Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-03-09
Diplomatic Urbanffy.

When the late Mr. Ahbntt Lawrence VAS
at st. James's his very toibles did MS credit
there; for his slightly exaggerated manners,
which here would have been quite misunder-
stood, were appropriate enough in the dipio-
matte circles of London, here Mr.. Lawrence
was always considered an exceedingly we'll
bred man. He was something better than
this: for be was remarkably kind -hearted,
| while be had an old-fa sbOned affection for
his own country and his own cOuntrymen,
which made him consider it nothing less than
an official duty to be Obiging. Ii Nicholas
| Lougw orth had asked Mr.. Lawrence TO in
| trodnce the Ohio wines to the notice of Brit
ish merchants, not only Mr.. Lawrence, but
| Mrs. Lawrence and Mr.. Bigelow Lawrence,
and all attached to the Embassy, would have
| been more than happy to undertake the af-
| fair which " Ould have been made quite
| family piece OF business. With delighted
| pride, Mr.. Lawrence would have spoken of
| the CataW ba to The noblemen and gentlemen
| of his acquaintance, aud would have ordered
a supply of Mr.. Longworth's best vintage for
the cellars of the Legation. Nj. Lawrence
was born poor, and. all his life, was hard
working man. We do not suppose that he
attended for single term at a dancing
school; while Mr.. George NJ. Dali was pro-
badly introduced to the mysteries of pigeon
wings at tender age. Andyet Mr.. George
NJ. Dallas is not a gentleman, and Mr.. Law
renee was O0e-ME. Dalla- Is capaDle OF III
natured rudeness, and Mr.. Lawrence was not
MIR. Dallas sets up for an American Ches-
terrified, and behaves like a snob, while Mr..
Lawrence would have walked through Hyde
Park in a pepper-and-salt pea jacket, if by
so doing be could have set single idle spin
die running at home.
1t is known to everybody that Mr.. Long
worth makes American wines. They are
said to be pure and palatable, aud those
who take an interest in such matters
speak with appreciation of Mr.. Longworth's
enterprise and success. In the pride of his
heart, he senta few cases of his wine to Lon
don. He asked Mr.. Dallas to accept of one
of them, and to show the others TO some deal
e. in such commodities. Upon the reception
of this request, Mr.. Dallas appears TO have
lapsed into most tempestuOus frame of
mind, and 10 have labored under the delu-
sion that he had, in some way or other. been
mistaken for shopkeeper-an indignity
quiteintolerable to one who breakiastvd in
his youth with Lord Byron. and who has, in
his age, worn small-clothes in the presence of
Royalty. Mr.. Dallas was as sensitive as a
Boston AbOlitiOnlst after breakfast with
the Duchess of Sutherland; and, after duly
damnng Mr.. LOngworth and his wines, both
the still and the sparkling, he called for a
sheet of the Legation paper, and fresh Lee
cation pen, and the blacklist Legation ink,
| wrote Legation letter to LOngwOrth, which
he sealed with the Legation wax, and placed
| with his own hands in the Legation box. The
| dignity of this letter, which we fiId in the
| newspapers, is worthy of the Prime Minister
of his Higbness the Duke of Kalbsbraten
Pumpernickle, or of the Maid OF Honor of
/ Emilia Kunegunda Thomasina Cbaieria
Emanuela Louisa Georgina Princess OF Sake
| PumpeIuickel.
II cannot" says His Excellency, George
Mifiin Dallas, ambassador Extraordinary
and MinsteT Plenipotentiary of the United
States of America, near the Court of St.
James LII. ID. OF Oxford, aud ex-Vice Presi-
| dent II. ). Al cannot reconcile the duties
.'of the Minister Plenipoientiary OF the
| 'United States at this Court with those of a
| commission merchant" Mr.. Dallas is un-
doubtedly right. Ii is the duty OF Minister
TO wear an embroidered coat, leg-embar-
RAISING sword, regulation wig, bucked
shoes. and a cooked haI il is The duty of d
Minister to callipash and callpee with the
Lord Mayor in the City; it is the duty of a
Minister to write voluminous letters upon
subjects which he does not at all comprehrnd;
it is the duty OF Minister to draw, if not TO
earn. his wages; but IL is clearly not the duty
of Minister 10 act in u capacity so vulgar
as that of a wine merchant. Taught There
in an aroma of barrels, of bungs. aud of bot
ties in the very idea. The Honorable George
Mifin Dallas wine-meIchanti Marry,
come up! An ounce If civet, good apothe
caryI IL Mr.. LOngworth must have dinlo-
matte bag-map, he bad better apply to Mr..
KimhaIl, late u S. ambassador to st. Helena.
| Il shall not receive the wine," saws Mr..
Dallas sternly. What BECAME OF tue despis,d
| fluid we are not told, but We suppose the En-
J bassador sent il below stairs for the footman
and the cook; and a merry time we hope
| they had over it. That Mr. Dallas condo
scended to taste 1t we are unwilling TO be-
| lieve, Tor the LOngworti wines are a little
tart, and might awaken govt in the embas-
sadorial toe Mr.. Dallas clearly does not
need an acidulous tipple except upon homoe-
pathic principles. He must bee careful or his
health, for the sake of his country; for, As we
have done nothing with him. il l. possible
that We might b. able to do nothing without
| him. We do, therefore. hereby exhort all
propraetOrs of big cheeses, of gigantic POM
pions, and of other Titanic American produc-
| lions. not to send them to Mr.. Dallas, who lis
not a commission merchant" II we only had
Ben Franklin, or Tom Jefferson, or plain
John Jay there, We might venture 10 forward
few specimens; but, we repeat. Mr.. Dallas
is not "a commission merchant" Oh
YOU" said Tittlebat Titmonse to the servant
at the Cabbage-Stalk Hotel. when asked 10
| take a seat in the Travellers Room, do you
take me for a bagmani' Mr.. Dallas seems
to b. not unlike the hero of Ten Thousand a
Year; although we do not believe, If Tit bad
been an Embassador, that bis eli, rks would
have allowed him TO subscribe himself Yours,
&c, as Mr.. Dallas. 10 bis letter to Mr.. Long
worth, genteelly does.-N. T. 7ribaae.