Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-08-19

Sh'Hiu tue tiieHuS OF good order view II as
a defeat. tits, indeed. the defeat of mi
nisters and their law officers, butitis The
triumph oil our government /: Should we
DE wise 10 risk the safety OF system
winch so well secures the innocent2 Let
the deluded ard The wicked men, (tor
there were both among ttem) who enlist
under the Spenoean banners, ask them
selves tins question. Let them seriously
consider whether, under a jury of their
associates, (snpposiDg themselves of op-
posite OPINIONS 10 their Judges they
would be as safe as they could be now.
Come what will, let ms stick 10 the Con-
stiiuilOn, both 10 lis SUBSTANCE aud It's
iorms--and If reform is 10 BE effected.
let IL be an Improvement of what We
have, aud not The substitution of new
system?
INTERESTING TO COTTON SHIPPERS.
Lat'act of a Letter to a respectable k0use u,
hew-fork, dated Liuerpooi; l9th J,,ne.
" La answer TO thai part Of your letter
which relates 10 Certificates of The growth
OF Cotton shipped 10 this Country, we re-
fer YOU TO our respects ofthe i4tlr of Sep
TENDER, which contained the following
intormation:--
1t appears 10 us that an unnecessary
oil cotton sending separate certificate
g gifts origin. Such certificates as TO
" Wool, Cotton, and several other ari-
' Giles, are required here III order 10 avoid
" quarantine but if the owner or CON
signee of a ship would send out his oath
or affirmation, that such Cottons spe-
cifyIng marks and quantities of the
whole on board the ship, are the pro-
duce OF the u. States, or negatively that
they are not the growth, produce, or
manufacture of Turkey, or of any place
IN Africa, within the Streighis of Glib
raltar, or in the West Barbary or the
Atlantic Ocean, and LET that be certified
" by the British Consul, all the expence
" aud trouble to individual shippers would
" BE- saved"
'' When we made The above communi-
cation, we extracted hewords of the GER
iifcate required, from the order in coun-
ell III possession OF our collector. Oar
law knows no distinction between Upland
and Sea-Island, and we hope that III flu
ture one certificate only, and that not sta
ting the different quantities of Cotton, will
be sent over by each vessel that you may
send hilher What we now communi-
cate, Is all that IS necessary as TO the
form. -
nation as to the consular charges AT New
York, we shall not hesitate to procure il
from our government"
The trial of DIR. Watson, OH which for
some time the eyes of the whole United
Kingdom have been anxiously fixed, with
no common degree of interest, having
terminated In his acquittal, OH the 10th of
June, to the satisfaction of vast majority
OF the nation, thethree remaining prison
ers (lllstlewood, Hopper and Preston,)
who were implicated with him, were bro't
into Court on the following morning
new jury sworn-& the attorney general
informing the Court thatit was not his in
tentlon TO call witnesses 10 support the
charge against them. Lord ElIenbo-
rough directed the jury to return a YER
dict of Not Guilty, which was instantly
delivered IN and recorded, and the prison.
Crs were discharged, amidst the acclama-
tons of the populacc in the Hall, and the
immense multitude without.
The attention sfthe people of London
was next diverted to the opening of the
bridge Of Waterloo, which took place on
the 18th June, with great pomp and cc-
remony, by public procession, headed
by the Prince of Wales and the Duke of
Arrests for high treason continue
Five persons have been taken into Gus
tody at Sheffield, and conveyed to Lon
don.
The riots which had broken out in Not
tlngham and Derby shire had ceased. by
the timely and active interference of the
magistrates, before intelligence of their
existence had reached London.
Al. ..
bill into the House of Lords, for the
continuance of the suspension of the IIa-
beas Corpus Act, as measure of urgent
and indispensable necessity. II was read
"a second time on the 10th, ordered for a
third reading on the 10th, and no doubt
will pass by large majority. In the
mean time, meetings were holding i'm diff
ferent parts of the Country for the pur-
pose of petltioning against il. An a.
mendment, moved by Lord Sidmouth TO
tie Bill, providing that It's expiration
should take place III six weeks after the
meeting OF Parliament was agreed to-
Bat the Ministerial Party in the House
refused tn furnish list Of the names and
conditions OF the persons confined under
the Act.
The encouragement has abandoned
| any further prosecution of Mr.. WoOller
the author of the Black Dwarf.
The expcnces incurred by the Govern
ment IN the trial of DIR. Watson aud has
a complies, arc said to amount to seye-
raj thousand pounds.
The Select Committee of the House ot
| Commons, OH the subject of Finance
have made a fourth report, which ha:
been printed. They have taken into then
statement the probable income and ex.
pendIture of the present and the ensuing
year; from which il appears that there
will remain 10 he urn,idnd e. H. -.