Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1841-03-13
MISC LEA u ".
A d EN- r S.

| SET down my adventures daily in a journal,
aud like a good merchant, Usually posi- op, aud do
the correspondence of a Sunday morning, but
being upon this occasion on short allowance Of
time, | will nerely refer you to the oFigi, al en-.
tries. An omlnou4 beginning this, and savoring
of bills payable, debtor to cash. IN the post
script.
SuSDAr.-The whole night long sat up in
writing home, aud slept las fast as ever husband
by his mate;' u.tll past noon of Monday; then
rose and walked out with d fashionable air. and
paid a morning visit. | have been three weeks
oniy i'll London, and have aI.eady an scQuaiut.
ance. The English are so Aants. Here two
girls were tonyersing, Ivy d kind of dactyln!ogy,
across the street. | sat debating to the one; who
translated in signs to the other | asksd her fifty
kisses, and she bantcred me, like Leonldas, to
come and take them! Put my letter in the post
office, containing, in my humble Of inion,some OF
the bes. remarks extant upon English churches,
La comparing ones self to Archbishop Tillotson,
Warburton, OF the like, one ought, In consulting
the prcjudices of The world, envious Of living mer
il, to place ones self alta graceful distance, by
some parenthetical phrase; If | may presume
vii! 90. 1t gives a chance of recommending
ones modesty, at the same time. | belong 10 a
literary club in America, the IN amby Pamby.'-
We are often negligent Of this necessary pfu-
dence.
Looked in upon an exhibition Of needie-work as
if Iris herself, and moi Miss Linwood, had woven
1t. Here we're an 1t fnity Of pieces, stitched a-
ter Raphael, Carlo Dolci, Carracci, and others,
with al art that, under the Greeks, would have
entitled the author TO the jealousy of Minerva
Arachne had surely not half her skill, whose pro-
geny how spread their webs for the morning-dew
SO prettiiy upon the Duke of Desonshire's lawn.
Walked through the Strand, in quest of a break
fast. Being unused to London, stopped to see a
cab upset. Ii is a tender scene; the cabman SYM
palhising with the passenger for not having bro
ken his neck; The latter %scrambiing OF. from the
horses legs, on hands and knees, the other look
ing at his watch: Take your shilling, Sir, if
your b DOR pieases; times up Al number 333,
had fried sole. a slice of rump, of rosy ant delicate
complexion, bread and aIe--one aud six pence;
and then went up into Summerset House, a de-
SAfiAt bEttLott "lDt WV Ch9 6A ~ A&hSiih5 aAS
thumbs by the hour, looking at the girls, now in
front of a Munilo, now a Domihichini. Next
went into Pail Mall, lin Yankee dofic Poll Molly
to the Persian Kiosk paid entrance a shilling.
aud ior this had ) cup OF coffee. a cigar, the news
and enjoy nent of a well furnished room. Smoked,
and looked over the index of magazine. .1nr-
nips; Modesly, O'Connsll;' and the errata: For
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button; for bitter halves Of the Englishmen, read
better baires. Thought Of the distress of the wfi-
ters; and recollfcted one at New York, who, hav-
ing occasion to write Pope Gregory found it
printed off Tow! He was a virgin author. and
came with his fager on il, with a very long face,
and a look SO imPloringly expostuiasing ,'hat even
the bookseller r~eiented, and agreed to cancel tho
sheet. he went home, most gratefully; slept
soundiy making for the loss Of the preceding night,