Gazette Of The United States, & Philadelphia Daily Advertiser

That scoundrel patriot, Grattan, (in one of his addresses to the mob, exciting them to insurrection and revolution,) has the following effort of sublime and poetic genius:

'Reform is a principle of attraction about which the king and people would spin on quietly and insensibly in regular movements, and in a system common to them both.' How happily are the ideas of the spindle, the distaff, and the school boy's top, here blended with that of the revolution of the planets round the sun, from the principle of attraction?

What would Lord Mansfield have thought of our 'liberal' Doctor of Laws, had he heard him give an attorney the LIE, swelling with the indignation of a rattle-snake, because he happened to differ from him in opinion? Or of his wisdom and dignity, who could descend to reprove the gentlemen of the bar because they appeared in 'his presence' with Gingham coats?

Old Malfaisant procured an order to be sent to London, for a wig, with three bob-tails to it, to be made (by his express direction) after that worn by Lord Mansfield. The wig arrived and was sent home in a box, along with a bill, amounting only to the moderate sum of eight dollars. Malfaisant wore it at a public dinner,—but his cara sposa, not thinking the old blade so amiable in it, as in his old scalp, ordered him to return it, which he did, to the importer, who immediately commenced an action against him for the fraud. The wig was produced in court, before the face of Malfaisant, and after being dandled about from one lawyer's fist to another, till it went round the whole bar, finally passed to the constables, who, when their curiosity had been fully satisfied, flung it under one of the benches, whence some negro, or democratic citizen, conveyed it away to his own use and behoof. On the trial it was maintained that the wig was a good wig and a proper, and such as judges used to wear—but some quip or quiddit tripped the claimant of his lawful demand the wig meanwhile had been conveyed away; and thus Malfaisant succeeded in cheating him out of eight dollars. !