The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-05-22
Vol. 9------No. 4.

majority in the Senate NAV ove-balance the
Iederal majority IN the House i'm Joint ballot
Tor PRESIDENTIAL electors. The Assemble
contains III members, of which the federal
ISIS NAV have 63, giving them Il majority Of
lf: Inc Senate contains 90 republican &
ieaerai members; one federalst goes OUT
IN the eastern district. and another is cleo
ted in the western district we presume re.
PuoiicaHs are reelected; i'll the middle dis
triCt, Mr. Van Buren,, the republican cand;-
date, Is elected; aud in the southern dis
trict two fetleralists are elected in the place
OF republicans making but 81 republicans
TO federalists i'll the Senate, or a major;ty
on 10. II the feecralists have another mem
, uei III e''her mouse, they will tie the repub-
Leans OH joint ballot.
30 stands the amount, and thus are we To
ma the parties at their fall session for the
choice of electors in Novcmbsr-if no cir
cumstance should occur in the interim TO
prevent that session.
ana II that session is not dispensed with.
FEDERAL Council of appointments (thanks TO
our friends at Martling's) win be elected.
ana, IL the governor would meet and act
with the%--which he would not--the pre-
sent incumbents will be removed from once
after circumscribed year of but Q montbs
duration-to return again, according to usu-
al practice, after federalism has hadits year
out. ". I. Columbian, 1lay IL.
The Editor of the NJ Y. Z. Posi- save
The whole number of members in the
Assembly is 112--take 65 from this number
leaves AZ democrats--subtract that number
from 65, leaves Is Federal majority in the
house. The Senate consists of 50 members.
there are federalIsts now in the honse =,
there are chosen In the southern district
ana III the eastern this election making
10 uln'a
~ 10 8, leaving democratic majority of l6 !.
placing this against the federal majority of
10 IN the house, leaves a majority of 2 for
the tederalists on a Joint ballot"
NEw-ORLEANs, April E.
An intelligent person having furnished US
with the following information, we lar
the same before our read ers.---47,f
dcS Lois.
Spanish .Atericc.--It may be advanced
without fear of eXaggeration, that three
tourths OF the country under this appellation.
have proclaimed Independence. Amon@
these people, some have openly declared
their separation from the mother country
while others, through respect for ancient
preJudlccs, have thought it necessary 10 save
appearances, by acting in the name of Fer-
dinand VII. This, however, has not nre.
vented them at the same time, from adont-
ing terms OF government, which renders din
the power Of the parent state as wen ae
the authority OF the Monarch.
The new Republicans are
oucnos Ayres, which by the treaty. COW
eiuded Wicer the pressure of pecuniarv
circumstances. has circumscribed the po,,,l.y,.
of the Vice Roy of Montevideo within v,.re,
narrow lnits. 10y
Venezuela, whose capital is Caracas
and where there are longer any dissentin
Carthagena, de los Indias, which without
aiicdglng any vain preteXts, the excuse onIr
OF the weak has declared! Independence. by
an act as forcble as e!oquert.
Santa Fee dc Bogate, now called the stato
OF Cendinamarca.
Quito:
DE Payon.
In short Chill, whose capital is San Yaro
/ ms country, the granaiy Of Lemo & PEN
abounds in corn and wine, as well as viii,
the other productions of Europe.
=. mere IS not as yet, any positive informal
ever known there has been, at several
times a fermentation, the precursor of a
revolution inevitable, Lima NAV he Cor.;
dered, in comparison with the other narts
OF Spanish America, as the cradle ~ tb@
sciehces--educatlon is there better and
TINS city has produced men distinguished in
the republic o. letters. Surprising that the
~'''~~NSNi All hcSplllg IL defendant
Tor some time longer, its situation in the nil
die OF the countries in Instruction. is ~
tremeiy critical. The soil of Peru. sand,
and generally sterile, reRdersit alyavs AZ
pendent upon the neighboring provinces hut
particularly Chili.--It is in the power of
the insurgents, consequently to reduce ~
ma by famine, if they should not wish 70 em.
ploy force.
An important observation NAV be roada
here on the spirit which anmates the men
gents it is, that wherever Undergraduate ne
been declared, the inquistion immediateI.r
falls.
Whilst these countries begin TO act tbeir
parts on the worlds great theatre. and tbs
philanthropist rejoiceS that revolution oc
sucn magnitude has been accompanied v,;th
little bloodshed, the attention OF every L.
yer OF his species is sorrowsully fixed On
Mexico, destined perhaps to be The &C.,
OF atrocious crimes, and lawess rapine.
1t cannot be doubted but that The cow
mencement 1t the revolution i'm Mexico wa.
accompanied With some disorders The H.
ropeans were in several places victims of fhs
rage long stihed of the inhabitants hut tIis
had already by premeditated cruelty. mo
voked these reprisais
The first leaders Of the insurf.epts bebsv.
ed with moderation very uncommon in -.
VII wars.--liidalgo was no barLarian--rnor,,
officers Of the Spanish pertv successivsi,-
fell into his power g militia colo,cls ~
counts Of Casa Rul end pa,e, 81 ~