Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1833-04-13


Lords, the successor OF the Apostles hnds his
prospects brighten little; for, alter infinite ex'
ertinns of soul and body he il translated 10 Exc
ter, peradventure, whereby his apo,tolicai pocket
| is replenished with greater number OF orthodox
suineas. Bot not in Exeter is the godiy man at
ease; he is smit with love Of multiplication. and
letter after letter is written to his patron and the
minister, urging the necessity OF more advan-
tagpous Translation. In the course OF time Win
| chester or Durham is vacant-then do all the ca
giles gather together 10 the carcase; loud are the
screams of the apcstolicaI vurures and GREATS the
dismay Of the first Lord of the treasury, tn know
how to satisfy much pious voracity; at last al
ter under going the threats OF DOZEN great Lords
each eager for his own client, the Premier makes
selection Of the hero Of this picture. and crowns
his hopes with twenty-five thousand pounds
year. and all the gorgeous disnities OF the Dur
ham Episcopacy.
After this. surely the man of God is cOntented
at Iastl By no means, he has sons and daugh'
tiers not few, and nephews very numerous
For all these there must be accumulated store
Of good things full of marrow; the eldest son IS
to be the head Of the family; for him, therefore,
the Parliament and the regular course OF Pariia.
mentary jobbing-is open; but for his younger
brothers. the church must open her nurse-ke
! arms, and pour upon them shower of benefices.
My Lord Bishop speedily sends forth from his
liberal urn deuge of golden prebends. livinss.
arch deacons, resdenarles. precentorshlps, chan.
ceries, sub deneries, perpetual curacies, fellow.
ships, master,hips and vIcarases.
Bishop Tomlne begueathed seven hundred
thousand pounds to his family already we'll en-.
riched with episcopal lnunifcence.
London paper.
In England. recently, man named Richard
Harris vas sentenced to be transported for four
teen years, for stealing his own property! The
prisoner, on hearing his sentence, VERY natural.
Ivy burst into tears, anu was carried out Of court
crying bitterly
The case excited considerable interest, as it
involved a rather singular and novel question,
viz. whether the prisoner had or had not been
guilty OF stealing his own property! According
to the evidence alduced, it appeared that the
prisoner had called at the warehouse Of Messrs.
Pickford & Co. the we'll known carriers, and
asked il they had box for him. which he expec
ted would be sent, addressed 10 him from Bir
ming ham, by their conveyances The porter Of
Messrs. Pickford, whom he questioned, told him
that il had arrived, and was IN the warehouse;
but that he had better 90 into the clerks Office,
and eny the carriage before the box was given to
him. He accordingly went into the office. and
asked one of the clerks what was the charge for
| carriage
The clerk told him. and lie went away with.
out paving any thing; but he said that he would
call again ABOUT it. In two or three days after.
wards he again called at the office, and asked for
the box, saving that he had brought the money
to pay for the carriage. On searching for the
box in the warehouse II vas not to be found, and
the prisoner appeared to be exceedingly enraged,
declaring that he would bring an action at law
against Messrs Pickford for the value of the box
and ITS contents. The clerks and warehousemcn
had a conversation on the subject. and after con-
sidering the circumstances of the prisoners pre-
vious visit to the warehouse, together with the
fact of the box not being seen since that visit,
thew began to suspect that the prisoner himself
must have taken it away. Mrssrs. Pickford in
consequence applied to the magistrates. and ob.
tanned a warrant to search the prisoners premis-
es, which they did, and there found the identical
box, emptied Of It's contents!!
The good ship WaItar, now below at this port
sailed from Baltimore on the lst Of May last
floared of to Lverpool-discharged her cargo
took in annther, and proceeded to Canton (Cni
na)--unloaded and loaded again-and then bus
tied back to Phiadelph in the short period ut
eleven months and seuea days! II any sister
craft can out jump the Wa,er-whe,her in the
port of the empire city. or in any of the har-
bors along shore, even to the regions of Cape
Cod. and parts adjacent. it would be we'll to have
ii known.
We may add, in passing, that the Walter is
the same ship which. some two or three ears
ago. made the passage from Liverpool to York
in fifteen days. Only one days excess over
fortnight, between the Mersey and the Hudson!
Philadelphia Gasetfc.
The New York Daily Advertiser makes itself
very unhappy because Mr.. Van Buren, is an in.
mate of General Jackson's house, as General
Jacksnn's guest. If it should 50 happen that the
proprletors of that house should give MIR. Van
Buren, four years lease Of it at the expiration
of the present tenants term. what would the me-
lanchoiy Daily say thens-N r E. Pos"
Amen: of course, as every sensible man will,
if the people, from whose decision there is no aP.
neal, shall so decide. Besides, a great many
s,.. MIRO thinus NAV ha men bet wepp now and the