The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1807-06-10

Martin. We are ready to go on with the diff
cuf1ion:--Mr. Wiek6am. The PRECEDENT 8 mef-
fage mentioned, that this was letter to- him.
feK.-h1r. Hay. hope the court viii rere,n :.
her that remark. The letter thefe gentlemen
then ,Sant is addreifsd- TO Thomas IyFrrr,-.
Have they a right to demand any hut pu6iic
letters mir. Eartin. The Prsfidcn,'s mcf-
fage faid, it was addreifed to him as Prcfidvn.
OF the u. States.--BIr. Hay. lit be public
letter, it is of conrle depofited in the depaft-
ment of rate. have no ohje9iou, Iince this
in6puation has been removed, TO repeat my
promfe TO apply for thefe papers, if the court
thinks them material; and when the butirefs
arrives at the proper aage, they may then be
produced. ] hope that 10 more time will be
waited in thefe preliminary fages and that
fuch arrangements may be adopted as will pre-
vent this ufelets confumption of time and of
bread. at ,
Mr.. Randolph had no reafdn to believe, that
there had been more delay on his fde, than on
the other; that if time was TO he couiumed at
all, more would be employed in removing
greater difficulties than had already been done !;
that he however only limited at this now.-He de-
clared with Mr.. Wickham his perfect conc ur-
renee in this meafure.
Mr.. Bolts. UdanmouIly 70, am fure. Sir,
| cannot IL down, and hear complaints 70 I'M
lnecefarily repeated about the waite of time
It's time, Sir, TO be done with them; tits time
that we lhou'd enjoy fomething like the liberty
of fpeech. Mr.. Hay makes, think, about
dozen. times as many fpeeches as any other gen.;
tleman: and each fpeech longer than tbofc of
other petfons; and yet we cannot open our
mouths, without his founding loudly his COM.
plants to the ears of this HalI.-On this cafe
OF unequal'ed magnitude, fhal we not be fuf-.
tered TO declare Dur opinions; without this I'M
lneceiiary complaint about the consumption of
II hn RI 70 s.. A..
our duties, and we fhall firmly difchargc
them. in fpite of Mr.. Hay. 1t is OBVIOUS to
You, Sir, aud to every body, that the delay is
not with us.--If. Sir, you call for an argument,
we are ready to proceed. But if you are, fatis-
| fed
Grief JyGire. 1.-THE attorney for the United
States is fatisfsd that this court has tight to
lftue the fubp9na Duee5 7eeum, mir. Hay.
am not, FIR.
Grit J4Rife. am not prepared to give an
opinion on this point and therefore muft
call for an argument.
MIR. Hay. When / faid that there had been
great consumption of time, certainly did
not mean to intimate, that tbcy only confirmed
1t. l have certainly had my full proportion.
thought however that my proportion would
have iaved fome time and am Gill willing to
repeat my promife.
MIR. Randolbb. That the court may under
ttand us, will read to them the form of the
tubPGna which we with to obtain. (Here
Mr.. r. read the ketch before him.) Mr.. Bolts.
We will be under the direction of the court,
whether we il,all proceed in the argument to-
day or morrow Chief .JuRiee. Unqueiti-
| onably, there mutt be an argument, if the at
toruey for the United States difputes the au
thoriiy Of the court.
Mr.. Hay. Whatever other gentlemen may
think on this iubleGt, have net the leaf doubt
that thefe papers will be produced becauie
| Mr.. Robert Smith has voluntarily furnihed me
with the order of the Navy Department. Blu,
| although may procure thefe papers, let it be
d'iinetiy underltood, that fhaI Object TO their
| being nnnecefiary produced.
Mr.. Bolts. il will take 4 DAYS at leaf to in.
terchange letters between this city and Wafl
ington, and or days to copy the papers.
So that days will be totally loft to us In the
mean time, SO or 10 wtneiies and 10 Grand
Jurymen (they might perhaps require them)
would be detained here and after all, the at
torney's application to the government might be
unavailing.
Mr. Hay. Since then gentlemen, fir, will
prefs this iutjett; ak no more than that they
will wave this difcufIion till tomorrow.
The court was then adjourned till to morrow
IL o'clock.
There can be no quefion, If Gen. Wikinfon
received his luminous in due time and is
not detained by other public and more impor-
tant considerations that he will deferve to be
Gathered for not attending the Trial 1t is in
fact a manifelt difobedience to the orders of his
(xperiOr officer.
II is one prefumption for believing that Cen.
Wilkinions will attend that Gov. Claiborne
has been expelled at leaf two or three weeks
by his friends in Virginia to fpcnd the fun
iner. lie has not arrived. The presumption
is, that he is waiting for Cen. W.
NORFOLK, June S.
We fop the Prefs TO announce that Gentle
nan has iuit arrived here from New Orleans,
atter padage of 94 days, and fays that General
Whkinion was at that city when be left it, and
that he did not hear it faid that he intended to
leave 1t ihortiy. Ledger.
+ a gentleman who came paTent er in the Gch'r
Hannah, from New Orleans, bound 10 Bati-
more, informs, that on the 18th uit. General
Wllkinfon was at that place in perfect health,
and that he did not appear a. preparing to leave
that place. From this Circumstance, it wonId
ieeo' az if the General did not purpofe attending
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