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CYT'UP'siRZl gion, And all same of shame, YP'esiPffi—Fffiﬄ, With : blasted name ; 0 'Qcffidstct'ghssfssscan ever—grace my Tumb, NGPYZYFNJU pity for she Wrongs I've dom: E5flsswﬄ,ssssc.1_si\",d, I mnck'd the Christian deed, ct ' sikusisisid'ssctk'resizzsibh, let future'dm'c take: heed Axegfiidria, 2th Scsiplcmbes, 1803. _ n—O , FDTUW Alexandria Daz'lsiy Advesiz-t'iser. ctfss ? ; -1 -1 WHEN: si . ; - ; = Pecuharsatlsfsetloosssszlct observe - _ ct sict si"- si-Psi'ap'erct occupiedsiwsiith rsErlosius ,sictss- ciþi'EGessi,-fit "isthat-ss I have .si-—siss.ss edssfor,%and as our citizeus mmd's [time,he willing to read such, l you the __ following, Whlc'h, is?-you ..ssss 5W,you may publistx. si _ ss e WUGHTS QN'DEA TH. Q'si': \. isisilssfigssisvery judicioussily sirepresented ;sisisssisissYLQf, tuankindct as seized with hor-L —_; aptomshment at the Sight of death, Rsisisisisþntedsito him on the mount of Vision. msmly nothing can so much disturb; sisiss-si,i;pa$scti,dhs, or pekplex the intellects of. The dissolution of his union with the world, with visions of separation from every thing else, has hitherto engaged or delighted him; not only on the place, but the man of sense, the essence of being; an immediate and immediate communication with the times being; and, what is above all this, is the essence of a personal and a moral being. Yet, we, whom the essence of life have made acquainted with the senses, without emotion, see generalizations often pass away, are at leisure to establish modes of sorrow, to adjust the emotions of death, look upon funeral rites, a ceremonial in which we have no consciousness of concern, and turn away from it to trifles and ambushes, without dejection of look, a sense of the mind. It is indeed a great temptation for other thoughts; and perpetual meditation upon the last, however it may become the solitude of life. For the mohastery, is inconsistent with many giss-ssssctctisidiside,ssi of common life, But surely the re- ctectssi'si'si * six'sxshrance of death ought to predominate fit In? ss * '. o ' sssi. Winuxctmmds as an habitual and settled principle , always operating, though not always ssmct. ctsssi'rss si.. ct. ct .? celved; and ouratteutxou should seldom Wder so far from our own condition, as -, ..1'ss' n. v. 3rd to be recalled and yet not yet settled. If we meet again, the event which will soon happen likewise to ourselves, and of which, though we may not appoint the time, we may secure the success. Yet, though every instance of grief may justly awaken our fears and quiescence, it seldom happens that we are much alarmed, unless some close connection is broken, some scheme is frustrated or some hope defeated. There are many who seem to be with our affection on the end of life, because. They are wholly exempt within themselves, Amid look on others as unworthy of their notice, without any expectation of receiving, or intention of being owing wood. It is indeed possible, without some motive, that desire, which even in an act of being remembered and tame, to be remembered and tame, to be remembered how little concern is on used by the external cleverness even of those who have seen their lives with public honor, and have been distinguished by superior qualities, of eminent men. It is not possible to be regarded by tenderestness, except by a few, that which gives reputation and renown, disposes, but acts wisely in every single breast; it is placed at odds with common spectacles, and shines with one of the most intense stars, of which time and reach-es us, but not the heat. It is with the intellect, the philosopher, whom their tempers, or their souls have been distinguished from intimates, or to be interdicted, and in the intercession of the senses, and impress none more than that of a new topic to the significance of the subject and impress none. With any breach of the trust: no success; no success in their lives or were united to reciprocation for benefits and benefits. This we still often have, those who in the past have exhibited, are laid off the common hope. -_ -,sisi, Z'ct' Nsisictss' if")! . , _ j- '{ si - ugpbf a-sisictstone*;f*besisicssmssigctby {hose " erecﬂen- l signe? with which many? have been delighted, si'ictsilsiosshghavscte.been obliged"; and -thohgh_ they hadsimdny sisstsssso CeIe'hratessthcm, theyrhad none " 'tere-fhemssss} Cus'si'tbm so far ctsiregulates thesi Senzime.nts at lenst of common- minds, that i I believe—men 'sifnay'ctbe "generally observed to, grow less tender 113- they a'd-vancesiin age, andfhe who when'in life- was new, melted at'the loss of every companion, can look in time Without concern uponssthe- grave into which his last friend was thrown, and into which hehimssself is "ready to fall, not ch cause he is more willing to (lie than former ly, but because he is more familar w'th the death of others, and therefore not alarmed so-faras to consider how much nearer he approachcs to his end; but this is to sub mit tamely to the tyrsimny of accident, and ; to suﬀer our reason to lie useless. ct Everv funeral may be justly considered as :: sunisi ' mons toprepare for that state into which it is a proof that we must some time enter, and a summons more hard and piercing, as the event of which it warns us is at less dis tance. To neglect at an}, time making presi paracion for death, is to sleep on our post ; -at a scteigc ; but to admit it in old age, is to sleep q'n an attack ; it has alway seemed to * me one (Kithe most striking passages in the : Vlsmns'oi Quevedo, where he stigmatises : A those as fools who complain that they lail- } ed of happiness bysndden death. " How-, says he " can death be sudden to a beinir, who always knew that he must die, and that the time of death was uncertain." Since there are not wanting admonitions of our mortality to preserve it active in our inmtsis, nothing-e can more pr0perlctv renew the im pression than the examples which every day snpplie es, and as the great ineentive to virtue is the reﬂection that we must die, it may-be uselul to accustom ourselves, when ever we see a funeral, to considci how soon we may be added to the number of those whose probation is past, and whose happi ness or misery Shall endure for ever. Far the Alexandria Daily Advertiser. THE MORALIST. No. IV. Doctor Johnson observing upon some occasion, that laziness was worse than the toothache; Mr. Boswell replied, "I cannot see with you there, for a base of cold water, or a horsewhip will relieve the pain." "No, sir," replied the Doctor, "it will only put off the fit, it will not cure the disease, I have been trying to cure laziness all my life, and could not do it. Though no man has contributed more to literature than Dr. Johnson, yet by the above reply we find that he thought himself a lazist, because he had sometimes found that he had not employed his time in study; "Lavater having once been asked, which was the most difficult thing for man to conceive, of all the passions and qualities attached to his nature, answered, "It is that of indolence that is conquered, he would be answerable for all the rest." Perhaps a more just observation than this; examine themselves closely, they would find that the predominance of indolence supersecures almost every other consideration. To it may be asc1ibed, the gu ater part of ss the vices that attend us. What will not man do to gratify this disposition? He will crsisinploy every artificc,e every means in his was never made. _ II' men would gencsssiallv I ! powerin order that he may avoid fulfilling those active dutiesf ter which he is c1 eated Hescreens himself by the most detestable methods ; he forms a thousand excuses for not perlmming his duty; and many men we find lll the wozld, who will almos stper mit th unselves to stalve, before they would betake themselves to some active emulo}. ment to gain a subsistence, and thereby render both themselves and theirfanzilics miserable. Even some vn tuous minds with dis ficulty o'ppose this all powerful malady} and th( cttlez 5t advantasic given to it, looses more th an a pcss. son would at first imagine, for like an ill W(ed is gro vs with wonderful rapidity, and in a short time gains-a very powerful ascendency. To avoid thisde testable evil it is necessary thata man should be contisinu-.i._v on his guard, and watch for > the smallest approaches 01 this subtle and Lcorrodi ng eneinzct' To this end the. mind (should (e (onti .ua ly employul, if not in sisiirsseallv usctul puisuits, at least in such as give a snring to the passions, and suss-(sir them not to res t in Stupes-action and idle" jness. By this means we mavz 'qid the e fvil, and render not only to ourselves but to the community an essential benefit. "Would ( on behol :la man fzn gone in this w aj.,' look at the Tazern, and from the rising to the going" down of the. Sun, you may find him Ztiþling, enerv ated, enfeebled and eﬂemi nate. He liV(s to no. purpose,- he lounges away the hours a burt'hen to himself and a disgi ate to his species; and, whenthe hour of-rest is arrived, tis with difficulty he can eonveyhis body to repsiose. On the otheri . & handssfsioubchtsiildshc ecsicssivessmangsisirising'aH an early hour, pursuingsihls 'bu.smes_s, ful filingsi his engagements, dischargmsig his duty der'ds his fellow-men ; and at evening re— gum'rng to his enjoymentin the [deaeing re ﬂectionctof having performedhis daily task w-ssithctfaiihfuilness. _ _ . ss' ct A. man Who is infected with laziness, like the drunka—rd, can be rarely reformed.- - To the Edss'zctr ctﬀz/ct Wctshictsigm Fctctzctalyz. xi. SIR. One of the servants who waited at Lovell's Hole, during the last winter and spring, brought to me the other evening, the enclosed letter; which he informed me: he picked up in the back yard, the morning from Pain: the city; and supposing it to be a paper of consequence, found it in his box in the expectation of a reward would be offered for finding it. It was without a cover; of course, I could not tell until the paper was written; not at that time who was the writer. The name subscribed, seemed to be anonymous. From its contents however, there can be no doubt of its being written to 'Comstock' (name unknown), by one of his old seamen and disorganizers, who fled from England to America to save his neck, at or about the time Pain fled to France to save himself from the fraternal embraces of a hunter, as well as his friend Anacharsis Clothes and others, forming constitutions on his own printing. The letter is of so curious and singular a nature, the doctrines advanced in it are so desirable and hellish. That I am indebted to you, in orders that our countrymen may see to what point they are to be considered, whenever agreeable to the modern democratic pine, they should become sufficiently alarmed that they may see how very nearly we were at one time. Being involved in all the anarchy, massacres, and bloodshed of a French Revolution. This letter sufficiently explains to us what these philanthropic and enlightening governments of mankind mean, when they talk of Liberty, quackery, and the Rights of Man. We all know how little Gibberish was understood in France, where these pretended Rights of Man and Liberty and Equality were in full operation; and by their upstartings, have in the short space often or twelve years produced more crime, and of course more misery than that infested people ever experienced put it altogether. From the foundation as their empêché to that settled state, and which in the end have brought not only themselves but others, their other brave and gallant nations upon their knees to a sovereign despot, whose yoke is at least as heavy as any we read on ancient or modern history. You, my Countrymen, would in all probability, have met with a similar fate, had not wise, vigilant, and energetic administration detected and deferred the nefarious practices of a set of Americans, who, in conjunction with sovereign misereants, were deeply involved in the guilt of transgression which they now wish to bury in obscurity. But history never will forget, although our countrymen from sickness appear to have done it, the In the midst of the machinations of Genet, the intercepted letters of Fauchet, the formation of the blockade, upon the Paris plan, in Philadelphia, are other parts of the United States, north of the subject of insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania; the suppression of which nor only occasioned the loss of many valuable lives, but cost the United States at least one million five hundred thousand dollars. Examine who are the persons, and of what party, that were guilty of the transactions above. mentioned: You will find them to a man of the Jacobin or Democracic party—Nay, Mr. Editor, If there a man amongst them of the least information or candor but must confess, for he cannot with truth deny it, "that the principles of this party are identically the same which have brought France, Holland, a considerable part of Italy, and all Switzerland, into their present enslaved and degraded condition. These principles they adopted at the commencement of the French Revolution; and although they have witnessed their miserable effects, in the sobriety of that and other nations, they still adhere to them with perhaps greater zeal than is they had produced the greatest possible happiness and prosperity in those countries where they have been attested upon. I will, Mr. Editor, through you, enquire of Dun and others of the democratic head of Editors, not forgetting the sister noble statute at Richmond, what has become of the two dear sisters, France and Batavia; as whose incelluons embraces they and their party were so Very fastidious a few years back? I have a number of the papers by me, printed from 1793 to 1800, whole disgusting columns are filled with encroachments; nms and praises of those chaste ladies; particularly of their sister France, where her conduct is constantly held up as an example for Americans to follow; even after she openly, in the face of the world, renounced the Christian Religion; even after she had, a certain consequence, committed Every crime of which poor degraded human nature is capable; embraced her hands in the blood of aged parents and helpless children, to the amount of millions; nay, even after she had openly declared the non-exillence of a Supreme Being. It is now whispered that the two dear sisters are desunct; gone to the vault of the Capnlets; poor, one by that lethal drug, Democracy, which was prepared in the laboratories of France, and imported into this country, where it has been swallowed by a great number of poor creatures, who are totally ignorant of its subtle and deadly effects. Yet have these unnatural Jacobin Editors, these organs of the public will, with characteristic ingratitude, suffered the illness, the violent death and private burial of two such near and dear relations to pass of without informing the sovereign people, nine in ten of whom are still ignorant. As a fact, it is interesting to note that the "magnificent" (if so interesting an event), what means they came by their dismissal from the stage, have no doubt, if an opportunity should catch their own dance upon their grave, and the music of praise, is they all around the world, have done to the bloody actors, in the drama; That the principles of the assassination now govern our country, are the style which, brought slavery and misery on the fairest of Europe, I think may be as easy to a candid mind, as any proposition in Europe. A well-informed industrious man, who wrote the tale, will as surely succeed as he tempts it, and Diversely, thereby rendering a great benefit than she has perhaps ever yet received. He removes the him from the Post Office and enables them to see the precipice on with a show stand, and the yawning gulf below, precisely such an undertaking which should, in any opinion, go back to the common man of the French Revolution and offiss French government. In 1739, he will examine and find that nine tenths of those who opposed the. doption of the constitution, arc straw of the IICQ. bin or Democratic party: he m}! find alsomu the cluhs formed precisely upon the Paris Plzn,i manv parts of the United State-s, particularly it the large citics. were in every instance sotm'xl by the present miirxg_ par-ty : he .Wll't. find 'sihtt (}; impudcnt and mtamoug machtnuzrons us Gent: :md Fauchet were chertshc-d and encouraged b the ssizme pmy; he will time! that the soarksof ! rebeiiion in the Awssesicm counttes of Pennsylvzsiiss si] ____ were gcndcrctctl, kindlct-d and blown into And"; ing ﬂamc, by men of the present ruling democu: cic party ;. he will find upmsirthc breaking vnto} the late warsi in Rumpe, when our goffisimm determined to stand Upon ncutral ground, si w" grasslsiv vilificd and abuscd; and every engine, which democratic ingenuity could move, employ. ed to force Amcrica, religicua, more! and titta. ous Amt'ztica, into a foul unnatural aniante with the faithless,victnfidcl, disorganizing, bloojy (si; tlzroats of Paris, by the the present ruling dcm. cratic party, ct He will by referfing to the newsganﬀs ?"b lislted by Bcnjapiiu F. Each-:, and ?. terwards by Dun, alias shame, and all others of the same stamp throughout Atnerica ; that these chaste as. gan: of the public. will, constantly vindtcmed the principlcs of the French sevolutaonists, and 2th them up as pattems for the wot-13. tu tmitasse; constantly paliiated andjustificd their :abwmsitnzﬄc, ct and 'I"! tlicn, unhcard of atrocnjcs: aznnstant'ss' joined in celebrattng atmivcrsartcs, the mos: trick. Ld and bloody the world ever witnessed—such at the murders committed on the tenth of August and second of September, 1792, and the murder of the King of France in 1792—Cincinnati, the most distinguished and virtuous and patriotic citizen of note in the country; not sparing of Washington, the most distinguished and virtuous patriot that ever lived; and with Davenport accused of murder—That they have circulated and published the anarchic and seditious writings of those degraded creatures, James and William Gudwin—He will find them, these PHIPLES, employed in disseminating such de-testable principles, have been and are still in existence, exclusively patronized by the present ruling department. Democratic party—He will find that the burst raised by the Federalists to keep, from any participation or interest in the government, troops of hungry, unpincipled fore-guess, many of them disgraced from the jaws of Europe, where by their crimes, their lives were forfeited, and by when our country is in danger of being overwhelmed to prevent (to use a scripture expression) the Children's Book being given to dogs, have been in a great measure broken "down by the present ruling democratic party. These with many other fastes of the same nature, which are in the memory of numbers, being laid before the public, with vouchers to substantiate their, can there be one virtuous American, one in whose bosom a spark of our holy religion exists, one who possesses the common feelings of mankind towards his offspring, one who dares the effects of mere religious, pious and vicious principles, and opinions upon the rising generation; one who wishes the present constitution of his country to be perpetual. Mr. Editor, can there be one with such a mirror, held up to his view, who will continue to supper! Therefore, men, professing principles which have produced the slavery, degradation and misery of a great and fair portion of the European world? I never can believe it. But to return To the letter to the Editor, A strong desire to see and converse with the Writer of such extraordinary a letter, as well as to have what is said of Duane confirmed by the 32 induced: A friend to ride with me into the lower part of Prince George County, with a view of finding him. We proceeded directly to Mr. Johnston's home, as most likely to get the desired information; and upon enquiring of the Miller if any Englishman or Other foreigner lived in that neighborhood—he informed us that there was an Englishman who kept school, about two or three miles below the Mill. We asked what kind of a man he was, but sometimes when he took about liberty and such like, he seemed a little wrong in the head. He then directed us to and when we arrived, found the schoolmaster engaged in reading a newspaper. 