Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political

some of the beautiful sayings of Mr. Cobbett while in the United States. He is now very fond of the same democrats he used then to revile and they, not to be outdone, are equally fond of him! Notoriously profligate as are the principles of the man; impudent, malicious and abominable, his aberrations from truth, weekly and daily do the democratic editors stuff their columns with his writings: This I should not blame them for, if it were done for the mere gratification of their readers, accompanied with the proper cautions against believing him. Cobbett is an amusing though an abandoned writer. But they suffer all his falsities to pass without contradiction; nay, they even countenance and encourage a belief in them. One of these I shall notice. Comparing Mr. Adams and Mr. Pickering, he says "Mr. Adams sought only the good of his country; Mr. Pickering, his own advancement and private emolument." Now Cobbett and his friends know this to be palpably untrue. Mr. Adams has enriched himself by his various offices, whereas Mr. Pickering has been impoverished in his public career; and the first is as notoriously ostentatious and proud, as the second is plain and frugal.

Raleigh Minerva.