Augusta chronicle & Georgia gazette. (Augusta, Ga.) 1821-1822, December 13, 1821, Image 2
VUroiikle. cuid
. * SUITED
BY JOSEPH VALI/ENCE RET AN
pVHLtSfltrpt.VHlT
Monday £5 Thursday.
*T live nottillis rr.R aitsum, paubu is
advasc*
TiirtFr. uoiiins r*R a«»wm, »atabl>
a;s6 w advasce.
Address to the Mummy at Bd
zimi’s Exhibition.
The’f'flowing lines atv from (hi- pen of a
muster. We never recoiled to have
In<• 1 -with any thin)? in the same strain,
which pleased ua so much.
[Liverpool Mercury
And thou hast walked about, (how
strange a story 1 )•
In Thebes’ si reds three Ihousandjycars
When the'liemnoniuin was in all its glo
•And tune had not begun to overthrow
Those temples, palaces, and piles slu
pundotts,
which the viry ruins are tremendous
Speak ! for thou enough h«»t acted Dum-
Thou hast a tongue—come—let ua hear
its tone; .
Thou’rt standing on thy leg a above ground
Mummy!
Pet isitmg the glimpsi s of the moon,
Not, like thin ghosts or disembodied crea-
HUM'S, *
But with thy bones ttnl flesh, and limbs
and features.
Tell trs-for doubtless thou const recol
lect, ...
To w hom should we assign die Sphinx s
, fame;
Was Cl enpg or Ccprcnes architect
Os eifh.*r Pyramind that bears his
name ’
Isl’ompey’s Pillar really « misnomer ?
Had Thebes a Imndred gates, as sung by
.Homes ! " i
Perhaps thou wert a Mason, and forbid
■den „ ,
tJy oath to tell the mysteries of thy
trade; ,
Then say what secret melody was hwiden
In s.emuon’s statue Which a* sunrise
played.
perhaps thou wert a Priest; if so my
struggles
Ate vain, for priestoraft never owns us
juggles.
Per^h'.hceThat very hand, now pinion'd
flat, ■
Hash 'h-a-noh’»l with Pbamoh, glass to
l"l»SR! ,
Or dropp’d * halfpenny mjlomei s hut:
Or doff’d thine own to tet Uueen Dido
pss*l ,
Oi btvld by Solomon’s own invitauoa, •
A torlh at the great Temple’s dedication.
I need not ssk thee if that band when
arm'd
'Has any Roman soldier msul’d and
i, knuckled,
for th >u wert dead, and buried, and c
balm’ 1
F..e ttomulus and Uemus had been
suckled;
Antiquity appears to have begun,
Lo \g after thy primeval race was run.
Thou could’st develope. If that wither’d
tongue
Might roll us what those sightless orbs
have seen,
How the World .ookM when it was fresh
and young, .
And tin- grea* deluge which had left it
■grim n: ' •
Or was it then-so old that History’s pages
Contain’d no record ol its ages f
Still silent, unrommunicittive elf f
Art sworn to secrecy i then keep thy
TOWS |
Dm pfydiee tell us something of th/svlf
He veal the secret of thy pr ison house;
Since in th* world o* spurts thou I uai
shimber’d
What hast tlm.u seen—what strange ad
ventures number’d?
Iknc- first thy form was in this box ex
tended,
Wt have, ab jve ground, seen some
strange mutations:
The Itotnsu empire has begun and ended.
New wo Ids have risen -we have losi
- ohl nations;
And countless kings have into dust her
humbled.
While not a fragment of thy flesh I;;,
o unibled.
Didst thou hot hear the pother o’er th>
head
When tue great Persian conqueror Catu
hyses
Match’d armies o’er thy tomb with thui
dertng trend,
O’ertlirew Owrri. Orns, A iis, Isis,
Ami shook the Pyramids with fear am!
winder.
When til gigantic Munnon fellas nder.
If the tomb’s secrets may not be confess’,!
The nature of thy private life unfold:
A heart has ’hrobb’dbeneath tbalieathci n
bi> sst.
And tears adown thatdutky cheek have
roll’d; •
Have children climb'd those knees, an,.
kiss’d that face ?
What was thy name and station, age and
race ?
SFatue of flesh—lmmortal of the dead !
In.pc isu ible type of evanescence !
Posthumous man, who quit's! thy narrow
bed.
And siandeituudecayed within our pre
sence, .
Thou vsiit hear nothing till the Judgmen.
morning.
When the great trump shall shrill thee ■
with U*warning.
Why si ould this worthless tegument en
dure.
If its undying guest be lost tor ever ?
O let us keep the soul embalmed and
pure
In living virtue that when both must
•ev.gr, _.. -
Although corruption may our frame con
sume,
Th’ immortal spirit ux (Ac skies *sf bluoa.
mm*
Prom the Virginia tferald.
Reply of the \luramy to the
foregoing tldreHS.
HE dumb, thou Questioner! dost quake
to hear me
Call up a tone beneath the ribs of
t Compose thy startled ser.r.e—thou needs’!
not fi ar me,
’Tis but a fleeting, unsubstantial breath!
i am not angry, tliou Should’sl thus be
peering.
For it brings back my voice, and sight, and
hearing. (
And since this withered tongue can move
once more,
■And unto earth lam revisitor.
Now that so many years have roll’d it
, ~ -o’er.
Til talk with thee, thou strange inquwi
! tor!
Come then, respond to me, thou thing
halt frantic,
Say art thou man, once boasting strength
gigantic ?
Thou hast his lineaments! yet, dwarf abor
tive !
Thy frame belies thy title to hi® name—
Art thou some prodigy of nature sportive ?
What are thou lit for? let thy longue
proclaim;
Tell me ; perhaps I’ve heard an infant’s
prattle,
Thou Iwst no strength to gird thyself to
r battle.
In those heroic times tlmu’st touch’d upon,
What would*) have done in combat with
tin toe ?
Could’st lift the shield of Ajax Telamon ?
Or bear tiie weight of mighty Memnon’s
1 blow ?
t;ould’sl thou the king of Uashan’s brand
have wielded ?
Or had to thee, the sons of Anak yielded ?
What is thine age ? some fifty years or un
der ?
i Jus* stepping on the threshold of a world ?
Aitd yet such knowledge doth excite my
In one whose beard upon his chin’s un
curl’d!
Ofpld traditions, so complete a master.
Thou art sump Magus, Priest or Zoroaster
Hast Iravell’d unto Thebes, that tliou
wouid’st. know
Jf Hecatorpylos b' a misnomer ?
Hast -een her hundred sepulchres that
show
What meant the words of blind old Homer?
When acted I, on sublunary stages.
Ah knowledge was lock’d up in breast of
sages.
But why dost ask of me, th’ imposture
palm’d
In Pompey’s pillar, on the world, I pray
you,
If I wore dead, and buried, and em
balm’d.
E’er flonmlus and Ilemus liv.cd, as say
you ?
If founded they, that empire, vast you
CQfntion,
Os which thoiv’st lived to sec the great
declension ?
Pompey ? unknown that name to memo
ry !
Time’s early records give, it unto no man—
Doubtless, some hero, of more modern
story
The same thou hast denominated Un
man—
Was he illustrious then lor vict’ries won.
Shrined they his bones in Temple of the
Sun?
(
Who did unmask for theo, the priest of
Isis?
And told the - * of the trick of Memnon’s
• S'at if ?
Thousecm’st to know, they chuckled ai
their guises,
While peeping from behind some oop
hoh-alyou; t
They laugh'd to sec credulity’s confusion,
And hugg’d themselves in man’s absurd
delusion ?
What art hath been invented to disperse
What once was known but to the wise of
old,
That thus, with so much case, thou can’st
r« hearse
What then was precious as the fleece of
gold ? .
Queen Dirti ! Solomon and his great deeds*
Cephalitis, Cheops and their pyramids'
\ . 4 *
Hut list, thou chronicle i f ancient days!
Thou cofnpend of a woild's»rausuc ions!
There is ave il through which thou can’st
not gaze,'
One, w here no human effort makes infrac
timis:
*’he shroud that’s placed hi fire the
grave's dominions,
•’he. boundary of man—the field ofdaik
opinions !
I’hou hast not guess’d, and I can never tell
thee.
What was my-age, my race, or name or
station.
Fur Ishmaelitish merchants did sell me,
Nor was 1 ruler of th’ Egyptian nation—
i never hob-a-nob’d with Pharoah, in my
life,
Nor fled from Poliphar’sinsonstant wife.
Why gazest so with eye indicative,
'if wond’ring horror at a mummy’s sea
Hires ?
Hast lost th< a*t, with drugs desiceative,
Tt, stay putridity in human creatures 1
How now are paid the last sad acts of du
ty ?
Are the worms left to prey on cheek of
beauty ?
Candidate for death to snanglo and de
tnrro!
Prey to corruption, sin and bitter sorrow !
Offspring of the dust and bai quet for the
worm !
Let me in turn thy solemn warning bor
row:
Thou wilt know nothing till the resurrec
tion.
When thou shall put away sin's curstin-
Xectaon.
Why dost thou waste on vanities thy skill?
Why dig amid the rubbish of past ages ?
Uufild the volume of Jehovah’s will,
D ; vote thyself to his prophetic pages
Which guide the way to those eternal
pleasures.
Transcending human thought, by bound
less measures.
I 1
Extracts from an Article in the I** l Sup
percent to the Encyclopadia Ur 'an
nica.—Article Beggar, Vol. H. P 2l>l
. ~ 7 ’ •- ■
Os the class of persons to whom, in the
common use of language,; be- termt
. gar is with propriety sssigm-d, then; is
, one distinction which is obviously and
commonly made •, that is, into those who
beer from necessity; andthoun who *> e J,
from choice. In each of these dm
sinus, there is great vanety For a <le
scription of the* id of nftndicty we de
rive helps from the Import of a totmmUec
of the IToiife of Common,, appOtHed mtte
year 1815, to enquire into the state of
menclicity in the metropolis. |*bc enq'ii-,
ry is very imperfect; the interrogation
of the witnesses superficial and unskdiul;
’ the information which they Rive not fob
~ lowed up, hy exploring oUier and better
' sources, wjiich they indicate ; but, as
. ‘people had been left to casual observation,
to f-noy, and conjecture before, the facts
and .conjectures which that Report lays
belore ... are still the best information
we possess. ■
Mr. Martin, the conductor of an inquiry
j into the state rtf mendicity in the metropo
lis, iinder instructions from his Majesty s
' Principal Secretary of State far the Home
„ Department, which inquiry extended to
about 4500 cases, staled, as “ kite general
, result of hi. information, that beggary is,
in very many cases, perhaps in about hal.
the cases of those who beg, the effect ra
ther of real distress, than of any voluntary
'• desire t. impos.. So far from him g f >U;.d,
• amongst those wlio have attended at the
, office:any reason to think that the whole
was a matter of imposition, I have (ssys
8 he) found cases of the most acute sujlew
, ing, which have long been concealed, ■'/
some of the beggars, Who belonged to p>
, rishes in the metropolis, who have mi
maile their cases properly known to tHf
i parish-officers, and who have ventured *o
• slip out of their parishes, not so much be
cause they wished to impose, as because
f they were driven by distress to bl£.
Y Mr Martin i;rw (led this conclusion also
upon the general sact 9 that the number of
women was much greater than (bat ot
men, and that of married women greater „
than that of single “ Men,"■he remarks,
r “ are stronger than women, h ive more
resources, ami arc better able to provide
i ‘hr themselves; and single women art
more eligible for s« rvlce than married,
and usually have only themselves to main
I tain-”
The Rev. Henry Rudd, who had been
? fourteen years Chaplain to Bridewell Hos
pital, to which the gicater number ui the
f persons take) up for begging in the
streets of London are committed, was ask
ed. *' Have you ever known a worthy per
; son begging in the streets ?”—“ Yes ; I
have gnowii many that I should call wor
' tbv; and, I think 1 could mention spnrn
who have commnp from the country dis
■ tressed for want of work They think
London is paved with gold, or presents
opportunities tne country does not •, and
they find themselves here without friends
i I have met with many whom I considered
very worthy ”
l Promother witnesses however, of whom
the experience was also great, the com
mittee received affirmations of an oppo
• site import.
Mr. John Hougbtry, a gentleman Wmch
- in the habit if visitingthe habitations of
i the needy, was asked, “In your opinion,
do many worthy, honest, industrious per
- sons have recoil se to begging, or does
this class of society consist chiefly of the.
idle and profligate ?”—.-?«? “The install
• res in which worthy, honest, industrious
persons have recourse to begging are ex
‘ 'remelv rare They will, in general, ra
f titer starve than beg A person of vera
ci-y, whq sometime ago visited 1503 poor
i families in the neighbou-hno lof SpltaV
field, affirms, that, out of full 300 cases of
abject poverty'and destitution, an 1 at least
lOu of liters 1 want «» d starvation, hot a
• dozen had b-en found l» have recourse to
begging Many of the most wretched of
the above cases had b -en, noi long b.-fore,
1 able to support tlu-mic.lves in some com
fort, but want ot employment ha 1 com
pletely mine 1 them. They were, at that
moment, pressed by landlord, baker, and
f tax-gatherer; bad pawned and sold every
thing that could b« turned into money:
were absolutely without a morsel of food
for themselves or family but sirll had
(’ not recourse to hegg ng. As a general
fact, tlv- decent poor will sniggle to the
1 uttermost, and even jxrish, rather ,than
. turn beggars ” ,r'
According o the experiment imnlion
ed by Mr. Honghtrv, a id it is upon a large
scale, and a part of Ui • population (the
t circumstances of die people in Spiialficds
are not favorable to virtu which mr.y
be reckoned below rather than above
the common standard, out of 40f indtvid
; uals, of the lowest order, 388 will consent
to perish by hunger, rather than beg , In
confirmation of this testimony, an extraor
dinary fact has come 'o our knowledge.
We have been i -formed by a gentleman,
1 wliose knowledge of the circumstances
and behaviour <tf Hie journey men of the
r metropolis may be regarded as in< a very
unusual, or rather an unexampled d 'grce,
minute and-correct, that, oftlijs important
• proportion of the labouring population,
/ no one ever begs; tiiat such a thing as a
journeyman tradesman, or any of bis fami
ly, begging, is almost unknown ; and may
with certainty, he pronounced as one of
the-rarest of contingent events. When it
is considered to what an extraordinary de
gree most of the employments by which
these men earn the means ot‘subsistance
are liable to fluctuation ; that thousands 1
- of'hem are for months together deprived |
of work, as was the case with (housinds, 1
F for example, of ihe carpenters anti brick- t
layers dering the winter of 1815; 'hat ajf !
those the whole must be reduced to the 1
. most cruel privation, and a pi'ppt proper
lion actually starve uf, I
! and unknowns the I’esohitiqo. py whicJi. S
; th y abstain from begging, should be re- t
gatded as one of the most remarkable t
. phenomena in the history of‘‘the human
mind., 1
2. Os the number of beggars La the q»e<; a
tropolis (and no attempt has by ea ma le to t
. discovei'it in the rest of the country,) the h
labours of the Committee Kaye ascertain- g
ed hardly any thing. At the time of the a
first inquiry, which was made bv Ur, Mar- .n
tin, 2000 cases presented themselves p
This, by a vague estimate, he supposed a
might be about one third of the who ; a
and allowing at the rate of a child and a b
half to each principal, he conjectured -duo •
the whole number might be about IS.uOO ft
U tkis be supposed & tolerable approxt- u
mtion. with regard 4a the metropolis, a
comparison of the popula-.on of the m, -
tn,polls with that n{ the whole count.y,
will give an approximation to tire nunwer
of beggars in the kingdom
3 With regard to the number of oepT
ears, an important fact appears to be as
chained: Mat it dimimsb
ing Mr. Martin said “I do think that
the number of beggars has something de
creased since -he first inquiry, nine y ays
ago ; and 1 am very much c onhrmcc. m
tllat opinion, by what persons have loW
me,'that they have not seen so many as
they did. I really think there are not so
many by one-fourth.” Sir N- Conimt,
of the Police-office in Bow -street,, saia,
think the number of beggars was greater
thirty years ago than now, I have acted
as a magistrate for more than thirty years
—Do you mean greater in proportion to
the population ?—Greater in fact. * nm
sure, on my own recollection and o rserva
tion, that mendicity is a lotss nuisance
now than it was thirty years ago.
4. This is the little which appears to
be known with regard to the proportion
between the beggars from choice, and
the beggars from necessity, and with re
grrd to the number of the whole. We
shall next speak of the arts by which it is
undr rstood that the trade of beggars is
curried on This appears to be tue grand
subject of curiosity.
The Uev. William -Git ncy said, “Tam
rector of St Clement Danes, and minister
of the Free Chapel in West-street, it.
files’s. In the course of my ministry
tlere, I have had a good deal ot occasion
to visit peisons in very great distress. I
i have ascertained that there arc four dd-
ferent wnys of begging Some are by let- i
ters, which arc sent by post ; and some are 1
what we call knocker beggars, who go
from house to house, knocking at every ■
door. If they get a knowledge of any
icspectablft person ift the street, th r *y
pret« nd they have received money at his
house, to make a siitn to pay rent, or t!ic
postage of a letter from a son who has
been six or seven years at sea, and from
whom they expect a .remittance ; or for
other purposes. On these occasions (hey
have generally some written statement
in their hands. Some beggars are sta
tionary. They come to their stand at a
■certain hour, where they remain all day (
or alter so many hours repair to another
Os these beggars, those who are blind, or
maimed, or have children, succeed the
In st. There are others, women and -chil
dren, who are moveable beggars, follow
ing not the street but the people. For
instance, at the time of tire play, they are
always very near the theatres ; and it they
see a young gentleman and a young -lady
walking together in deep conversation,
they will pester them, and run bt foie
them till they give them something to
get rid of them. Those people, at other
times of the day, if it is a Sunday for in
stance, will be found near chapels where
there are large congregations; they
know as well where the large congrega
tions are as possible. There are others
who are continually begging from house
to house; they go through a great num
ber of streets in the day, occasionally tak
ing a ballad, or a bunch of mutches, and
pretend to be picking up bone* in the
street, and early in the morning kneeling
down to areas, tormenting the nook when
she is busy in the kitchen, until they get
some broken victuals, ns they call if, but
they actually sell this victuals; that I
have found out. In St. Giles’s there are
some eating houses for the very poorest
mendicants, where they go and sell this
victuals they get from different houses.
He mentioned a set of applications fre
quently made to him, by persons who pre
tended that prize-money, or benefits of
some other sort were due to them, of
which, however, being deprived by want
of knowing the steps tube taken, they
entreated a letter to somebody who would
instruct them ; but their object was to
get a letter with my name to it, with
which p'obabi) in a short time they could
get 20/ If I have written to any body m
the uflice of the Treasurer of the Navy,
whom" I knew, for instruction or counsel
how they ought to act, recommending the
beare" to this person for any information
he could give upon such points; if 1 only
said, I beg leave to recommend the bear
er to your notice, they would paste this
to another sheet of paper, cutting offtbc
bottom part (and one person was detect
ed in doing this,) and then (hey would
take the name at the bottom,and so past
it together, making a kind of a re corn
mendation of this pe>son:: knowing who I
was._ acquainted, with, some other clergy
man’, perhaps -silting me down a-i giving
them Ila , that clergy man is induced to
give'the in Ids also, and to send them to
6 mao benevolent >cson in liis congrega
tion : and so ill ygo oo till they have gm
20/ ; i i that has frequent y been done,
I do not mean always by imposition Hu,
in many cases, where persons have been
in distress, through providential circum
stances, 1 have written t- another clergy .
iva-i, saying, such a woman was d ; stres»-
ed, and had so many children, and that
her husband was mu of work, and that
tins I knew to be the fact, for 1 had in
quired. I have given half a guinea, and
have giwn iL.- names of others ;aid by
this nitons s -fficiem relief has been pro
cured without coming to the parish at all.
Hut the impositions on the subject oi re
commendations are very great ; I have
hail betters from *ll part* of die country,
inquiring whether I gave a general re
commendation to such a person ; and they
have said, we saw a letter put porting to
be in your hand-writing; we were pivtty
confident it was not written by you, but
it was a very good imitation. One man
in Staffordshire, where I had lately been, i
got a great deal of money upon such a ,
letter I conceive the beggars in the (
streets are mere numerous a: one time of
the year than at another ; and it would be
sup used tlie lime cf the year when they
wfcre most numi roos, would be in tie ear- i
ly part cf the winter; but that is n>>t tin
£#»e, for now they are ss thick as a> any
lime of thq year. I have been endeavour
ing for a long time to a-certaiu th<- reason
if this ; and the first obvious reason for
thepinflux of beggars into the metropolis,
at this season of die-year, is, witli respect *
lo put" class of beggats, those who do it 1
by letters or recoitunernations, and not 8
going from house to house, that they take c
advantage while Parliament is stil sitting, 11
nr particular persons being in town ; they ll
peihaps are pretty stationary in London s
all the ye«r ; ; but they are more anxious V
at this time, and therefore more heard of, *!
because peop t an going out of town, ‘
•■id therefore the.' ar taking ime hy the *
t'lrelocfe. and wmk double tides; tha< is 11
me reason I very frequently have letters Cl
E< . n t ly friends of mine In nfHiier.ee,. Mi',
Wilbeforoe and others, requesting me to
inquire into particular cases, and if I found
them to be a a represented, to give them
so and so. 1 have generally been troub,
led more at this season of the year than at
an* other. As to those who knock at the
door to beg, the reason of their being so
numerous at this time of the year, I ap
prehend, is, that many come out of the
country with a view to take the early hay
tifne about the metropolis, but they bring
always a large suit with them. It a man
comes to mow in the neighborhood < f the
metropolis, they mow their way back a*
gain, the harvest beginning sooner near
the metropolis; they bring with them a
wife and six ot seven children. I have
«een hundreds coming up through Stan-,
more, Avhen I resided there. They gene
rally come ton soon, and the streets are
tided with these poor people: One says,
if.(could but get money to but a fork 1
could get work; and another, if 1 couid
get money to buy a rake, 1 could get em
ployment, I have had half a dozen with
me since Saturday, stating that the* came
up to get a job of work, but the market is
overstoeke i: there are so many lii>h
here. The c' nscqimnce of these people
coming is, ‘.heir children are immediately
set to begging in the streets, and with the
dust upon them, having travelled a great
way, .and frequently in rea' want, they
move the compassion of people very
much; they are frequently sitting with
papers stuck in their hats. • In the course
of six or eight week* great numbers of
i those will disappear; the husbands will
[ get to mowing, their wives will get a hay
■ fork, and their children will get to weed
• I, »T*l ... i I »..t n ilru'itl.
in" the gardens! TJien they Reta dread- i
fill habit, by coming to the metropolis, a i
habit. of idluness and drinking and of
course lying; idleness is Mire to bring on i
lying and theft. I div e say there are ve
ry few of these mendicant children who
are not trained up to pilfer as well as to
heft; they come principally, I believe,
from the mannfiticluri'g counti-s, Onn
journey from Birmingham to London two
years ago, I passed not less than two hun
dred with their wives and children, who
were beggingasl passed ”
Mr. William Horrid, inspector of the
payment of St. Giles’s and St. Gem-gs,
Uioomshury, said,-—“One-evening ! was
coming down Totenbit-n-eourt Koa.l; a
man and s woman, bodt btggars, were
quanvclLiup. The man awoie at -the wo
man very much, and told her to go down
to such a place, and lie would follow her.
1 said to myself, ( will see this opt. She
appeared to he pregnant, and very rear
her time. I went down to Sheen’s I think
In sent her there. There was a quarrel,
and he said, “ I will do for you present-
Iv j” and he up with his foot and kicked
her, and down came a pillow stuffed wit h :
straw, or something of that kind; she
was very soon delivered. I have been in
informed of a circumstance respecting a
man of the name of Butler, that went a
bout ; lie had lost one of his eyes. lam
told he had been to sea He had a dog,
and walked with a stick ; the dog went
before him ; he bit the curb stones. Peo
ple supposed he was blind of both eyes;
he turned his eye up in such away that he
appea-ed blind. When he returned to
his hotel, he could see as well as 1 could,
and he wrote letters for his brother beg
gars. This man has been dea ’. two or
three months ”
The following is a curious fact, testified
by Mr. T. A. Finnigan, master of the Ca
tholic Free School in St -Giles’s —“ About
two years ago, there was an old woman
who kept a night school, not for the pur
pose of learning childern to spell and
read, hut for the sole purpose of teaching
them the street language, that is, to scold;
this was for females particularly. One fe
male child, according to the woman’s de
claration to me, would act the part of Mo
ther Barlow, and the other Mother Cum
mins; there were the -fictitious names
they gave. The old woman instructed
the children in all the manoeuvres of scold
ing and clapping their hands at each o
tlier, and making use of the sort of info
mous expressions they use. This led
them into the most disgraceful scenes
When these children met, if one entered
the department cf the other the next day,
they were prepared to defend their sta
tion, and to excite a mob,”
t-Vc shall next consider the estimate
which ought to be formed of their get.
tings. On this subject also exists a great
bias to exaggeration. Bo'h the Committee
and these witnesses, with certain excep
tions, i.pptar to have been led by it.
Mr Gurney had heard of ore idividual
who boasted thafhe could with -ase earn
Si a day; that lie would go'(trough si.vty
streets, and that it was a poor s'reet that
would not bring 1i n a penny. Sir Nath
aniel Ccnant, however,beingasktd, -‘Did
it ever come to your knowledge, what
any of the mendicants got ?” wade answer,
—“ I hive heard very large sums stated,
hut I disbelieve many of them; I have
not known of money being found about
them ; there are a good many very im
pudent fellows certainly about the street ,
who are very troublesome; those who
have been taken tip hare been seldom
found with more than a shilling or two,
but I believe some of them had naan-led at
home. There was a woman before me.
when 1 acted at Marlborough street, who.
had a erd ly in which there were nine or
ten guineas hoarded.”
Joseph Iluiterwnrth, Esq. a member of
the Committee, stated as an inference
from credible information which he had
received respecting their mode of spend
ing, that their daily acquisitions could not
be less than from 3s to 5s ea> h One
particular girl, however, whom examined,
stated that Is 6J was the common amount
pf what she was able to collect, though
on some days she made as much us 4s or
ss.
We recuini.,eud the foil iwing estrset! '
from the Message of the Governor of- ,
Virginia, to the serious and attentive '
consideration of our readers;-
The commonwealth -has undergone the i
humiliation of having endeavored ill vain ]
to vindicate and assert iher rights and her i
sovereignty at the bar-ofthe supreme court 1
of the United Statu, and now endures the <
mortification, notwithstanding the greit ! ,
talents, learning and efforts of the conn. (
sel employed, of having altogether failed ! <
to nrocure a disavowal of the riglw, or the ! <
intention to violate .that Sovereignty, and t
hose rights, by the procedure which was t
iimouuced to th>- iaai letris’a* tire, and what r
tas been consequent thereto in tliQ .usual |
: nurse. jj
4/
The supreme contt of the United Elate, K
has asserted in the broad.st Urns. t‘h e §
nght ot that court to exorcise a'qielhitc
jurisdiction in cases where a state* - ;,» jar'. IN
ty, and where it is brought hetore t!'t>!> I
by a writ of error to reverse the sentence Kj
ut one ot its court'} indicting a penalty m> I I
some of hs citizens for a. violation of ■.l
penal code. It is asserted the riqht, inW
cases where a state is a panv, "to 'cn.H
force within that state,laws r.f t , .on -v l . B *l
formed for the District of Colundua,
'n the - limits of which. Congress has exH
cessive jurisdiction, [>y supervising
contmiling the decisions ‘of the st.v*
courts upon mimic, put regntsiiopaol' tlieifl
own, intended to preserve, the mtjials
their citizens. Although it *i» admtf**9
■flKtt under the provisions' of the'pm, loiikJ
act of Congress atuborizi -g a lottery, thß
the brnefit of the District of CuluLbi:®
th'e venders of the tickets were not , J
lected from a liability to ponirimien l sisl 1
inf ac ions of the state Ia us pmhihiVu'g ■
sale oi' them in the respective states, ,i iuH'
intimated its opinion ir. a mariner’
admi's ol little doubt, that even in so-B
port of regulations framed by Congress huH :
tne District «f Columbia, it may chsr
with, or overreach the municipal laws
a state widen are in conflict with thi-m.
The principles thus coot,mldl f, r bl 1
the supreme court, are manifestly ctilcnllH'
od io irnpairmi.si essentially the soven ijßf
rights retained hy the males, and .ilunutH 1
i ly to change die character of the g flj
; eminent from n constitution of limited 'rß'
f defined powers, to one inve-ting noliiS 1 '
I ited auttic.rily. T!»e supreme court H
the U. States has long attributed to I'nH 1
gross a discretion to one any meam thfl'
may judge-expedient to earn a :,o <1!
specifi- <1 in the constitution into cited l
11 arrogates to ilseti', always, lii,
authority to judge exclusively in tuc
resort, how far the federal compact ril’
luted, and in arraign before it not
decisions of the state courts, but the
themselves. H
As the States are parties to the
pact, it is tin ir duly to exercise s
tlegiee of vigilance and energy to
-ds violation. In a difference of
as to the authority conferred by tin- i'
ral constitution, it surely cannot lie
tended to be an exclusive right of
the parlies to decide whc'lua- a
conferred or not, and portion arly
party who claims it.
If the principles plainly upheld by
opinions and decisions are
maintained, it is ■•■■aaifi-rt that the
meat to th -.-• constitution in’ ended lo
the sovereignty of die states ha*««
any f >rce, and the adoption of it huspHg.
ed a vain measure. The ihfinitiim of |iH>
(:• sis no longer of any use; the
of those powers and the reservation
remaining powers to the slate
moots which before possessed the v-Hf
are no longer of any avail If
can pass ail laws which it may ever
occasion deem necessity to carry anv
or imputed to its government into
it is evident that that govern ratut
of unlimited powers by construction,
ever may appear on the face of din
tution to the contrary. If it can go
outer limits of the field of
sented to it by the states, it will
ally soon occupy the whole field so
that no decision can be made in *
court, which may not be cors.iml
volve some law of the U. Stalt-e,
therefore reversible at tlie v i II oi
oral judiciary. T'he state courts i
he virtually annihilated,for J
i -gs will be subjects of jealousy ua il S
become useless ceremonies S
The cunslitu‘M>i' of the Units 1
a durable monument ol th>* it
harmony of times past. Its very n v Sj
lections constitute an impressive
rial of the necessity for good l.utb iuWik
passing and in future times. It is
mystic writing given in charge to
•ual judiciary as to a priesthood to
velopftd in a studied obsuntt,
through mazes, and made to give rr
ponses as may suit the peculiar utß in
political expediency, cfitictiißbe.'iVs v P 1
political sect, at any period. Bat
gue against the uuconstitutiensb-ty oHj th
jurisdiction asserted, and. pi* teß«f
conservative powers assumed, da
dignified and emphatic declaration
by the last legislature, i" useless,
produce no good consequence ■■
The only legitimate reioedv,
sttre and lasting, time will shew,
the certain effect of this oi
judicial ambition, which if p
the present enlightened emigres-,■ to
hereafter be tolerated or e’lconragi* t|i
some other, is unqueslionab n(, - a ' h
meat to tlie constitution,
tb power claimed d; •hi-.inrisda-inni fi
e'l within such well delined h" J ' ls *!'
rn .ketbe state governments seen' c " !i
the fatal consequences of a •'itrii' v-B L
in other tribunals, to reverse tin- d '■
of theirs, upon mutters of their ow n >■
ual policy, and in a tribunal created u| oi,
party to the compact, to -ie.;Un; .n ■ a
what that cornpa t iutended. ■ ™
Anticipations fill of despair 'or ' t j,
tine welfare of die Union m ist unav* &
bly accomnnny th" barsli stipoosi' --iiH
the alarming ossumritioiis m
can have had their origin in -i 1 " 1 -,
•d Itv motives of p-»l t:c*l exnfy
nee'ed with view of government *
.Mr.-rent from 'hose of I lie 'H ttj
.;oii*titnti(in. Thev mnet Inin liaddn-™ 1
MKleiS'anding of the diilcrcu' c-c
the instrument at tha' tim .“ n S '^H
intentions svhen they assemble > ,u p f
in the discussion. JtUthengA' r a p.
pledge to sn;-port it. as it cam-’ 1 , v
bands All declared it to be tie >
trivsnee they could make- ”> jj (
whole power and infl ie ice "I • - ' ],.
to bear, in mass, upon foreign n Bj t
peace as well »s in w.»r, witho'i ' ‘ na
ing their internal means of j' g( j
tranquility, of encouraging '' ar
knowledge, an! promoting pr
any of them. If a I did no
consolidation, as much as uo .
-b cause a few had not the r- l^H
discover that a corrupt, mag'
vagant, impoverishing and e |S .* *er
ernment, must be the cons 1 J^
If t be s.iid that th- mno'i’y » » .H
come majority nom, let it o« I
test, by another coiiveoMo"- '« -o
distinguished cinzi-i" w, *° c< ' is
aupremo court at tit!* tune, ai
the imputation of bad fat h, e I’M p,
defended by any consideration o» fl ,
ency, but they are ad certanny ■p
to have unintentional j error c j
them without pairt"! dnub ■ fa
of this prospect is not a i (
by the reflection .that th- p • ' tt
judgea aro vcy jikexy ■ e