ences and arts," than the commonplace declamation of a street politician. We think that he might, at least, have preserved his mother tongue from uncouth combinations, impure phraseology, and monstrous metaphor; that he might have discovered the distinction between coarseness and simplicity, fustian and sublimity. We looked to have beheld excellence where opportunities were enjoyed, and imagined that one who resided in Academus would be gifted with inspiration. But we have been wretchedly disappointed; and should any one judge of our orator by the complexion of his performance, he would conceive that he was inspired by no anuse but of the denomination of Draggle-tail, and that he had taken up his abode only in the purlieus of literature! It may be conjectured by many, from the chaotick character of the Major's matter and ornament, that ~he was required to compose at a → short hotification; that his similes were driven into service too precipitately to be disciplined, and that his ideas were drafted, before they could be dressed. Whether or not this was the case, we pretend not to say; but we confidently af firm, that there is a surprising resemblance between his figures and sentiments, and the deplorable description which he gives of our militia, which, we humbly conceive, while we contend for the resemblance, to be but a few removes in discipline above the recruits of Sir John. But let us hear the Major speak for himself.

Already Bonaparte, the fiery meteor, the splendid comet, whose magnificent vices we grow in love with, who has usurp ed the thunderbolt of Heaven, and is armed with poison and assassination, instruments of Hell, has begun his cannibal progress in our country; he has one foot in Louisiana.

Rhetoricians, we believe, require that something like analogy should be preserved between two objects that are brought together for the purpose of illustration, and that no attribute should be assigned to one, that is incongruous with the other. How far this requisition has been regarded by the Major, Bonaparte and his comet sufficiently show; the latter possessing, along with its prototype," magnificent vices,with which we are in love, instruments of hell, assassination, and poison," and very naturally beginning "a cannibal progress."

Parallels as like, as Vulcan and his wife.”
SHAK.

From their complimental notices of the ladies, one would imagine, that our orators combined the knight with the scholar. No anniversary is now a days observed without offering incense to the fair, and strangers might conceive, should they credit their worshippers, that the country was incommodious from the number of its goddesses; lines and roses, corals and pearls, are so extravagantly offered to the divinity of their beauty, that the spring is deprived of her complexion and perfume, and the sea nymphs are in want of a necklace and comb. But, in the whole division of female idolaters, it will be difficult to discover many,

who can come abreast with the

Major in the extract that follows.

We

e quote it as a pattern for inamoratos in general.

beauteous as the Goddess of love, untainted as the perfumed gale of Arabia; whom the devil in the wily serpent could not tempt; but they would tempt the devil.

In conclusion, to speak more emphatically than elegantly, we think that the Major has made a flash in the pan.

ART. 44.

An oration, pronounced at the Branch meeting-house in Salem, July 4, 1806, in commemoration of American Independence. By H. A. S. Dearborn. From the Registeroffice. pp. 14.

THIS is indeed a most pleasant and delectable speech. The author is not enthralled by the rules of rhetorick and logick; and, disdaining to creep in humble prose, he mounts Pegasus, and leaves dis

consolate mortals below:

"His horse, the dear creature, he prances and rears, With ribbons in knots at his tail and his cars.'

The turbid stream of his eloquence is choaked by the disjoint ed fragments of images and metaphors:

'Banks, trees, and skies in thick disorder run.'

As specimens we select the following humorous paragraphs,

though the rest of the oration will have cause to complain of this preference of its twin brethren :

All the merciless engines of aristocracy were leagued in opposition to the

philanthropick struggles of aspiring genius, whilst the insatiable scythe of per secution swung its keen set edge through the rich and luxuriant scions of germinating freedom. P. 8.

Encouraged by our national policy, the regenerated spirit of enquiring genius has thrown open the massy portals beams of day the engulphed Herculaof science, and exposed to the effulgent, neum of literature, which was long entombed by the lava of persecution, piled incumbent during the dark ages of superstitious barbarity. P. 12.

If Mr. D. will permit us for a moment to assume his gaudy garments and tinsel array, we should observe, that he has enlarged the boundaries of infinite space, and, strolled extra flammantia mania mundi,...given existence to nonentity,...added potency to omnipotence, ...soared above the empyrean, till his wings were melted in the blaze of his own eloquence, and then tumbled and descended below the bottom of the abyss of bathos,...and, by an oration of only fourteen pa- " ges, has irrefragably and confoundingly demonstrated that no sense is nonsense.

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