The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-06-30

l.enc "es'tion but or proc cetiing 10 rr-.-
,ess, 1t appeared they had left II bee II
Them in the city. This. However, is ncy IN
Unprecedented case. When the lords 49,
tea on hls Majesty, at W hdsor, to cong, -
ltniate nm on his recovery, in 1889, ths v
We're IN HIS presence before they found On.
nau not brought the Address with them.---
MS awkward situation they we're obliged
I" Confess, when his Majesty, with a grace.
Gus smile, relieved them from their eniba;-
rasSment, by presenting ,sem with the cn-
p, winch was Immediately read as the a.
, fSinal. 1t rs usual, III such cases, to fur
niSh the King previously with a cop..
% enable him 20 frame his answer. The
speaker OF the House Of Commons. howc-
'er' Had not n similar opportunity of re-
moving the embarrassment os the Sheriff.
| we have extracted the substance of MIR.
Nttwood's evidence before the House OF
commons, ON the subject of the Orders in
Nouncii. The situoticn in which he depicts
D'rhlngham, is truly deplorable but the
important fact of the establishment of ma.
em'nery III America is now placed beyond .
| an doubt. Steel, which was formerly iu,-
ported To America, from England the Ame-
'caiiS now manufacture from Swedish iron
t-wi'h'n the last three or four years, furna-
Ses nave ocen erected in Baltimore aud ~
io'k' suilcient tor the supply of the u;
States with steel, which is manufacturers
into all manner of articles 81
WAY S-NNe have heard that an auther..g
TIC statement of the causes which prt<luced
Lord Nveilesey's resignation has been cir
cuiated among his Lordship's frierps IL
IS PROBABLE that very few days will elapSe
before the public is put IN possession of thss,
interesting document
General Maitland has left town to tak-
the command of the Manchester district
tie will have force altogether of 10000
men.
Mr.. Brand brought forward his motion oa
parliamentary Reform, last night, to a thia
Rouse. After a long discussion hrs rnotioa
was lost by majority Of 1877, the numbers
being, for the motion se--against, 2l5. The
question has been so often discussed, thas
very little novelty could be expected.
lie letters from st. peterburgh state,
that the object Of Speranski's conspiracy was
20 depose Alexander. to assassinate him Sc
,ne Archduke Constantine, and to place the
empress Oowagcr upon the Throne. SIEVE
raj of the Nobility are said to have been
and secured.
oo'c"exTs, 03ay 2.--The French arnnic
arc IN motion but the latest accountss
lro ,, ot. petersburg say. it is supposed they.
WIZ not venture to attack the Russians :
VINO are represented as 100000 strong, and
IN the most pertectstate of discipline all pos
sioie pans having beer taken TO render them
SO ever since the treaty of rilsis-rhe En-
Peror In person commands the army, Sc has
pledged himself TO the Senate, to have M
interview with Bonaparte but in the field
at the head of his troops.
Dir James Saumarez has just arrived.
From the Liuernool A6verfiser Of Iilay le.
!he year 1912 appears to be destined t~
STAN the annals of British history with more
atrocious instances of the dreadful crime oS
murder, than any other period of rnodcrn
times. great number of private murders
OF nature almost too horrid for descripti-
on, seems at length TO have prepared the,
way TOR the assassination of the Prime Mi,
mister OF the country in the Assembly of the
National Senate.
/ Ems atrocious and affecting circunf:i
stance, which occurred on Monday evening.
30 coinpieatiy engrosscs the public atten--
ZION, TO the almost entire exclusion of all o.
fther SUBJECTS, that we have devoted con-,
siderable portion ot this days paper to tho
details connected With so awful and into
resting an event.. Il has difFused thrcueIn
the'country sensation of universal horror
scarcely ever eqna,lcd on any former &C.
casion. If any consolation, at such sea-
son, car be ofered to the public, il IS fvoTH
the consideration, that it is now very we'll
ascertaIned, that the wreiehed author OF
this atrocious offence stood alone IN HIS
CRIME and was stimulated TO the act,by ma
religious or political enthusiasm. 1t wan,
not the gloomy fanaticisrn of a Ravaillac-
nor the resolutc self devotion of a Cordayx
but the workings of private revenge, and
the evaporation Of personal disappoint-.
ment. 1t has been hitherto supposed thar
nothing but state of high-wrought enthu-~
siasm, either factious or fanaticai, COULD
carry man through deed Of this kind,
involving with such absolute certainty the
lie OF the perpetrator and indeed it is an
act SO nearly unparalleled in the records OF
nations, that we can hardly be persuaded
but that he must have been actuated by
that entire domination of some one violeuu
passion which constitutes mental teranye-
ment. We apprehend that when this pas
sion shappens TO be Of a gloomy and me-t
iancholy cast, turning its force inwardiy
and not venting itself IN external parox-.
ysi's, it is very compatible with a degree OF
calmness and of apparent deliberations,
which to most observers will have the aD-s
pearance of perfect sanity. This may veiy
possibly be the case in the present instances
Every proceeding Of the criminal seems
undoubtedly to have been regulated by q.
! mind in full possession of its faculties, ana
brooding over its dreadful purpose to tina
moment of it's preparation. yet it appears
from the records of Bedlam, that this fire.
quently happens in naniacs whose frenzy
is OF gloomy and meditating tempera--
ment. For the honor Of the British name
and nation, the public mind wonld find
,.sslif.f in N Y,Ie