Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1835-01-17
PORTRAIT OF WELLINGTON; BY A RADICAL

Wellington is about five feet seven or eight
inches in height; his form is yet good, and must
have been in his youth, remarkably compact
and muscular; his head is not at all remarkable
injany way; his face is rather long, with an en-
ormous hook nose; his teeth are gone, and con-
sequently his upper lip falls i'm His voice is
harsh, husky and loud. His manner of speak
ing in Parliament is extremely confident, but
awkward; he is perpetually shifting his hands
about; sometimes he plants himself upon the
floor with his feet stretched eighteen inches a.
part; he always seems as if he wanted to be on
horseback. His speeches are always very short,
and made up OF bobbng sentences-jets of a few
words at a time. He appears incapable of hav-
ing any chain Of thoughts; his ideas being gene
rally so confused that he repeats himself over
and over and over again; he is perhaps, the
greatest specimen Of tautology, ever in the
House Of Lords; his sentences are seldom COM
plete, and never grammatical. His speeches
as reported in the Mirror ofParliament, are so
full Of repetitons, &C. that there is little doubt,
when they are sent to him, after being made
passable, he reinserts his faulty peculiarties,
either incapable ofjudging, or unwilling to suf-
fer the humiliation Of correction by mere re-
porter.
On Earl Gray'S late retirement from Office, he
made manly and pathetic farewell address,
II was so framed, as TO avoid in every way pro-
voklng his antagonists; it was simple, and full
of good will to every one. He had spent long
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minister and accomplished the great object Of
his political efforts-the passage Of reform
bill: he had grown very old, and gave up the
helm of government because he deemed him
self now too feeble to direct it longer. In al
luding TO the charge against him by one party,
of going too slowly forward with changes, he
said:-s perhaps | am justly charged, for tlmidi-
ty and weakness are the faults of age Every
man in the house felt this appeal in the spirit of
peace, except only Wellington, all ofwhose SYM
pathies with human sensbility have been scared
out. He rose in pure hardness OF heart, and
with the violence of party luminosity tried to
throw ridicule upon Gray's farewell. His smiles
have been called cast iron Smiles and justly,
for he sees nothing good in mamie is awake
only to a sense Of what is bad; give me plenty
of soldiers was always his cry, and he spent
their lives profusely enough, God knows.
At Paris, when the allied armies were there,
lady asked Wellington, if he did not think it the
greatest imaginable good fortune on this earth
to gain battle. He replied. NO. madam; next
Was this simple. and moSttrue sentiment, honest
or hypocritical2 Let all believe him sincere
who please. must confess, honestly, that up
on another occasion, he expressed similar sem
timent When tainted for giving way to the
introduction of Catholic Emancipation, he said
he was as willing as any one TO abide by his prin-
ciples, but that the Lords who were for eXtre-
mites did not know, as he did, what war was,
and particularly civil war. Did humanity, or
policy dictate this?
He not only brought his military subordination
into the cabinet, but he carried his military in
dustry and promptitude into his particular of
6ce-rose at o'clock-was at the Treasury Of
ten at or s o'clock-read nearly all his letters
and answered himself vast numbers of them
and was in every way laboring man Of bust
ness.
When look at this bad old man, and reflect
that his heart is as unfeeling and his mind as
contracted, as his countenance is ugly and hard,
cannot help feeling contempt for the arrogant
pretensions of party that looks up to such
being as its leader and more, as its rock ofsafe-
tyin the present civil revolution of this govern
ment ridden nation.
PREcoctous Misunderstanding the late ex-
tremely severe weather. little boy observing
his father 90 out into the yard early in the morn
ing and late in the evening to look at his Their