Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1817-06-13


ther, i'm more fortunate circumstances
than himself, for the purpose OF asking
some assistance. He met him on the way,
mentioned his necessities, and told him
that his children were dying of hunger.
The brother, affected by the recital, de
sired him TO 30 and seek his wife, and
ask. on his part, and by his order, fora
certain quantity of bread and potatoes.
The unhappy man ran to the house OF
his sister-in law, who rejected his prayer,
and inhumanly thrust this unfortunate
family out OF doors. In despair he re-
turned TO his own home, and not being
able to give his children bread, he re-
solved TO rive them death. He lied them
all three together with cord, which he
fastened by means OF stick, and, deaf to
their piercing cries, he flung them INTO a
well where he also precipitated himself.
I'm the mean time his brother returning TO
his own house, asked his wife if she hal
fulfilled his wishes. and on her replying
in the negative, he charged a domestic
immediately TO take his poor relatives
double the quantity of provisions he had
at first intended for them. The domes-
tic finds the assistance useless, and with
tears recounted the frighiiul catastrophe.
The brother, furious at the event. and i'm
HlcfnenI Oi NiotSu' ltiIteubIi. Di'W Out
l,iS wife's brains with a pistol. He has,
it is said, been arrested
PARIS. April 20.
There was Yesterday, for the first time,
a Cabinet Council Ii wil be remember
ed that, according 10 the Ordinance of
the 10Th of April, the Cabinet Council
ough, to be presided by the King, or hv
the President of tlIe Councll, aud ;iat
they are composed of all the Ministers.
Secretaries of State. of four State Minis
ters at the most. and of two State Coun-
sellers, appointed by the King for eacl,
Council. The four Ministers appointed
for Yesterday were, the Duke of Lewis,
the Counts Iallv Tolendhal, Barbe Mar
bois. and GARNER. The Duke of Richie
lieu sat as President
The following communication was re-
ccived this morning from Sweden =
Extract IF Letter fi'om GottenJ,u;g, cated
april %.
enclose YOU Speech made by the
Crown Prince in answer 10 Deputa-
tion from the Wine Merchants in Stock
holm, which is a masterpiece. You must
know the importation of all wines are
prohibited, and what are here not allowed
to duty
Speech of the C,.o,Un Prince, &c, April 10.
GENTLENfEN-The step which YOU
have Just taken will be very agreeable TO
the King. II is striking proof OF your
disinterestedness and your civism; if
gives fine example to the other des-
criptions of merchants.
" His Majesty has equal solicitude for
all the classes OF the State. He loves TO
see the civic crown place itself under the
shelter of that of the warriors, TO concur
in the common prosperity.
"'The King is too well acquainted with
the Importance and utility of commerce
10 permit it to have any other letters
than those which are imposed upon it
bv the interest of all but this interest is
the supreme law, and the first duty of
good Government is TO hinder it from be-
ing mistaken.
"You know, Gentlemen, what our
country is. You cannot deny that the
nature of the soil and of tine climate has
circumscribed our enioyments. 1t is
therefore TO be desired that industry and
commerce may rival each other III efforts
TO increase and 10 extend them.
The Government will be eager TO en-
courage them. But if il happens that a
wrong way is taken-if industry employs
itself on productions which come from "a
broad, TO the prejudice of those with
which nature supplies us-if the specula-
tions of some persons favor Importation,
to the prejudice OF expectation: If is very
evident that instead of concurrlng in the
common prosperity, this industry in this
commerce would bring on the ruin OF the
State and if we had money in circuia
ton, il must at last disappear.
"The Government must, therefore, con
slider it as most sacred duty, to employ
its care for the maintenance or an exact
balance between expectation and inlpor-
tation of all values Ute tonteS CaLe7TS,)
whatever be their nature, and those who
make of the change itself an object of in
dustry, ought TO be subjected to this SUI
perintendence, and expect to be liable to
the general rule. They ought TO know
that one cannot live at the expense OF the
State. without supporting the burdens,
and that the farmer ought not TO have his
contributions doubled in consequence of
the ill-iudged operations of some indivi-
duals. .astiy, they should know that the
people, the mass which constitutes the
strength of all States, ought to be the
object of the constant solicitude ola Co
vernment hich knows its duties, and de-
sires TO fulfil them.
"These, Gentlemen, are the true prin-
ciples which, in social body, must di-
rect commerce and industry. 1t is only
by making them subordinate to the in
terest Of all, that they can he made vivi-
flying channels for the public prosperity.
If particular interest is suffered to turn
aside their course, we see indeed some
great fortunes spring up, but the rest Ian
cuisines, the sources arc dried up, and
the State is on the brink of ruin.
It is only TO the neglect of these prin-
ciples that we must attribute the finan-
cial crisis from which the King has Just
extricated us. His Majesty does not
regret the sacrifices which it costs him.