The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-03-20
mt have done e. 30 tkAt nc
yet boast Of TIER Immunity.
G ruE DEAD 30 ra.f LIVING.

The Dixie of Sally, perhaps he best skilled IN the
art OF government of Mi the statesmen OF his day,
thus Expresses hniselt in his .HeD,uiys about tie
conseGueuces Of ibecity and i.dcc isioo i matters
OF policy
This proceeding Of the court w.- certainly yery
leneonltnon, and will appear mystery absolutely
ihcompreiicnsbie TO those who know ,ypJ what chan
lges,a prince who delivers himself ,,p to irrcsolu-
tom deness. and timidty, is capable Ut assuming in
AFFAIRS oil sta;c--ncthing is more danscrocs than
mind thus 5uctuatg ard undetermined In iii airult
situations, nll things ought not to he trusted to cha ncu
nor ought to be wholly neglected; bat alter ha,-
inS hxed ona particuh'r design, every step that
leads TO 1t, onght to be regulated by wise and cool
reflections. necessary peace c:nnot be- toe ear
ncstiy desired, concluded too soon but in crit
cal circumstances nothing ought be- more careful
" avoided, than keeping the peoples mind in sus-
Pense' between peace and war. 1t was not by max
ms like these that Catharine's co,nsclors cOnd,ict
ed themselves; if they formed any resolution, it
lasted but moment, never held out to tue end and
SO umorously was II made, that it afforded even but
very imperfect remedy for the present evil The
fault OF minds taken up little trling intrues ard
IN general, OF all those that have vivacy than
Judgment, storcprcsent to themselves thugs that are
near IN sncha manner, as to be dazzle by them
shd see those ut distance as through a coud-a
fe" moments or days make up their futurity."
ncsurugemcnt Of Domestic .Jscanfacturcs!!
| Iiie Democratic Press has put certain
queries tor us, which we have no hesitation in
answering. 1t relates to the following arti-
Gle, published some time since in the En-
quirer .. -t -
An application was made some weeks since by
paper maker to the south the contractor who sup
Plies the House OF Representatives with stationary
me reply WIS that the paper was good, but that he
was instructed to furnish English paper.'
! The Press axis us
| WHAT'S the name of the papcr-makcr
that made The application s'-.dnszv er MIR.
John LIE Mesurier, of the Battersea Mills,
| Petersburg.
e. What is the name and PLACE of'a6ode
OF the Contractor."-.A. MIR. Edgar Patter-
son, OF George-town, Dis. of Columbia.
| q" What House of Representatives is i,
that hrcfers the manufactures of England
to those Of the U. States ."-.f. The H. OF
n: 1or whom the paperis intended, is the H.
OF X. of the U. S.. Whether they in truth
frGer the English to the American paper,
This dehonent Saithnot
| e. =" Who is the agent Of that House that
dares avow the American paper to be good,
lyet insists upon being supplied with Eng
iiSh !--A. We presume that the Agent of
that House, in the affair in question, is Mr..
Magruier, the clerk Of the III. Of R.-but
the query ascribcs to this clerk an avowal
OF the quality of the paper, which 7ve had
asC1Ded TO the contractor. Yet Mr.. Nj.
can have no difficulty in avowing what
every one must admit, that not only that
there Can be good, but very erceHent hater,
made IN the United States. :
we are told that Mr.. p. was expressly
bound by his contract to supply the English
paper, though he had thousands of reams OF
his own manufacture by him that he was
at a loss to get the Contract paper, during
the FORMER non-importaton law I; and that
ne once seriously thought Of LAYING petition
before Congress, praying them to relax
the law IN their o1on fapor precisely as the
Secretary OF War has lately done to procure
biankets and clothing for the Indians
mere IS 20 doubt in any event that this spe-
cies OF paper must coSt the United States,
more tnan paper OF OUT own manufacture
II Is but dong justice to Mr.. Magruder to
suggest, that in all probability he has merely
COPIED the contract of the clerk who pre-
ceded him-But 1T is high time to &c correct
| the procedure"
ills In vain that MIR. Foster seeks to wrest
the question from its true merits. so far as his
government is implicated, the disclosures of
WI I1enry VIII not rest upon 1.-The chardc-
ter ~ the mdivid,lai who has made the Com
municatlon.' Their effect is according to
the authenticity Of the f,ahers he has pro-
duced and not his varacity, 1t is not what
he says, but what he has shozun. Prove him
the veilest william in the world, yet his Gre
dentials may still be true. The letters of
Sir James Craig and of Ford LIVER ol will
still speak for themselves. They will still
speak IN voice of thunder, against the pro.
| tiigate designs of the corrupt agents Of G.
Brit 81
AS to Sir Jas. Craig, the protest of Mr.
| Foster will rather hurt than help him. The
more scoundrel Henry is, the more so is Sir
| J. Craig. The worse the Emissary, the
worse the employer. Let the character
OF the individual" be made as dark as hell.
would only prove that he was hit for his
! vocation, that the means are suited to the
end the agent to the act.
.si a Common CouneH for the City Of FTHian,.-
ru, b@4,rg,heia the n ma day 81 March 1872
| The Common Hall of this City, convened on tn e
| vercnd James Madison, Bishop of the Protestant
! = pscopal Church in Virginia, aud penetrated with
every emotion that this affecting is so we cal
cniated to produce, haze come to the following Res
| oiutons
Res>ised, that the Mayor, Recorder Aldermen,
| and Common Council ofths city, in Cortnon Hall as
sembtet, have received information OF the death of
| the Hight Reverend James Madison, Bishop Of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia and Pre-
adent OF william and Mary College, with degree
OF grief prrportioned only the high esteem and We
notation in Which they have ever held his most es-
tinabie character.
lfesoloed, that in The death of this great and good
| man, of the Underwriting reotude of whose life we
are living witnesses, Religion has lost an enlightened
and jealous teacher, Society one OF her brightest or
namepts, Science an able Professor, and William and
Mary COLLEGE devoted friend and benefactora
Hes0t0eG. tiiat IN testimony of the emotions this
melancholy eventhas produced, the Members of tn is
body VIII wear Grape on the left arm for the space
. Of ma mn