by sportsnen as very
expressive of the 8. final fall" of a fax, oily
man, in tria! of the kind:
"a sudden thought strikes us-Vckars for
the sake of old lang syne, let US try fall. There
is small difference in our ages, aud you are the
heavier chap by stone. Come, don't be so
fractions in taking hold. Is tn ready Macs-
Confound you, " old sinner, that was chip:
he Clipped US Toes; he Clipped US Jonathan;
and we maun wrestle il over again. There, can
ME Coomberanh- bonnie Scotland! There
Mac thou hadst it right over the hlp. Well.
mayhap thou'it feel us next time. He has GOT
hold of the waistband of our breeks-J unalhan-
whew 90 there we goo, topping like a lock on
US with that great biz mucke daft heel of thine
behind our cslve. and We find we mauu 20 doom,
-there-Squeish!"