Massachusetts Spy And Worcester Advertiser

CONSISTENCY!

Many persons who have read the just eulogium on the late editor of the Spy, in the last Aegis, and recollect the language held in the same paper toward him while he was editor of the Spy, wish for some explanation of the matter, not knowing how to reconcile one with the other.

Having heard many enquiries made respecting the long editorial article in the last Aegis, we cannot answer them better than by relating the following anecdote.

Packwood, a barber of London, whose fame at one time was almost equal to that of the barber of Bagdad, was much noted for the excellency of his razor strops, and more so for the pompous puffs of them in the papers of the day. A gentleman called one day at his shop, out of curiosity, and being disappointed in not finding him at home, made some conversation with his wife, in the course of which he enquired how it was that a person in her husband's situation should write the articles which appeared in the papers under his signature. "La Sir!" says she, "we keeps a POET."

We owe an apology to the readers of the Spy for devoting any portion of our paper, however small, to a subject which does not at all interest them. But as the managers of the Aegis have been for a long time trying to get some mark of our notice, we were willing, out of abundant compassion toward them, to gratify them so far as to shew them that they are not entirely disregarded.