MOUNT VERNON.
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GENTLEMEN: There are, no doubt, very few
of your readers who have not, at some time
or other, beheld the last earthly resting place
Of our beloved WASHINGTON, "Mount Vernon
and there is, doubtless, no citizen of our coun-
try who would not experience melancholy
qualification in viewing the spot on which the
Father of his country drew his last breath,


and where his honored ashes now solemnly


repose. But it must also be painful to the


heart of an American, who knows of the hon.
ors, and cares, and attentions, gratefully be-
slowed in other portions of the world, in all
ages. past and present, on the mortal remains
Of national benefactors, 10 be compelled, (as
was the writer of this, in passing down the
Potomac recently,) to encounter the dismal,
soul.sickening aspect which Mount Vernon
now wears. Decay, neglect, Total inattention
TO the condition Of the venerated house or the
grounds, are painfully apparent; and the forest
tree, rough, untrimmed, perhaps almost un-
noticed, and the tanglng vine Of the field


briar, seem to hold undisturbed possession Of
that once beautiful and fourishing estate,
which we are told ii was so greatly the deligh.
Of its former renowned proprietor, when per!