cations (when either persons or things,* in this coun- 
try, are the subjects) are so common; that they excite 
in me no keen feelings of resentment. Although in 
themselves stingless, I regret, that the causticities of 
such writers are sometimes mischievous, when they fall 
in the way of those, who have not magnanimity to de- 
spise such hackneyed malevolence ;_ which is unequal- 
led by any thing, but the ridiculous, gross, and “‘shame- 
less,” falsehoods, of their ‘‘coadjutors,”’—the jaundiced 
Tourists, who haunt, and flit through, our country. 
It has been only defensively, that I have mentioned 
the race of animals who feed on the products of calum- 
ny. They will not be extinct, while human nature re- 
tains its present condition. On their account, I should 
be ashamed of casting the least reflection on the coun- 
try to which they belong. Equally unjust would it be, 
with censure thrown on one individual for the opinions 
of another. The wandering part of this race, prove my 
allegation, that the propensity to change locality (not 
* The pious and philosophical gall of the writer in the Ec- 
lectic Review, is roused by the unoffending Schuylkill bridge. 
With his usual candour, he misapplies the friendly testimony 
of that worthy and intelligent English engineer,—Mr. Wes- 
TON ; who writes, as to the western pier,—built of solid ma- 
-sonry, whereof it contains 6178 perches, in a coffer-dam, on 
a bare rock, without footing for very many of the piles, in 
41 feet water ; inthe tide water of a river subject to frequent 
floods,—* it will afford you matter of well founded triumph, 
when I tell you, that you have accomplished an undertaking 
unrivalled by any thing of the kind that Europe can boast 
of.”—He stiles these expressions of his respectable country- 
man,—~“‘ American. Vanity”!!!! 
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