Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1819-07-06

any accurate data for political calcula
lions. L, Is The first step toward regular
police, essential TO a true Knowledge Of
the strength and resonre 3 OF q country,
and often necessary as forming links in
title Ia property. Statesmen who legs-
late without a knowledge of detail NAV
make beaurliu! speeches, rise 10 great ho-
uors, &c. bu, pusieriiy will ask, for their
good works-lhsiead of finding them,
they will see only useless and ahori!ve
schemes, produced without consideration,
aud perishing by their mischc,ous len
denotes. FRANKLIN.
The news we have from South America
Is interesting. Ariigas aud Buemos Ayres
arr about Ia make peace, Id unite against
Tie common enemy tSp3ln,) 10 resist iiic
expedition tirug ont al CadiZ.-They
talk too at driving The Portuguese from
Monte Video.
On The opposite coast we find LORD
Cochiam- in motion. isis attack upon
the Spanish fioiila on Gains (ihe SEAPORT
Town of Llna) has failed HI, neN,
measure was 10 declare HE w!:oie oast %.
Peru ~ a state OF blockade. THIS iicii-
iiotts paper blockade violates The rights al
heuirals ana Ne ought Ia lose no time
IN sending squadron 10 those Coasts 10
project the rights OF cur commerce and
He dignity Of cur flag II Com. Perry
Is 10, bonud To that quarter, some either
gallant officer ought Immediately To he
dispatched IN that direction.-San Mar
tins expedition against Lima is YET in e.
figy.
Our accounts from London are down
10 the 18th May. No very interesting
news from ihai quarter. II is reported
that another meeting at the Abied Sore
re'gns Is TO take place this year a, Carries
bad III Bohemia. Something is brewing
| III the North speculation saws Ill Sue
den. In the British House of Commons,
Mr.. lerneys motion to enquire into The
! state Il The nation has failed, majority
l79. II viturera'ed the Ministry in high
s.yie; the affairs Of the continent, the
cessiOn ot Florida 10 America. ticir over
looking the murder of two British sob
Iccis," (there hat BEEN time he said,
when IT would not have been passed over
without the demand of g Il bloody and a
strict account,'D al home the weight of
the national debt, and The confusion Of
the circulating medium. Bu, il WAS in
vain that Mr.. u. spoke. Lord Casilereaah
ont roted, IL he did not ou,speak him. A
SUITS WI nave BPtIl IPDOItct
TO both houses of Parliament. III strict
conformity with the Bank Reports from
such timr, payments IN bullion AT e 4
Is per oz.-ata subsequent time, the bull
lion AT lower rate then, bullion at the
mint price; and finally, the bank To pay
its notes in cash. This successive plan is
expected 10 prevail in Parliament
WITH an eye 10 the present times, we
| may divide society into two classes; those
who are In debt, and those who are not
he times fall with heavy hand upon
The former for they have moi only debts
| to pay, but from the comparative scarcity
and value OF money, what they have Ia
| sell willcOmmand less money 10 discharge
their debts. How fortunate are those ~ no
have no debts 10 pay How happy is
| the great body OF the farming interest
who were so fortunate as TO escape tn
| idn9s oi the banks, and thus find their
greatest blessing III what they once de-
| precaied as The most odIous distinction.
! The towns principally Who dealt most
literally with The Banks, are now the first
to complain of their mistortunes. Cru
| present II was The funic of Nessus /;
whose fatal flames are consuming them.
| What though Our produce has fallen
inl!s price; What though wheat is bu,
| dollar busliel. shall The farmer complain ,
Us moi. lhis dollar worth more by so per
cent than II formerly was? Is not every
lung else falling IN iispriee goods? land
to work, and labor To work IL will, Are
! not OLD times returning with old prices !
AS money RISES IN lis value here, will not
fhe power and profit of exporting our
| produce elsewhere, increase I'm the same
| proportion ?-Resides If even the price of
our produce should really sink, shall
| we despair! Can we moi adopt new plans
OF agriculture; have less tilling and raise
more sheep, cattle, &c. May, improve
our farms themselves? But il is believed,
the present fall of prices is only nominal,
not reat.-From all quarters. we learn
that the fruits OF The earth are most album
| dani-the wheat is fine, corn is promis
ing. &c. We get less for each bushcl, but
we have more bushels 10 SELL Every
| thing Is abundant, excerpt cash.-And
shall the farmer murmur?
We are Informed that the two state-hank g
determined, Yesterday, to divide no more of
| the profits OF the last six months than will bo
sathcient to pay the instalmcnt of the bonus q
| the commonwealth: that H. one and outrtet
per cent on the capital stock in each bank
| iheindIvdnai stockholders will therefore re.
| celVe no part OF the dividends What di vi
dends could have been made we know NOT. but
IN several cases this measure will be severely
teh. The dividends must necessarily be re.
uuceu with the cuTtdIlment of thar huSineuS
and must also I've affected By the losses. ei,hrI
actual or appreheuded, from the failures nj
| thelr customers; tor these might he i'm sonIl
cases so great as not 10 permit any dividend
w'lhou' ehrToacIine upon the capital stock o