Alexandria Daily Gazette, Commercial & Political

Mons. PRENTAIR,

I cannot refrain myself for not to address a few words to you once more. I have behold in your Gazette dese few tines before de last semaine, some affaires of consequence, wish make me hunger and twist for one grande explanation.

How come you for to prent dat blackgar Canadiez? Did you receive hundred touseen ginny fo your fedralees toree raskelism? I know tha you want—and dat is, to make de gentimer soljare not to fight for his country.

You say Quebec is nudder Gibraltar: Is dis proof of your recherches? Or have you find out some information nouvelle, dat Hercules establish two ne plus ultra? Begar, you ought to publish it as one postscript news, to inform your reader how de great pedestrian hero perform labeur treizieme!—But de toree Canadien say be shall kill great many of your enfans de la patrie: he shall miss his aim; dey aynt not gone yet; de jour de gloire aynt come!—Don't be scare, my good republicains, in de Nitestate and Georgie: you shall all hare pretty fixhing landing on de St. Lawrence,—and somc fowl play, in saison: and yon can send some nice goose feddur to dis home which you left. for to tar de toree. Beside, if any of you get his back cut off, I give you now one fine specific to secure your lifes, which was communicate to Mons. Sancho Panza by one medicin fameux of Madrid: It is de Balsam of Fierabras. Soon as ever you are cut in two, just swallow two draughts of dis balsam, and you shall be well in an instant.

De Canadien say we shall not give dem liberty, by fighting against dair countrv. One Angleesh poet say au contraire more as great while ago. I send to you, Mons Prentair, bis langueeje:-

"Th' old Romans freedom did bestow,
Our princes worship, with a blow;
King Pyrrhus cured his splenetic
And testy courtiers with a kick."

Well, can't we make people free aussi, by first give to dem a drubbing? Ayn't we as good as de anciensy or ayn't Docteur Misiill as sunning as king Pyrrhus?

Mais, you say encore, over and over, dere is no use to go to war. But I tell you dere is grand necessity for it. It will steel de nerve of great many jentimen. De Empereur, who is de mosc enlightened gouvernement, is very fond of it. By killing few citoyens now and den, de rest is kept in good order, same as dey cut off a limb to preserve de whole boddee. For dis raison every wise nation fight a little bit, wheddur dey can't get nussing by it or not. Don't you remembair how Mons. Gullivair tell of de two king wno fight to see whish side he shall break de egg? And one prince of Italie believe he have pasture large as de Heavens, and nudder prince believe he have as many oxen as dere be stars; so den dey querelle to know if de oxen shouid graz in de pasture. Besidc, I have told you autre- fois, dat de Angleesh is nation of shopkeeper. all as big rogue as de fallow who agree to buy as much lace as would extend from ear to ear: and, parbleu, when de bargin was ratify, de scoundrel prove dat one of his ear was nail to a post more as hundred mile off.

I have de honneur to be, Sair,
Wid de highest consideration,
(Signed) Nicholas Pedrosa,
Huir-dreaser.