Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1818-07-24
NATIONALITY.

The habit OF claiming great men as their own
rs perhaps the most conclusive confession of
me greatness of the men, and at the same time
ct patriotic feeling that can be riyen. the En-
el,sh writer's claim DIR. Franklin now. but the
time was when he was retei of the nirbest
order; the change of sentiment from the de-
sire 10 hang, TO that of the desire to appropri-
ale the honor of his existence is sucI, = com
piiment, as no American ought te be ofTeny led
at; IT is an Indirect confession at once of the
injustice done him in former times.
The time is not very distant, and il an ex
ample OF the Inconsistency of mankind, when the
conqneror of MdreRe0 was claimed as an A me.
rican, and letters appeared i'm the eastern pa
pers, alleging that his real name was Sherer, and
that he was native of New England who had
gone abroad youth and risen TO the head of
the French armies. II was the same kind OF
sentineDtwhch sought to transfera portion of
the reDown required at Marengo. TO New Eng.
land. It's matter that may afford mucIi re
Election to the dispassionate, to pas. in review
the caprice of human sentiment from the bar.
lie ct Mareugo to the last conflict at Mount
Martre.
An auecdOte of different cast occurred on
the Philadelphia wharf few years ago. A
number of Irish emigrants had Just landed or
the wharf, a black man, from the Wo,t India
Island, MOntseTat or Marigalante where the
lberho Celtic is spoken by al classes ard az
CURED by the negroes, happened 10 be on the
wharf when the passengers came ashore see.
ing one of the emigrs1ts with wife and four
or five children, he slept forward to helm TO
DiihS Tue woman anu CHllODeH on shore the
Irishnan in his native toSgne addressed his
wife, expressing the surprise at the cigiiify Of
the negro, who, understanding what had been
said. replied IN Irish, that he need not be sur-
prised-f0r that he was piece Of an i,5Skmaa
hniSeV. The lrishman astonislIed to hear
black man speak his uiesiqn dialect, and TAX.
ing II as fact that he was from Ireland. il en-.
tered his mind with the usual rapidity of Irish
fancy, that he really was an Irisbman, but that
the climate had changed lis fair complexion
he addressed the black man with The question
~ may be so bold, sir lgay ask YOU h0lD L0Hr
you haze been an tits cunnty?" The black man,
VINO mad only come hither on voyaSe-said
he had not been at home for near wear but
that he was in Philadelphia only about fonr
months.
Poor Patrick turned round TO his wife and
children, and looking as IL for the last time, on
their rosy cheeks and blue ypinsH-and conciud
ing that 10 four months. they must also change
their complexion reclaimed " o BIercifiiiJ -
Biddy did g0R hear that he is not more Than JDur
no"ts az This country, and lie is aircddy almost rs
oi@hk asJet. AUrord.
NArcHu, (M.T) May 2s.--Y Yesterday Geo.
II. Harmon. was tried, in the superior court.
now sitting iD this city, for sure seaiing, AMI
fOnnd ty-punisbPlent, dcdih.
Boundaries ~ I.,nisiand.-- C have had The sa.
tisidctiOn of examining DR.. John ". Eobinson's
map Of MericO aud Louisiana, and the advan.
idges, besides the pleasure Of many cOnvcr.a.
lions with that gentiemGD-f which we have
taken the liberty to sketch the outlines OF
both.
The first object which attracts the eve Of nm
American, IN examining this map, is the aston
ishing difference in the claims to territory be.
tween the United States aud Spain, the former
commencing at the Rio del Norte, and with
that stream, to The 10Th degree Of n. laiitade,
ADD with that parallel to The Pacific Ocean.
ihe latter commences on che Calf of MexicO,
at the mouth Of the Qneque, and with that
stream to its source; thence in a direct line 10
the point where the road from Nachitochcz ~
81. Antonio, crosses the AroyaDder six miles
west. from thence, due north until that line
iniersects the Mississippi river, which is near
the mouth Of the river st. Peters thence with
that stream % its source; thence indefinitely
north. This eastern boundary Of the claims Of
he Spanish government TO territory IN Mexico,
il established, would not leave q territory on an