Alexandria Gazette

Mr. Greenough has presented a memorial to Congress praying to have his statue of Washington removed to the grounds in front of the western facade of the Capitol, &c. &c. In the course of this memorial, the sculptor defends his work from the criticisms that have been made on it, and says, "having already outlived the sneer with which it was intended to crush his first effort to make a bust of a distinguished fellow-citizen without a shirt." he trusts that the prejudice which has yielded in these few years the neck and shoulders as objects not unfit to be looked upon, will continue to decline before the efforts of high art, until his successors in sculpture shall be enabled to show that the inspired writer meant not merely the face, when he declared that God had made man after his own image."