The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-05-26
HON. JOHN BARNEY AND NJ. DE SAR-
TIGES

The papers have been making themselves
quite merry at the expense of these two gen.
tlemen. We greatly admire the gallantry Of
Mr.. b., for man who takes upon himself the
cause, not Of one ugly woman, but of all the
ugly'women, must be knight, the very latch
ct Of whose shoe Bayard himself would not be
worthy to loosen. We have read good ma nv
books that treat of chivalry, and we are we'll
aware Of the fantastic vows which many ofthe
heroes took upon themselves, for the honor and
glory of their " lade loves )" but they Were all
OF them as beautiful as the very morning itself.
Not one Of them is described as being ugly.
not even the "loathly ladie," whose ass umed
homeliness was but temporary Disguise
There Is no such thing in all chivalry as a
knights putting lance in rest for an ugly wo-
man. Even Don Quixote was obliged by the
force of his Imagination to transform the i'll
favored country wench, Aldonza Lorenza, into
the peerless Dulcinea del Toboso.
Now we admire spirit, and we adore gaIlan-
try almost as much as the ladies themselves -
But we confess to little natural weakness
If we were to see two ladies drowning, one oil
them very pretty, and another very homely, and
we had it in our power TO save only one, we
very much fear we should be tempted to single
out the pretty one. We cannot therefore fee
% bitterly towards NJ. de Sartiges for admitting
nonetbut pretty ladies to his balls; for we are
fearful We should do the same. But then his
. passion for shooting rats, unless he be some
thing of a Mandarin, and mean to eat them, i,
: very reprehensbe. If any aggravation of the
offence were wanting, it could be found in his
violation of the Sabbath in the prosecution of
his unlawful sport. We must positively turn
him over to the Richmond Typographical So.
ciety, and if they can do nothing, why then he
must be passed to the editor of the Baptist
Herald. He will tickle his catastrophe"
tor him, as Shakespeare hath il. We do not
know that we could find il in our heart TO
blame him much for shooting the cats. If there
is any thing in the world which could, by any
possibility, justify Sabbath-breaking, it is this
Weekend to M de Sariges thereupon the RICH,
hand of fellowship, and we invite him to come
down this way.
But there is yet one short coming of the Am.
bassador, for which he deserved to be reported
10 his ex.Majes!y of Westphalia, Prince Ad-
miral, Field Marshal and President of the Sc
nate. We allude to his declaration that he
would not marry an American woman We
hope the grapes are not sour We hope this
fox Of Frenchman has not been jumping at
q luscious bunch, and finding himself unable to
reach it, has now said that it was too sour for
him Even though it be 30, let none Of our
fair countrywomen 60 beside themselves, and
terminate their existence in the same tragical
way in which the lady, whose fate is so patheti.
caIly described in that veracious old song
" A Captain bold Of Halifax" contrived to
shuttle of this mortal coil" Let them con-
lent themselves with answering as Bernadotte
did to certain culprit. We will relate the an
scdote, for il 10 more creditable to the old