Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1821-11-02

Spanish Objects TO o,crrcaca him. and the ,xI5crs :
be lost, by the observance of useless forms ;,nc
frivolous punctilos, hc Mould have been cnpabe !.
| censure.
The article in the Philadelphia paper make:
out on the information of :" a gentleman from
Florida that governors CGltaru and Cor
pager had obtained possession of aedr,y "a
lie titte deeds of the proyince"- that after The
surrender OF the F!orit,as, many of those
deeds were soid "without the consent or
knowledge of The owner !" that :: thus ;he fiite
to erciy r. Ct of land in the country WAS ieo-
l'ardised" " on demand, The above OH
GERS refused to deliver up their deeds, and
he safes ofhem became more rop,.! Than ever
Hence, says the Press, Gen. j. seized the pa
pers-and If he had not done so, he ought TO
have been "disgrceiuliy dismissed from the
service" The inte'igencer chimes in with
an u" II the statement be correct" Sc. SC.
NOW, both these papers ought 10 have known
| that 1t was not correct.-Thcy have already
been furnished with the schedule OF the pa
pcrs, which governor J. claimed and obtained
We have also a description OF them in the
notes OF N)essrs. Walton, Breckenridge. and
Miller and this hiden,,s spectre dwindlcs
down TO few papers touching the ESTATE of
vidal, the case of Guilkcs, that of Bonf:iy about
lot IN Pensacola, and some proceedings be-
tween Carlos de Vile snd Eugene sierra about
real property in Pensacola Here are some
four or five cases instead of all the title paners
in West Florida-and not a hint about one
fraudulent sale of deed, by these Spanish
officers since the cession OF the Floridas in
the twnklinS OF an eye, this mountain sinks
into 4 mole-hill.
The Intelligencer also SAYS of Gen. Jack
son:
Whether the measures he adopted bis object
were right or wrong, the best the vii,
undertake now 10 say viii only that they pro-
aaced IN us no Srprize for whoever has marked the pub
Tic course OF that oiieer must long since have learnt. I'd
speak in nvidious disarayinc sensetat what.
ever the powers with which he is invested he will
found 10 fall short OF their f2 erere occasion de-
mands their cxertion.n
We agree with the I. with this single qua
LITIGATION that he will not fall short, even when
the occasion does not demand their exer!on.
was 1t necessary for him to seize the person
OF CalIava, and throw him into a common
JAN when he might so easily have obtained
the papers without ii Did not Gov. Worth
Ington thus obtain the papers at St. Augustine?
Nonid not a common search-warrant for the
papers have answered as cflectually as all the
Cdptas'S IN Chrstendom We have now
beforeus the Governors own account OF il
In ms address TO the citizens of the Floridas
OF October 9th. Does he give us the shadow
oi reason lchy he ought to have touched the
person of Callava ?-He throws out, indeed,
some very plausible sentiments ; as that the
weak are as much entitled To the protection of
| our laws as the stronghold they hold alike
an ex-governor and a peasant-that Callava
was no more than "A private individual, stript
OF ali" diplomatic privileges" Z" whatever he
might have been entitled to- sc. sc. But
does he show us why it was necessary to
touch even peasant in such case Be
| aft nlI 4 -
been entitled to diplomatic privileges, il was
not easy TO define the precise time where the
courtesy due TO his late diplomatic character
ceased. The respect due to the agent of Il
foreign government does not exactly expire
WITH hts functions. At all events, there was
no occasion TO moot this question in C's case.
| over tromentin's case, the governors nd
dress carefully casts veil-but, is the ~ IN
tellgencer prepared to say, that in the ' full
exercise" OF all his powers, the occasion did re-
cure HIM to issue land at that stage of the bu-
siness,l summons against Fromentin tO an
swer for a contempt? when that contempt too
was the issuing of Il hubeos corpus writ?
Did the occasion too require him To drive
the eight Spanish officers from Pensacola :
The governor talks of its having been due to
"the dignity and honor of the government
6as it due to our dignity ? This government
and ITS honor and its dignity require no such
defence against such paper shot from eight
such men. Its dignity would have been bet
ter consulted by passing over all such things
with indifference and contempt. Ii is Z" like
ocean into tempest tost TO wait feather OIL
to drown iy."-In the U. States hoto mana
have been punished for libels on the courts p
How many structures upon their proceeding;
(which a jealous judge might have chrstencd
attempts to bring the Judiciary into disre
pute'0 which they have sought to punish?
Gen. J. asks how band of American off
GERS would have beenpunished, ifthey" should
offer such an insult to the government of a
Spanish province" And does it become an
American 10 do all the things which characters,
a Spanish Viceroy? Rather, ifhe has the pow
er, let him temper it according to the geniu.
OF his own country.
With all our'respect for the abilities and ser
wees of Gen. Jackson, we are compelled tC
say that he has exerted authority at Pensacola
which the occasion did NOT demand